CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS.

No.

2 Lot.
3 Ariège.

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5 Haut-Rhin . 6 Lozére. 7 Aveyron. 8 Ardèche. 9 Doubs. 10 Moselle..

15 Basses-Alpes.

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I accused
DEPARTMENTS. out of. No.

DEPARTMENTS.

inbabitants.
1 Corse,

2,199 44 Isère.
5,885 | 45 Rhône.

6,173 46 Vosges.
4 Pyrénées-Orientales 6,72847 Indre-et-Loire.

7,343 48 Loire-Inférieure.
7,710 49 Aube.
8,236 50 Vendée.
9,474 | 51 Loir-et-Cher .
11,560 52 Eure-et-Loire.

12,153 53 Dordogne. . 11 Hautes-Pyrénées. .

12,223 54 Cher.. 12 Bas-Rhin.

12,309 55 Ille-et-Vilaine. 13 Seine et-Oise.

12,477 56 Seine-et-Marne. 14 Hérault..

12,814 57 Haute-Saône.

12,935 58 Lot-et-Garonne. 16 Tarn.

13,019 59 Pas-de-Calais, . 17 Gard,

13,11560 Morbiban. 18 Var.

13,145 | 61 Gironde. 19 Drôme.

13,396 62 Meuse. 20 Bouches-du-Rhône.

13 409 63 Charente. 21 Vaucluse.

13,576 64 Nièvrc. 22 Seine,

13,945 65 Jura.. 23 Tarn-et-Garonne

14,790 66 Aisne. 24 Eure.

14,795 | 67 Haute-Marne.
15,010 68 Meurthe.
15,262 69 Nord.

15,60270 Allier. 28 Aude.

15,647 | 71 Loire.
16.170 | 72 Oise..
16,256 73 Orne..

16,722 74 Mayenne.
Average 17,085.

75 Cotes-du-Nord
17,256 76 Saône-et-Loire.
17,488 77 Ain.
17,577 78 Maine-et-Loire.
17,686 79 Finistère.
17,727 | 80 Manche.
18,006 81 Côte d'Or.
18,070 82 lodre.
18,355 83 Somme
18,400 84 Sarthe.
18,612 85 Ardennes.
18,612 86 Creuse.
18,712

I accused out of. inhabitants.

48,785 18,793 18,835 19,131 19,314 19,602 20,827 21,292 21,368 21,585 21 934 22,138 22,201 22,339 22,969 23,101 23,316 24,096 24,507 24,964 25,087 26,221 26,226 26 231 26,740 26,574 26,747 27,491 28,180 28,329 28.331 28.607 28,391 28,870 29,592 29,872 31,078 32,256 32,404 33 592 33,913 35,203 37,014

25 Vienne, 26 Corrèze 27 Marne.

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29 Haute-Loire. 30 Haute-Vienne. 31 Basses-Pyrénées. 32 Pay-de-Dôme.. 33 Hautes-Alpes. 34 Calvados. 35 Landes. 36 Loiret. 37 Yonne, 38 Cantal. 39 Seine-Inférieure. 40 Deux-Sèvres. 41 Haute-Garonne. 42 Gers.. 43 Charente-Inférieure. .

The number inxribed upon cach department in the annexed mop refers to the numbers population!he die einde degrees of shade correspond with the number of crimes represented.

, which on apte

CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.

I accused

out of inhabitants

7,624 7,632 7,759 7,778 7,925 7,940 7,990 8,059 8,174 8,236 8,218 8,294 8,326 8,520 8,533 8,680 8,847 8,943 9,044 9,049 9,159 9,190 9,198 9,392 9,539 9,572 9,597 9,797 10,237 10,263 10,431 10,486 10,503 10,708 10,954 11,645 12,141 12,665 12,949 13,018 15,890

In estimating the influence of instruction, Monsieur Guerry takes as the test of education, the list of those returned to the minister of war at the period of conscription, as able to read and write ; and making use of the five divisions I have mentioned, he compares the maps which paint the state of instruction with those which depict the state of crime. From this comparison we see, that while the crimes against persons are the most frequent in Corsica, the provinces of the south-east, and Alsace, where the people are well instructed, there are the fewest of those crimes in Berry, Limousin, and Brittany, where the people are most ignorant.

Such is the case with respect to crimes against the person. As for crimes against property, it is almost invariably those departments that are the best informed which are the most criminal. Should M. Guerry not be altogether wrong, then, this must appear

certain—that if instruction do not increase crime, which

may be a matter of dispute, there is no reason to believe that it diminishes it. But the fact is, that neither by the mea-sure adopted by M. Guerry, nor by any measure that we could adopt, is there any possibility of arriving statistically at the real value of instruction.

Under the denomination of persons “able to read and write,” are those who read in spelling, and perpetrate an undecypherable scrawl, under the inspection of a village schoolmaster, and those who have received all the advantages of a scholastic and liberal education. “ Writing and reading," the lowest grade of acquisition to one man, the highest to another-important I admit, when possessed to a degree that affords an easy access to knowledge, almost useless when it is merely taken to describe a difficult and machinal movement of the lips and fingers—is an absurd and ridiculous definition, thus indiscriminately selected, of the mental state of a district. That province which possesses but two hundred persons able to read and write, may have twice as many of all the advantages and the feelings conferred by education spread over it—as may be found in another province containing four hundred of these readers and writers. Besides, even supposing, which we do not suppose, that a man taken from Brittany writes just as good a hand, reads with quite as much facility, as a

man taken from Provence, and that both these scholars can only read and

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