The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

PARKIN V. MARTIN.

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7,995

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The plaintiff in this action is an accountant, and the
claim was for 5Z 55., for work and labour done in effect-
ing an arrangement with the defendant's creditors.
It appeared that the defendant had originally employed
Mr. Cross, a solicitor, but the plaintiff was subsequently
engaged to complete the negotiation.
The defendant, who appeared in person, said that
plaintiff was a mere clerk to Mr. Cross, and he (defendant)
only knew him in that capacity, and never gave him any
instructions except through Mr. Cross, whose bill he
had paid.

4,548

The UNDER SHERIFF said Mr. Cross had sworn he
had referred defendant to plaintiff, although, at the same
time, he had admitted that he was in the habit of em-
ploying plaintiff on other occasions of a like nature, and
might have paid a portion of the present claim. Mr.
Cross had also said he would have advanced the money
to effect the arrangement. The question therefore was
whether the retainer or the :plaintiff was by Mr. Cross
or the defendant.

The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGEN CE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

The Lord Mayor received the following letter, to which
his attention was particularly claimed, trom the Water-,
man and Lighterman's Company:—
" Waterman's Hall, Dec. 31, 1845.
"My Lord Mayor,—We are directed by the Court of
the Master-wardens and Assistants of the Company of
Watermat and Lightermen of the river Thames, to draw
your Lordship's attention to the late proceedings at
Blackfriars-pier of the Steam-boat Company called;
"The Waterman's Steam-boat Company," and as from'
the similarity of name your Lordship and the public may
suppose that the Waterman and Lighterman's Company ,
are parties to these proceedings, we take this oppor-
tunity of informing your Lordship (and perhaps your
Lordship will have the kindness to make it known in
other quarters) that the Waterman and Lighterman's
Company are not parties to, or in any manner connected
with, such proceedings, nor are they interested in the
affairs of the Waterman's Steam-boat Company.—We
have the honour
.to be, my Lord Mayor, your Lordship's
very humble servants,
" CLARKE and COOPER, Solicitors to

the Waterman and Lighterman's Company.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
The LORD MAYOR said it was very probable that the
confusion apprehended to a certain extent existed, from
the cause assigned by the gentlemen who had written to
him, apd he considered it extremely proper that there
should be 'a disclaimer as public as possible upon the
part of the Waterman and Lighterman's Company of any
connexion between that and the Waterman's Steam-
packet Company. He thought it right, too, to let the
public know that the poor natermen, in whose behalf
public appeals had been made to their sympathies, as
being connected with, and deriving profit from, the
Waterman's Steam-packet Company, had nothing to do
with that Company, and derived no advantage whatever
from it. No ; nobody had any benefit from it, with the
exception of the individuals who had been able to pur-
chase shares in the speculation.
The LORD MAYOR stated that he had recived 11, 10s.
from A. B. C.,for the poor-box.
The three hildren who had been brtinglit before his
Lordship on Wednesday, at the instance of a gentleman
(who had seen one of them pilfer), and whose destitute
condition his Lordship SO much deplored, were again
placed at the bar.
The policeman appointed to make inquiry about the
parents of the boys, stated that he could learn nothing-
whatever about them, as the children were entirely un-
known in the places were they said they resided.
The LORD MAYOR said the confusion evidently be-
came worse confounded, and that the necessity for the
interference of the Legislature was every day more and
more apparent in regard to the protection of poor
children. He wished one of the acting Commissioners
of Somerset House would take the trouble of visiting
the justice-room, to witness a few of the scenes which
daily occurred, exhibiting the totally destitute condition
of so many boys and girls, and endeavour to strike out
some plan for the consideration of the Legislature. It
was impossible that he could send the children before
him to prison, or into the streets. The officer of the
City of London Union must take them to the house of
reception at Peckham.
Mr. Thwaites, one of the officers of the City of London
Union, having, at his Lordship's desire, attended upon
the occasion, said, in answer to some question, that
under peculiar circumstances the officers of the union
accompanied the applicants for refuge to the house at
Peckham, but they had not the power of compelling
any pErsons to remain in it, for it was one of the regu-
lations that any inmate might discharge himself.
The LORD MAYOR said he could not see how such a
regulation could, with any degree of propriety, extend
to children, and he was determined that these before
him should be provided for by the union until their
parents should be found. He was of opinion that the
officers of the union ought to make out a list of cases
similar to that which at that moment presented itself,
and hand it to the Commissioners of the Poor-law, that
they might, upon such unquestionable grounds, apply to
the Legislature.
Mr. Th wait es submitted to his Lordship that as asylums
were in a state of preparation for the houseless, the
evil adverted to would, in a great measure, be remedied.
The LORD MAYOR-But until the time arrives when
each asylums shall be ready for the reception of the
poor, the union must take care of those who appear
within its limits. I must say that a vast deal of distress
and misery have arisen from the fact that the City of
London Union have no premises in the City in which
they could protect the poor, and it a ould appear as if
the authorities kept their workhouse at Peckham in order '
that objects should have more than ordinary difficulties
to encounter when seeking assistance. In such an ar-
rangement there certainly is no humanity.
Mr. Thwaites assured the Lord Mayor that he and
his brother officers left eo effort untried to carry out his
Worship's views, and that they were subjected, in the
performance of their duty, to great annoyances from the
violence and depravity of many of the parties who were
constant customers to the union.

The LORD MAYOR—I admit that you do your duty,
but the board do not perform theirs. A board ought
to be immediately called to take the matter to which I
hare called the peculiar attention of the powerful press
(:feethitehacmountry. I am resolved not to let the matter
drop, for it is ultimately connected with the happiness
c a One
i er s°f.
of the community.
Aldermantheir by
o—relnuhga-I,lis, to answer the complaint of Charles
bo 11:1" fully detaining a carpet bag and its
taken to Messrs. Crol
°thee, to be sent toChester.
The complainant
weeks elapsed before he heard that the bag contained a suit of
46, intended for a boy, and Wall
2d of December.
its destination. The party at Chester
it had not reached
A'l't%.llB general carriers, on the
arrived. He now
thTehoeoun
nottertamkeand,e acnodmptlharineet
had not there, and was assured it had
complained, therefore, that Messrs. Crowley
coming to Lou- ,
for-
warded the bag, but detained it in London.l
de-
fendant's negligence had obliged the parties 91.
try to buy new clothes, as the boy was
den next week.

The innkeeper said he was not at all to blame, and he
did not detain the parcel. The Alderman was probably
aware that the Grand Junction Railway Company was
a monopoly, and would not allow the carriers to have
separate trucks, and take care of their own goods. They
were obliged to deliver them to the Company. He could
prove the delivery of this carpet-bag to the Company,
and he had written for an explanation, but there had
not been sufficient time to allow of investigation. The
complainant made his first application on Christi:sae-
day, and a letter was addressed to the Company next
day, to which no answer had yet been given, owing to
increase of business incident to the season. He should ,
have an answer in two or three days. These great com-
panies would not move in business at the steam-engine
pace.
The complainant asked W 4plyA4 1,1 be tip sufferer