The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—PRE-ENGAGING A SEAT IN
AN O➢lNlBUS.—Michael Davison, the driver of a Peck-
ham, omnibus, was summoned for having refused to
allow a gentleman to take a vacant place in his omnibus.
Mr. S. Hood, iron merchant, said—On the 15th of
September I saw the defendant acting as conductor to
his omnibus, and asked to be allowed to take a seat
which I observed was vacant. The omnibus was
licensed to carry 12 inside, and there were no more
than 11 seated when I applied. The defendant said his
omnibus was full, but I distinctly counted only 11 pas-
sengers. He rudely pushed me away, and I afterwards
saw a gentleman enter.
The defendant said, in answer to the charge, that he
had been saving a place for a gentleman who had been
constantly in the habit of going and coming in the
omnibus.

Mr. R. Pearce, jeweller, of Banner-street, said that
he had been for several years in the habit of riding in
the omnibus alluded to, and it was his practice to pay
the conductor if he happened, by business or accident,
to miss the time. He had not, on the present occasion,
either paid his fare or booked his place.
The Lord Mayor recommended the witness, if lie was
desirous to secure his place, to pay the fare beforehand,
as an omnibus was a public vehicle, and the defendant
had no right to retain a place for him under such cir-
cumstances as had been represented.
A gentleman here interposed and said that both the
driver and conductor were well behaved persons, and,
no doubt, judging from the character of the defendant,
he had acted from an error of judgment.
The Lord Mayor—•He shall have the advantage of his
good character. If he had not been so described I
would inflict upon him the full penalty of U., but ss.
will now satisfy the justice of the case.

BOW-STREET--OVERLOADING CARTS IN COVENT.
GARDEN.—Shortly before the court closed, Alderman
Marshall waited upon the presiding magistrate to draw
his attention to a practice now prevailing among the
dealers in Covent-garden Market, which was fraught
with danger to the public. He alluded to their man-
ner of overloading their vans, by which the empty
vegetable baskets were carried away after the day's
sale. At the present moment there was a waggon near
the Piazza with baskets piled one above the other in
columns, upwards of twenty feet in height above the top
of the van. These were tied loosely together with cords,
and he (Alderman Marshall) was certain that a very
slight occurrence, calculated to disturb its equilibrium,
would cause the whole mass to topple over into the street,
and the consequences might be dreadful He had so con-
stantly seen these formidable loads traversing the
thoroughfares of the Metropolis, west of Temple-bar,
that he felt it his duty to call at the court and mention
the circumstance, trusting that his worship would send
one of the officers round to judge for himself of the peril
attending the van in question.
Mr. Henry said he was well aware of the practice re-
ferred to, and if it could be proved to endanger the lives
of the public, some steps might be taken to prevent it.
It did not appear that the dealers were limited to any
particular height by the act, although they could not
exceed a certain bulk. He would send round one of the
inspectors to see what could be done.

LAMBETH.—REMOVAL OF NIIISANCES.—A deputa-
tion from the inhabitants of Westminster Bridge-road
and its vicinity waited on Mr. Seeker (who sat for Mr.
Elliott), to solicit his advice and assistance in the abate-
ment or total removal of a dangerous nuisance.
Mr. G. Hill, one of the deputation, said the nui-
sance himself and his fellow-inhabitants of the West-
minster Bridge-road had to complain of was that
caused by the melting down of putrid fat on the pre-
mises of Mr. Rhodes, No. 1, Carlisle-street, Lambeth.
The stench emitted from this building, particularly
in the fore part of the day, was of the most rank, deadly,
sickening, and dangerous description, and it had,
there was little doubt, produced the first case of cholera
in the parish. In June last, the inhabitants of the
Bridge-road and its vicinity memorialised the board of
guardians, praying that steps might be taken by them
for its removal ; but the answer they received was, that
they had not th power to interfere, but that an indict-
ment at the sessions was the only remedy for the re-
moval of the nuisance. The Board of Health had also
been applied to in the hope of having something done,
but those gentlemen referred them back to the board
of guardians. On last Tuesday the question was
again brought under the notice of the board of guar-
dians,poor, or the
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le and a second time they decided that they had not
power to interfere. The question, therefore, that
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le (Mr. Hill) wished to ask was this—whether the order
ti council lately promulgated had conferred any addi-
tional power on the Board of Health, the guardians of
in Mount-gardens
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cholera, it had cost vestryman,
the
iime:gistrates, to enable them to suppress
, as one case of cholera had occurred
the nuisance
was becoming most alarming.
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doctors, and 2,000/. sincee said that, in the year of
who for the support of the widows
parish of Lambeth 2,000/. for
and children of thosehad died of cholera, and this
degree theo negligence in car-
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present disgraceful state of the ncomplained of the
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