The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-11-23 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

AND FIGURES.  The report of the Commissioner of Pohoe is always an interesting document, and this year it is as full as ever of curious intelligence. There are sidelights on the doings and sufferings of the public in the streets of London, statistics about dogs and cabs and public-houses, about utterers of counterfeit coin, housebreakers, and all the fraternity of casual and professional criminals with whom the police have to deal, London has to pay heavily for its police. The cost of the fortis in pay alone, including chief constables, superintendents, inspectors, sergeants, and conetables came to £1,276,518 last year, a figure far and away above whet is paid by any other towu, if reckoned out at so Innen per head. But, then, the county of London is the only area where the police are not subject to local control, so that these things must needs he. The reithorieed strength of the force on Dec. 31, 1891, was 31 superintendents, .597 inspectore 1,83-1 sergeants, and 12,754 constables. About sixty per cent, of the number available for duty iu the streets ie required for night work. The total ii umber of criminal offences of all kinds reported to the pollee was 20,970, a decrease of 497 as compered with 1893. The apprehensions numbered 14,902. Burglaries have fallen off-384 as againet 509—but housebreaking has flourished, the figure having risen from 1,313 to 1,528. " A.* usual," remarks the Commissioner, "these crimes were perpetrated for the most part at the expense of the poor and not of the rich. In 725 cases, the value of the property stolen was less than £5, and in 31 Oases only did it exceed £50." Thirteen • Oases Of murder are reported, of which seven were due to insanity. The number of licenses issued to drivers and conductors was as follows :-14,672 to cabdriver, 6,523 to stage drivers, and 8,239 to conductors. Of the 1,205 applicants "for examination as to their knowledge of London," 35.1 were ploughed; and 1,340 cabdrivers were convicted of drunkenness. The Lost Property Branch has been actively engaged as usual, 29,716 articles having been received at Scotland Yard, made up of 2,393 purses, 699 articles of jewellery, 142 gold Aid silver watches, 696 opera and field glasses, 13,874 umbrellas and sticks, 2,255 bags, and 9,657 "miseellaneous." Of those 15,987 were restored to their owners, and the remainder were returned to the drivers and conductors who deposited them—a very pretty perquisite. No fewer than 2,289 members of the force were injured while in the execution of their duty. Of these, 2,07 3 were assaulted by prisoners, or injured while making arrests. Runaway horses were accountable for seventy-one casualties ; 3 constables were bitten by horses and 25 by dogs. Dogs, indeed, play a considerable part in the statistics of Scotland Yard 23,697 stray dogs having been seized in the year, to say nothing of 3,888 seditious doggies who went out without their muzzles. There were 169 persons killed, and 6,570 injured in the course of the year, for which light carts are largely responsible. Incidentally the police perform many useful services. Of the 30,644 persons reported as missing, 16,101 were found and restored to their friends; they stopped 627 suicides, put out 64 fires, and found 30,181 doors or windows open or insecurely fastened; also they conveyed 92,581 prisoners in Black Bess, billeted 2,787 soldiers, stopped 258 runaway horses, besides serving summonses innumerable, and telling heaven knows how many hundrede of thousands of country cousins the way. They apprehended 69,583 persons for other thu criminal CIIRPB, 34,658 of whom were run in for diunkeiiiiese Awl disorderly cond net. A " cyclo-ambulance " has been invented by Dr. Keening, of Germany. Mary Stevens, an inmate of Kingston Workhouse, has attained her 100th birthday. Her mother lived to be 102. A. score of people only attended the Trafalgar Square meeting on Saturday of the Society for Promoting Social Concord. The proceedings were, of course, a fiasco. Mr. John Hare has engaged Miss Ellis Jeffreys to play the parts of Gertrude Thorpe in "The Notorious ilirs. Ebbsuaith " (her original part), and Mrs. Goldfinch in "A Pair of Spectacles," during his forthcoming American tour.   DiNNER TO