, 1872-09-28

We should have liked to have expressed
our opinion on the contents of this letter,
but having on previous occasions gone so
much into the details of this question, and
our space to-day being so much occupied
by official matter, we can only offer a few re-
marks, selecting for comparison another is
land than those mentioned by our c~orrespon-
dents, Caustic and Emollient. But before
entering on that comparison, we are tempt
ed to ask the question, whether the one
or the other OF our correspondents is en-
tlrely correct in the statement of the area
of this island. BY English authorities we
have observed it variousIy stated, from 11O
q miles to about : of that number. In Dan
ish geographical and statistical accounts
of st. CroiX, this island is stated to measure
81 Danish square miles Tor more exactly
3.55 4 mlieS-we state from memory.
Taking 3 Danish miles to be equal to Ia
English, we get l Danish q mile equal to
81 E0gIish q miles hence the super
fetal area Of st. Croix would be 76 29 q
miles English, and having, according to the
last census, upward of $4,000 inhabitants.
Many years experience has substantial
ted the fact that this little island does notaf-
ford sufficient employment for three police
masters, and that some of those that are in
office have been able to devote a great part
of their time to private business, as lawyers
for clients and administrators of estates,
duties which ought never to be coupled
with such offices. The assertion by those
who are most capable of forming a correct
judgment on this question, that there can
be no doubt that an arrangement with one
PoIicemaster or Inspector for the whole
island is not only feasible, but would be
eminently practical, would seem to be cor
roborated by the following facts, which we
select among others.
In Barbados we find one Inspector
General of Police for the whole island,
measuring 166 4 miles according to the
same authority which gives to st. Croix
100 q miles, with 1852, 1927 inhabitants. In
the city of Bridgetown, with 1887 inha-
bitants, we find 3 Police-Sergeants, 10
Corporals and 100 Privates; in the dis
trlct of st. Michael, with 24,821 inhabi-
tants, l Sergeant, l Corporal, IL Privates;
10 the districts of st. Joseph and St. An
drew, with 7047 and 1868 inhabitants, or
altogether 1870, ] Sergeant, l Corporal,
IL Privates. In Bridgetown there are, be-
sides, 3 Police Magistrates, and in each of
the Districts, 1 Police Magistrate. But
these Police Magistrates are expressly
classed under the Judiciary Establishment
of the Island /; they are the Judges, and in
large districts, such as st. Philips, 233
square miles, 16, 772inhabitants, there is no
other Judiciary Functionary. (The popu-
lation is certainly the chief consideration
in police organisations Let US take the
district that corresponds nearest to this is
land, namely st. Michael. We find there.
on an area of Is square miles, with a popu.
lation larger than that of this whole island
l Police Magistrate, whom we wouldhere call
the Judge, for he has only to pass sentences
etc, and is not classed among the Police
officials, | Police Sergeant, corresponding
to our Police Assistant, 1 Corporal and II
Privates. Anybody can make his own
comparison between our Police organise
ton and the above. We beg, in conclu-
sion, to thank Emollient for his valuable
calculations; but we would have been more
thankful still if he had given us his autho-
for his "confdent" assertion with regard
to the superficial area of this island-TED.1
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