18 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 2

Sir George Grey is gradually attaining sounder views of prison.

discipline. The Prison Bill introduced on Monday night is all in theright direction. It consolidates the previous Acts, does something towards defining hard labour, lays down a minimum as well as a maximum, provides for a gradual diminution of the more penal labour at the discretion of the authorities as the sentence runs out, and generally tries to generalize the system recently introduced through the efforts of Lord Carnarvon in Winchester Gaol.