The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a
full Bench of Magistrates.)

The Court sat yesterday morning for the purpose of
hearing appeals, of which there was a long list in the
paper.
The majority of cases which came on for hearing
were parish appeals, and, as usual, being dependent
upon local points in reference to settlement, they
failed in presenting any feature of general interest.
At the close of the business, a considerable number
of the cases having been adjourned for hearing at the
Guildhall, Westminster, on Wednesday next,
Mrs. Denny appeared upon the floor of the court,
and begged to recall the attention of the Learned
Judge to the complaint she had made a few days
since, in consequence of having paid a person of the
name of Flanagan the sum of 10s., in addition to hav-
ing signed a paper by which she undertook to pay
2s. 6d. a week until the sum had amounted to
U. 33. 6d., for Mr. llorry to appear as counsel for
her son at the last sessions. She had paid the 103.,
but counsel did not defend her son.

The Learned JUDGE said he c3uld not hear or do
anything in this matter at the present moment. He
had received a letter from Mr. Horry, which, so
far as that gentleman was concerned, exonerated
himself, and that Learned Counsel had also stated
that he would enter into an explanation of the trans-
action the first day of the next session.
Mrs. Denny then handed up the following letter,
which she received from Mr. Horry the day on
which the report of her former complaint had ap-
peared in the newspapers :
" Mrs. Denny will please to call on Mr. Horry,
barrister, 7, Quality-court, Chancery-lane, at five
o'clock to-morrow evening (Saturday) without fail.

Oct. 29."
This letter was directed to "Mrs. Lumbly," but
reached Mrs. Denny, of Lumbly court, Strand, for
whom it was intended. In pursuance of this instruc-
tion, she had gone to the chambers of Mr. Horry,
and had expected that she should receive back the
money she had paid.
The Learned JUDGE—And you received your
money, did you not ? Mrs. Denny replied in the ne-
gative.
The Learned JUDGE said, so far as Mr. Horry ap-
peared to have been concerned, his own letter was
satisfactory. It appeared that Flanagan was not his
clerk. The course for the applicant to pursue was
to sue the man who had plundered her of the 10s. in
the County Court. He had also received a letter
from Flanagan, as well as from Mr. Horry, in expla-
nation, and he stated that it was another person, and
not himself, who had received the money. This was
not the court wherein the poor woman could recover
her money ; she must go to the County Court.
Mrs. Denny thanked the Learned Judge. She should
know Flanagan, the man she had paid the 10s. to, and
to whom she had given the undertaking to pay the
2s. 6d. a week, but she could not understand why, as
Mr. Horry had written to her to call upon him at his
chambers, he should have been so anxious for her to
give back that letter to him. (This latter remark was
made as she was turning away, and no doubt did not
reach the Learned Judge.)
The Court was then adjourned to Wednesday morn-
ing, at Westminster.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR said he had received letters
from persons who complained of attempts made to
defraud them of money, and ,aho thought that, as in
all probability attempts of the kind exhibited a regu-
lar system of fraud upon the public, the exposure of
it in the press, the only remedial application with the
efficacy of which he was acquainted, would be at the
present moment of considerable advantage. His
Lordship referred to the following correspondence :
" My Lord Mayor,—Having discovered what I
strongly suspect to be an attempt to extract large
sums of money from the pockets of persons not over-
loaded with brains, not far from the Mansion-house,
I consider it right to call your Lordship's attention
to the circumstance, for the sake of warning others.
" In the Times of on or about September 13 there
appeared an advertisement from a party, signed
L. S. D.,' to procure a situation as secretary to a
public company, at a salary of between 2001. and
:300/. a year, and stating that a premium was ex-
pected.
" In my reply to this advertisement I stated that
I should consider any communication on the subject
as strictly private and confidential. If, therefore,
your Lordship considers this to be merely an or-
dinary case, the matter need not go further : but if
it should be an attempt at swindling on a large scale
I can hardly conceive that I am bound by any such
promise, and at all events I may safely leave my
conscience in this matter in the hands of the chief
magistrate of the city of London.
" On Friday evening I received a letter addressed
from Cannon-street, from a person of the
name of C— (which note was retained by the
party on Saturday, under the pretence of putting
my address on the back). Mr. C— acknowledged
the receipt of my letter, and said that his only reason
for
not replying earlier was that he had been sud-
denly called out of town, but that if I would favour b
him with a call at the ove address on Saturday, at
eleven o'clock, he would be
at he
happyt to give me further
particulars. On calling aboveplace,some
E u rwo
pheiac
nh
appears to be the deserted offices of
writing, who appeared to company, I found. one man
or Continental transit
my. business. He
told me Mr. C- had not(aowt arrived, but took
observed nothing
that
me into a small room to down.
ception of chairs, stools, desks, &c., With the ex-
of the slightest value, and no books or pa
there was nothing, except fixtures and ptejes's
clerk, and the place appeared not to have been Swept
for a month. After waiting half-an-hour, a shabbily
dressed boy came in and ushered me into the presence
of a person whom I considered to be Mr. C—, but
he said he was not that person, and would not tell me
his name. He inquired, in a very. brusque manner,
it I had got the money ? I told him, certainly not,
nor would it be obtained unless satisfactory explana-