The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-07 00:00:00

CIVIL SIDE.

Mr. Justice PARK presided at the Civil Side, and
was occupied in an action concerning the Fox
public-house, the particulars of which were of no
public interest.

Dowager Viscountess HAmPio EN entertained
a select circle of fashionables yesterday evening, at her
house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square.
On the morning of the LOrd High Admiral's
departnre from this port, the silver trowel which had been
used by his Royal Highness in laying the first coping stone
of the sea wall at Cremill Point, was presented to him, on
board the .Royal Sovereign, by Mr. P. Richards, and his
Royal Highness was pleased to accept the gift in the moat
gracious manner,. The instrument was inscribed as fol-
lows :—" With this trowel the Lord High Admiral of
England, his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, laid
the first 'coping stone of the new victualling establishment,
Cremill POint, July 14th, 1827. John Rennie, Esq. En-
gineer ; P. Richards, Resident Engineer ; Hugh 141'Intoili,
Contractor."—DevOnport Telegraph.'

We are glad to have it in our power to inform
the public, that a great and speedy alteration will take
place in the manner of conducting the nightly watch in
the city of London. Alderman Venables, when he was
Lord Mayor, had observed that the numerous burglaries
and robberies committed in the city of London, were in a
great measure owing to the want of discipline amongst those
who act, or pretend to act, as guardians of the night; and
he expressed his determination to propose a remedy for
so desperate an evil. He accordingly proposed that a
Committee should be appointed to examine evidence, and
take into consideration the most advisable means of preven-
tion. The Alderman has in the state of his own Ward an
illustration of the eligibility of his plan. The watchmen
there are not timid Weak old men who go to their business as
to their repose. They are obliged to parade every beat, and
they change beats every night. In fact, such are the arrange-
ments, that there is not a spot in the ward upon which a robber
ran carry on his operations with the slightest hope of success.
Witnesses have been examined in the committee appointed
upon this important subject. The Alderman has a great
deal of prejudice to contend against. Each of the Wards
in the City has an old system of its own, from which it is
extremely difficult to induce it to deviate. In some in-
stabees, the poor wretched old watchmen are obliged to
clean the boots of those who get them put on, and to do
other offices in grateful remembrance of the obligation they
Are under for the sinecure of street-watching. In many
instances, warehouses have been broken open while the
watchmen were snoring, or affecting to snore, within a few
yards of the place at which the thieves have entered. It
has often excited the surprise of the City Magistrates, to
hear that shops in the most public places have been broken
open, and robbed ; but, until very lately, notwithstanding
the very great experience of that body, nothing has been
done for the security of the property of the inhabitants.
Alderman Venables, in whose Ward a robbery has not
been committed these seven years, has entitled himself to the
thanks of his fellow-citizens, whatever may be the result
of his project for improving the discipline of the nightly
watch. By his plan, the collusion which frequently takes
place between the thief and the watchman must be entirely
cou4teracted.