The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

The most important subject upon the paper was
that respecting the police of the c►ty of London, of
which Alderman Wood had given the following
notice :—" That it be referred to a Committee to
consider the present state of the day and night
police, the evening and night patrol, and nightly
watch within this city; and that the said Com-
mittee do report whether any alteration ought to
be made either in that part of the police paid out
of the Corporation fund, or that paid by the public;
and in that case to report what plan they %% ould rt-
commend for the establishment of a more efficient
force by day or night, and what would be the pro-
bable expense of such force."
Alderman WOOD briefly represented the neces-
sity which existed for an efficient police force in
the city of London. He wished for a Special Com-
mittee, and most distinctly expressed his objection
to refer the subject to the Watch Committee.

This latter observation seemed to excite much
disapprobation.

Alderman VENABLES seconded the motion.

Mr. R. TAYLOR begged to assure the Court that
the Bristol Magistrates had acted badly, because
they were a rotten self-elected body—a body chosen
in the teeth of the people.—(Loud cheers, and
great confusion.) No Magistrates could render any
service to the public except they had the confidence
of their fellow-citizens.—(Hear, hear.)

Several members made some observations, but
the confusion which prevailed prevented our reporter
from herring a word they uttered.

Alderman Wool) would not have the matter re-
ferred to the Watch Committee, because he wished
for an efficient day as well as night police. The
condition of the day police was deplorable; there
had been nothing done as to the prevention of crime
by day, and still an expellee exceeding 40,000/. a
year \YR= incurred to protect the citizens.
Alderman VrNAnLEs said, that all the points ad-
verted to by Alderman Wood were in the report
(lawn up by him, at the period he had alluded to.
Mr. HARMER rose to move, as an amendment,
that the subject should be submitted to the Watch
Committee instead of a Special Committee.
Mr. LEGGE seconded the amendment.
After some further discussion, Alderman Wood's
motion was negatived by a large majority.

TRIA JUNCTA IN UNo.—This celebrated
motto w.,s curiously verified in a parochial meeting last
week, in which a female, brought up to filiate a❑ illegiti-
mate child, ingenuously offered the parish officers their
choice from three gay Lotharios, two of whom, a surgeon
in practice, not a hundred miles from this town, and a
farmer of rep ctahility, residing within the same distance,
had long since passed the meridian of their days—the third
a sturdy labourer, who was more than suspected to be the
fortuna.e hero, escaped the usual punishment, the guilty con-
science of one of the other parties having offered a douceur
of fifty pounds to the female to place the laurel on another
head than his.—Deccmport Telegraph.
_ . _

A few nights since a young lady, whose friends
are residing on the Marine Parade at Dover, during the
temporary absence of her female attendant, in a fit of de-
lirium, leaped out of the upstairs window and fell into the
area, and though much bruised she contrived to ascend the
stairs of the court, and walked from thence across the
beach to the edge of the sea, where she was found almost
in a state of nudity by a gentleman, who, having kindly
wrapped his cloak round her, cause.' the night police to
convey her to the watch-house, and place her by the fire.
Here her friends, after an anxious and diligent search, dis-
covered her, and Lad her conveyed home in the family
carriage and every attention shown her ; but whether front
the effects of her fall, the severity of the weather, or from
both, she only survived up to Monday last.
We have seldom had to record a more affect-
ing instance of the sudden termination of life than oc-
curred at the village of Askam Richard, near this city,
last week. An aged couple, of the name of RFNNISON,
had long subsisted on the pittance afforded by the parish.
On Wednesday the husband arose and prepared breakfast
for his partner, which he carried up to her in her bed.
On approaching the bedside, he found that, in the short
space since he had left her, the mortal struggle had passed.
In his grief at this sudden bereavement he was heard to
exclaim that " he wished the Loan would provide a place
for him also." His prayer was heard—for before the close
of the evening he was called to " where the weary are at
rest." Their remains were interred in one grave on SA•
turd my last.— York Courant.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—Near the town
of Bromsgrove are four sisters, named MARIA, MARY,
SARAH, and ELIZA RICHARDSON, the produce of one
birth, who were born on the night of the 23d March,
1919, and have now consequently rr.ained the age of
nearly 13 years. The event, as may readily he supposed,
cursed a considerable stir among the neighbours, and the
Rev. Mr. Ihncs, minister of the place, arose and baptized
the children on the instant, considering it improbable that
they w, uld survive till the morning. The ruin whose
family increased so prqd igiously was at the time a labourer,
who worked upon the roads for one shilling a day ; and
both before and since this quadruple birth his wife had
borne other children singly. They then occupied a
wretched hovel, but the presents which they received from
visitors, who flocked from all parts to see them, enabled
them in a short time to remove to a wore comfortable
dwelling, arid placed them in easy circumstances. The
four girls were all living so lately as last week, healthy,
and rather genteel looking children, so much alike in ap-
pearance as not to be readily known apart, except by per-
sons accustomed to tbeni.—Hall Packet,

REFORM in the COUNTY of DONEGAL.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
GREAT TRIUMPH OF PUBLIC FEELING AND
DEFEAT OF TILE CORRUPTIONISTS.

LETTERKENNY, JAN. Is.—The corruptionists received
such a defeat here yesterday as I think will effectually
save this county from any future factious attempt to dis-
turb the harmony and concord that happily exist amongst
its people. Pursuant to a requisition, addressed to the
High Sheriff, yesterday was fixed for a meeting of the
gentry, clergy, and freeholders of this county to petition
against Reform, and give expression to public feeling upo❑
that question. The people of this county were determined
to repudiate this attempt to misrepresent Protestant
feeling, and to repel such an imputation upon their
loyalty. Accordingly measures were taken to give scope
to the exhibition of genuine Protestant feeling, and in the
teeth of the discomfited corruptionists to proclaim that in
no part of the empire has his Majesty more loyal subjects,
nor hie Ministers more firm supporters. The Rev. Mr.
Boyton, of Trinity College, had come down a few days
previews, and had been using all his efforts to make the
affair go off as well as possible. Colonel Conolly arrived
the day previous, and I have been informed that the other
county member, Sir E. Hayes, bad been for the last three
weeks scouring the country for a muster.
Twelve o'clock was the hour of meeting, and an im-
mense number of persons were assembled outside the
Court-house, the doors of which were kept closed. The
Rev. Mr. Boyton, Colonel Conolly, Sir E. Hayes, anti a
?ew tnore, judging that the storm was gathering, remained
in conclave at the inn until after two o'clock—at which
hour the Court-house was opened, and instantly filled in
all parts. Shortly after the High Sheriff appeared on
the bench, and announced that it had been moved, unts'ele,
by Sir James Stewart, and seconded by Mr. Doherty, that
the meeting should adjourn sine die. This announcement
was hailed with tremendous acclamations, and the few of
the ultras that had ventured to appear, slunk away amid a
vehement expression of the indignation of the peoi le. It
was at once determined on the spot to hold a counter meet-
ing the county in favour of Reform, and the Court-house
being insufficient to eontain the assembled thous olds, a tem-
poral y pl ttforni of tables was formed in the large space oppo-
site the Court-house, and the chair having been taken by a
gentleman of great wealth and respectability, a series of re-
solutions, and an address to his Majesty in favour of Re-
form were adopted, amid a tremendous exhibition of in-
tense public emotion. Amongst the former, and received
in a highly flattering manner, was a vote of thanks to the
proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, for his co-operation
and assistance. No praise can be too great for the conduct
of the Protestants and Pi esbyteriaos of this town, who re-
c-ived, with uncommon feelings of disgust and abhorrence,
the attempt to dissociate them from their Catholic neigh-
bours, and to revive those pernicious discords and party
feuds, of whose disastrous results they have had too ample
an experience. The high and generous state of Protestant
feeling and sentiment in the North is not sufficiently un-
derstood. So far as I have witnessed here. I have never
seen any thing to surpass its vehemence and intensity.