... increase in crime, which we have pointed out in the case of the crime of murder, could not be expected to be unattended by a proportionate increase in offences of other descriptions. We have as yet no means of judging of the statistics of crime for the present ...

... CRIME IN IRELAND. O-YE of the prominent points in the Royal Speech was that in which reference was made to the fearful preva-. lence of crime in certain districts of Ireland, accompa- nied by a necessity for some extraordinary measures for its prevention ...

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... CRIME IN SCOTLAND. (Fs'om the Coursant.) Trnlna has been presented 'to Parliament the yearly blue book of Scottish crime-the 'Tables of Criminal Offenders in bcotland for the var 1848, retorted bv her Majesfy's Advocate, in terrp-of the Statute, I Gul ...

... STATE OF CRIME IN THE COUNTRY. THEE public mind has never been shocked by occurrences so so horrible, so utterly unaccountable, as during the past a few months. Murders, at which the blood runs cold-n savage and wholesale butchery-have stained the records ...

... CAUSIES OF PAUPERISM! AND CRIME. . L.AST WOeek, in a review of two pamphlets on the Poor Laws, we expressed our conviction of the necessity for a compulsory system of National Education. We know the objections that may be urged against it-the pre- judices ...

... CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL. THE third reading of this Bill was proposed, and car- ried, in the Hlouse of Commons, on 31onday week. The only opposition offered to it was on the part of the repeal members, in the fore-front of whom stowA Mr John O'Connell ...

... doubt as to the reality of the crime charged, as inferring capital punishment. Thus it has happened that, in some cases, parties evidently guilty of deliberate murder. have been acquitted; while. in others, the capital crime has been softened down into mere ...

... who have long meditated the crime, and who are certain to repeat it on the first opportunity, is neither mercy nor prudence. Justice it certainly is not. Let not the doom of the murderer be thought too much for the crime, or too base for the rank of ...

... pregnancy proved also mucrder, hutsa distinction Is now made between the two crimes, and the punishment for the less crime is laid down by statute. In departing from the greater crime, there still remains a serious charge against yonu for Tou mpst be aware ...

... made his escape. The Solicitor-GeCerOI, at the outset of his address to tine Jury, stated that the crime charged against the prisoner was a capital crime-thlat it was not a case in which he maeant to restrict tine libel, but that in the event of their ...

... and vicious pa- rents, they are in a manner forced to betake themselves to crime, as the only means, within their reach, of sup- porting a miserable existence. Wit.h them, crime is 3nore a misfortuela than a fault. And yet, if these juve- mile delinquents ...