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

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The following is the report of the Minister of the
Interior to the Emperor on IhiS subject :
" Sire,—ln your constant solicitude for the welfare and
security of the citizens, you have direct'ed 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 services
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 thezreat 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, it the presence everywhere, at all
hours both day and night, of numerous agents, each of whom,
charged with the exclusive surveillance of a very circure-
-ecribed beat;-constantly vatrols-i4is- 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
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 personne/scarcely
sow
gives a real effective strength of 750 sergens de
yrthree hundred of these are employed on special
o
leaving only 450 felt the sur-
veillance e
services,twelve arrondissements, and from this
number m
ill-
ness, leave of absence, or other causes. If these 450 men
onfst extraordinary
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deducted.those who as
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 same
time. For the 48 sections of Paris, this would be only
three men for each. Su,ch 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,
825,000 square metres of ground, and 26,325 inhabitants.
on an average, watch over and protect
In London the police constables alone, without reckoning
the superintendents, the inspectors, the sergeants, and the
supernumeraries, the number of whom varies, amount to
4,764, or five times more than the effective strength of the
Pari'ian police, for a population which is not more than
double that cfParis.
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tion of a head commissary of police, assisted as' now b
sub-chief and 12 clerks :-Ist. For the general
services,
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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 arrondisse.
manta, 12 officers de pair, 36 brigadiers, 288 sub:
brigadiers, 2,415 sergens de vile, and 24i supernume-
raries, in all 2,992 men. There would be besides under the
authority of the prefect, the commissary of police, charged
with the general control of the service out of the prefec-
ture, assisted by a secretary, an officer de paix, 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 on 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 bounder the direction and responsibi-
lity of an officer de pail. By this combination, without 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 paix,
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 corer the interest of
the outlay, and this permanent centralization of the public
f irce will present evident advantages dyer its present die.
semination.

" Such, sire, are the fandamental 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 million's
less than in London). Tee city of Paris only now 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 constant presence in its populous streets of
men always ready at the first call to give assistance, infer.
mation, or protection. The department of the Seine will,
moreover, find in the powerles'ness to which evil-deers 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
s iould he 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 organize.
ton, always and everywhere present, the exciters of dis-
turbance will be checked in the first step in their guilty
attemps, 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 neces,ary 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 leas
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 safest and most tranquil ; the latter benefit is as
valuable as the former, and will be equally appreciated by
France and by Europe.

4‘l am, L:c., BILLAULT."
The above report is followed by two decrees. One
fixes the person/le/ 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 de 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 1,608 f. ; 2,876 sergents de vine, 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-brigadiers, at 3,000 f. ;
20 inspectors, fioin 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.

THE ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE ACROSS TIM
T./WAIL—LAUNCHING THE CTLINDER.—Those who
witnessed the operation of lowering the stupendous
cylinder within which is to be built the centre pier for
the support of this bridge, will recollect the intense inte-
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 b.
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,
but has been there skilfully sunk, perpendicularly, to
the rock, penetrating through 14 feet thickness of mud,
and at high tide is covered by water to within 6 feet of
the top. The whole of this work, when completed, will
rival the Britannia Tubular Bridge for astoundine ('ff-ct.
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—On sy
in his capacity of Lord
Lieutenant of the city, received an official communica-
tion from Viscount Palmerston, the Home Secretary,
requesting that his lordship would take the necessary
steps under the act passed last session to raise a militia
force for Edinburgh. The enrolment will be voluntary,
and there is every prospect of the corps speedily reeeiv-
ing its full complement, as it is only to number 221, hi
eluding officers.—
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ILTsPIIR-STREET Rlk .—Y es erd ay, at
Messrs. Pullen and Son, the auctioneers for
ueinetd, onian
mercury. P
SALE OF =
c.o.*
one o'clock
the third portion of the materials of the Giltspur-
street Compter and House of Correction, which com-
prises of
the Corporation of the City of London, commenced the
W iole of the extensive massive stone frontage
prises the
an-
ia Giltspur-street, and containing upwards of two mil-
lion stock bricks, five thousand feet of sheet copper on
the roofs, ten tons of lead in gutters, tanks, and pipes,
&c. The sale also includes the whole of the timber
in the roofs and floors, sashes, marble chiransy.
pieces, and interior fittings up of the governor's house,
stone staircases, railed gate fences, (trying apparatus
with machinery, iron steam boilers, baths, pumps, g
do
fittings, &c. The materials for sale were divided into
89 lots. The sale will be continued this day, in 96
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, a►s the Wife of a but-
cher, of Crosley, Wilts, was whitewashing their cottage,
she polled away an old board from the ceiling, when to
her astonishment and joy a bag containing 370 i. in gold
fell to the floor.—Chatenham Examiner.