A series of Parliamentary...
A series of Parliamen,tary Returns on the state of our Prisons evince great rashness and mismnanagement on the part of' certain committing Justices-the number of convic- tions, or even of bills found bT the Grand Jury, bearing no proportion to the number of commitments WVe can at pre- sent do no more than recommend the consideration of this subject, not exclusively to those who interfere in the ques- tions of the criminal law and prison-discipline, but to others who, feeling generally for the sufferings to which vice renders itself liable, are yet disposed to excuse them- selves from the labour of probilng the evil to the bottom, and applying remedies.