3 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 19

Report front the Select 0,mmitlee of the House of Commons

on Transportation, together with a Letter from the Archbishop of Report front the Select 0,mmitlee of the House of Commons on Transportation, together with a Letter from the Archbishop of Dublin on the same subject ; and Notes by Sir It Moles- worth. This is the cheap edition, in a pamphlet finen, which we advised some weeks ago, at the close of our analysis of the Re- port. With the addition of Sir WILLIAM Monsswoosn's Notes, it paints in stiiking colours the moral corruption of the Penal Colonies ; describing the disorganizatien of a community held together only by terror, narrating the public and social crimes that are daily committed, and indicating the existence of un- mentionable atrocities. Less supported by facts, but most powerful as an at gumentative appeal, is the Letter of Dr. WHATELY, appended to the pamphlet, which shows the utter inutility of the present system of transportation as an effectual and regulated punishment, or a means of reform. Yet with all the horrors of the system staring them in the face, and with a tacit ad- mission of its evils to the country, to the free colonists, to its vic- tims, and to all the aborigines within reach of this moral pesti- lence, our Government have done nothing, have proposed nothing. Beset by difficulties of their own creating, anxious only to retain place, and having no resource to accomplish it save by "rubbing on," they neglect alike the large and the small—organic reform or administrative improvements, and seem blindly bent upon leaving the Tories on their advent to power as large a choice as possible of "Practical Measures."