The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

I saw him upon the subject of his letter, and the result
of the interview was that he said he was going into
business for himself, and that he would engage me as
town traveller, as Mr. Zeiller had offered him two or
three agencies. I agreed to go into his employment upon
that statement. I believed that there was at that time a
distinct firm of Zeiller and Co., and I believed that he
was engaged to that firm as traveller, and that ho was
then to have their agencies. He told me that he must
look out for a counting-house, and in the month of April
I agreed to go into his employment, at 20, Beer-lane,
where I saw the prisoner, who acted as master of the
place, Before I went into his employment I was to
deposit 301. in his hands, as security for moneys I
should receive as collector on his account, and I paid
him that sum by instalments, as follows:—On the 12th
of April, 31. ; 14th April, 61. ; 13th May, 61. ; 21st
May, 15/. He had agreed to deposit with me thirty-
four parcels of Fitch, as a security for the repayment
of the thirty pounds ; but I had previously paid him
the money. I got some orders, but I could not find out
that they were ever executed. I believe a few of
them were. I never got back my money, and Ido not
know whether anything was ever got for the pitch. I
have reason to suppose, however, that it did not produce
enough to pay the expenses of room, &c. I was in his
employment about three months, and the name of Rust
and Co. was written over the door of the counting house.
The LORD Maros—How much of you salary did you
get ? Witness—l was paid only a week's salary, and a
pound off the fhllowilag week. That was all I ever re-
received.

The LORD MAYOR—What business did you transact ?
Witness—Business ! Hardly any.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask this
witness any questions ? The prisoner—No ; I have no•
thing to say to Mr. Lucy. There's nothing in his state-
ment likely to hurt me. The pitch I gave to him as
security was more valuable than he thinks. He is rather
too fast.

Mrs. Elisabeth Russell said, my husband lives at the
house 10, Bush-lane, which is let out in offices. I know
the prisoner by the name of Ziller, which appears upon
the door of the offices, and also outside as Ziller and Co.
I never knew any person as Mr. Zeiller but the pri-
soner. I used to open the outer door, and I have re-
ceived letters directed to Mr. Ziller, and to Mr. Pru-
dence, and I gave all such letters to the prisoner, or his
wife.

The prisoner—You don't say that you didn't see any-
body in the office but myself ? Witness—l never saw
anybody but you or your wife there. Persons some-
times called with parcels and boxes of goods, but I don't
know what business was carried on.

The prisoner—Did you not know me as Mr. Pru-
dence ? Witness—Certainly not.
Prisoner—And did you not see any other gentleman
but myself ?—(Laughter.) Witness—l never saw any
other gentleman who had anything to do with the count-
ing-house business.
The prisoner—Did you not call me Mr. Prudence
when you addressed me ? Witness—Never. I know
you only as Mr. Zeiller, and called you by no other
name.

The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to make
any defence ?
Prisoner.—There's no use in saying anything here;
you are too fast. lam not erred of the result.
The LORD MAYOR—You are committed for trial, how-
ever, upon the two cases.
The prisoner was then committed to Newgate, but he
departed apparently confident that neither case would
stand long before a jury.
Three Irish women, two of whom were from the county
of Cork, and the third from the county of Kerry, were
charged before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Lloyd, one of the relieving officers of the City of
of London Union, said the three women called at the
union and demanded from him an asylum for the winter.
He offered them tickets for the Peckham house of refuge
but they indignantly refused any such paltry accommo
dation, and covered him with abuse and maledictions.
As they refused either to accept the tickets or to return
to their native country, or to try any other expedient
for their present relief, he had no alternative but to ap-
peal to the chief magistrate for protection.
The LORD MAYOR—You are constantly coming here
with complaints against the poor. There must be some-
thing seriously defective in your system. Did you give
these people anything to eat? Mr. Lloyd—No, my
my Lord. lam but a servant of the guardians, and I
am not at liberty to give any relief. It is my duty to
give poor applicants pass-tickets to Peckham, where they
are relieved.

The LORD MAYOR—So you send a poor, fatigued
creature who applies to you in an exhausted condition,
to a distance of four miles, before any relief is admi
nistered!

The wotnen said they had not only to walk all that
way, but the accommodation lasted only for one night.
It would be something worth talking about if they could
stay there till after Christmas, when they would have a
a chance of work.

Mr. Lloyd said he had offered to pass the women home
to Ireland, but they resolutely refused to go.
The women declared that they had no friend or ac-
quaintance in Ireland. They had been five or six years
in this country, and they knew they could not be bene-
fited by leaving it.
Mr. Lloyd said he had no doubt the defendants came
from Mary!eh:me, where the magistrates had expressed
their determination to send all Irish paupers who sought
to burden the parish home to Ireland.
The Lon. MAYOR said the operation of the Poor-
law was evidently bad. He utterly disapproved of the
Cannon-street system of sending hungry people away
without relief to encounter additional hardships and
fatigue before they got a morsel of bread.
Mr. Lloyd said he should intimate to the guardians
his Lordship's opinion of the necessity of administering
immediate relief to necessitous applicants, and inform
his Lordship of the result.
The LORD MAYOR—With respect to these women,
who will neither accept immediate relief nor go home, I
will give them another trial. They are now dismissed,
but if they are brought before me again, I shall send
them off to Ireland, and I assure all Irish paupers that
the magistrates of the city of London are determined to
wit upon that principle.
BOW-STREET.
The notorious Joseph Ady appeared before Mr. Henry,
having been summoned by the Post•oflice authorities for
the payment of 11. 14s. Bd., the amount due for postage
on 2.08 letters, which purported to have been written by
the defendant, and had been returned to the Dead-letter
office.

Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, attended to
prefer the complaint.
Ady began by protesting against the inquiry going
on. He objected to the jurisdiction of the Court in the
first place, and, secondly, he objected to the conduct of
the Post-office authorities in having broken open letters
and exposed correspondence which they were bound to
keep sacred and inviolate.

Mr. HENRY said there was nothing in either objection,
and the case might proceed.
Mr. Peacock then explained the nature of the charge,
and quoted several clauses of the Postage Act (10 and
11 Victoria, c. 83), to show that, in the event of parties
refusing to take in unpaid letters, the Post-office had
authority to open them, and, on ascertaining the writers
of such letters, to proceed against them for the payment
of the amount with cost. He then submitted the fol-
lowing evidence:—
.

Mr. Walter Scrivener, 14, Burystreet, a clerk in the
Dead-letter office, produced 208 letters, all of which
purported to have come from Ady. They were all
posted as unpaid and unstamped letters, and the amount
of postage due upon them is 11. 14s. Bd. Of these letters
180 bear the post-mark which shows that they have
been rejected by the parties to which they are ad-
dressed. There are 25 which bear the stamp indicating
that the parties addressed cannot be found; and the re-
maining three bear the stamp denoting that the parties
to whom they are addressed are dead.
Ady (taking up a letter)—How do you know that this
letter comes from me?
Mr. HENRY said the clauses in the Act referred to by
Mr. Peacock rendered such evidence unnecessary.
Ady—l am ready to affirm that I never posted the
letter produced.
Mr. HENRY—But your simple affirmation is insuf-
ficient. You must prove it by the evidence ofd witness.
Ady—l cannot do that just now. But I will look at
the rest of them. (The defendant then looked through
all the letters, and counted them over.) There are 36
out of them that I will not say anything about; but I
I did not send any of the other letters. lam not pre-
pared to prove it, because it came upon we unex-
pectedly. I did not think this Court had jurisdiction,
and I therefore request time to get evidence.
Peacock submitted that he had given the requi-
site prima facie evidence as to the authenticity of the
letters; but he did not wish to press the case to a deci-
sion at once. _

Mr. HENRY said, as the summons did not apprise the
defendant of the particular letters which were the sub
ject of the investigation, and as he, probably, had no
moans of learning what they were, he had no objection
to grant reasonable time to the defendant to prepare his
defence.
Ady—l say nothing about the 36 letters. They are
directed in my own handwriting. I beg pardon. I wish
to recall that observation. Mr. Peacock, will you allow
me to recall that observation?
Mr. Peacock—Oh, certainly, if you wish it.
Ady—l thank you. Well, I have a good way to send
fur my witnesses, as they are in different parts of the
country.
Mr. HENRY—What time shall you require?
Ady—About a month or so.
Mr. HENRY—I cannot give you so much time as that.
I think a week is ample time. You can get witnesses
from all parts of the country in that time now.
Ady—Oh, that won't do. You may not know it, Sir ;
but lam a very poor man. Mr. Peacock can get wit-
nesses in a week, I have no doubt, by putting his hands
in the Post•office pocket.
Mr. HENRY —4 cannot allow such a remark to be
made here. I will give you a fortnight, but no longer.
Mr. Peacock said the defendant, meanwhile, should
have access to the letters at the Dead-letter office,
where he might also see several hundreds more at_the
same time.

Ady—Vory well ; I suppose I can send some one to
take copies of them. Or, if I send the amount of postage
claimed, that will do, I suppose.
Mr. Peacock said there was no penalty. The amount,
with 2s. costs, would be 11. 16s. Bd.
Ady then bowed his head to the Court and withdrew,
having been previously reminded by the Bench that a
distress warrant would be issued for the amount if he did
not appear on the day fixed, or send the money claimed
in the meantime.
MARYLEBONE.
Increased interest was excited at this court, owing to
a knowledge of the fact that the man Thonzas _Duck was
to be brought up, before Mr. Broughton, for re-exami-
nation, on the charge of having administered poison
to Jane Duck, his wife, with intent to murder her.
The particulars of what previously transpired in re-
ference to the alleged very heillotl4 wetter hue alrody