shall be remitted before the meeting of Conference to the Bank of there to be placed at the credit of the Treasurer of the Delegates. T h e Council m a y grant money to the Executive Board of the Conference in any emergency. Each Council shall appoint representatives in England, consisting of gentlemen resident in the United K i n g d o m , to be called the London Board of the Australasian League, with w h o m the Colonial Executive Board of Conference shall correspond. T o secure the objects of the League .£20,000 shall be raised infiveinstalments, thefirstpayable immediately, and the rest in equal sums on the 1st day ai January in each following year.
The Rev. Mr. West said that himself and colleague, Mr. Weston, appeared there as the representatives of V a n Diemen's Land. Their object was to cause transportation to cease to the Australian Colonies, and he proposed That this Conference of the Delegates of the Australian Colonies do n o w form an Australian League, for the prevention of the transportation of convicts to any of the Australian Colonies, and adopt the foregoing as their League and Solemn Engagement.
It was seconded by Mr. William M . Bell, and carried unanimously. The Banner of the League was next unfurled amidst three hearty cheers. It was of blue ground, with the stripes and cross of the National Union, and the addition of four stars on the ground work. Mr. Marsden read the address of the Conference to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It presented in pointed and eloquent terms the statement of the case for the Colonies against the formidable infliction they were engaged in combating. It thus concluded : W e address the words of supplication not of threatening. A few short years, and that which is n o w a grievance will grow into a quarrel ; but those eternal laws which justify our appeal must secure its triumph. B y instant concession, an act of justice will become a monument of Imperial clemency. But these colonies are solemnly pledged, each to the other by their mutual interests—their future destinies—their fellowship of weal and w o e — a n d n o w by their League and Solemn Engagement, to achieve the freedom of their c o m m o n country.
This was adopted, as was also " A n Address to the Colonists of Australia," similarly couched. This closed the general business of the Conference, and those present resolved themselves into a public meeting, when several energetic speeches were delivered, and the following- resolutions agreed 10 :—Proposed by Mr. Henry Moor, M.L.C., and seconded by Mr. W . F. Stawell— That the transportation of British criminals to the Australasian colonies has become deeply injurious to their welfare and reputation, and ought to be terminated.
Mr. W . Westgarth, M.L.C., proposed, and the Rev. J. West seconded— That as it is desirable to unite the colonies in a moral and legal resistance to the transportation of criminals, this meeting desires to express its hearty concurrence in the formation of the Australasian League, and its approval of the documents called the League and Solemn Engagement, and the Constitution of the League as adopted by the Conference.
Proposed by Mr. W . M . Bell, and seconded by Mr. P. W e s t o n — That it is the conviction of this meeting that the great evils inflicted by transportation are u n k n o w n to the people of England, that the Address to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, adopted by the Conference, be approved as conveying the wishes of the colonists to their fellow subjects.
Dr. Greeves proposed, and Mr. Richard Heales seconded— That the Committee for the Abolition of transportation be requested to enrol the members of the League, to open subscriptions for the promotion of its objects, and to set in motion the machinery prescribedforthe Constitution of the Victorian branch of the League.
Mr. William Kerr proposed, and Mr. J. A. Marsden seconded— That this meeting earnestly recommend to the Australian colonies the objects of the League, and that the Address n o w read be recommended to their serious consideration.
Three cheers were given for the Queen, and the meeting terminated. At the conclusion a German gentleman read an address from his fellow countrymen, bewailing the misfortune they were under of being made subservient in many instances to convict masters - a n d proposing, as a dernier ressort, that we should re-embark fcr England any convict that arrived here. Subjoined is the now forgotten, but historically interesting, document as adopted :
