text:  From the instructive and curious tables below constructed from the criminal returns given in _Porter's Parliamentary Tables_ and the returns of the census taken in 1821 1831 and 1841 it appears that while in some of the purely pastoral counties such as Selkirk and Anglesey crime has remained during the last twenty years nearly stationary and in some of the purely agricultural such as Perth and Aberdeen it has considerably _diminished_ in the agricultural and mining or manufacturing such as Shropshire and Kent it has _doubled_ during the same period: and in the manufacturing and mining districts such as Lancashire Staffordshire Yorkshire and Renfrewshire more than _tripled_ in the same time