[Nextobjects-user] independent of common jus

[Dahman <sta...@po...>]

D be so large a proportion as twenty women, and five hundred men, in the
Kingston Penitentiary; for, as education and civilization advance, and
large towns grow up, new wants arise, and evil communication corrupts
good manners, so that the proportion of great crimes between an old and
a new country is much in favour always of the latter. Recent discoveries
of the police in Montreal have shown that _hells_ of the most atrocious
character, and one in imitation of Crockford's, as far as its inferior
means would go, have been found out. At Kingston a most wretched
establishment of the same nature has recently been broken up, and at
Toronto great incentives to vice in the very young exist. Clerks in
banks have gambled away the property of their employers in these places
to the amount of several thousands, and, the frontier of the United
States being so near, they have fled as soon as discovery was
apprehended, but, owing to the international arrangements for the arrest
of such criminals, have hitherto been detected, and consigned to the
laws of their offended country. The spirit of insubordination, which so
forcibly operates in uneducated minds, where the constant example of the
excess of freedom in the neighbouring States is ever present, has much
changed the aspect of society in all the large towns and villages of
Western Canada. There is no longer that honest independence of the
working and labouring classes which existed fifteen years ago; but
impudent assumption has forced its wa