divine service was regularly attended. Besides the Morning and Evening Prayers on Sunday, divine service takes place five times during the week, twice in the gaol, twice in the hospital, and once a week for those men who are exempt from work, their sentences having expired. There may, as has been stated, be much hypocrisy in Norfolk Island,[196] but surely the spirit which was offended at efforts that have wrought even these changes in a spot of extreme moral and religious desolation, may, without breach of charity, be pronounced to have been an unclean and evil spirit. Can this language be justly deemed too strong, when the facts already stated are borne in mind; when, (to sum up the whole case in a single example,) it is remembered that in one year, 1838, the colonial government of New South Wales paid 57,740_l._ 11_s._ 3_d._ for its police establishment and gaols, while the very utmost that was spent in providing religious instruction for _all the prisoners_ within the limits of the colony amounted, during the same period, to less than 1000_l._?[197] [195] The reason given by the Roman Catholic, Dr. Ullathorne, is that the two priests divide the salary, and receive together no more than the one chaplain.--ULLATHORNE'S _Reply to Burton_, p. 76. The reader must bear in mind the different scale of expenses required by a person who _must_ be single, and that of a person who may be, and generally is, a married man. [196] See Committee on Transportation, 1838, pp. 137, 138. [197] See Burton on Education and Religion in New South Wales, pp. 287-289. The actual sum there stated is either 725_l._ or 855_l._, according as certain expenses connected with the establishment are included or not.