Star.
London, England, 1829-08-11 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN NEW POLICE.

We understand that the following is the outline of the
arrangement contemplated by the Secretary of State for
the Metropolitan Police, for the organikatiou of which
powers were given to hint by au Act of the last SesNion :
'l'l3e district of which the New Police force will take charge, at
the outset, will be a very extensive one : it will include the follow-
ing parishes—viz. St. James, Westminster; St. Maniwin.the-
Xields ; St. George, Hanover-square ; Sc. Margaret and Sc. John
the. Evangelbt ; St. Paul, Covent-garden; St. Mary-le-Strand;
St. Clement Danes; &. Anne, Soho; Mary-le-Bonne; &.
; St. George, Ulnomsbory; St. Andrew, Hol-
born; &. George the Martyr. ira parochial—Gray's-inn,
coin's-inn, Staple-inn. Furnival's-inn (that part in Middlesex).
The district including the parishes aboventeotioned will be di
vided into five divisions, each division under the charge of a Nape-
riot odcer, named a Superintendent of Police, to whom it is pro-
posed to allot a salary of 2001. per annum, and who will be con-
sidered responsible for the activity and good conduct of the police
fares acting within his division.
The total amount of farce for the whole of the five divisions will
not fad abort of 800 men. The men employed will be divided into
four classes. l'he superintendent abovementioned; the inspector,
at a salary of 1001. per annum i • the police sergeant, with pay at
the rate of .Is. 6d. a day; the ordinary police constable, with pay
at the rate of 3s. per diem.
The men are to provide themselves, nut of their pay, with a
plain uniform, of a filed pattern, at cola prices.
All appointments to higher stations in the police will in future be
confined to those men who have distinguished themselves by good
conduct in the lower ranks.

Each man will have some distinguishing badge by which the
division of police to which be is attached, and his number in that
division, MI be at once mentioned.
h No man will be.accepted for the office of police constable who
Is not of vigorous lionsdtution, who is above 55 years of age, and
under five feet seven inches in height.
As the amount of pay will enable a man of good character to
Mtn a comfortable livelihood, and the number of candidates is
very considerable, It has been diqinctly notified to every man
examined by the Commissioners of Police (Colonel Rowan and
Mr. Mayor), that be will be instantly disasis•ed on a well-founded
complaint of drunkenness. or neglect of duty of any kind.
The Commissioners require that the whole time of each man
employed shall be devoted to the service of the police. No man
will be allowed to cabalist his strength by labour during the day
at other occupations. The whole police force will be gradually
placed under such a degree of disdpline as may enable it to act
with elect, should any occasion arise fur its services, as an linked
corps.—for instance, the late riots in Spitalfields and tumultuous
mobs of any kind. Measures are in contemplation, by which the
new police force will be made useful in prevendag and in ratio-
Bohai's& fires, and in the preservation of life and property endan-
gered by fire.
An account of the charge upon the public for prosecutions at the
Sessions in Middlesex has been printed, but it does not distinguish
the ilmount paid for attending the Grand Jury, and for attendance
after the finding of the bill. The regulation of paying expenses in
certain cases of misdemeanour, it appears, coat the colony only 16W.
in the last quarter ; this regulation might be usefully extended to
some other cases—common law misdemeanours. for instance. sods

as using false weights and m , uttering gilt sixpences, dm.
It will ►e observed the total expenses of the last quarter exceed
thine of the corresponding quarter in 18'18, by 8241. but an excess
of about Will. might have been expected from the Sessions em.
bracing the offences of an additional fortnight. An increa.c at the
rate of 111101. a-year, however, is quire solicient to justify Sir Peter
Laurie's motion foe an inquiry into the Call 4, of it :.••
To Prosecutors and Witnesses, pursuant to orders of Court, for
thek Itspenses, Trouble,, and loss of time, in attending the
Courts to Prosecute and give Evidence—viz.
Old Bantry, April Sessions, 1829 £1,343 19 0
Ditto, June ditto

,C 2,917 1 I

ApreBessioo,l929, Felonies!!! i 7 0
Mhdemeanours 71 11 II
June &aka, Felouki .... 911 7 0
Misdemeanours lib 19 0

334 14 •

.April Sessios,lB29,Felonies A 74 3 4
•Misdameusoun 12 11 2
June Session. Febonks .... 83 1 6
Misdemeanours 11 114