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(4.) AVhat arrangements for Divine service ? (5.) Is any music or singing allowed or taught on Sunday or on wet days ? (6.) What books allowed, and under what circumstances ? What kind of books most used by prisoners ? (7.) What provisions for secular instruction of (a) adults; (b) juvenile offenders: (c) what progress made ? (8.) What attempts of a special kind made at reformation ? 11. — Moral Effects of Imprisonment. (1.) Observations of gaolers, doctors, and subordinate officers, — (a!) On apparent effects of existing punishments on different classes of men ? (b.) Especially as to what seems likely to deter first offenders from coming again—men, women, boys, girls ? (2.) What is done to prevent demoralization from association of innocent or recently lapsed persons (especially juveniles) with hardened offenders, and others likely to excite them to evil ? (3.) What evil effects have actually resulted from insufficiency of separation ? (4.) Is there a prisoners aid society in locality, and if so, what are the results of its work ? 12.— Cost of Prisons and Prisoners. (1.) Cost of buildings, additions, annual repairs, furniture, &c. ? (2.) Salaries, in aggregate and detail, of warders, turnkeys, matron, medical man, and other officers. How much average per head of prisoners ? (3.) Cost of rations in aggregate and per head ; average, — (a.) Penal-servitude men ? (b.) Hard-labour men ? (4.) Aro contracts for food-supplies with one tradesman or with several ? (5.) Do the gaolers and warders get their supplies from the contractors, and at contract price ? (6.) What is the system of inspecting supplies ? (7.) Estimated value of work of each class ? (8.) Net cost of— (a.) Penal servitude, and (b.) Hard-labour prisoners, after deducting share of salaries and rations ? 13. — Pardons, Remissions, Petitions, and Recommendations. (1.) What pardons or remissions, other than for ordinary good conduct under fixed rules, granted within the last five years ; name prisoners, offence of which convicted, first conviction or not, or how often convicted ; amount of sentence, amount of remission ? (2.) State in each case— (a.) On whose petition, and by whom recommended ? (b.) The grounds urged for pardon or remission ? (c.) The amount granted ? (3.) Cases, if any, of troublesome prisoners discharged before ordinary time, and on whose recommendation ? What was result of such discharge ? 14.— Special Suggestions. What breaches of gaol discipline on the part of authorities or officials have been detected ? Any suggestion for promoting efficiency or reducing cost. II. —Improvement op Oid Prisons. (1.) How far each existing prison would afford means, with additions or changes in construction or management, for carrying out — (a!) Classification; (b.) Separation for first month of imprisonment (a) by construction; or (b) by discipline; (c.) Industrial work. (2.) Whether buildings, &c, are more than sufficient for a non-criminal prison for the district, i.e., for police cases, persons charged with contempt, and debtors, &g. ? (3.) AVhether building capable of being turned into a hard-labour prison for actual convicts under sentence of not more than twelve months, with separate cells ? (4.) What additions, alterations, and changes required for each of three classes: (a.) For how many prisoners of different classes, giving number of cubic feet; (b.) At what probable cost. Cost relative to value of present building ? (5.) What improvements have been effected by prison labour ? (6.) Can new gaol buildings be profitably and usefully constructed by prison labour, and to what extent ?