It is quite evident that he is no convert to Dr. Baly's views, for he does not propose to reduce the average term of separation below nine months, within which all the mischiefs of it, (according to the Dr.'s theory or statement,) are experienced. Indeed, if we are not under great misapprehension, Col. Jebb has over and over again expressed his confidence in the principle of separation, when applied to periods varying from twelve to eighteen months. So far from yielding to a suggestion of relaxation, the present report urges _a uniform system of discipline_ in all prisons, and the enforcing of separate confinement alike to the tried and the untried. It endorses the declaration of a committee of the House of Commons, that "the combination of hard labor with individual separation, has been remarkable in its effect to decrease the number of committals." The prison of Leicester is cited as an example. In one section of the report, the subject of enforcing hard labor is discussed; Lord Denman's remarks are cited, in which he speaks of "the only legitimate end of punishment being to deter from crime; but I think I perceive," he says, "in some of the theories of benevolent men, such a mode of administering the criminal law as to encourage instead of deterring. I greatly dread the effect of giving convicts benefits and privileges which they never could have hoped for but from the commission of crime." In allusion to this subject Col. Jebb, in his report for the preceding year, suggests whether among "the means of increasing the stringency of the discipline, and bringing it to bear with greater effect on the lowest class of prisoners, and on such as prove to be incorrigible, also on prisoners re-committed to prison, giving them a less comfortable bed for certain periods, or on alternate nights,--might not be desirable. The physical comforts of a prison are of necessity greater than the majority of prisoners enjoy when at liberty; and if, without injury to health, these can be abridged, a more deterring effect will be produced by the discipline, both on the individual himself and the criminal population generally." We have often and earnestly contended for a more liberal use of those methods of discipline which apply to the sources or organs of criminal indulgence. Moral diseases have corresponding remedies. No more suitable remedy can be prescribed for idleness and indolence than hard work. Nothing is more irksome to a man given to depraved appetite, than short commons. The difference between a good dinner on corned beef and potatoes, and a ration of bread and water, is felt at points which reproof and the shower-bath, and even the cat-o'-nine-tails, will none of them reach. The former, by itself, will subdue a spirit which the three latter combined will only rouse to indomitable stubbornness.