The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

IN RB ELIZABETH PIOLIS CONSTABLE.

In this case a sum of 500/. was deposited in Court
to meet any claim of costs, and an application was
now made to invest the fund in Consols.

Mr. Commissioner Law said, if the money was
invested at the present time, it would make a differ-
ence to some extent to the parties.
Mr. _noloLs observed that the difference at the
present time and three months ago would be between
701. and 801.

The matter stood over for an application to be made
:o the Chief Commissioner, who had originally heard
he case.

Among the recent alterations made in the business
of the Court, has been the allotment of cases, which
have been already heard, to the four Commissioners,
so that in any motion to be made, it can be ascer-
tained to which Commissioner the parties should
apply.

BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT. Oct. 20.
(Before E. Drinots, Esq., Deputy Judge.)
At the sitting of the Court a baker named Welch
had a number of summonses against some labouring
men, for bread supplied to their families. The wives
of the defendants appeared, and pleaded for indul-
gence, stating the several children they had to
support.

The Learned JUDGE made orders, varying from
2s. to 4s. a month, observing that the debts were for
bread supplied to their families.

SCAMELL V. COLLINS.

The plaintiff in this case, a smart-looking dress-
maker, claimed of the defendant, a Jewess, the sum
of 33. Ifor making a dress. The plea was that the
dress was " spoilt," whereupon issue was joined, and
the parties came before the Court.

The defendant said the plaintiff had offered to
make the dress for 25., which allegation was posi-
tively denied.
The Learned JUDGE asked if it was meant that
a dress was to be made for 2s. and the materials
found.

It was stated that the only materials to be found
were a few articles' not worth mentioning.
Defendant—But, sir, she has spoilt my dress. I
can't wear it.
Learned JUDGE—WeII, let us see the dress.
The dress was exhibited, and the defendant de-
clared it was " short waisted," on which the dress-
maker said she had offered to make any alterations
that might be required.
The defendant measured the dress against another,
and declared it was no fit.
It was remarked that dresses were sometimes worn
short waisted.

The COURT adjudged the defendant to pay the 3s.
for making the dress, and 3s. 3d. expenses, where-
upon the parties left the Court, and the noise of their
tongues gradually died away,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR said it would appear as if the
swindlers about town expected to derive advantage
from the existing commercial embarrassments, for he
found they were sending their circulars, headed
" Commercial information and temporary assistance
to merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and private
gentlemen of respectability," and offering pecuniary
accommodation to any extant upon goods or good
bills, &c. He had just received the following letter,
enclosing long printed circulars of the kind alluded to
addressed from the Old Kent-road, and subscribed,
" Yours, very respectfully, John Evans, Brothers,
and Co., factors and commission brokers."
"My Lord,—l have this morning received the en-
closed circular (for which I have been taxed with
postage) ; and as it appears to me that they are an
emanation of scoundrelism, I venture to transmit
them to your Lordship, that the designs on the un-
wary in this season of commercial embarrassment of
the parties calling themselves ' John Evans, Brothers,
and Co., factors and commission brokers,' may be ex-
posed as your Lordship may best judge. I have
marked a paragraph in one of the circulars with red
ink. " I remain, &c."
The paragraph is as follows :—"lt is particularly
requested if this circular is of no immediate service,
it may not be shown unless to a confidential and re-
spectable friend, whose object it is likely to serve, or
you might wish to avail yourself of this assistance on
some future occasion, as it is not multiplicity of bush
nese. we want, but respectability, and in the safe, quiet
mercantile manner which our friends have now for so
many years approved of."
The Lord Mayor observed that exact copies of the
circulars enclosed had been for several years sent
romaid, the swindlers who used them having adopted
a great variety of names. The perseverance in the
practice of addressing them to merchants and traders,
whose names and addresses were obtained from the
Directory, was sufficient evidence of success, if there
were not the positive and melancholy testimony of the
victims who had from time to time addressed the
Chief Magistrate to supplicate attention to the cruel
plunder to which they had been subjected. He
hoped that, at such a time as the present, those who
suffered from a temporary emergency would not make
themselves liable to more severe and bitter injury by
believing one word of the contents of these circulars.
If those who joined in such a vile conspiracy hap-
pened to be within his jurisdiction, he should cer-
tainly proceed to very summary operations. The
mischief accomplished by the fellows who thus audaci-
ously kept up a system of deception, notwithstanding
the repeated exposures in the press, was, he was given
to understand, incalculable. The only mode, he re-
gretted to say, which he had of counteracting the
future operations of the gangs of rascals with whom
the metropolis abounded, was by steadily and reso-
lutely denouncing them in the justice-room, and thus
recommending them to the wholesome castigation of
the press, to which the public were so vastly indebted
for its information and admonitions upon the subject.
Sir PETER LAURIE waited upon the Lord Mayor
to inform him that Joseph Ady had, for the purpose
of pushing his business with the public, introduced
in his circular to those whom he professed to be able
to inform of something to their advantage, the names
of the Lord Chancellor, the Judges, the Bishop of
Winchester, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir E. Sugden, &c.,
each of which individuals would be entitled to 1001.
and upwards upon sending to him 20s. for his cost
and trouble, by order on Whitechapel Post-office,
and paying the postage both ways.
The LORD MAYOR said he had himself received a

few days ago a letter from Ady in precisely similar
terms, and containing the high names adverted to,
no doubt to catch the eye of the inexperienced, who
might calculate that no man in his senses would use
such names without authority. He had had the
honour of a communication from the Marquis of
Downshire, enclosing an invitation from Ady to
transmit to Whitechapel Post-office 20s. for upwards
of 1001. The Lord Mayor hoped that Mr. Ady, who
appeared to be more confident of success than ever,
was not at this unfortunate commercial crisis deriving
profit from his indefatigable spirit of humbug.
LAMBETH.
Edward Pearse was charged before Mr. Elliott
with having some pot metal in his possession, of which
he was unable to give a satisfactory account.
Police-constable George Quinnier, 201 P, deposed
that on Tuesday evening he met the prisoner in the
Wal worth-road, and perceiving something bulky in
his coat pocket, and knowing him before, he stopped
him and asked him what he had got in his pocket ?
The prisoner replied that that was no affair of his,
upon which he (witness) said he must accompany him
to the station-home. The prisoner did so, but on the
way drew from his pocket a piece of calico, in which
were some pieces of metal, evidently portions of a
publican's pint pot.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he was
driven to the offence by sheer want and destitution.
Some days ago every article he possessed was seized
for a week's rent, and both himself and his wife turned
into the street. They had applied to be received into
the workhouse, but were refused, and his wife was at
that moment lying in a state of illness almost on the
bare boards. In the room which he occupied there
was a pint pot, and being in want of necessaries, he
broke it up, and was going to sell it, when he was
met by the constable as he had stated.
Mr. Games, who had been referred to by the pri-
soner, said his statement with respect to his goods
being seized was perfectly true, and his case he (Mr.
Games) believed to be of such extreme hardship that
he had undertaken on his behalf to appear against a
broker who, for 55., one week's rent, had swept away
every article that he possessed in the world. In that
case a summons had been granted against the broker,
and a day was appointed for the hearing.
Mr. ELLIOTT inquired the former character of the
prisoner, and was informed by Quinnier that he had
formerly been the associate of a gang of desperate
characters ; but latterly his sight was very bad, and
he was not so much with his former associates.
Mr. ELLIOTT committed him to prison for 14 days
for the illegal possession.