The Blind, Or The Infirm, Are Generally Well Treated, And Taken Care Of When Young, But As Soon As They Advance In Years, Or Become An Impediment To The Movements Of The Tribe, They Are Abandoned At Once By Their People, And Left To Perish.

The crimes committed by the natives against Europeans do not bear any proportion, either numerically, or in magnitude, to their number, as a people, and the circumstances of their position.

When we consider the low state of morals, or rather, the absence of all moral feeling upon their part, the little restraint that is placed upon their community, by either individual authority, or public opinion, the injuries they are smarting under, and the aggressions they receive, it cannot but be admitted that they are neither an ill disposed, nor a very vindictive people. The following are the returns of the convictions of natives in South Australia for the years 1842 and 1843, viz. : -

SUPREME COURT. - - - - - - -

OFFENCE. 1842 1843 1844

Larceny 2 0 2 Assault with intent to murder 2 0 0 Wilful murder 0 3 1 Sheep stealing 1 2 1 Cattle stealing 0 1 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Assault 0 3 3 Breaking windows 1 0 0 Intoxication 3 0 0 Injuring park trees 0 0 2 - - - - - 9 9 11

In the colony of New South Wales, the return of all the trials of the Aborigines, from 10th February, 1837, to the 24th July, 1843, amounted to thirty-three cases, and implicated sixty-one individuals.

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