Show THE CRIMINAL classes ia England are said to have decreased in nnm here rapidly during the past few years but there has not been a corresponding cor-responding decrease of crime The criminals of the present time are 4 more expert and more industrious than were their predecessors Twenty I years ago there were in prison and out in England known criminal to the number of 100000 while last year there were but 73800 a decrease de-crease of 26 200 yet the serious offenses of-fenses against the law in 1879 numbered I num-bered 164G3 nearly equal to tbo About number twenty years ago onethird of the indictable oflenBe were committed in London whil only about 6 per cent of all thee the-e criminals in England and Wales are in the metropolis L |