The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening

FOREIGN OFFICE, OCTOBER 25.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
George Frere, Esq., to be her Majesty's Judge, Edgar 71.1.
Layard, Esq., to be her Majesty's Arbitrator, and William
Tasker Smith, Esq., to be Secretary or Registrar, in tbe
Mixed Court, established at the Cape of Good Hope, under
the Treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, between Great Britain
and the 'United States, for the suppression of the African
Slave Trade.

The Queen has` been graciously pleased to appoint
George Skelton, Esq., to be her Majesty's Judge, and
William Smith, Esq., to be Secretary
.or Registrar, in
the 'Mixed Court established at SiErra Leone, under the
Treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, between Great Britain and
the United States, for the suppression of the African slave
trade.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 28.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir
Andrew Buchanan, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of thra
Netherlands, to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordi,
nary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia.
• INDIA PRIZE MCINEY.
INDIA-OFFICE, OCT. 27.

Royal warrants authorising tbe distribution as prize of
the booty captured at Uhar, Sarun, Nurgoond, Hulg-allee,
Shorapore, and in Khandeish, have been received at this
office.

BANKRUPTS;
, The following are the, only bankrupts of any commercial
importance which appear in the " Gazette"
Rachel Sca!rratt, innkeeper, Tunstall, Stafford
Robert Kembery, farmer, Gloucester
William Chinery, cattle dealer, Felsham Suffolk
Robert Holmes, miller, Bog, Cumberland
David Lewis, publican; Whitland, Carmarthen
Margaret Jones, housekeeper, Hayton, Lancashire
Joseph T. Gunn, carman, Victoria-park
James Walker, paper-stainer, Greenwich
John Stanley, commission agent, Wapping
Edward W. Dow, tailor, Frederick-road
James Kevis, publican, Vine. street, Hatton-garden
John T. Grindrod, civil engineer, Wallasey
Roger Matthews, horse-dealer, Trowbridge
Isaac Jones, grocer, Filntshire
George Rhodes, commission agent, Kentish-town
Robert Hazard, bootmaker, Hornsey New Town
John Morriss, china and glass dealer, Dublin
William Connaway, licensed victualler, Tooley-street
Charles Mathews, oilman, Walworth
James Connolly, sett., and James Connolly, jun., nur.
serymen, Brixton
Arthur Bowes, merchant, Ring William-street, City
Zechariah Bowden, builder, Westbourne-road, Barns--
bury
Benjamin Pearce, builder, St. Mary Axe, City
John Duncan, bnilder,Eagle-court, Dean-street,Holhorn
Joseph Phillip, licensed victualler, Islington
Alfred Gaubert, ship agent, Great Tower-street, City
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
George Youngson, grocer, Aberdeen
Donald Ross, deceased, merchant, Kiltearn, Rosa-shire
Alex. Dower, farmer, Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
Colin Simpson, merchant, Inverness

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This DA.Y.

Amsterdam
Ditto

11 14i.
11 17

Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brussels
Elamburgh .•••
Paris - Short.
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —
'Vienna

11 161
25 37i
25 3!
13 Cri
25 15
25 3!
25 37i
118 f
12 45

11 17
25 42}
25 421
13 7
25 20
25 42
25 421
119
12 55

CRIME IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

Yesterday a report, under the hand of the Lord Mayor,
was forwarded to the Home Secretary, showing the state of
crime in the city during the year just ended, on the 29th of
September, as compiled from official records by Mr. Picker-
ing, the accountant at the justice-room of the Mansion-
house. The subject is treated under two principal divi-
sions—namely, indictable offences and offences determined
summarily. Of indictable offences, 1,059 have been com-
mitted within the year, as compared with 1,029 in the pre-
vious one ; 689 persons in all were apprehended in respect
of them, the women and girls being in the proportion of
146 to 543 of men and boys; 310 were discharged, and 379
committed for trial, as compared with 349 in 1861. There
were 255 cases of larceny from the person, 101 of lar-
ceny by servants, and 225 of simple larceny ; 68 of embezzle-
ment, 65 of L and, 38 of forgery, 46 of counterfeit coin, 36 of
attempts at suicide, 2 of perjury, 3 of conspiracy, 2 of har-
bouring felons, 1 of arson, 1 of murder, 2 of attempts to
murder, 2 of manslaughter, 2 of shooting at, wounding, &C.,
4 of rape, 1 of bigamy, 1 of child stealing, 19 of burglary
and housebreaking, 35 of breaking into shops and ware-
houses, 2 of highway robbery, 1 of horse. stealing, and 1 of
threatening by letter, with a view to extort money. The
popular notion that the tendency to suicide obtains
most in the winter months, and especially in No'Vem-
bar, is reversed by facts in:,this case, for of 36 attempts
15 were made in the three summer months, as com-
pared with six in October, November, and December last,
and as compared with seven and eight in the first two quar-
ters of the present year. Of attempts at suicide, 26 were-
bsaymwe proportionomeascomis sparhedowlvitfhor
thelobypmreevnitte year.,eandab It is
out the
agreeable to note the word nil against the heading " Lar-
ceny by servants in the Post-office," and that in the pre-
vious year there was only one case of that kind. Turning
to the category of " Offences determined summarily," there
have been of these 6,914 in all, or 5,633 males and 1,281
females during the year just ended, as compared with 5,749
in the preceding one. Of the 6,914 4,128 males and 724
females were convicted, and the rest, 2,062 in number, dis-
charged. There were 41 aggravated assaults on women and
children, 634 common assaults, 353 cases of drunkennesso
81 of cruelty to animals, 86 of malicious and wilful damage
and trespass, 51 under the Mutiny Act, none under the
Volunteer Act, 4 Mercantile Marine offences, 410 of unlaw-
ful possession of goods, 2,223 offences against Police Acts
not falling under special heads, 30 against the Customs and
Excise Acts, 120 cases of larceny, 1,149 offences against the
Stage and Hackney Carriage Acts, and under the head of
offences against the Vagrant Act there were 148 cases of
begging, 3 of " having no visible means of subsistence,"
127 of being found in enclosed premises for unlawful pur-
pose, and 663 of frequenting places of public resort to com-
mit felony. The total cost of the City Police establishment
during the past year has been £50,296 odd, as compAred
with £49,662 in the previous one. The total numerical
strength of the force is now 627, and is composed of " one
commissioner who is not a 'constable," 1 superintendent, 14
in
inspectors, 64 sergeants, 516 constables, 20 supernue:_43
io.
and 12 detective officers. Of the £50,296 therez ;
bursed in salaries and pay £39,183, in round
super b
nations
in clothing and accoutrements, £2,669 ;ouinse
and gratuities, £2,404 ;in station-J.1,584 ;
£4,075: in miscellaneous charle379X2sl. an°hdarrn Rao::
Of " depredators,
ances and contingent expenses,
me personsanda7tslawrogme"ent,heaundumubegrirliss
offenders, and
at
2147spectV2
:p_roportions, under 16 years of age.
53 known thieves, 12 receivers
aTnhdeyboaryse,
mss, 48
couty3lsleadi
48 prostitutes, 37 suspected persons, and 61
of stolen g dt r amps There are also 77 houses of bad.
vagrants resort chiefly of thieves and prostitutes. It
an
character, the
rewains to be added that the population of the city of Lon-
don at the last census was 113,567,