, of Bush Hall, Staffordshire.

Charles Joseph Latrobe, Esq., Superintendent of the Port Phillip
District, and subsequently first governor of that territory, now called
Victoria, superseded Sir E. Wilmot (October 13, 1846). During his short
stay as "administrator" he was employed in a careful scrutiny of the
probation department. In performing this difficult duty he displayed
exemplary activity and decision. He resolved to remove every officer
chargeable with incapacity or neglect, and thus many were dismissed.
This promptitude exposed him to imputations of harshness; but although
it is probable he did not wholly escape errors of judgment, the chief
acts of his administration were amply vindicated by the facts he saw.
The opinions he expressed sustained the colonial impressions respecting
the convict system. While he suggested many improvements in its details,
he concurred with the general wish for its extinction. Mr. Latrobe never
met the legislative council; and his government being limited to the
established routine, left nothing to record.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 246: Motion proposed October 28, 1845.]

[Footnote 247: The following is the address, to which 250 names were
appended:--"To Sir J. E. E. Wilmot, Bart.--We the undersigned,
inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, having heard that your recall has been
influenced by reports injurious to your moral character, during your
administration of the government of this colony, deem it to be a duty
which we owe to truth and justice to express our unqualified
contradiction of those reports, and we feel the more imperatively called
upon to do so, from the fact of many of us having differed in opinion
upon various measures of your government. Upon the occasion of your
retirement into private life, we have to assure you that you carry with
you our best wishes for your future welfare."]

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

FROM 1847 TO 1852.

FROM 1847 TO 1852.

SECTION I.

Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, Captain of the Royal Engineers,
presented his commission, January 26th, 1847. He had been employed in
the dock-yards, and in the survey of important public works. His eminent
abilities in a department connected with the employment of prisoners,
not less than his respectable connexions, led to his nomination. His
professional habits had not qualified him equally for civil affairs; but
the chief object proposed by the minister, Mr. Gladstone, was the better
d