The Sun. — London, England, 1821-11-23 00:00:00

THE POLICE OF PARIS COMPARED WITH THAT OF LONDON. TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY, EXTRACTS - . FROM THE MORNING PAPERS, ,• : November 23. [MORNING HERALD.] General Jackson is once more a conspicuous figure on the other side of the Atlantic. Ile is again the subject of pompous eulogy, and (con- . sistently enough with his former achievements) for acts of 'oppitession -and violence. We are at a loss to comprehend the - predilection of his . countrymen for this personage. It would go near justifying those who have judged harshly of the -American character. We shall not contest to the Ainerican people the possession of substantial liberty; yetit is hard to suppose that their notions of freedom are guided by a sense of individual se curity.or dignity, or a just jealousy of the power of the swordi when we.find a man become a po pular idol upon -his doing an act of military out rage and insolence, under circumstances the most contemptuous and mortifying to the civil Authorities—imprisoning a Judge When the De moCracy of Atnerica calls this;" a putting down of political cockneys," we must confess we see not a little danger to American freedom should an umbitiOus soldier start .up amongst them, with the requisite share of savageness and vulgarity. " In the Seminole . war," says one of his panegyrists, '" the same deCisive energy was manifested, and the same important cavelling ensued." Our : .reader;s probably remember this instance of• General Jackson's" decisive energy." ,Ile found - two foreigners.-on neutral ground, acting as agents among a people owing no allegiance to his Oo vernment—and, in utter disregard of the laws of nations and humanity, lie put them to death, under circurristances of shocking aggravation. These are bad symptoms. of American feeling. We Could easily 'understand the exaggerated ' praise bestowed upon the advantage which he ..Fained over a - British force at'New Orleans ; but it appears from these papers, that his dragoon ing the American civil authorities there, and not his success in arms, was, to adopt the dialect of his eulogist, . 44 the longest feather in the cap of his-achievement." There must be an extraordi nary change of taste in America, during a not very,long period, when the same nation which ad mired and estimated 'Washington can offer incense -as strong to General Jackson. Indeed, we fear . 'that though the Americans have, within the last forty years, made vast progress in strength, wealth, and industry, the graces and even the virtues of civilized life are far from a correspondent im provement. Perhaps to say these have retro graded would be nearer the truth. What a con trast between the recent travels in America and those of Chatellux and Liancourt ! One meets in every page of the latter, traits of. simplicity and nobleness of conduct and manners, which mark a nation's uncorrupted youth. There was an ingenuousness in their imperfect civilization, which hail in it nothing coarse or rude—and there was a gallery of great men, of which any nation might be proud. We shall not follow up the points of contrast with the present aspect of America ; they are but too obvious. not soldiers, they are given atval to the great ae triment of the nation. - Five - hundred and eight first commissions have been given without pur chase—WHY ? no man can tell—whilst the half- pay list overflows. with tried officers ardent to be employed. The loss to the public by not filling up those 508'cornmissions from the half-pay list will amount to nearly thirty thousand pounds a year that is, we go on needlessly paying that sum annually, to 508 officers upon half-pay, who might and ought to have been transferred into active service, -in the place of those to whom the first commissions have been GIVEN. The expense by the other and higher commissions is enormous, and shall be stated hereafter. And not only is public feeling outraged, and the public purse plun dered ; but even the recpmmendations of the Fi nance Committee are slighted, and their statements falsified by this extravagance; for in 1817, when the half-pay list was only 679,5571., the Finance Committee asserted that it must be reduced by casualties, and by the transfer of men upon half pay to full pay ; whereas the half-pay list, though, no: doubt, diminished on the one side by deaths, has increased on . the'otlier by, the want of those transfers, and the redUCtiOn of regi-' ments, to the .degree above stated. No longer ago . than in the 'Gazette of last Saturday, thirty persons were admitted - into the army, and re,. ceived their T first commissions, although there Were at the same time upWards of oue thousand three hundred Cornets, Ensigns, and second Lieutenants upon the half-pay list, who would have been most happy to be brought upon full pay, and thus have relieVed their country of the btaden of maintaining them' out of employment. [BRITISH PRESS.] It is impossible to withhold from Mr. Bevan, its son, and his servant, the highest praise for their firmness and gallantry (see the SUN of yesterday); but without desiring in the least degree to de tract from the merit of their resistance, we cannot believe that the assailing party was by any means so formidable as the statement would represent. No one can believe that a party of rebels, to the amount of " several hundreds," could be assem bled so secretly in the vicinity of the town of Charleville as to escape the attention of the civil and military Authorities, who, in the present state of the country, must be supposed to be more than usually alert, Admitting, however, that " several hundred fellows" so assembled without exciting any previous alarm through out the country, did actually summon Mr. Bevan to surrender his arms, and that they were so injudicious in their mode of attack as to offer themselves in an undivided body to the tire of their enemies, instead of at tempting at the same time to force an entrance both in the front and rear of the house, we can not induce ourselves to believe that, having by a smart action of three hours continuance roused all NEW T I M ES .3 A private letter from Rio de Janeiro containsan: interesting picture of the state of affairs in that part of Brazil. The separation of the Portuguese colonies from the mother..country is an event which •must , be looked -.upon as inevitable. Men know not what they do when they break up the Social bonds which have united a community for centuries. - Probably the Patriots, if there were any individuals deserving that name among the Revolutionists, of Portugal, never contemplated the possibility of losing their Transatlantic possessions by altering th% form of Government at :home. - .But they should have known, that when - the highest Authority is set at nought, every subordinate power becomes paralysed : when the Brazilians are taught to con.tetnn, the Court of Lisbon, they are taught a still greater dikregard for the Cortes of Lisbon., Upon the doctrine ,of the." r y Riulits'of Man," whit possible . . claim can a few . unknown Portuguese have to in terfere with the, concerns, and to counteract the interests, .of the inbabitants of Brazil ? The pro ceedings of the_ Cortes seem little likely to con ciliate the Brafilans.'' By the latest' advices from Lisbon, it. appears that the Legislature has de . creed, coutrartlo,the unanimous opinion of the Deputies from Pernambucoi that some of the troopato be sent to Rio de . Janeiro, should_ be landed.at the' fOrmer town. llere, then, is a cir . curnstance likely. to lead;to immediate collision, and It synall•spark may 'suffice to set all that part ' of the Southern Cohtinent-in a flame. And what • ,is , to,;bee6tne.ioi;poor unhappy Portugal? , . -Its regenerators-; i:aye: begun by breaking its coin .. mereial:.unioir, England,. and when they have got rid-hoth;of commerce and colonies, they a.'poor-tniserable province of. Spain, uuless,iipaitr„, , by , :its own democratical mania, shoul44bavestbecome too . weak to assume the do minion of the Peninsula.—Meanwhile .the new Police of Lisbon is utterly unable to protect the r, inhabitants; - Robbers iii that , city are so nu v.,,lnerous. and. is atlacieus;; 'as to assail private ....houses iu the. principal streets, even' at noon day ! the neighbourhood, this large body of marauders should yet be permitted to effect their retreat to wards the town of Charley'lle; the presumed place of their first meeting, with such undisturbed regularity, that they were enabled to carry off their wounded companions along the common road by the inexpeditious conveyance of a cart. Such a thing is quite impossible. A few ruffians having. fired some shots at Mr. Bevan's house might, in the darkness of the night, succeed in concealing themselves, and in thus effecting an escape—but, "several hundred men," act ing in a body, could not enjoy a like faci lity. Their very ;numbers would ensure their discovery and destruction. Nothing, indeed, could he more desirable than that the disturbers would she,w themselves in a considerable body, for then the military power might act upon then► with effect, and by striking at once a salutary terror into the minds of the deluded creatures, save the country from much future uneasiness. [MORNING POST.] The intelligence received from Ireland is stiff of an unfavourable_ nature. Outrages for the purpose of procuring arms continue to be per petrated in the southern part of the island, - but nothing has yet transpired to give them a political character. On this, subject much exaggeration prevails. Reports are set in cir culation by private letters, which only prove that the 'timidity of. the writer had either mag nified mole-hills into . mountains, or given to unreal shadows a substance and a name. That individuals may exist, who, if disturbances should arise to a great extent, would endeavour to turn them to the advancement of their own particular views, it is reasonable to suppose and scarcely possible to deny. In all countries, nay, in , many families, such concealed traitors may be found, who, till the wished-for opportunity arrives, may also appear the most tender in their fears, and the loudest in their friendly professions. But to make the supposition of their existence a ground for charging a whole people with partici pating in their designs, is only worthy of those who wish to create the very dangers which they pretend so much anxiety to repel. For what can tend more directly to produce trea chery and disorder than to tell the ignorant that they intend to be treacherous and disor derly' Once persuaded that no faith is placed in their fidelity and good conduct, they feel the. last bonds of duty loosened, and fall au easy prey . to the seductions of the mischievous. But tell them that they are good—she w them that 'you believe them true—put a visible trust upon them, and you raise them in their own esteem, you confirm the wavering and strengthen the strong. If they had listened to the suggestions of the deCeiver, they grow ashamed of tkir folly. Their ears may still be open, but their hearts are . closed.against them. They take pride in being what they see they are believed-and expected to be and from that moment, 'whether you confine the . experiment to the circle 61 domestic life, or ex tend it to the' wide sphere of public, existence 3 theybecome trusty servants to their, ma s ter; or loyal subjects to their King.' LeCtiake who are machine "Id 1;4'1, PA rtl " [THE TIME3.] 2 4 + ,!Thd extravagance carrying on in the army, c-ttnder.the head. 'uf .first commissions, is of so, L.dreadfulgt nature, and has' excited so much at tention,. that- indicted to make a summary. of our preceding observations, for the benefit of those who read but little.—lt.uppears, then, that during the five years of peace, from January, 071C' thousand, ow hundred and jibe first Lecommissions have been-filled rand although there were during that timer upwards cif 1;200 Cornets, „, Ensigns, and second Lieutenants upon half pay, .• only fifty-four of the thousand one hundred and • five first commissions have been. taken from the half-pay list.; the rest being ,neWadmissions,into the airnP': and therefore, if the commissions are disposed to set up the cry of an app purchased, as is the casein. half the instances, they Rebellion ponder these thirigs. he' iy,stern • are the mere purchase of life annuities in the army, which former Rebellion . s have been produced is. to its great injury and disgrace : and if the that which they now adopt. Ithas,unfortunately commissions are given•away, as is the case with been tried for six hundred years in Ireland, and respect to the other half, to people who are alvirays with the same fatal result. The system by Which Rebellions are prevented, is that I;i'blch we recommend:4t is also;:witil heartfelt grad-. tude to our Monarch do - we declare it, the sys, tem 01j, which I re land is in future to be governed. may be made, and are-made, to r oh that . country of the felicity thus promised to her hopes ; bat those . 'efforts shall be vain. The hour of Aloyal. and national distrust is past, and . whatever. faction may attempt to •recal It, that hour shall never return. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] As yet the North of Ireland is comparatively quiet; discontent is every day driving respec table manufacturers `from -a country - which seems to be abandoned to all sorts of abuses, to the United States of America. Much capital, which gave employment to industry, has thus been with dtawn from Ireland, and we can .only expect a still mote ;extensive emigration of substantial and independent manufacturers. One cause. of the discontent is the non-residence of the clergy; and - it is surely in the power of" Government to take measures for putting a stop to this evil. There, are surely means for compelling the Parochial Clergy and Diocesans to perform their duty. The time was (and that not very distant) when England looked with jealousy on Ireland, when narrow mercantile prejudice dictated measures for the destruction of its industry. In those wise days it was thought that pauperism in Ireland was essentially.necessary to the prosperity of Eng land. But we should hardly suppose the Go vernment now looks to the diminution spf the Irish revenue, from the impossibility of levying takes from paupers, for the improvement of the finances of the empire at large. We have thought fit to. Call the attention of the public to this gross beglett on the part of the Church, at the ha zard of being stigmatized by the Ministerial scribes aa - its, envenomed enemies: With these people the ,true friends of Church and State Are those who would convert all offices under both into sinecures. We know that it will always be difficult to persuade a man who receives much money for doing nothing, that it is better that something should be done for it. We do not ad dress ourselves, therefore, to those who profit by the abuses, but to the people who suffer from them. In Ireland an enormous revenue is, as we have said, drawn by the Clergy, who do not do their duty. Hence we find in every quarter,theßonnaliCatholics Making proselytes from the Protestant Church, and theimembers of the latter consequently diminishing. Through the_ fault of the Church, therefore, the proscribed class, .the class excluded from the be nefit of the "Constitution, becomes every day greater and greater, and the powers of the State confined to fewer hands. The only body that maintains' its ground againSt Catholicism, is that of the Presbyterians of the North ; and at the hazard of being accused of hostility to the Church Establishment, we cannot -help saying that there are many points in the discipline of the Presby terians which are highly deserving of imitation. There is no evil with them without a remedy. They 'neither allow Churches to be without Resi dent Ministers, nor Ministers to be appointed to Churches who are unacquainted with the language of their parishioners. .(Freni.THEßart;sii N1 . 0:+1 TOR ! ) . • • There-has boenmuch said or tat* , in the News papers on the inefficiencv-c: -oar Police anti at file sattia tir r ne rpreSenting it as inferior to that of France. I must differ - from those who make such assertions. Ist, Our Police is not ineffi cient. Eery species of robber, if s he belongs to a gang, is immediately traced after the in _ ;ormation has been given, and .his person. de scribed. Even other persons whom the Police are in search of are soon discovered.. The. in et lciency, therefore, is not in the system of our ,Police. Our Magistrates are all intelli geUt, active gentlemen. The Chief Clerks are also active and cl , ever men ; so are the Police Oalcers—;but the inefficiency is in .our laws.— Why is not the power given. to ilrla., ,, istrates to break up the gangs ?—they are well known to the Police. There should also, be. some new regulations respecting pawn-brokers, and those Who keep marine stores.' in France, where a 'person pledges articles, he must 'Produce his carte 7 de-surde, in which his name .is inserted, and his person described. The, pawnbrokers are obliged every night to send •to the Police the names of the parties, and as account of the articles Pledged. Licences should be Withheld from those publicans whO keep " flash houses." All public-houses and gin-shops should be closed at eleven at night. The streets Should also be cleared of prostitutes ; for wherever these. un fortunate wretches are found, thieves are sure to be at hand. 2d..1n. France, all the nuisances just enumerated do -not .exist. No prostitutes are allowed to walk in the streets of Paris out of their beat. They are all, registered at the Police; a woman of the town„ is, only permitted to walk in that quarter of Paris in which she resides. If they go out of their neighbourhood they are liable to be arrested, and sent to Bride well for six month ! No regular gang of thieves is known, or ever heard of in Paris.—Rob beries and murders are certainly committed, but not upon that organized system as in Lou- don. The Police of France has sufficient power to prevent the commission of crimes, as all per sons sans aveu are known to the Commissaries of the Police of each district, because all lodging houses, hotels, &c. are bound to send the names of their inmates to the Police. We have no • barriers, no passports, no Cartes de S ecrete, - Police Registers kept, no Police Commissaries of districts, as in France.—London is a world of itself—the place is open for every rascal who chuses to make it his field for depredation.— Yet with all these obstacles the Police of our metropolis is far from being inefficient.—And then again in France there are no busy meddling Members of the House of Commons, who ge nerally lean to those who violate the laws.— All that is required for our security against those shameful depredations, committed even in the day-time, is to give greater power to the Magistrates than they have at, present. I now present' to the reader an account of the Police as it was organised. under Buonaparte's Go vernment,.and I have every reason to think that it has not undergone any material change, as it was exactly so organized before the Revo lution. The principal Police of Paris, whose at tributions are similar to our Police Offices, is called the Prefecture of Police, the head of which is the Prefect—this is a great advantage, as the entire Police of Paris is concentrated at this office. This office is composed of different divisions or departments. The FIRST DIVISION is for the secret Police, (to which the spies send their reports about political affairs,) smuggling, permission to sell gun-powder and salt-petre, permission to carry fire arms, the delivery of passports and cartes des sureM, permission to preach, the account of every suicide which is committed, accidental deaths, still-born infants, the burying grounds, private places for burials, DARING OUTRAGE, ROBBERY, AND ATTEMPT AT Mutt])Eit.—On Tuesday afternoon, at the early hour of between two and three o'clock; as Mr. WM. ABBOTT, of Russel-farm, East Barnet, who is Overseer of this parish, was proceeding through Bolts-stile-lane, Fryen Barnet, in his official capacity, collecting the Poor's-rate, he was stopped by a gang of robbers, consisting of three stout, powerful men ; one of the robbers, without hesitation, knocked him down. They then all proceeded to attack and ill-treat him while on the ground : they-tied his legs together, and in the most brutal manner cut open his breeches pockets, not waiting to open them in the usual manner, and robbed him of. three 101. Bank of England notes, and three 51. Bank Litotes, and eighteen Sovereigns. After they had emptied his pockets of all his money, one of the gang asked him for his watch ; he replied he had not got one. Another of the gang then- exclaimed, d— his eyes, then kill him ; and the third man of the gaitg attacked him for that purpose, with a. sharp instrument, which Mr. Abbott believes was a large knife, and with which, no doubt, it was his' intention to rip him up, but providentially having a thick and strong waistcoat on, the knife only cut that up. Mr. Abbott has no doubt hut that it was the position interments, stealing of dead bodies, printing, booksellers, jOurnalsand pamphlets, hill-itickers ; ballad-singers, criers of dying speeches, mur ders, &c. (called in French Colporteurs), frauds on the Stamp Office, lotteries, theatres, concerts, fire-works,, museums, exhibitions, private socie ties, paintings, 'engravings, caricatures, brothels, Woinen of the town, permission .for women to wear metes' attire, &c. all-are the attributions of this division. The, English of all this is, that nothing of the above-meutioned matters can he done without :a - SpeCial. permission from, 'or notice given to; this Division of the. Police. SECOND 'llivisioN.—For robberies, murders, incendiaries', coining, weights: and measures, fur niShed'lAgisigs, lodgers, poachers, pawn:)rokers, mad-hpuses, .beggars, vagrants, prisoners, of the ' different jails of Paris, and for such who have beeiv'liberated from prison, the interior of the prisons, th e permissions given to visit the pri soners, transferring of prisoners, their departure for the galleys, the lioSpitals„ workhouses, and foundlings. TIIIIxh DivISION.--For illuminations, scaven gers, dung-casts,, common sewers, fountains, public cisterns,7engines and engine houses, water carriers, chimney-sweepers, fires, litters to con vey ,the sfickiiiiid- wounded, dissecting houses, ma nufactories, , apothecary. and drirggists shops,* grocers,'', herb-shops, midn'ives, vaccination, Innotulation, epidemical diseases, (notice of which mast be : sent immediately to the Police), diseased diligences,. public carriages, ,coacinne,n, post-boys, waggoners, public porters, hawkers of lottery-tickets, markets, slaughter , houses,, bakers, .tallow 7 charidlers, : pastry-cooks, :the, •public , exchange,' regulations for prices, of provisions, the Police of the river, bargemen, Ste. These 'are the different 'attributions of the Pre., fecture of the , Polkce of Paris, To each division there is a chef, a sous chef, and clerks. The salary of a chef de division is, or was in the time of Buonaparte, 12,000 francs (p5OO sterling) ~per annum, besides perquisites and Doirceuri, .The salary of the Inspector-General was 15,000 franCs per annum. His PerqUisitys , xere: enor 'mous, as every girl of the toot' is paid -six .fratics in which he was lying which saved him from being murdered—had he been standing he had no doubt but that the`knife would have entered his body. Two of the robbers were tall men, dressed in short smock-frocks. The third man was short, dressed in a velveteenjacket. Fester• day, Mr. Abbott gave notice of the attack and robbery at Bow-street. t ButtGLARY.—A few evenings ago the Olympic 1 Tavern, Newcastle-street, Strand, was broken open, and the bar was plundered of property to a considerable amount. The servant maid was alarmed about four O'clock in the morning by an unusual noise ; she put some clothes ott, and ran down stairs,'and perceiving some persons in the bar with a light, she called," Is it you, Mas ter a voice answered," Yes ;" she knew it was not her Master's voice, and when she ap proached the' door of the bar, she saw throe men inside, who had rifled the place, broke open the drawers and cupboard. She ran to the bottom of the stairs in.the greatest,, srror, and screamed as loud as. she could :for her Master. Ife came dowtn stairs with a pistol in his hand, and ir, the interim the robbers had opened 4141r€ , et door and escaped, taking with them cash frarn the till, and other property. in'4 • 1 3' • r • In consequence of the prodigious Oxport'of Wile, poultry, pigs, Sc.c. from Ireland to Liver pool, the *cattle market, ' . 11e.14 .evt-ry :Monday at Kirkdale, has lately become one of the most con stelOabk in the three. kingdonis. It was calcu lated dig' on one particular market day, not very long.sinte, the quantity of cattle •Stild' at Kirkdale equalled the average•amount of. the Cattle sold in Smithfield Market, Loqdon on the regular market days. • * If an Apothecary or a Drug& h s any medicines by him which arc spoiled, they must give notice of it tolhis'DiviSion -of the Polici;.ii must be brought there and deStroyed. If a prescription of a suspicious kind' is ottlered, notice 'must be medigely sent to-tht;Police. MARRIED. • j • Yesterday, at Ne'w Marylebone Cl)urch, hy the Rev, R. 1)' Chapman, and afterwards at the Frentit •Arribassadbr's; iv Portland-place, by the Rev. Julius. Picqu'a-, tCesur .11,14tre 0 ,' Esq. native of France, and attached to th French,Consuls l o General in Great Britain, Member of several Forergh A - Cade' mies and Societies of Arts, Sciences, utd Belles Lettres, &C. t ° , Miss Mary Spearman, only daughter of the .latc 4 0 beifr Wernyss Spearman, Esq. of the County of Durham. On Tuesday, the lath instant, Sir. Frederick 3lorthead, of Derwent Lodge, in. the County of Cumberland, to .lane, second daughter of R. Warwick, Esq. of Warwick flail, iri the same County. At Melbourne,Cambridgeshire, by the Rev. )Ir. on Thursday last, ,31r. J. 11, Robici. , ll, of Newport, Essex , MiSs Ni. Wenham, second daughter of Mi. Thoinitt4 Wenhaol, of the former place.. ' On Tuesday last, at St. Mary's chur.:ll, Huntingdon, bi t, Robert Fox, to 'Miss Jane. Ashton. • DIED. At Boulogne-stir...Mr, aged 12, Anna Isabella, secotl,cl danghter of 'the- Rev. James Suttelr On the 17th inst., suddenly, aged 23,, George, the .thirtil'r of the late John 111iles, Esq., of Southampton-row RUSSC 44 square. • .On the 124 h inst., in Cumberland-mace, New-road; the k/D 4 'i Mrs. Mill, aged 70, widow of the late John ° Noranside, Forfarshire. •• On the , l4th Novembor, at his residence, at 1176it-1 4 ' 6115 .; near Corsh.am, Wilts,..aged 71, Lieut.-General Ken, ' forfge" of the Ilonourable EaSt India • '.oinpany's Service. , On Saturday last, William Dine- 'Stinton, Esq.; abed Lieutenant on half-pay in the 4tWregiment of Foot, . the or viving son of.the late Rev. William Stinton, of Lurgq,, op,Y' e 'county ofArniagh, Ireland. and nephew of the Rev. Di•tier_ r a, 4Stinton, formerly Chancellor of rthe church of Lmooli*V - v: unfortunaie gentleman ,left his lodgings in Blenbeito-stdcA f . Saturday abcint noon, and was found drowned' Thames, near to London-bridge, the ebb of the tide hiu exposed in .the mud. No inzrlcs of violence . 4PPC 4 7,0 about him, it is suppOsedhc fell aceidentallyinto the wa,t.q; i 3 . ..,t inquest was held on the body, 'and. ihe'Jurtrtiilin4 Found drowned." - • , 01 .° C 1 1 Printed and Pub li:shed, for the P.tiornii;Tons, at the Vit: OFFICE, •112, Strand, by 3. B. each per month ; for which . she receivod a card .1 protection or license:. Keeperi f Brothels,:also paid a sum per annum. for their. license. The office where all this kind . of wa - s trans acted.was called Bureau des 3!_ocurs—Oillee for Morals!! ! In addition to•the number of persons employed at - the Vrefecture, and as ottt-door agents or spies (for, ow every branch of - which the Police takes recognizance, regular spies are em ployed, as in political matters,) there is an In spector-General of Police, residing at the Pre fecture, who in the first instance 'takes cogni zance of every thing that concerns the affairs df Police, and . who' has under him' 24 OSkers de Paix, one of whom attends regularly at the Po lice to receive tornplaints, atid`triaiSmits it td: the different divisions. These persons reside_in. ferent districts, and the Police agents wliore t side nearest to them, apply: immediately to them for advice, should any thing ,occur, ,But.inde pendent of these Officers de Pail', there are forty-eight,Cothmissaires delP4ce, one to each district, of Paris, who have always soldiers to attend them, .and who - likewise eniploy 010. The duty of these Commissaires _are to appre hend rollers and Other snspi - ciens characters, to suppress riots, &c: These• CommissaireS transmit `every morning, before ei!;ht - 'o'clock, their repot* of Whit has -O'CcurrNi in Weir re 'Spective districts, to the Secretary-General of the Prefecture of 'Police, - who .owns - them in 'the presence of, .and reads' them 'to, - the Pre fect; from thence the reports are sent to the Chiefs of the different divisions whom they con cern: • ;The Commissary make distinct reports for each division, so that the Secretary-General has only to read them; and forward them to the divisions they are intended for. The examina tion of thieves, previous to their commitment for trial, does not take place before the police, but. before persons appointed for that purpose, called illagistrals de surete:!, four in number, one for each district of Paris. In Paris there are no watchmen, but then there are thirty-nine guard-houses, where there are military posts; there is also a night patrole of cavalry, which, however, is not of much use, as their approach is heard at: a great distance, by the noise created by the feet of the horses. Let the British Go vernment adopt some of the above - regulations, and the Police of our metropolis would , be as efficient as that of France. But our Liberty, which depredators of 'every description in this Country turn to their account, checks in a great measure the exertions of our Police Officers, who certainly are great opposers of Practical Liberty, that is---THIEVING t. DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATION.—We hear that several hundred sheep were drowned on the marshes of Sutton and Ilolbeach on Sunday se'n- night, during the storm. But as it was not imagined that the ground on which they were feeding could possibly be reached by a neap tide, no blame attaches to their owners ; who had scarcely time to recover from their surprise at their first unexpected loss, before they had the mortification of witnessing a second ; and of seeing many more of their straying flocks swept away by the sudden return of the ebb tide, which was again driven back upon these marshes by the wind suddenly chopping due north, and blowing directly upon that tract of iand.—(Bos ton Gazette.) EXTRAORDINARY Acct DENT.-"--Yesterdav morn ing, four horses, - while drawing a coal waggou heavily laden with coals, from the wharf at the bottom of Northumberland-street, Strand, is consequence of the ascent of the street nearest the Strand, the animals were necessitated almost to strain themselves in order to draw up their immense load, in doing which, the shafts, which were rather decayed, separated from the waggoof and caused the horses to go along at a quicker rate; the waggon withlts contents wheeled back' wards down the hill: with great velocity, and many persons who were in the street ; had a naf row escape with their lives ; and the frightened carman seemed at a loss to know which he should run after, the waggon or his horses; however , the waggon took a circuitous direction, and came with great violence againSt the front of a she window, and the wheels dashed the front coal . ; pletely through, to the no small consternation of the inmates inside, who were completely dar kened by 'the sable visit. The accident caused great damage to the house it ran azainst. BIRTI4;i. • On the 17th inst'ant, at Cambridge, the Lady of the Baro o Charles de Thierry, of a son and heir. •On the 21st instant, Nlts.J. E. Teschomaelier, of-a, son.