I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
               Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 
15th Ultimo
               transmitting Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of 
Vancouver's
                  Island requesting that six Ruby shades may be procured and sent from
               England for the 
Fisgard Lighthouse and also enclosing a requisition
               for Lighthouse Stores.
               
               In reply I am to request that you will move 
Mr Secretary Cardwell to
               cause the Governor to be informed that one Ruby shade has been
               delivered to Messrs 
Eives and 
Macey of King William Street London, to
               go viâ 
Panama; that two shades have been
shipped
 shipped with the other
               Lighthouse Stores by the "
Severn"
               which goes round 
Cape Horn; and
               that of the remaining three shades one will be sent to Her Majesty's
               Consul at 
Panama, the other two by the next Vessel which sails round
               
Cape Horn.