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 accordance with the views of the ablest continental writers on the subject of punishment. These writers, indeed, have had no previous experience of the natural tendency and operation of the transportation system; but in this particular they are not more unfavourably situated for offering a well-founded opinion on the subject than Archbishop Whately, who argues against that system, not from its natural tendency, but from its past mismanagement. "Les peuples," says Filangieri, in his work already quoted on the Science of Legislation, (French translation,) "Les peuples qui possèdent des pays dont la population ne suffit pas pour animer leur agriculture et leur commerce, et étendre ou soutenir leur iudustrie, ont un moyen de plus que les autres pour punir certains délits, et faire servir les perturbateurs de la société à Taccroissement de la richesse publique."