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EIGHTH REPORT 1838. 



On the Church- and Chapel-room in All Saints' Parish, Newcastle. 

 D. H. Wilson, m a Letter to A. Nichol, Esq. 



By 



A Return of Prisoners coming under the cognizance of the Police in 

 Newcastle, from the 2nd of October, 1837, to the 2nd of August, 1838. 

 By John Stephens. 



The total number was 2169 ; of whom 1274 were convicted, 20 ac- 

 quitted, and 875 discharged ; but of the number of offenders 267 were 

 strangers in the town. There -were only 17 cases of manslaughter, 

 highway-robbery with violence, burglary, and shop-burglary, and 12 

 of these offences were by strangers. Of the rest of the offences, 325 

 were for assault, and 617 being drunk and disturbing the public peace, 

 and 283 lying insensibly drunk in the streets : so that nearly one-half 

 of the offences were for drunkenness. The committals, to the popula- 

 tion, were 1 in 275 inhabitants, or 3'4' per cent. Seventy-eight of the 

 offenders returned to an honest means of livelihood. 



The offences under the Bye-Laws, Town Improvement Act, Beer 

 Acts, &c., independently of the above, were 382 ; of which number 98 

 ■were discharged. In this return the disorderly beer-houses appeared 

 to be 30. The total offences therefore are 2551, or 1 in 25-1 inha- 



