The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

METROPOLITAN POLICE REPORT. The report of the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis for 1884 was on Saturday published in a Bluebook. The authorised strength of the force on December 31, 1884, was 25 superintendents, 637 inspectors, 1,067 sergeants, and 11,151 constables ; total, 12,880. Forty-six miles of new streets and squares were handed over to police protection during the year. With the exception of the dynamite outrages, Sir E. Henderson says. that the state of crime in London throughout the year may be said to be normal and subject only to ordinary fluctuations. 3,022 persons were arrested for assaults, more or less serious, on police officers, during the year; on two occasions firearms were used. The officers chewed great courage, and were severely wounded, but not fatally. The assailants have been captured and sentenced to penal servitude for life. 17,203 Persons were charged as drunk and disorderly, being • decresse of 2284 cases over the previous year. Simple drunkenness increased from 7,058 in 1883 to 7,934 in 1884, while disorderly characters decreased from 4,881 in 1883 to 4,473 in 1881. Practically there is no striking alteration in the number of cases of drunkenness and disorder which coins under the notice of the police. The average proportion per 1,000 of the estimated population of persons apprehended for drunkenness and disorderly conduct from 1860 to 1870 was 5,576. From 1870 to 1880 it increased to 7,156, and the average for the past five years has been 5,491. The proportion was 5,264 in 1883, and 4,85:1 in 1884. There was a decrease of 1,513 in the number of serious offences. Larcenies, including those to the amount of £.5 in a dwelling, decreased 2,045, but burglaries increased from 331 in 1883 to 387 in 1884; the convictions increased from 93 to 98; and house breaking' increased 158, from 932 to 1,090; the convictions increased from 58 to 84. The reported loss of property stolen during the year was £108,406, a decrease on the previous year of £7,923; of the whole reported loss £21,737 was recovered, leaving the nett loss £86,669. Precisely one-half of the offences of burglary and housebreaking were effected through doors and windows left open or insecure, and 1,157 houses with no persons in charge were entered and robbed. The number found open by the police was 27,984, beMg 1,658 more than in the previous year. 14,478 children under ten years of age and 3,938 adults were reported to the police as lost or missing; 8.485 children and 821 adults were found by the police. The remainder returned home or were found by their friends, except 74 adults, who committed suicide. The remaining 121 adults and eight children have never been traced. The number of fatal accidents in the streets which Game on ler police notice increased from 106 in 1883 to 127 in 1881, and according to the more comprehensive returns of the Registrar-General from 222 in 1883 to 265 in 1884. 16,283 stray dogs in the streets were seized by the police; 1,663 were claimed, the rest were sent to the Dogs' Home or otherwise disposed of.  Arthur Buckland, a private of the Ist Northamp ton Regiment, has been drowned whilst bathing at Fleetwood.  The Equerry to Prince Albert Victor has written, in reply to a correspondent, stating that there is not the slightest foundation for the statement that his Riyal Highness is a claimant for w lodger vote in relxict to the rooms occupied by him at Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr. Osborne Morgan, speaking at Rhos, Ruabon, said that the Disestablishment of the Church was in the air, and no one but its most sanguine opponente could believe that it could be kept- out of the rano of practical politics. The immense majority of the people in Wales were Nonconformists, and not only was the Church the Church of the minority, but It was almost exclusively that of the proprietorial classes, so that they had the strange spectacle of a religious establishment imposed on the poor mainly for the benefit of the few *ch.