CEYLON BRANCH ROYAL ASTATTC SOCTETY. 91 



ON THE STATE OF CRIME W CEYLON. 

 No. 2, 



BY THE HON. MR. JUSTICE STARK, 



(Bead November 6. 1846.) 



Since the date of my former paper on the state of crime 

 in this Colony, I have received various communications 

 from different quarters and of different degrees of interest, 

 illustrative of the subject. Some of these having reference 

 to age, education, religion, and nation of offenders or per- 

 sons accused, it will be convenient now to notice, before 

 making some concluding observations on the punishment of 

 crime here. 



From Mr. Colepeper, Superintendent of Police at Kan- 

 dy, I received a most interesting report, the results of 

 which may be stated in the following Table : 



Table of charges made at the Police Station Kandy from 

 1st July 1845 to 1st July 1846. 





OS 









i 





OS 



£ 







s 













1 







*"§ 





orm 



i 





? 



§^ 







i3 









1 



«! 



1 







5 















5 





24 



73 



12 



4 



76 



3 



8 



200 



Robbery or assault and robbery 



5 



20 



6 



10 



2 



1 





44 





2 



16 





2 









20 





2 















2 



Theft 



22 



97 



10 



12 



99 



2 



1 



243 





1 



3 



] 











5 



Receiving stolen property 



11 



22 



10 



4 



9 



6 



1 



63 





3 



6 



4 



5 









18 





18 



102 



13 



20 



122 



17 



5 



297 



Deserting service or refusing \ 



3 



34 



5 



6 



198 



8 





254 



















96 



373 



61 



63 



506 



37 



15 



1151 



From this Table it appears there were 1151 persons ac- 

 cused and brought up to the Police Station in the course of 

 the year. Of these there were 200 charged with assault 

 and 5 with murder, 66 with offences against property with 

 violence, 311 with theft, embezzlement and receiving stolen 

 property, 551 with drunken and disorderly conduct and 



