The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-25 00:00:00

LICENSING SESSIONS

The special licensing sessions for granting transfers, was
held yesterday, in the Nisi Prius court, before the following
magistrates, Messrs. S. Holme, T. D. Anderson, and T. Bolton.
On the case of the transfer from Martha Bingham to
Mathew Buxendale, Lionel-street, being called upon,
Mr. BLACKIIURST said he understood that some objection
had been made to the transfer, on the ground that the pre-
vious tenant had been fined subsequent to the last licensing
day. Since that time Martha Bingham the former tenant,
had petitioned the insolvent court, and the present applicant
had since conducted the business. He was a respectable
man; had paid a bona fide consideration for the place, and
no complaint had been made against the house since it came
under his management. That was one reason why the
the license should be granted, and he held a certificate in
his hand, signed by several of the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood, to the effect that the applicant Buxendale, was a
fit person to be entrusted with a license.

Mr. WYBERGH : There can be no complaint against him
because he is not licensed.

Mr. HoLmE : This is-in a very narrow back street, and
he for one, would never grant a license in such a place as it.
Those houses ought to be before the face of the public. It
was a very unfit place for a public house at all; and besides.
laws t,ccu fined in Sprit last year, and. in September.
Mr. BLACKHURST remarked that this was prior to this
man purchasing it. He was not aware of it when he pur-
chased it.
Mr. WYBERGH remarked that there was only one offence
since the last licensing day.

Mr. HoLmn had a -area objection to continue this license
at all. It was in a narrow dirty street, in which there were
great means of concealment.
Mr. WYBERGH said unless there were two offences in the
same year, the magistra:es were not in the habit of suspend-
ing the license. Granted.

Mr. HoLNIE : The party had better conduct this house

with great care.
Mr. BLACKHURST : I have no doubt he will, having con-
ducted the house since September, and there had been no
complaint.
On an application being made to transfer a license in
Banastre-street, from James Backhouse to Charles Wilson,
Mr. HOLME said he went to explore Banastre-street, a few
days before, and there was not house in it from one end to
the other, which was fit to be licensed. It was one of the
most filthy and miserable neighbourhoods in the kingdom,
and he never saw so much misery and filth. It was a place
to which a license ought not to be granted until the street
was rebuilt. He never saw such misery, filth, and abomina '
tion. It would be a great blessing if the whole street was
pulled down. It reminded him of some of the worst parts
of Ireland. The granting of the license was postponed
until the premises were put into a proper state of repair.
On an application being made to transfer a license from
Francis M'Kenna, Cheapside, to Wm. Walter Beam,
Mr. HOLME remarked that this house was fined in Octo-
ber last, 40s. for Sunday trading. The party who was
about taking the house must bear in mind that there was a
black mark against it, and the next offence would cause the
license to be refused.
Charles Pugh applied to have the license of a house in
Circus-street, transferred from Samuel Hough to him.
Mr. WYBERGII reminded the bench that the applicant in
this case kept a public-house before, but the license was in
the name of a man named M'Guinness. There was some-
thing like fraud in the case.
Mr. HoLME asked the applicant to explain how he was
im-olicated in this manner ?
Puon stated the landlord gave him the transfer paper
signed. He had nothing to do with it. The landlord gave
them to him twiee.

gation; compos—ed principally of reclaimed Roman Catho- Mr; WYBEILGII : Yes, but you were aware you were ear-
lies, amongst whom he worshipped. He described a rying on the house under the name of Al‘Gumness, whilst
Popish procession, composed of females, which he wit.; , your own name is Pugh.
. •

Mr. PUGH Yes, but I did not know but I was doing right
I applied four times for it.
Mr. HOLME i What is your employment ?
Mr. litfGri A sailmakei
Mr. HOLME : Are you fo
Mr. PUGH : Yes

Mr. HOLM

lilowinz your employment now ?

Because the whole of the circumstances

are very suspicious.
Mr. BOLTON : How long did you keep the house in the
name of M'Guinness ?
Mr. PUGH : Eleven months, or close on to it.
Mr. WYBERGH : You had M'Guinness's name over the
door ? • _

Mr. PrrGH : Yes, when I took the house.
Mr. WYBERGH : You surely knew it was not right ?
Mr. PUGH : Not until you told me here.
Mr. WYBERG : When you proposed to continue the
public-house, you surely knew you ought to have your own
e over the door ?

Mr. PUGH : I paid my good-will to the landlord, I did
not know but I would have it transferred.
Mr. BOLTON : Did M'Guinness live in the hous(

you went into it
Mr. Puorr : It was empty for some time when I went in
Mr. WYBERGH : He consents to the carrying on of a fraud
which originated with M'Guinness.
Mr. BOLTON : The landlord was a party to it ?
Mr. WYBEROH : Yes, the landlord was originally a party
to the fraud, but he carried it on.
Mr. HOLME : In consequence of the good character you
have, we will give you the benefit of the doubt ; but that
you lent yourself to fraud is perfectly clear, but whether
wilfully or not we do not pretend to say. Granted.
Andrew O'Brien applied for a transfer of a license from
George Mayor, in Marybone. O'Brien was manager of the
house when it was fined very recently on a charge of per-
mitting drunkenness. His excuse was that he did not
know the neighbourhood at the time the house opened
early, and he pledged himself that no future offence of the
kind would be committed.
Mr. S. HOLME : I saw more drunkenness a day or two
ago in the neighbourhood of Marybone, and in the cross
streets leading to Vauxhall-road, in the course of a few
hours than I ever saw in Paris in tho Same number of
months when I was there. The state of society in that
neighbourhood is horrible. In proportion to the misery and
drunkenness in that locality is the splendour and magnifi-
cence of the gin palaces there. Granted
John Imam applied it 44 4,
James Gilmour, Oil-street.
Mr. HOLME : You were twice fined in a former house you
kept in Thomas-street.
Mr. BUSHELL : I kept that for 26 years.
Mr. HOLME : This is somewhat a doubtful case. It is
not against the house ; it is against the individual, who,
having given up the one place, is applying for a licence in
another part of the town. Yours is a different case from a
party applying for a license for the first time. You are the
party who has committed the offence.
Mr. BUSHELL : It will never occur again.
Mr. HOLME : But it has occurred. The last offence was
in August in the present year, and the previous one in the
previous year. What is your occupation ?
Mr. BUSHELL : I am a tailor by trade, but I have not
worked at it latterly.
Mr. HOLME : There are great doubts whether we ought
to grant you this. The great object of a license is to keep a
house respectable, and I cannot see why a public house can-
not be as respectably kept as a grocer's shop. The object
of the license was to see that they were kept so, and that
the licenses were placed in respectable hands. The magis-
trates on this occasion grant the license, but with very great

A,, of flin lieense of

reluctance, for the reason given; and they hope, as you are
going jab another neighbourhood, that you will conduct
your house in a respectable manner. You are going to con-
duct a house in a neighbourhood swarming with emigrants,
and surrounded by public houses (almost every house is a
public house along the line of quay), and with those two
offences you must receive this notice, if you are fined again
the license will be absolutely withdrawn altogether from the
house. With that assurance the license will be granted.
BREACH OF FAITH WITH THE BENCH.
Mr. DODD applied to have a transfer of license of Mrs.
Mary Payne, of Prescot-street.
Mr. HOLME : In what way are you connected with Mrs.
Payne ?
Mr. DODD : In no way.
Mr. HOLME : Mrs. Payne had a license granted to her at
the last licensing sessions, and she stated to the bench that

she had a large Tamily to'support, and that one of her sons
was going to conduct the house. She also stated she had
expended a large sum of money in making alterations ; and
being the widow of a man who was well known in Liver-
pool, the magistrates thought she was a person who ought
to have a license ; but she distinctly stated when the license
was granted, that her own son was going to conduct the
house.
Mr. DODD : I was not aware of it.
Mr. RAWLLNSON (a publican in the same street) : She
stated she was going to keep the house, but she has never
kept the house.
Mr. WYBERGII : What have you to do with it ?
Mr. RAWLINSON : Because it is one of those cases that
cause such odium on this licensing system.
Mr. WYEERGH : What connection have you with it?
Mr. RAWLINSON : I am a neighbour, and keep a public
house close by. (Laughter.)
Mr. HOLME : We cannot hear you on that point.
Mr. RAWLINSON.•—It was stated she had gone to this ex-
pense to make alterations; but the poor tradesmen were
never paid.
Mr. HoiziE remarked, the license was granted with the
distinct understanding that the house was to be kept by Mrs.
Payne's son. It was stated that her husband was a plumber,
and that her father was also a plumber in Liverpool, and
that she had a good claim for a license; and the visiting
magistrates reported not only that the house was not objec-
tionable, but that a great deal of money had been expended
to make it suitable. Under all these circumstances, the
magistrates thought it was a case in which a license ought
to be granted; but Mrs. Payne distinctly stated her son was
going to conduct the house.
A gentleman, who stated he was a relative, the agent of
Mrs. Payne, informed the bench that Mrs. Payne's son was
at Hull, and he was not able to carry on the business ; and
Mrs. Payne was very unwell, or she would have been here
this morning.
Mr. HorziE—What is the rent of the house ?
The AGENT : —Three pounds a year less than the previous
tenant paid.
Mr. HOLME : What is the rent ?
AGENT : 601. She had previously paid 631; but Mr.Dodd's
references were so highly respectable, she accepted him as a
tenant, believing the house would be more respectably con-
ducted by him than by any other person. She had had
her servant to conduct the business for some time.
Mr. Rol.= : Have you paid any money going in.
Mr. DODD : A dep2sit.
Mr. WYBERGH : now much ?
Mr. DODD :
Mr. WYBERGH : It will be returned to you if the applica-
cation does not succeed ?
Mr. DODD : That is the fact.
Mr. HOLME : Have you ever kept a public house?
Mr. DODD had kept a public house at the corner of Pil-
grim and Mount-streets, for seven years, and he had never
been fined, nor was there a complaint against him during
that time.
Mr. BOLTON : How came you to give the house up ?
Mr. DODD : From ill healh. I was taken very ill, and I
was advised by the doctor to go into the country.
Mr. HOLME said it was clear that Mrs. Payne did state
that her son was going to conduct the house. Under all the
circim.stances he thought some inquiry should be made into
the case, and the parties should be prepared on the next
transfer day. The transfer was then ordered to stand over.
Vim. Alton appeared for the transfer of the license of
John Bushell, of Thomas-street. [Bashell in this case was
the party who applied for the transfer from Thomas-street to
Oil-street.]
Mr. HOLME : Who is the owner of the house ?
Mr. AITAN : Mr. Barton, the brewer.
Mr. HOLME : Oh ! I see.
Mr. WYBERGH : Are you going to keep this house on
your own hands ?
Mr. WYBERGH : From whom have you taken it ?
Mr. AITAN : I took the house from Mr. Bushell.
Mr. WYBERGH : To whom are you to pay your rent ?
Mr. AITAN : To a gentleman in Cheshire.
Mr. WYBERGH : What is his name
Mr. AITAN ; I don't know.
Mr. HOLME : This is a brewer's house; he knows nothing
about it. The license must be refused.
The following is the list of transfers :
Argyle-street, Ann Rimmer to Mary Lowden; Brick-
street, William Smith to George Hueston ; Burlington-
street, Ann Preston to John M‘Millan; Charles-street, Mary
Bellis to James Fetley ; Cheapside, Francis M'Kenne to
William Walter Bearn ; Circus-street, Samuel Hough to
Charles Pugh ; Commutation-row, Elizabeth Griffiths to
Joseph Asberry ; Cunliffe-street, Mary Anderson to James
Sloan ; Dale-street, Mary Hurnell to Thomas Fisher ; Duke-
street, Elizabeth Burton to Benjamin Burton; Edmund-
street, John Houlding to John Crane ; Great Crosshall-
street, John Bankes to Elizabeth Parry ; Great Howard-
street, John Woodmason to Alexander Britton ; Great
Newton-street, John Empson to Marmaduke Drake ; Great
Oxford-street North, Thomas Taylor to Georg? Harrison
Houghton; Hughes-street, Edward Lancaster to George
Hison • Kent-street, Mary Hirst to Jessy Lee; Key-street,
Hannah Powell to Lucy Williams ; Leigh-street, John
Atherton to Caroline Maenzie ; Lionel-street, Martha
Bingham to Matthew Baxendale ; London-road, Andrew
Morrison to David Smith ; London-road, James Chapman
to Elizabeth Fletcher ; Maddox-street, James Duckworth to
G. Richardson; Marybone, G. Mayor to Andrew O'Brien;
Norfolk-street, Barbara Logan to John Moore ; Oil-street,
James Gilmour to John Bushell ; Park-road, David Lamont
to William Radley ; Princess-street, Philip Bootle to
Dorothea Jones ; Rathbone-street, John Ledson (dead) to
Elizabeth Ledson • Redcross-street, Joseph Bagley to Eliza-
beth Thomas ; Richmond-row, John Heslop, to Thomas
Hunt Cooper ; Scotland-road, Mary Cookson to Robert
Dunderdale ; Scotland-road, Peter Williams (dead) to

Thomas Williams ; Torbock-street, Wiliam 'Smith to
Robert Snape ; Toxteth-street, James Mead to Mary Ann
Lyon ; Vandries-street, John Clegg to William Cornelius

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Gorsuch ; Villiers-street, Charles illunroadty tolea
Wells ; Vulcan street, William MorrisoM+Ro ert M‘Luw. ;
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Walnut-street, Mary Williams to George:Vp taker ; War-
wick-street, Robert Sykes to William G?cua .Watk7mson-
street, Thomas Gatcliffe (dead) to Isaac r at+ 1:- IbuioN'er:
street, John Edington, to Chrinlaira, ":ll'Donald.

to work in the south, ana whose Mother was re-
cently dead, were thrust out by the officers and constables,
and left to perish on the hillside. At Boreraig, a woman
aged 88, was brought out of a sick bed, and was placed in a
chair about 20 yards from her house, and there she was left
totally unheeded. A sick man, aged 83, was brought out
on a blanket. At Suishnish a very old woman, aged 96
years, with her son and four grand-children, were thrust out,
and the house was immediately shut up, and they dare not
enter it. They took up their abode in an old sheep-cot, 9
fcet by 7 feet, with the roof so low that they could only
creep in, and the floor so damp that they could not rest on it.
They could not take their furniture inside, and there it is
still exposed and destroyed by the elements. The son took
ill on Wednesday, owing to the cold and damp of the but ;
his limbs swelled dreadfully, and he lingered on in painful
agony until Sunday morning, when he died. Two of his
children lay sick at the time, and the aged grandmother was
:ti —a -- nithniiph her son lay dead beside her
for more than four hours before the neiguuoi4,.,-...1
was quite unable to move.

Those who visited the hovel in which poor Wm. Mathe-
son lay dead declare it was the most heart-rending sight they
ever beheld. There his aged mother and motherless children
lay, with the dead corpse in the same bed with them. A cof-
fin was speedily procured, and the remains of poor Mathe-
son were hurried to their final resting place, from where no
trustee or factor can eject them. That Matheson's death was
caused by this eviction, admits of no doubt whatever. In-
deed, his aged mother and four children, unless speedily re-
moved from their dangerous habitation, will meet with the
same fate.

One poor man, 81 years of age, went back to his house
after he was ejected, and took shelter within its empty walls
during one or two terrible stormy nights. For this he was
pounced upon, made a prisoner of, and was dragged to Por-
tree, a distance of 26 miles, and was there accused before the
sheriff of an act of intrusion.

The sheriff officer, Mr. Ronald M'Donald, had seven as-
sistants in carrying on these evictions, and such was
the wanton violence they used in throwing out the
furniture of the poor people that almost all of it was de-
stroyed.

These clearances are carried on by virtue of acts of the
Scottish parliament more than 250 years old.

AMERICAN SENSITIVENESS.

The Americans have taken offence at the following
passage in the new work of Mr. Thackeray

" When pigtails grew on the backs of the British gentry,
and their wives wore cushions on their heads, over which
they tied their own hair, and disguised it with powder and
pomatum ; when /ministers went in their stars and orders to
the House of Commons, and the orators of the opposition
attacked nightly the noble lord in the blue ribband ; when
Mr. Washington was heading the American rebels with a
courage, it must be confessed, worthy of a better cause,—
there came to London, out of a northern country; Mr.," Br.e.
They have denounced this mode of describing their first
president, "Mr. Washington," and their progenitors
" rebels," as an insult to the Union. In consequence,
Mr. Thackeray has addressed to the Times a letter,
in which he offers this anzende :—I am thinking about
'76. Where, in the name of common sense, is the
insult to 1853 ? The satire, if satire there be, applies to us
at home, who called Washington " Mr. Washington ;" as
we called Frederick the Great " the Protestant Hero," or
Napoleon " the Corsican tyrant," or " General Bonaparte."
Need I say that our officers were instructed (until they were
taught better manners) to call Washington " Mr. Washing-
ton ?" and that the Americans were called rebels during the
whole of that contest? Rebels !—of course they were rebels;
and I should like to know what native American would not
have been a rebel in that cause ?

As irony is dangerous, and has hurt the feelings of kind
friends whom I would not wish to offend, let me say, in
perfect faith and gravity, that I think the cause for which
Washington fought entirely just and right, and the
champion the very noblest, purest, bravest, best of God's
men.

SPORTING

TATTERSALS, YESTERDAY,

DERBY.-14 to 1 agst DerVish, taken to £lOO. 20 to 1
agst Andover, taken to £5O.

-CHESTER Cur.--1000 to 15 agst Mr. Sykes, taken. 1000
to 1 agst Heapy. No further betting.
NEWTON RACES.
HURDLE RACE.—Tumbler Ist, Oxford 2nd ; 5 ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.—Voucher Ist, f by Ugly Buck 2nd;
9 ran.

STEEPLE CHASE.—Labyrinth Ist, Royal Blue 2nd.: 12 ran.
COLLIER'S HANDICAP. —Maid of Mouton Ist, Thalia filly
2nd ; 7 ran.

AMERICAN SPORTING

The last arrivals record the coming off of two great
trotting matches, and the offer of another to trot 100 miles
against time for $B,OOO to $lO,OOO. The first was for $750
and was between two celebrated mares, Lay Verncn and
Lady Jane The latter was the favourite, but the former
won three heats out of five withcut a check. Heats one
mile, but three in five. The second match was for $5OOO
between two geldings, Snowdrop and Wand, same heats and
distance as the first, and was won by the latter.