The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-06 00:00:00

COMPLAINTS.

In case of a complaint against the chief constable, the
party complaining should give immediate notice to a
justice of the peace, who will proceed thereon according
to law, if the offence be cognizable by him ; and if the
subject of complaint do not constitute any offence legally
cognizable by him, the said justice will lay a statement
thereof before the justices of the county at the next
quarter sessions of the peace, or anyadjournment thereof,
and the justices will inquire into the same, and report
the result of such inquiry and their opinion thereon as
speedily as possible to one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State.

Immediate attention is to be paid to any com-
plaint of misconduct against the superintendent or
any constable appointed under the said Act. If
the charge be for neglect or violation of duty
in his office as constable, it shall be laid before two jus-
tices with the least delay possible, for their proceeding
thereon under the 12th section of the said Act ; and in
case of any other offence committed by such constable,
notice thereof shall be immediately giv'en to a justice of
the peace, who will proceed thereon according to law.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
Parties in custody are to be taken before a magistrate
as soon as possible, and the nature of the offence, with
other particulars, entered in a charge sheet, form D. The
charge sheet is to be laid before the magistrate by whom
the charge is to be heard, and when all the cases entered
therein have been disposed of by the magistrate, the
charge sheet is to be sent to the chief constable, or kept
safely by one of the superintendents or constables as he
shall direct ; and all such charge sheets are to be returned
by the chief constable once in every three months to the
clerk of the peace for the county, who is to keep them
in his custody until he shall have received the directions
of the justices of the peace for the county, assembled I
at any quarter session, as to the final disposal thereof.
If a charge against a party be not taken by the
constable, an entry is to be made by him in form
E , and the particulars filled up under each head
and transmitted to the chief constable, who will lay
before the justices of the peace for the county, assembled
at the next quarter sessions of the peace, an abstract
from the forms D. and E., stating the entire number
of persons charged with offences as appears thereby,
the nature of the charges and the results, with any
other particulars that may tend to show the state of
crime in the county.
The chief constable will also make an immediate re-
port to two justices of the peace of any serious dis-
turbance of the public peace that has taken place or is
apprehended, and of any crimes of an aggravated
nature committed, and for which the parties charged

or suspected have not been apprehended ; and he will
immediately transmit duplicates of such information to
the Secretary of State for tho Home Department, so
as to insure the earliest communication to the proper
authorities of any matter affecting the public peace, in
order that further arrangements, if required, may be
made without delay.

IMPORTANT RAILWAY MEETING

AT BODMIN.

On Tuesday a meeting of the county of Cornwall
I teas held at the County Hall, Bodmin, to take into
consideration the expediency of applying to Parliament
for the purpose of obtaining a railway through the
county of Cornwall ; and to consider the measures
proper to be taken for that object. The meeting was
not only the most numerous, but also the most in-
fluential and respectable which has been held in the
coui.ty for many years. The speakers were calm and
dispassionate, and looked upon the undertaking which
they proposed to accomplish as a necessity, as a thing
no longer to be delayed without injury to the interests
of the county, and all those connected with it. Among
those present were the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Bosca-
wen, Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P., the Master
General of the Ordnance ; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart.,
M.P., E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P., Sir R. M.
Rolfe, M.P., the Solicitor-General, J. W. Freshfleid,
Esq., M.P., J. Ennis Vivian, Esq., M.P., Edmund
Turner, Esq., M.P., Honourable George Fortescue ;
Revd•. Dr. Rodd, T. Grylis, C. T. Kempe, N. Ken-
dall, F. Webber, J. 'Wallis, and E. Rimell ; and J. H.
Tremayne, G. W. F. Gregor, R. Johns, H. Willyams,
J. Paynter, J. T. Treffry, F. Rogers, N. Kendall, C.
Carlyon, M.D., Francis Rodd, A. H. Arundel', W.
Hext, C. J. W. Ellis, J. Yates (London), C Dean
(Exeter), T. Collins (Under Sheriff), J. Ellis ( Mayor
of Falmouth), W. Corfield (Mayor of Penryn),
Cooke (Mayor of Launceston), J. P. Peters, T.
Perse, F. Pender, W. Paul, jun., W. M• Tweedy, A.
Thomson, A. Fox, W. Carne, R. Taylor, J. Cornish,
R. R. Broad, J. Bull, Berkeley Fox, W. H. Bond, W.
Glasson, J. Symons, J. Pollard, Esqrs.
Time High Sheriff of the county, D. P. Hoblyn, Esq.,
presided on the occasion, who, after the Under-Sheriff
had read the requisition, called upon the Earl of Fal-
mouth, as one of the requisitionists, to proceed with
the business of the day.
The Earl of FALMOUTH said he had paid great at-
tention to the subject of railways for some years past,
and had done so the more because he had foreseen the
probability of exertions being made in this county to
carry out a railway in continuation of that to Exeter,
and in so doing, considered he had done no more than
his duty as a county man.—(Cheers.) The result of
his study of the subject was a conviction of the prac-
ticability of forming a railway between Exeter and
Falmouth.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Earl said he
did not come to this meeting with any speculating mania,
properly so called; but while he said that, he could not
but remark that the time had arrived when the county
should take care that the application of steam to
railways and navigation do not supersede those na-
tural advantages which the port of Falmouth possesses
The question was not now what the effect of railways
might be on the happiness of mankind ; nor were they
to consider the complaint of the citizens of London that
they could not keep their wives and daughters at home,
on account of the delights of the London and Green-
wich Railway.—(Laughter.) The fact was that man-
kind would have railways. Nothing is too fast—too
rapid for them ; and if they (the people of Cornwall)
did not place themselves on an equality with the rest
of the nation, they would inflict an irremediable evil
on Cornwall and Cornish interests.—(Cheers.) His
Lordship concluded by moving a resolution to the
effect, that as the nautical superiority of Falmouth as
a packet station had been admitted and declared on
several occasions, it is expedient to promote the pro
gress and completion of a railway communication be-
tween London and the west of Cornwall.
Sir C. LEMON, Bart., M.P., seconded the resolution,
and adverted to the many great advantages which would
result from the projected undertaking, if carried into
effect. Many of the advantages were incalculable ;
but there was one which ought to be reduced to a cal-
culation. In his evidence before the House of Com-
mons; Mr, Alfred Fox had stated, that in the year
1836—a year not of extraordinary activity—his house
alone had dispatched to London eighty-one expresses,
the average expense of which was 261. He mentioned
that Mr. Broad had sent mole, and that the Go-
vernment, besides others, had sent at least 100 ex-
presses yearly. Those, at 261. each, would cost the
Government 2,6001. alone. If a railroad could be
achieved, supposing the sending the sending of these ex-
presses amounted to one-fourth of the expense incurred
heretofore, there would be a saving to the Messrs. Fox
of about 1,5001. a-year. Now that 1,5001. a-year re-
presents a capital of 30,000/. Whether Mr. Alfred
Fox meant to subscribe the whole of that sum, or only
a part of it, he could not tell.—(Laughter and cheers.)
But it was of the highest importance to the merchants
of Falmouth that great exertions should be made. The
advantage to the landed interest would also be very
great.

The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. Pendarves, M.P., Mr. Freshfield, M.P., Lord
Boscawen, Mr. Poynter, Sir R. M. Rolfe, M.P., Mr.
Turner, M.P., Mr. J. H. Tremayne, and others, ad-
dressed the meeting, and severally proposed resolutions
in furtherance of the proposed undertaking, all of which
were put and carried unanimously.