Notwithstanding the lamentable prevalence of diseased political and moral feeling among a certain portion of the inhabitants of South Wales, it is certain that the primitive simplicity of character by which the Welsh nation is still distinguished, tends in a great degree to keep them from the commission of those crimes which attract the serious notice of the law. In most of the counties of Wales, the business on the crown side at the assizes is generally light, sometimes only nominal; and the general condition of the public mind may be fairly judged of from the following table of criminal returns for 1846:-- Convictions-- } England, 17,644, or 1 in 850} Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 250, or 1 in 1200} 11 counties of North and South Wales, 250, or 1 in 3000} O } f Executions-- } England, 6, } t Wales, None. } h } e Transportations-- } England, 2801, or 1 in 5300} p Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 29, or 1 in 10,000} o 11 Welsh counties, 25, or 1 in 30,000} p } u Imprisonments above a year-- } l England, 322, or 1 in 4500} a Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 10, or 1 in 30,000} t 11 Welsh counties, 2, or 1 in 350,000} i } o Imprisonments not above a year-- } n England, 14,515, or 1 in 1000} . Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 211, or 1 in 1500} 11 Welsh counties, 223, or 1 in 3300} "The comparative rarity of crime in the eleven Welsh counties is represented by 1 offence to 3000 of the population; and the absence of serious crimes by the small number of transportations, namely, 25, or 1 in 30,000; and still more remarkably, by the large proportion of the offenders whose punishment did not exceed a year's imprisonment, namely, 223 out of 250, leaving 27 as the number of all the criminals convicted in a year, in eleven counties, whose punishment exceeded a year's imprisonment."