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The Social Science Session at Dublin has been a brilliant

and useful one. The discussions on all classes of subjects—but especially Jurisprudence, Penal Legislation, and Social Economy—have been as practical as they have been voluminous. Captain Crofton's resig- nation of his office as director of the Irish convict prisons has been a subject of general regret with the Association; but the merits of his system arc now generally admitted. Unfortunately, a system is apt to change its colour when worked by different men ; and were Colonel Jebb to work the Irish system, and Captain Crofton the -English, we suspect that the latter would seem less faulty, and the former less admirable, than they now do.