The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-17 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTERDAT.

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TaiAnosu. Rooms.

George French Beyer, RobertiWynal, Emile Laurent,
rem., and Christopher Brown appeared individually to an-
swer tour indictments which had been found against Siena
foe keeping the Argyll Rooms, in Oust Windmill-street,
Idaymaiket, for the purposes of music and dancing, without
being duly licensed wader 25 Oeo. 11.
Mr. Parry appeared for the defendants, and, addressing
the court, said that indictments similar to the present had
been long pending at the Central Criminal Court, but the
proceedings bad been brought to • termination by their
being abandoned by the prosecutor ; and, as no one sp-
peered on this occasion to support the prosecutions, he pre-
sumed a like course was to be adopted, and the defendants
acquitted.
No one appesring against the defendants,
The learned judge told the jury that these were indict-
ments charging the defendants with keeping an unlicensed
establishment for music and dancing, and dui leg the last sin
months the establishment in question, called the Argyll
Rooms, had been prominently before the public—the indict-
; meats that had been fouud against these parties were almost
'numberless ; they were all preferred by on. man, a common
I informer, and they all referred to one time. AU oa • sudden
this informer found that ►e had no funds with which to carry
on the processing*. Such was said to be the reason of Ism
t►rowing up the cues at the Old Bailey, and such, he pre-
sumed, woulu be urged as the reason of the abandonment
of those then before the coon ; but he (Mr. Sarjeant
Adams) could not forget that these very bills were preferred
but a very few days before the informer made the melan-
choly discovery that be was without funds, and it was singular
that that discovery was not made until the trial wu positively
fixed. He was afraid that the prosecutor was not under
recognizance, ;if he were, mat certainly they would be
estreated. It was • scandalous mockery both of law and
justice that such conduct as this ehou'd be permitted. Pro-
secutions were undertake• by wholesale against one house
by • common informer, and when the hese appeared to be
approaching, he said, "Oh, I've got no more money ; 1
shall not go on farther." All the jury had to do was to say
that the defendants were not guilty.
A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded.
Mr. Parry, on the part of the defendants, emphatically
denied that they had in any shape or way, either directly or
indirectly, made any compromise with the prosecutor. Oa
the contrary, they had throughout been most anxious that
their case should be fully and fairly brought to trial.
Stowell (the prosecutor)—The reason I do not go on is
that the parties who employed me in the matter refused to
supply any more money.
The next case was then called on.

A CUILD &MUM.
SarnA Thorn, 19, convicted at the last sitting of the court
of decoying away a child, was placed at the bar to receive
j udgment.
Mr. Witham (before whom the prisoner was tried), said
that diligent inquiries had been made as to her character,
and the result was very unfavourable. She h►d been guilty
of the greatest ingratitude to parties who had taken an inte-
rest in her, end on one occasion when she attempted to
drown herself, a person kindly undertook to provide means
for her subsistence, and this she male an exceedingly bad
morn for. The sentence was that as be kept to hard la-
bour for six calendar months.
The court then adjourned.