The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-27 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Mrs. Francisco, the wife of an Italian showman, the
proprietor of an exhibition at the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-
road, was yesterday summoned for refusing to pay a juggler
in their employment his week's wages, amounting to 12s.
The juggler said that he was dismissed from his employ-
ment by Mrs. Francisco, who had the management of the
exhibition, and at the time of his dismissal they owed him
65., which they refused to pay, And that in consequence of
this refusal he was compelled to take out a summons, and
pull them up" for his wages.
Mr. TRAIL said, that thse exhibitions about town were
a most intolerable nuisance. There were always crowds
collected, and amongst them pickpockets, about the doors,
and frequently persons got robbed. The magistrate then
asked the complainant whether he was the man who ful-
filled the duties at the door next the street, and made such
an uproar by directing the attention of the passengers to
the canvass daubs suspended in front of the building, and
inviting them to look at the " wonders" within. Com-
plainant—No, your worship, I'm not the touter of the
consarn. I am employed very differently to that there.
Mr. TRAIL asked him the nature of his employment ?
Complainant—l does a wariety of things to make myself
generally useful. I am a juggler by, profession, but when I
went to the Rotunda I condescended for to do other things
besides juggling. Having a good woice, I was appointed to
describe the wax-work figures to the company ; to elooci-
date the magic-lantern, and to tell a long tale about the
sarpent's that corned from the West Indees.
Here Mrs. Francisco stepped forward, and said that the

juggler was near being the ruination of the eonsarn altoge,
ther.

Mr. TRAILL—What has he done ?
Mrs. Francisco—What has lie done ? Why, he used to
get so confoundedly drunk, your Worship, that he knew
not what he was about one half his time. I must tell your
worship, that in the exhibition there are wax figures as large
as life of the most renowned and wonderful men as ever
lived, and amongst them Bonyparte, Duke of Wellington,
Marc Antony, Caesar, Jupiter, and other great heroes.—
(Laughter.) Well, your worship, as I was a saying, the
juggler undertook for the describe each figure to the com-
pany ; his woice was good I own, but then he made such
terrible blunders in his descriptions of the great men, often
pointing oat Marc Antony to the audience as Bonyparte,
and Jupiter for the Duke of Wellington. These here mis-
takes, your worships, injured the exhibition, and the people
what knowed better laughed at and ridiculed the igrArance
betrayed by people as ought to know better.
Mr. TRAILL asked her why she did not pay the juggler
his wages, and get rid of him altogether, on finding that his
services were not likely to be an acquisition:
Mrs. Francisco said that she had never agreed to give
him wages ; that he was allowed to keep what money he
got from the company whO thought proper to give him
any, and in this way he picked up a great deal on some days.
The juggler said that his contract was 2s. a-day for his
services. " Why," said he, addre'ssing Mrs. Francisco,
" you knows werry well that when the sarpents were sent
away, the performance began to go down, and sometimes I
did not take 2d. a-day from the company."
Mrs. Francisco was asked by the magistrate what sum of
money was generally taken each day for admission at a
penny a-head ?
Mrs. Francisco replied that they generally averaged
from 3/. to 4/. a-day; " but then," said she, " we are at a
great expense ; the rent of the Rotunda, besides paying the
men we employ, makes a great hole in our profits." She
then called two witnesses for the purpose of disproving that
she had agreed to give the juggler any weekly wages. After
a long altercation between the contending parties, the Ma-
gistrate recommended Mrs. Francisco to pay the juggler
his claim, and it was at length decided that the summons
should stand open for a week, in order to give Mrs. Fran-
cisco an opportunity of arranging the matter in dispute with
the juggler.