ery or diminution of crime
in those that are, and the preponderance of the unendangered
districts in the legislature gives them the means of effectually
doing so. The evils in the endangered districts are such, that it is
universally felt they are beyond the reach of local remedy or
alleviation. Thus, between the two, nothing whatever is done to
arrest, or guard against, the existing or impending evils. Meanwhile,
destitution, profligacy, sensuality, and crime, advance with
unheard-of rapidity in the manufacturing districts, and the dangerous
classes there massed together combine every three or four years in
some general strike or alarming insurrection, which, while it lasts,
excites universal terror, and is succeeded, when suppressed, by the
same deplorable system of supineness, selfishness, and infatuation.

[Footnote 2: Table showing the number of committments for serious
crimes, and population, in the year 1841, in the under-mentioned
counties of Great Britain;--

I.--PASTORAL.

Names of Counties. Population Commitments Proportion of
in 1841. for serious crime committments
in 1841. to population.

Cumberland, 178,038 151 1 in 1,194
Derby, 272,217 277 1 in 964
Anglesey, 50,891 13 1 in 3,900
Carnarvon, 81,093 33 1 in 2,452
Inverness-shire, 97,799 106 1 in 915
Selkirkshire, 7,990 4 1 in 1,990
Argyleshire, 97,371 96 1 in 1,010

Total, 785,399 680 1 in 1,155

II.-AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING.

Commitments Proportion of
Population for serious crime commitments
Names of Counties. in 1841. in 1841. to population.

Shropshire, 239,048 416 1 in 574
Kent, 548,337 962 1 in 569
Norfolk, 412,664 666 1 in 518
Essex, 344,979 647 1 in 533
Northumberland, 250,278 226 1 in 1,106
East Lothian, 35,886 38 1 in 994
Perthshire, 137,390 116 1 in 1,1