The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-09-30 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

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 proportion 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.