The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-08 00:00:00

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LONDON :

^THURSD kY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1842.

A meeting of the Magistrates and Deputy
Lieutenants of the County of Stafford was held
in the town of Stafford on Monday last. The
Tory .'lournels call this an important meeting.
It was culled by Earl TALBOT, the Lord Lieute-
nant of the County, and was attended by an un.
precedented number of Magistrates, including
three Peer 3 besides the Noble Earl. On opening
the meeting, he said, " In consequence of the
disturbed state of the country, he felt it-his duty
to call them together." Lord WROTTESLY then
moved the following resolution :
One or more stations to be fixed upon in each hundred
by the Magistrates of such hundred, at which the meet-
ings. of the Magistrates are to be held, and such special
constables shall be there quartered as the Magistrates
may deem requisite.
That communications be kept up betwixt the several
stations of such occurrences, and information, as may be
deemed advisable, communicated to such persons as the
Magistrates may appoint.
That horses be engaged at each station, under the
sanction, and at the direction, of the Magistrates of that
station, for expresses or extra patrolling when required.
That horse patrols (if practicable to be sworn in as
special constables) be established without pay for pa-
trolling, according to circumstances, the high roads be-
tween the stations. The patrolling to be at the discre-
tion and under the direction of the Magistrates of the
hundred.

Thst the horse patrol do regularly report the result
of their patrols to such person as the Magistrates shall
appoint at their respective stations.
To the first resolution Mr. E. BULLER moved
as an amendment, " That the patrol should be
established only in such hundreds as the Magis-
trates for those hundreds might deem necessary."
The amendment was lost by a large majority,
and the rest of the resolutions were ianimously
carried. In the Tory and little-manufacturing
coutity of Stafford, therefore, the Magistrates are
organising a new military force for security.
They are to have stations or positions, and those
positions are to keep up an uninterrupted cum_
munication with each other. Horses are to be
kept saddled for orderlies to ride expresses, and
a horse patrol is to keep incessantly in motion.
Reports are to be regularly made to head quar-
ters, and the whole country is to he placed under
a newly formed army, of which Earl TALBOT is
the Commander-in-Chief and the Magistrates are
Generals. Beldre STURGE'S emphatic sen-
tence has well got into general circulation, the
fiet. he predicted with Apprehension has opine to I
pass, mid one part of the community, " mounts
guard over the other."
It has been found in all cases that this kind of
precaution or vigilance provokes some corres-
ponding contrivance to circumvent it; and unless
the Staffordshire Magistrates are disposed to deny
the general laws of human nature, they must
look for some such contrivances amongst the
guarded people. The best organised system of
Custom-house regulations ever devised have
failed to put an end to smuggling. The severest
military punishment employed. by BONAPARTE
only eXeit€d the guerillas of Spain to fresh acts
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of cruelty and daring Wherever passion or in-