The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.— Thomas Hughes, a proprie tor driving
his own cab, was summoned for refusing to go with Mr.
Charles Watson, a stockbroker, of 10, Warnford-court,
City.

Mr. Watson stated, that on Friday last he saw the
defendant, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, driving a
Hansom cab in King-street, Cheapside. He hailed de-
fendant, but he appeared to take no notice, and drove
on at a rapid pace. Complainant ran after defendant,
and asked him why he did not stop, and he replied that
he had done work for the day and was going home, and
did not intend to take any more fares. Complainant
asked him for his number, and he referred him to the
stamp-office plate at the back of the cab, but complainant
insisted upon having the number of his badge, which
defendant prevented him from obtaining for some time.
The defendant said, he bad gone 15 miles that day,
and earned 10s., and, it being his custom to work his
horses only from 7 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon,
he was returning home when he was hailed by the com-
plainant. He (defendant) was not on a stand, neither
was he plying for hire, and be thought under those cir-
cumstances it was not compulsory on him to take a fare
against his inclination
Alderman Moon said the defendant had acted wrongly
and was very uncivil in not letting complainant have his
number. Really, the cabmen were becoming most in-
corrigible, and it was his duty to protect the public
from their impositions and insults
The complainant admitted that the defendant was not
plying for hire, and the defendant said he paid a great
deal of money for his horses, and was therefore obliged
to be careful that he did not overwork them, for the
reduced fares would not pay him if he injured a horse in
so doing.
The defendant was then fined 10s., which, after a
good deal of demurring, he paid, and the complainant
gave the costs, 35., to the poor-box.

BOW-STREET.—John. Linton Daniel, who keeps a
loan-office in Thanet-place, Strand, in the name of Cap-
tain Daniel, was summoned before Mr. Jardine for as-
saulting and threatening Edwin John Baker, the secre-
tary to the "company."
The same parties were before Mr. Hall on Monday,
when the complainant in the present case was charged
with embezzling the monyes of the defendant, his em-
ployer. On that occasion it was contended that Baker
was not a servant, but a partner, and therefore as much
entitled to receive and pocket the payments made at the
office as Daniel himself; and a covenant of agreement
having been put in to show that Baker was only re-
quired to give an account once a-year, Mr. Hall dis-
missed the charge. On getting back to the loan office,
it appeared that Daniel, Baker, and a groom, who was
claimed as the servant of both, each asserted his right
to the cash box. An altercation ensued, the groom was
turned out of doors by Baker, while the latter was
threatened with expulsion by Daniel—the result being a
second appeal to the police-court. Daniel assured his
worship that the complainant was merely his clerk, and
had been paid a salary of a guinea a-week; but lately, to
give him an interest in the office, he had been allowed a
fourth of the profits as his remuneration—there being a
special proviso in the covenant that he Was not to be
regarded as a partner. A Mr. Govett, who said he was
a solicitor of 30 years' standing, referred to the agree-
ment, which was drawn up by himself as a proof that
Baker, his client, was liable to pay a fourth of the liabi-
lities also, and was, therefore, to all intents, a partner ;
but Mr. Jardine observed that he never saw such an un-
intelligible document as the said " agreement," and he
he could not have supposed that it was ever drawn by a
solicitor. Eventually,
Mr. Jardine ordered the defendant Daniel to enter
into his own recognisances in 101. to keep the peace
towards the complainant for two months.
For some weeks past the legitimate business of the
Court has been constantly interrupted, and the passages,
and waiting-rooms rendered almost inaccessible, by the
arrival at short intervals of large bodies of recruits, des-
tined for the militia service, who are brought before the
magistrate to be attested, some of them frequently in a
state of drunkenness. The time consumed by the for-
mal process of taking a long declaration on oath from
each man causes the greatest possible inconvenience to
the numerous persons of both sexes who have to attend
as witnesses or complainants, and are kept waiting for
hours together in company by no means agreeable, and
in an atmosphere still more unpleasant. Gentlemen
who arrive in a hurry to settle disputes with extortionate
cabmen are driven in despair to make the best bargain
they can with "cabby," who escapes inquiry, and blesses
the volunteer men for his impunity. It is due to the
public who have business at police-courts to draw the
attention of the military authorities to this serious and
growing nuisance, which might easily be avoided by
securing the occasional attendance of a county magis-
trate (probably a captain in the army) to swear in the
recruits at head-quarters.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENOE.

QUARANTINE NOTICE.

ALICANTE, Ang.l.—All 'vessels bound to this coast from
a British port are subjected to three days' quarantine, in
consequence of the cholera morbus having broken out in
Copenhagen, which city is in constant communication
with the United Kingdom.