The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-17 00:00:00

THE LICENSING ACT.

IA men named John Brown was tined at Bow-street
on Saturday 301. under the New Act for tieing bad
language in a public house.
I At the Thaws. Polies,Court on Saturday Isaac Fisher,
the landlord of the Nut of Devon public house, Devon.
rued, Bromley, was brought before Mr. Not, charged
with sellihg malt liquor ton drunken man, etottary to
the 1311 section of the Liceuslug Act. -A constable
deposed that the landlord had served a drunken man
with be,, alter the tionstab:e had cautioued him not to
do in, The publican, hie daught tr, and two other
'Jammu denied the alleged berme, and their evidence,
was preferred to the poileeman's more especielly am the
house bad prerioutly borne • good character.
Beej Amin John Grant, landlard of the Sherwood Arms
publio house, Bew-commondane, was summorted for
supplying a pot of beer to Willi•ut M 0.., • p Loe eon-
stabil, contrary to the seeond clause of th 16:h section
of the Licensing Aot. Seined liteddiion, polio, sergeant,
at ten minutes to eleven o'cloek on Sunday night, saw
two conatablee outside defendant. house. Oste went
to the door and received • quit pot from the landlord,
but on seeing him he did not drink, and gave it beak to
the landlord. The other constable was on the other side
of the road. William Moss, 17.3 It, one of the offending
oonetables, who was found by bine serreant wito the pot
of Nor in his loud, said that on the Sunday in qusslies
a gentleman came to biro and told him a fight we. going
on, He left the point where he was statiooed, and bad
to peas the defendant'. hones. The landlord we. putt-
ing up the shutters, and uked him if he would have
anything ! He said he would have • drop of ale. Tile
pot of ale was handed to him, and he milled the other
oonstsble on the opposite side of the way. At this time
Sergeant Maddiaon mime up, and said, '' What have
you got there!' puled his gape on one side, sod toned
the beer. He had not drunk any of it. Mr. Peget said
there were two point, in this' ease rather nice onee.
The constable must be on duty, and the officer said he
had left the point where he we. on duty, and was going
to quell a diaturbencle and it was certainly his duty to
do so. He doubted whether the constable was on duty,
and thought he was not. Under the dreurestanoes he
!should dismiss the charge. If he found that the lend-
lord of the public house was giving liquor to a unstable
to bribe him, or to allow him to debauch himself to the
house, he should inflict the highest penalty in his
power.
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In consequence of the heavy fines that hare been
inflicted since the passing of the new Aet, the house of
Detention, Clerkenwell, is litterally crowded with
persons who, having been conricted of drunkenmees,and
not atiAt to pay the ones. -

At the annual Brewster Session of the Long Ashton
(Bristol) division of S imersetehire, Sir Arthur Eton
prodding, the oonnty magistrate. determined to str.ct.y
abide by the hours of the Act so far as their division
was coutierned. Sir Arthur Elt observed that
publicans were not obliged to serve anything in.
tosioatiog. They bad to supply meet and drink,
but were net obliged to serve anything intexiosting.
ru• nia4lstrates refused every applieatioa made to
them for intension of the hours Lauer special ()imam-
canoes ; and although the Act provided for such
exemptions, where large bodies of men were oonstantly
st work during the night, they thought they had better
try oue year's experiencie of the cloning hours nerned in
the Act.

At Oxford on Satarday night, when the public-houses
were *Weed atreleven o'clock, a large number of perion•
sasembled on Cedar, and SINT " Rule, Britaonia,"
laying particular Aram on Britons never shall be
startle.' The mob then visited the house of the Bev.
I)r.. Fry, who wee one of the prinoipal supporters of
the teetotal petition to the magistrates in favour of
closing the bowies at ton o'clook on week days and nine
!on iiandays. T orowd smashed his windows. They
also visited the hone* of Mr. J. M. Crapper, another
supporter of tbe early closing 'movement, and broke his
! windows, The demonstration lasted until near two
'o'clock in the morniog, when the crowd dispersed.
The La* Alo-cury siys the magistrates of Nenagh
have resolved not to put the adulteration clauses of the
new Lieensing Act in force for a fortnight, the avowed
object being to give the publiesins time to dispose of
their adulterated drinks
At L wester. on Friday, two publicans were fined
two guinea-, or a month, and thrir licenses endonied,
for in one case permitticg card playing for money, and
i in the other ailo wing youtlis to b. t coppers at skittles.
Another publican was tined k 5, or six weeks, and his
, license endoreed, for seLing liquors altar 11 o'clock on
(Saturday night.
1 For representing themselvee falsely and fraudulently
to be Government Inspectors under lb. new Licensing
Alit, ant thus endearourinti to procure qior from a
ribitcen, Wmltbaiii tlighatu and Charles Thomson hare
been line), 10i. each at Bow-street Polloe-oourt ; the
otfoooe i-eing aggravated tty ineobriety at the time.
The Liverpool School Board have forwarded • resolu-
tion to the borough magistrates is favour of any
measured to diminish the evil of drunken/mu, which
they consider, from practical esperienoe, to be the
great hauler to elementary education.