The table in the note exhibits the number of commitments for serious offences, with the population of each, of eight counties--pastoral, agricultural, and manufacturing--in Great Britain during the year 1841[2]. We take the returns for that year, both because it was the year in which the census was taken, and because the succeeding year, 1842, being the year of the great outbreak in England, and violent strike in Scotland, the figures, both in that and the succeeding year, may be supposed to exhibit a more unfavourable result for the manufacturing districts than a fair average of years. From this table, it appears that the vast preponderance of crime is to be found in the manufacturing or densely-peopled districts, and that the proportion per cent of commitments which they exhibit, as compared with the population, is generally three, often five times, what appears in the purely agricultural and pastoral districts. The comparative criminality of the agricultural, manufacturing, and pastoral districts is not to be considered as accurately measured by these returns, because so many of the agricultural counties, especially in England, are overspread with towns and manufactories or collieries. Thus Kent and Shropshire are justly classed with agricultural counties, though part of the former is in fact a suburb of London, and of the latter overspread with demoralizing coal mines. The entire want of any police force in some of the greatest manufacturing counties, as Lanarkshire, by permitting nineteen-twentieths of the crime to go unpunished, exhibits a far less amount of criminality than would be brought to light under a more vigilant system. But still there is enough in this table to attract serious and instructive attention. It appears that the average of seven pastoral counties exhibits an average of 1 commitment for serious offences out of 1155 souls: of eight counties, partly agricultural and partly manufacturing, of 1 in 682: and of eight manufacturing and mining, of 1 in 476! And the difference between individual counties is still more remarkable, especially when counties purely agricultural or pastoral can be compared with those for the most part manufacturing or mining. Thus the proportion of commitment for serious crime in the pastoral counties of Anglesey, is 1 in 3900 Carnarvon, 1 in 2452 Selkirk, 1 in 1990 Cumberland, 1 in 1194 In the purely agricultural counties of Aberdeenshire, is 1 in 2086 East-Lothian, 1 in 994 Northumberland, 1 in 1106 Perthshire, 1 in 1181 While in the great manufacturing or mining counties of Lancashire, is 1 in 418 Staffordshire, 1 in 482 Middlesex, 1 in 439 Yorkshire, 1 in 839 Lanarkshire, 1 in 832[3] Renfrewshire, 1 in 306 [Footnote 3: Lanarkshire has no police except in Glasgow, or its serious crime would be about 1 in 400, or 350.]