Star.
London, England, 1830-10-22 00:00:00

TOWER SESSIONS.

Yesterday a General Quarter Sessions for the Precinct and Liberties
of the Tower was holden at the Court.house, Welklose-square, before
W. BALLANTIIIx, Esq. as Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates.

TAX NEW POLICE.
On the return of the Grand Jury into Court, after being for some
time in deliberation in their room, the Foreman, addressing the Chair-
man and Bench, said, that at the request of his brother Jurors, and
particularly one of them, he wished to point out to their Worships the
disgraceful disorder which was at present permitted in the public streets
in the precinct, by the congregation of females of a certain class, who
conducted themselves in a manlier highly dimgreeble to the inhabitants,
and whose practices were not checked by the New Police. Ile, how.
ever, hoped that some measure would be adopted for the removal of a
nuisance so intolerable.

Another Juror (the gentleman alluded to by the foreman) said that
he resided in Parson-street, and from 6 oclock :in the evening until a
late hour of the night, it was impossible for any person having the
slightest feelings of delicacy or decency, to stop within view or hearing
of that street, from the shatneful conduct and abominable language of
the shoals of abandoned tcmales who, during these hours, were per-
mitted to parade it. The evil existed for some time, but since the in.
troduction of the New Pollee into the Precinct, it iaoincreased four-
kid ; and if some means were not at once adopted to put a stop to it, he
did not know to what extent the evil might reach. At present, inde-
pendent of its being so intolerably disagreeable, it was the cause of *
considerable deterioration of property in that part of the town.
Mr. Fox, one of the 31agistrates on thu Bench, observed, that he
himself had witnessed the nuisance complained of occusionally, and
nothing, in his opinion, could possibly be worse,
The Chairman remarked, that he did not wish to make any observa-
tion which would in the slightest degree be hurtful to the feelings of
any gentleman present, but he believed there existed a strong prejudice
against the New Police force at present ; and if he was not told of the
extent of the evil complained of by such authority, he would be dis-
posed to think that it had no existence except in the imagination.—
However, it was only for the inhabitants themselves, or their officers, to
put their shoulders to the wheel, and take all the offending parties into
custody, independent of the New Police, and one of the precinct Ha.
gistrates would be always found who would deal with them as their
offences deserved, and by this means the nuisance would in a short time
be got rid of.
An inhabitant remarked, that such was tl.e state of disorder which
was to he seen in almost every street, that it was impossible for a re.
spectable female to leave her home, or go out of doors, without being
personally insulted, or her feelings outraged by the grossest language.
It was only a kw nights before that he himself witnessed a most dis.
graceful scene in their public square • and on his mentioning the cir.
curostance to the policeman on duty, he reply was, that he could not be
every where at once, and that such was the extent of his beat that it'
took him twenty minutes to walk it.
The Cnatastax said, that he would see Mr. Herring, the superin- '
tendent of the district, and some of the other officers, and would
speak to them on the subject of the complaint, and by their exertions
assisted by the inhabitants, he had no doubt that the evil complained o'f.
would soon be put an end to.
There being no business except that of the ordinary routine business
to dispose of, the Jurors were discharged, and the Court adjourned.

DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.