[2] Viz.:—
| In Ireland, | 2,300,000 | |
| ... England, | 1,500,000 | |
| ... Scotland, | 200,000 | |
| 4,000,000 |
just a seventh of the whole inhabitants, who are now about 28,000,000.
[3] Committals for serious crime, in—
| England. | Scotland. | Ireland. | Total. | Population of Great Britain and Ireland. | ||||||
| 1805, | 4,605 | 89 | 3,600 | 8,284 | 15,800,000 | |||||
| 1819, | 14,254 | 1,380 | 13,251 | 28,885 | 20,600,000 | |||||
| 1842, | 31,369 | 3,884 | 21,352 | 56,605 | 27,300,000 |
—Porter's Parl. Tables and Prog. of the Nation, iii. 172, 227.
From this table it appears, that from 1805 to 1842 the population of the empire has advanced from 158 to 273—that is, increased about 70 per cent; while serious crime has increased from 8 to 56—that is, 700 per cent. Crime, therefore, has augmented ten times as fast as the number of the people.
[4] From χρημα—"money, riches."
[5] Nicolai, dell' Agro Romano, iii. 167-171. Sismondi's Etudes Sociales, ii. 46.
[6] Ibid, iii. 153. Ib., ii. 44. This part of Sismondi's work, which will be found Vol. ii, pp. 1-74, is highly interesting. We may perhaps, at a future period, give a detached account of it, under the title of "The Campagna of Rome."