termination originated not in any feeling of
insensibility, or indifference, towards the noble object in which you
are engaged. No man, who feels as he ought to do for the country in
which not only himself but his children and grandchildren are
established, (which is my case), but must, from his heart, desire and
pray for the success of your endeavours. As having once held the
spiritual charge over all the colonies to which your league extends,
and, in a certain sense, continuing still to do so, I hope my feelings
towards them are such as become that relation; and my persuasion is,
that to extend, or resume, or continue the practice of transportation to
any one of them, must be injurious to all.... A perseverance in this
policy would tend more than almost any other cause that could be
mentioned, to weaken the respect which is now so generally entertained
for the name of England. It cannot be supported if England cause herself
to be regarded as the author of a continual wrong; and if respect be
forfeited, the principal tie of love and obedience will be severed. It
is impossible to believe that any British statesman will be found, who,
upon the ground of policy, and, still less, upon a principle of justice,
will recommend the continuance of the practice against which you are
united in petitioning."--_Letter of the Lord Bishop to Charles Cowper,
Esq., and Charles Kemp, Esq._]

[Footnote 266: Address to electors, July, 1851.]

[Footnote 267: Mr. MacDowell's speech.]

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

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ZOOLOGY.

ZOOLOGY.

SECTION I.--MAMMALIA.

The most perfect list of the mammals of Australia which has yet appeared
is in the appendix to Capt. Gray's _Travels in North-west and Western
Australia_, compiled by J. E. Gray, Esq., of the British Museum. Since
its publication (1841) a few additional species have been added to the
fauna of Tasmania, and a few of the smaller animals, probably, remain
still to be described; but they will not materially affect the following
list, which is compiled from the table by Mr. Gray, and a subsequent
_History of the Marsupiata_, by G. R. Waterhouse (1846):--

-------------+---------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
ORDERS. | GENERA. | Total No. | Peculiar | Common to |
| | of Species | to | Australia |
| | in | Tasmania. | and