The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-28 00:00:00

PAIRL

NEW
The following is the report of the Minister of the
Interior to the Emperor on this subject :
" Sire,—ln your constant solicitude for the welfare and
security of the citizens, yoit have directed your attention
to the present state of the municipal police of Paris.
Struck with the excellent organisation of that of London,
with its efficacy against evildoers, and with the servit-es
which it every moment renders to the inhabitants, yon
have wished that the Parisian police should not remain
inferior to it ; and you have particularly desired that in
the details of its daily service it should, to the great ad-
vantage of all, afford at every step that proteetion to pro-
perty and person which renders the intervention of the
policeman in England so popular and so respected. For
this purpose you ordered that a comparative examination
of the two institutions should be made, and that the im-
provements revealed by that examination should be pro-
posed to you. lam now about to submit to your Majesty
the results of that inquiry.
" What is first remarked in the organisation of the Lon-
don police, and what in fact constitutes the fundamental
principle of its action, is the presence everywhere, at all
hours both day and night, of numerous agents, each of whom,
charged with the exclusive surveillance of a very circum-
scribed beat, constantly natrols it, is acquainted with the
inhabitants and their habits, is always on the spot ready
to give his assistance to any one who claims it, and by his
1 constant going and coming does not give evildoers the time
either to effect or even to prepare their guilty projects.
There undoubtedly is in this close tutelary vigilance a gua-
rantee of security for the citizens. To endow Paris with
it would be an incontestable benefit. This would be im-
possible if the personnel of the municipal police were to be
maintained at its present number. This personnel scarcely
now gives a real effective strength of 750 sergens de
vino ; three hundred of these are employed on special
or extraordinary services, leaving only 450 for the sur-
veillance of the twelve arrondissements, and from this
number must be deducted those who are absent fibm ill-
ness, leave of absence, or other causes. If these 41:0 men
were to exercise that surveillance by being continually on
the move, each man not being able to walk more than eight
hours out of the 24, only 150 would be on foot at the semi-
time. For the 48 sections of Paris, this would be only-
three men for each. Such a service could not be an effec-
tive one. Thus, with the present organisation, were the.
duty to be merely confined to having, during the day, po-
lice officers stationed on the principal points of the city,
and during the night a certain number of patrols, the in.
efficacy of it would be immediately apparent when it is seen
that each must, on an average
se
825,000 square metres of ground, and 26 325 inhabitants.
In London the police constables as, watch
alone,
overwitho sad n pro
tect
825,000
reckoningr tect
the superintendents, the inspectors, the
supernumeraries, the number of whom vargrieeasntsam, seed
iathtoe
4,764, or five times more than the effective strength of the
Parilan police, for a populatiqn which is not
more than
amount
double that < f Paris.
"1„ n presence of theselfignres, I think it my duty to re.
qu st from your Majesty such an increase of the p nez
as will allow of a more efficacious organisation. The went,
cipal police of Paris would then comprise, under the direr.
tion of a head commissary of police, assisted as now by a
sub-chief and 12 clerks :-Ist. For the general services,
such as they are now organised, 12 officers de paix,-12
principal inspectors, 18 brigadiers, 31 sub-brigadiers, 461
sergens de villa, and 20 supernumeraries, in all 554 men ;
2dly. For the constant surveillance of the 12 arrondisae.
manta, 12 officers de paix, 36 brigadiers, 288 sub;
brigadiers, 2,415 sergens de ville, and 24i supernume-
raries, in all 2,992 men. Thera would be besides under the
authority of the prefect, the commissary of police, charged.
with the general control of the service out of the
.pretec-
tura, assisted by a secretary, an officer de pail, a brigadier,
two sub-brigadiers, and 20 agents. The service of uninter-
rupted surveillance of the 12 arrondissements (the only
part of this combination which is a new arrangement for
Paris) would be based on a topographical division of
the sections into a certain number of beats, each of
which would be uninterruptedly gone over, by the agent
appointed to the exclusive surveillance of his ground. If
that agent should require assistance, those bn the adjacent
beats would, at a given signal, proceed to the spot, and if
necessary they would also be supported by the double re-
serve of agents and guards established at the central guard-
house of the section. In each section, two sub-brigadiers
would be always on duty, one remaining at the guard house
with the reserve, and the other patrolling the different
beats to see that: all the agents are properly performing
their duties. In each arondissement also, three brigadiers
would divide the constant inspection of the service, the
whole of which for the arondissement and all the sections
belonging to it would be under the direction and responsibi-
lity of an officer de pail. By this combination,witheat reckon-
ing the small guard-houses, which, by way of offices of in-
formation, may be established in the different quarters, there
will be in each section a central guard-house, which, by
being specially constructed, may, in addition to the part
required for the men on duty, fire-engines, and a reserve
furnished by the guard of Paris, contain a residence for the
commissary of police of the section, the officier de pail,
and the whole or part of the men attached with him to the
surveillance of that section. The rent paid by the func-
tionaries and agents would certainly cover the interest of
the outlay, and this permanent centralization of the public
force will present evident advantages over its present dis•
semination.

" Such, sire, are the fundamental conditions of the or-
ganisation which I have the honour to propose to your
Majesty ; with the accessories connected with it, the an-
nual expense will be about 5,600,000 f. (which is 3 millions
less than in London). The city of Paris only new de-
votes to the municipal police a credit of about 1,535,000 f.,
and although it must naturally support the princi-
pal part of this extra expense, this great city will not
the less hail the new combination with satisfaction ; it
comprehends the great value it will be to the inhabi-
tants and to the numerous foreigners who visit and give life
to it, and also the immense benefit of absolute security af-
forded by the coastant presence in its populous streets of
' men always ready at the first call to give assistance, infor-
mation, or protection. The department of the Seine will,
moreover, find in the powerlessness to which evil-doers are
reduced a notable diminution in the personnel of its
prisons, and consequently in the expenses caused by
them.
" It would not, however, be just that the State should
remain aloof from the charges caused by this new organiza-
tion ; our laws have already sanctioned the equitable prin-
ciple that, where order and peace in the city implies more
or less directly order and tranquility in the empire, these
two interests should be defended at the common expense.
It is thus with the municipal police of Lyons, for which
the State pays two-thirds, and for a greater reason it
should be the same for Paris. The tranquillity of the city
in which the Emperor resides, in which are concentrated
the springs of the central Government, from whence the
authority radiates and communicates itself to all the func-
tionaries of the empire, is undoubtedly a general interest of
the highest order. The State will, moreover, find ample
compensation in it ; in presence of this powerful organiza-
-1
Von, always and everywhere present, the exciters of dis-
turbance will be checked iu the first step iu their guilty
atteiups, and one of the most evident results of this new
state of things will be, independently of the suppression of
a number of small military posts, which are henceforth

rendered useless, the placing at the disposal of the Govern-
ment a considerable portion of the garrison, which it is
now necessary to keep up in the capital. A few thousand
men less in that military force would more than cover the
part of this expense which the State would take upon it-
self. In reality, this transformation will give for the
maintenance of public peace a more effective force at less
expense.
" If this system, the practical details of which will be
regulated by special decrees of the Prefect of Police, be
adopted by your Majesty, I beg you to sign the decree
affixed to this report. The same will which has so rapidly
made Paris the most magnificent of cities will soon make
it the safes; and most tranquil ; the latter benefit is as
valuable as the former, and will be equally appreciated by
France and by Europe.
" I am, BILLAULT."
The above report is followed by two decrees. One
fixes the personnel and the salary of the police
agreeably to the new organisation as follows :--1
chief commissary of police, at 10,006 f. per annum ;
1 sub-chief, 5,000 f. ; 12 clerks, at 2,000 f. ; 24
officiers do pail at salaries varying from 3,000 f. to
6,000 f. ; 12 principal inspectors, at 86,000 f. for
the whole ; 54 brigadiers, at I,Boof. ; 319 sub-
brigadiers, at 1,600 f. ; 2,876 sergents de ville, or
police constables, at from 1,200 f. to 1,500 f. ; 261
supernumeraries, at 3 francs a day ; 1 physician en
chef, at 3,500 f. ; 12 medical men, one for each ar-
rondissement, at 1,600 f. The general control will
consist of one commissary of police, B,ooof. ; I se-
cretary, at 2,000 f. ; I officier de pail, at 4,000 f. ;
1 brigadier, at I,Boof. ; 2 sub-brvadiers, at 3,000 f. ;
20 inspectors, fiom 1,400 to 1,500 f. The second
decree opens to the Minister of the Interior an ex-
traordinary credit of 497,730 f. on the estimates of
1854, towards the payment of the expense of the
new police organisation, in order that it may be in.
full operation at the opening of the Exhibition next
year.

THS ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE mamas THI
TAMAR.—LIIINCHING THE CYLINDER.—ThOSS who
witnessed the operation of lowering the stupendous
cylinder within which is to be built the centre pier fey
the support of this bridge, will recollect the intense into.'
rest the event excited in the thousands of spectators who
were present, and will be glad to learn a sketch of the
operations was taken at the time, and a lithograph of
the drawing is now published. To strangers it may be
an interesting fact to know that this cylinder, con-
structed under the superintendence of Mr. Campbell, the
engineer of the works, weighing 300 tons, being 90 feet
in length, 37 feet in diameter at the top, and 35 feet in
diameter at the bottom, was not only floated successfully
from the shore of the Tamar to the centre of the river,
oislecoofvet
but has been there skilfully sunk, perpendicularly, to
the rock, penetrating through 14 feet thickness of mud,
toapt.higThhetidweh
athned when completed, will
rival the Britatinia.Tubular Bridge for astounding effect.
afternoon the Lord Provost, in
covered
wbYorwk,ater to within 6 feet of
MILITIA FORCE FOR EDINBURGH.--On Satertday
his capacity of Lord
Lieutenant of the city, received an official conemunica-
tion from Viscount Palmerston, the HomeeSnecretary,
requesting that his lord.hip would. tnaktoe the necessary
steps steps under the act passed last
force for Edinburg
of the corps speedily receiv-
and there is every prospect .
Cis only to number 221, ins
Edinburgh. The enrolmentsessio will be voluntary,
I
jug its full complement, ri-!
GILTSPIIR-STREET I'BI 0 . Y
SALE or
Pullen and Son, the auctioneers for
one o'clock'
Messrs.' e City of London, commenced the
chiding officers. —Caledonia. in
Mercury._eN ____esterday,
at
the Corporation of tl
Compter and House of . ,
orrection which com-
street
sale of the third portion of the materials
c. of the Giltepur-
in Giltspur-street, and containing upwards
of two mil-
lionprises the whole of the extensive massive stone frontage
•roofs, ten tons of lead in gutters, tanks, and pipes,
stock bricks, five thousand feet of sheet copper on
the
&c. The sale also includes the whole of the timber
in the roofs and floors, sashes, marble chimney-
pieces, and interior fittings up of the governor's house,
Atone staircases, railed gate fences, drying apparatus
with machinery, iron steam boilers, baths, pumps, gas
fittings, &c. The materials for sale were divided into
89 lots. The sa'e will be continued this day, in 95
separate lots, which will complete the sale of the entire
building. The whole is to be taken down to the level of
the street, and removed forthwith.

A GOD-SEND.---A few days ago, as the wife of & but-
cher, of Crosley, Wilts, was whitewashing their cottage,
she pulled away an old board from the ceiling, when to
her astonishment and joy a bag containing 8704. in gold
fell to the floor,—Ohatottitant Exantitter.