Despatch from the Duke of Newcastle to Viscount Monck (29 January 1863)
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Date: 1863-01-29
By: Duke of Newcastle
Citation: Despatch from the Duke of Newcastle to Viscount Monck (29 January 1863) in UK, HC, Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 30 June 1864; for Copy of Correspondence between any of the North American Provinces and the Imperial Government, relating to their Application for Assistance in raising a Loan for an International Railway (1864).
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(No. 8)
COPY OF A DESPATCH from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G. to Governor General Viscount Monck.
Downing-street, 29 January 1863.
My Lord,
WITH reference to my Despatch, No. 4*, of the 17th of January, I transmit to you herewith a copy of a Minute by the Secretary to the Treasury,+ upon two questions raised in the annexed letter from Mr. Tilley, the New Brunswick delegate, on the subject of the proposed loan for the construction of the Intercolonial Railway, viz., the mode in which the loan should be raised, and the extent to which it should form a first charge on the provincial revenues.
I have, &c.
(signed) Newcastle