text:  When we recollect that since the year 1805 that is during a period of less than forty years in the course of which population has advanced about sixty-five _per cent_ in Great Britain and Ireland crime in England has increased seven hundred per cent in Ireland about eight hundred per cent and in Scotland above _three thousand six hundred per cent_;[1] it is difficult to say what is destined to be the ultimate fate of a country in which the progress of wickedness is so much more rapid than the increase of the numbers of the people