PRIsON DIsCIPIINE SOCIETY.
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This is a valuable document of ss pages, containing mass of Information relative to 1he condition of our Public Prisons. The facts were principally collected by the secreta- " uF the Society, Rev. Louis Dwight, during journey which he performed, in IS of the states. for the purpose of visiting the prisons and ascertaining their condition. Tine folE lowing is an abstract of the report.

 PROGRESS OF CRIME.

 The number of prisoners in the country at the present time is about $500, of whom one. third mart are in the state of New ' ork, one sixth in Pennsylvania, and one tenth ID Mas sacEusetts. From an examinatlon sof the census for the last 80 years, 1t is satisfactory te find that the increase of crime has not ex- ceeded the increase of population, as has been sometimes apprehended. Among the causes ofthis increase, are the dsgrdded character of the colonred Popaslation. : The following table shows the proportion of the coloured population 10 the whole white population, and the proportion of colUured convicts to the whole number of cOnvicts in several of the states.