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

THE COUNTRYMAN IN LONDON'
On Wednesday John Smith, a baker, who has WI
arrived in London with his wite from Aalesbury•
Buckinghamshire, fur the purpose of emigrating 5
America, and who has already paid 5/. on account
their passage to New York in the ship Victoria, wilicll
sailed on Thursday, came before Mr. Yardley at thel.
Thames-office, to complain that he had been robbed e
351., all the money he possessed in the world, by two
London sharpers, who have lately taken in many flats ;'7
the neighbourhood of the docks.
The applicant, who looked the picture of despair,
sated that he was leaving the London Docks on Tues-
day, and stopped to luck at some posting bills relating
to the departure of the emigrant ship-,
when a " gen-
tlemen " also commenced reading the same bills, and en-
tered into a conversation with him about the vessels. 11.6
informed the straneer he was about to emigrate with his
wife to Americi, and his new acquaintance said he w'ts
quite delighted to hear that, for he was going to send out.*
nephew, 13 ) ears oid, to join Its parents in New York,
aid asked urn to takeeharkre of the boy, for ehich service
he promised him a very handsome compensation. The
applie tot e..n,ented to do so, and after walking a short
distance with his ffien,l, who partieularlj cautioned him
against London sharper,, invited him to partake of some
malt liquor in a puiihe-house, where the conversation
about America and the lad he Was to take charge of was
rt newel. Their conversation was interrupted by
" anther gentleman," who appeared very much like $ .
stew •nt out of plane, who was seated in another part of
flee room tie y were in. Fle said, "As you are talkieg
of A !eerie t, tell yen how to make a fortune there.
f wits sling with an eld eenil,man sixteen years is the
Units d States, and he has died and left me 1,60°4
and none property th,re, and I have come to Lon'
lon to settle my afftirs." The conversation villa
kept up for tune time, and the last person he was intro'
dte•ed to said he should return to New York in three
months. A walk was then proposed, and his compeni°• '
took him to a funny place under the Thames, lighted v
with gas, and afterwards induced him to visit another
public-hi vuse in ‘l.leppi ng, called the Globe, where theper'
.on he last met with talk,d very largely about his con'
hexions in America ant promised to give him his address
hich was 16 miles from NewY. Irk, where he said he Iniga
rem iin mail his (the stranger's) arrival, when he would
dud hitn employm, nt. Alter that his dinterested ag
nueral friend said if he wanted money he would advance
him 501. or 1001., and he would accommodate the other
man, who by this time had described himself as s
Yorkshire tailor, with the same sum. The appli-
cant.,,
os
said he would give him no security, as he "nt
going to America. The stranger said he did net "Id
• any, and would intrust such an honest man with unto
gold; that all he required for the loan of the money visa
stamped receipt, and begged of him to
as
ato
Called
without delay. The Yorkshire tailor as he
himself, said he would take him to shoe
where ho could buy a stamp, and before
did so took from his picket a roll of what it
peered to be Beek of England notes, and left them wi" •
the other man, who promised to take care of- his Ine,ne,
a
till his return. The Yorkshire tailor then advised
the applicant to leave his money with the gentle
man, who would think the !Atter of him for doing
so, and he took all the money be - had about nil?;
35/. in notes and gold, and deposited the whole of 1,
with the stranger, who bade him return as speedilY,flia
possible. lle went out in search of a bill stamp
the Yorkshirerran; but he had not gone far before
a suspicion crossed his mind that all was 1,11,1
right, and he suddenly recollected the tales be A.to read and heard of London sharpers, and determine"
make all possible haste back to the public-house. kftl
communicated his suspicions to his companion, who 95,1.,
it was all right, and by various devices-delayed kiln for
some time. On his return to the Globe he found the.
gentleman who had made such large promises was golf,
and his money was gone too. While he was making
qyiries about him the other man disappeared, en"ade
oiscovered, when it was too late, that he had been mad
the victim of two scoundrels, who had left him without
a penny in the world. most
Mr. Yardley—You have been taken in by tueof the
common trick in existence. I thought that a
deceived
most ordinary intelligence could not have been lam
such a strataemn. I inn sorry fur YOU, but
afraid our 351. is irrevocably gone, a he bad
Smith said he was a stranger in London, an

no mon“y to supp,..rt himseiror his wife.
Mr. Yardky—You have only your own simpliCity to_
thank for that. You have trusted your money t°
strangers you never saw before. Ilow could you be so
.?
f.olish to give credit to the promises of two sharrr'...
It is the most palpable trick ever played off upon a 0.7
man.

Smith said he w4A not in a condition now to return to
his native Yale or to proceed to America, and begged for
borne ai,,istance.

Mr. Yardley said he could do nothing for the applicant
but ad v tsrd him to make his case immediately known 'to
the police, who would look after the sharpers.
Smith then quitted the Court iu the utmost despair of
mind.

BIRTHS.
On the 28th of March, at Rome, the Hon. Hester, wife of
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,_
On the 10th inst., at Imberhorne, near East Grinstead, the
lady of P. Worsley, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Woodford, Northamptonshire, the
lady of Captain J. B. Woosnam, of the Bombay Artillery, or
a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Meadow Lodge, Brixton-hill, Arre.
Edward B. Sutton, of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., Mrs. Hackblock, Denmark-bill, of a s°l3*
On the 13th inst., Mrs. J. E. Saunders, jun., of a son.
On the 13th inst., in New Boad-street, the wife of Henry
Powell, of a son.
the
On the 13th inst., at Helmingham Rectory, Suffolk,
wife of the Rev. J. C. Ryle, of a daughter.

MARRIED. ander
On the Bth inst., at St. Michael's Limerick, Comm
of the fete
Thomas Fisher, R.N., to Anne, eldest daughter
Major-General Hamilton, C.B.
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DIED.
On the 13th inst., in Hill-street, the Dowager Lady Broom'
low, aged 91.
On the 9th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Ater, the Hon. J.
On the 9th inst., at Walcot-terrace, Kennington, fin'
widow of the late Edward Wetenhall, formerly of the St"—
Exchange, aged 93.
On the 10th inst., at Felpharri, near Bognor, Sussex/ the
Rev. John Bishop Beed, aged 76.
On the 11th inst., Mts. Osbaldeston, the wife of
Osbaldeston, Esq., of Upper Phdlintore-place, Ken

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THE PARCEL POST DELIVERY
COMPANY.
A case of considerable hardship to a poor girl, who
can ill-afford the loss, relating to the defunct Parcel
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, a
young woman, named Mary Ann Mitchell, who bad
lived servant in the vicinity of the Wandsworth-road;
being about to remove to Tottenham-court-road, carried
her box, containing all she possessed in the worldexcept the clothes then on her back, to the shop of Mr
Neill, an oilman, to be forwarded by the Parcel Pint
Delivery Company to her new place. The box, how-
ever, never reached its destination, and after making
every effort to get her box, the young woman applied ut
this Court on the sth instant, and obtained a summons
against Mr. Nei:l, in whose charge she had placed her
box. Mr, Neill, upon attending to that summons,
almitted that as the agent of the Farce! Post De'
livery Company he had received it, but said that
by the first opportunity he had forwarded it by
one of the Company's vehicles, to be delivered ao"
cording to the address, and added that it was no fault of
his that it had not been properly delivered. Mr. Elliott
finding that the unlawful detention of the property .h),.
the defendant could not be proved, as he had, in poi'''.
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 summons,
against Messrs. Henry Owen and George 11111, two of
the din ctors of the company, calling upon them to show
cause why they detained the property in question, and
Wednesday being appointed for the hearing, the com-
plainant was in attendance, but neither Mr. Owen nor
Mr. Hill were present.
English, the officer in whose hands the sunsmonsee
had been placed, stated that on the preceding after"
noon he went to the house, No. 17, Soho-square, 1,0
serve the warrant, and was shown into a room, in whion
he was told he should find Mr. Hill. Addressing the
gentleman wiio he found there, he mentioned the pur-
port of his and asked if his name was not Hill
The gentleman, without answering his question, observed
that the summons was addressed to Mr. Owen, andsent him up stairs to another office. On entering the
latter, he found a gentleman whom he addressed as Mr.
Owen. hut that gentleman seemed to evince the same
ind:si osition to declare his real name as him in the lower
ffice, and both seemed to treat the matter with much
apparent ind:fference. He, English, however, left the
summons with Mr. Owen, as he understood his name to
be, and said that unless it was attended to, a warrant
would be granted.
One of the former servants of the defunct company
said, he recollected very well taking the box of the cos:
element's to the principal office in Fleet-street, of which
Mr. Hill had then the management, but what had after'
wards become of it he was unable to say.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed, that it was quite clear, from
the evidence of the last witness, that he had no jurisdie"
Lion in the matter. The box, from all that could be
learned about it, was last delivered of Fleet-street.
where the city magistrates alone had jurisdiction. Ile •
(Mr. Elliott) was most anxious to assist persons like the
complainant in every way he could, but owing to the
present state of the law redress by summary means wit°
most difficult, and he had not the power to do so. It
was an extraordinary fact, that any person or persons
might set up as carriers, without the law placing 11131
check, with respect to the non deliverance of goods upo„°.
them, or affording any redress to the owners of such •
„goods beyond that given by the Police Act, for the
unlawful detention." In this case, however, it would
be necessary to prove that at the time when the atilt'
mons was heard, the defendants had the goods in the° •
possession, and feeling in this there was an end to the •
magistrate's jurisdiction and power to give redress, he
(Mr. Elliott) hoped that the cases connected with the
company complained of would draw public attention to
the glaringly defective state of the law, and lead to the
much called•for remedy.
It having been stated that the poor girl had been de;
prived of her little property, amounting to about 4"
and had nothing but what she then appeared in,
Mr. ELLIOTT said that though the poor-box was, be
was sorry to say, very low, he would order that half
_,ll
sovereign be given to her to provide her with a neceasmi
change.