To the Bilitur of the Noxtu-Cuixa Dany Ne Sni,—I shall esteem it " favour if you will Kindly insert the following in your valuable paper in order to give expression of the indignation and disgust shared by many of our ce-residents with regard to the affair now hawked all over the settlement.
Everybody I believe will join in our disapproval of the proceedings of our Municipal Police in the case in question, where they, instead of concentrating their attention on real grievances, insulted a well- teemed re-untenable charge that everywhere else in the world would be considered a disgrace to the people who brought it, This and the conflicting evidence of the Police's own members is certainly unworthy of the high reputation, which this important institution of our model settlement has sv far enjoyed.
It is not long ayo that the police did nut take any notice whatever of & case, where a number of British gentlemen had 'a prac in our Theatee and thereby cause: l a disagreeable public annoy. ance, which even incensed a sailor so much that he attempted to take the law into his own hands, when he saw that the Police not interfere. In that case every one hi lieved the interference of the Police a duty more than a right and if our present case where a German gentleman, who enjoyed the performance quietly, was so seriously insulted and ill-treated, is placed at the side of the other one, one really fails to understand how differently one and the same body can view matters with the same "sense of justice " that they no doubt employed.
Ido vot think much of the excuse made use of by a defender of the Police in thei present action, viz., that members were the prosecutors ad not the head of that institution. Certainly the case must have been referred to the latter before it was brought into Court, and by not preventing his men from bringing this action he approved of and endorsed it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.