Police.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTirwAIRx.-Ajournev to Greenwich by the stage is suchba trial of latience to thepassengeritandthe general in- wilence of the. coachmen so proverbial, that it mav be not ouly use- ful but satisfactory to those who are necessarily subject to it, to l.now that a sunimaiy punishment is provided for these gentry by the sta. tute 50 Geo.; IL., cap. 48; and uprn ah information under this Act Joseph Wl'aters, the driver of one of the Greenwich stages, appeared before 5r. Aldrrman J.-J. $n rTw, to arzswertle complaint of MIr. AIartin Foster, s5licitor, residing Ne. 21, Lime-street. . Mr. Foster, and a friend witlh bim, lIad mounted the dickey of the defendant's coach in Otaeechurch-strect, at balf-past 10 in the morning, and were trotting along at a tolerable pice to the Brick- layers' Arms. Here they came to a full stop, and after remaining some 5 or6 miinutes the pa.sengers all became impatient Come, coachee," said Ir.Moater, "are you going on ?" "Yes, in a few miinutes," was the careless reply. Aliother five minnutes elapsed, and 3Ir. Fosier 'epeated his question - " In a few- fiinutes, Sir," surlily replied the coachman, "I am allowed 10 minutes." "WVell,"t Yejoined.fMr. Poster, "vons have alreadY been abv -u IM u itbet don'tgo b on I sh get oukt and valk."1 "'You-rnay wilk and b'd'",-atlsha~ll haveniy far6 to Greenwich." .1r. Fos-ter,how- ever, at thactimie, did,xo.t chooseto do either, but wf'th aiiewe~ourge the-oah,?sieo se'-t oJf,;be nidela,tionIo.gesdown the tpo, h dickey,he hefendaseeized hold ofetbe-laRpels of bis't6t, and m~ somehat 'ate'heetgiing.-tOn Said "'-Please to-bancL over my. eiglte~ pece irt?" - l' Will YOU," tsald llr. FtOster~!~ akemen to Greewichr"~ es," .Saidtie defendastfit;"whennxiy '- hi~ l" come, aidthe dFoserdantctuallV gos Out of the dickeCy.'" o , dn,"at. any rate,yLaeitojJ~a znie.OLtof your.ride here." hcl o no t me01anrto chetgou ~butcfe0t do nt pocee I hall -try to Punish you, and finie you 40s; '~ yorty shlig,"replied Jarr y, "that's agood ene;" addlisig,w-ith asi.oat),, ~'Do vou think orty shiillings any thing to ne ?- 4* -Yot snae ;ery light of i o'"si r otr bi e willput noter fce Pon it's 'If I proceed." "4 I don'tt know what face I shall Put uPon it,",replied 'the defenda6t, - but your face wilt neve- lGOo worse than it doenw cntwe o al ups. Theites tnowthe jlows, which YOU izill do some one of th"ee days."Thn and wn oe-rd& great lauigh among use cocmnadcaddees, who had nOw gathiered round, and assailed Mlr. Foster with ol sorts of insolence' to avoid which, and ifidee& f'or his personal safety, he apsin placed himself in the Wsic)ey, and the defendant at length surljl proceeded on hisi journey. Mr. Foster's story, so precisely a description of the ~r.lys occurrences osn the Greenwich road as hardly to nee-d conifirmation, was orrooratd i aves' prticlarby is friend 1Mr.. WVilliainson. The efedan, idee, dd no e~traictiSagenral tenour, though he deied hving sed he moe offnsiv oeraton kand the Magitrae, n oderto et a exmpl, cnvitedhitn the full~ PorIrcE.