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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--Feb. 16.

MANSION-HOUZE.—The solicitor to Mr. John Car-
vell, of No. 132, Leadenhall•street, appeared to answer the
3111111130119 issued by the direction of the Board of Traits
against Mr. Carvell, for kaviug unlawfully demanded and
received of and from Maria Daw, ou behalf of Edwi*
Hussey, her sou, a seaman, the sum of 10 guineas, as a
remuneration for providing tho said Edwin Hussey with
employment on board the Windsor merchant ship, against
the Merchant Shipping Act.
Mr. E. H. E. Coleman, the clerk 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 r.l 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
future occasion be would fine to the extent allowed by the
Act.

SOUTHWARK.—A foreign gentleman waited on Mr.
Burcham for his alvice. Applicant said that he had been
in London for several years, and had for a lone time re.
sided in the vicinity of this court. Since the late murde-
rous att Ick 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 ho was?
Applicant replied that ho was an Italian, and a native of
Genoa.
Mr. Burnham asked him how he obtained his livelihood?

He replied that he was a professor of languages, and had
numerous pupils all over London. On Monday, as Ken as
ho left his house at 9 o'clock, he was followed about when-
ever he went until he returned at night.
Mr. Burcham inquired who were the persons he com-
plained of ?
Applicant said, from their appearance, he imagined they
were 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 he came out, which was likely to do him considerable
injury iu his business, as people might think he was a thief.
Could he give the parties in charge ?
Mr. Burcham told him he could not, as they had corn•
'flitted no breach of the law. As he had stated that he
was unconnected with the conspirators there could be no
doubt the parties were on the wrong track, and they would
seon find that out and leave him alone. He should recom-
mend him to take no notice of them.

LAMBETH. —Mr. William Charles Taylor, an
tioneer, appraiser, and broker, carrying on business at No.
7, Albany-road, Camberwell, appeared to answer a sue►-
mons, alleging that, while being the broker employed in
levying 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, jun., who attended on behalf of the Cora.
plainant to support the summons opened the case as one
of considerable oppression on the part of both the defend.
ant an I the collector of taxes, and called
Mrs. Mary Ann Webb, a respectable woman, residing at
No. 15, Tr,falger•square, Peckham, who deposed that at
Christmas last she took possession of the house, and a
notice having been served on her by Mr. Dayisi the colla-
tor of taxes, for an arrear of 11. 9s. 4d. property, and 65.5 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 is 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
U. 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, banded her the inventory produced,
in which 3e. for levy, and 2s. 64 for a man in possession,
were added to the original amount of 1/. 9s. 4d., making it
1/. 14e. 101, the sum then claimed. She handed him two
sovereigns, and Taylor gave her two half-crowns, 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 11. 9s. 4d.
Mrs. am quite certain, sir, and went upstairs
for the money, and returned within two or three minutes.
In t eply 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.
Wix, the landlord ; but this Mrs. Webb positively denied.
The witness further said he had distrained on three or four
other persons on the same morning that ho distrained on
the 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, lam
the broker myself."
Mr. Elliott—What ! collector of taxes and a broker as
well ? Is it usual for collectors of taxes to be brokers ?
Davis— I can't say, sir ; but I have the broker to assist
me, as he knows the value of the goods better than I do.
Mr. Elliott said—There can be no doubt whatever that
this is a scandalous fraud, and that in this case there is
not the slightest reason whatever, nor eveu a pretext, for
an execution on the goods of the complainant. Such pro.
cis hugs are scandalous and cannot bo tolerated, and the
defos lent must pay treble the amount of the overcharge,
and the whole of the expenses.
The penalty and expenses were paid, and Mr. Devisleft
the court indignantly declaring
he should make the Com-
missioners of inland
_Revenue acquainted with the treat-
ment to which he had been subjected.

Country Mar sets.
LIVERPOOL. Fia.l6.

There was a small attendance this morning of country
buyers, and only best qualities met with any demand at
the full rates of Friday, while the lower qualities were
neglected at late prices. Flour in poor request, without
any alteration in ♦alue. Barley and beans more freely in-
quired for. Indian corn met a retail demand ; Mask See
33e, mixed American 33s 3d to 33a 6d, white 31s to 34A
Gd.

LEEDS—FRB. 16.
There was a middling trade in wheat, with a limited
supply, sad all good qualities held 'firm. A alight advanee
from Friday is obtained, in some oases to the exteat of is
per qr. Barley steady, at about last week's rates. Oats,
beans, and other articles unaltered.
Averages for the week :
Wheat, 46s 6id Oats, 22e —d Peas, 430 4d.
I
Barley, 36s 2/d Beans,- 41s 'lid I Rye, —s-
NEWCASTLE—.
Farmers' wheat in mode rats psupply 16but large arrivals
from abroad and the north. Sellersy firm at Saturday's
rate., at which there is a fair business doing. Flour wt.
altered. Barley and oats steady. Beans and peas also
without change.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YxsTERDAT.
Am5terdam............ 11 15 Gibraltar .......• •• •• .• ''''
Ditto, three months .. 11 17 4 Leghorn ..
25 65
Rotterdam ............ 11 174 Genoa •..... ...•• .• •• ••
Antwerp ............... 25 ;,7 y 4 Milan .. ~... • • •• ••
Brussels ............... 25 374, Venice .. .. .. •• • • ••‘• --
41%
liamburgh ............. 13 5% Naples —.. .... •• •••
Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • • • ,Palermo on •• • •• •• 1233
Paris ••••• • • • ..... ... 25 15 IMessina ... . 1234,
Do. three months .••25 45 !Lisbon .. 51%
Marseilles ...... •• .. .. 25 45 Oporto ................ 524
I Bourdesux .• ••..•• .• ... .. Rio Janeiro ••
Frankfort-on-Mains .• .. 118% 'Buenos Ayres.... ••• • .• —•
Berlin ................. • • INew York,6o , 'vs' sight -•••

days's
Vienna ......•• ..;.• 10 36 Philadelphia ...
Trieste........ •• 10 38 PHICES OI BULLION, PHI oz:
Petersburg 35 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
s,[adrid ... 43% 'Portugal Gold Coin OO 0
Cadiz ...... 49A, !Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
BArcelona New Dollars 0 0 Psi
Seville..

FATAL QUARTIELLING IN WORKHOIISEs.—An inquest
was held at Homerton, yesterday, on the body of John
Webber, aged 64. The deceased was an inmate of the
East London Union Workhouse, and was in the tlabit
of caging out in the night, to the annoyance of the
occupants of the same ward. On his doing this on
Wednesday night, a man named Patteen, who slept in
the next bed, got up and turned the deceased's bed over,
so that he fell en the door. He died the next day.
The surgeon said that he had no doubt that the di.
ceased, beiug in ill health, had died from the injuries re.
eeived from falling on the floor. The jury returned a ver-
dict of " Manslaughter" against Peusen. An inquest
on
another pauper was held yesterday at Horaleydown• T°,B
deceased Christopher Wright, was an inmate of St. Olaye
workhouse, Southwark. He was paralysed on one side,
and another pauper, named Moulton, was teasing hint,
when Wright g ,t up to strike him, whereupon Moulton,
who was a much youuger man, seized him by the coat
and struck him several blows in the face. Deceased
became insensible, and died on Thursday. A verdict of
manslaughter was also returns I in this case.