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London, England, 1828-09-09 00:00:00

THE; VOLIOE OF THE METROPOLIS.

(Continued from the Sum of yesterday.)
Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
Cisme of the *lncrease in the Number of Commitments and Con-
victions in London and Middlesex, and into the State of the
Peace of the Metropolis, and of the districts adjoining thereto.
MEAEUESS ADVISABLE YOE THE ISIFEOFEMENT OF THE

OEVERAL POLICE.
Your Committee have reserved for the last head of
their report, the suggestion of such measures as it may
b•• advisable to adopt for the improvement of the ge•
serisl police of the metropolis and its neighbourhood.
The various establishments connected with the police
ate so fully detailed in the Report
_of the Coalmines.
which Was appointed in the year 1822, that it is orate-
ce.sary to trier to them in detail in this Report. It is
well ke,,Wil that the City of London has a separate
'New of police and of *etch by night, under the coo-
trout of the municipal authotities.
In the city of Westminster (liege is an establishiaent
of eighty constablrs, annually chosen at a Court
Butkebbef, from lietsiins .carrying on trade, who ast
permitted under critiia regulations W perfcrin the of-
fice by deputy. •
The active evratitis "of these• constables,' with rein-
'nice to the detest on and i.unishnieut of offenders,
tidie I.ien in 4seot measure superseded by the stipeo-
that y police.
Tn s consists of seven offices of polite, etch Orrick
hg over a certain district, with a fitted nuniber of.owir
attaibeif io each, for the assistance of the MA.

space. •
The observations of your Committee will therefore
generally extend to a district, the centre of which is
some point in the middle of the Metropolis, with a radius
of eight or ten miles, excluding for the present the city
of London.
The charge and police of this important and popn-
Irons district, tie constant resort of innumerable stran-
Igers, of characters totally unknown, of no filed resi-
dence, and in respect to whom no conttoul can be, or
-(while they obey the laws) ought to be exercised, is
committed during the night, almost exclusively eithet
to the parocttial authorities, to Commissioners appoint-
ed wider local Acts. or to the voluntary exertions of
the inhsbitains, acting respectively in their several
.parishes.
The total number of men employed by night as foot
patrol, under the orders of the Bow-street office, doei
not exceed —.
If each perish had full power, by law, to establish an
efficient watch, and it each parish exercised that power
with itx greatest judgment and discretion, still there
would be 110 unity of system and no security for mutual
conceit and co-operation. • •
But at present, while in some few parishes the watch
is well regulated, in others it is very imperfectly coos,
Winced ; and in many there appears no regular estab.'
%haw= of watch whatever.
The 'exertions of the parishes which are well rep.
Mated defeated, iri a material degree, by the its.-
slifference. and neglect of their neighbours.
The regulations, as to the wages of' watchmen, as to
the hoists of their attendance, as to the' personal qoalifiv
cations requisite. depend Upon no fixed rale, but vary at
.
iht discretion of the local authorities. la some parisbett.
preference ii given to persons, who, if nit employed
'is watchmen, Would be chargeable to the poor rates; in
Imany,liom considerations of charity, and the natural
iinivillingriess to dismiss an old servant on account of
I:ia6rmity.. watchmen are continued, who are mabitestly
disabled by age or infirmity for the proper discharge of
their duties. It appears to your - Committee, that the
pes inip4ou is Ira y strung, withisat,auy evioence as t
,'at titular facts, that the present system of providing by
night for the police of a great city and its vicinity is a;
.erective one.
The absence of all union, of all general Controttl and
“,divined responsibility; the number r f criminal eons-
doittnenis, the *regency of dapredatidn, writthot detec-
.ioa of the bffeaders,aronfld:colistitite letifitfiselvei a

This Committee re,olved— 11 That the present mode
of watching, and pay of the watchmen, is very irregular
and various, and ought to be put under proper regula-
tions. That it would tend to the safety of the inha-
bitants of the city and liberty of Westminster, if a re-
gular and uniform watch, with patrols, was established
under proper. regulations."
In 1812, the defective state of the nightly watch of
.Westminister again occupied the attention of the, House.
Very atrocious murders had very recently been com-
mitted ; and a general alarm, inducing great tempo-
rary exertions and precautions, pervaded the rnetropo•
lis. The following are extracts from the Report of this
Conimittee-
-44 Your Committee have not failed to observe that the
city of London, from the nature of its Magistracy, the
description of its various public officers, the gradation
and solsordination'of their various classes, the division
and subdivision-of its local limits, affords an example of
that ;Linty, and of that dependence of parts on each
other, without which no well-constructed and efficient
system cf police can ever be expected. If such a system
could be successfully imitated in Westminster and its;
liberties, and. within the other adjacent patithes whit b'
have hitherto formed an unconnected mass of scattered
and uncontrouled local authorities, considerable benefit:
Might be expected to ensue; for your Committee are
disposed to concur in opinion with several of the wie.
nesses, that a well-arranged system of sulierintendaoca,
vigilance, and contrail, would tend More to the pct
'mien of virile., by tendering it difficult to commit
them, than any degree of activity in the pursuit and
conviction of criminals after the crime has been com-
mitted ; at all events, however, the two systems are not
only not incompatible, but Would necessarily afford
mutual aid and assistance to each other."
After observing that the statute of 14 Geo.III. c. 90,
regulates the watch of certain parishes, the Committee
proceeds to state, that other parishes or hamlets are go-
verned by particular acts of Parliament, authorizing
the raising of rates for watching and lighting, and
vesting powers in certain commissioners or vestries for
carrying these purposes into effect ; but in manycases,the
execution of the law is extremely defective, and ie some
cases the power of raising money is inadequate: in
others, the foil amount is not levied; the mode of
watching generally bad, and the men employed, both
in number and abtlity,wholly inefficient for the purpose.
In other parishes there is no legislative provision, and
upon the whole, no uniform system prevails; and nei-
ther the magistracy ncr the Goveroment have at pre•
sent any connexion whatever with the state of the
watch, and no controul or superintendence over it.
It would appear that this statute of the 14th George
111. c. 90, has been very little known, or very loosely
examined, and considered; for many r f the witnesses
whom we have examined, and many of the projects
which have been submitted to our consideration, sugr
gest, as valuable improvements, the very principles aad
very details which are enicuced, by substantive ena:tiv
went, in this very statute.
Your Committee feel that much would be done by
merely extending the provisions of the 14th Geo. 111.
to the adjacent • parishes in and near the metropotis,'
which should be particularly described; provided it fere
duly execisted; but they are convinced that it may re-
ceive very beneficial amendments, for the details of
which they would refer to the Appendix, stating here
only, thar, in many instances, it may be absolutely ne-
cessary to give powers for levying a higher rate them
is now allowed, in order to defray the expense arising
from an increase of the numbers or wages of the per-
sons employed in different capacities in the nightly
watch ; your Committee being strongly 'impressed with
the opinion of the expediency, if not necessity, of reliev-
ing the watch once at feast in the night.
But the main improvementof this law would consist
in creating a superintending power, to whose discretion
should be intrusted the dismissal of the persons -Ap-
pointed by the,parochial authorities in cases of miscoa•
duct, negligence, or inability, and to ,shom it should
belong to enforce generally, it necessary, the due exe-
cution of this Act; for, with all the other proposed
amendments, it cannot escape observation that this sys-
tem would still remain imperfect, and very inferior iii
efficacy to that which subsists within the city of London
(properly so called); there would still remain that wain
of unify—that want of dependence of parts on each
other—that want of a general superintendence and
`contrail,. without which every system of government
aunt be imperfect. (To be continued,)

• GERMAN PAPERS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Auo. it.
The Reis Effendi said lately to an Earopeati Drago.
man—" The Sultan will take the field at the head of
his people, and the issue of the contest is in Goat's hand."
The sole season of the deferring of the departure of
the Grand Vizier fron Daud Pacha to Adrianople is
said to be. that the Sultan's astrologers declared the
first days of the month Safar to be unlucky. The Sab
tan's resolution was approved by the greet men et.the
empire. but, as it seems, not by the lower daises. The
line of defence from Silistria to Teikas, near Kara-
haerna, is ,no other than the old position occupied by
the Emperor Anastasius in 582, but which at that time
did not answer the end proposed.
The Sultan has spared tilt life of Salinas Pacha, of
Brailow, but has banished him to Mitylene.
The army of the Grand Vizier consists of 8,000
Asiatics, 4,000 regulars, and 4,000 militia, all pretty
well armed.
While the Sultan is at Remosch niche, his harem
will be removed to the seraglio of his sister in the
suburb of Ejub.
The European officers who attended Hussein Pacha
to Schumla to teach the troops the new exercise, are
for the Most part come back. It seems they have been
sent away, from distrust. However, they directed the
measures of Jr f. lice that ate now begun. According
to theii account, t is campaign is attended with many
difLu ties t.) the Russians. The Cossacks it seems.
are no match for the Spahis ; and as the 'rinks in their
retreat lay waste every thing, there is ti..thing to ratify
their love of plunder. The airman, too. forbiddinic the
Tut ks to cut off the heads and ears of the enemy, is
not cartied into effect by Hussein P ich4, and this serves
to inflame the fury of the Sp.iiiii. The enemy's ;only,
it is added, is not well supplied with provisi..us.

....... ODUSSA, Asia. Is.
In consequence f c.. Lae events, an order of the Go-
vernment hali been publibhed at the Cubtom-hou.e, by
which the exportation of torn is prohibited from every
port of the Black Sea.

COPENHAGEN. Auc.. 30..

The marriage of the Princess Wilhelminn Maria to
Prince FrecJ. rick Charles Christian is said to be fixed
for the 7th of November.

STOCKHOLM, Aua. 29.
We understand that the opening ut the Diet it find
lot the 4th of November mu.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG* EOM. 5.-•••13 11#; IWO muuths, is 10.
L&irsw, Sim I.—Three wombs. 6 141.
BOMAR, Seer. S.—Three months, 6 24*.
Vaamm*, Atm. 1 7.—Three months, 9 18.
76441 THE HAMBURGH *!PORTER OP SKI'? 5.

The Prussian State Gazette of yereiday contiini in
article from °lsis', dated the '24t ult. in whit h an'
account is given nt a Te Deum haw n; been celebiaied
in the Cathedral, in presence's)! the whole Court, in con-
sequence of the recent cipture of the fortress of Achal•
kalaki, near Achalzik, on the f.outiets of Georgia.
CONSTANTINOPIA Auctisr 13.
Yesterday the Sutton soltrunly announced that he
would shortly march into the field, test:cher with the

Sandschaki-Scherif (the sacred banner) and the levy en
masse, which is estimated at 300,000 men, but pi obably
much exaggerated. In the first instance his Highness
will occupy iliansp at Remosch Pacha, beyond the
suburb Ejeb.vEjubitud Daud-Pacha are already being
fortified by English engineers. It is extremely probable
that the Sultan will remain here as long as possible, as
he alone is capable of maintaining tranquillity in the
capital, which upon his departure might become a prey
tl the most dreadful disorder. If the Russians should
succeed in overpowering Sebumla, a struggle of despair
awaits them under the walls of Constantinople. The
preparations making evidently announce a conscious-
ness of approaching danger; but the Government con-
tinues nevertheless to publish accounts of victories ob-
tained over the Russians near Silistria, Schumla, and
♦'arna.On the 9th the Grand Vizier proceeded in great
state to Daod-Pacha•, and in a few days he will pro •
teed at the head of the svliole army to. Adrianople,
whither he will be accompanied by the public functiona-
ries. The Ministers remain with the Sultan. The late
Kaja Bey, Hulussucl-Effendit, has been named Kai-
nsakan. A UOUrsT 14.
Every one is under arms here. Almost all theTuikish
shops are closed. Trade is at a complete stand-still.—
On the 7th rf the Moon of Safar (August 20), it is now
said, the sacred banner will be planted, and the Sultan
will then proceed to his camp at Remosch-Pacha.
• The ifainian Mow of the 28th contains an article from
Constantinople, dated a day earlier than this, in which the Grand
Vizier is still spoken of as present in the capital, and not likely to
leave it for some days.
In the /whim Olocrwr the new Kaimakan is called Ahmed

THE EVENING STAR•

LONDON.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1828.

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The Paris papers, received last night, add little to
the intelligence previously received from the theatre of
war, between the Russians and the Turks. They re-
peat the rumours, which seem to agree from all quar-
ters, that the Turks, both in their means of defence, and
in their determination to exert them, will maintain a
much more formidable contest than was anticipated.
•These papers also reiterate the uncertain and contra-
dictory statements relative to the evacuation of the
Mona by the Egyptians, and announce a third and
more extensive expedition from France, which, it is
said, will sail in the month of September.

Hamburgh Papers to the 6th instant were received
• yesterday. They contain accounts from Constantino-
ple to the 15th ult. It is alleged that every thing
breathes defiance in the councils of the Government,
and in the temper of the people—that the public in-
dignation is roused by the attack of an odious enemy
on the empire and the religion of Islamism, and the
eagerness to defend both, raised to enthusiasm by the
well contrived accounts of successive victories over the
invader.
The SULTAN was then making arrangements to leave
-the capital on the 20th, when the Standard of the
:Prophet was to be displayed. Tne GRAND VIZIER
bad previously marched for Adrianople at the head of
19,000 men, in addition to which 10,000 more were
already on the road to the same city, the intention
being that these soldiers should relieve the troops in
'garrison there, which had orders to proceed to the
Balkan.

The accounts from Odessa are silent on the subject
•
of warlike operations, and equally reserved with respect
to negotiations ; and as ho mention is made of the sur-
render of Varna, we may conclude that the report
which prevailed to this effect was premature. An order
of Government was published at Odessa on the 18th,
prohibiting the exportation of grain from any port on
the Black Sea.

We teceived this forenoon German papers to Sd inst.
They acquaint us with but little intelligence respecting
the state of Constantinople which we had not previously
learned from tl.e Ftencb Journals.l—The following are
tillratts: