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Established, no change in this respect was soon made. Listed in New South Wales, her great and self-governing colonies of Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania, which have been created out of the vast territories formerly included in New South Wales. It is true that New Zealand, which has never been affected by transportation and which has always prided itself on its assimilation of English institutions and usages, has adopted the English system of the Grand Jury. But in each of the Australian Colonies the Attorney General for the time being, and changing with the Ministry of the day, is still, in his single person, both Grand Jury and Chief Public Prosecutor. It might have been reasonably expected that, in the "fierce democracy" of Australia, where party and political passions often rage too furiously, the concentration of such great powers in a single Officer of the Government would probably provoke jealousy and suspicion. But I do not recall, during my long experience of nineteen years in Australasia,