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REPORT—1847. 
17 or the 52 counties furoishcd yearly during 11 years any charge against ao 
female. This small proportion of educated female offenders was attributed in great 
part to the circumstance that such persons are generally either of indepeDdentmeaiu. 
or supported by natural guardians, or maintained by the labour of their hiubaods, 
nnd arc thus removed in a great degree from the temptations that asswl oneduated 
females. It further appeared, from an exauiinatiun of the records for I8d5 sod Wfi, 
that the crimes perpetrated by educated ^rsons were net of a beiuous chitwar, 
eme half of them being subjected to puriishiurnts of various d^rees,thehesriatof 
which was Imprisimment for six months, in Hi-otland the proportioo of edoetc^ 
criminals U greater than in Knglan«l, being 17*1 in 10,000 accused, but ndtherirB 
•or of them found under 16 years of age. The larger proportiou of educated crioi- 
nels in Scotland is attributed, in part, to the more general spread of educatwa, 
whereby the insinictcd are placed, as r^ards their mearu of finding honest eiopk^ 
ment, in a less favourable position than the educated in England. A much Uw 
proportion of offences iu Scotland than in England is classed under the head of ctinw 
committed with violence, and this greater proportion is seen among the edoated 
Mually with the uneducated. Ita occurrence is attributed to the jnvportuaitd; 
wrgBr con«uniption of intoxicating liquors in Scotland, as shown by fc*ei>e returw. 
ravonrsble us the results thus ^own arc to the effects of education, they sre not 
more sotliHnrnjglit reasonalily boox|M!ctcd. in.Nova.Scothi ampleprodfloniiiufe 
For the education of every child born in the province, one fifteenth part tifthepsWic 
revenue being every year set apart for that pur|H>sc,in addition to still larger priwtf 
cuntnliutifjiis. The result is that although Juila have been built ia each coualrof 
the province, and the Inw provides tor the apiKiintuient of jailers, the buildiap w 
unteoantod, and it hus not hitherto been found nccesbary to fill upHRV of the appoint* 
educated are enabled to adopt thcmselvei to draimstaafK, 
and to provide fur their honest snbsivtcnco wheiuiiiinatructed persons woalflteiia’ 
r I *? ^ ^ brought to a jiister appreciation of the consequenwi 
o tlimractions, and to see the trulh of the Jixicmi, that in even awo/hlU poiotof 
view, honesty is thu best policy,” If one honest course be closed against the edii* 
cotiHl innn, he can open for himself another, and is led to exert himself to ibat end 
hv the conwrtion that be has little to gain but everything to lose by swerrii^ from 
wc jwth of virtue The umn whose mind bos not been opened, U, mi the contrary, 
a*t down by the first serious disappointment that overtakes him j under the praieure 
OJ some immediate w.mt, he unhappily loses right of the interests of the fuiure. wd 
that b^V^'h" ^ hmiself, iu the hopelessness of his inability, to the first tenipialit"' 
7he Resources of the Irish Sea Fisheries. By JIichard Valpt. 
* ..P-^ ^1** ruaourcpf of Ireland few perhaps are more callable of affording aa «• 
during the present season of great scarcity awl wwt. Hi® 
,■,;„*** V j industry no delay occurs iu the return for the capilri wd 
•kill applied, and the yield i« almost miraculous. 
‘^“*^** wnounti to 2346 statute miles, and 00 *11 
jw ti 1 uie pursuit ol fishing wouhi afford employraent to a very iargcouDjIxf®* 
l...*;**^**’ ** n *^PPly of an uaccilent description of food to numbers still 
y.^'“*** hinda of fish iu general use surround the isiaad io 
h^n K.!!*' ’ I'ng.. haddock. Imke, mariumJ. he,rings, whiting, conger, t-nW- 
».n» fforiea and salmun iltc thoae most frequently nn4>yiiJi. 
^ sor^ are by no means unconiuiou, each as gurnet, poltoth, 
large supply of fiih in the immediatewighbowM 
at prolific fishing-grounds of conviderable extent tire to I* tw't 
‘^'Stances from the coast, but to the luisfortuneof Ireland ibest^ 
turned to little or no advantage, as the boaU in use are. 
of th«» iSok enough to enable the fishermen to venture out so far. TJk';>^ 
and iht-ir fi.k» "*'*'* to have bren known at an early perind to foreign 
init uii to approach the islaud for the 
nanic il« m,, any near their own countries. It would be difflMl^ 
cuniaiv cncnnr„5!l^^! 'aluable branch of Irish mdusto’. «• 
y gement by government, so much advocated and relied on by son 
