associates in crime, but with respectable persons unacquainted with their past history, and may thus be enabled, as the phrase is, to turn over a new leaf.' This of course implies that they should not emigrate in a body to any one place, and as a distinct class. For juvenile offenders, the same course would perhaps be even still more suitable." Without entering into any further details, your Committee will now conclude their report with the following resolutions, to which they have agreed, and which contain their general views as to the description of punishment which they recommend to be substituted for transportation : 1. That transportation to New South Wales, and to the settled districts of Van Diemen's Land, should be discontinued as soon as practicable. 2. That crimes now punishable by transportation should in future be punished by confinement with hard labour, at home or abroad, for periods varying from two to fifteen years. 3. That for the purpose of effectually maintaining discipline and subordination among the convicts sentenced to confinement abroad, of promoting the legitimate ends for which punishment is inflicted, and also of preventing a recurrence of those social evils which have been found by experience to result from transportation as hitherto conducted, the penitentiaries or houses of confinement that may be established abroad, shall (so far as possible) be strictly limited to those places wherein there are at present no free settlers, and wherein effectual security can be taken against the future resort of such settlers. 4. That rules should be established by which the existing practice of abridging the periods of punishment of convicts in consequence of their good conduct, may be brought under stricter regulation, and rendered less vague and arbitrary. 5. That on account of the difficulty which a convict finds in this country in procuring the means of honest livelihood after the expiration of his sentence, and on account of the temptations to which he is thereby exposed, it would be advantageous to establish a plan by which a convict might receive encouragement to leave the country with the prospect of supporting himself by regular industry, and ultimately regaining the place in society which he had forfeited by crime. That if such encouragement were limited to convicts who should have conducted themselves uniformly well during their confinement, it might at the same time operate as an encouragement to good behaviour during confinement, and might considerably diminish the prejudice which must to a certain degree attach to any person known to have been convicted of a serious offence. 6. That the convicts who have been punished abroad should be compelled to leave the settlement in which they have been punished within a limited period after the expiration of their sentences, and that means should be afforded them by the Government for this purpose. August 3, 1838. INDEX. ABERDEEN, Lord, describes Lord Aborigines, Committee on, 29, 34, Adderley, Mr. C. (Lord Norton), 227 Burton, Australian judge, on punish- - American Colonies, British North, amount of expenditure on, mili- 317; power of amendment of constitu- BAILLIE, Mr. H. J., 227 South Wales, removed by Lord Buller, Mr. C., on affairs of Mauri- CANADA, neglect of, by Lord Glenelg, 47-49; conflict of races in, 222, Campbell, Major H., Governor of Cape Colony, neglect of, by Lord Cheyne, Captain, on moral condi- Colonies, statement of views on Coolie immigration, 44, 70, 492-493 DENISON, Sir W., Governor of Van Diemen's Land, advocates bi- EMIGRATION, remedy for economic Canada Fitz Roy, Sir C., Governor of New GIBRALTAR (see Military Stations) tion of, 1-53; on Canada Clergy Gosford, Lord, Governor of Canada, Grey. Lord, regulations of, as to Grey, Captain (Sir G.), Governor HARROWBY, Lord, on Canada Clergy Hawes, Mr. B., Under-Secretary Hincks, Mr., resolutions of, as to Hindmarsh, Captain, Governor of Hong Kong, expenditure on, 170 INGLIS, Sir R., on Canada Clergy Ionian Islands, expenditure on, 162, LABOUCHERE, Mr., President of Lands, waste, question of disposal Legislature, bicameral, advantages Lords, House of, advantages of, Lowe, Mr. R., resolutions of, in Lushington, Dr., on Mauritius, MACARTHUR, Mr., introducer of ment system," 95, 450, 487-488; Maitland, Sir P., Governor of Cape Malta (see Military Stations), 166 Mercantile system, 174-175 Mill, Mr. J. S., suggested as member of proposed Royal Commission W., New Zealand pioneer, 86 NEWCASTLE, Duke of, motion of, on Vancouver's Island, 227; sug- New Zealand, neglect of, by Lord PAKINGTON, Sir J., attitude of, on Pottinger, Sir H., Governor of Cape Poulett Thomson (see Sydenham, Pownall, Governor of Massachu- "Prestige of might," 248-249 RESPONSIBLE government, 180, 203, Ripon, Lord, on Canada Clergy Roebuck, Mr., 227 |
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