With reference to your letter of the 
24th Instant, acknowledging the
               receipt of my letter of the 
14th Instant, respecting the two Guns
               landed from H.M.S. "
Bacchante," and "
Topaze," for the defence of
               
Victoria, and 
Esquimalt, 
Vancouver Island, I am commanded by my Lords
               Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information
               of His Grace the 
Duke of Newcastle, that these Guns have been
               reported to the
War
 War Department, and are now considered as belonging
               to that Department.