Have they not done enough, and more than enough, to convince society that they ought to be seized and caged like wild beasts, and that to let such men loose upon it to gratify their predatory and destructive instincts at its expense is just as much a crime as to open the doors of a menagerie and let loose the wild bea&ts into a crowded city ? We maintain that criminals of this and of a much less atrocious stamp cannot with any due regard to public safety be allowed to remain in this country, or once having left it ever to return to it. The very notion of the crimes they are sure to commit before they have boon at large a month makes one shudder. We must have transportation ; the only question is wheie and subject to what conditions. If it is desirable that wo bhould give up the practice of sending our convicts to climates where existence itself is no small enjoyment, where a blight sun and an exhilarating atmosphere raise the spirits and deaden tho sense of guilt and of misery, it also desir able not to send our convicts to lands where the ac quisition of wealth is easy, and from which they may one day return to exhibit their riches before the eye's of their less guilty, and therefore less fortunate, associates. A long sea voyago to a convict settle ment is of itself a great evil, as tendiug to coriupt and degiade still lower natuics already fearfully cor rupted and degraded. Tho annals of Australia suf ficiently illustrate the euormous evils which spring from the introduction of the crime of one countiy into the social state of another. Tf we turn to tho torrid /one, we are met by the objection that con victs should be set to labour, and that labour in the torrid zone is to the natives of Enrope impossible. Opinion in this country would not tolerate a Cayenne. If it is meant that these men should die, it would be said, with unanswerable force, let them perish on the scaffold, but do not conceal death under the name of banishment. 