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DIVIDENDS.

Thomas Tarratt, Bath, haberdasher, Aug. 22, at ten, ;ft
the Court of Commissioners—John Pottinger Birkhead,
Watlington, Oxfordshire, apothecary, Aug. 26, at eleven,
at the Mitre Inn, Oxford—Thomas Colbeck, Westhouse,
Fewston, William Ellis, Castlefield, Bingley, Jacob Willis.
sen. Burley, Otley, William Holdsworth, Bradford, and
John Holdsworth, Morley, Batley, Yorkshire, flax-spin •
tiers, Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—
Mary Roberts, Penryn, Cornwall, mercer, August
20, at eleven, at the house of Richard Share, inn-
keeper, Penryn—Thomas Crutchley, Birmingham, ie-
tualler, August 25, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Binning -
ham—John Wilson, Leeds, confectioner, August 25, at
eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds—John Murton, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, shoe-maker, August 28, at twelve, at
the George Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Thomas Hope,
sandwich, Kent, hoyman, August 22, at ten, at the Guild-
hall, Canterbury—Stephen Filcher, Ramsgate, baker, Sept.
15, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canterbury—Richard Ayr-
ton Pullen, juu. Leeds, snuff-manufacturer, August 26, at
ten, at the Sessions-house, Leeds—Thomas Crawshaw,
Leeds, woolstapler, August 26, at twelve, at the Session:,
house, Leeds—Charles Sykes, Leeds, surgeon, August 26,
at eleven, at the Sessions-house, Leed►—llarriett Harring-
ton and Joseph Harrington, Helmet-row, St. Luke's, ea -
lenderers, August 22, at twelve, at the Court of Comtnia-
sioners—Sanitiel Slingtby, Cheapside, cotton printer, Au-
gust 22, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—Wil-
liam Coale., Wisbeach, grocer, August 22, at eleven, at
the Court of Commissioners—Samuel Tyrrell, Bexhill,
Sussex, common brewer, August 26, at eleven, at the Star
Inn, Lewes—John Smith and William Brown, Finsbury -
square, carpet-manufacturers, August 22, at eleven, at the
Court of Commissioners—William Jordan, Leeds, builder,
August 25, at twelve, at the Court-house, Leeds—Mark
Davis, Great Bolton, Lancashire, timber-merchant, Au-
gust 26, at two, at Hayward's Hotel, Manchester—Joseph
Brooks, Bath, victualler, August 23, at eleven, at the
White Hart Inn, Bath.
CERTIFICATES—At; c. 22.

flaoiunrs: a e
lLoughborough,flour-seller—John
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Cook,
c Leicestershire,hertseLou,Surrey.
imariaisd Gains,
plumber—Richard Wrigley, sen., James Wrigley, William
Roekliff, and Stephen Wrigley, Liverpool, blacksmith:.
—Alexander Goudgc, Spital-square, paviour—Henry Hal -
let Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, tailor—William Henry
Pease, Basingball-street, cloth-factor—Joseph Baughton,
Tewkesbury, scrivener—John Satterthwaite, Tower-street,
wine-merchant—Thomas Wilson, Westminster-bridge-road,
oil and colour-man—John Bateman, Comptou-street,
Clerkenwell, back. maker and malt-roaster—William Clark,
Kingston-upon-Hull, seedaman—Joseph Viney, Bristol,
cabinet-maker—James Roberts, Rosa, Hereford, mercer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

James U. Worry and D. Tonge, Liverpool, brokers—
John Johnson and John Owens Johnson, Liverpool—
Daniel Solomon and John Hadkins, Birmingham, jewel-
lers—Thomas Hodgson and Wm. Ryde, Manchester,
colour-manufacturers—John Shaw and John Begg,
Manchester, common-brewers—Richard Peyton and Abel
Peyton, Birmingham, chemists—Frances Firth, Mary
Booth, and Elita Booth, Lees, Lancashire, drapers—
Harry Widnell and George Ogilvy, Liolborn, carpet-manu-
facturers—John Robinson, Stonebreaks, John Robinson,
Woodbroek, Robert Lawton and Thomas Lawton, Shel-
derslow, Yorkshire, cotton-spinner's—Henry Robert Plaw
and Theodor Lewis Schleswich, Fenchurch-street, traders
—Rhoda Leonora Wills and Elizabeth Hemment, Half-
Moon-street, Piccadilly, milliners—Thomas Elliot, sen.,
and Thomas Elliot, jun., Princes-street, Hanover-square,
tailors—Herbert Richardson and Henry Richardson, Taun-
ton, Somersetshire, hosiers—John Gottlieb Ulrich and
Joseph Croucher, Cornbill, chronometer-makers—William
Hood and John Hood, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire,
curries—Frederick Lewellen and John Aylward, New-
market-street, Wapping, tailors—Joseph Locker and
James Taylor, Bucknall, Staffordshire, maltsters—J. Ri-
chardson, jun., and Joseph Richardson, sea., Greenwich,
undertakers—John Cherry and Charles Cherry, Birming-
ham, patten-tie-manufacturers—Bailey Hillyard, John
Hillyard, anti Joseph Scott, Oxford, spirit merchants—
Thomas Carr and James Crosby, Sunderland-near-the-
Sea, ship-chandlers—Edward Jackson and James Foote,
Stockport, manufacturers
and George Byrne, sen., Bath, cheese-factors—Samuel
atyers Rotherhithe,
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Blis'
Binus and George Binns, Carnden-town, eabinet7manufac-
turer Luke Freeman, Henry Spencer Heathcote, and
John Curling Osborn, Coleman-street, attorneys—jam, •,
Deptford, and
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Carter,
Wall,
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makers—John Coulthard, Robert Hill, and Thomas Rirk-
erby, Nottingham, mercers.
scoTCH SEQUESTRATION.
William Gardner, Linlithgow, merchant, Aug. j aryl
19, at one, at the Crown Inn, Falkirk.

The other morning a youngohininey-sweeper
peetvil Ivzrliesll:lslcci evinced
gitaitergildi deuhuni,hsidin:v•nnhleteaahisitrtele him. The repetition nenh.:
teahlise:rti:eatoll.h:ot buttered roll. While
agm(iratification, he observed a dog lying
thariad7firsen“leloaroahruacfloeilditolhiwait
poor fell:iv, ' in a good natured tone, brought the qua-
druped from his resting place. He wagged his tail, looked
up with an eye of humble entreaty, and in that universal
language which all nations understand, asked for a morsel
of bread. The sooty tyrant held his remnant of roll to-
wards him, but on the dog gently offering to take it,
struck him with the brush so violent a blow across the nose
as nearly broke the bone. A gentleman who had been,
unperceived, a witness to the whole transaction, put a six.
WILT between his finger and thumb, and beckoned the boy
to an opposite door. The bey grinned at the silver, but
on stretching out his hand to receive it the teacher of hu-
manity give him such a rap upon his knuckles with
cane as made him ring. His hand tingling with pain, and
tsarsTo startingm ak eyou feel," w
froinhiseayses,he asked what that was fur ?
the reply. " How do you like
a blow and a disappointment ? The dog endured both !”
will no doubt have a better effect than a volume of ethics..
This was a good practical lesson, the record of which

THE POLICE or THE METROPOLIS.

THE SELECT COMMIT:CEE APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE

CAUSE OF T 1 INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF COM-

31ITMENT3 AND CONVICTIONS IN LONDON AND MIDDLE-

SEX, AND IXTO THE STATE •F THE FM4CE OF THE ME-

TitoroW,, AND Or THE DISTRICTS ADJOINING THERETO.

(CONTINUED FROM OUR PIPBE OF THURSDAY.)

In 1818, a Committee appointed to inquire into
'the state of the Police of the Metropolis, made the
following observations on the Report of its prede-
cessor in 1812: t

" PARISH OFFicEasi—Your Committee refer
generally to the Report which was made on this
:subject in the year 1812, by a Committee of the
House, entitled, " A Report on the Nightly Watch
and Police of the Metropolis."
The Report enters fully into details of this branch
of Police, and sets forth the law, and the practice
under the law, of the parishes of the metropolis.
Notwithstanding various changes were suggested by
the Committee, none have been effected.

The system, such as it was, still remains. Though
your Committee may not concur in all the projects
which are there set forth, yet it appears to them to
be most expedient to make some immediate altera-
tion in the general r:rode of conducting the inferior
department of the, -Police.
" There se•etns to be wanting altogether in the
western div;ision of the metropolis, an unity of pro-
ceeding., or that dependence of parts on each other,
without which no well constituted and efficient sys-
tem of Police can be expected."
The Police Committee of 18'22, though not dis-
posed to recommend a fundamental change in the
system under which the police of the whole metro-
polis is adMinistered, and expressing an opinion that
the obstruction to public justice and the ma►ntenance
of the peace exists practically in a much less degree
than m►ght have been apprehended, admits, that the
system is open to one obvious objection—that the
parts of which it is composed are disunited, and
under the control of different and unconnected au-
thorities:

It states that a limited control given to the Police
Magistrates over the nightly watch had had very sa-
lutary effects ; and strongly recommends more fre-
quent communications between the Police officers
and the vestries of the parishes within their respec-
tive districts, on the subject of the nightly watch
generally.
Your Committee will now proceed to submit to
the consideration of the House some portions of the
evidence which has been adduced before them as to
the present. state of the Metropolis and its vicinity,
in regard to the Local Police.
An inhabitant of one of the parishes in the centre
of the Metropolis, being himself a parish constable,
gives the following evidence as to the state of the
watch in his parish :
What state is the watch in, in that parish ?.-1 consider
the watch to be in a very defective state. lam far from
entertaining any national antipathies, but I consider it im-
proper for the majority of the watch to be all Irish,
because I have known instances where there have been
squabbles, and the principals in the squabbles have been
Irish, who have been permitted to 'go about their business,
and no cognizance taken of it.
What is the total number of the watch ?—I do not know.
What is the reg;ilstion as to age ?-1 do net think there
is any specific regulation; weAiave one man between sixty
and seventy years of age, and deaf.
Who appoints the watch?--They are appointed by the
Watch Beard. _

Are there many applications for appointments ?-INlany

applications.
Do they generally take persons that reside in the parish ?
--I think not ; it has been my practice every night, when
I have been constable, except when I was ill, to go and
superintend the watch till after midnight.
Have they watch-boxes in your parish ?—No:
How often do the watch go their rounds?—Every half
hour.
Are the watchmen relieved ?—No.

Where do they pass the night between, the periods of
going their rounds ?—Partly on the steps of the inhabitants'
houses, and under the piazzas, and round the coffee stands;
which 'are a very great nuisance ; they are there nearly all
night in conversation with the prOstitutes., and other bad
characters, except when disturbed by the anperior officers
of the parish.
The evidence of Mr. Gregory, an inhabitant of
Spitalfields, while it is satisfactory as to the present
state of that district, compared with its recent state,
and is very creditable to his own exertions, shows
how imperfect is the security which the present sys-
tem affords for the regulation of the local police, and
what are the consequences of neglect.
tie states that he has himself now the superin-
tt.ndance of tile watch ; that the number of watch-
men is twenty-one; that they had the same number
before; but now they are better looked after, because
the late treasurer was a very old gentleman, and he
was blind, and he did not seem to manage the watch
at all.

The following answers, given by Mr. Gregory,
are important, as tending to chew the lamentable
state to which an important district of the metro-
polis may be reduced by neglect, and the advantage
(the local advantage at least) of exertions made for
the improvement of the Police.
Have your occupation and residence enabled you to make
any particular observations as to the state of the lower po-
pulation in Spitalfields ?—lt has ; some years ago the state
of the parish was so bad, that there were 120 of the in-
habitants, sworn in as special constables, put under my di-
rection ; there were such depredations people could not go
along the streets, and the police of the district were not
sufficient for the protection of the district ; I consulted
with Mr. Beville, the Magistrate at Worship-street, and
we used to patrol the streets from dusk until the watch
was yet.
What is the comparative state of the district of Spital-
fields now, with reference to what it was at that time?—lt
is much better now, because we were the means of .bring-
ing to justice a great number of very daring offenders ;
some were executed, several were transported : one of our
special constables, of the name of Reynolds, a very efficient
man, resided at the corner of Roper-street, that is the next
street to Wentworth-street, which used to be the worst
place in the whole metropolis, and from his exertions and
perseverance, and my own and many others, we certainly
got rid of, I suppose, from twenty to forty, some of whom
were transported, and some were hanged.
Has the consequence of that been the decrease of crime ?
consider that the crimes committed in Spitalfields hove
decreased, but there are several old thieves who are about
Wentworth-street now, that have been there for a great
number of years, aml those fellows are suffered to remain ;
Ido not know why they are not brought to justice. I
have never, myself, had an opportunity of detecting them
in any thing ; one was a very old offender, that I saw rob
a gentleman in Bishopsgate-street, and I apprehended him,
not at that time, because there was a daring gang with
him ; but I knew his face, and he was apprehended and
executed for highway robbety.
It is your apprehension that these bad characters who
reside in Spitalfields, do not commit depredations in Spital-
fields, on account of the activity of the police in that dis-
trict, but that they commit depredations in other parts of
the metropolis ?—Yes. .
The evidence as to the state of the ponce 111
parishes not forming a part of the metropolis, but
tmmediately in its vicinity, and totally differing as
to their circumstances, the character of their popu-
lation, and the frequency of crime, from ordinary
country parishes, is peculiarly deserving of consi-
deration.

In the parish of Edgeware, it is stated that there
are no police men, no regular patrol ; there are
watchmen employed during winter, and they are paid
by subscription. The number of watchmen is three.
Very few of the inhabitants contribute.
The watchmen were appointed in consequence of
same very daring burglaries in the centre of the town
of Edgeware.
The"witness who was examined thinks that the
whole of the hundred of Gore is much upon a-par, as
to police, with the town of Edgeware,
A witness from Acton gave evidence to the fol-
lowing effect :
That the parish is in good order now.
That in consequence of nightly depredations, the
inhabitants some time since determined to make an
effectual watch if they could ; that the principal in-
habitants agreed to a voluntary tax to pay the ex-
pence!, and appointed a Committee to go out alter-

nately, at different times of the night, to gee that the
watchmen did their duty.
Since the establishment of the watch, crime has
wonderfully decreased; there has been no serious
burglary since.
Another witness from the same place states, that
the watch costs about one hundred a year. That
there has been no depredation since its establish-
ment; that the fund for its support has fallen oft;
and they are now reducing the number of watchmen.
He adds, that the respectable people who voluntarily
go out to assist the police, find it an inconvenient
operation. They complain of getting cold ; some
have had severe sore throats, and they have declined
going out in great measure.
This witness states, that the two 'adjoining
parishes, where there is not so efficient a watch as
there is in Acton, crime is increasing dreadfully.
There is scarcely a night without something occur-
ring; the most audacious burglaries and robberies
are committed.

A witness resident in Chelsea gave evidence, of
which the following is an extract :
Do you live at Chelsea ?--Upon the south side of Ken-
sington Palace, near Brampton.
You have an estate in Chelsea parish ?--The Fulham-.
road separates the two parishes.
Could you give the Committee any• information as to
what is the state of the parish with reference to the security
of property ; is there much depredation committed ?—The
parish has been exposed to a great many petty robberies,
such as carrying away linen, gardener's tools, t.nd breaking
into houses; there was a house in Brompton broken into
about a fortnight ago, and every person is upon their guard
as well as they can be.
Do they take away lead ?—Yes, where they have an op-
portunity ; in empty houses they carry away the coppers,
and every thing that is moveable.
• What you call fixtures ?—Yes.
Have you no police in your parish that would be suffi-
cient to prevent that sort of depredation ?—We have in
the adjoining districts ; I find they have watchmen; who
collect money from the inhabitants ; some pay 6d. some
Is. and so forth ; these people, after they have been
in two or three rears, they collect probably Ss. 9s. or 10s.
a week, and they cannot make a living out of it. The in-
habitants find that they get very little service from them,
and they do not pursue the course they ought to do to dis-
charge them. In the district where I live we collect our
money quarterly in advance; we have appointed a Com-
mittee to manage the watch fund so collected, and the watch-
men are superintended by that Committee.
Do you know any thing of the state of the adjoining
parishes; if they are in a good state or not ?—Why, the
adjoining parish of Chelsea is very much exposed, and, in
fact, there is a place which may be known to the Corn-
mittee, where Mr. Oven's Chapel was (he was Secretary
to the Bible Society), going down to Battersea Bridge, by
Little Chelsea, a place called Park-place ; last winter there
were five or six houses robbed ; there was one of these old
men who collected the wages weekly ; the old man told me
his wages had once been as high as 255. a week, and now
he collects 7s. hut be has not bread, and cannot afford to
do his duty. The people have withdrawn their subscrip-
tions
in consequence of the number of robberies; he is un- '
fit for the duty.
That is the general state of the parishes around that
part ?—Yes.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)