No. 11.— 1858-9.] proceedings, 1859. 



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Downing Street, 29th July, 1858. 



Sir, — 1 am directed by Secretary Sir E. B. Lytton, to acknowledge 

 the receipt of your letter, in which you bring' under his notice, by 

 direction of the Council of the Society of Arts, the desirableness of 

 obtaining, periodically, from the more important of the Colonies, accurate 

 statements of their resources, and of the bearing which such resources 

 may have upon Commerce, and state the mode in which the Council 

 Avould propose to obtain such information, and to make it reciprocally 

 useful to the Colonies and to the Society. 



I am to request, that you will acquaint the Council of the Society of 

 Arts, that it is Sir E. B. Lytton's wish to aid their project to the fullest 

 extent of his power. But he fears that in most of the Colonies, the 

 Society is at present too developed to allow of individuals, or public bodies 

 being found, who could effectually correspond with the Council on the 

 topics proposed. The Council are also, no doubt, fully aware that the 

 Secretary of State cannot require the dedication of any public funds in 

 the Colonies to this purpose. Subject, however, to these observations, 

 Sir Edward will readily act in the matter as the Council may wish, and 

 will be prepared to transmit to the several Colonial Governors (with the 

 necessary recommendation on his part) such papers as the Council may 

 furnish him for this purpose. 



I am, &c, 

 (Signed) Carnarvon. 



P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., 



Society of Arts, Adelphi. 



Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and 



Commerce. 



Adelphi, London, W.C., January 1st, 1859. 

 My Lord, — I am directed by the Council of the Society of Arts to 

 acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th July, and to request 

 that your Lordship will thank Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, on the part 

 of the Society, for the ready assent he has given to the request contained 

 in my former letter, that he would be good enough to transmit to the 

 Governors of the several British Colonies the proposals which have been 

 under consideration, to make use of the Society to diffuse information 

 as to the resources and products of the several British Colonies. 



The Council consider, that the best measures for attaining the object 

 they have in view, will be the following :— 



1.— That such Colonies as consider that the meetings and proceedings 

 of the Society of Arts would at all serve to give publicity to their 



