[168] See an interesting passage in Major Mitchell’s Three Expeditions, vol. ii. p. 28. See likewise Oxley’s First Journal, p. 75.
[169] See Australian and New Zealand Magazine, No. iv. p. 234.
[170] A glance over the two ponderous volumes of the evidence before the Transportation Committee in 1837 and 1838 will satisfy every unprejudiced person that our penal colonies are not yet ripe for a representative government. It is curious enough to compare the fearful picture of these settlements drawn by one section of the so-called Liberal party, which wages war against transportation, with the more pleasing and flattering description of their social condition which is given by that other section of the same party which claims for the colonists “constitutional rights.”
[171] See Mr. Montgomery Martin“s New South Wales, p. 353.
[172] See Report of Transportation Committee in 1838, p. 32.
[173] Acts xxiii. 5.
[174] See the Preface to the Form of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Book of Common Prayer.
[175] The subjection of New South Wales to the Bishopric of Calcutta was a mere absurdity; it might just as well have been under Canterbury at once.
[176] See Wentworth’s Australasia, vol. i. p. 366.
[177] Elsewhere stated to be 60,861. Perfect accuracy in these matters appears almost unattainable.