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to the general measure from a feeling of uncer- tainty as to the mode in which it might be carried out.
Again, it appears to me to be deserving of the consideration of the Government whether, on the one hand, the peculiar position and claims of the Melbourne Bill do not justify the separate treatment of that case, and whether, on the other hand, as a question of policy, the passing of that Bill as a distinct and independent measure might not be useful by affording means, in the observation of its results, for hereafter framing a general scheme of church legislation for other portions of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions.
In leaving England for my Diocese, I would take this last opportunity of expressing my earnest hope that Her Majesty's present Government will not disappoint the expectations of the members of the Church of England in Victoria, who look with con- fidence to them for that common justice which is all that the Church asks for, and which it is certainly entitled to receive.
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