The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-17 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

YeSterday Thomas Graham, the proprietor of the cabrio-
let Nio. 1,678, appeared before Mr. Gregorie, to answer a
sumurns taken out against him by Mr. William Tiffin, a
gentleman residing at Newington, for the following offence :
The defendant produced a man who was the regular
driver of his cabriolet ; but on the day in question, when
the o;11-*.ence was committed, the driver he said was taken ill,
and another man had been got to drive on that day, and he
dia not know where he lived.
Mr. GREGORIE remarked that as be did not produce the
driver, he (the proprietor) was liable.
ICappeared from the evidence of the complainant that
on Thursday he hired the defendant's cabriolet near St.
CleMene.s Church, in the Strand, and told him to drive to
Chailing-cross, where he had his chaise waiting for him.
'lle distance being only about three quarters of a mile he
offero the driver eightpence which he refused, and de-
manded one shilling. Witness refused to give him more
than eightpence when he became very abusive, asked him
if het thought there was any thing green about his eye, and
insisted upon having one shilling. Witness tendered him
Ins Pare three times, which he refused to take. Witness
got into his chaise when the cab driver seized the reins and
would not let him proceed until he got the assistance of a
Pollee constable.
A police constable of the A division confirmed the state-
ment of the complainant, as to the insolent conduct of the
cab driver.

The defendant, in reply, said that if time was given to
him be thought he should be able to produce the driver,
who could give the best answer to the charge.
Mr. GREGORIE said that it would be useless to adjourn
the case, for if the defendant found the driver he could
bring him before him, and whatever penalty the defendant
paid the driver should pay him again, either by his purse
or person.
Mr. Tiffin said that he never summoned a man before,
but the conduct of the cabriolet driver was so grossly inso-
lent that for the sake of the public he felt himself com-
pelled to summon him.
Mr. GREGORIE said that it was a very gross case, and if
proprietors would allow irresponsible persons to drive for
them, men whose address they did not know, they must
take the consequences. He felt it his duty to fine the de-
fendant in the mitigated penalty of 505., and costs 6s. 6d.
Mr. GREGORIE told the complainant that one half the
penalty belonged to him.
Mr. Tiffin said that he should not take his moiety of the
penalty, and begged that it might be applied to some cha-
ritable purpose, which was accordingly done.
ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Mfrs. Anne Hely Hutchinson, of
No. 19, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, the widow of the
Right Hon. C. Hutchinson, was charged before Messrs.
GREGORIE and. WHITE, on a warrant, with assaulting
Sarah Plant, one of her servants under the following cir-
cumstances

Sarah Plant had lived in Mrs. Hutchinson's service about
five months as servant of all work. On Monday last, about
half-past eleven o'clock in the evening, she was in the kitchen,
when Miss Anderson came down and told her that her mis-
tress desired she would come up stairs and make a bed.
She told her that she would come directly. She was about
lighting a candle to go up stairs, when her mistress came
down into the kitchen, and began to push her about, and
pushed her out of the kitchen. She (witness) seized her
bonnet, and ran up stairs, when her mistress followed her,
pulled her bonnet off, and threw it down stairs. Witness
then ran out of the house, and her mistress bolted the door
upon her. She had not received a farthing of wages.
Henry Neil, a footman in the service of Mrs. Hutchinson,
confirmed the statement of the complainant.
Mrs. Hutchinson in her defence said that her daughter,
who had been on a visit to Lady Harley in the country,
had arrived at home on the day in question. She sent Miss
Anderson into the kitchen to tell the servant to come up
and make the bed for her daughter, and Miss Anderson
brought her word back, that the servant said she would
not make the bed but at her own convenience. She then
certainly went into the kitchen, and desired her to go that
instant and make the bed. She refused, and she certainly
did push her out of the kitchen, and she thought she had
a right so to do.
The complainant said that it was false ; 'she never refused
to make the bed.

The Magistrates consulted together, when Mr. WHITE
said that she ought to have made the bed when she was
told, and dismissed the complaint.
A gentleman who accompanied Mrs. Hutchinson said
that he had offered the complainant her wages, which she
refused. _ _ _

Mr. WHITE said that when the complainant applied for
the warrant she told a very different story.
The complainant had not had justice done to her, and
should apply somewhere else.