... 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 ...

... nwerbleeg suebr 11 VV=NE33)A'W, December 25, 1847. IRISH CRIME. T'His painful subject -was again under the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, on Monday week. In the Ulpper House, Lord Farnham called attentlon tot the denunciations from the altar ...

... THE STATE OF CRIME IN ABERDEENSHIRE. WV, h.-. .._L L'- . .- . -- -* e-Jus received asi ble andi interesting report by MrCaesGo'versior of ourPrIsOULsOn the state of crime in the city and county. in so far as regards the penalties incurred by offenders ...

... 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 ...

... diffused, out of 7,400 crimes only 0-10 leers accoropanied byI violence, beinru it the proportion of 1-12th of the whole inuti- br', insteadl ofl3:5ths as in the former case. Thius the only ascer- tairled efeiet of intellectual ?? ott crime is to surrstitiutefrad ...

... and those atrocious crimes have been on the de- crease. He would be a bold man who should venture to affirm, that the prospect of any less severe punishment would have prevented the crimes in question. But while we hear of the crimes which have thus been ...

... 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 ...