essions, "you have been convicted of a very bad
crime. This stealing is a very serious offence; but, _as you are a
pretty girl_! we'll suspend judgment, in hopes you will do better for
the future." We have often heard that justice was blind. What a fib to
say so!

Mr Carey, in his publication on Wealth, asserts, that security of
property and or person are greater in the United States than in England.
How far he is correct I shall now proceed to examine. Mr Carey says,
in his observations on security of person:--"Comparing Massachusetts
with England and Wales, we find in the former 1 in 86,871 sentenced to
one year's imprisonment or more; whereas, in the latter 1 in 70,000 is
sentenced to more than one year. The number sentenced to one year or
more in England is greater than in Pennsylvania. It is obvious,
therefore, that security is much greater in Massachusetts than in
England, and consequently greater than in any other part of the world."

Relative to crimes against security of property, he asserts:--

Of crimes against property, involving punishments of one year's
imprisonment, or more, we find:--

+================+==========+
YIn Pennsylvania Y1 in 4,400Y
+----------------+----------+
YIn New York Y1 in 5,900Y
+----------------+----------+
YIn MassachusettsY1 in 5,932Y
+================+==========+

While in England, in the year 1834, their convictions for offences
against property, involving punishments exceeding one year's
imprisonment, was 1 in 3,120.

Now, that these numbers are fairly given, as far as they go, I have no
doubt; but the comparison is not just, because, first, in America crime
is not so easily detected; and, secondly, when detected, conviction does
not always follow.

Mr Carey must be well aware that, in the American newspapers, you
_continually_ meet with a paragraph like this:--"A body of a white man,
or of a negro, was found floating near such and such a wharf, on
Saturday last, with evident marks of violence upon it, etcetera.
etcetera, and the coroner's inquest is returned either found drowned, or
violence by person or persons unknown." Now, let Mr Carey take a list
from the coroner's books of the number of bodies found in this manner at
New York, and the number of instances in which the perpetrators have
been discovered; let him compare this list with a similar one made for
England and Wales, and he will then ascertain the difference between the
_crimes committed_ in