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other guards paid by the Government. With a large Chinese population, whole sympathics are invariabling in favor of the prisoner, and

with the mainland not a

n

mile distant.

+ from us convicts the ponds require a much grater number of quards than in penal settlements

in any other locality under the English flag

:so forme another importent Item of the whole question . holasquection. 2 he objects to be aimed at

Bo

area

and this

" conceive tomo Rejconvict

labor reminers hive and

band to save paid

beneficial, an

to

cador in guarding the prisoners

white at work.

thave every hope that thes object can be attained in this Colony if the experiment, be made of insiting the prisoners to good behaviour and work

of

by giving them the hopes surtailing their several terms of imprisonment by their own

ach . Incarceration ind

Hongkong is a punishment far heavier than transpor

transportation for a similar term to any place