396 DEPARTURE OF THE BISHOP. 
The Bishop, in describing the scene at the 
Confirmation which he held on the island, said, 
"The Chapel opened into the prison-yard, set 
round with every kind of cell, for every class of 
criminal, in every corner heaps of rusty fetters, 
or cast-off garments marked with the broad 
arrow, and numbered on the back, as if the 
wearer were no longer worthy of a name ; and 
all these signs of misery and sin, made more 
striking by the horrid silence of the solitary 
cells, or of the wards which the numbers showed 
to have been once crowded with twenty, thirty, 
or even one hundred prisoners. Close to this 
visible type of everything which is most hateful 
in sin and its consequences, might be heard 
the song of praise, in which every voice joined, 
and on the 7th of September, 1856, eighty- 
six persons there knelt before the Lord's 
Table, to receive strength to fulfil their bap- 
tismal promise, by fighting manfully under 
Christ's banner, against sin, the world, and the 
devil." 
On Tuesday, the 9th, the Bishop, with Mrs. 
Selwyn and Mr. Patteson, left for Auckland. 
It is gratifying to observe the considerate 
and disinterested manner in which all the 
arrangements, in connexion with the assign- 
ment of Norfolk Island to a deserving race, 
have been conducted by persons in power. 
Such a donation, so conferred, has reflected on 
Her Majesty's Government an amount of honour 
and advantage far greater than that of any 
pecuniary profit which might have been derived 
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