The "New Police" introduced by Peel--The System supported by the Duke of Wellington--Opposition from the Vestries--Brief Account of the Metropolitan Police: Its Uses and Services--The River Police--The City Police--Extra Police Services--The Provincial Police.....246 CHAPTER VIII. MODERN POLICE (_continued_): PARIS. The Spy System under the Second Empire--The Manufacture of _Dossiers_--M. Andrieux receives his own on being appointed Prefect--The Clerical Police of Paris--The _Sergents de Ville_--The Six Central Brigades--The Cabmen of Paris, and how they are kept in Order--Stories of Honest and of Dishonest Cabmen--Detectives and Spies--Newspaper Attacks upon the Police--Their General Character.....258 CHAPTER IX. MODERN POLICE (_continued_): NEW YORK. Greater New York--Despotic Position of the Mayor--Constitution of the Police Force--Dr. Parkhurst's Indictment--The Lexow Commission and its Report--Police Abuses: Blackmail, Brutality, Collusion with Criminals, Electoral Corruption, the Sale of Appointments and Promotions--Excellence of the Detective Bureau--The Black Museum of New York--The Identification Department--Effective Control of Crime.....268 CHAPTER X. MODERN POLICE (_continued_): RUSSIA. Mr. Sala's Indictment of the Russian Police--Their Wide-reaching Functions--Instances of Police Stupidity--Why Sala Avoided the Police--Von H---- and his Spoons--Herr Jerrmann's Experiences--Perovsky, the Reforming Minister of the Interior--The Regular Police--A Rural Policeman's Visit to a Peasant's House--The State Police--The Third Section--Attacks upon Generals Mezentzoff and Drenteln--The "Paris Box of Pills"--Sympathisers with Nihilism: An Invaluable Ally--Leroy Beaulieu on the Police of Russia--Its Ignorance and Inadequate Pay--The Case of Vera Zassoulich--The Passport System: How it is Evaded and Abused: Its Oppressiveness.....288 CHAPTER XI. MODERN POLICE (_continued_): INDIA. The New System Compared with the Old--Early Difficulties Gradually Overcome--The Village Police in India--Discreditable Methods under the Old System--Torture, Judicial and Extra-Judicial--Native Dislike of Police Proceedings--Cases of Men Confessing to Crimes of which they were Innocent--A Mysterious Case of Theft--Trumped-up Charges of Murder--Simulating Suicide--An Infallible Test of Death--The Paternal Duties of the Police--The Native Policeman Badly Paid.....312 CHAPTER XII. THE DETECTIVE, AND WHAT HE HAS DONE. The Detective in Fiction and in Fact--Early Detection--Case of Lady Ivy--Thomas Chandler--Mackoull, and how he was run down by a Scots Solicitor--Vidocq: his Early Life, Police Services, and End--French Detectives generally--Amicable Relations between French and English Detectives.....330 CHAPTER XIII. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DETECTIVES.