In reply to your Letter of the 
20 Instant, requesting
               to be informed whether the party referred to, in my Letter of
               the 
4 Instant, as having been conveyed to 
British
                  Columbia, and for whose passages payment is requested, consisted
               principally of Sappers and Miners; I am commanded by my
               
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the
               information of His Grace the 
Duke of Newcastle, that Party
               embarked in the "
Thames City" for conveyance to 
British
                  Columbia consisted
consisted as follows viz
               
               
               Officers Ladies Men Women Children
               
               1 — 114 31 34 Royal Engineers
               
               1 — 2 — — 15 Huzzars
               
               1 — 1 — — Royal Art
               
               1 — 1 — — Medical Staff
               
               1 1 — — — Chaplain
               
               1 — — — — Collector of Customs