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.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

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CONTENTS.

ON LORD GLENELG'S COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, MARCH 6,

1838

ON THE WAKEFIELD SYSTEM OF DISPOSING OF THE

COLONIAL LANDS, JUNE 27, 1839 .

EXTRACT ON COLONIES FROM SPEECH AT LEEDS ON STATE

OF THE NATION, FEBRUARY 5, 1840

ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 5, 1840.

EXTRACT FROM SPEECH ON THE DISCONTINUANCE OF

TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, MAY 20,

1851

PAGE

54

83

90

ON COLONIAL EXPENDITURE AND GOVERNMENT, JULY 25,

1848

154

ON A ROYAL COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO THE ADMINI-

STRATION OF THE COLONIES, JUNE 26, 1849

216

ON

REDUCTION OF COLONIAL EXPENDITURE, APRIL 10,

1851

265 V

ON INTRODUCtion of the bILL FOR THE EETTER GOVERN-",

MENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, FEBRUARY 8,

1850

ON SECOND READING OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BILL,

FEBRUARY 18, 1850 .

ON MR. SPENCER WALPOLE'S AMENDMENT TO AUSTRALIAN

GOVERNMENT BILL, MARCH 22, 1850

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 OF SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH (BY BEHnes) in the

LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT, OTTAWA

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