--------------------------------------------------------------------- Countries|Population|Years.| Tried | Convicted | over Ten.| | Annual Per | Annual Per | | |Average 100,000 |Average 100,000 | | | Inhabitants.| Inhabitants. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria | 581,838|1882-6| 22 3.2 | 14 2.5 United Kingdom |26,594,582|1882-6| 505 2.35 | 226 .96 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before proceeding to analysis the contents of this table, it will be as well to explain the method on which it has been constructed, and the sources from which it is derived. The population of Victoria, over ten years of age, has been calculated according to the Victorian census for 1881, as contained in Part II. of the Victorian Statistical Register. In order to make the Victorian table harmonise in all particulars with Dr. Bosco's table for England, Scotland, and Ireland, the excess of births over deaths has been calculated up to the end of 1884. The United Kingdom, it will be seen, has been selected as the measure of comparison with the colony of Victoria. This selection has been made on the ground that the colony of Victoria is not composed of the inhabitants of any one of the three kingdoms, but contains a mixture of them all. It will also be observed that the homicidal crime of each of the three kingdoms differs from the other, but this is a consideration which we shall not further comment upon at present.