The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-14 00:00:00

COURT OF- REQUESTS.

WESTMINSTER, THURSDAY.—EH—HAW ! MY MUS-
TACHIOS !-A long, but very lean young gentleman, named
Julius Augustus Harrison, wearing a most ferocious-looking
pair of mustachios, and whiskers en suite, was yesterday
summoned for the consideration of 11s. 6d., by a little
yellow barber, named Rogers.

" What's it for ?" asked one of the COMMISSIONERS.
Little Rogers shrugged up his shoulders, and in something
between a whine and a whistle, made the fidlowing ludi-
crous statement :—" I'll tell your Worships all about it.
This 'ear good gentleman comes to my shop in George-
street, and ashes me says he, 'What shall I give you a
week to keep my head in order ?'—(Laughter.) Says I,
I s'pose you means your 'air !' Oh,' says he, it's all the
same ;' and so with that 1 up and tells him I'd look arter
his head for a shillin a week, shaves included.—(Considera-
ble laughter.) Well, your Worships, I shaves him, and
I curls him, and I set his whiskers back.—(Roars of
laughter.)
A COMMISSIONER—What, Sir, set back his whiskers ?
Plaintiff—Yes, Sir ; one on 'em come round just like
you'rn, and so I coaxed 'em, and trimmed 'em—(Laughter)
—and then I dyed his mustachioes ! they had a nasty look,
like as you sees 'em now ; but I turned 'em into regular
black 'uns ; in fact, I made him look decent and wholesome
for a matter of ten weeks, and now this is the way he sarves
me.—(Laughter.)
A COMMISSIONER—HOW do you make out I Is. 6d., Mr.
Rogers ? Plaintiff—Eighteen pence for dying his musta-
chioes, Sir.—(The Court was convulsed with laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—By what process? Rogers (with a
cunning wink)—Ah, Sir, that's a secret ; I karn't think of
putting you up to that ! there is such a thing as hoppositioiz
you know.
COMMISSIONER—Now, Mr. Harrison, what have you to
say ? Defendant—Eh ?
What have you to say, Sir ?—Hawpon my word, don't
know, droll affair, and d—d unpleasant. Have seen the
fallow before—certainly did frizzle my hair—believe the
man shaved me. As to the mustachios, never was viler
stuff put on man's face ; the colour was all gone in six
hours.—( More laughter.)
You should have "tried Warren's."—(Laughter.) By
your own admission it appears you owe the plaintiff the
amount sued for—you must pay it forthwith.—Eh—aw—
really this is a most rascally decision.—(Laughter.)
Plaintiff—l wish your Verships a werry good morning.
You're all gentlemen wot is gentlemen—the most agreea-
blest—pleasantest--and jUstest—unkimmonest— (Here
the little tonsor's encomium was cut short by the officer
gently handing him out of Court.)

COURT OF REQUESTS, KINGS-
GATE-STREET-(THURSDAY.)

MRS. COBBO FROM CONGO.—A squat and remarkably
ugly-looking black woman, named Cobbo, summoned a
very respectable-looking man, named Smith, for the sum of
11. 15s. for board and lodging,.alleged to have been supplied
to Smith's wife by the black woman Cobbo.
How is this, Sir? said Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS, ad-
dressing the defendant ?—Sir (said the defendant, in a very
excited manner), I am one of those unfortunate men ruined
in the possession of a drunken wife. Although I have tried
every means in my power to reclaim her, it has proved una-
vailing. She strips me of everything she can lay her hand
upon, and absconds for whole weeks together with the most
dissolute and depraved of characters ; she then runs me
into debt, and the law calls upon me to pay.
COMMISSIONER—How was this debt contracted, Mrs.
Cobbo ? Mrs. Cobbo—Mungee—mungee—Massa. She
sleep 'long my daughter, and she eat 'a me up for dis day
tree weeks.—(Laughter.) When she get up, den she lay
down—walkee, talkee, and me hab no money—(laughter)
—so me fetch de Massa here

COMMISSIONER—Very explicit, indeed, Madam. Pray
what are you, Mrs. Cobbo, and where do you live ?
Mrs. Cobbo—Me live at Congo and Ship-yard. Me
ladee.—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—Ob, oh, you're a lady, are you ? Now
tell us how you get your living. Don't you and your
daughter walk the streets ? Mrs. Cobbo—Ess, Massa :so
does ebbery body dat no ride !—(Laughter.)
A Juryman—Don't you live in a bad house, Mrs. Cobbo ?
—Mrs. Cobbo—Not a half so bad as dis, Massa. Dis
werry ole (old).
COMMISSIONER—What time do you and your daughter
get to bed, Mrs. Cobbo ? Mrs. Cobbo—Nebber, Massa,
nebber. •

COMMISSIONER (astonished)—Never go to bed, Mrs.
Cobbo ! Pray how do you sleep ? Mrs. Cobbo—On de
table, Massa.—(Considerable merriment.)
COMMISSIONER—And where does your daughter sleep ?
—Mrs. Cobbo—Long Missey Smith.
CommissioNEn.—Now stand down, Mrs. Cobbo.
Mrs. Smith was then called, and presented a truly
wretched personification of gin and depravity. She ad-
mitted owing the money to Mrs. Cobbo, of Ship-yard, and
the Worthy Commissioner observed, with much feeling,
that, on the part of the defendant, it was a truly lamentable
affair. He advised him to go before a Magistrate forth-
with, and endeavour to make such arrangements as would
prevent such an annoyance in future. The law compelled
him, in the present instance, to award the money.
Mrs. Cobbo, on hearing this announcement, went into
such an extravagant fit of guttural exclamations, that the
officers of the Court were compelled to remove her, and in
half an hour the sable lady was under the care of the po-
lice, "rolling drunk."
SPECIMEN OF HARD SWEARING.—A Radical Gentle-
man, belonging to the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on
beinc, sued for a pot-house score, asserted loudly and lustily
that he had paid it ! " When did you pay it ?" asked the
Commissioner. " On the 31st of June," said the worthy.
And you'll swear that ?" said the Commissioner. yes,
hand us the book."—(Laughter.) " No, you won't,
though," replied the Commissioner, " you're too big a fool
to be a lucky rogue, and so you must be good enough to
day the full amount and costs." " Vy," asked the patriot?
" Only because there are but thirty days in June," responded

the Commissioner !—Another " cunning Isaac" swore
point blank that he had sent in a ton of coal to the parties
sued on the Bth of November, 1836, and nothing could beat
it out of his head until he was assured that the present hap-
pened to be the month of October !

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday, Mr. Foard, of Fleur-de-lis-court, Fleet-
street, attended before Mr. Alderman LAINSON, to show
cause why he should not repay the sum of .5/. 55., to the
Benevolent Loan Society, held at Exeter Hall, being part
of a sum of 71. lent to Daniel Lockyer, for the repayment
of which Mr. Foard became surety.
The Clerk to the Society explained that the Society
made small loans of 21. to 151. to deserving objects, which
were to be repaid at the rate of Is. in the pound every
week. Mr. Foard had signed a paper recommending the
borrower, and consenting to become bound with him to re-
pay the loan by the required weekly instalments. The loan
was made, and tha borrower and surety signed a promissory
note, agreeing jointly and severally to repay the money at
the rate of 7s. per week, such payments to commence
from the end of one month. The borrower was arrested
and taken to gaol for debt, after repaying 11. 155., and Mr.
Foard should have continued the weekly payments from
that time, about the end of June, but he wished the whole
time for repayment to run out, and the Society had re-
frained from pressing him. They now sought to recover
the whole sum due from him as surety—the last weekly in-
stalment of 7s. having become payable on the 19th of
September.
Mr. Foard complained that he had been deceived into
this business altogether. The borrower told him he had a
second surety, so that he (defendant) would be liable for
only half the loan ; but it appeared only one surety had
been required or taken. Again, he thought due diligence
had not been used to recover from the borrower, who was
getting as fat as a pig in prison, while his wife seemed to
be living very comfortably out of prison. If the Society
turned so readily from the borrower to the surety, the latter
would have to pay in nine cases out of ten.
Mr. Alderman LAINSON would make an order for pay-
ment, but he would request the Society not to enforce it
for a fortnight. If the 5/.55. were not then paid, he would
grant the usual process to recover.