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INTRODUCTION.
3

COMMITTEE
OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION.


W. WOLRYCHE WHITMORE, Esq., MP., Chairman.

A. W. Beauclerk, Esq., M.P.

Abraham Borradaile, Esq.

Charles Buller, Esq., M.P.

H. L. Bulwer, Esq., M.P.

J. W. Childers, Esq., M.P.

William Clay, Esq., M.P.

Raikes Currie, Esq.

William Gowan, Esq.

George Grote, Esq., M.P.

Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P.

J. H. Hawkins, Esq., M.P.

Rowland Hill, Esq.

Matthew D. Hill, Esq., M.P.

William Hutt, Esq., M.P.

John Melville, Esq.

Samuel Mills, Esq.

S. W. Molesworth, Bart. M.P.

Jacob Montefiore, Esq.

George Warde Norman, Esq.

Richard Norman, Esq.

G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P.

Dr. Southwood Smith.

Edward Strutt, Esq., M.P.

Colonel Torrens, M.P.

Daniel Wakefield, jun., Esq.

Henry Warburton, Esq. M.P.

Henry G. Ward, Esq., M.P.

John Wilks, Esq., M.P.

Joseph Wilson, Esq.

John Ashton Yates, Esq.





Treasurer, George Grote, Esq. M.P.
Solicitor, Joseph Parkes, Esq.
Honorary Secretary, Robert Gouger, Esq.

The leading provisions of the Act of Parliament for erecting South Australia into a British Province, and for establishing therein a peculiar system of colonization, will be fully noticed hereafter. Meanwhile, we have to offer some remarks by way of introduction to the subject of these pages.

Of the general principles, or what may be termed the theory of Colonization, we shall here say very