This is the distribution of instruction in France:-While the average number of children at school in the United States and different States of Europe in proportion to the number of inbabitants, gives this result:

United States..
Pays de Vaud.
Wirtemberg
Prussia....

1 Scholar on

4 Inhabitants.

...

France..

In connexion with the foregoing, Mr. Bulwer refers to a new and very remarkable work by Mr. Guerry, (Statistique Morale de la France,) and asks what inflnence instruction has with the following calculations on crime?

Dividing France into five regions or districts, composed each of seventeen departments, and dividing the crimes committed in each of these regions into two classes, i. e. crimes against property, and "crimes against the person," the following table, taking one hundred as the number of crimes committed in, gives the result of Mr. Guerry's calculations.

Division of France into Five Regions. NORTH.-Aisne, Ardennes, Calvados, Eure, Mauche, Marne, Mense, Mosselle, Nord, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Seine, Seine-Inferieure, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-etOise, Somme,...

SOUTH.-Ardeche, Arriége,Aude, Aveyron, Bouchesdu-Rhone, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Herault, Lot, Lozerre, Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrenees-Orientales, Tarn, Tarn

POPULATION.

8,757,700

et Garonne, Vancluse, Var,... 4,826 493

EAST.-Ain, Basses-Alpes, Hautes-Alpes, Aube,
Côte-d'or, Doubs, Drôme, I-Sére Jura,
Haute-Marne, Meurthe, Bas-Rhin,
Haute-Rhin, Rhone, Haute-Saone,
Saone-et-Loire, Vosges,....

WEST.-Charente, Charente-Inferieure, Côtes-du-
Nord, Dordogne, Finisterre, Gironde,
Isle-et-Vilaine, Landes, Loire-Inferi-
eure, Lot-et-Garonne, Maine et Loire,
Mayenne, Morbihan, Basses-Pyrénées,
Deux-Sevres, Véndée, Vienne,..

CENTRE.-Allier, Cantal, Cher, Correze, Creuse,

5,840,996

7,008,788

Eure-et-Loire, Indre, Indre-et-Loire,

Loirê, Loire-et-Cher, Loiret, Haute

-Loire, Névre, Puy-de-Dôme, Sarthe,
Haute-Vienne, Youne,.

5,238,905

Corse....

185,079

Total Population...

13,857,961

Of all the marvellous calculations, says Mr. Bulwer, ever yet
published, this calculation is perhaps the most marvellous; for
whatever the basis on which the computation is made, it is not a
whit the less wonderful that it should in six successive years give
an almost similar result; and this, not in one species of crime-
not in one division of France-but in all the divisions of France,
and in each distinct class of crime!-Thus maintaining between
the different portions of the Kingdom a particular and almost in-
variable criminal ratio (if I may thus express myself,) which none
of the many casualties to which human life is subject seem effec-
tually to alter or control.

A difference of this kind cannot be the effect of law, for the
law in all parts of France is the same; it cannot be the effect of
accident, because it would not, surely, in that case, perpetually
recur. What has instruction to do with it-I mean that kind of
instruction on which persons considering these subjects usually
found their propositions?

A.

INSTRUCTION.

DISTRIBUTION OF INSTRUCTION IN THE FIVE
REGIONS.

ENROLLED YOUNG MEN.

Proportion of the young men who can read and write, out of
those inscribed on the register of the military census.

On 100 young men knowing how to read and write.

REGIONS.

Years......1827.

1828.
E...... 55

1829.

E...... 58

B.

ACCUSED.

Proportion of the number of accused knowing at least, how to read, out of the total number of accused brought before the Court of Assize.

On 100 accused knowing how to read.

Proportion of the number of male pupils compared with the

*In these tables the maximum is indicated by the Algebraie sign

and the minnium by the sign.

Barratry....

Fraudulent use of a blank signature.

Exaction and corruption...

Forgery of seals.....

Distribution of moveable and immoveable

95

Frauds in Commercial documents.

93

Robbery on the High-way...

92

578

Suppression of title deeds....

Pillaging and destroying of furniture..

Frauds...