liberal in furnishing means for their shipment.  The inmates feel that they may now have a hope in the world.  They hear of companions who are prospering in America, and they work cheerfully on in the faith of getting there also.  Very few fail in their course, or act dishonestly towards the institution.  When one or two lately left it, taking away things not belonging to them, the others set out in search of them, caught them, and handed them over to the police.  This shews how their hearts are interested in the institution.  They feel that Mr Nash acts towards them in pure kindness, and they are anxious to make a suitable return.  And kindness really is the sole principle at work in the place.  One good man rules these sixty outcasts of society without guard or assistance; without the use of punishment, beyond a temporary restriction of meals; without, it may be said, any force whatever, but that of his benevolent intentions.

At the time of our visit, the establishment contained about sixty inmates.  We felt a peculiar interest in visiting the room of probation.  There had been four youths in it in the morning; but one had withdrawn, not being able to stand the severity of the test.  The three remaining youths stood up in their wretched attire, and we questioned them in succession.  They had all been thieves, and all of them had passed through several convictions—­one through no less than twenty-two.  We asked this last youth how he had come to think of retreating to the Colonial Training-School.  He said, that he knew he could not go on much longer without being transported:  he dreaded this fate.  Some companions who had been in the school, but deserted it, told him of it.  They praised the institution, as one where every kindness was shewn to unfortunate youths, notwithstanding that they had themselves proved unworthy of its benefits.  He therefore came, determined to suffer whatever might be inflicted upon him, rather than go back to his wicked courses.  We learned that he had been for several years a pickpocket, residing in a low lodging-house at 1s. 9d. a week; sometimes well off, sometimes otherwise, but always harassed by the terrors of punishment.  According to his account of the boys who live in this manner, there are some who enjoy its freedom, and would not abandon it; but there are many who would much rather turn from it, if an opportunity were afforded them.  We afterwards spent some time in the school-room amongst the boys; heard them sing a hymn, and, at the request of the governor, addressed a few words to them, chiefly suggestive of hope respecting their future career.  During the whole time, their behaviour was marked by perfect propriety; we did not observe even an indecorous look in the whole company.