18.54.

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SELECTED SPEECHES OF

SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH,,

BART., P.C., M.P.,

ON QUESTIONS RELATING TO
COLONIAL POLICY.

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY

HUGH EDWARD EGERTON, M.A.,

AUTHOR OF "A SHORT HISTORY OF BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY" ;
AND "SIR STAMFORD Raffles."

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1903.

143

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VARD COLLEGE

JUN 22 1928
LIL'R BY

ne money

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & co. LD., PRINTERS,

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

PAGL

ON LORD GLENELG'S COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, MARCH 6,

1838

EXTRACT ON COLONIES FROM SPEECH AT LEEDS ON STATE

OF THE NATION, FEBRUARY 5, 1840

ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 5, 1840 .

83

.

90

EXTRACT FROM SPEECH ON THE DISCONTINUANCE OF

TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN's LAND, MAY 20,

1851

144

ON COLONIAL EXPENDITURE AND GOVERNMENT, JULY 25,

1848

.

.

154

216

ON A ROYAL COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO THE ADMINI-

STRATION OF THE COLONIES, JUNE 26, 1849

ON REDUCTION OF COLONIAL EXPENDITURE, APRIL 10,

1851

ON INTRODUCTION OF THE BILL FOR THE BETTER GOVERN-

MENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, FEBRUARY 8,

1850

265

291

306

ON SECOND READING OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BILL,

FEBRUARY 18, 1850 .

ON MR. SPENCER WALPOLE'S AMENDMENT TO AUSTRALIAN

GOVERNMENT BILL, MARCH 22, 1850

315

PAGE

.

MOTION TO RECOMMIT AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BILL,

MAY 6, 1850

365

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.

392

ON THE CLERGY RESERVES OF CANADA BILL, MARCH 5, 1853 402

APPENDIX.

REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, 1838 441

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, BART., M.P. Frontispiece

BUST OP SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH (BY BEHNES) IN THE

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