The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-02 00:00:00

ALLEGED FRAUD IN THE EXPORT PICKLE TRADE.—
Robert Feast and Henry Feast, lately carrying on business
as export oil and pickle merchants at Finsbury House,
Kingsland-road, and Finsbury-pavement, were again placed
at the bar, on remand, on a charge.of fraud.
The prisoners, it will be recollected, were alleged to have
committed a fraud upon Mr Landell, a merchant, carrying
on business in Austin Friars. The prisoners were in the
habit of shipping largo quantities of pickles to Messrs
Colander, of Melbourne, Australia... When the goods
were sent down to the' wharf, Mr Landell was
in the habit of advancing money on the goods on
he production of the wharf receipts and the invoice, to the
extent of about 75 per cent, of the whole value of the goods.
In the present instance the invoices purported to show that
the cases upon which advances had been made contained
three dozen bottles, but upon arrival in Melbourne it was
discovered that the cases only contained one dozen. The
evidence adduced up to the present point related only to
one shipment, which was made at the beginning of the
year, upon which a sum of £lB6 was advanced by Mr
Landell's managing clerk, upon the supposition that the
cases contained three dozen bottles each.

Mr Humphreys, who appeared for the prosecution, sa'd
that unfortunately this case, and that also relating to the
Unity Bank, had been fixed for 10 o'clock, therefore, as
as some of his witness had not arrived, he proposed an ad-
journment till that day week.
The solicitor for the defendants opposed the application
unless bail was accepted for his clients.
The Lord Mayor refused to admit the prisoners to bail
and ordered them to be brought before him that day week.
THE UNITY BANK TNCLITIEY.—Joseph Wakefield Terry
and Thomas Birch were again brought before the Lord
Mayor, to undergo further examination upon a charge of
having, they being respectively manager and secretary of a
public company called the Unity Joint-Stock Bank,
unlawfully made and circulated a written statement, to wit,
a balance-sheet of the affairs of the said c'mpauy up to 30th
June, 1362, they well knowing the same to be false, with
intent to deceive and defraud the members and shareholders
of the company, contrary to the statute, &,-!.
Mr Sykes, the manager of the Western Branch of the
Unity Bank, was further examined with respect to the sol-
vency of the branch under his direction, and also as to the
balance-sheet he had transmitted to the principal office of
the bank in Cannon•street in 1602.

In answer to Mr Sleigh, he said the directors at the
parent establishment were invaribhly put in pogooesion of
every thing relating to the position of the Western Branch,
and that some of the directors very frequently visited the
establishment.

(The ease was proceeding when we went to press.)

WESTMINSTER.

POVERTY AN I? CRIME.—Mary Ann Meggeson, a very
creditable-looking woman, apparently about 25 years of age,
was charged with wilfully breaking windows in the work-
house of St. Luke, Chelsea.

George Blandford, porter, at the workhouse, said that the
defendant applied to him last night for lodging. Ho ad•
mitted her for the night into the ward appropriated for
tramps, and as soon as she got in she began to break the
windows. He was attracted by the noise, and on going
into the ward found them broken, but did not see the de-
fendant do the damage.

Mr Arnold asked whether there were any other persons
in the ward, and on being informed there were, inquired
how the witness knew that defendant was the person who
had done the damage
The porter replied that he knew by the defendant's om n
confession. She did not hesitate for a moment, when he
entered the ward, but said " I broke the windows." The
amount of damage was 2s.

Mr Arnold (to defendant)—What have you to say to
this ?

Defendant—They have turned me out without home
or habitation, and .1 broke the windows to get better provi-
sion.

Mr Arnold—They took you in to give you a night's
lodging.

Defendant—What is a night's lodging? I cannot live
upon that nor upon what they give me. I have a bit of
dry bread given me at night and the same in the morning,
and then they turn me Lut to wander the streets till night
again. On Wednesday week they admitted mo into the
house, and I then entreated them to let me be a few days,
but they would not, and turned me out, and I have been
wandering about with a bit of bread at night and a bit of
bread in the morning only ever since, and I did this for a
place to put my head in and some food.
Mr Arnold—This is not the way to put yourself in the
right. I cannot allow the parish property to be wilfully
destroyed. I must commit you to prison for seven days.