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on behalf of which he pleads, would not gladly see granted to any other religious denomination. That the Bill is the result of a long and careful delibera- tion by the members of a Conference of the clergy and laity of the Church of England in Victoria, convened by your memorialist for the express pur- pose, and that the provisions of such Bill have received the almost unanimous concurrence of the laity as well as of the clergy within the Colony. That, consequently, the disallowauce of such Bill, should it unhappily be disallowed (which your memorialist prays the Almighty it may not), in addition to the great inconvenience and prejudice necessarily consequent thereon, will very greatly discourage and depress the hearts of those Her Majesty's faithful subjects and fellow members of the Church of England within the Colony, who would fain look up to Her Majesty as the great friend and nursing-mother, as well as the earthly head and governor of their common and most holy Church.

And your Memorialist, &c.,

C. MELBOURNE.

London, December, 12, 1855.

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