... INCREASE OF CRIME. The proceedings of the Lent Assizes, just concluded, afford melancholy evidence of gent rally increased crime. Throughout all the circuits the numbers on the criminal calendar have been unprecedently great —occupying the several courts ...

... INCREASE OF CRIME. Statement of the number of prisoners, which have been committed to the New Prison, Clerkenweil, for various offences, from 1789 to IS-J3. The age the delinquents generally does not exceed 'JO years : 1799 1809 1800 1810 1801 2393 1811 ...

... Thus those sentenced to Death were as follow :— TD 1824 0 In 1828 1165 In 1025 Tn 1829 13898 In 1826 1203 In 18297 1429 Their crimes and the number executed are given in subse- quent returns. Here also is an jncrease in the number sen- tenced of nearly one-fourth ...

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... classes the bless of education, had become the source of those crimes whose increase all must If it were necessary, it would not be difficult to prove that the statements of the increase of crime in the nation had been ly exaggera‘ed, and that the then inerease ...

... says. Bat the people of this country ave begivning to see that schools and training, aud not prisons, are means to eradicate crime among the javeniles, and perhaps among bigger thicves. 1 always real your pol » intelligence, with @ view to my own rotection; ...

... service to the commanity by withholding the and clothing, and education he boasts of, if he would withdraw “ the temptations to crime, which he seems to think he has a ractice. The Good Samaritan did not inflict the wounds which he healed. Property, like health ...

... INCREASE OP-CRIME, Lord J- RI'SSEI.I gave notice for the of May .for Select Committee to inquire into the cause of ihe increase of crime England. His Lordship also laid upon the table at the same time petition from .400 Protestant Dissenters of Reading ...

... the Home alarming increase of crime in their county. This increase these to the new beer siups, aml they call on his MM: isters to withdraw frum the poor, peed the great by the Bruke of icuagination, that we can of crime to becr drinking such a stretch ...

... STATE OF CRIME SCOTLAND. It is gratifying record that the autumn Circuit of the Justiciary Court has been altogether bloodless ; no criminal having been sentenced die. Their Lordships in almost every instance, congratulated the Sheriffs on the lightness ...

... INCRHASE CRIME IN ENGLAND. The Report the Select Committee appointed the House Commons to cmimre into the subject of criminal commitments and convictions, announces the melancholy fact that the increase of committals has been very great. Since ISOI. it ...

... NATIONAL CRIME AND NATIONAL EDUCATION Sir, —In the items under the head of Navy Estimates, which I believe is granted for six months, I observed the sum of ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and Jorty-nine pounds, for conveying criminals to New South ...