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BRITISH ASSOCIATION. -1S35. 
The employments of the prisoners are specified ; the medical at¬ 
tendance exemplified ; and the author adds his decided testimony to 
the advantages resulting from the introduction of solitary confine¬ 
ment. 
On the Causes which affect the Proportions betiveen the Numbers of 
Accusations and Convictions in the Metropolitan District , and on 
the Effects which vjell-managed Houses of Correction have in re¬ 
pressing Crime . By E. Halswell. 
On the Punishment of Death in Prussia, Norway , and Brunswick. 
By Mr. Fox. 
Extract of a letter received by the Committee of the Capital Punish¬ 
ment Society, dated Berlin, March 10 , 1835. 
The entire Number of Executions in each Year. 
Year. 
Arson. 
“ Voluntary 
Manslaughter.” 
Murder. 
Total. 
1818. 
1 
3 
5 
9 
1819. 
•— 
2 
6 
8 
1820. 
- 
- 
13 
13 
1821. 
— 
-—. 
14 
14 
1822. 
-- 
1 
4 
5 
1823. 
— 
4 
6 
10 
1824. 
- 
2 
In five years for 
10 
murder.... 47 
12 
1825. 
i 
1 
3 
4 
1826. 
-- 
1 
4 
5 
1827. 
--- 
2 
5 
7 
1828. 
■-- 
2 
10 
12 
1829. 
■ 
I 
In five years for 
4 
murder.... 26 
5 
1830. 
- 
4 
4 
1831. 
•—> 
1 
8 
9 
1832. 
—, 
2 
r- 
2 
1833. 
—. 
— 
2 
2 
1834. 
In five years for 
l 2 
murder.... 16 
2 
_ 
1 
22 
100 
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* In the last three years 22 were sentenced to death for murder, of whom 
only 4 were executed, [the remainder being imprisoned at hard labour.] 
