With reference to my Letter of the 
8 Instant, I am directed by
               
Lord John Russell to transmit to you, for the information of Her
               Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Copies of a Despatch
               and it's Inclosure from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington,
               respecting 
the
the adoption by the United States' Government of 
General
                  Scott's arrangement for the jurisdiction over the 
Island of San Juan.