No. 46

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches No.
31 of the 19th of April and No. 51 of the 18th of May, the first
reporting that having brought the question of the selection of a Capital
for the united Colony under the consideration of the Legislative
Council, you had received a resolution from them expressing the opinion
that Victoria is the place most suitable for the Capital, and the second
forwarding a copy of the Proclamation by which you declared Victoria to
 be the Capital of the united Colony on the 25th of May.

In reply I have to inform you that I have been glad to be apprized
of the settlement of a question which while it remained open must have
furnished a continual source of irritation and uncertainty, and I feel
little doubt that you have judged rightly in placing the Seat of
Government in that part of the Colony where the greatest stationary
population has collected and where maritime communication is easiest.