The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-11 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1858.

tome t f the ro ion which be Intruded to wake, in trder
that their !outshine saieht know what they wire d senesieg.
As ths sea t r ,00d, noble lord's notice was of t►e
ossiiew p wedge doseriptioo.
The Is.ri f IIIALYIESBURY was rot prepared to eay
what hn sstriw soulo b . Hie object VII to col the at-
'intb a of tie house 'o he a rreepondesee upon the tette,
end to eat tees ,o their iordakine his own titivate opinion as
to the coos* of the dossier ee K n.

' Sir G. GREY rose to move the sound readier, eons
'beetle, with • statement of the reuse which iodated
the noverament to ptopon the measure. He reed entree.
from the writhe*, taken before the trommittee of that house
ems whose report the bill wee founded, which showed the
duty of • general and seders system of police, end
mentioned facts illustrative of the evils reealtiog from the
in Peen 'toe of the law, from the want of on *Meant
rural miastaniery, la the West Riding of 'Yorkshire.
tor ethane, &ad which IMO chserecittable, in his
opinion, tr • cleated government. He then examined the
l.w, under the Municipal Corporation Aet, relating to the
pt Leo of berouebs, and combated the objection that, as re-
sre.tel the totoogh police, parliament tad abiiested its
Garcons, end that, although with counties it anon deal
se it pleased, boroughs wire sacred gamed. He
eel I.d Muni* to the objettion that the bill wee
founded upon • sebum of centralisation, obeeniog
that thin wss a questca which coneersed not only
partivaln loialitiee, but the onemosity p Hy.
He edcluord evident* to prove the deficiencies of !be I olice,
both in quantity nod quality, not only in small borough.,
under the Municipal Act, but in certain larger ours same
by him, and he and • tinnier which had been not to NI
boroagee, calling the attention of the town coupe& to the
is %cliquey of their dell roves. When the numbers of the
p lice did got beer 1, o small a portion to the replant*
of the plan the regulation under which they wted did
not always secure their 'Binary, and he cited an
'Waimea by the Lord Mar r of T. rk, that the
polies of that city was very 'milkiest. Now
he would explain the erovidoos of the bill.
Firthtso to the estustion, the eipthm whisk, on he bed
Wore stand, was given by the untie( acts to the jest en
le quarter weskits nip Of to adopt the t:o.nty Cocatabalny
Act or not,wonld be taken away t y this bill, and It would be
rendered corpulsory upon them to do so; upon which the
tionnthe would besubject, with one or two estoptione, to
precisely the same provisions of the law which now salted
with regard to all ttose amain where, soder that nit, •
polies three Mid been elresdy esublished. Now, he sew it
stated two drips ago, is one of the newspaptm and see
which was conducted with great intelligence, and supplied
generally w to very correct ciforatattoo, that tt if this 101 l
were allowed to pan into • law, the rural pollee of every
county would be subjected to the absolute 'entail of tie
Home Seer. t.ry for the time being;" and so an instance of
this it was poltted out, that the first cisme of the bill would
make the appointmest of the chief oonstab.• subject to the
approval of the Booretary of State. Bet that was
toe law at present, and it bad been in fora fir
he last fifteen years; during whisk time, Incept
in one caw, no tension bad arisen in which
the selection made bthe justices of • meaty required the
i tiro. silos of the Secretory of State in the appointment of
a thief constable; and -hat was a eon in which special
po. heaths was made to the Secretary of State, to eseiCSO
Ike power with whisk he wee invested. and to whisk so
eke's.% hod ever yet been made. This was due to the
ears with which the comity maghttates had made their
selection of the ebb f enstatilee. It wes within his own
kaowledp that. in Duey cues, they had token pain to
secure the appointment of the most efficient men, without
regard to *mast sr local conossion, and some of those gen-
tleman, with whose be had himself been brought into into..
• one, were gentlemen of great iatellionee sad very fit
for their duties. The only twitter* be eoold remember in
which the sonstios ef the Secretary of Bt to was necessary
to he Oven to the newton of the chief con-
stable by the Pathos, was when a special ap-
plication wee made to him, soma yams ego, name the
porton whom they would have Matted esca.ded the 'in-
scribed age, sod had some other special quill Bastions sad
in that as the Julien were scitoSed, and the man whom
they thought the best man was appeante4. This was the
in which this power which was vested is the &are-
tory of Buts had worked during the let fifteen yews.
(Cheers.) However, there were one or two palate is wh-ch
it was prop sod to make some alteration In the law. One
of the most material was this. By the existing law, when
justices bad established a county constabulary, they had
• thither discretionary power to divide the minty into
pollee district., to equalise the bertha' of it oo the popu-
lation. Boldest* about this matter came before the com-
mittee, and indorsed it to nth insound that the division of
counties, in certain Musses, should be @okras'. la many
counties the p petition, though Inge is the ogrregste,
was unequally divided; one tan might be partme land,
with • thin populaties, and another part might to occupied
m ire densely by manufacturing people. In such elms gnat
°Jetties bed been made to the eatablisbme t of • police,
bums@ it was approbeaded that the rat/Tuns of one
part would be obliged to pay di.proportioastely for the pa-
tee-ion of the inhabitants uf the It woe pow Violet
desirable to empower tee Queen is Council, upon hearing a
representation of the facts, to require the janitors of any
e silty to do that which it wa• now left at inert di,cr.von
to do, and divide the county into districts. The mo.t
anterisl noon°s of the bill, however, 'thins affected
both comities and borough., was that for the appoint-
meat of iospeetore, to examine into the it.t.e, the
number, sad discipline of the police, and Its eflieirom,
throughout early county and borough of Begthad ; sad that
was connected with another provides of the bill, founded
also upon the report of the anneittoe, sad introduced in
occordsnos with the rocommeadatioes of the commission of
1839—namely, that • portion of the espouse of the Gusty.
a. well as of the borough police, should be defrayed oat of
the public se. And he must soy that he e mid not
propose to defray one fourth or any other portion of that
expense out of the public revenue, without inking some
effectual means to sseertain that toe police in auk totality
was maintained with effleisaity. (Hear hear.) For that
purpose bethought insimodoe was ersentiaL He bed not
hard any &Intim to it made by the gentlemen connected
with ornotia though objeetioss had boon made by the
• borough,. The panda on which he thoughtit
however, had now been esplaised ; and if the provision for
impalas felled to obtain the apnoea' of tne boon, he
could not undertake to rentasseact the g of any ponies
tattle pablie revenue. Ar wber prevision of the bill wee to
empower the nasty magistrates to grant • superannuatius
allowance to the chief constable. Now, es for the counties,
so far from the bill being received with moral opposition,
the temper with which it had been received wee such se to
tadnee him to believe that the gentle:me who npre.ested
eloodoe wield ban no otesetios to the mooed readies, and
to the hill On there memeltter. He felt obliged to
them is. the mgmestlime they bad offered, end which
had hem taken bite mmethiratioa by tbe goveraraeat.
But with regard to the borombs, be was perry to say, and—
elthomb be might be soeshbered for this a bed Jodie of the
temp. r of the hos* and of In fellomematimies—he was !
alto surprised to flail thatthem lad thee as opp aides
nand against this bill, Whisk one upon him whilly wt.
ezposteoly, sad which he could met smooth for. Tbis oppo-
sition was net ladled so minted do it might be for the b-
uten of sem persons M repressed lime boroughs had
petitioned la favour of the bid, oaths led takes no pert in
regard to it; but from other bereashe he hod .me repre-
sentatives, member of their town comeh, among which
be would mention that of Mandsestn, who same
to him to objet to certain provisions of the bill, sad to
warm be had given such reason sad provoked such Mesa
dime of it, as would satiety Sae who were favourable to
he goinelple of the bill, bed who Tithed a recommend mee
tab Medilleatione alit. Do Via essard so a gym umber
of the hecenghs, be hind that them Minims of their tows
etesmile lobs lei moiled ups lift were midi the greatest
migeenemptim as to the of the May. The °hien
of It, as Is had state/ before was to provide an easiest
three with du regard to the Aselple of lout minsiemest
sad cootteL It had been maned that by this WI the
metro' we to be wholly trassferred hem the
tows tow oils and the watch eponsaitten to the S.
f State, that then wee • power •inteaded, if net ex •
rf Lahti into the kande of the Hum Secretary the sp.
wink:mit sad dismistal of constables; seed it bed also ban
ladnetrimaly circulated that the Home Seentesy would
theitt, in all cues, epos the polies being barman up to the
number of I to every 500 of tie omelettes ; aad that then
wee to be an attempt by coin_ palsies toot* aalsdare the
Maness with the counties. Now to these sestesiesee he
was prepared to give the moat unqualified denial. The
control of the police and its mensgessent were not taken,
even by the hill ea it then stood, out et the hands
of tows connells and wat.b committees I there wee
no
interference with the al pototmeat wr dander.'
devastating, though it bad been urged upon him, be'Ore he
brought la the bill, that it wee desirable, lo thing to certain
'mown fatta, to give the Home Benetary sock eastral ; bet
sot width% to have a measure theoretically pent, but
aiming osly at eff-eting a greet reform withoetisterfering
with the local managemost, he had declined to insert any
loath provisos, ma had et ores to lone the appelataiest
and diem! •I of oustables to the ws.ch tom, nom of the
Wes atonal.. There was eo compulsion attempted as to
the ounther of the polies to be purvided by say borough. The right hoe. baronet the member for Droithria bad sug-
gested that it might be desirable to establish • shamus
of polio. fora, bat he (Sir O. Grey) aid he thought it was
bettor not to attempt by law ti Ix the animus, the ar-
ms anus of one comity or borough being often diff-reat
from mother. He must sloe emphatically deny having
enuttaised, eves auretly, u he was supposed to base dose,
sises it was not is the bill, any iatectioe of lasioting. by
diteet or indirect means, upon any uniform standard of the
number of police. What did the bill tennis therefore
There wee the (earth elutes of the bill, *Mob affected
boroughs no doubt, sad by width it wee provided that
meaty constables should have the same Jariedisdas in the
amoeba which ber-mb sonstablse now tad in the
athaues. He had act beard any objections made to that
anima of the bill. The through tositables now, for the
purposes of jostice, ft r the prevention of alms, and appre-
hension of the sifeadere, Ina jailed cties within the adjos -
ing amity, and it wee thought desirable that the empty
c 'ambles should hive a similar jeriedhtion in the borough.,
but acting la tee borough wader the ord. rs of tie bormigh
se.gistra.es, jut as the borough ousuibles sued in the
aunty under the and the meaty ma/Mine& The