The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-29 00:00:00

CRIME IN THE TBREE ICINGDOMS.

the magistrates to
fmoymitted for trial in
was—in England, 17 per
d been five years previously
in Scotland, 11 per.cent. less, and in Ireland 24 per
cent. The year's list of committals for murder and
f
attempts to murder or to maim was more numerous
cent.
e 8 disposenT6toh. eolnes number
chargesthans uu
summarily ofrui
t tooahrPi per—
el
y serioussons
in Ireland (in proportion to the population) than in
England, being 105 against 283 ; but the convic-
tions were far more numerous in England-163
against 33. For all offences together convictions
in England and Scotland were about 75 per cent.
of the committals ; in Ireland only 55. The feuds,
faction fights, and quarrels of Ireland make their
mark in the criminal tables; 560 persons were com-
mitted for riot or breach of the peace in 1860, and
154 for rescue or refusing to aid peace officers, the
two classes together forming 13 per cent. of the
whole number of the committals ; in England, for
both classes of offences together, the committals were
only 50. Taking the more comprehensive returns of
tile numbers in prison during the year for all
offences so as to include persons sent to gaol sum-
marily by the magistrates, as well as those com-
mitted for trial by the courts, it appears that the
number in England (without reckoning military
prisoners), was 1 to every 197 of the population ;
and in Ireland 1 to every 195. But, as the same
person when recommitted within the year was
counted again, the number of persons sent to pri-
son was not really so large as this ; in Ireland there
were 30,712 committals, but the number of persons
committed was only 24,639, of whom 15,760 had
never been in gaol before. In England the females
were 30 in every 100 criminals, in Ireland no less
than 47. Female prisoners in Ireland are not de-
clining in the same ratio as male, and last year's
returns show in a. most striking manner the
I_s
irre-
claimable character of many female prisoners. 6
t no less
soners had been there above 20 times,
of the
butma 688
leproifsotnheersfemhaadlesb;e4en7 in gaol
by
the maabloeveprli.l
times, 7
than 336 females. Cork city gaol had in it a woman
undergoing her 66th imprisonment.
86 per cent.
1 of the Irish committals were Roman Catholics.

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