18 SEPTEMBER 1852, Page 11

In carrying out the intention already announced of making Fremantle

a convict settlement, the first batch, consisting of two hundred and fifty, will be despatched, says the Morning Chronicle, early in October. "They will consist chiefly of persons who have served three years' probation in Ike Dartmoor and Pentonville convict prisons, and whose conduct there has entitled them to favourable consideration. Each convict will, on landing, receive a ticket of leave, strictly confining him to the colony of Western Australia. A company of enrolled Chelsea Pensioners go out as a convict guard; their wives and children go with them, and they will be located in the country as military colonists."