Larceny 72 Wilful damage 2 Breach of peace 3 Vagrancy 5 Theft 26 Disorderly conduct 4 Picking Pockets 4 ---- Total 116 OFFENCES OF A GRAVER CHARACTER. Uttering base coin 2 Unlawful possession 3 Horse-stealing 1 Robbery 2 Receiving stolen goods 1 Wounding 1 Housebreaking 4 ---- Total 14 Minor offences 116 ---- Total 130 FOOTNOTES [4] In the years from 1841 to 1845, the average annual number of convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land was 3,527. [5] One of the official calculations laid before the Government was, that in the event of transportation being abolished, it would be necessary to provide accommodation for 28,000 offenders, in addition to that which then existed. [6] There were two other clerical errors in the part of the paper referring to Portsmouth. The thirty-three convicts were fulfilling sentence not under the new, but under the old Act; and in lieu of seventy-three under report for misconduct, it should have been thirteen—an important difference. [7] The annual report of the Directors of Convict Prisons for 1860, published recently, more than confirms the report which I made to you, and which was published in your April number. The excellent working and progress of the Irish system continue with increasing force. The Government prisons contain accommodation for 3,000 convicts; the total number incarcerated in the first year of the new system, 1854, exclusively of the 345 convicts in the county prisons, and several hundreds in Bermuda or Gibraltar, was 3,933, and it has decreased, by a steady progress, to 1,492. In 1861 the number convicted has decreased from 710 to 331. This is the more remarkable, since the deportation of convicts from Ireland ranged from 600 to 1,540 in the five years preceding 1854. Out of 5,500 convicts discharged in the last seven years, 1,462 were discharged on licence; 89 licences have been revoked, amounting to seven per cent. “We do not,” say the Directors, “believe a single case can be proved of a convict having been reported for infringing the condition of his licence, and still remaining at large in this country.” [8] Statistica del Penitenziario di Corfu, per gli Anni 1857, 1858, 1859. Compilata da Giovanni Cozziris, Governatore del Penitenziario di Corfu, ed Inspettore Generale delle Prigioni dello Stato Ionio. [9] From October to December 31st, 1853. [10] To 31st March, 1861. [11] From October, 1853. [12] To June, 1861. Roundabout Papers.—No. XV.