CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]

should be pursued

with

a

view of preventing

& punishing Crime

within the Colony.

There

are all questions which at this

distance it is very difficult to decide. I am bound to observe that they depend on the first impression on reading the results

which

have effected in that reformatory discipline,

that the discipline is very

severe and

may

require modification

I admit the impoliticility!

but it is impossible

to "draw any analogy

between the method of treating

Criminals

in this Country and in Hong Kong also

where the tract is different. I also adopt that Crime is of such

an exceptional character making punishment much deterrent.

But it should not be carried out carefully,

such as

to result in the

Prison discipline which you have established

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should be pursued

with

a

view of preventing

& punishing Crime

within the Colony.

There are all questions which at this distance it is very difficult to decide. I am bound to observe that they depend on the first impression on reading the results

which have effected in that reformatory discipline,

that the discipline is very severe and

may require modification.

I admit the impolicy!

but it is impossible to draw any analogy between the method of treating Criminals in this Country and in Hong Kong, where the tract is different. I also admit that Crime is of such an exceptional character making punishment much deterrent.

But it should be carried out carefully,

such as to result in the Prison discipline which you have established.

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should be pursued with a view of preventing & punishing Crime within the Colony.

There are all questions which at this distance it is very difficult to decide. I am bound to observe that they depend on the first impression on reading the results which have effected in that reformatory discipline, that the discipline is very severe and may require modification.

I admit the impolicy! but it is impossible to draw any analogy between the method of treating Criminals in this Country and in Hong Kong, where the tract is different.

I also admit that Crime is of such an exceptional character making punishment much deterrent. But it should be carried out carefully, such as to result in the Prison discipline which you have established.