unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his comrades to the same
sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of the risk and the
consequences. To these causes the present vitiated and disorganized
state of the convicts in New South Wales is chiefly attributable; and
the extent of the evil maybe in some degree estimated, when it is stated
_that the expense of the police establishment amounts to more_ than
20,000_l_. per annum for a population of 40,000 souls."

_Foreign Quarterly Review._

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THE GATHERER


_Premiers._--The following list of premiers, from the accession of
George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created during their
respective premierships, may be acceptable at the present period:--Lord
Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke
of Grafton, none; Lord North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr.
Pitt, 90; Mr. Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich, 6;
Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.--W.G.C.

_Peers_.--Number of peers (in the present peerage) created by each
sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to the accession of his
present majesty:--Henry III., 2; Edward I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward
III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1; Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2;
Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15; Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16;