No. 686.
Mr. Thompson to Mr. Bayard.

No. 235.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 132 of the 15th instant, and to inform you that your telegram of the 10th instant was transmitted to me by our consml at Kingston, Jamaica, and received by me this morning. Your instructions therein contained had, in principle, been faithfully carried out.

I am, etc.,

John E. W. Thompson.