The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 16.

MANSION-HOUSE.---The solicitor to Mr. John Car-
vell, of No. 132, Leadenhall-street, appeared to answer the
summons issued by the direction of the Board of Trade
against Mr. Carvell, for having unlawfully demanded and
received of and from Maria Daw, on behalf of Edwin
Hussey, her son, a seaman, the sum of 10 guineas, as a
remuneration for providing the said Edwin Hussey with
employment on board the Windsor merchant ship, against
the Merchant Shipping Act.
Mr. E. H. E. Coleman, the clexk to the Registrar of the
Merchant Shipping office, appeared for the prosecution.
The solicitor to Mr. Carvell stated that his client pleaded
guilty.
The Lord Mayor fined the defendant 31., which added
to the penalty inflicted upon Mr. Heirons, of Leadenhall.
street a few days ago, made up the sum of ten guineas,
which his lordship ordered to be handed over to Mrs. Daw.
The L'-x I Mayor expressed his hope that the decision
would have an effect upon those who were in the habit of
charging seamen unlawfully for employment which they
could procure for nothing, and intimated that upon every
fature occasion he would tine to the extent allowed by the
Aot.

SOUTHWARK.—A foreign gentleman waited on Mr.
Burcham for his advice. Applicant said that he had been
in London for several years, and had for a long time re•
sided in the vicinity of this court. Since the late murde-
rous attack on the Emperor and Empress of the French
himself and several of his friends had been followed about
from morning till night by spies.
Mr. Burcham asked him of what country he was?
Applicant replied that he was an Italian, and a native of
Genoa.
Mr. Burcham asked him how he obtained his livelihood?

Ho replied that he was a professor of languages, and had
numerous pupils all over London. On Monday, as scou as
he left his house at 9 o'clock, he was followed about where-
ever he went until he returned at night.
Mr. fiurcham inquired who were the persons he com-
plained of ?
Applicant said, from their appearance, he imagined they
wore French spies, connected with the Paris detective
police.
Mr. Burcham asked what they had done to annoy him ?
Applicant replied that they followed him about, dodg-
ing his footsteps wherever he went. When he entered a
house they remained walking backwards and forwards
until ho came out, which was likely to do him considerable
injury in his business, as people might think he was a thief.
Could he give the parties in charge ?
_ _ _ _ _

Mr. Burnham told him he coal not, as they had com.
milted no breach of the law. As he had stated that he
was unconne :ted with the conspirators there could be no
doubt the parties were on the wrong track, and they would
soon find that out and leave him alone. He should recom-
mend him to take no notice of them.

LAMBETH.--Mr. William Charles Taylor, an alai
tioneer, appraiser, sod broker, carrying on business at No.
7, Albany-road, Camberwell, appeared to answer a sum-
mons, alleging that, while being the broker employed in
levyiug a distress for taxes upon the goods of Mrs. Mary
Ann Webb, he charged for an act not really done by him
as the said broker.

Mr. Lewis, juu., who attended on behalf bf the com•
plainant to support the summoe,s opened tha case as one
of considerable oppression on the part of both the defend-
ant an the collector of t- xes, and called

Mrs, Mary Ann Webb, a respectable woman, residing at
No. 15, Trafalgir-square, Peckham, who deposed that at
Christmas last she took possession of the house, and a
notice having been served on her by Mr. Davis( the collee•
tor of taxes, for an arrear of 1/. ?s. 4d. property, and 63.5 d.
other taxes, she consulted her landlord, and was told by
him that she was to pay them, and she was prepared to do
so. On Friday forenoon, the sth inst., there was a knock
at the door, and on her daughter opening it the defendant
and Davis, the tax-collector, presented themselves, and
the latter said, "It ia lucky you opened the door, for if
you had not done so I should have burst it open, as I have
done two or three others this morning." He then asked for
1/. 9s. 4d., an arrear of property tax, and if she was pre-
pared to pay it, and she told him she was, and went up•
stairs to get the money. While returning with the money
her daughter called out to her, and said they were taking
an inventory of her goods, and on reaching the parlour
Taylor, the defendant, handed her the inventory procluced•
in which 3s. for levy, and 2s. Gd. for a man in possession,
were added to the original amount of 1/. 9e. 4d., makingit
1L 14s. 10d., the sum then claimed. She handed him two
sovereigns, and Taylor gave her two half-orowns, and 2d.
in change.
Mr. Elliott—Are you certain you, told the collector
Davis, in the presence of the defendant, that you were
prepared to pay the I/. 9s. 4d. ? . _

Are. ,•Veleli-ZI am quite certain, sir, and went upstairi
for the money, and returned within two or three minutes.
In reply to the charge, the defendant said the fact was
that Davis, the collector, was himself the broker in the
case, and he (Taylor) only went to assist him, and called
Davis as a witness. When sworn he deposed that Mrs.
Webb had refused to pay him, and referred him to Mr.
Wiz, the landlord ; but this Mrs. Webb positively denied.
The witness further said ho had distrained on three or four
other persons on tho same morning that he distrained on
tho complainant, and in two of those cases he had carried
away the goods distrained on, and in the others he left
men in possession, but he could not give the names of the
men he had so left.
After a severe cross-examination as to his proceedings on
the day in question, the witness said, The fact is, I/a
the broker myself."
Mr. Elliott—What ! collector of taxes and a broker ei
well ? Is it usual for collectors of taxes to be brokers?
Davis—l can't say, sir ; but I have the broker to assist
me, as he knows the value of the goods better than I do.o
Mr. Elliott said—There can be no doubt whatever the'
this is a scandalous fraud, and that in this case there is
not the slightest reason whatever, nor even a pretext, for
an execution on the goods of the complainant. Such for
cee lings are scandalous and cannot be tolerated and We
defendant must pay treble the amount of the overcharge'
and the whole of the expenses.
The penalty and expenses were paid, and Mr. Davisleft
the court indignantly declaring he should make the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue acquainted with the treat-
ment to which he had been subjected.