Robbery by persons armed, England and Wales, 210 Robbery by persons armed, Ireland, 2 Larceny from the person, England and Wales, 1,570 Larceny from the person, Ireland, 389 Larceny by servants,[20] England and Wales, 2,140 Larceny by servants, Ireland, 44 Larceny, simple, England and Wales, 12,562 Larceny, simple, Ireland, 3,329 Frauds and attempts to defraud, England and Wales, 676 Frauds and attempts to defraud, Ireland, 62 Forgery, England and Wales, 149 Forgery, Ireland, 4 Uttering and having in possession counterfeit coin, England and Wales, 674 Uttering and having in possession counterfeit coin, Ireland, 4 On the other hand, the following crimes are proportionately more numerous in Ireland: Convictions for manslaughter in 1854: England and Wales, 96 Ireland, 50 Burglary, England and Wales, 384 “ Ireland, 240 We cannot think, however, that these returns are reliable, for the _Statistical Journal_ of 1867 gives the following criminal tables for England in 1865: Wilful murder cases tried, 60 Manslaughter, 316 Concealment of birth, 143 --- Total, 519 And in Ireland from 1865 to 1871, a period of six years, only 21 persons were sentenced to death, of whom 13 were executed. It is greatly to be regretted that criminal statistics give us no information upon the religious character of the persons accused or convicted of offences against the law. Many persons have been baptized in infancy, and are called Catholics, though they have never been brought under the influence of the church. In the absence of official statistics, Dr. Descuret, who, in his capacity of legal physician in Paris, had abundant opportunity to obtain data relative to this subject, made, about thirty years ago, a careful study of the religious views and sentiments of French criminals. The conclusion which he reached was that, in every hundred persons accused of crime, fifty are indifferentists in religion, forty are infidels, and the remaining ten sincere believers. In a hundred suicides he found only four persons of known piety, three of whom were women subject to melancholia, and the other had been for some time mentally deranged.[21] [3] _The Table-Talk of Martin Luther_, pp. 200, 206, 213, _et passim_. [4] _Notes of a Traveller_, pp. 79, 80. [5] _History of Europe_, vol. iii. chap. xxvii. 10, 11. [6] _Autobiography_, pp. 58, 59. [7] _Ibid._ p. 177. [8] _History of European Morals_, p. 160.