I have laid before the 
Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 
26th
                  Ultimo, inclosing a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of 
Vancouver's Island, reporting what passed at an Interview which he had with
               
Lieutenant Flemming of the United States Army, on the subject of the
               surrender of some American Soldiers, who had deserted from the
               detachment under his command; and I am to request that you will state to
               
Mr Secretary Labouchere that
Lord Lord Clarendon
  
               Lord Clarendon concurs with him in his
               approval of the conduct of 
Governor Douglas in declining to allow these
               men to be arrested on British Territory.