of the plan were prepared in consultation with Mr. Montagu, of Van Diemen's Land and nephew

It is useless, however, to devise an elaborate system unless it is well administered; and in this matter Lord Stanley'S judgement was gravely at fault. Inefficient superintendence was one of the great complaints against the old road-gangs; and Sir John Franklin expressly said that 'the colony affords very few persons properly qualified to work out any system of penal discipline'; 3 yet Lord Stanley made no real effort to provide suitable overseers and subordinate officials, and gave the government to Sir Eardley Wilmot-a man whom