Lord Palmerston to Mr. Bancroft.

Sir: I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the surveys of Puget’s Sound and of the Gulf of Georgia, which accompanied your letter of the 3d instant.Lord Palmerston gives the acquiescence of silence to the Haro channel as the boundary.

The information as to soundings contained in these charts will no doubt be of great service to the commissioners who are to be appointed under the treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, by assisting them in determining where the line of boundary described in the first article of that treaty ought to run.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, &c.,

PALMERSTON.

George Bancroft, Esq., &c., &c., &c.