disorderly manner, he may be taken by the landlord before a magistrate, who may subject him to the penalties of police. Innkeepers, victuallers, and spirit sellers may turn persons out of their houses who behave disorderly therein. 401. BUYERS OF OLD METAL, AND OLD CLOTHES, from unknown persons, are to have their names and occupations written in large and conspicuous characters in front of their shops; they are not to use any place of deposit for such goods, which is not registered, nor have any secret or disguised depositary; nor any furnace or apparatus for melting metals in their house or place of deposit. They are not to sell, remove to other premises, or alter the form of the things they purchase from strangers, within three days following that of their purchase. When goods are brought to them for sale by persons of bad character, or under suspicious circumstances, they are to detain the bringer and the goods, and produce both before a magistrate for examination. 402. PAWNBROKERS shall cause their names, and the word "Pawnbroker," to be written in large and conspicuous characters in front of every house or place in which they carry on their business. They shall preserve the goods they receive from loss or damage. They shall be entitled to receive at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, for all money they advance on pledges, to cover interest and warehouse-room. They may charge for every fraction of a month in time, as a whole month, and less than a halfpenny in money as a halfpenny in computing their profit. They shall fairly enter the name, residence, with the number of the house, and occupation of the borrower, in a book to be kept and preserved for that purpose; and give a duplicate of such entry to the borrower, for which duplicate they may charge one penny, and no more. They are not to lend money upon any unfinished manufactured goods, or on domestic goods, which appear likely to have been dishonestly brought by a servant or agent; but they are to detain any such, or other suspicious person, offering goods for deposit or sale, and take him before a magistrate for examination, who if he think proper, may detain and advertise the goods, and also detain the person offering to pledge or sell the same. If goods be not redeemed within 12 months from the time of their being pledged, they may be sold by public auction, the number of the entry of the pledge, and the description thereof, is to appear in the catalogue. If at the sale the pledge sell for more than 10s. and it leave a surplus after paying for money advanced, profits, and expenses of sale, such surplus is to be paid to the borrower if he ap ply for the same within three years from the time when he first made the deposit; for which purpose the pawnbroker shall keep a book in which all sales of pledges to him shall be fairly entered, and the time and place of sale be described; which book shall be open to the inspection of any depositor whose property shall have been sold. 403. AUCTIONEERS are to use due diligence when receiving goods for sale, in ascertaining that the said goods if brought to them by strangers are the property of the persons who profess to be the owners, or that the parties bringing the goods for sale have a right to do so. 404. PRINTERS are to print their names and places of abode on the first and last page of every book they print, and at the bottom of every bill or sheet not being a book nor a bona fide catalogue of goods, or common shop bill, or letter on business, and in which the name and address of the principal appears. One copy of each subject printed, with the name of his employer, is to be kept by the printer for the space of six months, and to be produced to any magistrate upon receiving his summons for that purpose. 405. LIQUOR SHOPS, INNS, HOTELS, OLD METAL AND CLOTHES SHOPS, AND OFFENSIVE trades and processes, are not to be established in improper places, or conducted in a manner prejudicial to morals or decency, or to the comfort of a neighbourhood, under the penalties of police, or they may be suppressed as common nuisances upon indictment. In the latter case they are not to be re-established in the same situation, unless the circumstances of the neighbourhood be materially altered. 406. RUBBISH OR OFFAL laid in the streets for the purpose of being removed from premises, is to be taken away before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the day on which it is so laid, and the dirt on the pavement, occasioned by such removal, is to be immediately swept, and taken away, by the persons removing such rubbish or offal. 407. FOOT PAVEMENTS are to be properly swept or cleansed every morning, or oftener if necessary, by the FIRST COLUMN. al toor SECOND COL. occupiers of the premises abutting thereon. The magistrates are to direct what is to be done in cases of dispute among occupiers in respect to this service. 408. SERVANTS acting dishonestly, mischievously, or committing any offence of lust on their master's premises or in his family, or absenting themselves without leave from his service, or being insolent or drunken therein, may be discharged without previous warning, although previous warning may have been part of the conditions of their hiring. 409. MASTERS not allowing their servants good and sufficient meat, drink, and lodging, or leading dishonest or infamous lives, may be left by their servants, although previous warning may not have been given. 410. DRUNKEN MEN, who create a disturbance or annoyance in any place, may be taken into custody by any one, and put into a watchhouse until sober, and be then produced before a magistrate, and subjected to the penalties of police. If men by continued drunkenness neglect work which they have undertaken to do, or disable themselves from paying a debt which they have contracted, or reduce themselves or some part of their families to require parochial relief, they subject themselves to the penalties of police. 411. IDLE MEN, who do not possess the means of supporting themselves without labor, and who refuse to work, or neglect work given to them, and thereby reduce themselves or some part of their families to require parochial relief, are subject to the penalties of police. 412. BEGGARS are persons who solicit alms of individuals by words, looks, gestures, or importunate offers of goods of trifling value for sale. Solitary impt. 1 week. Solitary impt. 413. If the begging be accompanied with interruption of way, with following the passenger, with reproaches, or other annoyance or rudeness. 414. If by an exposure of disease or infirmity, whether real Solitary impt. or assumed, which creates alarm or uneasiness to spectators. 2 weeks. 415. If the beggar be accompanied Loss of paternal rights in the parent, as reby a child, with the consent of its gards such child; and the civil authorities may send such child to a distant place, change parent, or if a child beg at the comits name, and separate as far as they are able, mand or with the concurrence of its all future knowledge between the child and parent. parent. FIRST COLUMN. 416. If persons beg in company, unless as husband and wife, parents and young children, a blind man and his guide. 417. If beggars enter a house, or inclosure belonging thereto, without leave. 418. If habitual beggars. 419. VAGABONDS are persons who have no settled or avowed residence, and who neither gain a livelihood by the habitual exercise of labor, trade, or profession, nor have any legitimate and visible means of supporting themselves without industry. 420. A person charged with being a vagabond not being able to give any feasible account of his means of livelihood, and of whose honesty a reasonable suspicion exists, as being found in a crowded place, or loitering about any person or place apparently with a dishonest intention. 421. A vagabond or beggar taken masked or disguised, in any manner to conceal his identity. 422. A vagabond or beggar found in possession of property exceeding in value 51. and who shall not satisfactorily show how he came by the same. t SECOND COL: Solitary impt. 2 to 4 weeks. Solitary impt. 2 to 6 weeks. Solitary impt. 3 to 12 weeks. Solitary impt. 1 week on 1st conviction, & 1 week additional on every subsequent conviction. Solitary impt. 4 to 12 weeks. Solitary impt. 4 to 12 weeks, and forfeiture of the property. 423. A vagabond Similar penalties to other vagabonds or beggars, or conveyance or beggar being a beyond the limits of the country, subject upon return to transportation for life. foreigner. 424. A vagabond or beggar may be examined by a magistrate as to his means of livelihood, and upon his failing to show that he possesses legal means, he may be put in solitary confinement for not exceeding seven days, and be then passed to his parish. 425. A CONVICTED THIEF being found in a crowded place which he might easily have avoided, or loitering about any person or place without any good excuse, and in a manner calculated to excite reasonable suspicion of his having a dishonest intention, or in any liquor shop or inn. Solitary impt. 4 to 12 weeks. 426. Any vagabond, or beggar, or convicted thief, being Solitary impt. taken with arms or instruments for house-breaking in his 4 to 12 weeks. possession. 427 Part, not exceeding one half of a fine imposed upon an infraction of the regulations of police, may be given to the informer thereof, in cases where the magistrate trying the case shall recommend the same, and his recommendation shall be approved at the next general sessions. POLICE CORps. In a dense population, and among a commercial people whose changes of abode, employment, and condition, are incessant, offenders against the laws find opportunities of disguise and concealment which they do not possess in a simple and fixed state of society. A more vigorous Police then becomes necessary. In this, however, great care must be observed that while hunting down the bad the good be not injured, nor more expense to the public inourred than is necessary. By some the French police is thought to be excellent, as it certainly is very effective; but the inroads on private confidence and security made by the espionage system, and the impediments to social and commercial intercourse, caused by the passport system, compose too high a price for the advantages gained. In the other arrangements of the French police, however, there is much to applaud. The exact distribution of the police force, the regularity of the patrole, the vigilance with which proportionate detachments of the police show themselves wherever there is a large assembly of people, the civility with which the gens d'armes inforce good order, and the alacrity with which offenders are sought out by the police, free of expense to sufferers, are points well deserving of attention and imitation. With us the manner in which hordes of thieves are suffered to prowl about the metropolis and its neighbourhood, and rob and mal-treat passengers when a crowd is assembled, is a disgrace to our police system. Yet while these things are going on, officers in abundance are loitering about the police offices, in waiting for hire. Protection is reserved for individuals who will individually pay for it. For instance: the author deemed it necessary to have the attendance of a police officer at a meeting of a charitable nature. He applied to a sub-officer at Bow Street, and offered him a guinea to attend. He was told that it was contrary to etiquette for the sub to accept the job; one of the heads must be applied to. This was done: his charge was two guineas; but as he had become too rich a man to act manually, he like his superiors must have a deputy or assistant, and one guinea was to be paid to him: so that three guineas was the sum paid to the police officer for about three hours morning attendance, to scare off the pickpockets. It is now proposed to remedy the defects of our police system by adding to the extent and emoluments of the establishments. Beaucoup d'argent is to cure every thing: but it is submitted, that unless the principles of our police be mended, neither the extension of the number and pay of |