84 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY The citizens four years without trouble or expense to the mother countr)-, with a population of 16,000 |H?rsons. whose seajwrts have, during the past few years, admitted about 200 merchant ships, and where more than ;^ 1,000, 000 of British capital has been embarked, even at a distance of 14,000 miles. The celebrated colony of Pennsylvania, at one-third the distance, could not in seven years number half the; population or a fourth of its commerce." .Souk; months later the Imjjerial Government decidt^d to guarantee a loan, and to order the Commissioners to make arrangements to meet the dishonored drafts. A Select Committet; of the House of Commons was appointed on the motion of Lord John Russell, to consider the Acts relating to the Province, and to report on the condition ot the latter. Its members were Lord Howick, Lord Stanley, Sir George Grey, Mr. W. E. CiladstontN Mr. G. '. Wood, Lord Mahon, Mr. J. Parker, Lord Eliot. Mr. Ward, Captain A'Court, Mr. X'ernon Smith, Mr. Raikes Currie, Mr. Sotheron, Lord P'itzalan, Mr. George Hope, and Sir William Molesworth. This Committee made its first report in March, 1841, and recommended that the bills should be met without delay. The British Parliament, uj)on the motion of Lord John Russell, voted the sum of /^i 55,000 for this purpose, and authorised that South Australia must henceforth be considered and treated as a Crown colony. Then the Committee made its second report, and declared against a system of government for the Province by Colonising Commissioners and by the Colonial Office. "While one department," it said, "was made responsible for the payment of the colonial debt, another had the management of the fund out of which it was to be paid ; and whilst one was responsible for conducting the public serxice, the money by means of which it was to be conducted was placed under the control of another." Statue of Burns, North Terrace Presented to the Corporation of Adelaide by S. A. Caledonian Society
