The Sun. — 1829-04-27 (London, England)

FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.)  A country Paper (the Manchester Advertiser) ob, serves with regard to the. Police, that " the radical error of the system is, that from the' Magistrates inclusive, down to the lowest civil =boric/ under them, r.ll are passive, when they ought to be all active, in fulfilling the public duty devolved on them. A Justice at Bow-street, or any other office, is, at present, a mere recipient ; and he only fulminates law and punishment against transgressors, after he has been duly charged with information by the parties aggrieved and seeking redress. When a robbery or murder is committed—but not till Men—a Md.gistrate puts on his power—and not of course to prevent what has already occurred, but to bring the offender to justice, or otherwise to dispose of the enormity to the best of his judgment. The subordinates, in his department, shape their course according to the same principle, their general rule of duty being passiveness—the exceptions activity against those of whom they have received information, o: whom they chance to see engaged in the perpetration of crime. Knowing it to be a maxim of law, that every man should be considered innocent till adjudged guilty, they improve on the idea, and seem to think it right that thieves should be at large an,4 unmolested, till they happen to be convicted." There is much truth in these ob,ervations. The principle of the present system is no doubt radically vicious, inasmuch as these is nothing preventive in it. It might do well enough for Alfred's day, when the industry  of the country was confined to tilling the ground and tending cattle, to go on with such a system : but our Contemporaries, who contend that any attempt to organize a plan for the prevention of crime, would be an invasion of the Constitution, and refer us to the days of King Alfred, are not perhaps aware of the extent of our departure from the practices of those times in police matters. For instance, the execution of the following enactment would be found not a little embarrassingto some of our friends of constitutional purity :—" Si peregrines vel alienus extra viam per sylvan vagetur, et non vociferet, neque cornu insonet, pro fure sit judicandus vel percutiendus vel redimendus. v. LL. hue § 20."—What ‘vould our contemporary of the Standard say, were he, on diverging from the strait road, to be obliged to shout out or blow a horn to put people on their guard against him ? The moment a poor fellow bawled himself hoarse, or took breath a while to renew his performances on the horn, he might be bastinadoed without mercy by any one who might come across him. But we do not apprehend much opposition to a reform in our Police. This is matter that comes home to men's business and bosoms. There are few men whose prejudices are so stubborn that they are not to be overcome by obvious interests. The rogues form yet, thank God, the minority ; and those who possess property will easily be persuaded to approve of measures for giving additional security to it.  A great stir is now making every where on the subject of opening the trade to India. On Wednesday last there was a Meeting in Glasgow, numerously and respectably attended, at which resolutions were adopted, expressive of a determination to claim the entire abolition of the East India Company's commercial monopoly in every branch of the trade to and China, and appointing Deputies to represent the interests of Glasgow at the General Meeting to be held in London. At this meeting Mr. Kirkman Finlay exposed with much ability the inconsistency of those who conceived it possible to export to a country without reference to the returns which such country can make. "No country on earth," he observed, " can long expect to be able to export a greater quantity of commodities than the countries to which they are sent can take in exchange for their own." We cannot export to India without importing from India. But the traders of the country must prepare for a rigorous opposition to their claims. The West India Monopolists will  join the East India Monopolists, and taken together they will be a formidable enemy. The first great step towards making India a profitable possession to this country, is to admit of colonization. Were the West India monopoly abolished, and coloniza don allowed in India, capital and skill would work wonders on the banks of the Ganges. The natives themselves, without European aid, will make very slow advances in improvement. (