The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-05 00:00:00

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• •
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•
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lIERTS.-THE TRING GROVE ESTATE.
TO BE SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of
(~,ancery, made in the causes " Lake v. Currie," Lake v. O'Hara,
and Lake v. Currie, with the approbation of Sir Richard forin Kin-
derelci , Knight, one of the Vice-Chaiicellors of the said Court, by
mr. Wiliam Brown, at the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane
London, on 1 UESDAY, the sixth day of September, 1853, at Twelve
o'clock at noon,
The important and very eligible Freehold and Copyhold Estates of
the late Viscount Lake, col,prising Four Capital Farms, with suit-
able Himesteads, containing together nearly 600 acres most delight-
ully situate, in the vicinity of the Tring Station, on the London and
North- Western hallway, 31 miles from London and 7 from Ayles-
bury. This invaluable p operty will be offered in nine lots. Th,
Grove Park Farm, with the walled Kitchen ;arden and ornament-
ally timbered Park; rarm House and Agricultural Buildings abut-
ting upon the Town of Tring wit norm one lot, presenting numerous
eligible sites for building first-class houses. The Tring Grove Farm,
comprising nearly 300 acres of first-rate Arable and Pasture Land,
with Homestead and Labourers' Cottages thereon, extending to
within a short distance of the railway, will form another lot. The
Little Tring Farm of 40 acres, the Puttanham Farm of 112 acres, and
some other small fortions of the property at Tring Grove and Wig-

ginton, will be sold in separate lots.
Particulars of the Property, with Plans and Conditions of Sale,
may be had at the Auction Mart, at the Royal Hotel, Tring Staton,
at the Swan Inn, Leighton Buzzard, the George Inn, Aylesbury, and
the Rose and Crown Inn, Hemel, Hempstead ; of Alfred Jones, Esq.,
Solicitor, No. 15, Sise-lane, City ; of Messrs. Currie, Woodgate, and
W iliams, Solicitors, 32, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; and at the offices 01
Mr. William Brown, Auctioneer, Tri g.

DISCIPLINE AND MANAGEMENT OF

CONVICT PRISONS.
(Continued from The Sun of Aug. 29.)
THE CONVICT QUESTION.
6. FEMALES.

In the foregoing calculations I have, generally, speaking,
excluded females, for whom there has existed separate ac-
commodation at Millbank, which has not been included in
the general returns, but the females in Ireland are included.
The number annually sentenced to transportation cannot
be ascertained from any returns to which I have access ;
but those who have been received at Millbank prison, after
an average detention of about six months, have been em-
barked with tickets of leave for Van Diemen's Land.
An average number of 450 have been sent out annually
from Great Britain on this plan, and about 400 from Ire-
land, making a total of 850.
Assuming sentences of imprisonment to be substituted
for transportation in the case of females, I conceive they
might be subjected to a few months' separate confinement,
according to circumstances, and then be employed in mo-
dified association at suitable industrial occupations, for
periods proportioned to their respective sentences.
If the present average number of 450 were sentenced to
various periods of imprisonment, and an average of about
21 to 3 years were taken as data, accommodation for about
1,000, in addition to that which now exists, would be found
sufficient.
Under your lordship's authority, the prison at Brixton,
formerly belonginc, to the county of Surrey, has been pur-
chased for 13,0004 and the additions and alterations which
are now in progress will render it capable of accommodating
from 700 to 800 females. Any excess above this number
may probably be conveniently provided for in county pri-
sons.
The cost of an assumed maximum number of 1,200 fe-
males, might, therefore, be taken as follows
Maintenance at 201
Deduct earnings of 1,200 females, at say 41
Total net cost of 1,200 females

£24,000
4,800

In the event of any large number of well-conducted con-
yids being selected for conditional pardons, and embarked
for Western Australia, or any other colony, I think it
would be desirable that a proportion of females should
from time to time be selected for the same destination, and
that this point should be specially provided for in any ar-
rangements that may be made for affording a colony the
advantage of convict labour. This plan would be calcu-
lated to reduce the amount of accommodation required at
home.

7. DISPOSAL OF CONVICTS.
The foregoing explanation of the present system of dis-
cipline atmanagement to which convicts are subjected
in this country, whilst undergoing the first and second
periods of probationary discipline, will, I trust, have sa-
tisfied your lordship that the measures which have been
adopted are generally calculated both to deter and reform.
The real difficulties in the solution of the convict ques-
tion commence on the termination of the penal discipline,
when it becomes necessary to release the prisoners from
direct control. A ticket of leave in Van Diemen's Land
or Western Australia, has hitherto fulfilled several objects,
and proved of the greatest advantage and convenience to
almost all the parties concerned. The liberated prisoner
has been placed in a sphere where he would have the op-
portunity of doing well for himself—the mother country
has been relieved from all anxiety as to his future career ;
and the colonies, however much they might object, on
principle, to receive the refuse of a population, have un-
questionably de-Hved great and permanent benefits.
The discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's
Land will, however, close the main outlet by which these
advantages have been hitherto secured. It may be said
that we have only to send convicts to some other colony,
or to found a fresh one, for the purpose of continuing the
system. In taking a practical view, however, of the means
of obtaining all that is required, it will be apparent that
it is only in a settled, prosperous colony, that there exists
the means of absorbing the labour of a convict, whether
under the modified freedom of a ticket-of-leave, or when
he receives his pardon, or is released on expiration of his
sentence.

On this point, the only question that arises is, whether
any colony so circumstanced, is willing to receive the con-
victs on the same conditions as Van Diemen's Land. If no
such colony can be fonnd, it remains to be considered whe-
ther, with a view to combine the deterring effects of trans-
portation with the future disposal of the convict, any fresh
penal colony could be founded.
If a settled colony urges objections which are admitted
by the mother country, there remain only the alternatives
of founding fresh colonies which wiil receive them, or
releasing them at home, where, if really dangerous to
society, they can be more effectually controlled than any-
where else.
The objection to a purely penal colony is, that the same
difficulty which is now under consideration will be sure to
arise on the expiration of the sentence. If the neighbour-
ing colonies will not willingly receive such a class of
convicts, the mother country will be obliged to fetch them
home, or otherwise dispose of them as is now done in the
case of the convicts at Bermuda, Gibraltar, and Norfolk
Island.
In considering the alternative, however, of releasing
them at home, our own past experience is not, after all, so
very discouraging. It must be remembored that until a
very recent period all convicts under sentence of transpor-
tion for seven years were indiscriminately sent to the
hulks, where it is notorious they were placed in circum-
stances that could not fail to be in the highest degree de-

moralising.
After this course of training, they were, very generally,
released with a free pardon at expiration of about one-
half the period of their respective sentences. The number
so released was very considerable. In the years from 1843
to 1847, there were discharged by free pardon ns less than
3,450 so circumstanced. There can be no doubt that the
greater proportion of them, if not originally bad, had be-
come so, and, generally speaking, more dangerous than men
who had been subject to a better discipline.
There could have been little chance of any such obtaining
employment by their own exertion, and no steps were taken
by others to obtain it for them ' • and yet, though it might
fairly have been anticipated that the consequences of such
periodical additions to the criminal population would be
seriously felt, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no
material effect was produced.
Since the subject of convict discipline has engaged the
anxious attention of the Government, and ameliorations
have been introduced, which would render the release of
certain classes of criminals in this country comparatively
harmless, there have existed great facilities for the dispo-
sal of all convicts in the colonies with tickets of leave.
This has rendered unnecessary the consideration of any
measures calculated to remedy the evils which might
naturally have been expected from the former practice of
granting free pardons after a course of training in the
hulks.

CONDITIONAL PARDONS AND OTHER MEANS.
The change introduced of late years into the convict
prisons, and experience of the favourable effects which
have been produced on the general character of the con-
victs by an improved discipline, confirm the opinion I ex-
pressed in my third repOrt for 1C49, that—
" Looking to my own experience, and to the opinion of
others who have had better opportunity of j udging, I do not
hesitate to express my conviction, that it would be quite
possible, without detriment to the public interests, mate-
rially to reduce the number of convicts to be annually sent
abroad, by granting conditional pardons to the best con-
ducted men, after periods of confinement proportioned to
their respective sentences, on showing that they had the
means of earning their livelihood, or obtaining securities
for their good conduct."
In the event of its becoming necessary to dispose of con-
victs on discharge in this country, I would further venture
some of the restrictions
giving more
oaldinereaonfsaofticket-of-leave
effectualt o
enforcedr e peat
securityi tull eth s
eu gos
colonies
iioens
the
on
nhuabttl
h,
public,
holder
might be advantageously applied to a convict receiving a
conditional pardon in this country • and that the system
of demanding sureties for good behaviour might be more
extencnsively acted upon.
It is impassible to state the precise operation of such
measures, or the extent to which they might be applied,
but if the very worst characters were imprisoned for the
whole term of life, or during their respective sentences, at
some penal establishment at home, or in Gibraltar, or
Bermuda ; others disposed of by tickets-of-leaven in
Western Australia ; others released with conditional par-
dons, or encouraged to emigrate ; and a portion drafted
into companies of labourers under military discipline, as
suggested further on, I believe that no sensible inconve-
nience could possibly be experienced.
My opinion is founded partly on a general knowledge of
the character of the convicts, the reformatory effects of the
moral and industrial training to which they are subjected,
and the means that would exist of dealing with individuals
according to character and circumstances. My convictions
also rest on a consideration of how very small is the pro-
portionm
morala j or i
tt yr a
ionfi
nco.r idmuirninwfii
nt he omuetn t
of this proscribed race when compared with the
an
their who,
aanyr o a tduvrannetda gl
eo
o ef
upon the country' after their imprisonment, to commence
agaih their career of crime.
An abstract of one of the valuable returns compiled by
Mr. Redgrave will illustrate my meaninc, I have given it
owing
in the Appendix, page 120, but the foll • is the sub-
stance of it.
In 1851 there were tried in England and Wales 27,960
offenders, divided into classes as follows :
Ist Class. Offences against the person, including
murder, attempts to murder, man-
slaughter, rapes, assaults, &c.
2,1 Offences against property, committed
with violence, including burglary, as-
saults with intent to rob, m •
miming
letters to extort money

2,21 F

3d „ Offences against property, committed
without violence, including cattle and
horse-stealing, larceny, receiving
stolen goods, Btc.
........................... 21,906
4th „ Malicious offences against property, in-
chiding arson, killing and maiming
catt1e.......................................... 30
sth „ Forgery and offences against the cur-
808
rency .........................................
6th „ Other offences not included in the Above
663 classes

Totals

27,900

Of the above numbers, 2,895 were sentenced to various
periods of transportation ; 18,695 were imprisoned, fined,
&e., and 6,359 were acquitted. From the number sen-
tenced to transportation must be deducted one-third, as
having been disposed of in various ways in this country,
so that not more than 2,030 out of the 27,960 offenders
were actually transported. It is further deserving of re-
mark, that of this number only 379 wore under sentence
for more than 10 years, just one in 70 of the total number.
To the gross total of? 27,960 offenders, as shown in the
abstract, Middlesex, including London, contributed as fol-
lows :

Ist Class
2d
3d „
4th „
sth „
Gth „

333
188
3,138

Total 3,974
Of the above number 422 were sentenced to various
periods of transportation, 2,810 were imprisoned, fined,
&c., and 742 were acquitted. Deducting one-third from
the 422 sentenced to transportation, leaves only about 280
actually sent abroad.

It appears from the above figures that not more than
one in 14 of those who are tried in the course of a year are
sent abroad. It cannot be denied that there is far greater
danger to be apprehended from the release of the remainder
who are returned upon society; and yet this 'circumstance
appears to be altogether overlooked.
My impression is, that, if 1,000 prisoners who had un-
dergone an average period of 4 years' corrective discipline
and industrial training ware released in this country, they
would not do so much mischief to society in a given time
as another 1,030 taken indiscriminately from among those
who are discharged at the gates of some of our large prisons,
from which as many as from 8,000 to 10,000 are released
iu the course of 12 months.

In former times, when convicts were confined in hulks,
it would have been otherwise, but circumstances are alto-
gether changed.
From the foregoing considerations, I am led to the conclu-
sion that the extensive change of system, which has been an-
der consideration, is•not likely to entail any sensible inconve-
nience; ant I am supported in my opinion by the views of
the commissioners of Pentonville, recorded in their sixth
report, signed by the Earls of Devon, Chichester, and Har-
rowby, Sir W. Molesworth, and others, &c. They say—
" We conclude these general observations by a remark
suggested by the joint consideration of the favourable and
unfavourable circumstances in those reports.

" These appear to us to demonstrate, that whilst the dis-
cipline and instruction at Pentonville have not in all cases
prevented the exiles from relapsing into crime when ex-
posed to severe trials and demoralising associations, by far
the greater part of them have become useful and valuable
servants, superior, we are told, to the average of free emi-

grants.
" We regard this view of the subject as highly encourag-
ing, for it seems to prove that if this system were generally
introduced, a large portion of our convicts would be quali-
fied, on their discharge, to occupy an honest position in
'their own or any other country ; and it so, we believe that,
under ordinary circumstances, there would seldom be
wanting motives of self-interest and benevolence to afford
them that employment which would enable them to be-
come useful and exemplary members of society."
It is a great though a very common mistake to regard all
who receiv ) a sentence of transportation as being irre-
claimably bad, and as being of one class, and sunk 4o the
same depth of moral turpitude. The fact is not so. There
is every shade of difference in character, as well as in the
circumstances of temptation under which their crimes may
have been committed.
The experience of all who have the best opportunities of
judging will, I am satisfied, coincide with the opinion of
the House of Commons, 1850, as expressed in the following
resolution :

" That the committee concurs with some of the most ex-
perienced witnesses that have been examined, in the opinion
that a great majority of convicted prisoners are open to the
same good motives and good impulses which influence other
human beings, and therefore, that a system of encourage-
ment to good conduct, and endeavours to inspire feelings
of self-respect, self-reliance, and hopefulness for the future,
which have been tried in some of our largest establish-
ments, ought to be adopted, so far as it is practicable,
without impairing the penal and del erring character essen-
tial to any system of imprisonment."
FORMATION OF COMPANIES OF LABOURERS UNDER
MILITARY DISCIPLINE.
In considering the means of disposing of men who have
gone through a proportion of the imprisonment that may
have been awarded, and are eligible for conditional par-

dons, the formation of a corps of labourers under military
discipline for service in the West Indies, or in Africa, or
in other of the colonies, is not undeserving of attention.
The moral results of the present system of discipline are
such as to remove all doubt as to obtaining good and effi-
cient service from a body of men selected for such a pur-
pose.
My view wot.ld be to carry out certain minimum periods
of probationary discipline, as at present. When the men
might have become eligible for a ticket of leave, the re-
maining terms of their sentences should be commuted into
service as military labourers. As they would all have been
trained to certain trades, such a corps would be invaluable
in colonies where labour was high, as the men might be
employed at their respective trades and occupations in the
same manner as the Royal Sappers and Miners and the
late Royal Staff Corps.
There would be great objections to their taking duty
with the regular troops, but the same objections might not
possibly hold good with regard to West India regiments.
It would, however, be an object not to degrade them by
the name of a "condemned regiment," but to adopt mea-
sures for rendering them thoroughly efficient. By means
of military discipline a more efficient control would be
maintained over all who were so disposed of, than under
any other plan yet tried, and I should not hesitate to re-
commend their services being
applied
relieve regular troops, or be otherwise whereverusefu they might
Whilston this subject I cannot but advert to an objec
tion which was urged at a recent period, when the possi-
bility of an invasion was talked of, and which, if the num-
ber of convicts were increased, would have greater force.
It was held by some to be dangerous toha-ve large masses
of convicts assembled at Portland and in our dockyards
and arsenals, and being required to offer an opinion upon
the subject, my experience of the character of the men
enabled me to state, that out of 6,0a0 men who were then
under sentence, 4,000 could be produced who might be re-
lied upon to go wherever they were ordered, and to be as
serviceable in the field as others who had an equal time
for drill and exercise. Further reflection has not caused
any change in that opinion.
TICKETS OF LEAVE IN DARBADOES.
Sir W. Colebrooke, Governor of Bar badoes, who has
brought his great ability and experience to bear on this
point, thus adverts to the operation of a system of tickets-
of leave in that island.
His Excellency states in a dispatch to Earl Grey, dated
June 9, 1851:
"Of the number of those discharged with tickets of
leave under the Act (13 Vic., c.
good 2 conduct, and
due to me of their industry and
recommitted for any offence, and the grant of good-con-
t, then none have been
reports made
good-con-
duct badges to prisoners has tended further to encourage
orderly behaviour in the gaol.
" The success during the last two years of the act for
granting tickets of leave has proved that, under a reforma-
tory system of prison discipline, by which incentives to
good conduct are held out to prisoners, it is practicable,
with the assistance of the magistrates, aided by a rural
constabulary, to guard against the renewal of bad habits,
in which discharged prisoners are exposed in populous
places ; and adverting to the difficulties attending the de-
portation of convicts, arising from the reluctance of other
communities to receive them as such, it is important to
have ascertained that they can be corrected and controlled
at home, although in many cases their voluntary emigra-
tion may be afterwards encouraged with advantage to
themselves and the public.
" One effect of a reformatory system of discipline in pri-
sons acting on the habits of convicts, and holding out to
them the means and motives for improving their own cha-
racters, may be expected to be the removal of the popular
objection to employing them-when discharged with favour-
able testimonials of their conduct from the prison authori-
ties, and especially when withdrawn from the influence of
evil associations by the surveillance exercised over, them as
holders of ' tickets of leave ;' nor is it improbable that the
reluctance to receive them as emigrants, in other commu-
nities where labour is in greater request, would yield to
acknowledge that they had been previously restored to so-
ciety, without a renewal of their depraved habits and asso-
ciations."
8. MEASURES FOR ASSISTING DISCHARGED PRISONERS.
In my second report, published in 1847, 1 observed that
the difficulties inherent in the treatment of juvenile crimi-
nals were " increased by the consideration that it is of no
use instructing criminal children, unless they are provided
for in some way on discharge." The same observation is
equally true as regards adult prisoners ; for it is too
been
oeoeb-
vious to need remark, that, however they
may have
led by the reflection which has been forcad upon them in
confinement, sincerely to deplore their past career of crime
and to form good resolutions for the future, or with what-
ever dread of a prison, the stern discipline to which they
have been subjected, may have inspired them, it is vain to
expect they will be able to avoid a repetition of their
offences, unless they can obtain the means of subsistence
on discharge. What chance will they stand in the struggle
against the pressure of wants which cannot be postponed,
unless they receive some help in their search for employ-
ment ?
ose have been formed,
Several establishments for this purp
amongst which are the Philanthropic Society, which now
carries on its operations at Red-hill, Reigate, that for fe-
males at Camden-town, one in Great Smith-street, West-
minster, and a few others. The application of hundreds for
admission into the last-mentioned institution under circum-
stances that preclude all doubt of the sincerity of their desire
to abandon criminal courses, or at least to try the effect of
a change, have been unsuccessful because of its scanty
funds; and it is well known that some have been compelled
to resort to their former pursuits.
Private individuals, too, have in the most praiseworthy
manner exerted themselves in this useful and Christian
field of action ; and conspicuous amongst them is Mr.
Wright, of Manchester, through whose sole instrumenta-
lity upwards of 150 prisoners have after their discharge
procured situations. How rich the harvest of reward that
has followed his endeavours may be gathered from the
fact that, out of all these cases, he has heard of but one
relapse.
These voluntary efforts of benevolent persons are, how-
ever, wholly insufficient to meet the necessities of the case,
and can accomplish but a very small portion of what is re-
quired. They have indicated the void in our social ar-
rangements which requires to be fill de, and the great suc-
cess of the existing institutions proves their utility, and

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the urgent necessity, under present circumstances, for in•
creasing their number.
If only on the low ground of financial expediency, Go-
vernment would do well to second and stimulate these
humane efforts. Many a man, whether from having been
brought to see the errors of his way, or, from the dread of
punishment, would gladly avoid again coming within the
grasp of the law, if it wore in his power to maintain him-
self by honest industry. Without friends, or the means
of employment, what are they to do? That question de-
mands an answer.

Sir W. Colebrooke well remarked, on a recent occasion
of laying the first stone of a new prison in Barbadoes, that—
" There is a duty which society owes to the discharged
prisoner, which, until of late years, may have been too
much neglected in all countries. The taint of critao is not
readily removed, and the difficulty of regaining a place in
society, when once forfeited, has caused but too many to
relapse into evil associations. Some interposition is there-
fore needed in the way of prevention, and by placing them
for a time under the surveillance of the magistrate, and in
situations remote from temptation, they are better enabled
to regain a respectable position ; and examples may be ad-
duced where this has been followed by decided reforma-
tion.

" We should deceive ourselves, however, if we were to
regard the subject as one in which there aro not great diffi-
culties to surmount, but which, for the sake of society, it
is not the less our duty to encounter with a resolution to
overcome them."

Within a few years there may probably be 9,000 to
10,00'J convicts undergoing imprisonment in this country,
and perhaps 2,000 to be annually discharged on completion
of their sentences.

Of this number it may reasonably be anticipated that a
large propor::_on will do well for themselves, if only afforded
very moderate pecuniary assistance. They may have friends
or property, or a trade requiring but little capital to fall
back upon, but very many will require the active hand of
benevolence, or a comprehensive scheme under the control
of the Government, for giving them some measure of
assistance until they can provide for themselves.
With respect to emigrants, many would gladly avail
themselves of being placed in circumstances to go away,
some of them from a feeling that in returning home they
would disgrace their friends, others from a desire of change
andhoße of making a fresh start in life.

The ;lass requiring assistance in this country would pro-
bably be most difficult to deal with ; but, if they ware re-
leased with conditional,and not free pardons, and some sys-
tematic efforts were made to enable them to meet the diffi-
culties of their position, I should confidently expect a
nt
h more favourable result than might be generally antici-
pa ed. Rather than leave them to their fate, and to the
ch4nce of the Government being again burdened with the
cost of a trial, and other attendant evils, I believe it would
be 'desirable to retain the services, on public works, of such
we-conducted convicts as could not readily find employ-
meit. They might receive rations and clothing, to be paid
foil out of moderate wages. It would be an object to afford
every possible facility for their dispersion, as demands
for their services arose, or opportunity offered. Their stay
would be voluntary, and, from being accustomed to obe-
dience and discipline, there would be little difficulty in
maintaining good order.
This suggestion is the same in principle with that pro-
posed in a letter addressed by me to Sir George Grey, in
October, 1849, with reference to the employment of con-
victs on remote works in Western Australia, from which
thifollowing is an extract :
. On the important point of the means of employment,
I would state my opinion that, though it would be quite
practicable to execute any colonial work that might be re-
quired in the immediate vicinity of the penal establish-
meht, I see no ground for hoping for a favourable result
in the application of convict labour at a distance.
" I conceive, therefore, that the execution of the pro-
jected road by such labour should not be attempted. Any
off rt to maintain discipline among a body of convicts in a
rei ote situation, where no effective means of control can
be sta.blished, must of necessity fail, as regards the moral
object.

li Authority, duly supported, will induce submission,
but, when authority cannot be exercised with effect, an-
tagpnism and resietance take the place of submission.
In order to avoid the many difficulties and evils which
may be anticipated, if anything of the character of a penal
garg be established, and, at the same time, to accomplish
the object of having the road of 60 miles in length made at
a reasonable cost to the colonial or home Government, the
principle of the convict system now in operation might, I
think, under the favourable circumstances of the colonies,
be extended in the following manner :
" I would propose that the men on discharge from the
penal establishment should be required to undergo a
further state of probation before they should be permitted
to engage in private service, or enter upon the full advan-
tages conferred by a ticket of leave. During this period
of comparative freedom they should be obliged to execute
a certain amount of work for the Government in such
places as might be determined.
" I: would not propose they should be confined, or be
under any kind of penal coercion. If they misconducted
themselves in any way their probationary ticket of leave
would be withdrawn, and they would only entitle them-
selves to release from the restrictions imposed by properly
executing the work assigned to them, and by having con-
formed to such rules for their guidance as might have been
deeined necessary.
" The work executed might be measured and the valve
placed to their credit, to be afterwards applied in further.
ance of the object of the Government and for the benefit
of the men.

This probationary period would appear to offer the
most favourable opportunities for bringing into effect the
regulations established by Earl Grey with reference to the
repayment, by a ticket-of-leave holder, of the cost of his
'passage previous to his obtaining a conditional pardon.
" If the men were encouraged by the work being esti-
mated at its full value, and that they received weekly, in
addition to rations, a small proportionate amount of their
earnings, to be expended at discretion, I have little doubt
it would prove a powerful stimulus to exertion, if, as
there appears reason to believe, it would be an object to
them to obtain their pardon, with a view to remove from
the colony.
" The period of gaining this indulgence might be regu-
lated with reference to the demand for labour and other
circumstances, so as to avoid having a greater number of
ticket-of-leave holders on the Government works, or in
private service, than were required.
" With reference to the execution of the work, facilities
should be afforded to the men for building huts in conve-
Tient situations ; a limited amount of bedding should be
allowed ; they should receive rations at a fixed price, and
be enabled, on the certificate of the superintending officer,
to purchase provisions and clothing from the commissariat
to a limited extent, proportionate to their earnings.
"In fact, the system would be similar to that in operation,
in executing a sub-contract on a railway; each party would
virtually have a small contract to perform, but there would
exist stronger inducements to exertion and good conduct,
and greater fear of the consequences of misconduct, than
can be brought to bear on free labour ; or, if it were prac-
ticable to let the execution of the road to a contractor,
and afford him the means of obtaining the required
labour, it would in seine measure relieve the Government,
from responsibility, and bring into play the vigilant super-
intendence of persons watching their own interests. In
such case, however, the governor should retain strong
powers for protecting the interests of the men, which
might otherwise be prejudiced by the cupidity of a con-
tractor, who would have different objects from those of the
Government." _ _ _

The instructions given by Earl Grey to Sir W. Deni-
son, with a view of carrying out the same principle in
Van Diemen's Land, are given in his lordship's dispatch
of 25th July, 1850, from which the following is an ex-

tact :

" But if this rule of requiring newly-arrived convicts to
take up their abode in the more• remote districts is to be
adhered to, it will, I am aware, be necessary to adopt
some means by which employment in these districts may
be insured to the convicts who are required to remain in
them ' • and I will proceed to detail to you the measures
which I propose should be adopted with this view, and for
the purpose of enforcing the regular payment by convicts
holding tickets of leave of the sums charged against them.
I have already said that, for the latter purpose, no such
convict is to be allowed to pass from under the immediate
charge of the Government until he shall have entered into
a contract to serve for not less than a year some private
employer, who will be responsible for paying to the Govern-
ment the required deduction from his wages, but convicts
holding tickets of leave, who have been guilty of no mis-
conduct, and remain under the charge of the Govern-
ment only because they are unable to obtain private
employment, are not to be subject to coercion in the
gangs. The system I propose to adopt with regard to
them is, that they should be employed by the Govern-
ment in such useful labour as can be found for them, that
credit should be allowed, them at the full rate of wages,
obtainable in private service for the value of the work they
may perform (which should invariably be task-work); but
that, instead of being paid in money, they should receive
such supplies as they might choose to draw for (including
a reasonable proportion of tobacco and other articles, which
may rather be termed luxuries than necessaries), the cost
of these supplies being charged against them, and the
balance of their earnings being credited to them in reduc-
tion of their debt to the Government.
" Assistance should be given to convicts placed in this
situation, to provide themselves with huts in situations
convenient for their labour, and, so long as they should
continue to come regularly to their work, for the same
number of hours as are usually expected from free la-
baurers, and to conduct themselves with regularity and
propriety, no restraint should be placed upon their freedom
of action during the remainder of their time. Of course,
any attempt to leave the district in which they are placed,
or a failure to come regularly to their work, or to exert
themselves during the hours of labour with proper industry,
should be immediately met by withdrawing their tickets
of leave for a longer or a shorter time, accordingh to the
e
degree of their misconduct, and by placing themin
probation gangs, subject to the same discipline as other
convicts who, are in that situation."
The Earl of Chichester, in his evidence before
referredrethese-
lect committee on prison discipline, in
incidentally to an intermediate stage of probatHioins,lpurrde:
viously to the final discharge of the prisoner.
ship observed :
" Experience has, I think, proved that those systems of
prison discipline which are based solely or
eisanattoinal the
theory of reformation, have failed in both
re-
quisitions of a penal institution ; I means n
they
dbeyohuavte failed
to reform as well as to deter. There
is,
of the I; much
truth in what has been advanced by some humane
advocates of these systems, but their principles and their
reasoning apply to a state of things mos desirable in itself,
as an intermediate stage between onethatisstrictly penal
and entire liberation, but which neither the present con-
dition of our penal establishments nor of our criminal code
is qualified to admit."

COST OF LAND IN LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.—
The trustees of the Liverpool Docks, having occasion to
purchase 23,836 square yards of land for increased ac-
commodation of the docks, had to pay for it 11.25. 114 d.
per squire yard, or a total of 33,1.13/. One thousand
square yards required for the erection of a warehouse in
Manchester last week fetched 101. per equare'yard, or a
total of 10,0001.

The Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S.
Spencer, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from
the East India and China station, to be paid off. She
sailed from Trincomalee on the 15th of May, and the
Cape of Good Hope on the 10th of July. No news
from the latter colony. She brought home Lieutenant
W. C. F. Wilson, promoted from the Winchester '
flag-
ship • Mr. Harvey, surgeon (late of the Sphynx) ; Mr.
I -
Cave, clerk ; arid Mr. Daniels, naval cadet ; and seven
invalids, all from the Winchester, and other invalids
from the squadron. On her way home from the Cape
the Contest spoke the following ships :--The Hebe, from
Cork to Calcutta, with troops on the 31st of July, in
fat, 2 13 30 S., long. 19 2,.) W. ; the Adele, French
barque, from Macassar to Marseilles, on the 2d of Aug.,
in lat. 1 29 N. long. 22 30 W., 164 days out ; exchanged
colours with an English brig, in lat. 31 19 N., long. 32
32 W., on the 17th of Aug. ; the Teviot steamer, from
Southampton to the West Indies, 11 days out, on the
19th of Aug. in lat. 33 40 45 N., long. 32 05 15 W. ;
on the 24th'of Aug., in lat. 39 49 N., long. 27 34 W.,
exchanged numbers with the English steamer Thames,
bound to the West Indies ; on the Ist of Sept. spoke the
Red Gauntlet, and on the 2d her Majesty's ship Lon-
don. Having been three years and three quarters in
commission, the Contest (one of White's justlycelebrated
sailing brigs) will now. be paid off at this port, and her
commander most probably raised to post rank on the
visit of the Lords of the Admiralty this week.
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., the Port
Admiral, returned from Torquay on Friday night.
The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Belam, arrived yesterday morning with Major
Young's company of Royal Artillery, from Jersey. She
embarked Captain Elliott's company of Royal Artillery,
from Portsmouth yesterday, and left with them last
night for Devunport.
The Sprightly, ten**7l4- Victory-, Master Caluteamder,
Allen, hauled into dock to-day, to examine her bottom,
and which was found to be exceedingly foul and covered
with weed and barnacles, which had impeded her pro-
gress more than a knot an hour, although it is not many
months since she was in dock to have her copper cleaned.
She will haul out on Monday.
Tire Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' instruction-brig, Lieut.-
Commander Fenwick, came into harbour this morning,
from her weekly Channel cruise.

The Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, was taken into the
steam basin out of dock on Friday, and is to be got
ready for re-commissioning forthwith, it is said, by semi-
official report, to relieve the Penelope, as the flag-ship
on the western coast of Africa station. We give this
just as we have heard it, and as it is reported in the
local paper of this day, but assuredly such a wanton dis-
regard of consequences cannot be entertained in high
quarters for a moment. The Dauntless has already
proved the coffin of one-third of her ship's company on
the West India station, and now to talk of re-commis-
sioning her so soon after her return from that sickly
region to send her to the professedly most unhealthy
station under the pennant seems to us so horrible that
we trust some official contradiction will be given to the
rumour.

Mr. Rawson, the head master of the School for Royal
Naval Shipwright Apprentices in this dockyard, has
been appointed the successor of Dr. Woolley, in direct-
ing the mathematical studies of the school of mathe-
matics and naval construction, the Rev. Dr. Woolley
having been appointed Admiralty Inspector of all the
Dockyard Schools. Professor Rawson is a gentleman
of acknowledged reputation in mathematical science,
and his appointment is looked upon with satisfaction by
all who desire to see those improvements in naval archi-
tecture still further developed which have distinguished
the surveyorship of the navy of Sir Baldwin Walker.
Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, is at
Cowes. He will embark to-morrow morning early in
the steam-yacht Fire Queen, Master-Commander Paul,
for this port.
The fine frigate-built Indiaman Prince of Wales sails
from Spithead this evening for India full of passengers
and merchandise.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 3.

Her Majesty's frigate Dindalus, 20, Captain George
G. Wellesley, which arrived here on Monday from the
Pacific, and sailed the same day for Portsmouth to land
her dollars, after being detained by wind and fog at
Spithead, returned to the Sound to-day. It seems
strange, now that Plymouth has complete railway and
telegraphic communication with the metropolis, that the
nation could not be saved the detention and risk of the
voyage, and the expense of a week's pay and provisions
for the crew of this frigate. Private merchants and ship-
owners manage such affairs differently. In June last,
when the steam-ship Sarah Sands arrived from the dig-
gings,
although she was bound to and went on to Lon-
don, all her gold was landed here and sent up by rail-
way. The Dmdalus has discharged her powder and
shell, and goes up harbour on Monday to be paieoff.
Two fine emigration ships arrived yesterday, and
sailed to-day for the colonies. The Waterloo, Captain
Greene, has above 900 tons of manufactured goods, ale,
spirits, &c., and 35 passengers ; she anchored in the
Sound about 5 p.m. on Friday, and departed about 4
p.m. on Saturday for Sydney. The Anglesea, Captain
Thorn, has about 800 tons of general cargo, 35 cabin,
and 60 steerage passengers ; she anchored at 9 p.m. on
Friday, and left 20 minutes after the Waterloo for Port
Philip and Sydney. Both these ships, through the
agent, Mr. J. B. Wilcocks, have in the short interval
been amply provided with live stock, sheep, pigs,
poultry, and other stores, and have embarked their pas-
sengers, among whom are many experienced colonists,
who selected Plymouth as their port of embarkation.
The Waterloo, which belongs to Messrs. Dunbar, left
the port September 26, 1852, and reached Sydney Jan.
1, 1853-98 days. She started from Sydney on the
return on the sth of March, and arrived home June 12

-99 days, having accomplished the voyage out and
home in eight months and a-half. The Anglesea belongs
to Messrs. Green. She was noted immediately at the
period of her first departure as being five times as long
as she is broad. The Anglesea left Plymouth on the
Ist of September, and arrived at Port Philip in 94 days.
She occupied 100 days in the return, with 29,000
ounces of gold, and arrived on the 17th of June. On
this, her first voyage, it was found that too much reli-
ance had been placed on the fineness of her lines, and
that not sufficient canvass had been allowed. Since
then she has been newly masted and rigged, her yards
are more square, and her canvas has been increased
nearly one-third. This alteration has greatly increased
her sailing qualities ; she left the Downs at 2 p.m. on
Monday, against a strong head wind, in company with
an American liner, which she beat by 23 hours on the
passage only to Portsmouth.

SEPTEMBER 4.

Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Rhadamanthus, Mas-
ter-Commander Belam, which left Portsmouth on Wed-
nesday for the Channel Islands, arrived here this morn-
ing, at 11, with artillerymen, in exchange for those on
duty at Devonport.
At noon to-day a paddle-wheel bark-rigged man-of-war,
apparently homeward bound, was observed under steam
inside the Eddystone at 12.30 ; when near the Mewstone
she set her fore and aft canvass, the wind having veered
from north-east to north.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 3.

The Cyclops steam-transport, Mr. Charles Pope, mas-
ter commander pro tern., from Woolwich, was taken into
the fitting-basin with the boilers and machinery for the
Cressy, 80, screw steamship this day.
The Netherlands ship Jan Hendrik, H. de Jong com-
mander, was put out of the basin, and left here for Lon-
don in tow of the steam-tug Perseverance at 6 a.m. this
day.

from the Ajax to the London, 90, at Portsmouth.
Clerk George N. Warren (1847), from the Ajax to
the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at Ports-
mouth.
The Vivid mail steam-packet, Captain Smithett, after
conveying the members of the Board of Admiralty on
their official visit to the naval ports from Chatham to
Sheerness, on Thursday last, remained in attendance at
the latter port, and on Friday morning proceeded with
their lordships to Harwich to inspect the harbour of
refuge constructing there, and passed Woolwich on
afternoon, with the Admiralty flag at her mast-
' head, on her way up to Blackwall, where their lordships
landed, and returned to the Admiralty. The Vivid
again passed Woolwich about half an hour afterwards,
and held on for Dover, to resume her duties at that
station. The Royal Artillery fired the large guns re-
cently mounted on the fortifications at Dover for the
protection of the harbour of refuge at the time their
I,,rdships were visiting it, and they were perfectly satis-
fied with the result, the shot in every instance falling
far to seaward, beyond the outer works of the harbour.
Vise-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Rear-Admiral M.
F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., Lords of the Admiralty, and
Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P., First Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, remained on duty at Whitehall, while Sir James
Oratiam, Rear-Admiral R. S. Dundas, C. 8., Captain
Alexander Milne, and the lion. Win. Francis Cowper,
M.P., Lords of the Admiralty, and Captain William A.
B, Hamilton, R.N., Second Secretary of the Admiralty,
proceeded on the official visit to the dockyards on the
Thames and Medway.
THE ROYAL ALBERT, 131, SCREW STEAM-SHIP.

The figurehead, a splendid and gigantic bust of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, was brought down the
river on Wednesday last from Blackwall, where it was
carved by Mr. Hellyer, and the various pieces of which
the figure will be composed are now lying under the bow
of that splendid screw steam-ship preparatory to being
put up in the proper position. Some idea may be
formed of the large proportions of the figurehead when
it is stated that the carved and finished head is three
feet in diameter, and, although the figure is only a bust
of his Royal Highness, it is 17 feet long.

HARWICH, SEPT. 2.
Sir James Graham, First Lord, Admiral Dundas, and
the Hon. W. Cowper, Lords of the Admiralty, and Sir
John Burgoyne, Inspector-General of the Fortifications,
Arrived in onryhirbour .this pornin,AB 09004, the
Vivid, Commander Smithett,-from Sheerira, rich
they must have left at a very early hour. After a sur-
vey of the shipyard and premises which belong to the
Government, the party went up to the redoubt along
with Major Moulsworth, R.E., and on their return were
attended by Mr. Walker and Mr. Cooper, the engineers,
and Mr. Lee, the contractor, in examining the progress
of the improvements, by which, when they shall be com-
pleted, the capability of our fine harbour will be much
increased. The Trinity-house superintendent was in at-
tendance to inform their lordships as to the different
buoys and lights near the entrance of the harbour. Their
lordships afterwards crossed the harbour to Landguard
Fort, which they visited, and then returned to the
Vivid, which immediately started for the river.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN SIR W. C. H. BURNABY, BART.
—The death of this gallant officer has been repprted.
Sir William Crisp Hood Burnaby was only son oT the
late Sir William Chaloner Burnaby, Bart., by Eliza-
beth, second daughter of Crisp Molyneux, Esq., of Gar-
boldesham, county Norfolk, and grandson of Admiral
Sir William Burnaby, Bart., who successively held the
chief command on the Leeward Islands and Jamaica
stations, and died in 1777. He succeeded his father as
third baronet, in 1794. He entered the Royal Naval
Academy in 1803, and embarked Oct. 11, 1806, as mid-
shipman, on board the Montagu, 74, Captain Robert
Waller Otway, with whom, on proceeding to the Medi-
terranean, he assisted at the evacuation of Scylla, under
a smart fire from the enemy on the Calabrian shore, and
was afterwards actively employed in co-operating with
the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, where he witnessed
the capture of the fortress of Rosas. In Nov. 3, 1809,
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and under
Captain Hatton, in the Port Mahon, took part in many
warm encounters with the American enemy, particularly
on the 20th of the following June, when, we believe, he
contributed, in company with the Narcissus and Barrosa
frigates, to the complete discomfiture, at the entrance
of Norfolk river, of 15 gun-boats, that had been dis-
patched for the express purpose of capturing the Junon,
after an action of three hours, during which the latter
had two men killed and three wounded. He was pro-
moted, May 26, 1814, to the command of the Ardent
prison-ship at Bermuda, and since May, 1816, when
that vessel was placed out of commission, has been un-
employed. Sir William Burnaby married May 2, 1818,
the widow of Joseph Wood, Esq., of Bermuda.