The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester by Shuttleworth James Philips Kay;

Author:Shuttleworth, James Philips Kay;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Number of Felons .................

580

559

638

1777

Persons committed for want of sureties to keep the peace—non-payment of fines—neglect of family, &c .................

819

960

996

2775

For want of sureties to appear at the Sessions..

192

153

182

527

For disobeying orders in Bastardy .................

174

151

181

506

Rogues and Vagabonds .................

620

743

835

2198

7713

We subjoin, in a note, a table extracted from a very valuable pamphlet published by Mr. Ridgway, entitled “An Enquiry into the State of the Manufacturing Population, and the Causes and Cures of the Evils therein existing,”* by which the reader may be enabled to form a more accurate opinion concerning the relative extent to which crime prevails in Manchester.

There is, however, a licentiousness capable of corrupting the whole body of society, like an insidious disease, which eludes observation, yet is equally fatal in its effects. Criminal acts may be statistically classed—the victims of the law may be enumerated—but the number of those affected with the moral leprosy of vice cannot be exhibited with mathematical precision. Sensuality has no record,† and the relaxation of social obligations may coexist with a half dormant, half restless impulse to rebel against all the preservative principles of society; yet these chaotic elements may long smoulder, accompanied only by partial eruptions of turbulence or crime.

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