25 JULY 1863, Page 3

The Times is inspired with so fierce a hate towards

the Commission on Penal Servitude for their recent report, that it has suddenly abandoned its consistent and even aggressive demands for more transportation in order to assail them again. Yesterday it put very ably the arguments against sending our worst criminals to the colonies' and ended with this obscure remark :—" We are favourable to transportation, but then it must be on condition that transportation shall not operate as a premium on crime, and that it shall not bring us into colli- sion with the honourable and respectable scruples of our most promising colonies,"—which means, we suppose, " We are favourable to the name transportation because we have recom- mended it so often, but we abandon the thing which it denotes."