in one division of France, but in all the divisions of France, and in each distinct class of crime !... Thus maintaining between the different portions of the kingdom, a particular and almost invariable criminal ratio (if I may thus express myself), which none of the many casualties to which human life is subject, seem effectually to alter or control. A difference of this kind cannot be the effect of law, for the law in all parts of France is the same—it cannot be the effect of accident, because it would not, surely, in that case, perpetually recur. What has instruction to do with it, I mean that kind of instruction, on which persons, considering these subjects, usually found their propositions ? INSTRUCTION. No. of young men knowing how to rend and write out of 100 inscribed. 37 37 36 34 32 31 31 31 3) 31 30 . 1 Meuse. 2 Doubs. 3 Jura 4 Haute-Marne 5 Hant-Rhin. 6 Seine 7 Hautes-Alpes. 8 Meurthe 9 Ardennes 10 Marne Il Vosges 12 Bas-Rhin 13 Côte-d'Or 14 Haute-Saône 15 Aube 16 Moselle. 17 Seine-et-Oise 18 Eure-et-Loir 19 Seine-et-Marne 20 Oise 21 Hautes-Pyrénées 22 Calvados 23 Eure. 24 Aisne. 25 Corse. 26 Pas-de-Calais 27 Yonne 28 Basses-Pyrénées 29 Basses-Alpes . 30 Nord 31 Rhône 32 Hérault 33 Orne 34 Somme 35 Seine-Inferieure 36 Manche 37 Loiret. 38 Drôme 39 Deux-Sèvres 40 Gard . 41 Gironde. 42 Charente-Inférieure 43 Bouches-du-Rhône 44 Gers. No. of young men knowing how to read and write out No. DEPARTMENTS. Average 0,38. 49 Saône-et-Loire 56 Loire. 76 Puy-de-Dôme 77 Ariège 28 28 27 27 27 27 25 25 25 24 24 23 23 23 21 20 20 19 19 18 18 17 16 15 14 13 13 13 12 . . . . 1 2 |