Vajel
Frea
Jener
ولار
Houghroug
5615. Br Columbia
Foreign Office
may 18.1870.
525
MAY25
1873
Copy wilt printed.
Ame
و
am directed by The Earl of Clarendon
to transmit to
you
the accompanying
Copy of a despatch from I? Thornton,
that Mr. Cyrus Field had
reporting
inquired of him whether Her Majesty's
fovernment would desire that the projected American Telegraph Live from California to Japan and thine should touch at British Columbia, and whether,
they would give any pecuniary
if it did
so
assistance towards the undertaking; and
In Under Secretary of State
flonial Office