280 Noies for the Month. (Serr. 
tion ; but we strongly believe that the more free use of the punishment 
of transportation would be beneficial to the parties immediately con- 
cerned as well as to the public. We say this in perfect seriousness. 
Judges are not—nor are lawgivers—much gulled by the doctrine of 
“reformation.” They know that there is no reformation for a thief 
after the second offence ; scarcely ever after the first. Such a man cannot 
reform—he cannot recover his character, and with it his only means of live- 
lihood—in this country, if he would; and, with his old associates about 
him (tempted on by the mere fact of his escape), he would not if he 
could. The only true cause of the comparative disuse of the punish- 
ment of transportation is its expensiveness; and that difficulty, the 
system which we have recommended, if found practicable, would remove. 
For the notion which has got abroad that thieves are mightily pleased 
with such a sentence—we would venture for once to give them the benefit 
of their liking: but, in plain terms, we doubt the fact. We believe 
that the fondness for a sentence of transportation occurs chiefly when it 
comes (as it commonly now does) in the shape of a reprieve from the 
sentence of death ; but, if it be so peculiarly agreeable as is assumed, 
our argument is strengthened—it is rather hard that only the most des~ 
perate culprits should be selected to enjoy the advantages of it.” 
The Examiner of last Sunday says—“ A person who has taken the 
pains to ascertain the fact, states that, of the persons who entered a cele- 
brated gin-shop in Westminster within a given time, the women were 
in the proportion of nineteen to one man,”—Lackington, the bookseller, 
observes, in his Autobiography, on the authority of Wesley the preacher, 
“that more women are converted to methodism than men.” 
The following paragraph from the Bucks’ Gazetle, has been making 
the round of the London papers :— 
** Windsor Castle-—It is now ascertained that it will be impossible to get 
the Castle in a sufficient state of forwardness to enable his Majesty to dine 
there with any thing like comfort on the 12th. It is expected, therefore, that 
his Majesty will entertam a splendid dinner party at Virginia Water on his 
birth-day.—The brass guns, which have hitherto stood in front of Cumber- 
land-lodge, will be forthwith removed to the battery lately erected at the Bel- 
vedere, opposite the Chinese-house.—Within a few days a new opening to the 
terrace has been made, contiguous to the Store Tower, and, judging from the 
spirit with which it has been commenced, many more days will not be required 
for its completion. The new gate, which is to be of open iron work, will in 
future, therefore present from the Castle-yard a splendid view of some portion 
of that delightful scenery, which, heretofore, could only be seen one day in the week 
From the Terrace—IM addition to raising the Round Tower, which is being 
commenced, we hear that it is in contemplation to form a magnificent collec- 
tion of pictures, to be called the Waterloo Gallery, and as there is not any 
accommodation for such a collection, it is presumed that a new gallery will be 
forthwith erected for that purpose. Should it be found practicable to carry 
this desirable object into effect, it is, we understand, his Majesty’s intention 
to throw the new gallery open to the public. In furtherance of this plan, 
purchases have been already made to the amount of between 30,000/. and 
40,000/.—In order to prevent interruption to the workmen employed in the 
improvements at the Castle, the public are still rigidly excluded ; no one 
being admitted except the members of the Royal Family and the visitors at 
the Royal Lodge.—It is but justice to state, and we do it with the sincerest 
pleasure, that Mr. Wyatville has very kindly interceded and used his best exer- 
tions to obtain for the public admission to the New Grand Terrace ; objections 
on this head, however, aré supposed to be still entertained in a high quarter.” 
