As Captain Sturt some years since declared, this Province is the point from which expeditions to the deep interior should set out.

This principle, I know, has been acknowledged by scientific men in Europe; and it is most gratifying to see the spirit with which our Colonists on the present occasion have answered to the claim which their position imposes upon them.

Mr.Eyre goes forth this day, to endeavour to plant the British flag--the flag which in the whole world has "braved for a thousand years the battle and the breeze"-- on the tropic of Capricorn (as nearly as possible in 135 degrees or 136 degrees of longitude) in the very centre of our island continent.

On this day twenty-five years since, commencing almost at this very hour, the British flag braved indeed the battle, and at length floated triumphant in victory on the field of Waterloo.

May a similar glorious success attend the present undertaking! Mr.Eyre goes forth to brave a battle of a different kind, but which in the whole, may present dangers equal to those of Waterloo.