Some  act«  of  insubordination  and  other  offences,  committed  in  Kingston  Peniten-
tiary, called  for  corporal  punishment.  The  gi^eat  bulk  of  the  reports,  in  the  various
Institutions,  have  been  recorded  against  habitual  violators  of  the  rules,  who,  ihough
forming  a  small  number  of  the  wrong-doera  punished,  contribute  largely  towards
swelling  up  the  aggregate  number  of  punishments  inflicted.  Many  never  misconduct
themselves  at  all;  and  a  large  number  complete  their  term  of  irapi-isonment  of  many
years  with  only  some  trivial  breach  of  rule  to  sully,  in  a  slight  degree,  their  charac-
ter whilst  in  prison.
These  are  important  facts.  The  result  is  not  due  to  an  easy  or  lax  system  under
which  offences  are  passed  over  without  report  and  without  punishment.  On  the  con-
trary, it  will  be  apparent  even  to  a  casual  visitor,  and  is  well  known  to  those  who  are
conversant  with  tne  administration  of  the  penitentiaries,  that  order  is  strictly  main-
tained and  that  the  discipline  is  rigorously  enforced.
