1853/54| 23 | 38 | 24 | 13 | 2932 | 2097 | 5854 | 2983 | 2127 | 2282 | 2894 | 2671 | 3027 1854/55| 23 | 19 | 23 | 38 | 2964 | 2591 | 5026 | 3326 | 2470 | 2215 | 2831 | 2804 | 3229 1855/56| 17 | 45 | 22 | 2 | 2423 | 1817 | 4637 | 2367 | 2050 | 1595 | 2515 | 1939 | 2443 1856/57| 15 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 2157 | 1724 | 3265 | 2059 | 1176 | 1412 | 1931 | 1435 | 1922 1857/58| 12 | 31 | 12 | 58 | 1956 | 1237 | 2595 | 1537 | 588 | 974 | 1621 | 1203 | 1505 1858/59| 10 | 28 | 12 | 13 | 1949 | 1170 | 2309 | 1334 | 462 | 497 | 940 | 1029 | 1255 1859/60| 11 | 45 | 15 | 15 | 2084 | 1219 | 2622 | 1538 | 525 | 890 | 994 | 1105 | 1419 1860/61| 14 | 8 | 16 | 19 | 2055 | 1304 | 2580 | 1318 | 484 | 720 | 750 | 1069 | 1336 +-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----------+-----------+------+--------+-------+--------+-------- Average| 13 | 35 | 14 | 44 | 2234 | 1741 | 3083 | 2155 | 1649 | 1388 | 1120 | 1842 | 1920 =======+=====+=====+=====+=====+======+======+===========+===========+======+========+=======+========+======== ENGLAND. In speaking of the influence of economic conditions upon mendicity Dr. Mayr gives the following table: ENGLAND AND WALES. =========+=========================+=================== Years. |Price of Wheat (Quarter).|Number of Vagrants. ---------+-------------------------+------------------- | sh. d. | 1858 | 44 2 | 22,559 1859 | 43 10 | 23,353 1860 | 53 3 | 22,666 1861 | 55 4 | 24,001 1862 | 55 5-1/2 | 29,504 1863 | 44 9 | 33,182 1864 | 40 2 | 31,932 =========+=========================+=================== However, in this case the increase of mendicity does not rest upon the high prices alone, but also upon the crisis which, owing to the depression of the cotton industry from 1860 on, lowered the plane of living of hundreds of thousands of workers, or drove them into the street. ENGLAND AND WALES. Number and Kind of Cases Tried by Jury.