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Samuel Sidney. The Three Colonies of Australia
The Three Colonies of Australia
Table of Contents
PART I
HISTORICAL
CHAPTER I
AUSTRALIA FROM 1520 TO 1770
CHAPTER II
ORIGIN OF TRANSPORTATION
CHAPTER III
GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO GOVERNOR KING. 1788 TO 1806
RECOLLECTIONS OF PRISONERS
CHAPTER [IV.]
THE DISCOVERIES OF FLINDERS AND BASS
CHAPTER [V.]
GOVERNOR BLIGH. 1806 TO 1809
CHAPTER VI
GOVERNOR MACQUARIE. 1809 TO 1821
MACQUARIE'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER VII
GOVERNOR BRISBANE AND GOVERNOR DARLING. 1821 TO 1831
GOVERNOR DARLING
THE AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY
CHAPTER VIII
GOVERNOR BOURKE. 1831 TO 1838
THE LAWS OF LAND TENURE
CHAPTER IX
ORIGIN OF THE WAKEFIELD SYSTEM
CHAPTER X
CONVICT LABOUR
BOURKE'S CHURCH AND SCHOOL ACT
CHAPTER XI
SIR GEORGE GIPPS. 1838 TO 1846
THE REVENUE
THE REGISTRAR
THE PROTHONOTARY
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM
THE LAND QUESTION
CHAPTER XII
EMIGRATION
CHAPTER XIII
CAROLINE CHISHOLM
CHAPTER XIV
RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XV
SONGS OF THE SQUATTERS
CHAPTER XVI
SIR CHARLES FITZROY. 1846 TO 1850
THE ANTI-CONVICT CONTEST
EARL GREY
CHAPTER XVII
CORRESPONDENCE WITH PARLIAMENTARY AGENT
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER XVIII
VICTORIA, OR PORT PHILLIP. 1835 TO 1850
CHAPTER XIX
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 1835 TO 1851
CHAPTER XX
COLONEL GAWLER'S GOVERNMENT. 1838 TO 1841
CHAPTER XXI
GOVERNOR GREY. 1841 TO 1844
PART II
DESCRIPTIVE
CHAPTER XXII
A GLANCE AT THE EXTENT, FORM, SOIL, CLIMATE, RIVERS, AND PRODUCTIONS OF AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XXIII
A GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND TABULAR VIEW OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XXIV
JOURNEY FROM PORT JACKSON TO PORT PHILLIP
VICTORIA
CHAPTER XXV
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XXVI
MINES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
THE BURRA BURRA
SUMMARY OP WORKINGS AND PROFITS
A DRIVE TO THE BURRA BURRA
SMELTING WORKS
CHAPTER XXVII
RELIGION, EDUCATION, LAW
CHAPTER XXVIII
STATISTICS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
POPULATION
IMMIGRATION
EDUCATION
LUNACY
CRIMINALS
SQUATTING STATISTICS
AGRICULTURE
MANUFACTURES
SHIP BUILDING
TIMBER
THE FISHERIES
AUCTION SALES AND DUTIES
SALE OF CROWN LANDS
COIN IN THE COLONY
GENERAL REVENUE
THE POST-OFFICE
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
TAXES AND CUSTOMS DUES
PORT PHILLIP
CHAPTER XXIX
[THE GOLD DISCOVERIES.]
CHAPTER XXX
GOLD FIELDS OF VICTORIA
A TANDEM DRIVE FROM MELBOURNE TO BALLARAT, IN 1851
CHAPTER XXXI
THE DIARIES OF DIGGERS
PASSAGE
PORT PHILLIP
LANDING
THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE
DIARY OF A JOURNEY FROM MELBOURNE TO BENDIGO
A FOOT JOURNEY TO MOUNT ALEXANDER
FOREST CREEK
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
JOURNAL OVERLAND BETWEEN ADELAIDE AND MOUNT ALEXANDER
FROM BENDIGO TO MELBOURNE
CHAPTER XXXII
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
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SCHEDULES REFERRED TO. A
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INDEX
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Samuel Sidney
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields
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Far from all civilising, humanising influences, in such society the finest natures became brutalised into tyrants, while the criminals under their command dragged on a miserable existence or rebelled with all the dogged ruffianism of despair. Although the chief records of the early days of the colony are drawn from the writings and reports of officials, who were naturally inclined to put the best face on a system of which they were the paid instruments, and whose eyes, ears, consciences were seared by constant contact with misery and tyranny, yet there is more than enough testimony of the cruel and stupid despotism which prevailed.
We learn from the journals of Howard, and the reports of the parliamentary inquiries instituted through his influence, how frightful were the abuses practised on tried and untried prisoners at the close of the eighteenth century in England, where the gaols were visited by numerous individuals of various ranks, where the common-law rights of the subject had been established, where what was considered in those clays a free press flourished, where, from Sabbath to Sabbath, Christian ministers assembled and led Christian congregations to prayer and praise, where a parliament held its sittings whose orators made Europe resound with their denunciations of tyranny, and where laws were administered by incorruptible, independent judges. We may more easily imagine how in New South Wales, where there was no law but the law of the lash, tyranny became chronic, and cruelty spread through the whole body corporate of the colony.
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