The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 90
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 90: For July, 1849 October, 1849; To Be Continued Quarterly It is still more startling perhaps to learn that, on a very recent examination of one of our provincial prisons, it was ascertained that every prisoner in it under sentence of transportation fully expected that he would not have to leave the country; and undoubtedly this belief is entertained by the great majority of our criminal population. It may be, that such ignorance on the part of the public at large is nothing more than was to have been expected. To many persons the contemplation of physical suffering and moral evil is so distressing, the difficulty of doing any good is found to be so great, and the best results so unsatisfactory, that they eagerly turn away from the repulsive subject and leave its consideration to others. Those, again, who have been urged by their sense of public or private duty to give the matter some attention, are in no small degree perplexed by the variety of systems, and the changes which have taken place. If the fundamental principles on which secondary punishments are based are few, yet the manner in which these principles may be applied, and the forms and gradations of punishment, admit of endless variety and combination. So many experiments have been made, that it is difficult for people in general to have an accurate knowledge, which of them have been fairly tried and have failed, - which have failed because they have not been fairly tried, - and which are now being adopted as affording the best hope of success. It is, however, undoubtedly to be wished that the public generally, most of all the lower orders, were aware of the fate which now awaits a convicted criminal. The Importance of the question ought indeed to come home to every individual who thinks at all upon the solemn obligations of humanity on one side, and of justice and policy on the other. In Great Britain alone more than three thousand criminals are annually sentenced to transportation. In dealing with such a mass of crime, we are evidently engaged in a task of no ordinary magnitude; and on the judicious prosecution of which the gravest interests of the nation, domestic and colonial, are involved. It is our intention, therefore, to give an outline of the principles laid down by Lord John Russell´s government as the basis of the system of transportation which they have adopted, and to subjoin some account of the measures now in progress for carrying them into effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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