The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP Till PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Mr. Sadler will perhaps find reason to wish,
before long, that he had been less a " free
trader" in party doctrines th m he chose to ex-
hibit himself at Whitby. A correspondent of
ours dedicates a letter to this personage, in his
quality of intellectual rump to the Duke of
Newcastle, from the perusal of which, if he does
not (as we are afrid he will not) learn to be
more candid on future occasions, he may at
least feel the necessity of becoming more circum-
spect in the practice of controversial fraud. Mr.
Sadler, in his speculation upon the feelings of a
Whitby audience, dived desperately into the two
grand fountains of the sublime, and brought up
heavy specimens of pity and terror, wherewith
alternately to melt the magnates of the blubber-
trade, and to petrify them. He told them how
much they had already lost through the agency
of the Devil and Mr. Huskisson, and how much
they would inevitably lose hereafter, if those
joint spirits of the free-trade abomination were
not to be exercised forthwith. Among the
statements of the Newcastle-factotum was one
concerning the ship?ing interest, which our cor-
respondent has shown up in a manner that
must be especially satisfactory to the member
for Newark. He (we mean the letter-writter)
explains most clearly how it is that the returns
of' ships, tonnage, and seamen, appear to have
fallen off of late years as compared with some of
a more ancient period, by merely stating an
unanswerable fact,—that it is only with-
in these two or three years an accurate re-
gistry of the amount of mercantile shipping
has been kept in any public office. From the
peace, down to 1823, a great number of vessels
were kept on the annual returns of the Custom-
house which had ceased to exist in any other
quarter; but in that year an Act passed, dom-
pelling an exact registry of all ships throughout
the empire ; which Act, requiring a lengthened
correspondence with mercantile men all over the
world, only came into complete operation in the
course of the year 1826, and so as to affect the
returns of 1827 very sensibly. In that year it
will be seen that, as compared with 1826, there
is an apparent falling off of more than 1,400
vessels; but in 1828, as compared with 1827,
there is a considerable increase. Then as to the
ships built in given years,—if, as our correspon-
dent requires, the drunken and bubble years of
1825 and 1826 be struck out (and they ought
to be so, as disgraceful in more ways than one
to the history of commercial speculation),—
there will appear to have been more ships built
in 1827 and 1828 than in any other two years
since the peace, and more (and this is a bitter
pill for Dr. Sadler) than were built in any three
years out of the four which immediately pre.
ceded Mr. 1-luskisson's measures—via., 1820,
1821, 1822, 1823. The tables stand thus :
sum BUM
In 1820 BBS In 1823 847
1821 972 1527 1,440
1822 7BO IS2B 1,185
Will this satisfy the worthy speech-maker for the
present P— Times.
We have been favoured with some authentic
particulars which preceded and accompanied the
fall of Adrianople, and which establish the su-
periority of the Russian General over his anta-
gonists in the arts of negociation as decisively as
his military movements had previously done in
the art of war. Our information comes from a
gentleman who very lately passed from Constan-
tinople through the Rus4an force assembled at
Adrianople, and is of a nature as curious as it is
accurate. After the passage of the Balkan had
been forced, and no further obstacle was opposed
to the investment of Adrianople, the Pacha who
commanded the garrison found his men so dis-
heartened as to extinguish any hope of successful
resistance; and he in consequence attempted to
open a negociation with Count Diebitsch for the
surrender of the place upon certain conditions.
This the Count peremptorily declined ; but of-
fered to receive the capitulation of the garrison,
on the understood terms that they should sur-
render their arms, and be forthwith conveyed to
a distance from the seat of war. "As for the
city," said the victorious General, " I will treat
only with the elders and respectable inhabitants."
To this arrangement dire necessity exacted sub-
mission: the Pacha and his garrison were dis-
armed and sent to the sea-coast,to be from thence
transported into Asia. A numerous depute •
tion of the inhabitants waited on the RusSian
Commander, including many of the survivors of
the Janissaries, to whom the Count gave every
assurance of protection so long as circumstances
permitted his stay ; " but (added he) I know
that, as Janissaries, you are obnoxious to the
Sultan and his Ministers. I come to restore
your order; and that you may not be defence-
less in the event of my being called on to pro-
ceed, I shall place in your hands the arms sur-
rendered by the men who were the principal
cause of your destruction." The consequence
was what might be expected ; the partizans of
the old order of things declared themselves loudly
and unanimously in favour of the invaders, and
it is even supposed, that had it been found ne-
cessary, many of them would have taken the
field under his standard. It is but justice to
the Russian army to state that their discipline
and good conduct at Adrianople is exemplary;
and the contrast it offers to the excesses commit-
ted by the tumultuous and cowardly garrison,
which consisted chiefly of barbarians from remote
districts of Asia, has rendered them popular to
an extraordinary degree, more particularly if we
take into account the contemptuous and fanatical
prejudices with which all good Mussulmans have
hitherto regarded the unbelievers.—Morn,Chron.
In our publication of yesterday we stated that
on that part of the pending negociation com-
monly designated as the Greek Question, we
should find it necessary to make sonic additional
remarks, and we now redeem our pledge. We
have every reason to believe our information to
be accurate on a point hitherto not exactly under-
stood. The Ambassador of England (and we
believe we might add of France), having de-
clined taking any direct part in the negociation
which has terminated in the preliminaries of
Adrianople, so far as the points at issue con-
cerned Russia and Turkey exclusively, did not,

therefore, feel bound to exercise the June reserve
on the Greek Question ; on that subject it has
been decided that the Convention of London is
to be the basis as to the terms generally, but
the boundary originally contemplated is to be
considerably altered. It is now to include the
whole of Greece Proper, with home distr:cts of
the ancient Epirus ; and in addition, theisland,
of Negropont, formerly Edon, which last from
its geographical position, as well as its 'extent
and fertility, is of exceeding importance. Th©
nature of the future connection between Greece
and Turkey is not yet sufliciently ascertained to
admit of any precise definition: but we 'appre-
hend it will preclude any thing approaching to
interference in internal concerns, direct or

reet--yrobably.a tribute, or pecuniary acknow-
ledgment, will, in the first instance, form part of
the argurnent.—Bid.
The Standard of la3t night has the following
observations :

" Nothing can be more clear to us than that the
late relaxation of police discipline in 'Westminster
and Middlesex has been connived at, if not pro-
moted, in order to open a way for the introduction
of the gendarmerie force.
" The Stipendiary Police Magistrates, it will be
remembered, hold their offices during pleasure; had
an intimation, therefore, been made by the Secre-
Lay that their continuance in office should depend
upon their activity, and upon the improved state of
their districts, we may be sure that they would have
acted in a very different manner from that in which
they have acted. None of them has ever been seen to
improve, and none of them has been dismissed, as the
whole, with one or two exceptions, ought to be;
the conclusion is, therefore, unavoidable, that Mr.
Peel never hinted to them the necessity of improve-
ment ; in other words, that their gross negligence
was connived at.

" Let, then, the parishes still unafflicted by this
unconstitutional novelty take warning that it is only
by taking away all pretext from, the Minister, they
can hope finally to escape the viitreion. Let them
remodel or strengthen their police force as they may
find necessary; and in doing this, let them not he-
sitate to adopt any change, consistent with constitu-
tional principles, which seems to offer advantages."
The late relaxation of Police discipline in
Westminster and Middlesex ! There has never
been, till now, any Police discipline in West-
minster and Middlesex. If our contemporary
means to say that the Police of London was
better formerly than of late, we refer him to the
murders and robberies which were frequent, not
merely in the suburban parishes, but in the most
frequented streets, till within a few years back.
At the time M. de Calonne, who before being
Prime Minister of France had commanded the
Marechaussee, suggested to our Government
the Horse Patrol, as an approximation to a
Police, the insecurity was so great that it was
about as easy to bring a footpad to justice as
one of the Combination-men in Tipperary. The
same attempts to create prejudice against im-
provement, to which we are now indebted for
the names of gensdarme) ie, have been re-
'totted to on all, former occasions, when any
change was proposed. Though it had been de-
clared by Burke that the Magistrates of Middle•
sex were the very scum of society, and though
the abominations sanctioned by them were a
disgrace to a nation pretending to civilization,
yet when Mr. Burton introduced the Bill ap-
pointing public police offices, the same Minis-
ters, who were all confidence when the hundreds
of millions were asked, which remain yet a bur-
eign-on.us, trembled lest they should rouse the ri
prejudices of the English Aristocracy. Mr.
DUndes, not naturally a timid man, aware of
the jealousy of the Great Unpaid, was ob-
liged to Faceed by stealth as it were. A
Police, in the proper sense of the word, would
not then have been granted. It was deemed
a ereat innovation that the old ruffians, known
0
by the inrine
.of Trading Justices, who
shared wii!l tiaer myrmidons and the thieves
the spoil of the community, should be indirectly
superseded by the establishment of twelve offices,
is which attendance should be regularly given
every day by Stipendiary Magistrates. These
Stipendiaries were, according to the Parliamen-
tary debates, appointed rather with a view to
afford summary :jpstice to the poor, than fur
purposes of police ; and, indeed, it was quite
possible that the same men should be able to
decide all the Magisterial business of this im-
mense metropolis, and attend to the police at
the same time. The only means which they
could cominan.d in the way of police machinery,
were the police officers ; but these men, in reality,
were altogether indepen,dent of them. We ae-
mit Cleat many of the Police Magistrates have
always been imbecile men ; but we contend that
if they had been first-rate men, as the system •
was ciendamentally vicious, they could not have
introduced any material improvement into it.
What was wanted was a separation of the
i,ma-
gistracy from the police, anti such a regular or-
ganization of the latter as should connect, by
gradations, the lowest with the highest, So
much for the connivance of the Government at
the relaxation of police discipline. The manner
in ,cinch the parishes still unafflicted by this un-
constitutional noveety—as it is termed by our
contemporary- ---may belle to escape the visite-
-47e, is, according to inm, to imitate exactly
evil* he reprehends. They can only etre' e lien
their yolice force by giving it the cheraeter of
Mr. Peel's, All these qualities objected to in
Mr. Peel's, meet be equally possessed by the
Police of the parisbee, if they hope to escape
ee•bat he terms the visitation?, It will not be con-
tes;ded that there is any part .of On instructions
of the New Police superfluous., with a 'iew to
the preve:ition of crime ; and if the Parish Po-
lice are not a.' effective in the prevention of crime
they fail in the Chiect wished for. But it is re-
quires no great shamof foresight to be able to
r can have a good Po-
tell that the parishes never
A good Police supposes' organization, and
orpoization supposes unity of po7nDose. The
Chief Commissioners put in motion tt whole
Police for —consequently there can be ii
couaeractions, no collision of views. Now, a
Parish Police neuet represent pretty fairly the
,democracy which appolota it. One functionary
will think that it would not be safe to meddle
wilt public-Houses, as they have moch influence
on the elections at St. Thomas's Day, tnether
thinks that to employ a Police in watching
thieees, or affording gecurity to person and pro-
perty, is only justifiable when London should be
completely purified from ail teew-paw work. The
Alderman thinks that women, ..e-e beg as they
are not disorderly, may walk the streeto ;4 well
u men ; the would-be Alderman thinks thet
Ininaculate chastity alone shoetlei have the privi-
lege of issuing out after sun-set. 'The officers
can have no principle to guide them so ierier as
they arc appointed by, and accountable to, pope-
lar bodies. If the City people divest themselves
of their powers of patronage and controul, and
name a Police in in.'itation of that of Mr. Peal,
they might as well at once pray that his system
should be extended to the City- They would in
this way add to the effectiaetSeas of the Police,
because it is obvious that if the.* be two Po-
lices—one in the City, and one in the ;(c44 of
the Metropolis—the two must often clash with
each other, and the exertions of both will be less
beneficial than if subject to one heal—ibid.

The " absorbing question" of last Session
was eminently useful to the enemies of " re•
trenchment and economy." The consequence
of the sudden and violent death of the " Fi-
nance Committee," by the " seasonable squab-
ble" between Messrs. Berries and Huskisson,
were never repaired by the formation of another,
since they have become
The " liberal" papers,
the panegyrists of Ministers, are careful not to
advert to the subject. Their admiration of the
principle of economy has been supplanted by
their admiration of the efficacy of en uncon-

trolled Government. They would not have
Ministers embarrassed by nice calculations of re-
trenchment, or the country made unhappy by its
being supposed that every possible saving is not
made in the profuse expenditure of the State.—
In fact, the " liberal public instructors," that
used to cry out incessantly against the wasteful-
ness of the " system," no longer direct the eye
of invidious attention to the distribution of the
" loaves and fishes." They are all engaged in a
rival:), of adulation to the present dispensers of'
pensions and sinecures. We have always borne
testimony to the splendid services which the
Duke of Wellington has rendered the country,
and we did so at a time when some of those
who indulge in the most servile flattery to his
Grace at present, and seem ambitious to be dis-
tinguished for superior sycophancy, exhausted
upon him the language of low invective, coupling
his name with those Statesmen whom they
elegantly described as a " bully and brute Ad-
ministration." Then, however, Mr. Canning
was the lord of the ascendant, the idol of the
Liberal Press ; he was to be exalted, and the
Duke of Wellington to be abased. The Duke
was then out of place, out of Royal favour,
powerless in all the splendour of his fame, and,
in the opinion of those who abused him, likely
to continue so. He is now in a situation that
commands all the patronage of State, all the re-
sources of the nation. He has it in his power
to reward the services of those who make him
the god of their present political faith ; there-
fore, they who deified Mr. Canning now adore
the Duke. Admiring, as we do, his great mi-
litary talents, and incapable of separating the re-
collection of his actions from the glory of Eng-
land, we cannot, at the same time, venerate so
highly his civil virtues, or the wisdom of his
Government. He has certainly not redeemed
the pledge which he gave in the beginning of
his Administration, of carrying into effect the
principles of retrenchment and economy, He
does not abolish sinecures when they fall vacant,
any more than his predecessors did. He has
allowed Russian policy to get a most fearful as-
cendancy in the affairs of Europe ; and, though
he has got rid of Mr. Huskisson from the Coun-
cils of' the Government, he has not taken any
steps to get rid of the principles of his " philo-
sophy," and his " free trade," which have
brought so much mischief on the country as can
be but poorly compensated for even by her mili-
tary glory.—Morning Herald.
Thank God ! the terrific and devastating epi-
demic at Sierra Leooe has at length subsided.
That ill-starred Colony is granted a respite from
the horrors of a too fatal disease, and the few
remaining European residents in Freetown have !
a melancholy leisure to devote a thought and
sigh to the memory of those who have been
snatched from health to death, perhaps in a few
short hours. The advices we have received are
up to August 26, and they present at the best
but a picture of woe and desolation. It is true
that the virulence of the epidemic has passed
away, but the effects of its fatal ravages are felt
in almost every dwelling in the town ; and what
is worse, they are not confined to that clime
alone, but have caused tears, misery, and
wretchedness in this country. The compara-
tively few cases of fever which have latterly oc-
curred have yielded to medical treatment ; and
thus, in the midst of their fear and trembling,
the surviving residents are restored to a hope, at
the best but precarious, but which to them bears
all the joyousness of an escape from shipwreck.
The mercy of Providence has enabled us to an-
nounce the cessation of the disease ; and we ar-
dently trust that a very short time will elapse be-
fore the conduct of his Majesty's Government
will enable us also to detail the measures which
have been adopted to guard against its recurrence.
The subject is one of great importance, and de-
serves, indeed demands, the most serious con-
sideration. In the way of trade, the Colony, in-
cluding its dependencies, is literally worth no-
thing. To talk of the timber, the oil, the ivory,
the gold dust, and the gum, which are imported
into this country from Sierra Leone, is idle :
they do not ill their gross value equal, much less
compensate for, the sum which is given from the
public purse for the maintenance of that Colony.
The sole question to be considered is this:—
Does Sierra Leone afford such great facilities for
settling the liberated African, and such great
comforts and blessings to him when settled, as
to outweigh the loss of European life its main-
tenance occasions, together with the considerable
sums of money expended on its support ; this is
the real question, and most sincerely do we hope,
for the sake of humanity, it will be fully and
properly entertained, In the first place, and we
have no doubt such will be the case, minute in-
quiries
ought to be made as to the probable
causes of the late tremendous epidemic. With •
the results of that inquiry, and also with
that inquiry itself, the public ought to be
made fully asquainted ; for the maintenance of
the Colony presents one of those peculiar cases
which ought to be decided by the feelings and
the wishes of the community in general. In
secrecy there can be no State policy upon such a
subject as this. To render an inquiry satisfac-
tory, it is of course necessary that all the Medi-
ea; Gentlemen in the Colony should be called
upon to cimiish ample reports of what they saw
of the disease itOl together with their own ob-
servations
f;
upon it, anij thr, causes by which it
was induced. One report has already, we be-
lieve, reached the Right Hon. Secretary for the
Colonies. It is that of the Colonial Surgeon, !
M. Asyle ; and if we are not incorrectly in-
formed,
,i.t is pv_tens,:ive, as it should be, both in '.
the sdhjeet it alludes o !mi.; tote e manner in which
it treats of them. We -hope y-4 a copy of the
report itself may be procured Fit no distaPt per 04,
and in the mean time we present our readers
witZi z.Ast we understand to be a kind of table of
contents;--y
" First, An aceouat of tkre ordinary bilious remit-
tent fever of Sierra Leone in nes4y inTjyed Euro-
Issas.. Secondly, of a species of fever persa4siji
seasoned sassy; which is ordinarily unattended with
danger; and iviaily, the epidemic, with copious
illustrations as to its .cattse, itt-A a short diary of all
the f;itail cokes. The peculiar clret,u,osiwi,c lei of the
different ships Rio aJso notice'!, whether sickly r;-,4
wherefore, et vice ver.m, these statements are acs
companied by a plan of Frecitow4, •p.ltiowlng tile'
houses in which disease prevailed, with an inan 91,
reference, and the names of the persons who were
a£ red by it ; and likewise by a small chart, limited
to the c.k.i..i., and progress of the disorder us far as
its commeneentstit 4:.d course from the interior."
Such a Report Ought .t.ss Isc: j.irnislied by every
Med:saal Officer in Sierra Leunii.; rci• if that
were the can a correct judgment might be
formed as to its liai.44y to a return of the epi-
den,;irs, Until something decisive be ascertained
on this p6il3-until we know whether th; Colony
is periodically n
4:iugcr of so dreadfulm a soas
i
tioit, as it has just expers or not, it would
be rash and premature to give any zignioii as to
the propriety of its, abandonment or retention. It
is palpable, however, that no time should be
lost ; anti we trust that the clottds will not be

allowed to gather and lower for another rainy
season before the question is set at rest. Our
Correspondent, in whom we have entire confi-
dence, says :
" The number of European seamen, in proportion
to the number of vessels at Sierra Leone, who died
during the prevalence of the epidemic, was very
great; and that of the West Indian, American, and
native African settlers in_the colony, was beyond all
former experience. _ _

" His Majesty's ship Eden was lying in Freetown
Harbour at the time ; she became very sickly, and
after putting to sea the malady assumed a contagi-
ous character—it was supposed from the unclean
state of the vessel—nearly depopulated the ship,
and was eventually carried by her to Fernando Po,
where it proved equally fatal. Among the victims
during the _Eden's passage and at Fernando Po, five
Medical Officers, not leaving one in the latter colony,
were numbered with the dead.

" The following list of deaths from epidemic
fever, between the 21st of April and the 23d of
August last, is confined to resident Europeans in
Freetown wily, exclusive of the military :
" Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Reffell, Chief Justice Bannister,
Mr. Geo. Bather, Mrs. T. H. Barber, Edw. Bebill, Mr.
Masterman, Mr. Lavers, Mr. Grove, Mr. B. Nicoll, Mr.
Darby, Mr. Jarvis, Mr. Magnus, Mrs. Bishop, Mr. Gib-
son, Mr. Mourn, Mr. Cleugh, Mrs. De Paiva, Mrs. Wil-
helm, Mr. Laughan, Mr. Christenson, Mr. Williams, Mr.
Geo. Cole, Mr. Peck, Mr. Walker, Mr. Coates, Mr. Wil-
kie, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Macullum."—Morning Post.

We have received no further intelligence from
what must in the mean time be considered the
theatre of negociation, but which, in all pro-
bability, will soon again become the theatre of
war ; for—although most of our contemporaries,
from what cause is best known to themselves,
are either silent on the subject of the perfidious
conduct of Russia towards France and England,
in imposing on the Sultan the most exorbitant
demands which were ever made by one empire
upon another, or endeavour to gloss over the
treaty as an affair with which England has little
to do—it is not, we hope, to be generally cre-
dited, that the present settlement of the affairs of
the East will either be sanctioned or permitted
by either France or England. A more nefarious
and insidious attempt to destroy an empire, and
to deceive those whose interest it was to preserve
it, than the whole conduct of Russia exhibits
since the signing of the protocol at St. Peters-
burgh, is not to be found on record, even in the
history of that empire. First of all, "to begin
from the beginning," she professed an extreme
love for the freedom and independence of Greece,
which seeing that the words freedom and inde-
pendence are no where to be found in the
Russian vocabulary, ought to have been greatly
suspected ; and by dint of threatening that she
would go to war with Turkey for the independ-
ence of Greece, unless I'rance and England joined
her in endeavouring, to liberate that classic
land without recourse.to such a measure, hooked
them into a triple league for that purpose,which,
if it had any meaning at all, assuredly laid it down
as the basis of future co-operation, that none of
the three Powers should either seek territorial •
aggrandisement or exclusive advantages from the
proceeding, or, pending its progress, make war
singly upon Turkey. It was not the interest of
Russia, of course, to observe this last condition ;
and finding that she had but weakness to deal
with, on the part both of Turkey and her allies,
she had no sooner bound the latter, hand and
foot, to the liberation of Greece, than she found
it convenient to declare war against Turkey, and
make them parties also to her ambitious views
on that empire. This was all, probably, that
Russia expected to take by her first motion ; but
finding England and France more complaisant
than she had hoped, she next ventured to de-
clare, in breach of a former compact, not only
the Dardanelles, but a great part of the neigh-
bouring coast, in a state of blookade ! Nobody
at the period in question believed that the Duke
of Wellington would submit to such an affront;
but the thing was swallowed—Constantinople
was straitened for provisions—what remained of
the Turkish fleet paralysed—and France and
England, by the declarations of the latter, again
interdicted from interfering. The. intentions of
Russia now became evident ; but her professions
of moderation increased with the suspicions of
her allies, and territorial aggrandisement was de-
clared to be wholly out of the question,—
" Russia," it was haughtily said, " had terri-
tory enough and subjects enough ;" but General
Diebitsch had not then crossed the Balkan, nor
the fortresses on the Danube fallen into the
hands of the conqueror. A well-disciplined
and numerous army, however, at length effected
both those objects ; the- Turkish forces gave
way in almost every quarter ; General Diebitsch
found himself at the head of a strong army in
possession of the second city of the empire, with_
mit even the shadow of an enemy to oppose his
march on the capital itself; the Sultan deluded,
deceived, and deserted, was forced to yield, and
the mask, which had deceived no one but those
whose interest it was not to be deceived, fell to
the ground. The great object had been
achieved, deception was no longer useful, and
was thrown away as worthless. The moderation
of Russia was now made known in a manner
which could deceive no one ; and those who
had trusted to it, taught its true definition and
real meaning in the Russian vocabulary. Here
the matter rests for the present ; but will it rest
much longer ? We have no decisive informa-
tion on the subject, and our contemporaries,
with the exception of The Sun, seem to be
equally in the dark ; but if a Chatham or a Pitt
had been at the head of affairs in this country,
the terms of peace which Russia has had the
insolence to propound to Turkey would scarcely
have been uttered before every tangible point in
the empire of the former would have heard of it
in a manner not to be mistaken.—Morning
Advertiser.

ISt A 1:1:4,,T-FLACE AT LINCOLN.—This VC-
nerahle connty town too !—is now to descend to
the disgrace (would that we mild consistently employ a
milder term) of continuing without a marketplace being
provided.—" That it should come to this," we confess
that we by no means feel surprised : we cannot attribute
she to !ack of means, nor to a morbid public spirit:
it is chleKY the collision of private interest,
which is, in our opinion,'" phief and sole cause of the
public benefit and convenience heinelCsi sight o;". Mr.
Such-a-one, in the corporation, has property. in one par-
titular spot, near which he feels convinced a market-
place l.;e tligibly made : another is in the same pre-
dicament, actuated in his i;ublic capacity by motives more
r ad'vanciriglitia own interest than that of the whole coin-
imia so entertaining the. like foelin,,s they go on
rjogn,te7„2iveli the 19'W-estintie ''c9rpobr:ttiin' to rue
h ghest. But really this is no: the way to advance the i 67
terests of the corporate body, any more than tilL.2
public, and whilst such miserable and unbecomin,, consi-
derations as these are entertained we must ever deApair of
seeing the city of Lincoln in that fi mrishing state which,
bt j gc•_:nt-i town, it ought to sustain. A meeting of
the cainniate vias the other day, at which it was
decided by a majority of seve;;, that „il further ..r.:-,temnts to
provide a market-place should be suipendad.'
therefore, now re•ts with the commissioners appointed
'r,;i?.r the new act for the improvement of Lincoln. To
the -enterpri,dpv-- n!i:•it and discrimination of these gentle-
men, the public must 001., As the subject is one of
vital importance, we shall not 'for a tootgint lose sight of
it, until that -accommodation is afforded, the continued
deprivation of which bears hard upon the industrious (las.,
ses of soeiety,—..,staniford News

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

.Eliza Baker and -Elizabeth Atyield, two showy
looking prostitutes, were brought before Mr. Alder-
man FAREBROTHER, charged with being disorderly.
William Whitton, a patrol of Farringdon-within,
said the prisoners were walking through Cheapside
between one and two o'clock in the morning, in
company with a gentleman, behaving in a disorderly
way. He spoke to them, but nothing would quiet
them but taking them to the watch-house.
Alderman FAREBROTHER asked if the gentleman
gave charge of them ? Patrol—No, Sir; he was
in their company.
ALDERMAN—Did you bring him here too ? Patrol
—No; he was very glad to go away.
ALDERMAN— Did any person give charge of
them ? Patrol—No.

ALDERMAN—Then tell me what they were doing.
—Patrol—They seemed to have an inclination to
stop every gentleman they met.
ALDERMAN—Seemed to have an inclination ! But
did they interrupt any person ? Did they stop any
person to speak with them ? Patrol—No.
ALDERMAN—What did you see them do ? Patrol
(hesitating)—Stop persons in that indecent sort of
manner which must be noticed.

ALDERMAN—Did any one complain of being an-
noyed? Patrol—No, Sir.

The ALDERMAN said he should not entertain such
a charge as this, and immediately dismissed the
prisoners.
It was observed that this was the sort of complaint
which Mr. Alderman Scholey had been attacked for
dismissing.
A Mr. Deasey was brought up by the same
patrol, charged with making a noise in Cheapaide at
one in the morning, being in company with a dozen
otlwr young gentleman, and with spitting in com-
plainant's face when he required them to desist. lie
said one of them pretended to be one.sf the superiors
of the new police, another was dancid, and a third
was feigning to be a foolish foreigner, and talking
some " jabberish." They were all making a noise,
and refused to disperse, and the prisoner in particular,
had said he did not care for all the City Aldermen,
constables, and watchmen.

Mr. Deasey declared warmly that he would not
be guilty of spitting in the face of even a dog,
and when complainant collared him he treated him
like a brute, saying he would make him feel he was
in the paws of a lion, Ile came up to them with
" What's the matter," and being told he was just
too late, he took offence; and it was he (the pa-
trol) that started the notion that one of them be-
longed to the new police.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTIIER said a dozen young
men could not be permitted to make a disturbance
in the night-time by playing buf o in the street.—
The police must be protected from such treatment.
He might find bail, or retire and speak with com•
plainant.—Mr. Deasey took the latter course, and
was discharged.
BOW-STREE

In the course of yesterday, Mr. Thomas, the su-
pervisor of police, stated to Mr. MINSHULL, the
sitting Magistrate, that he kid received a letter from
Mr. Davis, one of the firm of Barclay, Perkins, and
Co., stating that a considerable sum, in Bank-not s
and cash, had been stolen from their counting-house,
and requesting Mr. Thomas to give them a descrip-
tion of the notes which it was stated were found in
the possession of a drunken man in Holborn on the
evening of Sunday last, as, perhaps, they might
prove to be the same of which the firm had been
robbed. Mr. Thomas added, that the money found
upon the person in Holborn consisted of three notes
of 1001. each, 201. in small notes, and seven sove-
reigns, which did not at all correspond with the
stolen money. Under these circumstances, Mr.
Thomas wished to know how be was to act, as he
did not conceive himself justified in taking upon
himself to apprehend the man upon suspicion.
Mr. MlNsntax observed that the man in whose
possession so large a sum of money had been found
ought to have been brought before a Magistrate on
the following morning. Although the money might
not correspond with that which had been lost, it
was possible that it might have been changed, to
avoid detection. At all events, the matter ought to
have come before the Magistrate.
Mr. Thomas asked if he should be justified in
taking the party into custody upon suspicion ?
Mr. Musisntim. replied, that perhaps it would be
better for Mr. Thomas to wait upon him, and re-
quest his attendance at the office.
Mr. Thomas said he should take that course; and
in the evening he stated to the Magistrate that he
had made inquiries respecting the individual upon
whom the money had been found, and who resided
in Middle-row, Holborn. He found that he was a
respectable man, arid ascertained that the 3271.
which he had with him on the night in question was
the produce of the sale of his property.
Mr. MINSMILL said that as that was the case, of
course no suspicion could attach. As a general rale,
however,
.he thought it would be better to bring
parties found under suck circumstances before a
Magistrate.

Mr. Thomas—Am I to understand, your Wor-
ship, that I am not to discharge persons in future
upon my own responsibility ?
Mr. MINSHULL—After a charge has been entered
against an individual at the watch-house the case
ought always to be brought before a Magistrate, who
alone has the power of discharging parties accused.
You may, however, take bail for their appearance in
the morning.
Mr. Thomas said he should attend to these in-
structions.