The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE AMALGAXiTION BILL,

The bill produced in the House of Commons by
Sir George Grey for the amalgamation of the City
of London Police with the Metropolitan Police was
issued from the parliamentary printing-office yes-
terday. Tne title of the bill is " The City of Lon-
don and Metropolitan Police Act, 1863." It is pro-
posed that the bill shall take effect on the Ist Jan-
next. It provides for the establishment of one or
more branch station or stations in the City, to be
under the superintendence of a new Assistant Com-
missioner of Police, to be appointed by her Majesty,
the offer of such appointment to be made in the first
instance to Captain Hodgson. The City police force
are to have the same rank, pay, and superannuation
as they are now receiving; whilst the constables of
the Metropolitan police force within the City are to
have the same powers, duties, &c., as are exercised
in the metropolitan districts. The Chamberlain of
the City of London is to transfer all the cash vested
in his name in connection with the police to the
receiver for the Metropolitan Police district, and,
after the act has come into operation, the expense
of maintaining the addition to the Metropolitan
police force is to be defrayed partly out of monies to
be provided by Parliament, and partly out of the
police rate leviable under the City Police Act ; the
money payable by Parliament to bear the same pro
portion to the money payable out of the police rate
as the money hitherto contributed by the Mayor
and commonalty and citizens has borne to the money
payable out of the said rate. The Chief Com-
missioner of the Metropolitan Police is to have
power to issue a warrant requiring the Chan
berlain of the City of London to pay out of any
cash in his hands a sum not exceeding the
amount of the police rate authorised to be
levied by the City Police Act. the warrants of the
City justices are to be recognised arid executed in
the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex,
and Kent, and every warrant issued by any justice
in those counties is to be executed in any part of
the City of London.

Le Constitutionnel of to-day mentions " under
reserve" a rumour it has just received from Berlin
to the effect that M. Bismark will almost immediately have
to retire from office, that Minister being held responsible
for the present isolation in which Prussia finds herself.
Yesterday, we learn from L Opuuon Nationale
of this morning, the Ministers sat in Council at the Palace
of the Tuileries, under the Presidency of the Emperor.

In taking po,session of his archiepiscopal throne M
Darboy, says Le Siecle, addresses a letter to the clergy and
faithful of his archdiocese. "what it is," he remarks at
the very outset, " that has brought us the honour of being
named your archbishop, we know not. Perhaps," he
adds, "the intentions and the acts of the venerated
Cardinal Morlot -had something to dc with it." In
replacing his deceased predecessor, M. Darboy
goes on to remark that he wished to continue
his work by precisely the same means and method, making
an allowance only for the differences alone discernible in
personal character. The Archbishop of Paris declares that
the Church, or more plainly speaking the Pope, would
always find in him "not only a Bishop faithful to the holy
see; but still more, the son ever respectful and ready at
all times to do the will of his well-beloved father."
France, he says, also no less than the Church
may count upon his devotion, for France is no
other than the soldiers of God.. In watching near
the Pope in order to protect him from audacious criminals,
in order to render him and to maintain him as master in
his own home, the French army he declares does no more
than follow the mut d'ordre, which has been transmitted
downwards from reign to reign from the days of Clovis to
those of Napoleon 111.
Sir John Bowring is (says the Devon Weekly
limes) appointed by the Government as one of the
envoys to attend the approaching conference at Paria with
reference to the postal system; especially with reference to
the postage of newspapers. All the large continental na-
tions will be represented at this conference.

SUICIDE OF A CON VICT.—A married man named
Patrick Manion, 21 years of age, was convicted at
Newcastle-on-Tyne Assizes of a rape upon a married woman
on the morning of New Year's day, and sentenced by Mr.
Baron Martin to penal servitude for life. There were mi
tigating circumstances in the case, and since his conviction
there was a widespread impression prevailing in the town
that he was innocent of the crime for which he had received
so terrible a punishment. The Mayor of Newcastle, Mr. I.
L. Bell, had taken much trouble to inquire into the case,
and his efforts resulted in a communication being made by
Mr. Baron Martin to the Home-office, intimating that it was
desirable the case should unde•-go further investigation. A
communication from the Home-office authorising this in-
vestigation was rec, ived at the gaol in Newcastle on Satur-
day morning, but the convict had frustrated the good in
tentions of the authorities by committing suicide during the
night. Early in the morning when the officers entered his
cell, they discovered that he had hung himself. He had
succeeded during the night in unravelling the cordage of
his hammock, and so made a rope with which he destroyed
himself. The prisoner seemed to be in his usual state of
mind on the previous evening, and the
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