I have laid before 
Lord John Russell your letter of the 
11 Instant
               containing a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of 
Vancouver's
                  Island, respecting the Military occupation of the 
Island of San Juan,
               and suggesting the expediency, in the present state of the question
               of jurisdiction over that Territory, of the withdrawal by the United
               States and by 
Great
Great Britain of the Civil Magistracy in that Island;
               and I am to transmit to you, for the information of His Grace The
               
Duke of Newcastle, a Copy of a Despatch which 
Lord John Russell has
               in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington,
               instructing him to propose to the United States' Government the
               withdrawal, on both sides, of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.