There remain, then, as the fitting spots for transportation, the colder portions of the two temperate zones, where the climate is healthy but rough, and nature is more sombro and repulsive, more suited to a place of punishment and seclusion than in the bright and beautiful lands which border on the tropics. It does so happen that, at a moder ate distance from these shores, England possesses a vast territory which exactly fulfils all these con ditions. In Labrador and tho territories of the Hudson's Bay Company we have a possession of vast extent, by far the larger half of the North American continent— a wilderness in which all the crime of the earth might easily be swallowed up and heard of no more. We woidd direct the attention of those who really wish for the repression of crime and the pro tection of society to those territories, for which, though wo have possessed them 200 years, we have never been able to find any better use than to hunt the wild animals for their fur. It would be perfectly possible to organize there a penal settlement with which no one would interfere, from which no one would escape, and where severe and constant labour would be almost a necessity of existence. The climate would noc be more severe than that of the north of Europe, but it would doubtless powerfully co-operate as a means of deterring from crime, it would be quite possible to create a system by which convicts who had undergone the prescribed amount of penal labour might ' be established in small communities tim favoured situations, and end their days in homes of their own raising. A system founded , on the condition of exile for life, and of residence iv a desolate country under a severe ■'climate, might well dispense with adventitious and vexatious severity. It would admit of all necessary gradations of punishment, from labour in mines and quarries, as practised with signal success in tho State of New York, to the mere labour of providiug for the prisoner's own sub sistence. We aie far from saying that innumerable objections cannot be urged against this as against every other proposal. It would take a clear head to arrange the plan, and 'a strong hand to execute it It would throw a painful duty on the persons ap pointed to guard! such a settlement. 