exposed, and relieving them from onerous duties which occupy them to the exclusion of more legitimate exertions for the maintenance of Law and Order is becoming apparent than ever --
I would urge most respectfully that in dealing with crime the system which is inaugurating must be regarded as a whole, and the abstraction from the arch of any one stone may be fatal to its solidity.
I quit that subject however for the present and in conclusion state in reference to the supposed limited space allotted in Victoria gaol to each prisoner, alluded to by Carnarvon, that not merely is the space ample for more than three hundred additional Chinese prisoners but that no fair inference can be drawn from the cubic space in such a cell, as the doors communicate with lofty and broad corridors, ventilated by windows and gratings at one side and in each door, at the opposite side, so that there is always a current of fresh air passing.
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