The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-23 00:00:00

STATE OF CRIME.

Some tables compiled at the Secretary of State's office,
dated Whitehall, Bth March, 1837, determine the amount
of crime in the country. The offences in each county are
divided into six distinct classes :—No. 1. Offences against
the person.—No. 2. Offences against property committed
with violence.—No. 3. Offences against property commit-
ted without violence.—No. 4. Malicious offences against
property.—No. 5. Forgery, and offences against the cur-
rency.—No. 6. Other offences not included in the above
classes.

It appears that there were 20,984 committals in England
and Wales. On the parties to which there were passed
the following sentences :—death 494, transportation for life
770, for fourteen years 585, for seven years 2,249, and for
other periods 7 ; imprisonment with, in some cases, whip-
ping, fine, &c , for more than three years, 1 ; for two years
and above one year, 285 ; for one year and above six
months, 1,4.55 ; and for six months and under, 8,384 ; that
33 were whipped, 303 were fined, 199 were discharged on
securities, and on 6 sentence was respited and pardon
granted, giving a total of 14,771 punishments ; 12 were
found insane on arraignment, of whom 6 were in class 1 ;
19 were acquitted of being insane, of whom 11 were in class
1 ; 4,039 were acquitted on trial ; against 1,652 no bill was
found ; there was no prosecution against 491 ; total ac-
quitted or unpunished, 6,182. And of those sentenced to
death 17 were executed (of whom 8 were for murder, 4 for
robbery, and 2 for arson), and the sentence on the others
was commuted to transportation for life on 344, fourteen
years 46, seven years 35, to imprisonment for three years
and above two 1, for two years and above one 12, for one
year and above six months 28, and for six months and under
5, whilst a free pardon was granted to 4 persons convicted.
Of the total number of offenders for offences against the
person, 1,759 were males and 197 females ; for offences
against property committed with violence, 1,238 were males
and 72 females ; for offences against property committed
without violence, 12,992 were males and 3,245 females ;
for malicious offences against property, 156 were males and
12 females ; for forgery and offences against the currency,
285 were males and 74 females ; and for other offences,
888 were mdes and 136 females. Giving a total of 17,248
males and 3,756 females.

The state of education in all the classes, particularly class
one, was miserably deficient, for 5,598 males and 1,435 fe-
males could neither read nor write ; 8,968 males and 2,015
females could only read and write imperfectly ; the very
small number of 2,016 males and 199 females could not
read and write well ; whilst only 176 males and 15 females
had received superior instruction. Of 490 males and 72
females the state of instruction could not be ascertained.
'rho greatest number of offences were committed i❑ the
counties of Middlesex 3,350, Lancaster 2,265, York 1,252,
Surrey 984, Kent 872, and Somerset 796. And the fewest
in the counties of Westmoreland 20, Rutland 24, Hunting-
don 68, Monmouth 120, Cumberland 143, and Hereford
154. Wales is comparatively free from crime, the highest
county being Glamorgan, in which 82 offences were com-
mitted ; and the IoTA est Cardigan, in which 5 only took
place. But there is a great deficiency in the tables in not
showing the proportion of crime to the population in each
county.

It appears that in every year the proportion of persons
acquitted for murder and arson to those convicted was much
larger than for any other crime, scarcely one-third of the
parties tried for murder having been convicted, and for
arson, in the two l-ist years, less than one in six. The total
number convictions in 1834 was 15,995, and of acquit-
tali 6,456 ; in 1835, convictions 14,729, and acquittals
6,002 ; purl in 1836, convictions 14,771, and acquittals
6,21:3, exhibiting a small increase of 42 convictions in 1836
over those in the previous year, and a decrease of 1,224 as
cornp.ired with the year 18:34—the number of per,ons com-
mitted being less in every class.

A shocking accident occurred on Monday about one
o'clock to a man named George Jukes, carman, i❑ the em-
ploy of Messrs. S. and P. Mumford, Newcastle-street,
Strand. It appears that the unfortunate man had been
drinking, and was what is termed " rather fresh ;" he had
lain down on some straw in his employers' stables, very
near to the horse' heels, to sleep. He was called by his
landlor,t's son to dinner, and answered " I will come directly
I have fed my horsrs." But his landlord having waited
some time requested his wife to go and call him again! and
on her entering the stables she found the poor fellow lying
under the horses' feet, covered with blood. She immedi-
ately called for assistance, and carried him to Mr. Lovett's,
surgeon, Clare-street, when it was discovered he had re-
ceived two dreadful wounds on the head, one full six inches
in length, and the other nearly as long. Mr. Lovett having
skilfully bound up the wounds, the poor fellow was- con-
veyed in a ll:Arley-coach to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Very slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. It is
supposed (for no one saw the accident) that the unfortunate
man, in attempting to get up, fell forward against the horse's
heels, and had been kicked as before stated. Had he not
been discovered at the moment he was, he certainly would
have been trampled to death. It is due to his employers
to state, that immediately on being informed of the cir-
cumstance, they requested every attention should be paid
to the poor man at their expense, and had him conveyed in
a hackney-coach to the hospital.

HIS LATE MAJESTY.—It is a fact worthy of
observation that our late Sovereign, considered in relation to
the different parts of his dominions, was actually at the same
time William 1., William 11., William 111., and William
IV. This seeming improbability will be understood
by a consideration of the following facts. Of the kingdom
of Hanover his Majesty was William the First, because until
the time of George the Third the Sovereigns of that country
were called Electors only. Of Ireland his Majesty was Wil-
liam the second ; for as that country was not added to the
English dominions until the reign of Henry the Second,
William the Conqueror and William Rufus were, of course,
not Sovereigns of Ireland, and no native Prince of that name
had ever resided there. William the Third of England was,
therefore, William the First of Ireland, and our late Sove-
reign was, consequently, William the Second as to that
country. Of Scotland his Majesty was William the Third,
thus :—The kingdoms of England and Scotland were
united in James the First. Previously to that era the only
Monarch of Scotland bearing the name of William was the
renowned William the Lion. The Third William of Eng-
land, therefore, we: the Second William of Scotland, and
our late King, consequently, became, the Third William of
the Northern part of his dominions. And, considered in re-
lation to England only, he was William the Fourth.

MURDER.—We some time ago noticed the singular
circumstance attending the apprehension at Perth of an
Irishman, of the name of Richard New, on suspicion of hav-
ing murdered a man, near Mullingar, county of Meath. A
person of this name having offered himself as a recruit to a
party in Perth last spring, was remitted to the surgeon of
the regiment for examination, and upon giving in his name
and former abode, as above stated, it most singularly hap-
pened that the surgeon had just been reading an advertise-
ment in an Irish provincial paper, offering a reward for the
apprehension of an individual of the same name and place,
on suspicion of being concerned in a late murder there. His
personal appearance answering to the description in the ad-
vertisement, he was judicially examined in presence of Mr.
Sheriff Barclay, and as his declaration then emitted tended
to increase the suspicion against him, he was identified by a
countryman, a corporal in a regiment than stationed at
Edinburgh, and eventually sent off to Ireland to take his
trial at the assize in the county of Meath. The trial took
place a few days ago, and terminated in a verdict of man-
slaughter, under the Judge's direction. The evidence
against New, it appeared, was entirely circumstantial, and
the most important part of it was the inconsistency of his
declaration before the Sheriff here, with the facts established
in evidence. He had stated in his judicial examination that
he had had a quarrel with the deceased ; and the Judge,
founding on that admission, in the absence of proof as to
the beginner of the fray, gave the prisoner the benefit of it,
and the jury found for the lesser charge as already stated.
This was the fourth similar charge against New ; from the
previous three he had succeeded in freeing himself ; but he
was well known to belong to a banditti who have for a long
time infested that part of the country ; and it was all but
established in Court, that, in the present instance, New bad
been engaged for the sum of forty shillings to murder the
deceased, to gratify the revenge of a third party. Mr.
Rattray, of the Procurator Fiscal's office, Perth, attended
to authenticate the prisoner's declaration and such is the
lawless state of that part of Ireland at present, that the
criminal officer of the district advised him to leave the town
immediately after giving evidence ; and he was accordingly
escorted in a gig thirty miles, to the nearest mail line of
of road, under the charge of two soldiers with loaded mus-
kets. Having been the leading evidence against New, the
gang with which the latter was associated would have found
means to revenge his conviction had Mr. Rattray remained
but one night within their reach.—Perth Courier.
M. TiticouPh—M. Tricoupi is a native of Mis_
solonghi which during the war became the bulwark of
Greece. His family, which was the first in that town, has
rendered the greatest services to the country, by the influ-
ence it exercised, and by the ends to which that influence
was directed. The father of M. Tricoupi was a well in-
structed man, of great integrity, and austere manners ; and
he was the right arm of Prince Mavrocordato during the
noble labours of the latter in that town. He shut him-
self up there with Prince Mavrocordato during the siege
in 182:2 ; and be subsequently died there in 1825, much
regretted by all his countrymen, and by everybody else who
knew hirn.—Coehraile's Wanderings in Greece.
The first great meeting of homoeopathic doctors was
held at Frankfurt on the 10th inst. The number present
was about 40, and some of the party had ccmc from Rus-
sia to join in the deliberations of their colleagues.

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