4 DECEMBER 1830, Page 12

An assault upon some officers of the police took place

in the course of the week, in Calmel Buildings, Oxford Street. It ap- pears they were severely maltreated by the Irish residing in this stronghold. Cahnel Buildings, Lawrence Lane; and other abodes of the Irish, have long been held impregnable to the agents of the law : like modern Alsatias, they used to be held as sanc- tuaries against the wretched and inefficient police that formerly disturbed our streets. A great metropolis, like London, ought to rid herself of these ulcers on the surface of her society ; and it is to be hoped that some means will betaken, under the new order of things, of dispersing these turbulent garrisons. They are a nuisance to their neighbourhoods; and, above all, they are at war with the forces of the polity.