Waddington to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

Having laid before Secretary Sir George Grey your Letter of the 21st
Ulto., with its enclosed copy of a Dispatch from the Governor of
Vancouver Island, requesting to be furnished with any information
likely to be useful in the establishment of a proper system of
discipline in the Gaol of that Colony; I am directed to transmit to
you in order to their being forwarded to Governor Kennedy the
accompanying printed copies of the Regulations in force in the
English Council Prisons for classifying Convicts and for recording
their industry and conduct, and also the Rules affecting men
conditionally released.

I am also directed to forward to you a copy of the Report of the
Inspector of Prisons for the Southern District which gives some
useful information, expecially as to the new Rules enforced at
Winchester Gaol.