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The Poor Law Board and the East London
Union.

Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the Guardians
of the East London Union; a communication was
read from the Poor Law Board with respect to the
official inquiry held on the case of Sarah Trusty, re-
ported in The Sun of the 21st ult. It will be remem-
bered that at the close of the hop-picking season a
wretched-looking diseased woman, nearly blind, and
with two young children, made application to the
sitting justices at the Mansion-house for assistance
in obtaining admittance to a workhouse. She stated
that she was chargeable on the East London Unicn,
and had that day tramped from Eltham, a distance
of eight miles from London-bridge. On applying
to the relieving-officer for an order of admittance
to the workhouse she had been refused, she al-
leged, as the relieving-officer had told her he
could not give her relief until he had made in-
quiries as to where she had last'slept. An officer went
with the woman to the Union, and it waa understood
that she had the relief she stood in need of. The
Commissioner of the Poor Law Board then attended
the union, and examined the several persons on
oath, and the woman swore that she walked on the
day in question from Eltham, and, being houseless
and destitute, she applied to Mr. Williams, the re-
lieving-officer, for relief, but he told her he must
make inquiries about her, though he well knew her,
and on her asking if she and her children were to
starve meanwhile, ordered her to be turned out of
the room. She went to the Lord Mayor, she said,
and on returning she had an order, which she hac
to carry to the workhouse at Homerton, about
three miles distant, before she had relief or anything
to eat. The relieving-officer alleged that he only
asked the woman where her husband was, and where
she last resided, and that she became abusive, on
which he ordered her to leave the room. Ho ac-
knowledged that she had told him she and her chil-
dren had tramped that day from Eltham, and that
he had not given her or her children anything to
eat. In looking over the copies of the orders given
to paupers the Commissioner found:that the reliev-
ing officer had written across the one given to the
woman Trusty, " A most disreputable woman."
The communication now read was signed by Lord
Enfield, and said :

Last evening Mr. St. Clair Bedford, coroner for
Westminster, held an inquest at St. Anne's Vestry-
hall, Soho, upon the body of M. Nicholas Zorok do
Jobbahaza, an officer in the Hungarian and French
armies. The deceased was stated to be a Hungarian
baron.

Mr. Beard appeared to represent Miss Vokins, the
landlady of the house No. 7, Leicester-place, where
the deceased committed suicide on 'Thursday last.
M. J. Leuthnerhorond, 39, Esher-street, Upper
Kennington-lane, said he was a teacher of languages.
He knew the deceased since 1843, when he was 10
years old, and a pupil under witness in a public
school. In 1848 lie was a lieutenant in the Hunga-
rian army. The witness again saw him on the 4th
of October at No. 7, Leicester-place. He was in
good health. Ile was always excitable, and when a
boy he ate some poisonous berries, which for a while
rendered him half mad. The witness did not know
whether he was in bad circumstances. He invited
the witness and others to a cafe and also to dinner,
but he did not come to the latter appointment.
Emile Loibl, Tichfield-street, proprietor of the
London Pavilion Music-hall, knew the deceased for
four weeks past by his frequenting the Pavilion. lie
was a perfect gentleman by education and manners.
The witness saw him at his lodgings in Leicester..
place at half-past 12 o'clock on Thursday. He owed
witness £4, and witness called upon him about it.
He said that another person who owed him money
would pay witness. He seemed much excited. He
was known as " the Count." the deceased had stars
and orders, which he left with witness when he lent
the money.

" With reference to the case of Sarah Trusty, I
am directed by the Poor Law Board to forward to
you, for the information of the guardians of the
East London Union, the enclosed copy of a letter
which the Board have addressed to Mr. J. Williams,
the relieving officer of your union, on the subject."
_ _ _

The inclosure, which was signed by Mr. T.
Fletcher, the assistant-secretary of the Poor Law
Board, and was addressed to Mr. J. Williams, re-
lieving-officer, was as follows :
" Sir,—l am directed by the Poor Law Board to
state that they have had under their consideration a
report made to them by their inspector, Mr. Farnall,
after the inquiry held by him on the 19th ult. into
the case of Sarah Trusty, the poor woman who, it is
alleged, was refused relief by you on Monday, the
2d ult. From the evidence taken at the inquiry the
Board have arrived at the conclusion that, in the
absence of any evidence of Sarah Trusty not being
destitute when she made application to you, you
erred in postponing the order for the workhouse for
which she applied. The Board further consider that
to intimate your opinion of the character of a woman
who must have been already known to the authori-
ties at the workhouse by writing on the order of
admission that she was a disreputable woman was
an improper course to adopt, and ought not to be
repeated."
On this letter being finished, one of the guardians
exclaimed, "Mr. Williams is let down very gently,"
--an opinion in which the majority appeared to
acquiesce.

Mr. Vincent Lamberger, proprietor of the Quad-
rant Hotel, said that he accompanied the last wit-
ness on Thursday last tame Mr. Jobbahaza, and to
ask him why he had not kept his promise about pay-
ing witness money. He said, " I will pay on the
4th." He was in bed. There was a strong smell of
brandy in the rooms. He had come to witness with
epaulettes, &c., of the uniform of the French ser-
vice, and stated that he was a man of honour, and
that he was in great want, and required £l2. The
witness• consented to let him have £7 upon the
things, though he had not known him more than a
few days.

Honorine Zuts, 7, Leicester-place, a dressmaker,
in the service of Miss Vokins, said that the deceased
lived in that house for five weeks. He was strange
in his manner and excitable. On Thursday last,
after 12 o'clock, the witness heard from the work-
room where she was two detonations in the de-
ceased's room. She heard groans immediately after-
wards followed by a fall. She entered his bedroom
and saw his body lying on the floor. There was a
cloud of light smoke in the room. He was not quite
dead, and he tried to rise with witness's help. She
then saw a pistol on the floor underneath him. She
laid him down again, and called for assistance. The
previous night he gave witness a letter to post.
Thomas Pope, 103 C, said he was called in, and
he saw the deceased bleeding from two bullet
wounds in the breast. The six-barrelled re-
volver produced was in the room. The deceased
never spoke, and he died in a few seconds. He
was dressed only in drawers and a shirt. It was
then about 1 o'clock.

Police-sergeant horsey, 6 C, said that four of the
chambers of the revolver were loaded with ball.
Eighteen similar balls were found in deceased's box.
While the witness was in the room a letter came
from the Foreign-office acknowledging the receipt of
a letter by Lord Russell asking for assistance, and
returning certain documents, with the expression of
his lordship's regret that he could not lend M. do
Jobbahaza the aid (R3O) asked for until the 15th of
November.

In answer to a question as to what would be done
with the document, the clerk said it would be entered
on the minutes, and the guardians then went on

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The Houseless Poor and Parish Guardians.

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The last parish in the metropolis which had not
made, and had not promised to make, arrangementi
for adopting the 'baseless Poor Act of last session
was the Holborn Union, the guardians of which
were yesterday morning visited by Mr. Farnall, the
Poor-law Board Commissioner, who desired to con-
fer with them as to the means they w ere willing to
adopt for relieving the houseless.
_ . .

The COMMISSIONER, in the course of a statement
he made to the guardians, in which he repeated the
general facts stated to other guardians, said
that he was aware that the houseless poor were re-
fused admission in this workhouse on the plea that
there was no room. This, he pointed out to them,
was illegal, and that, whether the guardians adopted
the Houseless Poor Act or not—that is to say,
whether they made arrangements which the Poor-
law Board required, and so became entitled to be
recouped the cost of the houseless poor out of the
general fund, or whether they preferred keep-
ing as they were and paying the whole cost out
of their own rates—they were bound to relieve the
houseless wanderers who applied to them for relief
and lodging. If they could not find room within the
workhouse he suggested that they should fit up a
place elsewhere, but he said it behoved them to give
all able-bodied recipients of relief a measured task
of work as a test, and no place thus fitted up would
be complete unless arrangements were made for
applying this test. The cost of fitting a place up
for this purpose would, he said, be paid out of the
general fund, as well as the salaries of those en-
gaged in the relief of the houseless.

M. C. Albert translated the following letter writ-
ten by the deceased to his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales :

"Monseigneur,—ln addressing a-few lines to your Royal
Highness, I boar in mind the fact that the English nation
is the grandest nation, but it is also the most generous, the
most delicate towards foreigners, and • that you, Monseig-
neur, are destined to rule this noble people. I rely on the
exquisite tact of your Royal Highness not to misinterpret
the words which I address to you. Deign to listen to my
•• • t
Tri7(Tased to act upon it. Exiled from irmigai7Y,llfeer
having suffered a long captivity in an Austrian fortress for
the cause of my country, I am now an officer in the service
of France. I have served in Africa as an officer of the
staff, and I have lost the use of my left leg from an acci-
dent of war. Wishing after a long absence to see my
family and to arrange my affairs with them, I gave them a
rendezvous in London. But the elections in Hungary
have prevented my relatives from coming to London after
I have been waiting here for them for three weeks. My
letters even remain without reply, and lam in a terrible
embarrassment and without resources. Thus left without
means, my natural pride and a feeling Of shame forbid me to
apply. totheFrenchEmbassy. I address myself with confi-
dence to the f uture King of England, the name which is syno-
nymous with greatness, delicacy, and discretion ; and I sup-
plicate your Royal Highness to graciously advance me .£5O,
and to transmit it to me by some confidential person. I
pledge my word, as an officer and a gentleman, to pay this
sum on the Ist January, 1866, to whomsoever your Royal
Highness may designate. My position is my only excuse.
As an officer and a gentleman I could only address myself
to a Sovereingn or a future Sovereign.
"Deign to permit, &c.,
"EDEN Comte de Zorok, Baron de Jobbahaza,
Officier de'Ordonnance, General le grand
division d'Oran en Algerie."

A letter from Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, expressing the
regret of his Royal. Highness at not having it in his
power to accede to the request was then read.

The CHAIRMAN, in reply, told Mr. Farnall that
the question had been for some time under the con-
sideration of a committee of the Board. This com-
mittee had had several meetings, but they had
experienced great difficulty in finding a suitable
place out of doors. It had been suggested that a
vacant cowhouse should be taken for the purpose,
but it had been thought that if anything happened
to any of the people who were lodged there it would
be said by the public that the guardians turned the
poor into infectious places. He assured the Com-
missioner that the guardians had the utmost desire
to do their duty.
A GUARDIAN wanted to learn from
in themtheComoumtlisay-
sioner what other parishes had done
entailed by their arrangements.

The deceased then addressed two other letters to
Gen. Knollys, requesting that £2O should be lent to
him to enable him to settle with small creditors,
whose insults were worse than death. Gen. Knollys,
however, declined to do so.

The COMMISSIONER said many of the parishes
had made arrangements in the workhouse, but he
was afraid this could not be done in the Holborn
Union Workhouse.
A GUARDIAN said that sometimes one of the
houseless was taken ill, and was admitted to the
infirmary, would the cost of keeping a person of
this character in the workhouse come out of the
common fund?

The COMMISSIONER replied that it would not, as
other parishes had to take their share of this burden.
The GUARDIAN expressed his belief that this par-
ticular parish got more than its share of such cases,
and that country parishes were packing off their
poor to London.
The CO3IMISSIONER replied that, with regard to
the first point, if the guardian made inquiry he
would find the other London parishes were no
better off than Ifolborn ; and with regard to the
second, if the London guardians gave the recipients
of relief who were able to do a measured task of work,
the country poor would soon pack back again. The
London workhouses, he went on to say, had become
little better than hospitals for the sick and refuges
for the old, and the number of permanent inmates,
he believed, was greatly increased by the medical
officers certifying that sick persons could be removed
to the workhouse who might have been better con-
tented to remain in their own homes on out-door
relief. In conclusion, he urged them to make ar-
rangements as speedily as they could for the house-
less, informing them, at the same time, that it was

A. leave of absence from the French Minister of
War for 15 days, and renewed until the 30th Octo-
ber, was also put in. The deceased also wrote a
letter to the Countess Tekcli, but it was returned
through the Dead-letter Office.
Dr. J. 11. Clark, 23, Gerrard-street, Soho, proved
that deceased died from two pistol shots in the left
side.
a
1 he Coroner having summed ui.; the jury-returned
a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."

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is a good amount of business doing for home con-
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LONDON, THURSDAY, NO E 9, 1865.

It is so far satisfactory that the city of Frankfort
should have made a protest against the overpower-
ing encroachments by the two great German Powers,
and, whether e,
,Istually or not the Senate is en-
abled to hold its own for the time being, it is quite
as well to make a stand against such impertinent
intrusion and overweening assumption. The senior
Burgomaster addressed an identical note to the
Prussian and Austrian representatives, in the first
instance, and in this he sets forth the injustice of
the course pursued in the two Great Powers issuing
their mandates in so arbitrary a fashion and incon-
sistent a form, and especially the allusion
made to the impossibility of any further indulgence
being shown to the Senate and the press of Frank-
fort. The authorised declaration announces that
the Senate cannot but regard it as at variauce with
the " fundamental laws of the Confederation, and
therefore with right," if one Federal State speaks
to another of " not permitting," and of," not suffer-
ing," and especially of " averting the further con-
sequences of inadmissible indulgence by taking
the matter into its own hands." This is strictly
true in every sense of the word, and no one who
realises the importance of national rights can fail
to appreciate its correctness and acknowledge its
justice. The courso lately pursued by Austria and
Prussia is completely unwarrantable, and if con-
tinued will prove totally subversive of the
independence of the Free States of Germany. It
would seem as if the audacious BISMARCK contem-
plated nothing less than violation of all Federal
rights, and the destruction of all freedom, real or
imaginary, among the smaller Principalities and the
lesser States. how far he would be able to proceed
in his mean and mischievous vocation, and how
much latitude will be given to him for political and
prudential reasons, remains to be shown. Thus for
the present there can be no mistaking the fact that
he has not received the submission which he
requires from the free City of Frankfort, and
has, on the contrary, met with a decided rebuff,