478

STATE OF CRIME IN ENGLAND.

[Jan.

Number of Persons charged with Criminal Offences, committed to the different Gaols in England
and Wales, for Trial, in each County.

The prisoners for trial at the Special Assizes commencing in December, upon the Home Cir-
cuit in each year, are included in the numbers in the following year. The prisoners for trial at
the like Assizes commencing in December, 1826, are therefore not included herein.

In the years

Number of Persons Committed, Convicted, Sentenced, Acquitted, &c. &c.

1820. 1821. | 1822. | 1823. | 1824. | 1825. | 1826.

No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of
Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons. Persons, Persons. Persons.

Total
number
in the

seven
years.

Committed for trial.-viz.

Males......

Females

Total........

11,595 11,173 10,369 10,342 11,475 11,889 13,461 80,304
2,115 1,942 1,872 1,921 2,223 2,548 2,686 15,307

13,710 13,115 12,241 12,263 13,698 14,437 16,147 95,611

Convicted and sentenced:

To Death

Transportation for life....

| 1,236* 1,134* 1,016*| 968* 1,066* 1,036* 1,200* 7,656
221 155 132 116 117 126 133 1,000
84 78 107 129 185 1,196

341

272

14 years

Imprisonment,
and severally
to be whip-
ped, fined,
kept to hard
labour, &c.

year,& above
6 months

ป

1

355 286 376 324 339 365 297 2,342

1,153 1,117 1,129 1,074 1,218 1,193 1,201 8,085

6 months, & under 4,089 3,872 3,899 4,040 4,861 5,408 5,813 31,985
265 244 266 214 281 310 1,832

9,318 8,788 8,209 8,204 9,425 9,964 11,095 65,003
2,511 2,501 2,348 2,480 2,611 2,788 3,266 18,505

No bills found, and not 1,881 1,826 1,684 1,579 1,662 1,685 1,786 12,103
prosecuted