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State of Crime IN Eagland-We have before
US the first Report of the Commissioners appoint
ed to inquire as to the best means of establish
ing an efficient consahulary force in Eng
land and Wales: and most important information
it certainly furnishes with respect to very large
proportion of our population, the criminals.


II is stated-''That there is an average of up
wards Of 100000 commitments annually to the
goals, of the e-boded population of England
and Wales, for criminal offences; that there are
from l | 900 to 10000 persons constantly in the
criminal goals, of which number large proper
ton are persons known as living wholly by hab-


tual depredations; and, from inquiries made in a


large number Of the individual cases Of prisoners
confined for theft we find that, on the average,
such prisoners in the rural districts, where there


is trained constabulary, have been at large, liv-
ing by depreciation, during average periods, up
wards Of five years; and that the criminal pris-
oners in the goals in the towns, where there is a
paid and trained force have not been able 10 pur-
sue their depredatious more than half that time.
But that nevertheless, in either district, prison.
ers are liberated with The prospect and the empta-
ton Of career of unknown but long duration for
the future, before permanent removal by process
Of law or by natural causes"


A five years career in a county, OF which a
great part of the population reckless that
they readily apprentice themselves to trades such
as glass grinding which destroys life in few
years, merely because the wages are little be-
yond the average, to be terminated bv tansporta-
ton (Which has few terrors),is no slight induce
ment to embark in an avocation which prom


ses exemption from labor and indulgence in lux
ury.