The problem of religious progress . eed led the world in the difficult taskof repressing high crimes. We have no statistics of crime in Great Britainprior to 1840, but the following tables, collated fromEnglish sourceSjf show a great improvement sincethat time: The Higher Class of Criminal Convictions. Average forthree Englandand Wales. Scotland. Ireland I840-1842 . .. 23,980 2,907 10,118 1850-1852 . .. 21,140 13,979 1860-1862 . •• 13,753 2,508 3,348 187O-1872 . .. 11,920 2,281 2,623 1880-1882 . .. 11,422 1,940 2,445 189O-1892 . •• 1,843 1,214 UnitedKingdom. 37,005 38,269 1
The problem of religious progress . eed led the world in the difficult taskof repressing high crimes. We have no statistics of crime in Great Britainprior to 1840, but the following tables, collated fromEnglish sourceSjf show a great improvement sincethat time: The Higher Class of Criminal Convictions. Average forthree Englandand Wales. Scotland. Ireland I840-1842 . .. 23,980 2,907 10,118 1850-1852 . .. 21,140 13,979 1860-1862 . •• 13,753 2,508 3,348 187O-1872 . .. 11,920 2,281 2,623 1880-1882 . .. 11,422 1,940 2,445 189O-1892 . •• 1,843 1,214 UnitedKingdom. 37,005 38,269 19,609 16,824 15,807 12,358 * The entire article of Mr. Lea, in the Forum, is of great inter-est and value. f Financial Reform Almanac, Whitakers London Almanac,and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ninth edition. I The average of these years in each period is taken, because insome single years the number is exceptionally large or small. IiirstKAriNf; riiE Dkckkask oi. Hkmi (rimENGLAND AND WALES SCOTLAND. IRELAND. UNITED KINGDOM. Average for England Scotland. Ireland. three years. and Wales. I840-1842 . . 664 902 810 185O-1852 . . 854 919 466 1860-1862 . .. 1,463 1,222 1,729 187O-1872 . .. 1,909 2,057 1880-18S2 . ?•• 2,274 2,118 1890-1892 . ... 2,175 Morals. 277 The following table will indicate the relativeprogress, by showing the member of inhabitants forone criminal conviction, in the given periods : UnitedKingdom. 722713 , The above tables show that the number of crim-inal convictions, from 1840 to 1892, decreased, inEngland and Wales, from 23,980 to 9,301 ; in Scot-land, from 2,907 to 1,846; in Ireland, from 10,118to 1,214; and in the United Kingdom, from 37,005to 12,358. But during all this time the population,except in Ireland, was increasing. Comparing withthe population, we find that in England and Wales,instead of one conviction for high crimes for 664inhabitants from 1840 to 1842, there was only onefor 3,109 inhabitan
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