The Commissioners further report that, "It is the deliberate opinion of a very valuable correspondent, that our constabulary system has _greatly promoted_ the _increase_ of crime; that no useful improvement can be introduced into the present _miserable_ system of attempting to exercise police through parish constables annually elected. 'Our constabulary system,' says this correspondent, 'is so _absurd_ and _unjust_, that I really do not think it fair or equitable to blame or deride the unfortunate conscripts who are compelled to be tithingmen; if I did, I could compose a _farce_ with the anecdotes to be collected of petty occurrences in the warfare with offences in this neighbourhood; neglect of duty, forgetfulness, ignorance, blunders, cowardice without excuse, supineness,'" etc. The current of evidence as to the decayed and worn-out state of the parish constabulary system is irresistibly strong; and its defects are the more striking when viewed in contrast with the improved system of an organized and permanent police as established in many parts of the kingdom. THE KING AND THE CANADIAN QUESTION (1836). =Source.=--_The Edinburgh Review._ Vol. 133, pp. 319-321. _From the 'Recollections' of Lord Broughton de Gyfford._ "I heard from all quarters that H.M. was in a state of great excitement. This was not all we knew of the Royal disinclination to us; for, on Saturday, July 11, in Downing Street, Lord Melbourne addressed us as follows: "'Gentlemen, you may as well know how you stand;' and, pulling a paper from his pocket, he read a memorandum of a conversation between the King and Lord Gosford, after the review, the day before. The King said to Lord Gosford, 'Mind what you are about in Canada. By G----d! I will never consent to alienate the Crown lands, nor to make the Council elective. Mind me, my Lord, the Cabinet is not my Cabinet, they had better take care, or, by G----d! I will have them impeached. You are a gentleman, I believe. I have no fear of you; but take care what you do.'