GREAT BRITAIN. 



879 



of the whole number, 30,379 males 



ami iL'.ls.") females could neither read HDP u rile ; 



males and I'.l.'.Hi', female, could 

 only, or ivad and write very imperfectly, 3,209 

 mid read and write 



ucll; I'.Mi mall's and HI females had received 

 -'ruction, and of 7~> s male-, :n> 



i the instruction was not ascertained. In 



. convict pri-ons of Kngland and 

 . there were on tin- l>t uf April, 1866, 

 us undergoing sentence, and in tin; 



roiir.-. rear there were received from 



iinty and borough prison* L'.ili'o males and 

 -: a tot:d oi ;i,si7 for the year. Of 

 !h) mail's were transported to \V< 

 Australia; '> males were removed to county 

 jails; 17") females were removed to reforraa- 

 or refuges; 22 males and 4 females to 

 lunatic asylums; 1% males and 31 females 

 1 on tin- termination of their 

 seiitc: S males and 255 females on 



: 7 males and - females on medi- 

 c-al grounds ; .','> males were pardoned; 1*7 males 

 and 111 females died ; - males committed suicide, 

 and one escaped. Thus 2,799 were disposed of 

 in the course of the year, and 6,031 males and 

 987 females, a t.nal of 7,018, were left in con- 

 finement March 31, 1867. The total cost of the 

 r-upport of these eleven prisons for the year 



:.:::i3 = $1,148,691.72. 



There are, in England and Wales, 51 Reform- 

 atory Schools. In 1866, there were 2,709 males 

 and ii7'.t females under detention in these reform- 

 atories, and there were committed, during the 

 year, 1,034 males and 253 females, and 39 males 

 and 16 females were received from other sources. 

 We have no record of any discharges. Of the 

 whole number, 013 had been previously impris- 

 oned once or more ; one as many as ten times. 

 Six hundred and thirty-five could neither read 

 nor write, 568 could only do either imperfectly, 

 and 80 could read and write well. The Gov- 

 ernment paid .'> 1,734, =$250,392.56, for their 

 ' support, and 2,002, = $12,593.68, were received 

 from parents in diminution of the charges. 

 There were 34 Industrial Schools for a lighter 

 grade of juvenile offenders. In these, 1,336 

 hoys and 272 girls were under detention at the 

 beginning of the year, and, through excess of 

 commitments over discharges, there were 1,457 

 boys and 288 girls remaining at the close of 



I the year. The cost of support for the year was 

 I :>,li>0 = $74,632.80. 

 In In-/, //til, the whole number of persons be- 

 longing to the criminal or dangerous classes was 

 J7,'.'oO. of whom 4,303 were confined in prisons 

 or reformatories. Of the 23,603 who were at 

 large, 4,.">:U were under 16 years of age, 10,853 

 were males and 12,750 females, 2,924 were 

 known thieves and depredators; 1,312 receivers 

 leu goods; 8,457 prostitutes, of whom 37 

 were under Id years of age; o,7-">l suspected 

 persons; 12,109 vagrants and tramps. 



The total number of indictable crimes was 



t 9,766, for which 0.71S persons, of whom 4,936 

 were males and 1,782 females, were appro- 



bended; f these, 1,185 males and 775 female* 



eommilt'-d for trial, and most of tho re- 

 mainder l.aileil. There were 4,057 tried in tho 

 criminal court-, 3,564 males and 1,01)3 fen. 

 of these 2,001 were convicted, 29 declared in- 



! i lot prosecuted. IT. 



of -J'.i who were tried for murder were convict- 

 ed, of \\hom 4 were executed, and one had hi-. 

 MDte&oa commuted to penal servitude for life. 

 Including these, 929 were convicted of ol 

 against tho person; 1,733 of.oti'eiices against 

 property with and without violence, crimes 

 again*! the currency, and other offences. ( H 

 tho^e convicted, 103 were respited or pardoned. 

 Of tho whole number of oH'en> re as- 



cribed to the attempts of the Feninns. The 

 cost of these trials wa 5,409 s $36*- 

 566.76. 



Of offences determined summarily like those 

 in our police and justices' courts, the total num- 

 ber proceeded against was 223,877, of whom 

 189,898 were males and 43,981 females. Of 

 these, 159,123 males and 35,046 females were 

 convicted; 83,967 were convicted of drunken- 

 ness, 32,239 of common assaults, 36,685 of 

 offences against the Highway and Turnpike 

 Acts, and 6,251 of offences against the Stage 

 and Ilackney Carriage Acts. None of the sen- 

 tences exceeded six months, and 146,406 wero 

 punished by fine. The costs of prosecution 

 were 44,132 = $213,598.88. 



There were 32,857 committals to the jails 

 during the year 1866-'67, and 2,555 criminals, 

 including lunatics, remained in prison at the end 

 of the year. Of the whole number in prison 

 during the year, 16,112 were men and 13,844 

 women; 14,557 were wholly illiterate, 8,884 

 could read imperfectly, 7,483 could read and 

 write, 164 had had superior instruction, and of 

 503 the education was not ascertained. Tho 

 total expenses of the jails were 84,190 = $407,- 

 479.00. In the bridewells 20,556 were com- 

 mitted, of which 10,650 were for drunkenness. 

 The cost was 6,417 = $31,058.28. 



In Scotland there were committed for trial or 

 bailed, in the year 1866-'67, 3,003 persons, of 

 whom 2,202 were males and 801 females. Of 

 the whole number, 434 were discharged without 

 trial; 2,555 were tried, and of these 2,292 were 

 convicted, 16 were outlawed, one was found 

 insane, 61 acquitted, and 199 not proven. Of 

 those convicted, two were found guilty of mur- 

 der, and executed ; 184 were sentenced to vari- 

 ous periods of penal servitude varying from lili- 

 to four years; 1,849 to imprisonment for from 

 three years to less than one month, 37 sent to 

 reformatory schools, and 189 sentenced to be 

 whipped, fined, or discharged on sureties. Of 

 the whole number of commitments, 884 were 

 for offences against the person ; 386 for oti 

 against property committed with violence; 

 1,443 against property without violence; 62 for 

 malicious offences against property; 60 for 

 forgery and other offences against the currency, 

 and 228 for other offences not included in the 

 other classes. 



