2,756
1831 4,600 2,047 767 190 3,004
1834 4,080 2,061 608 203 2,872

--PORTER'S _Parl. Tables_, ii. 346.

[13] In France and Prussia there were in 1826.--

Prussia. France.
Crimes against the person 1 in 34.122 1 in 32.411
Do. property 1 in 597 1 in 9.392
Do. on the whole 1 in 587 1 in 7.285

RHINE AND RHINELANDERS

"On the Rhine, I am never more than twenty years old!" says the Countess
Ida Hahn Hahn, in her _Erinnerungen_. "There only do I feel myself
quite at home. Whether arriving from the Baltic or the Guadalquivir, I
have always a recurrence of the same nameless home-feeling, which
renders me at once happy and tranquil. O, the Rhine! the Rhine! What are
other rivers--your Seine, and Garonne, and Tagus--compared with him? But
small and secondary streams beside the mighty Rhine. There are certain
rivers which represent nations, and ideas, and periods of history--the
Scamander for instance, bringing to our thoughts the days of Grecian
heroism; when men fought with gods, and in so doing seemed to wrest from
them a portion of their supernatural strength and beauty--the Nile, the
priestly Nile, mysterious as a dogma, but rich in blessings as the
agency of a divine spirit; concealed in its source, but manifest in its
operation--then the Jordan, the stream of revelation, on whose banks is
heard the rushing of the wings of the dove, while a voice, other than
that of man, murmurs over the waters--and the Tiber, a small and muddy
stream, but the gigantic and sparkling reflex of Rome's immortal
turrets. But the Rhine, that heroic river, which nations never cross
without buckling on their armour for the fight; and yet, on whose banks
life is so free, so safe, and so delightful. Hark to the clatter of
wine-cups, the echoes of music, the whispered legends, and the clash of
weapons! while the old river flows on so cheerily, murmuring as he goes
words of encouragement to his children.

"I embrace thee, O Rhine! and wherever I go I will not cease to love
thee.

* * * * *

"When I pass in review all the beautiful scenes I have visited, and
then ask myself the question, Where I would fain see the sun set for
the last time? the answer is unhesitating and heartfelt,