The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-20
CRIME IN IRELAND,
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The chief work of the summer assises
being over in Ireland the half years
amount of crime can be fairly estimated
and we are happy to be able to congratulate
the country on the result. The season has
been one of considerable commercial diff
Guilty and pressure, every industry in Ire
/. land having been iDjuriously affected by
the protracted financial crisis in the
United States and by the state OF
trade in Great Britain. Hundreds of
emigrants have returned home from
the United States, intending, however,
to re-cross the Atlantic when the labor
market brighteDs. Belfast and all the flax
districts have suffered severely owing to
the financial disasters in the United States.
their best customer while various other
industries, such as the poplin manufacture.
nave been seriously damaged by the same
cause. Failures have been numerous and
very heavy in Belfast, Cork, Waterford,
and Dublln the dividends on all the bank q
have declined considerably railway traffic
aud profits have fallen off; and every in
terest IN the country has felt the genera!
stagDatlon of trade aud commerce.. Never
theiess Ireland has SO far eufferod con
elderably less than either England or the
United States.
Everywhere the judges in their addresses
to the Grand Juries have congratulated
them on the almost total absence of serious
crime, the light character of the charges
CSTan' Ior example, with p population
OF l4O,|3o, the crop of crime in six months
amounts to charge of stealinh donkey,
"hlle IN other counties it is ecu ally scanty
and ludlcrous. But the Judeesb CHARGES in
ireland are not confined IA in ENGLAND TO
the crimes set forth in The calakfier: they
also review all the crime reptJrtod sbv the
county Inspectors of CoDstabu rs hsy-
ing been committed since the Hast assises.
whether the alleged perpetrators relcom-
united or not. Another strik fnF contrast
between the Irish as compar I'd Nth the
English and Scotch criminal a I'D police re-
turns OF crime, is to be foup6l Id che more
numerous and the more bighfy organized
copstabulary force of Irelandt The whole
surface of the kingdom is divided into
minute system of police dietricts, with
oarrack and resident copsteY bles in each,
who are on out door dutv hight and day.
me office of the central sun ferintendent in
Du9iln Castle is in daily Communication
WIN every station in the AOuntry, and the
Iorce consists of Sc county and town in
SpencIGofs, $50 sub inspectorsH S65 head con-
s1aGies' and 10 500 constseble8 of various
grades; the total effective a trepgth amount
o 5og TO about IL, 600 men. That iss there are
~ ~ pollceman to every 10, lp0O inhabitants in
ireland. Nowhere in FEurope or in the
twd is there q superj 9or body of men of
!neir class-if indeed tn, by have an equal
80 80 nysique, in courage, knowledge of the
country, or good conSn5rE Be, and all are drawn
from the peasantry. TIfh ey cost the empire,
IL Is true, upwards of "a million sterling a
year; but the money b cheaply expended,
a aL they are more a military and imperial
s3an civil force, AID they perform many
ana important dutie II Decides those of local
ponce. There are, n Fever, - stipendiary
laglstrates, more N two to each coun-
~, under the Gov ament, who have au-
motiy to direct II constabulary in all
tbaWers pertaining the preservation of
60 S@ee The CT of this staff is about
DoE'Hvoo year. ere still remains the
corSau metropolid police, with its re-
amer, divisional agistrates and staff
tho uniting altOgt to nearly 200 men,
wbio %IunQal exper IL which is EI45 900, of
Troouu about go, ents betrayed out of the
relstiSGory. In COPING the question of
mattave crime at three Kingdoms, this
weiv6oS9 I the pf ArtI rec must be carefully
suea. The dc lial Government for