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THE SYDNEY POLICE, OR OTHER
PUBLIC FUND.
' Benrvolent Asylum. — We stated some
ime back that a large sum of money had been
laid into the police office, in the shape. of fines
or drunkenness, which should have bebn handed '
3ver to the tsonovolent Asylum, tnougn noining
t-f the kind has been done.' ' Mr. Nichols brought
the matter before tho notice of the. magistrates.
It will be scon of what serious advantages the
Benevolent Society has been deprived, when
wo mention that tho sum of moneyjwnich the
authorities should havo handed over' to it,'
exceeds seven hundred pounds .'?'
This, is op extract from the. Moaning
Chronicle. We are well aware that this
journal is not oxor nice in its allegations,
and therefore wo. are not at all confident of
the correotfloss. of the paragraph,. If it
bo fake, it is a libel on tlio. Heads of tho
Police.. , If true,.the Governor should order
an enquiry, and the inquisitors should report
the history of the fines ;. and if they havo
indeed been accumulating. to the amount of
£700j the report should state whore, the
money has boon lodged all the time?' If in
the Bank, why it was left there idle ? If in
the private tills of the officers. of the police,
why they made use of the public money?
A,nd why they should not lie made to pay in
terest for the same ; besides boing invited to
resign, their offices, for such gross miscon
duct. ? ?-??..????-.'
If Sir Charles Fitzroy be not diligent in
matters of this kind, he will soon find his
government a mass o(' corruption, and live
to rue tho day, when, from too much good
nature, he left his officers ' to do what thoy
will with what was not thoir own.''
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