LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he had great doubts whether transportation could be safely dispensed with in Ireland. He had been informed that transportation was regarded with salutary dread by the people of Ireland, particularly if it was speedily executed; that when the prisoner was removed from the dock on conviction and immediately consigned to transportation, it influenced the people of Ireland a great deal more than any other kind of secondary punishment.
§ EARL GREYremarked, that even if the Government were wrong in abolishing transportation permanently, it would be absolutely necessary to make a temporary provision for the reception of such convicts in the meantime, because, as he had already shown, it was impossible to accommodate them in Van Diemen's Land. The passing of the Bill now before their Lordships would give the Government power which they did not at present possess to send them to Bermuda and Gibraltar.
§ Bills read a third time and passed.
§ House adjourned.