CAPTAIN JERVISsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Why the Convict Establishment at Bermuda has been broken up, and where the convicts have been sent to?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that if the hon. and gallant Gentleman would refer to the Report of the Select Committee on Transportation, he would find all the reasons stated in detail which induced the Government to think that the 873 establishment ought to be broken up. Since the early part of 1859 no convicts had been sent to Bermuda. Between 200 and 300 were conveyed last year from Bermuda to Western Australia; and at present the number was so small that in the course of the present spring the establishment would be wholly discontinued.