Daily National Intelligencer

The following article, from the London Morning Chronicle of the 5th ult. is recommended to the careful consideration of the writer in the Alexandria Gazette who some time ago undertook to assert, that the proportion of crimes committed in this country was greater than in England. It is a melancholy picture:

Youthful depravity.—The police report shews, that in the last year nearly 2,000 culprits, under 20 years of age, were confined in the prisons of the metropolis alone; about 1,300 of whom were under 17 years of age, while 957 of this early age were confined for felonies. The police committee recommends a penitentiary system for juvenile offenders in the metropolis. But probably a more suitable place may be found at Dartmoor prison, formerly occupied by French prisoners; and that, after due trial, employment might be found for them in the Newfoundland fishery, &c.