The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Sir PETER LAURIE asked if any of the constables
from Hollywn were present; and being answered in
the negative, be proceeded to observe, that Foster,
the marshalinan, had complained to him en Monday
morning of a Magistrate having hist, acted the new
police to drive the bad characters out of the county
into the city. Ile had since learned that the Magis-
trate had disavowed having given such a direction;
and he was happy to hear• this, for it was obviously
better to correct a nuisance than merely to remove
it from one place to another. Neither was it fair to
the city police, of the efficiency of which he had a
high opinion. Ile had heard a bad account of
Fleet-street, but he hoped the officers would make
it an example to the Strand. - •
Martin, the officer, assured the Alderman he had
been misled respecting the state of Fleet-street. He
and itoi.v, another officer, walked through Fleet-
street and the Strand the previous night, for the
purpose of making observations. In the Strand they
saw eight or ten notorious thieves walking about—
in Fleet-street not one.

Sir PETER was glad to find a spirit of rivalry be-
tween the two eslablishments. The eyes of the
public were now directed to the relative merits of
the two Systems. lie inquired for the Fleet-street
(Act rs.

Bar kyr, one of the night patrol, presented bimseil.
Sir PETER asked whether Fleet-street or the
Strand was best kept, and had fewest thieves in it?
Bather said he could tell nothing about the state
of the Strand, his duty confining him to the city,
but there was only one row. in Fleet-vreet. The
history of this row was immediately entered into.
Mr. Matthews, a silversmith, and Mr. Short, an
engraver, both householders in St. Bride's, were
charged with assaults.
Grcig, a watchman, said that at half-past one
o'clock, the defendants, with several others (who
admitted they had 'just left. a convivial meeting),
were making a great noise, by rudely treating some
females. lie insisted that they should not make
such a disturbance, and ordered them to move on.
They refused to move, and Matthews even struck
him, and threw him twice on the ground.
• The defendants' own .recognizAnces for their ap-
pearance was deemed sufficient. •
_ . .

Barker reported that Melville, the night constable,
refused to detain Matthews, knowing him to be an
inhabitant.

Soon afterwards Mr. Taylor, the common-coun-
cilman, carne in, and mentioned to Sir Peter that he
had himself witnessed an act which showed that the
denied instruction to the police was in reality acted
upon. A drunken man was brought by one of the
new police from Saffron-hill, and left upon the foot-
way in Holborn, here of course he was a much
greater nui,:ance than be could hale been at the for-
mer phce. lie (Mr. Taylor) spoke to him about
it, and another of the policemen came up and be-
haved very insolently. These were policemen of
the Hatton-garden district; and if they choose to
bring all time drunken people of Saffron-la, they
were so numerous that Holborn-hill whold be choked
with them.

Sir PETER said, if this was the way they want
to. occupy their time, something must be done to
counteract them. Constables must be stationed at
the serer:xi entrances into the i ity, and he promised
to mention the subject to the pollee committee of
Aldermen sltt;ng that afternoon.

BOW-STREE P.
While the n'ght charges were in the course of
examination at this office yesterday morning, Mr.