The papers are full of denunciations of the Police, for
violence and false swearing in repeated eases. We cannot analyse them in these paragraphs without unfairness, as the conduct of the men needs too minute analysis ; but it is certain, from the tone of the magistrates, that since the appointment of Colonel Henderson a deterioration has passed over the Force. The men seem savage, and to have contracted a distinct dislike for people in black cloth, who are constantly accused of being drunk and disorderly. There is too much interference of every kind, and a general impression left of the indiscipline which culminated in the mutiny. There are too few superior officers in the Force always, but in all such cages it is the Chief Commissioner who is responsible, and it is to him that Mr. Lowe should direct his chief attention. It should not be for- gotten that he insisted, even after a Parliamentary debate, in residing at Wandsworth, and that it is tone rather than direct discipline which always suffers from the absence of a chief. Mr. Hughes would cure the Police of "perjury," if they commit it, in six months.
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