It is rumoured among the legal circles that the whole

of the new Judges will not be appointed immediately : and that the experiment will be first tried in the Court of King's Bench, where alone the press of business calls for assistance.

NEW POLICE.—The meeting of St. Pancras' parish, which has for some time been in preparation, took place on Monday, at Mace and Co.'s coach-manufactory, Regent's Park. The Chairman, Mr. Stalwood, made a statement to the meeting of the different items of parochial taxa- tion in the parish. For the last year they stood as follows :173,m

For the new police rate.. . 6,954 For the repairs of three miles of road ... For two quarters' pours' rates............ ......... . 48,679 For the expenses of the church and chapel ... ..... 13,948 Total 83,449 Now the assessed taxes for the year only amounted to 85,250 For which they were to deduct for defalcations 9,220 Assessed taxes £76,030

The whole rateable property of the parish amounts to 417,2451.; the parochial rates annually amount to 83,5001., adding to which 76,0301. for assessed taxes, and 31,2901. for paving and lighting, made a total ex- penditure of 190820l.; making in two years and' a half a charge equal to the whole rateable property of the parish. Mr. Blackman moved the first resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Martin. The latter speaker was very severe on the Whigs, the Aristo. crats, and the Clergy. "He could prove from history," says the report, "that there never existed in this country such a Parliament as the pre- sent, which was chiefly composed of a tax-eating and insolvent Aristo.

eracy. The Whigs and Tories played into each other's hands. The Tories had been more consistent than the Whigs, for they openly avowed their principles of tyranny—but the Whigs, whilst out of office, were the meanest, the most cringing, and the basest of men ; and when in power, the most tyrannous and most rapacious. He could prove to them that, for the support of the Aristocracy of this country, thirty millions were taken out of their pockets annually. The families of Grenville and Dundas had received, in the last forty years, as much of the publicrnoney as would more than pay the expenses of the United -States of America during that time. He should tell them they had another great grievance to complain of—namely, the enormous income of the Church, which was abstracted from their pockets annually. The emoluments of the Church amounted to ten millions annually. The Clergy in the olden times, and he spoke from history, had not one single foot of land but which they held upon these conditions, namely, that the produce should be devoted to the service of God and the poor. How much God received at the present day of it, God only knew, and how much the poor received of it the poor only knew."—We were not aware that the Aristocracy pocketed quite so much as thirty millions annually—we must consult history on the subject.

Dr. Alexander Thomson and several 'other gentlemen afterwards ad- dressed the meeting; which was numerous, and for the most part re- spectable. The chairman had his pocket picked of a gold watch and chain, and all the money that was in his pocket. Whether. this was an ingenious ruse to impress on the meeting the inefficiency of the police, does not appear.

Meetings similar in their spirit and objects have been held in the pa- rishes of St. Clement Danes, St. Georges in the East, St. John's, Hors- leydown, and the Hamlet of Mile-end Old Town.

POLICE RATES.—Much misinformation prevails very generally re- specting the amount of the police rate. In many parishes grass misre- presentations have been made, with a view to raise a clamour against the police, and to excite discontent and opposition. The collectors, in some places, have gone round from house to house, asserting that an ad- ditional sum of Is. 8d. in the pound is imposed on the householders, for the use of the police. In others they have asserted that the increase amounts to no less than 2s. in the pound. And there is good ground for believing that the amount of assessment for the police has been still more grossly exaggerated in one or two parishes. These statements are en- tirely false. If such sums have been actually raised under colour of assessments for the police, they have been raised irregularly, and not by any authority from the Commissioners. It ought to be universally known that the sum required by the Commissioners, and allowed by the act of Parliament, for the last year, has been 8d. in the pound. It should be known also, that the money to be raised for the police ought to be raiaed out of the poor rate, according to the fair annual value as estimated in the valuation used for making the cuunty rate. Not only have misre- presentations been made as to the amount required for the police, but in many of the parishes the overseers, or persons acting in that capacity, have refused to give to the householders information respecting the amount of the rate specified in the warrant of the Commissioners (namely, the sum of 8d. in the pound,) and also respecting the valuation by which that rate is to be estimated (namely, the annual value in the county-rate valuation). If a householder is desirous of ascertaining what portion of the payment made by him goes into the police fund, he has only to inquire how his property stands rated in the county rate (which information he may procure from the collector of the house tax), and to inquire also, on what proportion of the annual value the poor- rate in his parish is raised. There is no doubt that some persons from interested motives (among them, not a few vestrymen, or trustees, who have lost appointments to the situation of watchmen, and are offended at the loss of power and authority in their petty districts), and many from mere ignorance, have raised a cry, and got up meetings against the police, on the ground of the increased expense to the parishes. It is evident from the reports of the proceedings of some of these meetings, which have been given in the daily journals, that nothing specific, no- thing definite or tangible in the form of complaint, has been brought for- ward against either the character or the system of the New Police. But it is satisfactory to know, that in several parishes there have been preli- minary meetings, though not announced in the daily journals, for the purpose of inquiring and considering whether any such cause of com- plaint exists against the police, either on the ground of expense or for its inefficiency, which would justify a public meeting. These meetings have been attended by some of the leading and most respectable indi- viduals in the parishes ; and they have decided in several instances that no such cause of complaint exists ; the 'calling of a public meeting has been consequently abandoned.—Correspondent of the Times.

DAY AND NIGHT WATCH.—By a new arrangement, the day watch in the parishes of St. George's Hanover Square, and St. James's, West- minster, has been-considerably diminished, while the night watch has been proportionably augmented. The day watchmen now form a sepa- rate corps. The first watch relieves the night watch at six in the morn- ing, and are themselves relieved at one in the afternoon; the second watch mounts guard at one, and is relieved by the first at seven ; which is in turn relieved by the first night watch at nine o'clock.

SELECT VESTRY WATCH.—A society has been formed in the parish of St. James, Westminster, whose object is to watch the proceedings of the Select Vestry ! it is denominated "The Friendly Society of the Inhabitants of St. James's."

ASSESSED Taxes,--A meeting of the vestry of St. Luke's, Middle- sex, took place on Tuesday, when resolutions were voted unanimously against the assessed taxes, and petitions agreed on to be presented to the two Houses of Parliament and the King.

PovEnrv.—The parish of St. George in the East paid away 1201. on Friday last, in the shape of relief to their casual poor. So large a dis- bursement for casual relief at this season of the year in one day, is un- precedented in the annals of the parish.

DEPTFORD Docsvann.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Deptford took place on Monday, to petition the King to revoke the order for the reduction of Deptford Dockyard. It was stated, that freeholds near the Dockyard, since the reduction was determined on, had fallen fifty per cent. We have not the slightest doubt of this fact ; and if we go back for thirty years, we shall probably fmd that before the reduction they

had risen five hundred and fifty. The people of Deptford should "lay the head of the sow to the tail of the pig." It would be a pretty can. sideration, truly, if the whole country were to be burdened to keep up the rents of a few houses in a little village in the outskirts of London. The address to the King enumerates the mighty services of the town in behalf of the state. If the services were given for nothing, the removal of the Dockyard will bd a saving instead of a loss : if they were rendered for a consideration, what gratitude is due either from the King or the country to those who rendered them ?

SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE WIDOIVS OF THE SLAIN BELGIANS.—The

proprietors of the llrestminster Review have published an address in favour of this object ; and four banking-houses—Ransom, Coutts, Ro- berts, and Esdaile—have agreed to receive subscriptions. " They have ascertained by personal inquiry, that an account has been hpened with the House of Danoot and Co. at Brussels, to the exclusion of any in- dividual intervention. There can therefore be no apparent doubt of the effectual application of the sums which may be contributed ; but for increased security, a communication has been made directly to the Bel- gian Government." The address goes on to argue the ease—" To the friends of liberal opinions throughout the country, and to the commer- cial classes its particular, they desire to urge the importance of a speedy termination of the contest in the Netherlands, by the only means now happily within the limits of probability—the recognition of the right of the Belgian people to establish their government under any form which their acquaintance with their own interests shall lead them to prefer. The fact is beyond dispute, that to the prompt expression of opinion by these classes on another tmcasion, it is mainly owing that the country is not at this moment involved in war; and to an expression of the same nature in the present instance, the friends of peace must look for its continued preservation. Englishmen have a right to ask, what other termination can present to them an equal prospect of advantage. If any government should be ill-advised enough to attempt an opposition to the title of Republic, which is the only form for the establishment of which, the Belgians possess the elements within themselves, the neces- sary consequence would be, that when the people of the Continent ob- tain a preponderating power, as speedily they will do, the name of Monarchy will be proscribed in turn. The present moment will decides whether there is to be any conciliation between the different gradation, of interests and opinions in Europe, or whether the principle which the Holy Alliance christened the Morarchical, is to cut down and stretch. out all mankind to its own model, till it is annihilated by a general out-break of the sufferers. If Prussia should be invited to interfere, the only consequence would be to bring on a diversion at Berlin ; or if Rus-

sia, in Poland. And in these results also, it is difficult to say what interest the friends of commercial quietness can find. These are

part of the reasons why the English people should desire the speedy

acknowledgment of Belgian independence. But there is another rea- son, which it would be discreditable to conceal or to keep back. The Government against which the Belgians defend themselves, was part and portion of the Holy Alliance system, which Englishmen are deeply interested in destroying wherever it exists ; and therefore they will exert themselves to show their anxiety for the Belgian cause, till they find themselves under a physical inability of expressing their opinions If it is urged that Belgium would make a small state, one reply would be, that its population is three to two to that of Holhind, which is a country large enough to have made a considerable figure in the world. Put the substantial answer is, that Englishmen are interested in the

formation of small free states, and ought to be the first to call for the restoration of ancient Europe, as it stood before its territorial divisions were revolutionized hy the robber powers."