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spectors, which is composed of gentlemen of the firstcharacter in the city of Baltimore. The institutionis also much indebted to the judicious care and goodconduct of the present keeper, who is an active andintelligent man. I requested him to send me a directaccount of the expenditures, &;c. of the prison for thelast year, which I have received from him, forward-ed me by one of the Inspectors a few days ago; andbelieving that this document may be interesting toyour Society, I have had it copied, and now inclose it. There is one remark respecting the penitentiarysystem, which I beg leave to mention. No benefit, asit regards reformation, ever has been, nor ever will beproduced, unless our prisons are calculated to haveseparate rooms, six feet by eight feet, so as that everyman can be lodged by himself. If, as is common,twelve to twenty are lodged at night in one room,they surely will corrupt each other, and leave theprison far more depraved than when they entered it. I think there is good reason to believe that our legis-lature will direct the state prison in this city to besold next year, and order a new one to be built, tobe divided in rooms of six by eight feet each. I would further observe, that during the day, when theprisoners are employed at their work, they are, ofcourse, constantly under the immediate eye of akeeper, and no improper intercourse or conversation can take place. At Pittsburg, (Pennsylvania,) a pri-son, on the plan of separate rooms for each convict,is now building, and I am told they intend erectinga similar one in Philadelphia. Several years ago, Imentioned to my friend, P. Colquhoun, of London,that no reformation could possibly be expected fromthe operation of the penitentiary system, unless theprisons were built on a plan for the convicts to be separately lodged at night, and I think he stated thatsome in England were on that construction, but inhis late letters to me he is silent on the subject of pri-sons. I am told that there is a prison in the environs