FOOTNOTES.
Reading edition
1842. Can neither read nor write (percent). Can read only (percent)
Convicted at assizes and sessions 39.79 27.21
Convicted—summarily 39.90 21.65
Average 39.84 24.43
—the average being found by adding together the two lines and dividing the sum by two. It need hardly, however, be pointed out that the result so arrived at could not be true unless the number of persons in each class was exactly the same. A man who had invested in the Great Western Railway £900 which yielded him two per cent., and £100 in the South Western which paid him six, might say, on Mr. Mayhew’s principle, that he had invested £1000 at 4 per cent; but he would soon find out that he would have to receive only £24 for his yearly dividend instead of £40—£2.8 percent. instead of £4.