The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before Major Peinhyo end a Bench of Magistrates.)
The Court met yesterday morning at Kingston, end pro-
ceeded to try prisoners.
Louisa Tompsett, 6\ • respectable looking, welldreseed
woman, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged het
with *ailing a puns containing 1. Ile. &L, the property of
Laura Shanbridge. flan her person.
The prisoaer, who, it was @Weld, is by birth • Swim, has
for • long time carried on a system of robbing passengers in
omnibuses, and her age and respectable appearance very
much aided her in carrying on her depredations upon the
public. It appeared that sbe had been three times
previously convicted under different names.
The court sentenced her to be kept in penal servitude for
the space of four years.

1108IC AND DANCING LIMNER.
The applications for music and dancing licenses were then
brought forward.
The licensee to the Winebester Hall, Southwark ; the
Sk Helena Gardena, Rotherhithe ; the Herm, Keeniogtoe ;
the Duke of Wurtemberg, Hatlield-street, Biockfriars-
road : the lArkhall Tavern, Clapham ; the New Vauxhall
Gardena, Camberwell ; the King's AIM!, Kennington-lase;
the Duke of Kent, Old Kent-coed ; the King's Heed, Lower
Norwood ; the Lecture Hall, Wainer* ; the Windsor
Castle, Old Kent.roati ; the Jolly Teasers, Bermondsey
the Gun Inn, Croydon ; the Salmon Tavern, Southwark;
the Bricklayers' Arms, Old Kent-road; the Father Red
Cap, Camberwell ; the Montpelier Tavern, Warmth ; the
BlackHorselydowu ; the Black Dog, Vauxhall-walls ;
the Ocala el Wardell, Tooleyetreet ; the Croydon Literary
and Scientific Institution ; the Arietly Gardens, at Nor-
wood; the Canterbury Hall, Westminster-road; the South
Loudon Music Hall ; the Fox and Hounds, &orbital ; the
Bell Ina, East Moulsey ; the Griffin Hotel, Kingston ; the
Cricketers, Kingston ; and the Grove House, Camberwell,
were renewed without any observatioo.
The Court next proceeded to hear the new applications,
which were five in number.
The first was an applicatiou by Mr. Thomas Gamine for a
licence for mimic and dancing for the Rosemary Branch,
Peckham.
Mr. Lilley, who supported the application, said that,
although in point of form it came before the wart as a fresh
case, in fact the license had been granted for a great many
years, but at the but licensing day, in consequence of an
oniimion in giving notice of a change of ownership in the
property, the magistrates felt tbenteolves compelled to re-
fuse the hawse. He had a memorial ia favour of the
application signed by 8 clergymen and 310 respectable in•
habitente ; but he had no doubt that the court would not
think it semeaary that this manorial should be read, but
that, under the circumstances he had stated, they would at
once grant the application.
The Court noanimonaly granted the license.
. . _ • •

The sent spplication "•. made on behalf of the truatees
of the Battersea Lammas Hail for a license for music and
clawing for that institution.
Mr. Austin opposed the application, and pot in • me-
morial, signed by several clergymen of the district, and
other persons, in support of his opposition. The memorial
was read by the learned counsel, and it set forth that the
memorialists not only bad an objection to the amusement
of dancing, as haring, in their opinion, • demoralising
tendency (upon principle), but they also objected that
the neighbourhood was an unfit one for amusements of the
description that was sought tube istroduced into it. HA
also said be was instructed that one of the trustees of the
building was • market gardener, another • marine-store
dealer, and • third a barber, and be urged that persons in
this position of life ought sot to be outraged with • bosom
of title description. lie also said that a license had formerly
bean grsnted, and the privilege bad been abated, end not
only the clergymen of the established church. but alio the
ministers of every dissenting denomination in the dhtrict,
concurred in opinion that the license ought nate begranted.
Mr. Thompson, who supported the applicatioa, said he
could have wished that those gentlemen who had come for.
ward npoo religious maids to oppose the pantie, of this
license had therched a little more forbearance, and not hare
charecterised respectable perilous, such as the truster of
this ioetitutioo undoubtedly were, as MAIM store dealers
and barbers, and the only real ground upon which the
objection to the granting of the hoarse raided, as it appeared
to tutu, was that the memorialists objected, upon psineijole,
to public dancing of all kinds. (A laugh.) He could in-
form the court that one of the trustees who had bees
taunted with being • barber bad bees a respectable iehabi.
tent of the neighbourhood for forty years ; and another,
who had bees called a market gardener, lied long retired
frorn business, and was worth 30,0001. He went on to
state that the lantroasHall was the only place
in the neighbourhood where the public could
assemble for the purposes of musk and denting, and if the
objection that was made in this case was allowed to prevail,
it would apply with equal fortis to every on. of the other
eases in which licenses had beta granted.
The Court, after • short othaultatice, granted • license for
music cooly.
rhe next application was by Mr. J. W. Wale, for sliming for
music and dancing for the Lord Raglan pubbe.house in the'
Waudsworth.road
Mr. Robinson supported the appliestios, sad Mr. Need-
ham °treed it.
A meinorial,crled by the Bev. Mr. Bowyer, the rector
of Clapham • , the Rev. Mr. Orthille. the Iseumboat of
Bt. peal's, C 6 other chromes. and • weather
of ishaltitasta wee put in, which prayed the east sot to
grant the lima" epos the grounds that samisernests of
this dethription wen not required is the bourhosde
sad that they wen oaleslated to love a dtmmalisesg
444, sad also that the home bed sot bees Wel ess.
therted.. . _

ib. Nola= addressil the seed at ocissidosta• Ise&

1863.

in support of the memorial, and he urged that the bench ;
would not be justified in granting the home to the appli-
cant, and that if they were to do so it would create • peat
nuisance in the neighbourhood.
The Rev. Mr. Bowyer sad the Rev. Mr. Beeville were
szunised in support of the memorial, and they both at.
pressed their opinion that amusements such as were sought
to be given at the Lord Raglan were not at all required
in the neighbourhood, and that they were calculated to
have a easy mischievous tendency upon the &amassed the
persons who lived in the vicinity. In addition to this, Mr.
Abrook and Mr. Bushnell, two inspectors of the V division
at polio., were emoted, sod they stated that Oa Baturday
and Monday nights the gessoes who aims oat of
the Loed Raglan, publiii-how eceduested themselves to a
very noisy and disorderly manger, and it bad been nem-
! wary to plats two extra policemen on duty on them nights
In order to preserve the peace. They also said that they
had seen disreputable persons in the Lord Raglan public-
hones, but they believed that they came from Battersea;
and is was admitted, in answer to quietism@ put by
Mr. Robinson, that the house was conducted generally in
• most respectable 61211111 K, aid that Mr. Wale did all in
his power to preserve order, sad that the disturbasoes re-
lured to took place outside the home.
Mr. Robisna, in his addle= to the bench in support of
the application, said it appeared to him that no case bad
been made out to show that the license ought not to be
catepd. As to the pansies Urfa' in the neighbourhood
poor and hard-workiag, be mold sot help wing that
in opinion they were just the ohm of perecea who wets
entitled to have innocent amusement this denceijaion
afforded them j and although perhaps a little annoyance
might be occasioned to their more wealthy neighbours, this
was no mama why each a privilege should not be granted.
As to the testimony of the police, be thought it ought not
to have any effect, for it would be vary bard to make a
pubhcan liable for any disturbance that took pleas outside
his house, and this was all that appeared to have been
proved against Mr. Wale. Be waeloded by making the
bench to grant the applicaat, at all events, a limas for
music, if they did not for dancing is addition.
The Chairman, after consult'ng with his colleagues. said
the bench were of opinion that the applicant bad sot made
ems a owe that would justify them in granting him the
lieree heprayed foe, and his application was consequently

THE POLICE COURTS.
MARKEN WELL.
Borah Sin, • dirty-lookiag female, well known to the
tireras • prostitute and thief, was charged ,before Mr.
with staling a watch and ebainot moistest, and
other articles, from a brothel in West-street, Somers-towo,
the property of John Bates, a clerk, residing at 18, Cam-
den-street North, Camden•tewn.
Mr. Ricketts appeared for the prism.
Policie-costable W. Moth. Xi 8, rid that between twelve
and oni in the morning he maw the primmer hastily leave •
brothel in West-street, sail wasnecting that all we. not right,
he ran after her aid stepped her. He found that she had •
waistcoat to her posemeloo, sad is the pocket was •• watch.
key. He asked her for the watch, but the laid that she
had not got one, and accounted for the poinessien of the
waistcoat by saying that it was gives to her. He said that
young men did not generally give their waistcoats away,
and also that if they carried a watch-keythey generally bad
• watch—(a laugh)—and spin asked her for it. She they
took • silver watch and chain from her breast sad pre it to
him. Knowing that the brothel from which the prissier
had oome was • very notorious one, he went there, and
, found a young man sitting before the fire tasting some
I bread, who claimed the property as his, but said that he
was not aware that they had bees Salsa. Witness bad
known the prisoner for about two yearn as • thief and a
prostitute, and it was only • few weeks sins that she was
sirs into custody for staalieg a gold pin, and although the
pm was found upon her, the man wield not charge her be-
-0112911 he was afraid that lits wife would know it.
Jobe Bates, • clerk 'siding at 18, Camdenotreet North,
said he was passing aloes the Euston.rosd whips he was
accosted by the prison and another trans. He treated
them to some drink, sad then west base with both of them
and partially undressed himself. The prisoaor west out,
and her companion shortly afterwards followed. asking him
to sit before the fire. He did as he was told, and was sur-
sSed to find that the constaitle, on his entering the room,
had his watch, chain, and waistcoat in his possession.
The prises pleaded guilty to the stealing of the articles,
but sot until she was told that if she continued her plea of
not guilty she would be sent for trial.
Mr. Barker notepad the primer to two months' bard
labour in the House of Caustics for the unlawful poems-
Son of the articles, sod not for the felony.