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POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a gentleman, whose name did not
transpire, waited upon Mr. Mrssituu, the sitting
Magistrate, to request his assistance to enable him
to recover two shillings from the proprietors of the
Adelphi Theatre. Ihe gentleman added, that it
was not-the object of the money which had brought
him forward, but a desire if poss►ble to check a very
great abuse which existed at the theatre in question.
The complainant then stated, that he went at half-
price admission to the boxes of the Adelphi Theatre
on Monday night last, in company with a foreign
gentleman. They paid two shillings each, and ex-
pected of course to have found the usual accommo-
dation of seats to witness the entertainments. On
reaching the interior of the theatre, they found to
their very great disappointment that not a seat was
to be had, and they accordingly returned to the
money-taker, and demanded of him the,amountwhich
they had paid for their admission. The money-
taker refused to refund a 6d., although he admitted
that he had not told either the applicant or his
friend that there was only standing-room. The
gentleman said, that conceiving that such a proceed-
ing was, in point of fact, obtaining money under
false pretences, and knowing that, according to the
Act of Parliament, peace-officers were about the
house to preserve order and protect the public from
being robbed, he asked for a constable, and one
being pointed out to him, he desired him to take
the individual into custody by whom he conceived
he had been defrauded. The officer, however,
whose name was Prosser, declined to interfere, stat-
ing that the money-taker was always to be found.
He then joined a group of women of a certain de-
scription, and actually began to laugh at the appli-
cant and his friend.

Mr. MINSHULL said that such conduct on the part
of an officer was highly censurable. With respect,
however, to the charge of imposition, the applicant
must go to the Court of Requests, where no doubt
he would recover his money.
" But, Sir," answered the applicant, " suppose I
was so situated as that I had occasion to leave town
the next Morning, where would be my remedy ?
Surely some person ought to be in attendance at the
theatre, to give immediate satisfaction to persons
who conceive themselves aggrieved, or, at all events,
I conceive it to be duty of the managers to follow
the example of other theatres, by putting up a board
announcing to the public th►ai a:aiding room could
only be obtained.

Mr. MINSIIULL asked the gentleman if he had en-
deavoured to see either of the managers.
The gentleman answered that he went to the pit-
entrance for the purpose of having an interview with
either Mr. Yates or Mr. Matthews ; bat was told by
a servant that neither of those gentlemen was acces-
sible. He then went round to the stage-door, and
handed his card to the person in waiting there, who
refused to take it to either of the gentlemen he had
named. " Having a foreigner with me," added the
applicant, " I own I felt shaMe and mortification at
the contrast which such conduct bore to the manner
in which the theatres on the continent are conduct-
ed : and I must say that there appears to me to be
neither honour nor honesty in taking money without
giving the stipulated value. When a man enters u
theatre, he does it under the implied understanding
that accommodation woald be afforded him, unless he
had previous notice to the contrary, either from the
party who accepts his money or by means of a board
Announcing the fact.
Mr. MINSIIULL again referred the applicant to
the Court of Requests for redress, and the latter
withdrew.

A gentleman who was sitting on the bench ob-
served, that a practice existed amongst the box-
keepers at the Royal Theatres, which was even more
reprehensible than that which had just been the sub-
ject of complaint. A friend and he had lareiy gone
to Covent-gardpn Theatre on a crowded night, and
anxious to obtain seats (not having previously be-
spoken them), they applied to one of the box-
keepers, who shook his head, declaring that there
was not a seat to spare. Knowing, however, that
those gentlemen had " itching palms," one of the
gentlemen said, " We have no objection to pay you,
if you provide us with a seat--how much do you
require ?" The box-keeper bowed low, and said
" He always left the amount to the liberality of gen-
tlemen." Half a crown was then offered to him,
but the box-keeper declined to accept of it, stating
that he could not afford the accommodation required
under ss. My friend and I, added the gentleman,
" sooner than lose the entertainment, gave him the
amount he demanded. (The gentleman should
have acquainted the manager with the fact, and
the box-keeper would no doubt, have been dis-
missed.")
The gentleman who came to this office a short
time ago to complain of his having been knocked
down and robbed of a considerable sum of money,
in Bank of England notes, in a passage leading from
the Temple to his lodgings in Atundel-street, came
before Mr. MiNsuum, yesterday, to make affidavit
that he had not been in a house of ill-fame on the
night in question. The gentleman said, that he had
waited upon the magistrate to swear to the above
fact, in consequence of the reports which he saw
that morning in the newspapers, announcing that
Smith, the officer, had given it as his opinion
(which opinion had been echoed by Sir R. Birnie
and Mr. Halls), that he, the applicant, could have
lost his money in no other way than in an house of
ill-fame.

Mr. MINSRULL said he knew nothing of the case
himself, but he was sure, from the character of
Smith, that he must have bad some grounds for
such a statement. As the gentleman, however, had
come forward to contradict it upon oath, the con-
clusio►► to which Smith had come was clearly with-
out foundation.

After some further conversation the gentleman
was sworn to the above fact, and retired.

Contrary to the practice pursued by the magistrates
of this office since the passim-, of Mr. Peel's Act,
giving magistrates power to inflict fines in cases of
assault, Mr. MlNsituLL fined several parties yester-
day who came before him as defendants in assault
cases. The persons so fined were well able to bear
their respective penalties.