Statistics Of Crime

-Out ofcverydred persons, in Eróncè, accused, éixty-one are regularly condemned. Out of the wholë population, one ia every 4,4G0 inliabitants is accuscd. In cvery one hundred crimcs,twenty-five ore against the person, sevcnty-fiv ngóinst property. Experience shows that tbö number of murders is annually nearly the eomo; and what Í3 stH more singular, tliat the instrumente, or nieans employed, axe also jintfiesame proportion. The incJination to errme. is ut ils maximum in man about the íhe age of twenty-five; in woman, thirty. Tne. proporlion of men and women accused fa fourto one. The seasonshnve on influence on crime. In sumroer more crimes are committed against the per6on, fewer ngainst property; the reverse is the case in the winter. The deveiopment of the inclinalion to crime agrees very perfectly with that of th passionsand physical strength; ond, on the" otlier hund, the developmeut of reason tends to restrain theinclination. Facts of tliis class, tend to ehow, that the-r only remedy possiole, in the nature of things, to prevent crimo, is reform - based upon a - knowledge of the natural lawa.