The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

MARYLEBO'NE VESTRY

THE POLICE.—At the Marylebonc vestry on Saur-
day, the alleged inefficiency of the metropolitan police
was brought under the notice of the vestry by Mr.
Flood reading the following communication from the
Police Commissioners :
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"Sir,—The Commissioners of Police of the metropolis
have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
24th inst., stating that you are directed by the vestry of
SG Marylebone to apply to them for a return of the
number of police employed in the parish, and that as a
committee of vestry is appointed to take the return into
consideration, you request an early answer. The Com-
missioners have to state in reply, for the information of
the vestry, that the police divisions have not been formed
with reference to parochial boundaries, and that the
parish of St. Marylebone, from its great extent, forms
part of three divisions (D, called the Marylebone divi-
sion, the E, or Holborn division, and the S, or Hamp-
stead division). The beats of the constables on such
divisions are formed according to local circumstances,
without reference to the boundary of a parish, and the
number of constables on duty in particular parts is
varied from time to time, as circumstances make desir-
able. The Commissioners have always felt it proper
not to state the number of police on duty in any parti-
cular district by day or night, and they beg to observe,
that the actual number of police on duty at any place,
would not give a just representation of the amount of pro-
tection by the police given at that place. The distribu-
tion of the police force throughout the police district is
mane with a view to afford the utmost degree of protec-
tion to the whole, by rendering the police in each part as
effective as possible, and the services of the entire police
force, or any portion of it, are available, if required, for
the protection of any particular part of the district.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"RICHARD MAYNE.
" Metropolitan Police-office, 4, Whitehall-place,
Nov. 20."
After several gentlemen had complained of the insuf-
ficiency of the police, the foregoing communication was
entered on the minutes.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSNS.—Air. Flood read the
following from Sir George Grey, with reference to the
establishment of baths and washhouses:—" Whitehall,
Nov. 17, 1846. Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir
George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 14th instant, transmitting for his approval a reso-
lution of the vestry of St. Marylebone, that the Act for
the establishment of Public Baths and Washhouses (9th

and 10th Vict., c. 74), be adopted in that parish; and I
am to inform you, that as the sanction of the Secretary
of State was required by the Act, in order to afford an
opportunity for any objections being stated and consi.
dered to a resolution of vestry, Sir George Grey must
allow a moderate time for this purpose, although in the
present case he has much satisfaction in believing that
no objections are likely to be made to the unanimous
decision of the vestry.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
S. M. PHILLIPS.—To the Vestry Clerk of the parish of
St. Marylebone."
TEN POUND HOUSEHOLDERS.--A circular from Sir
G. Grey, Secretary of State, requesting that an inclosed
copy of a form for making a return of the number of
houses of 101. value and upwards, in every city and
borough in England and Wales returning Members to
Parliament, be filled up, was referred to the vestry-clerk.

DEATH CAUSED BY LEVERETS.—As Joseph Flem-
mg, coachman to the Messrs. Felgate, Bowdesley Bury
was riding a spirited mare, three leverets, which he had
in his pocket, commenced squeaking. Their noise
frightened the mare, and she dashed away at a full gallop,
pitching off Fleming, who was killed on the spot.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—At six o'clock on Fri-
day morning a Greenwich waterman, named Charles
Webb, about forty-eight years of age, having to pilot a
vessel up from Gravesend, made his skiff fast to a
schooner going rapidly down the river. Webb was
supposed to have fallen asleep, whilst his son, a lad
about seventeen years old, kept a look-out. Off Pur-
fleet a Government lighter struck the skiff, and cut it
completely in two. Webb sunk to rise no more, but a
boat having been lowered from the schooner, the lad was
picked up in a state of utter insensibility. Webb has
left a wife and seven children utterly unprovided for.
LORD CAMPBELL AN LL.D.—The Senatus Aca-
demicus of the University of St. Andrew's, on the 14th
instant, unanimously conferred the degree of LL.D. on
the Right Hon. Lord Campbell, formerly an alumnus of
this University.
THE ROMANCE OF WAR; OR, THE HIGHLANDERS
IN SPAIN. BY JAMES GRANT, ESQ., LATE 62D.
RECT. 3 voLs.—The above work is published this day
by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had at all the libraries.
The following new works of fiction are also now ready :
1. Caesar Borgia, an historical romance, by the author of
Whitefriars.-2. Men of Capital, by Mrs. Gore.-3
The Roman Traitor, by H. W. Herbert, Esq., author of
Oliver Cromwell.-4. Marston, O'Sullivan, uthr of Sala-
thiel.-5. Adventures of Captain by W. H.
Maxwell, Esq.-6, Confessions of a Pretty Woman, by
Miss Pardoe ; and 7. The Citizen of Prague, edited by
Mary Hewitt ; second edition.
Our readers will recollect that on the occasion of
the marriage of the daughtcr of the Duchess de Berry
with the Prince cf Lucca, some ladies of Lyons sent to
the bride various rich silks for hangings and for her
toilet. The Princess has written to acknowledge the
safe arrival of the present in terms of gratitude, assuring
the donors that the hangings should be immediately put
up where they would constantly be before her eyes, and
that she will with great pleasure adorn her person with
the ;ilk droses,—Galignani.