Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to
Douglas, Sir James 5 October 1858, CO 410:1, 184.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton regrets Douglas’s “painful disclosures” on the state of the prison at Vancouver Island. He hopes Douglas and the House of Assembly can “remedy so great an evil.”
BC No. 27
5 October 1858
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [VI] Despatch No. 33
of the 13th of August last, enclosing copies of your correspondence
with the House of Assembly from the 16th July, to the
10th of August.
I have read with great regret the painful disclosures as to the
state of the Prison in Vancouver's Island which are contained in the
report of the Committee appointed to enquire into that subject, and I
earnestly hope that through your energy and the favorable disposition
of the Assembly measures will not only
be proposed but carried out to remedy so great an evil.
I have etc.