This will be a
great~
alleviation to a growing embarrassment,-
the
accumulation of prisoners Jail has become a
in our
source
of the greatest
inconvenience and
ence and expense-
demanding
loo,
I fear,
a
large outlay for the extension
of prisons-accommodation Cam sorry to say
that
in the Straits settlements,
whether from the lavity of the police or the facilities offered to escape, it appears from the official returns
that no less than 25 Chinese
convicts esca,
escoped from.
а
Penang between august
and
411
41856
april 1857, of whom 6 -
on the 2nd april
got away
and 10, on the 13th April.
I earnestly hope
that
the opening which Labuan.
appears to afford may disappointi
not
I have had some
Correspondence.
ondence with Mr.
Spencer M. John, the Consul General of Borneo, who states
that the Sultan would
be dis
disposed
to receive a
certain number of chinese
Cmigrants, but the -