nd would have been enforced for an unavoidable
breach of contract.

Page 148, for "_free_ women," read "_freed_ women."

Page 149, for "_Macarthur's New South Wales_," read "_Mudie's
Felonry_."

Page 151, for "12,000," read "1,200 houses."

Page 155, for "regarded by," read "appeared to."

Page 166. Rev. S. Marsden. A pamphlet was published by Mr. Marsden,
called _A Statement Relative to Illegal Punishment_ (1828). A
warrant to this effect was produced:--"Sitting magistrates--Henry
Grattan Douglas, Esq., and Rev. S. Marsden. James Blackburn,
attached to the prisoners' barracks, ordered to receive twenty-five
lashes every morning until he tells who were the four men in
company with him gambling." This warrant, Mr. Marsden
declared a forgery. Other charges were made of the same character,
but they were refuted by Mr. Marsden. He proved his absence from
the bench when sentences of torture were passed. In the text there
is an apparent leaning to the charge, but there appears no fair
ground to reject Mr. Marsden's refutation, which is most decisive
as to his own participation in this revolting practice.

Page 189, for "real name," read "known name."

Page 271, for "primitive," read "punitive."

Page 321, for "Report of Institutions," read "Report of Hanwell
Institution."

Page 335. The long delay in the publication of this work has given
time for several important changes in the aspect of convict
discipline. The local government of Van Diemen's Land, resolved in
November, 1850, to restore the practice of assignment, and notices
for this purpose were issued.

Thus the convict was bound to serve his master according to the
duration of his sentence, and to accept such wages as the convict
department might sanction. The object of this change was to
reconcile the settlers to the continuance of transportation, by
restoring an interest and authority which the probation system
subverted.

The men who had been promised comparative liberty on their arrival,
complained bitterly of this change, and claimed to work as free
servants with masters of their own choice. Earl Grey expressed
strong disapproval of this return to a system expressly repudiated
by his party, and condemned by himself, and ordered the governor to
compensate