The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—The Stewards of a Benefit Society,
called " Adam's Lodge," meeting in Batholomew-close,
attended before Aldermen VENABLES and LAURIE yester-
day, upon a summons for refusing to pay the widow of a
deceased member, Benjamin Cassie, the stipulated benefit.
One of the articles exaited some laughter—namely, that
a member was entitled to 51. upon the death of his wife ;
but if he married again, he was expected to take better care
of his second wife, for nothing would be allowed at her
death. There was another peculiarity, which the Alder-
men seemed pleased with,—that whatever weekly or other
benefits a member received in his lifetime should be de-
ducted from the death-money paid to the widow, provided
it was not thereby reduced below 101.
Esther Cassie proved, that by the articles she was en-
titled. to 20/. subject to the above deductions.; and that her
husband entered the society in 1792, and died in 1826.
The stewards produced an additional article, which was
unanimously sanctioned by the society, and by the decea•
sed among the rest,—that the death-money should be re-
duced to 10/. certain, in consequence of the rapid decline
of the funds.

The ALDERUIN, however, paid no regard to this, as it
had not been enrolled, and decided that the widow was
entitled to 201. minus whatever the deceased was indebted

to the society—viz. 51. paid on the death of his first wife,
245. sick-money, and 13s. 4d. contributions in arrear.
One steward said, that many widows had waived their
claim to the 201. who would mow enforce it, and swallow
up their stock (1,1001.) " Now," said he, " put the boot
on the other leg,—there are 14 or 15 poor old pensioners,
whose allowances must cease. "—(Laugh ter. )
" But remember," replied Alderman VENA IMES, " that
the deceased waited 34 years before you had to put the
hoot on his leg, in all which time be drew but 245. as al-
lowance while under sickness."
The order was made for 131. 2s. Bd.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Thos. Robinson, an assistant-
surgeon in the army, and under orders for foreign service,
was yesterday brought from St. Martin's watch-house,
charged with being riotous and disorderly in the Adelpk
Theatre.

The Treasurer of the theatre preferred the charge. He
stated that the defendant came to the theatre drunk, and
used offensive language to the servants of the establishment.
On untering the saloon, his conduct was more outrageous
than before. The sight of the ladies seemed to endue him
with a new spirit, and he commenced hauling them about
quite in an indecent manner. Finding that fair words and
persuasive arguments had no effect upon him, the con-
stables of the theatre were obliged to be summoned, but
he threw himself into a fighting attitude before them, and
seemed to bid defiance to their united force. It was with
great difficulty, and not without experiencing some proofs
of talents RS an amateur pugilist, .that he was at last over-
come and conveyed to the watch-house. The Treasurer
added, that it was the anxious desire of the proprietors to
keep the house respectable, and to prevent the recurrence
of such irregular proceedings, and they were determined to
do so by adopting the most effectual means.

Mr. ilAr.r.s-13ut surely you had the power of preventing
these disorders in your own hands. You ought not to re-
ceive money from drunken persons, from whom you cannot
expect propriety of conduct.
The Treasurer, in reply observed, that it would be totally
impossible for the money-takers to discriminate in a crowd
between the drunken and the sober.

Mr. HALLS wondered why it was that tipsy gentlemen
had always such a predilection for the Adelphi Theatre.
" Probably," answered the treasurer, "it is because the
officers who are stationed there do not handle folks suffi-
ciently rough. They have been rather too forbearing."
" May it not be attributed, also, to the extreme good
nature of the ladies who frequent the saloon ?" asked Mr.
lIA LLS.

The Treasurer smiled, and admitted that there might be
something in that circumstance.
Mr. HALLS then asked the defendant what he had to say
to the charge.

Mr. Robinson said, he was quite willing to admit every
thing that had been urged against him. The fact was,
that seven or eight gentlemen, who, like himself, were
under orders for a foreign station, had dined together the
day before, and he supposed he had exceeded that quantum
,of wine at which a wise man stops. lie was extremely
sorry for what had passed.
Mr. Robinson's landlord here came forward, and said
that his lodger was one of the quietest and most abstemious
gentlemen he had ever the good fortune to have in his house.
The Treasurer said, he had no desire to press the charge
under these circumstances ; but he wished to observe, that
although Tom and Jerry had been a favourite entertain-
inent at this theatre, the proprietors were determined not
to sanction the performance of any of its detached scenes,
before the curtain, by persons who were not attached to the
dramatis person(e.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Two persons, whose
names appeared in the watch-book of St. Pancras parish as
Colonel Morphew and Richard Cooper, were yesterday
brought from the watch-house of the above parish, where
they had lain all the previous night in default of bail.
William Snell, a waiter at the Symonds Inn, Coffee-
house, in Chancery-lane, stated, that these two persons
came to the Coffee-room about ten o'clock the night before,
and ordered a supper, which was supplied to them, and of
which they partook very plentifully. After they had
finished regaling themselves, he observed that his customers
seemed very fidgetty and uneasy in their seats, and occa-
sionally cast some longing glances towards the street-door,
which led him to suspect that they had a design in bolting
without the ceremony of paying their bill, and he accord-
ingly presented them with that document, and demanded
its discharge.

The prisoners gave no denial then to the demand, but
ordered a cabriolet to be sent for to convey them home to
Kentish-town, where they said they resided. The cabriolet
having arrived at the door, and the waiter seeing no pre-
paration on the part of his customers to pay the bill, again
reminded them of the subject, when they told him that
they had no money, but to charge the amount to a Mr.
Hawkes, who sometimes comes to the house, and who,
they said, was their friend, and was to have met them there
at supper, and paid the bill.
The waiter replied, that although he did know a little of
a Mr. Hawkes, yet that he knew nothing of them, and that
their reference to Mr. Hawkes would not satisfy his de-
mand, and was proceeding to insist on immediate payment,
when the prisoners jumped into the cabriolet, and desired
the driver to set off with all speed to Kentish-town, which
he accordingly did, pursued in full chase by the waiter.
The race continued at great odds against the waiter up
Chanmy.lane, along Holborn, Tottenham-court-road, and
to the first turnpike on the Hampstead-road, where there
was a dead stop want of the travellers having the means
of paying the toll; and the driver beginning by this time
to think that he had got " rum " sort of customers to deal
with, refused to pay it for them ; and thus the waiter had
time to come up, although nearly breathless, and gave the
prisoners in charge to the watchman for " bilking " him of
his demand.

Richard Box, driver of the cabriolet No. 32, confirmed
the waiter's evidence as to the pursuit and stoppage at the
turnpike.
The person who gave his name at the watch-house as
Colonel Morphew, but who now gave it as Charles Murphy
to the magistrate, was proceeding with much loquacity to
attempt some explanation about the supper and Mr.
Hawkes, when

Mr. DYER said, that in the case of the waiter a magis-
trate had no power to interfere, as it was a debt ; but the
driver's fare must be paid, as there was an act of Parlia-
ment which dealt very summarily with persons refusing to
do so. It appears also that Morphew was drunk, and for
this he was fined 55., making in the whole, with the cabrio-
let fare of 45., a demand of 95., upon perfectly empty
pockets ; and the Magistrate was about to commit the two
prisoners to gaol under the act, in default of payment,
when a baker of Kentish-town, for whom it seems they
had sent to assist them, entered the office very opportunely,
and having paid the driver's fare, and the fine for " Cap-
tain Morphew," as he called him, the prisoners were dis-
charged leaving the poor waiter to get his aupper-bill paid
as he may.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Three boys were yesterday
examined on a charge of stealing a lock and key from the
gate of a field near Islington. Evidence was brought for-
ward to prove the case, and the magistrates (Messrs. 11E-
NETT and TwrroaD) were about to commit them for trial,
when the father of one of the boys having said he could
prove that his son was with him at the time the alleged
felony was committed, it was agreed to postpone the case
till this day, to give time to the father to produce his witnesses.
A case came on of alleged clandestine removal of goods
early in the morning before daylight ; but in consequence
of objections taken to the form of the information, it was
dismissed, giving the parties liberty to bring the case on again.

The following anecdote is related of LESSING,
the German author, who in his old age was subject to ex-
traordinary fits of abstraction. On his return home one
evening, after he had knocked at the door, his servant looked
out of the window to see who was there. Not recognizing
his master in the dark, and ►mistaking him for a stranger,
he called out, " The Professor is not at home." Oh,
well," replied LESSING, " no matter, I will call another
time," and he very composedly walked anay..rilthenccion•

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 9.
CRESSER V. GARRATI.

This was an action by the plaintiff, a teacher of
foreign languages, against the defendant, a school-
master of Saint John's-wood, Marylebene, to'recover
the amount of a quarter's salary, which the former
claimed to he due to him in respect of an engage-
ment as teacher in the defendant's school.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the plaintiff's
case.—lii March, 1826, the plaintiff was engaged
by the defendant as an assistant in his school, at
a salary of 40 guineas per annum. He s continued
in the defendant's service until the 9th October fol-
lowing, when, without any previous notice, he was
dismissed by the defendant, who tendered him a
pound for his services, from the end of the last pre-
ceding quarter to the time of his discharge, but re-
fused to pay him for the entire quarter which had
been broken into. It was attempted to be proved,
that it was customary between schoolmasters and
their assistants, to give a quarter's notice of an in-
tention to vacate a yearly engagement, unless any
express stipulation was made to the contrary, but
the evidence failed.

Mr. BROUGHA➢r had no doubt of being able to
show that the plaintiff had not been dismissed with-
out good cause. He should prove that the plaintiff,
who was a person of a most irascible temper, had in
many instances violated the rules of the school, by
inflicting corporal punishment on the boys, and that
in one instance he had done so after distinct notice
given to him by the defendant, that unless he desisted
from such conduct, he would be dismissed from his
situation.

The following witnesses were then called :
George Bindley, an usher in the defendant's
school, stated, that it was contrary to the known
practice of the school for the assistants to strike the
boys; their punishment was by tasks. Witness was
present when the plaintiff beat a boy of the name of
Edwards. He was about 10 years of age. Plaintiff
beat him very violently with his fist, and knocked
his head against the desk. This was in September
1826. After he had repeated his blows several
times, he took the boy by the side of the neckcloth
and knocked the lower part of his jaw against the
front of the desk. On the defendant's being in-
formed of this, he told the plaintiff that he would
not allow him to strike any one in the house.

Cross-examined—The defendant was never ab-
sent from the school more than ten minutes without
the plaintiff's beating the boys. He was of a very
violent temper.
Thomas Smirden, an assistant-teacher in the de-
fendant's school, confirmed the testimony of Bindley,
as to the beating of Edwards.
Cross-examined—There were upwards of 60 boys
in the school, and there were four ushers. The
beating of Edwards was occasioned by a quarrel be-
tween-him and the plaintiff, distinct from his (Ed-
wards's) lesson.
William Smirden, an apprentice of the defendant's,
saw the plaintiff strike Master Freeman. The
plaintiff was dismissed on the evening of the same
day. The defendant on dismissing the plaintiff, of-
fered to pay him 1/. in full for his salary, but the
plaintiff refused to take it. ,
Cross-examined.—On the plaintiff's return, after
leaving the school, the defendant remonstrated with
him, and said he would knock his head off.—
'Witness thinks this was not without provocation,
for the plaintiff told the defendant that he was as ig-
norant as a cart-horse. On being told to go away,
he said he had no objection to do so, but he said he
should expect to be paid a quarter's salary.
The ATTORNM.GENERAL, in reply, contended
that no case had been made out to justify the plain-
tiff's diSmissal without notice, and that the plaintiff
was therefore entitled to a verdict for the amount of
at least a quarter's salary.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dama-
ges 10 guineas.
While the cause was going on, a person went up
to the student's box, and inquired of one of the gen-
tlemen there what fee he would take to keep the
case out of the newspapers. The gentleman told
the person he supposed he was ignorant under what
circumstances he was id that box, or he would not
have presumed to insult him by asking such a ques-
tion.