10 JANUARY 1857, Page 10

Colonel Jobb, the Surveyor-General of Prisons, has sent to the

newspapers this week a long letter, professing to give "a few explanations concerning the ticket-of-leave men; not with any view of advocating the system, but in the hope that it may serve to clear up misapprehension." The Colonel mingles with some statements of fact the statistics on which he had founded his apology for the existing system, about the time when the Transportation Committee was sitting. Under examination before that Committee, Mr. M. D. Hill analyzed those statistics very carefully, and picked them to pieces in order to show their fallacy. The good results of the system, as well as the bad, have been greatly magnified.