=======+=========================+====================== |Arrests in the Department|Average Price of Grain Years. | of the Seine to 100,000 | per Hectolitre. | of the Population. | -------+-------------------------+---------------------- 1855 | 1222 | fr. 29.37 1856 | 1170 | 30.22 1857 | 1169 | 23.83 1858 | 1154 | 16.44 1859 | 1008 | 16.69 1860 | 1074 | 20.41 1861 | 1128 | 24.25 1862 | 1250 | 23.24 1863 | 1133 | 19.78 1864 | 1158 | 17.58 =======+=========================+====================== Here also the influence of price makes itself felt. The following table gives the number of persons arrested in the department of the Seine, grouped according to the alleged crimes, and compared with the price of wheat. Group I contains offenses against the public order; Group II, offenses against persons; Group III, offenses against morals; group IV, offenses against property; Group V, miscellaneous. Taking 100 as the average figure for the price of grain as well as for crimes in the economically favorable years 1858–59, the proportion is as follows: ======+======+==============================+===================+=====+=============+=====+====== |Price | I. | II. | III.| IV. | V. | | of +------------------------------+------+------------+-----+------+------+-----+ Years.|Wheat.|Total.| For | For |Total.| For | |Total.|Simple| |Total. | | |Vagabondage.|Mendicity.| |Assault.[44]| | |Theft.| | ------+------+------+------------+----------+------+------------+-----+------+------+-----+------ 1855 | 178 | 128 | 122 | 148 | 76 | 72 | 100 | 102 | 116 | 106 | 113 1856 | 182 | 117 | 118 | 114 | 81 | 80 | 104 | 106 | 121 | 92 | 108 1857 | 144 | 119 | 127 | 117 | 82 | 81 | 98 | 101 | 114 | 100 | 108 1860 | 123 | 96 | 90 | 134 | 103 | 106 | 100 | 110 | 123 | 80 | 99 1861 | 146 | 95 | 99 | 105 | 95 | 96 | 131 | 116 | 124 | 103 | 104 1862 | 140 | 120 | 128 | 147 | 94 | 98 | 108 | 116 | 131 | 108 | 116 1863 | 119 | 112 | 119 | 186 | 90 | 94 | 92 | 101 | 114 | 97 | 105 1864 | 106 | 115 | 124 | 176 | 84 | 87 | 85 | 111 | 123 | 84 | 107 ======+======+======+============+==========+======+============+=====+======+======+=====+====== Here it is to be observed: a. that the movement of mendicity and vagrancy is not in direct correlation with that of the price of grain.