Disposal of mechanics and specials--convict clerks--wives of prisoners--Savary--Port Arthur--Boothe's system--Point Puer--young convicts.
Views of ministers--certain severe system--conduct of overseers--retaliation--executions--effects of immigration--colonial protests--curious contrast.
Convict system of New South Wales--Governor Bourke--corporal punishment--Major Mudie--Watt--abuses--Burton's charge--its effect--Molesworth's motion.
Franklin's appointment--Maconochie's commission--his reports--his opinions--his system--board refute him--different sources of his system--Dr. Henderson's scheme.
Remarks on Maconochie's system--partly erroneous--useful results of assignment--Franklin's opinions.
Sir Wm. Molesworth's committee--stoppage of transportation to New South Wales--Archbishop Wheately's opinions--Bourke's views--exaggerations--Captain Wood--remonstrance--new plan for Norfolk Island--Maconochie appointed commandant--his mark system--the birthday--the _Governor Phillip_ seized--failure of his system--opinions of Sir G. Gipps--of Captain Forster.
Lord John Russell's plan--Sir Wm. Molesworth's proposal to anticipate the land fund--Mr. Innes's pamphlet--resolutions of the Commons--Captain Montagu's visit to England--assignment stopped--gangs formed--evils--Franklin's representations.
Lord Stanley's probation system--effects at Norfolk Island--insurrection--murders--Major Childs--cruelties--Earl Grey's orders.
System in Van Diemen's Land--large arrivals--incompetent officers--errors on which the system-was founded--Lord Stanley's defiance of the settlers--re-emigration--hiring depôts--representations of Forster--Hampton--Boyd--Fry--crimes increase--laxity of discipline--Mr. Bishton's views--North Australia--Mr. Latrobe--his representations--ticket system.
Treatment of female prisoners--their transportation a great evil--numbers--Sir G. Murray's scheme.
Lord Stanley's directions for the disposal of women--Mrs. Bowden--married female prisoners.
Views of transportation often governed by interest--old system--incompatible objects sought--frequent changes--every theory contradicted by results--Arthur's opinion--progress from 1830--capital expended--value of convict labor--sacrifices of the settlers--effects of transportation--public works--numbers transported--character of convicts--repetition of crimes--views of statesmen--moral effects of transportation--cause of opposition to transportation.