G. A. Anstey, Esq.  John Knott, Esq. 
Charles Bonney, Esq.  Duncan M’Farlane, Esq. 
John Brown, Esq.  David McLaren, Esq. 
Edward Eyre, Esq.  John Morphett, Esq. 
John Finniss, Esq.  Chas. Mann, Esq. 
J. H. Fisher, Esq.  R. F. Newland, Esq. 
Lieutenant Frome, Dr. Rankin.  Esq. 
Surveyor-general G. Stevenson, Esq. 
O. Gilles, Esq.  F. Stephens, Esq. 
Captain Grey W. Smilie, Esq. 
J. B. Hack, Esq.  T. B. Strangwaya, Esq. 
G. Hamilton, Esq.  Capt.  Sturt, Ass.  Com. 
Ephraim Howe, Esq.  John Walker, Esq.

The very great importance of the undertaking as leading to results, and in all probability to discoveries, the benefits of which are at present unforeseen, but which, like the opening of the Murray to this Province, may pave the way to a high road from hence to Western Australia, will, it is hoped meet with that support from the public which undertakings of great national interest deserve, and which best evince the enterprise and well-doing of a rising colony.

That Captain Grey, being about to embark for England, the Committee cannot allow him to quit these shores without expressing their regret that his stay has been so short, and the sense they entertain of the great interest he has evinced in the welfare of the colony, and the disinterested support he has given an enterprise which is likely to lead to such generally beneficial results as that under consideration.

Chas. Sturt, Chairman. 
Chas. Bonney, Secretary.

LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED YESTERDAY.

The Government of South Australia 200 pounds His Excellency the Governor (absent at Port Lincoln) and the Colonists 349 pounds 10 shillings

Such was the state in which I found the question on my return from Western Australia.  All had been done that was practicable, until answers were received from the other Colonies, replying to the applications for assistance and co-operation in the proposed undertaking.

Having been always greatly interested in the examination of this vast but comparatively unknown continent, and having already myself been frequently engaged in long and harassing explorations, it will not be deemed surprising that I should at once have turned my attention to the subject so prominently occupying the public mind.  I have stated that the principal object proposed to be attained by the expedition to the westward, was that of opening a route for the transit of stock from one colony to the other—­nay it was even proposed and agreed to by a majority of the gentlemen attending the public meeting that the first party of exploration should be accompanied by cattle.  Now, from my previous examination of the country to the westward of the located parts of South Australia, I had in 1839 fully satisfied myself,