| Show discharge of the city police 1 for or some som e calie cause carse which we have not yet heard assigned the few policemen eliat have t 1 been on duty during the summer were drs di st charged on monday last and the citizens are i now left to take care of themi theme themselves elves protect their persons persona and property and preserve and maintain the peace and quietude of the city as best they can under theae these circumstances a question arises i which time only can satisfactorily solve and that is are the citizens generally less secure in their persons and property and in their i c constitution aland ad inherit rights than th anthey th ey were before this chang change p in municipal regulations took place some of our most prominent cit citizens izeris have been of the opinion for I months that there would be less and confusion in the streets and about the shops and market places if there were no policemen on oa du duty dutt I 1 ty and flaat f the tle tie keeping L vhf even the ibe small police force that has been retained of late was unnecessary and ind incurred a needless expense and ind that the money paid to those employed to patrol the city or any part thereof either by day or by night could have been much more beneficially appropriated in repairing the streets provi providing dirig a market place 0 or r making other improvements of a public nature it is not pot our particular province to find fault with 4 everything 0 that transpires not in accordance with our political creed or at va biance with our oun kur kun ideas or notions of what should or should not be done consequently when we have occasionally seen andl and heard icard things that we could not endorse in relation to the management g of municipal affair amm aff alre dirE ardd arid arld the enforce enforcement me cf the rules and ald fadre regulations daal 0 aks iks adopted for the protection of the citizens without distinction and the preservation on of peace and order we have haye ad very little about them either publicly or pr privately lva tely and have bottled up our thunder for another day when it irmay may be more profitably and advantageously out concerning concer Concey nin the dismissal of the police we have nothing in particular to say it may be a good movement mb and it baynot they have hava unquestionably done their duty as far as was possible under the circumstance circumstances sp and are not altogether bla for the temporizing i policy that has occasionally been pursued in the enforcement of municipal pal kal laws as many have supposed |
