The subjoined official weekly return of Metropolitan pauperism was issued on Wednesday:
Indoor. Outdoor. Total.
1st Week of Nov., 1888... 58,834... 38,747... 97,581
" 1887... 57,439... 39,161... 96,600
" 1886... 55,217... 36,386... 91,603
" 1885... 54,596... 36,179... 90,775
Vagrants relieved in the metropolis on the last day of the first week of November, 1888: Men, 1,022; Women, 170; Children under sixteen, 20 - Total, 1,212.
Population of the Metropolis in 1881, 3,815,000.
THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. - The Press Association says: "It is reported at Scotland-yard that Mr. Monro has been appointed Commissioner of Police in the stead of Sir Charles Warren."
SOUTHWARK. - THE "JACK THE RIPPER" NUISANCE. - William Alfred Field, 60, gardener, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Between one and two o'clock on Saturday morning he scared some women in the Westminster Bridge-road, by chasing them, shouting "I'm Jack the Ripper." - Mr. Sheil expressed his determination to put a stop to disturbances of this character, and sentenced him to fourteen days' hard labour.
