Judicial statistics. (Part I.) England and Wales. Police--criminal proceedings--prisons. Returns for the year 1856, compiled by order of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, comprising 1. Police and constabulary.--(Forms of) statements of the police establishments and expenses, of the number of offences committed and offenders apprehended: also, statements of the number of inquests held by coroners. 2. Criminal proceedings.--Number of persons committed for trial at the assizes and sessions, with the result of the proceedings and the costs of prosecution. 3. Prisons.--State of the prisons, numder of prisoners, establishments, and expenses, with returns of reformatory schools and criminal lunatics [electronic resource].