Edw’d Thornton to P. S.—The following telegram has been sent this day to her Britannic Majesty’s, May 26, 1870

Mr. Thornton to Mr. Fish.

Sir: In compliance with instructions which I have received from the Earl of Clarendon, I have the honor to inclose, for the information of the Government of the United States, copies of letters which have been addressed by the admiralty to Vice-Admiral George G. Wellesley, commanding her Majesty’s naval forces on the North America and West Indies station, and of a letter from the colonial department to the foreign office, from which you will see the nature of the instructions to be given to her Majesty’s and the Canadian officers, who will be employed in maintaining order at the fisheries in the neighborhood of the coasts of Canada.