The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-19 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ••• ••• •••
Females ... ... ."

... 841

••• 806

Total ... ... 1,647
*ln this number are included 18 by Scarlatina, 47
by Typhus Fever, 11 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera.

COD LIITrIt OIL.—Cod liver oil has recently come
into great repute in England as a medicine in the relief
experience of private practice,
and cure of pulmonary consumption; and the statistics of
some of the large institutions for this disease, as well as the
certainly tend to show
that it is, at least, the most maul remedy that has yet been
discovered for consumption. It has also proved beneficial in
varittis other diseases in which what are called tonic and al-
terative medicines have been hitherto used, especially in the
nese of children. The most recent observations, however.
lead to the belief that these medicinal virtues are not con-
fined to oil extracted from the cod's liver, but are equally
shared by all fish
oils including whale oil. A number of
medical officers in India have reported most favourably upon
the oil extracted from the liver
of the seer fish, which con-
firms the opinion that all fish oils exert a salutary influence
over several diseased conditions of the human economy. It
is very remarkable that a popular medicine amongst the Sin-
ghalese for unhealthy children, is the liver and intestines of
the kellawaa
\-,4mnas vidgar4) made into curry,—.Col"'49
Observer. •

THE CITY POLICE YEAR 1851

The fdlowing communicalion from the Commisioner
of the City Police has been ordered by the Corporation
to be priuted as a document of importance and general
iutere,t:—

" My Lord and Gentlemen,—l have the honour to
present the returns of the City police during the year
1851, in a greatly improved form, being mere minute
in the description of off,nders, and mare o...mpre-
hensive in the objects of inquiry. These returns
embrace the transactions of a year of surpassing
interest, end reflect not only credit upon the
efficiency of the City police force, but cffer many con-
siderations, of which our country may justly boast, and iu
which the Corporation of London is entitled largely to
participate. In anticipation of events which may require
the service of a greater number of constables than our or-
dinary strength, the Court of Common Council
unanimously voted an increase of 110 men to be
engaged from the let of May to the Ist of No-
vember, to whom the sum of 20s. each per week was to
be paid, and I forthwith proceeded to enlist
that number upon the terms speeifi,d, and it is due
to the men so appointed to state that they quickly
adapted themselves to the rules and orders of the force,
and for the most part acquitted themselves to my satis-
faction. It was estimated that the expenses of this in-
crease in the force would amount to a sum not exceeding
3,000/., irrespective of any
additional outlay which might
be required for extraordinary services, the nature of
which was to be communicated from time to time to the
chairman of the police committee.
"It will give your Honourable Court satisfaction to
hear, as it does myself to state, that after allowing for
the customary pay to the entire permanent force, the
excess of wages to the additional constables amounts to
the sum of 1,8651. Bs. Bd. only; and it will be also gra-
tifying to your Honourable Court to learn that not one
farthing was required to meet events which would be re-
garded as extraordinary, or, from their peculiar character,
beyond the reach of ordinary vigilance.
" The better to appreciate the extended influence
of the police in the year which has just closed, greatly
aided 'in its services by the peaceable disposition of
the millions of persons who crowded our City, I have
the honour to present a summary of the occurrences
as of 'the preceding year, by which the following
results in favour of the year 1851 are established.
The number of offences of every description committed
within the City in the year 1851 was 105 fewer; the
excess of the number of drunken persons detained till
sober was 7; the excess of actual loss of property was
3771. 14s. Bd., which excess, though small, is attribut-
able to rotberies at lodging-houses, in which the influx
of visitors was too great to admit, in all cases, of minute
ingtttrY—indeed a much larger sum than the excess
might be so accounted for. The number of desti-
tutepersona taken in charge was only 321; the
number in 1850 was 703. As evidence of the
sound discretion exercised by the
'constables in charge
of the main streets, it may be here observed that
toe number of summonses against drivers and conductors
of carriages was 2,291; of this number 2,051 were con-
victed, and 81 withdrawn by order of the magistrates,
on the parties promising not to offend again. But it is •
,not only to the police statistics for the year 1851 that I
venture to invite the attention of your Honourable
Court. The comparative statements from the
Year 1840, when the City police came into
full operation, to the year 1851 inclusive, pre-
sents ample evidence of the progressive improvement and
effieblley of the force, of which the diminished numbers
of (ff aces and offenders is a sure index. In the two
first years (1840 and 1841) the number of persons taken
into custody %RS 14,017; in the years 1850 and 1851, the
cumber was 9,481. Tue overage number of persons taken
the
into custody during the 12 years (1840 to 1851) is 5,629,
'while the number in the latter year was only 4,688,
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"But, while such are the favourable results of our
p
effiCe for the important business there transacted, as also
the total want of suitable localities for traiuing the
uffieers and constables, and concentrating the force in
order to facilitate the enforcement ofdi~eipliue,and to
ensure that effective combination without which, in
cases of emergency, the best measures may prove abor-
ive; and I consider that it is the urgent obligation of
he authorities to make this the subject of immediate

and services of our
appreciated as to be
attention.
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state.
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tective force are now so generally
resorted to almost daily by eminent bankers and heads of
matters of confidentiala.
nature, we have no appropriate
commecial houses, but for w
accommodation; every thing that passes is liable to be
heard, and that not unfrequently by many constables
who are in attendance, and by low characters, who re-
sort thither upon various matters in Which they are con-
cerned. Upon an average not fewer than from 70 to 100
persons are in attendance at the chief office. daily,
amongst whom the respectable parties alluded to must
submit to be introduced and await their turn.
"From the delicate nature of the last-mentioned sub-
ject I deemed it my duty to communicate my views
thereon in the first instance to the police committee, by
whom I was informed ' the committee have no power
to entertain the question.'

"I have, So.,
(Signed) D. W. HARvET."
The returns supply a number of particular details, to
the principal of which the Commissioner alludes in the
above communication, which is fully borne out by the
statistics.