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APPENDIX No. XXIV
The following Return of tlic Number of Foreigners who visited the undermentionedGovernment Establishments, will show to how great an extent the privilege conceded bythe Authorities has been valued during the past Summer :—
Countries.
Woolwich
Arsenal.
Woolwich
Dockyard.
Portsmouth
Dockyard.
Devonport
Dockyard.
Deptford
Dockyard.
Sheerness
Dockyard.
Chatham
Dockyard.
Pembroke
Dockyard.
Total.
15G
211
14
3
384
720
1,122
8
1
4
, ,
, ,
, ,
1,855
45
148
18
16
, .
14
. ,
..
241
1 ,154
3,048
44
23
0
••
4
4
4,833
580
831
31
2
1,450
103
299
4
,,
2
408
211
225
10
o
# ,
1
458
,, ,, Ilanse Towns
77
, ,
. „
77
,, ,, Hanover . .
158
200
32
1
,,
301
, ,
3
,,
,,
,,
3
,,
.,
3
3
,, ,, Prussia .
2,007
2,523
58
3
, ,
4,591
187
250
• .
i
• f
438
,, ,, Duntzic . •
••
••
••
• •
3
3
3,252
4,408
144
9
8
• •
1
••
7,822
15
27
42
125
196
16
20
5
• •
••
••
302
582
40
20
048
.,
10
,,
,,
, ,
, ,
10
.,
300
4
10
4
, ,
387
. .
11
. ,
, •
..
. ,
11
• *
17
* ■
i
••
18
582
444
24
20
4
• •
••
••
1,074
Mexico, Texas, Peru , Brazils •
10
21
1
1
1
34
117
142
12
0
2
.,
279
84
13
9
1
3
142
204
277
18
3
, ,
1
503
11
21
2
i
35
Total of all Nations . .
0,483
10,749
314
in
31
19
5
4
17,710
STATE OF CRIME.
An uninterrupted succession of arrivals of largo numbers of all. classes, both from theprovinces and from abroad, the absenco of experience as regardod their conduct under circum-stances so new and unprecedented as those of the present year, and the impossibility of con-jecturing the course -which might bo taken by unscrupulous agitators, led many most intel-ligent persons to anticipate these arrivals with anxiety and even with alarm ; and althoughtheir fears have not been realized, yet there were many considerations pregnant with doubt,if not apprehension ; the recent revolutionary movements on the Continent , the freedom ofaccess to this country to men proscribed in their own, and the tomptations to the increasedactivity of our own disorderly population, wore matters which, at the timo, required soriousattention as affecting the public tranquillity.
Those apprehensions woro felt and expressed by public men, thus increasing rather, thanallaying the general fears, and it was announced from the Magisterial Bench, that the convictionof known offenders would bo visited with sure and condign punishment. This determinationprobably had some effect, but so markod was tho absenco of that increase ol crime which wasanticipated, that tho Recorder of tho City , in charging tho Grand Jury at tho Central CriminalCourt, on tho 10th of Juno and on the lflth September, whilo he acknowledged that he wasone of those who had thought it would be impossible that largo numbers of persons should bo