The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-05 00:00:00

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION.

The following are the resolutions of the Select
Committee on Transportation which sat last ses-
sion, and which will be published officially in the
course of next week :

"1. That the punishment of transportation is more
effectual ani deterring, better adapted for the ultimate
reformation of convicts, and more beneficial to this
country, than any other secondary punishment for se-
rious crimes which has yet been tried.

"2. That the committee therefore recommend the
continuation of the sentence of transportation, so far as
her Majesty's dominions may afford safe and proper fa-
cilities for that purpose.
"3. That if such facilities can be obtained, sentences
of 10 years' transportation should be revived.
" 4. That convict prisons beyond the seas ought to be
regarded as places for carrying out the sentence of trans-
portation.

"6. That every punishment by penal servitude
should include—first, a certain fixed period of imprison-
ment and hard labour on public works to be undergone,
at all events; Fecondly, a further period, which should
be capable of being abridged by the good conduct of the
convict himself.

" 6. That, with a view to give full effect to the prin-
ciple, the sentences of penal servitude prescribed by .the
act should be changed and lengthened, so as to be iden-
tical with the terms of transportation for which they are
respectively substituted.
" 7. That the sentences of penal servitude now in force
might be adopted with some few changes as the fixed
periods indicated in Resolution 5.

" 8. That the hulk system, which appears by the evi•
deuce to be already- in a great measure relinquished,
should be finally abandoned with as little delay as pos-
sible.

" 9. That the scale of secondary punishment would be
more complete if a shorter period of penal servitude than
any now in force were enacted as an intermediate sen-
tence between the present term of ordinary imprison-
ment now usually inflicted and the former sentence of
seven years' transportation, or its equivalent.
" 10. That the system of licences to be at large, or
tickets of leave, authorised by section 9 of the act, has
been too short a time in operation in this country to en-
able the committee to form a clear and decided opinion
either as to the effects which it has already produced or
as to its probable ultimate working.
"11. That the system appears to be founded upon a
principle wise and just in itself—viz,, that of enabling
the convict to obtain by continual good conduct, while
undergoing Lis punisment, the remission of a portion of
his sentence, upon the express condition, however, that
in case of subsequent misconduct his liability to puni-h-
-ment shall revive for the residue of the term specified in
the original sentence.
" 12. That it appears from the evidence before the
committee that bad effects on the discipline of convicts
on the public works have already been caused by the
regulations, under which it has been made known that
no tickets of leave or other remission of sentence would
in any case be granted to men sentenced to penal ser-
vitude. . _

"13. That there has been much of misapprehension
and exaggeration with regard to the conduct of persons
released upon tickets of leave, who have been frequently
confounded, even by several of the witnesses of this in-
quiry, under one common designation of ticket of leave
men, with convicts whose sentences have fully and ab-
solutely expired.
" 14. That there is reason to believe that the conduct
of a large proportion of the whole number of persons
discharged upon tickets of leave has hitherto been good,
and that in other cases persons so discharged have re•
lapsed into crime from the difficulty, arising from their
former characters becoming known, of procuring or re-
taining honest employment in this country—a difficulty,
however, which obviously applies to all persons once
convicted, whether discharged upon tickets of leave or
absolutely at the expiration of their sentences.
" 15. That to render this system of good•conduct
licences adapted both for the reformation of offenders
and the interests of the public, the conditions endorsed
on the licence ought to be enforced.
" 16. That every convict, on his release with a good-
conduct licence, ought to be reported to the police of
the town or district to which he is sent."