I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 
M Merivale's letter of the 
29 Ultimo, transmitting, by your direction, a copy of a Despatch received from 
Governor Douglas on the subject of the gold field on 
Fraser's River, and of the answer which you proposed to return thereto, and I beg, on the part of
               the Committee of the 
Hudson's Bay Company, to express their thanks for this communication.