e--Western Australia--
Its Towns--North Australia.

CHAPTER XI.

[Page 286.]

Climate of Australia--Drought--Agriculture--Flocks and Herds--Government
of the Colonies--Discontent--Means of National Improvement--Bishopric
of Australia--Tribute of Thanks justly due to the Whig Government--
Effects of a Bishop being resident in New South Wales--Educational
provision made by George the Fourth--Dr. Lang's Account of it--Judge
Burton's--Church and School Corporation, established in 1826; suspended
in 1829; dissolved in 1833--Causes of this change of Policy--
Conclusion.

CHAPTER XII.

[Page 307.]

Inhabitants of Australian Colonies--What seed has been there sown--
Elements of Society in the Penal Colonies--Convicts--System of
Assignment--Public Gangs--Mr. Potter Macqueen's Establishment--Norfolk
Island and its horrors--These have been mitigated of late years--Means
of reforming Convicts--Prevalence of Vice among them--The class of
Convicts called _specials_ described.

CHAPTER XIII.

[Page 325.]

Emancipists--Their general Character--Their conduct in the Jurors' Box
no argument in favour of bestowing upon them a Representative
Government--Free Population--Ancient Nobility of Botany Bay--Prevailing
taste in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land--Love of Gain--Land
Sharks--Squatters--Overlanders.

CHAPTER XIV.

[Page 338.]

Importance of Religion--The Lord's Day--Habits of duly observing it
nearly lost among many of the inhabitants of our Australian
Colonies--Opposition to Improvement--Religious strife prevails where
religious union is needed--Sir R. Bourke's novel system of religious
Establishments--Its practical working--Efforts of the Church coldly
seconded or else opposed, by Government--Petty Persecutions--Similar
opposition to National Religious Education as to National Church--
Blunders respecting the Irish System of Education in 1836--Attempt
in 1840 to banish the Creed and Catechism from Protestant Schools
having Government support--Schools of a higher rank in New South
Wales--King's School, Paramatta--Sydney College--The Australian
College--The Normal Institution--Proposed College at Liverpool--Other
Schools--Population of New South Wales in 1841--Emigration--Conclusion.

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