LIFE AMONG CONVICTS.

BY

CHARLES B. GIBSON, M.R.I.A.,

CHAPLAIN IN THE CONVICT SERVICE.

"Il faut que la forme de la répression soit tellement appropriée au
délit, qu'elle ait le double effet d'amener, en le frappant au cœur, la régéné-
ration du coupable, et de prémunir la société contre le retour des actes
dont elle a eu à souffrir."-BERENGER.

"Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget."

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

-JUVENAL.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

The General Character, Photographs, and Offences of

Irish Convicts.-The Priest and the Sheep-

stealer. The Kilkenny Sportsman

CHAPTER III.

William Burke Kirwan, the Artist of Ireland's Eye

CHAPTER IV.

The State Convict, John Mitchel

CHAPTER V.

The Intermediate Prisons of Forts Carlisle and Cam-

den, and Smithfield

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VI.

The Intermediate Prison at Lusk

CHAPTER VII.

The Temptations of Lusk.-Warlocks in Wild Places.

-Sir Walter Crofton assumes a New Character.

-The Devil in the Tobacco-box.--The Six-

penny Trial. The Struggle and the Conquest.

CHAPTER VIII.

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Correspondence with Enlarged Convicts.-Letters of

English Ticket-of-Leave Men.-The Letter of

The Climate of Bermuda.-The State of John Mit-

chel's Health. He meets a Friend in the

Doctor.

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War between the Cape Colony and Home Office con-

tinued.-Treachery in the Camp.-Suspicious

Conduct of Pieter Laubscher.-Adrian Beck,

the Contractor.-The Home Office strikes its

Colours

CHAPTER XVI.

Transportation to Australia and Van Diemen's Land .

CHAPTER XVII.

Tricks on the Authorities. -Convict Clerks and Con-

vict Editors.-The Convict Watt.-Convict

Gratitude

CHAPTER XVIII.

Government Convicts.-Chain Gangs.-The Convicts

of Norfolk Island

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CHAPTER XIX.

The Prevalence of Crime under the Former System of

Transportation.-The Expense of Transporta-

tion.-Sir William Molesworth's Committee.-

Abolition of Transportation to New South

Wales.-Opinions of Whately, Howard, and

Bacon

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