The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

THE CITY POLICE COMMIS,IONER AND THE CITY PO-
LICE FOECE.-Alr. Commissioner Harvey appeared yestet-
day at the Mansion-house toed! the atteatien of the Lord
Mayor to a report which api cared in the Satailard Lows-
paper of Tuesday moraieg, under the he td of " Guildhall
Police." In that report there were observations stated re
have been made by the presiding 'Magistrate, Alderman
Thomas Wood, which reflected most unmerited reproach
upon the City police force as a body, were unjust towards
the City Police Commissioner, and calculated to impair
his author icy as Commission er, and to excite most injuri-
ous doubts as to the general efficiency of the body.
The LORD NIATOP, with whom Alderman Wilson was
sitting at the time, said, that as the observations of which
the City Police Cenintissioner complained had teen •re-
presented to have been trade in the public office, he could
have no objection to hear the gentlemen who complained
of there, particularly as they referred to so important a
subject es the conduct et the force.
The Police Commissioner said that hr should not
trouble Lis Lordship with tile facts cf the case, although
he underetocd they vac.e abundau lv capable of vie-
dicati en nor should lie trouble his -Lordehip Si )1 ary
remarks vrleit vett, if the language ref orted to have
been used hid fallen from Mr. Thomas Wood as e. simple
iudividual cr as an attorney ; but when it was con.
sidcred that Mr. Wood eas a member of the Court of
Aldetrren, a candi ime for the Civic Cha'r, presiding at
the time us a Magistrate in a Court of Jus'ice, and also
Charman of the Police Committee, it would at once be
pereched that aly observations coming untL r such cir-
cumstances would not fsil t produce the effect he de-
scribed. The renew ks themselves were as unbecoming in
let gunge as they were unwarrareed by the position of the
indiv dual who bad uttered them. If the Corporation ge
nerally, or the Court cf Aldermen, had any just ground to
complain of the police fl; a Municipal Iretitution, or with
the Commissioner intrusted with its direction, a course
was open at once honourable and effectual. and so fir from
shrinking from the mina e t ineMry into the general state
of the City Police, or (f its tea agement, he declared that
nothing would gnat fy him so much as the institution cf
such an• inquity. But then, fir the purpose of render-
ing the inquiry saiefactory to the citizens eat large,
whose servant he was I route to c ;nsider himeelfas teams,
mad ley whom the great expense of sustaining
the police was borne it must not be conducted
in a close Court with closed doors. It was the business of
the public, and the public bad a right to know what foun-
dation Mr. Thomas Wood had fur his charge. It ap-
peared by the Report that a person filling the dignified
station cf Magistraee, in speaking of the Stetior-Clerk,
called that Clerk an "a, imp]," and described the station-
house, which he (tee City Police Commissioner) would
venture to say had never been visited by the Alderman, as
a place of very little crier, and then proceeded, without
having made any communicstian whatever to 'him (the
Commissioner), to give it as his opinion, " that the police
was badly managed by. the Commissioner, and if he did not
receive from the Commissiouer some explanation or assur-
ance of amendment, he should bring the icefficiency of the
force b f ere the Coutt of Alderman." The Commissioner
proceeded to observe that he could sppeal to his Lordship,
as well as to his respectable coal, ague Alderman Wilson,
wham he tem happy to see present, as to his readiness to
afford at all times such returns of the state of crime and of
the conduct of the City Police as his Lordship was autho-
rised to req, ire under the City Mice Act. But with ail
due defeieace to Alderman Thomas Wood, he did not and
should not comider himself amenable to that gentleman to
give allia tees tern el "an explanation cr assurance of
arnendrnei t." He wished further to remark that he did
not doubt ti e readiness of the Court of Aldermen to in-
stitute y iota the general working of the City Police,
or his Inc ividital superintendence, nor did I e for a moment
suppose that the inquiry would not be conducted with im•
partetay ;led opennese, for he fit happy In the convic-
tion thet there was not ore other individual cf that body
who would have been betraye I into the use of observa-
tions so ill adapted to the station which he occupied.
He should net, however, withhold the declaration that if
such inquiry was rot.made, it wool l become the duty, as
lie doubted riot it would be the ready disposition of her
Majesty's G'overnmeet to move for a Committee to in-
quire into the City Police, with powers similar to those
possessed by the Committee appointed to inquire on a
former occasion in ;elation to the state of the Me ropelitan
Police. He had had many d:fficulties to encounter, and
those difficulties were not yet at an end, some cf them
perhaps iteepasable from the very netera of mut itsipt,l in-
stitutions directly under popular control; still he felt
conscicus that the result of the inquiry he solicited would
reflect credit upon tee City Police force as a body, and no
discredit upon the managetteat of that force.

The LORD MAYOR and Alderman WILSON expressed
their convxtion that the Court of Aldermen would act v ith
the most perfect imparti •lity upon being refe:red to on the
subject; and the City Commiisioner intimated his int2e-
tion to memorialise the Court on next day of meeting.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, MARCH 24.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.,
cloudy.
DEAL, MA Rdx,23.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the Ma.
rus, Law, from Berbice ; King William, Croft, Sunderland;
Gem, Cro.ier, ditto. Arrived from the River the Queen Vic-
toria Connor, fur Sydney ; Bait, Macao ; Union,
S,witier, Alan itius; City of London, Antunn Bordeaux; Vul-
can, Patrick, ditto ; Ldas, Potts, Rio Janeiro ; Camillus,
Mules, Demerara ; Mercy, Treadwell, 13arbadovs; Media•or,
Chadwick, New York ; Mary and Ann, Blackstone, St. Jibes ;
Lugan, lhoinrson, 13elfa>t ; Sovereign, Potts, and Charlotte,
Wattle, St. Kitts; Symmetry, Alackwood, Ceylon ;
Le Gallaiy, Mar:enles.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the
Davig, Pus', from Hamburgh ; Diamond, ditto.
PLv3touTn, MARCH 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Mary
Lowther, Pearce, frcm Kertsch ; Eleanor, Shields. Sailed the
Argo, for Hamburgh ; Magiltlena, Bremen; Ludlow, London;
Eclipse, London ; Mary, Belfast. he Casimo, which put in
he.e 19th, leaky, is discharging.
FALMO urn, MARCH 22.—Wind S.W., squally.—Arrived
the Drummore, IU)lone, from Calcutta • Elizabeth, Jackson,
Shit.lds; Atlas, Smirk, Odessa; Hope, Calcutta;
Girgente, with
loss of main-yard; Premier, Abbott, London; Thomas and
Elizaiwith, Heard, Newport, with loss of bulwarks, fore chan-
nels, &c., having been in contact with an American brig;
Iberia steamer, Southampton, and sailed for Vigo. Sailed the
Columbine, Robertsi.n, for Ilamburgh. Arrived off the Li-
zard, Taiornley, from Kert-ch, with loss of foreyard.
TORBAY, MARCH 22.—Arrived the North Briton, Hartle-
pool, from Brest, with lo,s of bulwarks.
Du tiaztatss.-,-Arrived off the Jacob Cats, Drerks, Batavia.
HULL, AlAncll 22. —Wind S.W.—Arrived the Het-arina,
Butler, from Lennmer; Hope, Wilson, Dunkirk; Tweed,
APKenz,e, Chrsme ; Freden, Lunat, Salow. Sailed the Me.
teor, Brown, for St. John's, New Brunswick.

LEITH, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Frederick Wilhelm, from
Konigsberg.
SUNDERLAND, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Agenoria, Swin-
ney, from St. Valery ; Thomas Burden, Cusholm Calais ; Or
bieuar, Steward, Rotterdam; Arthur, Petty, ditto; Galatea,
Elsdr n, Abbeville.

SHIELDS, Ma acts 22.—Arrived the Albion, Tuck, from
St. alery Jane.and Jessica, Campbell, Leghorn; Ida, Bou-
cher, Dunkirk ; Victory, illitchell, Bou'ogtie ; Lucy, Hard-
ing, Amite dam. 'I he Arno, from Yarmouth, was towed in
here this morning, with loss of foremost, bowsirit, &e., hav-
ing Len run into off Scaham by a brig, name unknown.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.-11 ind W., flesh.—Arrived the
Isabel, Greaves, from Lima, sailed Dec. 5 ; Powhattan,
M'Cerran, New Orleans ; Philomela, Buenos Ayres ; Dia-
mond, Demerara; Wellington, New Or!eans, sailed from the
Bar on the 2lst ult. ; Meisey, Apalachicola ; Andover, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Fanny Palmer, Cutting, Smyrna;
Alice Brown, Donald, Naples; Rowena, Tregarthen, Leg-
horn; Ellen Clare, Rocer:s, ditto, with lumps choked, having
experienced very bad wea her ; Hightielil, Africa. The Bar-
bad,..es, from Havannah to Cork, was spoken on the 24th ult.,
in lat. 26, long. 79, wry leaky, and steering for Nassau, by
the Powhattan, arrived here.

PENZANCE, MARCH 22.—The Mary, Stewart, of Cardiff,
was discovered this morning at anchor a quarter of a mile from
Praa Sand, with mainmast gone, and forerna,t about 20 feet
above the deck ; at noon the Sylva revenue cutter succeeded in
taking out three of the crew, but the remainder, master and
mate, pnrsisted in remaining; she is still riding in great peril.
ST. Ives, MARCH 22.—The Ambas-ador, from Newcastle,
was brought in t ere last night in a very ois•ibled sate, with
loss of boats, bulwarks, starichvons, &c., having been thrown
on beam ends, v ith cargo shifted; two mates and one seaman
wash' d o verb .ard.

PORT TALBOT, Mallen 22.—The John Noel, from Hoyle,
on shore under the Breakwater, got off after discharging. The
Mary, also on shore, still remains, but will be discharged to-
morrow.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Caledonia (steamer), from
Liverpool to Halifax, 19th, Ist. 47, lon. 29, by the Powhat an,
arrived at Liverpool. Susan Drew, Liverpool to Boston, 19th,
lat. 49, ion. 14 ; Florist, London to Bombay, 14th, lat. 7, lon.
20, by the Jacob Cats, arrived off Dungeness. Sarah, of
Liverpool, from Bristol. 27th, lat. 38, lon. 3i. Trieste. horn
Trieste, Bth, inst., by the Anna, arrived in the Downs.. Hope,
from Alicata, 7th, in Ilia Straits of Gibraltar, by the Ariadne,
arrived in the Downs.