The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

STATISTICS.

CRWII AND 1311 X.—Of every 100 prisoners committed
to prison in England in the year 1861, 28 were women,
80 that of every four prisoners oue was a ,woman. In
the comulittabi for the inure serious offences, indictable
offencee-14.34$ moles and 3,977 temeles,-110 propor-
tion of women mak fewer tit the fiye yetis 1857-61 it
has been little more than one in every ilve. But the
, coropaxiaon is not nearly so favourable to women In the
'estimates made by the ptineS of the ntirebet of criminal
classes, because then profligate women are reckoned,
31,500 in the returns of last year. The number of
women belonging to the criminal classes, including
under that deidguation known thieves, receivers of
'stokes goods, .
anaptiotedpersons, vagrants, prostitutes,
and all women actually_ prison for other cause than
debt was returned at 59,981 teat year, or one in every
171 of the entire female population of England. The
criminal clam of the other sex numbered 89,60.3, or one
.0..109. Venlig', fake, their part ,even in mimes of
violence. lest par!? sioilieh were Committed to take
their trial for murder, 7 for attempting to murder, 29 .
for miuislaughter,lB for wounding with intent to maim,
37 for burglary, 76 for housebreaking, and 17 were
charged before magistrates With having implements for
housebreaking. 24 were indicted for robbery and
assaults to rob by persons armed in company ; but
assaults and lamming without violence are their chief
crimes. 12 were indicted for bigamy 112 for
.coontollea ,the bfrth, of 'lnfante ; ' 20,41 were
charged before magistrates ' With being drunk,
or drunk and disorderly, and 9,589 of them
convicted. The proportion at male criminals
who are but boys is much larger than the proportion of
girls among female ariminale, but 1,42E1 grrls under 16
were committed to priaon last year. Among the
31,824 females committed to En_gliah prisons in the
year, no less than 6,835 were of Lish birth; the Trish
proportion among the male committals was much
smaller. Half the women committed are described as
of "no ocipipation," and half the men as "labourers"
generally, implying probably in most Instances a life of
plunder and vice rather than work. The proportion of
recommitments is greater Among females than among
, males, and no lees than 1,714 women are described in
the returns of 1861 as having been committed above ten
! -times before, but atty. 971 of the men. In prison the
, women generally behave better than the men; in the
convict prison only 16 in the hundred Of the women
were punished for prison offences in the year, while
amamg the males the proportion was 2& Or the female
criminal lunatics in custody in the year, 220 in number,
45 were woman charged with murder, 10 with attempts,
to murder, 3 with manslaughter, 3 with infanticide or
concealing birth, 2 vrttli burglary, 78 with larceny and
petty thefts. But the lunatics are the accumulation of,
years, and their offences are not to be all reckoned,
among the mischief done by women in 1861.
ACCIDENTS 111 Comanarts.—Great Britain lone i
regiment every year in and about the cosbnines. The
deatli• from accidents were 1,122 in 1857, 930 in 1858,
1,109 in 1860, and now the retort tar 1861 is 943.
The average for the five years is )ust over 1000.
TAXI% UPON TRAVILLTNO.—The produce of the taxes
upon railways rose from £280,314, in 1852, to £.334,063,
In 1857, and to J:372,178 last year. The produce of the
tax upon steigmcarriages has also risen from £114,807,
in 1857, to £125,557 last year.
PINNY TAXATION--In 1852 receipt stamps at various
rates produced £191,089. In 1853 the duty was re-
daced to ld., and this penny duty was also imposed on
draughts or orders payable on demand. and in the
financial year 1834.5 receipts and draught stamps pro,
duced £245,368. In the year 1857-8 the sum had risen
to £34624. The penny duty was then extended to
cheques on bankers, and the produce of the whole for
the year ending last March was £439,445.
TAXATION.—The revenue returns show that the
drinkers and smokers pay she amount of the interest
on the national debt, and what we should do without
the money of the said drinkers and smokers it Is not
easy to say. The deed'', agreements, tro., of the living
pay leas stamp duty in • year than the probates and
administrations of the dead of the year. Insurances
from fire pay double the tax assessed on inhabited
houses, shops, &a The probate and legacy duty upon
personal property pay almost precisely the same sum—
rather more than £3,ooo,ooo—as the land tax atiemes-
don duty, and stamps on deeds and other instruments.
&ran 07 PAOPIBIOX.—The returns issued by the
Poor Law Board show that at the .dose of July, the
flattest returns from all England, the pressure had be-
ano* SO great in the manufacturing districts as to
gales thn number of persons in receipt of relief in the
, Mitre north-western division, the counties of Lanai-
shire mid Cheshire, with nearly 3,000,0(1) of people,
.961 per cent., or almost to double the number in receipt
errettet at the same period of last year. The return%
,foriwz* of the kavdma• tilienlogether, showed
'elpo orae
nt. lie tarsi. Imre beettrada;
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still under the old Acta Of Pailiament, aint they ihiow
In Vie lAA Week ef July, 1861; 800/432 persona were'
relieved ; in the last week of July, 1862, 895,672—an
increase of 16,511, whereof 73,124 belong to Lunatshire
and Cheshire. lint It is in the returns for the unions
separately that the depth of the distress is revealed. At
the end of Aupst last the number of persons in receipt
of relief in Oldham Union were 2271 per cent. more
, than in August, 1861 ; in Bochdsle, 298; in Blinded,
, 802; in Haslingdee, 369; in Preeton, 361; in. Black.
' burn, 4511; in Stockport, 488; and in Ashton-under-
' Lyno there was the almost incrodibbi increase of 857
per cent., from 1,725 in 1861 to' 16,60010 1862. The
case has become still worse since August. But the ,
increase of minperism in towns out of these distrietois
not generally serious. In Idacclostiell, indeed, at the
end of August, it was 29 per cent. over. August, 1861;
but in Stoke-upon-Trent it was but 11 per cent.; in
Birmingham, 4; in Leeds the rime as last year, and in
Nottingham and Sheffield, the ,numbers In reseipt of
relief in August, 1862, were fewer than in August,
1861, by 20 per sent., and in eorluity less by 55 Per
cent.