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Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 6 April 1859, CO 410:1, 193.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton is “glad” to learn that Douglas is taking measures to “remedy the system of prison discipline” in Victoria.
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No. 44
Downing Street
6 April 1859
Sir,
I have received your despatch No. 5 of the 9th of February, and I am glad to learn that measures are being adopted to remedy the system of prison discipline in the Jail at Victoria.
But with reference to the Statement in you despatch that you had previously been prevented from want of funds from effecting this object, but that you now feel well assured from the tenor of my despatch of the 5th of October of the assistance of Her Majesty's Government, I feel it necessary distinctly to explain that the interest felt by Her Majesty's Government on this subject does not imply that they are willing to grant any pecuniary aid for this purpose from Imperial funds.
I have etc.
E.B. Lytton
Footnotes
  1. The original form of this correspondence can be viewed here. Please note that the original was marked initially as part of the Vancouver Island collection, and changed thereafter, presumably after receipt, to the British Columbia collection.
People in this document

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Places in this document

Victoria

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 6 April 1859, CO 410:1, 193. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V597044.html.

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