The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-16 00:00:00

THE PARCEL POST DELIVERY

COMPANY. l who
A case of considerable hardship to a poor girl,
can ill-afford the loss, relating to the defunct Pair ,
Post Delivery Company, was brought under the notice .
of Mr. Elliott, the sitting magistrate, at Lambeth.
It appeared that about the middle of March last, ,
young woman, named Mary Ann Mitchell, who bad
lived lived servant in the vicinity of the Wandsworth-rod
being about to remove to Tottenham-court-road, watt:
her box, containing all she possessed in the wo„r,t:
except the clothes then on her back, to the shop of Jur,
Neill, "l, an oilman, to be forwarded by the Parcel Po
Delivery Company to her new place. The box, hc.'w:,
ever, never reached its destination, and after making
every effort to get her box, the young woman app 9
this Court on the sth instant, and obtained a sumnion_.
against Mr. Neill, in whose charge she had placed 117
box. Mr, Neill, upon attending to that summon"
admitted that as the agent of the Parcel Post Dei
livery Company he had received it, but said tbbt,
by the first opportunity he had forwarded it
one of the Company's vehicles, to be delivered el.
cording to the address, and added that it was no fault, of
his that it had not been properly delivered. Mr. EIJI°,
finding that the unlawful detention of the property.l
the defendant could not be proved, as he had, in Pin •
of fact, parted with it, he dismissed the summons, but
at the same time feeling that the case was one of extreme
hardship upon the poor girl, granted a fresh suno0
against Messrs. Henry Owen and George Hill, two, Of
the directors of the company, calling upon them to enc'"a
cause why they detained the property in question,
Wednesday being appointed for the hearing, the conl;
plainant was in attendance, but neither Mr. Owen nor
Mr. Hill were present.
English, the officer in whose hands the summons°
had been placed, stated that on the preceding after'
noon he went to the house, No. IT, Soho-square'
„h
serve the warrant, and was shown into a room, in wi •'
he was told he should find Mr. Hill. Addressing the
gentleman who he found there, he mentioned the P,°l;•.
port of his visit, and asked if his name was not Billed.
The gentleman, without answering his question, observed;
that the summons was addressed to Mr. Owen, ',3, •
sent him up stairs to another office. On enteringM
latter, he found a gentleman whom he addressed as 1111,:'
Owen. but that gentleman seemed to evince the eat'
indisposition to declare his real name as him in the 10/1:1
office, and both seemed to treat the matter with ow—
apparent indifference. He, English, however, 'eft the'
summons with Mr. Owen, as he understood his name,,,
be, and said that unless it was attended to, a warn'
would be granted.
One of the former servants of the defunct con3Panl'
said, he recollected very well taking the box of the ell
plainant's to the principal office in Fleet-street, of w,in
Mr. Hill had then the management, but what had an' l
wards become of it he was unable to say.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed, that it was quite clear, ire,.
the evidence of the last witness, that he had no jurien;L:
tion in the matter. The box, from all that could Pt:
learned about it, was last delivered of Fleet.strel•
where the city magistrates alone had jurisdiction. . •
(Mr. Elliott) was most anxious to assist persons like the
i,
complainant in every way he could, but owing told'.
present state of the law redress by summary means "70
most difficult, and he had not the power to do so. 0
was an extraordinary fact, that any person or Pers°,l
might set up as carriers, without the law placing an
y°
with respect to the non deliverance of goods upi
there, or affording any redress to the owners of
1;31 ;0
%hi
goods beyond that given by the Police Act,
•` unlawful detention." In this case, however, it "".0-'
be necessary to prove that at the time when the 0,,4
mons was heard, the defendants had the
goods in wile
possession, and feeling in this there was
an end to SO
maeistrate's juriscl'ction and power to give redress'
(Mr. Elliott) hoped that the cases connected with„ p s's,
company complained of would draw public attentan-he
the glaringly defective state of the law, and lead tot , t
much called-for remedy.
or,
It having been stated that the poor girl had bees Ai
proved of her little property, amounting to about
and had nothing but what she then appeared in, ha
Mr. ELLIOTT said that though the poor-box Wiglf if
was sorry to say, very low, he would order that Ins ry
sovereign be given to her to provide her with a nee°
change.

THE COUNTRYMAN IN LONDPstI
On Wednesday John Smith, a baker, who has - is
arrived in London with nis wile from A3lesbule
Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of emigratiogi of
America, and who has already paid 5Z on aecennhlab
their passage to New York in the ship Victories 17.
sailed on Thursday, came before Mr. Yardley
ka;ed of
Thames-office, to complain that he had been r°,,,% two
351., all the money he possessed in the worlds
London sharpers, who have lately taken in maul Pa
ts
the neighbourhood of the docks.
The applicant, who looked the picture of degaiorf,
stated that he was leaving the London Docks on .1,1;,
day, and stopped to look at some posting bills read
to the departure of the emigrant ships, when a "
e
Henan "also commenced reading the same bills, and e b
tered into a conversation with him about the vessels. it.,
informed the stranger he was about to emigrate with 1/L
wife to America, and his new acquaintance said he w'''r
quite delighted to hear that, for he was going to send 61021
nephew, 13 3 ears old, to join his parents in New Tor.
and asked him to takeebarge ot the boy, for 4 hich seriin.
he promised -him a very handsome compensation.
applicant consented to do so, and after walking a shop
distance with his friend, who particularly cautioned hint
against London sharpers, invited him to partake of sow
malt liquor in a public-house, where the conversed*
about America and the lad he was to take charge of Of
renewed. Their conversation was interrupted by
" another gentleman," who appeared very much al
servant out of place, who was seated in another part
the room they were in. He said, "As you are taletv,
of America, I'il tell you how to make a fortune th,,:„
I was along with an old gentleman sixteen years itl
United States, and he has died and left me 1,6
and some property there, and I have come to Loam;
don to settle my affairs." The conversation ;7
Ire'pt up for some time, and the last person he was Too
dived to said he should return to New York in
iioo,
months. A walk was then proposed, and his cuelPati 01)
took him to a funny place under the Thames, lighle;10,
with gas, and afterwards induced him to visit auto.
uhlic-fetuse in Wapping, called the Globe, where thecridp
rn he last met wit!. talk. d very largely about hisddree
e dons in Am. rice, and promised to give him his a
0411$
h eh was 16 miles from NtavY .rk, where he said& 00
rein tin until h;s (the stranger's) arrival, when he ilia
dint hint einployan,•nt. Atter that his dinterenseinowe
t)eral friend said it he wanted money he would:: Agit
it= 50/. or 1001., and he would accommodate tie 05,-1
man, who by this titne had described 1102„7„ pir.
Yorkshire tailor, with the same sum. 1."`',1-011'
cant said he would give him no security, as ;want
going to Atte-rice. The stranger said he did
trii
zooid
any, and would intrust such an honest Wan *ley "8_,,g1
goal; that all he required for the loan of the raw- base on
stamped receipt, and begged of him topll- be tall7,_
without delay. The Yorkshire tailor as a OW
himself, said he would take biln tO
before he
where he could buy a stamp, told, what or
did so took from his pocket a roll 01,
them with
peered to be Bank of England notes, and lezLhia in
the other man, who promised to take care of
till his return. The Yorkshire tailor then 'ptle•
the applicant to leave his money with the. ...b-doing
man, who would think the better of bim tor hit°,
so, and he took all the money be had about
of is
351. in notes and gold, and deposited the who
with the stranger, who bade him return as spee°"ich
possible. He went out in search ot a bill state? 11.4.
the Yorkshireiran; but he had not gone far Deiewes
a suspicion crossed his mind that all wasl,ol
right, and he suddenly recollected the tales 1.10',„
read and heard of London sharpers, and detikrnune
make
and by various devices delayed him fof
it was all right,
communicated
a I. possible as
ss
;
ustpeicbiouncsk totobitshceompupbalnicio- hi:us:he:o
somegentleman who had made such large promises was pa"
time. On his return to the Globe he found the
and his money was gone too. While he was makin 1,3;
quiries about him the other man disappeared, ana.A.
oiscovered, when it was too late, that he had been 01701
the victim of two scoundrels, who had left him wig's
a penny in the world.
Mr. Yardley—You have been taken in by the "Ist
common trick in existence. I thought that a man e'iiefi
most ordinary intelligence could not have been del lan
by such a stratagem. I am sorry for you, but ,
nt
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syuh_pe
pywo
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havems t
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or
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uLwroi
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afraid your 351. is irrevocably gone.
hid
no l<o
mBmmro.i
imp
thank for that. You have trusted your money °be so
strangers you never saw before. How could yen ?
foolish to give credit to the promises of two shall
y r
It is the most palpable trick ever played off upon
man.
America,
turn t°
primed to Ameribegged for
and
his native vale or to pr
some assistance.
could do nothing for the spplicans
said he
Smith said he was not in a condition now to re
Mr. Yardley
but advised him to make his case immediately known r
the police, who would look after the sharpers.
Smith then quitted the Court in the utmost despair of
mind.

BIRTHS. e of
On the 28th of March, at Rome, the Hon. Hester, wif
Sir George W. Craufurd, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at the Rectory, Bow, Devonshire, the WI/
of the Rev. Frederick Van Der Meulen, of a son, still-born.
On the 10th inst., at Im herhorne, near East Grinstead, the
lady
On of
th F.e
I Wloth rsleinyst., at
Esq., of a daut
Woodforght d,Northamptonshire, tba
lady of Captain J. B. Woosnam, of the Bombay Artillery', of
a daughter.
On the llth inst., at Meadow Lodge, Brixton-hill, Mr°.
Edward B. Sutton, of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., Mrs. 11ackblock, Denmark-bill, of a s°ll'
On the 13th inst., Mrs. J. E. Saunders, jun., of a son.
On the 13th inst., in New Bond-street, the wife of ile'"
Powell, of a son.
k the
On the 13th inst., at Helmingham Rectory, Su--ff °1
wife of the Rev. J. C. Ryle, of a daughter.

ARRIED
On the Bth inst., at St.M
Michael;s, Limerick, Commander
Thomas Fisher, R.N., to Anne, eldest daughter of th° is
Major-General Hamilton, C.B.

lE.
On the 13th inst., in Hill-sD
treeDt, the Dowager Lady Brol4ll#
low, aged 91. oR del;
ri the 9th inst., at Boulo ne-sur-Mer, the Hon. j•
On the 9th ist., at Wgalcot-terrace,
widow of the late Edward Wetenhall, formerly of the Stu
Exchange, aged 93. the
Sussex,
On the 10th inst., at Felpham, near Bognor,
Rev. John Bishop Beed, aged 76.
On the 11th inst., Mrs. Osbaldeston, the wife of
Osbaldeston, Esq., of Upper Phillimore-place, liensin
Kennington, A•,,,c):

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1847.