The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

WORSHIP-STREET..

1.117211110 COVITIRYEITCOt-riT-Hrorms, a youth,
was charged with uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign.
Anne Symonds, bar woman at the Shaftesbury Arnie,
Shafteebmpstreet, New North-road, said, that the pre-
vious *Toning the prisueer came to the bar and asked fur
a glass of brandy and water. He tendered half a sovereign,
which witness saw was a earanterfeit. Horn being told that
it was 'purloin, be asked her to return it, and said that he
would give her a sixpence. He appeared very flurried.
and ran away. Ile was pursued by a young man and
brought back.
A policaman stated that he searched the prisoner and
found two half-crowns in his militant pocket.
The orboner was remanded to Tuesday, when the City
solicitoi will attend.

INEQUALITIES OF THE LAND TAX. Yesterday
evening • meeting of the central committee of deputies from
several metropolitan and other patience, nominated to ob.
tatn ea cqualisatim of the unredeemed land tax in England
pod Wake, was held at Eastey's Hoed, Sonthampton-
street, Corrat-garden, for the puepeoe of adopting measures
11 to carry eat the above object. Mr. Emerson having taken
the chair, Mr. Daniel., honorary secretary, laid before the
meeting several letters he had received from gentlemen in
different puts of the country who suffered from the uneepial
assessment of the laud tax. One communication stated
that in the city of Cambridge the assessment was
2,671!. 13e. Id. on 107,7191., whfie the University psid
1091. on ratable property amountiso ito 32,2261. The Um. I
unity of Oxford was assessed 1091. 7e. 2d. oa 62,6191. real
property, while in the city of Oxford the rateable property
amounted to 156,;161., and the assessment to 3,3341. 63. 31
The auuual vela of property in To:Mb-park, near Liver-
pool, was about 2.30,0001., which was assessed at the smell
sum of 671. In the couoti-s of Oxford, rinks. and Bucking-
ham the land-tax was Z. in the pound, while in Yorkshire
and in many otter northern counties it was only 416. in the
pound. A gentleman stated that he paid 91. on account of a
cite of lend in Great St. Ileien's, while for another site
cf a similar extent in Cross street, Islington, he paid
only 11. Bev,ral gentlemen addressed the meeting,
in the course of which it was stated that there
was some land in Lincolnshire, which was submerged,
and which paid land tax. A convenstion to.-..k place
upon the propriety of presenting a petition to parlia-
ment. Mr. Miller (of the Chancery bar) then moved, and
Mr. Brushfield (chairman of the board of guardians of the
Wniteohapel I.7ai,:e).econded a resolution, ' That a petition
to be prt3:nted to parliament be forwarded to Oxford, and
other places unequ,l'y assessed, with a request that it be
signed and returned to the secretary as speedily as possible."
The resolution was agreed to umunmously, and the petition
to be presented, which minutely alluded to the grievances
of the suiequi. mode of esussment of the land tax, was also
unanimously adopted ; and other business having been gone
through, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.
A RAILWAY OFFICIAL IN CUSTODT.---00111idelltbla
sensation has beta caused by the sudden departure of the
clerk at the Tiverton station (named Crawford), who, it was
reported, was not only greatly in debt in, the town, but hid
also appropriated to his own use certain sums of money
belonging to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company.
The previous merle obtained some degree of confirmation
on Wednesday imtalag by the arrival at this station of a
railway official, haring in caste!), Mr. Crawford, who was
immediately given in charge to Inspector Hayford, and by
hiss taken to do borough gaol, to await an examination
Won tke sogistrates. After a long examination, the pri-
MOW was wooded.— Exam Pod.