SECTION III. p. 108. Bentham's project--New South Wales occupied. SECTION IV. p. 111. Voyage--surgeon-superintendents--convict ship--treatment of women--abuses--systems of management--Dr. Reid--Cunningham--Browning--general safety of convict vessels--loss of the _George the Third_--the _Neva_--the _Governor Phillip_. SECTION V. p. 123. Early difficulties of convict management--assignment established--disposal of the prisoners. SECTION VI. p. 129. Origin of bushranging--Howe--his career. SECTION VII. p. 138. Habits of convict population--1824. SECTION VIII. p. 143. The colonies re-act on each other--N. S. Wales--state of Parramatta--rocks--allurements of transportation--Macquarie's views--wealth and claims of emancipists--Biggs's views--pardons--emancipists form associations--petition parliament--their alleged reformation--Bigge's commission--Macquarie's recall--character--Rev. S. Marsden. SECTION IX. p. 172. Bigge's recommendations--his reports--Macquarie Harbor--emigration proposed--demand for labor. SECTION X. p. 186. Land granted to settlers employing convicts--large immigration of capitalists. SECTION XI. p. 188. Assignment established in America--debarkation of prisoners--their identification--curious practice--law of assignment--transfer of servants. SECTION XII. p. 194. Escapes from Macquarie Harbor--Brady--executions--state of colony--causes of bushranging. SECTION XIII. p. 214. Macquarie Harbor--visit of Backhouse and Walker--seizure of the _Cyprus_--_Frederic_--_Badger_. SECTION XIV. p. 222. Escape of prisoners--seek for China--curious narrative--the _Young Lachlan_ seized--penalty of escape. SECTION XV. p. 228. Arthur's principles of penal government--number reclaimable--Arthur's system--view of the real state of prisoners--representation of society--of transportation--idea of New South Wales at home--writings of Archbishop Whately--Mr. Secretary Stanley's "certain and severe" system--tickets-of-leave. SECTION XVI. p. 240. Disposal of mechanics and specials--convict clerks--wives of prisoners--Savary--Port Arthur--Boothe's system--Point Puer--young convicts. SECTION XVII. p. 248. Views of ministers--certain severe system--conduct of overseers--retaliation--executions--effects of immigration--colonial protests--curious contrast. SECTION XVIII. p. 255. Convict system of New South Wales--Governor Bourke--corporal punishment--Major Mudie--Watt--abuses--Burton's charge--its effect--Molesworth's motion. SECTION XIX. p. 263. Franklin's appointment--Maconochie's commission--his reports--his opinions--his system--board refute him--different sources of his system--Dr. Henderson's scheme. SECTION XX. p. 274. Remarks on Maconochie's system--partly erroneous--useful results of assignment--Franklin's opinions. SECTION XXI. p. 278.