a a Criminal code greatly mitigated. Various offences hitherto only triable at Assizes, transferred to the jurisdiction of Quarter Sessions.
b Prisoners’ Counsel Bill passed.
c County Police established.
d Sir John Pakington’s Juvenile Offenders’ Act passed.
*** In 1836 the jurisdiction of the City Quarter Sessions was extended to the new city boundary, and the deduction of population from the county raises the proportion of convicted persons from that year forwards. In 1845 the outlying parts of the county were included in the jurisdiction of the County Quarter Sessions, and the ratio of convicted persons is proportionably diminished.
TABLE No. 3.—PROVISION FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
It is not pretended that the following statistics are absolutely accurate—the amount of accommodation afforded being altogether matter of computation. Neither do they afford reliable data for comparing the relative increase of different religious denominations, because a considerable proportion of the old churches have been enlarged in the present century; while, on the other hand, many of the new chapels built by Dissenters, especially the Wesleyans, were erected in the place of preaching rooms used before the year 1800.
| Built before A.D. 1800. | Accommodation. | Built after A.D. 1800. | Accommodation. | |
| Places of Worship in the County connected with the Established Church | 210 | 63,680 | 24* | 14,590 |
| Wesleyans | 6 | 3,240 | 34 | 6,760 |
| Baptists | 13 | 3,654 | 17 | 3,498 |
| Independents | 4 | 2,283 | 10 | 3,176 |
| Primitive Methodists | — | — | 13 | 1,906 |
| Wesleyan New Connexion | — | — | 8 | 2,526 |
| Wesleyan Association | — | — | 4 | 950 |
| Countess of Huntingdon | 1 | 1,400 | 9 | 2,790 |
| Catholics | 2 | 630 | 10 | 2,089 |
| Unitarian | 8 | 2,300 | — | — |
| The Friends | 7 | 1,500 | — | — |
| Other Sects | — | — | 4 | 500 |
* The Churches built in the county since 1800 are—Redditch (chapel of ease); St. George’s Chapel, Kidderminster; St. Andrew’s, Netherton; St. George’s Chapel, Claines; St. Peter’s, Malvern Wells; Christchurch Chapel, Broadheath; Christchurch Chapel, Catshill; Bartley Green Chapel, Northfield; Christchurch Chapel, Lye; St. James’s, Dudley; St. John’s Chapel, Kate Hill, Dudley; St. Michael’s Chapel, Broadway; Christchurch Chapel, Trimpley, Kidderminster; Yardley Wood, Yardley; St. John’s Chapel, Kidderminster; Aston Magna, Blockley; St. Matthias, Malvern Link; St. Paul’s, Worcester; St. Peter’s, Cookley; North Hill District Church, Mathon; The Quinton, Halesowen; Langley Green, Halesowen; St. Peter’s, Worcester; Amblecote, Oldswinford; Trinity Church, Malvern.