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London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12.

IT might be expected that of all men dealers in
money would be the least susceptible of fanciful im-
pels's. But the history of Exchanges tells • different
story. The open-mouthed listeners to Arabian story-
tellers are not characterised by a greater amount of
credulity than the frequenters of the Bourse, and
the veriest slaves of fanaticism do not act more un-
hesitatingly upon the most incredible reveladose
than they do. In all countries your stook-jobber is
the very sensitive plant of rumour. Since the Coo-
foresees at Paris were opened, the variations on the
various Exchanges of Europe have been moderate sad
modest compared with what have been wit-
nessed on former occasion ; sad yet the avidity
with which the most palpable samara have at
times been listened to is Winces. The secrets of the
Conferences have been so well kept that the removes
gonad by correspondents of certain ciontinental Jour-
nab have lacked even the average amount of veri-
similitude. Some of these deserve to be dramatised
far the boards of our minor theatres—as, for ex-
ample, the account of Oar ore's manly elapsing,
which elicited sighs and tears even from segrained
diplomatists. To the credit of the Plenipotentiaries
belt said, that the most dexterous attempts of the
sewn spulous Bourse speeulatore—masculine and
guanine, official and son-oilleial—with whom
Paris swarms, have failed to elicit the
slightest information respecting the course
which negotiations have taken. The secret will
probably continue to be kept until the pre-
tends are published. But there is lessen to be-
lieve that the public curiosity will set be mush
loner tantalised. The icy reserve with which men
high in olio abstained from giving utterance to
their bores or hereof the future begins to thaw. It
is admitted that the eonelesioa of the negotiations
Lary he looked for almost immediately ; and this
simiripproach to mentassicativeaem would sent to

isdieste—inassancit es joy is Mlle gerreleas than
regret--that a satisfactory Nodulose is expects&
Is short, while we frankly cress@ that we know so
IWO then oar neighbours what topics have been
dimmed in the Conferences—is what order, er ia
what spirit—we fuel that we ere warranted is
stating confidently that in a very abort tines--aborter
probably then the scot senguise will vesture to oces-
jsetsro—the 03001•617,11 of • pesos will he pabliely
preelsiasd.

Ws are free to admit that on Monday evening Bir
(hoses OUT Met those who aro on principle op-
posed to the provisions of hie Comities sad Boroughs
Police Bill, in a conciliatory spirit. Per this he has
had his reward. He usgesetioaably owes the large
majority which voted for the second reeding of the
Bill to the macadam which be made. Bet, anxious
though we are to inset the Bows BECIPATIAT on the
middle ground of a realisable utility, we cannot In
esamienee eay that the conesseions he has yet made
see sefloient to now& se to the Ilsostro. We hops
to see greater change' made in the Bill m it passes
through committee; or, failing that, to see it Mt 4
mutely withdrawn or rejected.

It is generally understood that by allowing any
Bill to be read a sewed time t►e Huse of Comm.
easetisas its "principle.* Bat we are rather at a
lose es to what is the "principle' of the Counties
sad Boroughs Police Bill. if the vete of Marley
le to be taken u merely affirming that the
establishment of an efficient polio*, in rust as in
urban districts, ought to be made compulsory, we
unreservedly acquitter Ult. Bet, if it is to be taken
as affirming that a greater latitude of interfenses is
the management of the local police ought to be ow
ceded to the Central Government, we mast persist in
our opposition.

All the eloquence of Mr. HUILIT notwithstanding, I
we are convinoed that the old eyeless of rural con-
stables is utterly and hopelessly ioefiloient. Ws are
00111illetil that a more nunteroas and batter orga-
nised body of police is required in the rural dis-
tricts. We are, therefore, prepared to support as
sub of Bit OEOlOi GRIT'S Bill se bas simply this
object in view, provided the objectiosable pro-
visions with which the memos is still clogged are
eliminated.

The provisions to which we moat streasowely
object are those by which it is proposed to throw ewe-
fouth of the cast of the county police %Tow the Co..

eolidated Fond, and to allow the Gabel'
a veto on the appointment of head eo
the appointment of three ealmieitiMpied

to hold their oftleee dorioit 01
afforded to county ratepayers by

The li
ig the

solidated Fund with one-fourth of their unseal polios
expenses will be either illusory or unjust. The taxes
which go_ to form the Consolidated Fund are paid by
the public at large quite as much as local rates. If
the disbursement of one-fourth of the police expendi-
ture of counties out of the Consolidated Fond is a
real relief to the ratepayers of the rural die.
triots, this relief will be obtained by throw-
ing a part of the burdens which these rate-
payers ought to beer upon the ratepayers of the
boroughs and cities. The latter will have to pay all
their own police rates, and part of those of the
former in addition. If it is alleged that this addi-
tional burden imposed upon urban ratepayers will
be too trifling to be of any eoasequenor, it must on
the other hand be admitted that the relief to the
rural mem ere which will accrue from it must be
equally trifling. Upon the horns of this dilemma
we place the proposal to defray one-fourth of the
county polioe expenditure out of the Consolidated
Food. It is either an set of injustice to the urban
ratepayers or it is a boon of no value to the rural
ratepayers.

But if it be made law that one-fourth of the county
police expenditure is to be disbursed out of the Con-
solidated Fund, then the claim of the Central Govern-
ment to regulate and control the county polios will
be irresistible. The Central Government must be
enabled to check and regulate the expenditure of any
portion of the public money entrusted to its oars. By
accepting a grant, however small, from the Comb-
dated Fond, the rural ratepayers give the Central
Government a right to a veto on the appointment of
the local commanders of the police force, and
to the appointment of permanent inspectors.
But such concession, on the part of the
local ratrpsyen will of necessity constitute
the whole police of the country one or-
ganised body, under the surveillance and control of
the Central Government. This will be to change en-
tirely the character of our English police; to tram-
form it from a number of independent local organi-
estions foe the preservation of the peace and the
prevention and punishment of violence, robbery, and
fraud, into ass organised force at the disposal of the
Central Government. This would be the Cen-
tral Government with new and ankeard-of power.,
extremely liable to be abased. And the chines would
be attended with no countervailing advantage. Cen-
tralised management is necessarily less effective
and less economical than local. The inhabitants of a
district are better able to Judge whether their police
is efficient or not than officials at a distance, and
better able to detect wasteful or corrupt expenditure.
If the county police is found not to work well under
the Justices, the remedy is to transfer its manage-
ment, not to the Central Government, but to County
Boards, framed on the model of our municipal councils,
and elected by the ratepayers.
As to the complaints that are made of impediments
to the enforcement of justice opposed by the multipli-
city of jurisdictions, the remedy would appear to
be to authorise the police of each district to exercise
their functions in every other. At all events it would
be moat impolitic in urban ratepayers, who enjoy the
privilege of electing their own local administration,

to allow themselves to be merged in the counties so
keg as the esunty rates are administered by virtu-
ally irresponsible Justices.

Cbe Court.

Her Royal Highness tho Dachas of Kent rialto'
the Quee resterdar.

Prise' fitter at ilobmista• renamed to tows kom Frog-
man, awl remains at Buckingham pima m a visit to has
Majesty.

TM Pries of Wales and Prises Alfred, etteaded by CoL
the Has. C. B. Phipps end Mr. Bibb+, Tinted the works sf
the Chartered Or Lespeny la the liereefewrroed.
Prime Leopold 'Sited the Dukes of Csakldge at her
resides* in St. Jease's pleas.
Mr. Jerry Barrett bad the Dewar of subasittisg hie
picture to the Septettes of bar Majesty and Prince Albert,
at Backlashes palate.
Her ,Melesty sad Pries Albert, scaospealed by the
Priam es Hetes, add Prises Vieter of Bolualobe, besotted
the Olympic threstre with their inmate is the gneiss. In
attendee's wese—Lady Cherebill, Lord Cusp, Major-
°semi Beaky, sad Cowie the Bee. D. de Roe.
Laid Cesar sad Mr. F. Ceveadish here relieved Lai
Waterpork sad Mejer-Geseral Berkeley Dressiond la
their dries r the 4 rd sad prooa-ia•wsitleg to the Quote.
Tr Deems of Host arrived at Clause Hsu*, St.
fuses, yesterday aceaksi fres Pwssere, cad paid a visit
to the Dubose of OleseesSr, at Giseestev bore. The
Dubose et Heat, attested by Lady Fatty Sowed end
Sir George Cooper, Auger& retorted t Fropeos.

A dapstatkw. coasietiar ef the Earl of Skaftesbuy, the
int ea Mahnsbary, Mr. Book., 11. P.; Mr. SWEAT' M.P.;
Mr. Cesepies. Y.P. y 6.r J. Cann, X P.; Mr. Fraaklyn.
M.P sad Ada** Wales., 111.1'., had is isterview with
Lord of Allietley yesterday at tho Bond of Truitt.
• as Übe sat.jeot of postal eessausiostios
with Amara* had ma latiniaw with Mr. Wilson yesterday
at the Treantry. The &pentacle eestelated of Coloael Robe,
fansmaly reverser of Bo tta Amtrak; Mr. C. R New.-
heel, aberiff of Adelaide; Mr. F. Tattoo. of Adelaide ;
Mr. L. Rider, Kr. Jobs M.1.6'5., sad Mears. James
Morrison end Co. The &panties was ianodand by
Baxter, Y.P.
• deputation fens the Hallam Load Bond of Braids
bad a Garen. yeeterdey with the Right Hoe. W. Cow-
per, Preadeat of the filsanal Bassi of Health. at Ws aka,
Whitehall. The depolidee asasistol fit Mr. Frank Croa-
ky, M.P.; that Ilikpee 1141/42,16. Moms Oreely,
Mr. Alderman Widely mg the Tows Ma of HalYas.
Daspetelase were seadrod at oho Claiosial4lll=rdaz
from taa fielemosto of Ike Nes* AnoSsaa P
the enema d Msl.

Hth MAJill'es Leas (This DaT.)—Har Ma-
jesty Wad • 1• vas (the third this .....a), this slarsoca, la
• James's Polies. Fiat ilsisety sad Ids Baia /Wahiawa
Priam Albeit wars ssairtial from Daakiagban Palma by a
thmakmat of tbro Royal H.... Guard., .M wen racoirad
at St. ;we's ly tba Lord Clmalterlaia, the Vile Climber-
Isis. sad** Clark Marsbal.

We (Brisi 6iterchers) are wry to announce
that the Delta of Devonshire bee takes Ids hipenste Don
Leap Tome. Darn' the vistas, his Grass's kip:talky
to tee eosins% ma Ids beesvolsses to the peer, hive been
the Wen id unkind pens end niesirstne.

His Sew Highiese Prises Leopold visited the
Donbass at Caabtidas yatuday, at kat residase• fa St.
James Palma.

We regret to meanie the death, at Nice, ow
Ootarday ha, of the Rae. Thesis LeMoll, mood ion of
the late Lad Riensweeth.

On the Tuesday after the late Mr. %Moir was
band dead on Hampstead-heath, and after the smut bed
gime permierfeei for his latemeat, the boiy was reamed
from the Werldieure et limpotead to the home of the de.
erased in OlseamstoneerrOlytte-posii, sad on the fol-
lowing Timone" morale& at a my early boar, iaterna in
Highgate Cemetery, la the promos of a few ef hie isms.
dist* relatives sad ethers, the burial awoke Wag perforsod
by a Roma eethohe eiernsee.
Sinai the Rowboat flotilla has assembled at Ports-
mouth the ormatamlen have embraced every mutualty to
pt them Into the meet seam w 'eking win; seas of
them are la eampiele readharm fer maim, and the emedlticra
of many lo mere Mks that of intoten Feeble Um ether
sear

Tao Lighlativo ANNAiy of Nova &oda has
placed 150 gaimu at t►e disposal of the Govensout to
praised a @wad to Geared Williams, who Is a dative of
that provisos. Is erfer to oakum the gift in the odes
Ilea of the salient eSorr, It hie been determined that It
.►.ll be nano antral, cf nutteriale produced in ►ls native
soul 7. The Asada* Ims Company ►as famished lb.
steel, mad Ms order is airway Is propos of enmities.