Confidential

I have the honor to acknowledge Your Lordship's Confidential
Despatch of the 3rd February with its enclosures respecting a
Memorial said to have been signed by a number of residents in
Victoria, and addressed to the President of the United States
with a view to his endeavouring to induce Her Majesty's
Government to consent to the transfer of this Colony to the
United States.

2. I transmit to Your Lordship copies of Despatches which have
been recently interchanged by Mr Thornton and myself with
reference to this subject. My reply to him contains all that
really need be said upon a matter, which I believe to be of no
importance.