In the first year of Sir Ralph Darling (1836) the gross amount was £72,220 In 1826... 1827... 79,309 The annual progress during the Darling Government was as follows: £72,220 Increase on the year £7,129 first, shows an increase of... The last of these six years, as compared with the As compared with 1822, an increase of. As compared with 1813, an increase of. Under the government of Sir Richard Bourke, the total revenue has been In 1832. 1833..... ... £135,909} Increase on the year £28,154 164,063 £48,845 76,297 108,423 } Ditto ditto.... 41,472 205,535 273,744 } Ditto ditto.... 330,285} Ditto ditto.... 68,209 56,541 The last of these years, as compared with the first, 258,065 As compared with the year 1822, an increase, in fourteen years, of . . . . 285,517 As compared with the year 1813, an increase, in 317,643 The total of the revenue during the five years of Sir £1,109,536 During the last five years of Sir Ralph Darling, it amounted to... 502,749 Increase on the five years. £606,787 In the last five years of Governor Macquarie, that Upon which, the receipts in Sir Richard Bourke's five years show an increase of .... £136,300 973,236 It is curious to compare the entire revenue of the last five years of Macquarie with that of the single year 1836: One year's revenue (1836).. Five years' revenue (1817 to 1821).. The one year exceeding the five years, by... £330,285 136,300 £193,935 The contributors to the revenue of 1836, according to the census of that year, reckoning only the free adults, of both sexes, were 35,094 souls. The rate of taxation, therefore, direct and indirect, was something more than nine pounds per head per annum !! We have thus completed our task, not doubting that these financial statistics will be acceptable to our readers in the colony, and much more so to those in Great Britain. They illustrate, in a far clearer and more forcible light than any mere words could do, the rapid progress which this portion of his Majesty's dominions has made; the political and commercial importance it has already attained, and the still greater wealth, intelligence, and power to which it is rapidly ascending. PAUPER LUNATICS AND IDIOTS. The number of lunatic and idiot paupers in England and Wales, distinguishing males and females, is as follows: male lunatics, 2834; female lunatics. 3568; male idiots, 3372; female idiots, 3393; total of both classes, 13,667. Of the lunatics, 1610 are confined in asylums built under the provisions of the 9 Geo. IV., c. 40, at a weekly cost of 6s. 8d. per head; 1403 are confined in private lunatic asylums at a weekly cost of 9s. 3d. per head; 2389 are under the care and management of guardians, as in-door or out-door paupers, at a weekly cost of 3s. 6d. per head. The proportion which the number of pauper lunatics and idiots bears to the population generally, is greater in the agricultural than in the manufacturing and trading districts. Thus it appears, that there is one lunatic or idiot for every 579 persons in Bedfordshire, one for every 629 in Berkshire, one for every 701 in Bucks, one for every 658 in Dorsetshire, one for every 576 in Herefordshire, one for every 497 in Rutlandshire; on the other hand, there is only one for every 1427 persons in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, one for every 1573 in Staffordshire, one for every 1079 in Middlesex, one for every 1960 in Lancashire, one for every 1638 in Durham, one for every 1497 in Cornwall, one for every 1482 in Derbyshire, one for every 1291 in Cheshire. Taking the whole population of England, there is one pauper lunatic, or idiot, for every 1038 persons, and in Wales, one for every 807 persons; and upon the population of England and Wales together, there is one for every 1017 persons. The greatest number of lunatics and idiots, in proportion to the population, is to be found in Rutland, where there is one for every 497 persons, and the smallest number in Lancashire, where there is only one for every 1960 persons. The number of criminal lunatics in England, on the 12th of July last, was 178, of whom 138 were confined in asylums, and 40 in gaols. TABLE showing the Number of PERSONS COMMITTED for TRIAL or BAILED, in ENGLAND and WALES, in 1836, and the result of the Proceedings. TABLE showing the AGE, SEX, and DEGREE of INSTRUCTION of the PERSONS COMMITTED for TRIAL or BAILED in ENGLAND and WALES, in 1836. Males. Females. Males. Males. Females. Males. Offences against the Person .... 4 1759 197 0 59 364 25 669 64 305 44 136 30 71 6 31 6 120 15 419 61 844 101 302 20 1238 72 16 0 71 2 478 28 482 23 124 12 40 3 8 2 5 2 14 0 380 29 686 40 150 223 44 141 28 4460 1257 6789 1767 1386 164 92 14 195 43 11 6 33 1 52 2 Forgery, and Offences against the Currency.. 2 3 Other Offences, not included in the above Classes.. 9 182 96 Total 166 12 2 0 0 15 1 8 1 2 1 8 0 47 6 76 6 23 0 2 0 8 이 2 8 4 2 0 1 65 38 162 45 74 12 34 14 12 3 101 58 384 10 227 44 411 ལྦ ; 54 5598 1435 8968 2015 2016 199 176] 15 490 72 122 1222 Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Males. Females. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF OFFENCES COMMITTED IN EACH COUNTY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, IN THE YEAR 1836. The following observations bear an official character; they having been drawn up in the office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department: The decrease of crime, which commenced in 1833, and continued through the two following years, amounting in the aggregate to 13 per cent., appears, by the tables for 1836, to have suffered a slight check in that year. The total number of persons charged with indictable offences being, In 1834-22,451, decrease on the preceding year, 1 per cent. This increase is still less by half per cent. than the computed annual increase in the population; but, though small in amount, has been general, extending over twenty-six English counties and the city of Bristol, and to both North and South Wales. In thirteen English counties there was a decrease; in one the numbers remained the same. Of the twenty-three English counties having the largest proportional agricultural population, an increase of offenders is shown in twenty. In Hertfordshire it amounted to 36 per cent.; in Cambridgeshire to 32 per cent.; in Hampshire to 24 per cent.; in Northamptonshire to 23 per cent. (though, in the preceding year, there was a decrease of 50 per cent. in this county); in Suffolk to 17 per cent.; in Somersetshire to 16 per cent.; and in Herefordshire and Norfolk to above 10 per cent, The three agricultural counties which form the exception are Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire-the decrease in these counties being respectively 7, 11, and 15 per cent. Of the counties having |