Star.
London, England, 1829-10-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE New POLICE AND THE ANCIENT CITY WATCNlERN.—Yester-
day Mr. Taylor, the Common Councilman, waited upon the LORD
Maros, for the purpose of complaining to his Lordship of the con-
duct of certain Police Magistrates, and of that of a worthy Al-
derman, who b3d acted as if in concert with those Gentlemen.
Mr. Taylor stated, that the Ward of Parcingdon Without being
upon the boundaries of the County of Middlesex, the plan adopted
by the Police Magistrates for getting rid of the swarms of thieves
and vagabonds had placed the representatives of the Ward in con-
siderable difficulty. The new Police made a practice of driving all
offensive persons who appeared in the neighbourhood of Holborn,
Hatton-garden, &c. &c. into the City, which would, if the practice
were not discontinued, have the effect of converting the City into a
receptacle for all the refuse of society. It was, he submitted, ra-
ther unconscionable to get rid of a great evil by saddling it upon
others. In fact, the inconvenience now constantly experienced
rendered it necessary that the Chief Magistrate should interpose.—
The Common Council of the Watd found it impossible to perform
their duties to their constituents if the Ward was subject to such

visitations.
The LORD blavoa said the evil was certainly a serious one, but
he could not see how any thing be was authorised to do could
tend to remedy it. He had no means of eontrouling the Middle-
sex Magistrates, nor of punishing the new police for driving bad
or disorderly characters out of their districts. It appeared to him
to be the duty of police officers to remove all such persons as had
been described, from the districts which they were directed to
protect.
Mr. Taylor said that the conduct of Alderman Scholey of late,
at the Justice-room of Guildhall, appeared to him to he very re-
prehensible. Sixteen or seventeen disorderly persons had been
brought before the Alderman. It was stated that they had been
driven by the new police into the City, where their behaviour
underwent no improvement. Alderman Scholey, however, thought
fit to discharge every one of the defendants, and when expostulated
with, and told that the Common Councilmen would not be able
to discharge their duties effectively if the Aldermen did not second
their efforts, said nothing, but " Oh, I know what all of you gen-
tlemen of the Common Council wish to be ; you all desire to be
Aldermen." This sort of treatment bad the effect of making the
City Police officers pay but little regard to the orders of the repre-
sentatives of the Ward.
The Loan MAYOR was still as much in the dark as to the course
he should pursue. He could not think of sitting in judgment upon
a brother Alderman, and he had no power whatever in such a case.
lithe members of the Ward would draw up a petition, or memo-
rial upon the subject, he should most wiilingig present it to Mr.
Peel, whose anxiety for the protection of all his Majesty's subjects
was well known, and who, no doubt, would take the matter of
complaint at once into consideration.
Mr. Taylor will, we believe, adopt his Lordship's suggestion

iminHie:lLoiate-rldy.
ship frequently, in the course of the last week, stated,
that from all he had heard, the new police regulations had already
been productive of great good ; and that he should advise that they
be, as soon as possible, extended to the City. His Lordship after
severely condemed the plan of parochial watching as excessively de-
fective, and fraught with evils of great magnitude. He had, he
said, been lately engaged in an inquiry into the circumstances of a
most daring robbery which had been committed in the neighbour.
hood of the Mansion-house, and he had every reason to believe that
the constable, who had charge of the district, had a knowledge of
what had been meditated by the thieves—if not, the man's conduct
was wholly inexplicable, and at all events he was unfit for the
situation.
It is believed that Mr. Peel will recommend the adoption of the
new police to the City as the only remedy.
A man named Canaan was brought before the Loa o Maros
yesterday, on the charge of having forged bills of exchange to some
amount. Only two cases were gone into, in order to warrant a
remand. Mr. Ellis, the extensive hop-grower in Kent, is one of
the parties whose names have been used by the prisoner, and time
was given for his attendance.
The LOllO MaTua said that the public must be protected from
was then remanded.