The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-08 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 7.
MUSIC AND DANCING LICENCES.
The court sar. nt Cierkenwell, for the pur-
pose of renewing end granting licences for public
music end eancing, under the Act 25th Geo. 11.,

cw 36.
Mr. Po pall pre&id,d, supported by several magis-
trates of the county.
The court was crowded by the various applicants,

but the attendance of magistrates was not so nume-

rous as usual.
There were 48 applications for the renewal of the
licences for music, and 57 for music and dancing. In
addition to these there were 42 new applications for
music, and 12 for music and dancing.

APPLICATIONS FOR NEW LICENCES.
Mary Adkins applied for a licence for music and
dancing, for the Royal Oak, Margaret-street, .flack•
ney-fields.
Mr. METCALF supported the application, and urged
that it was desirable that it should be granted, as a
house having a licence of the kind now sought was
required in the neighbourhood.
The COURT refused to grant the licence, on the
ground that it was not desirable to grant the double
licence to a public-house except under peculir cir-
cumstances, of which there was in this case, in the
opinion of the Court, an absence.
Mr. METCALF then said his client would be con-

tent with a licence for music only.
The CHAIRMAN said it would be a most incon-
venient precedent to adopt that course, after the
original application had been finally disposed of. The
Court had refused the licence, and the applicant, by
not making an election, had abided the result.
A licence for music and dancing for Highbury
Barn Tavern was granted without opposition, as
was a similar licence to the Gate House Tavern,
Highgate.
The following parties, seeing the result in Mrs.
Adkins's case, changed their applications for music
only, which were granted, viz. :—Henry Hellyer
Miller, the Eagle Tavern, High-road, Edmonton ;
William Wicks, the Jolly Angler's Tavern,
Lea-bridge ; Joseph Thomas Winter, the Hoop and
Grapes, No. 112, Saint George's-street; Henry
Barr, the Hand and Flower, Sands-end, King's-road,
Fulham ; John Jones, the Three Jolly Gardeners,
Rochester-row, Westminster; Benjamin Watts, the
Admiral Keppel, in the Fulham-road.
The CHAIRMAN, in the course of the day, in reply
to an observation from one of the members of the
bench, in reference to the shortness of the distance
between two licensed houses, said the principle upon
which the Court wished to act was, that music licences
should not be a monopoly in the hands of a few, but
granted so freely that great numbers of persons would
not congregate together at some particular house.
It was from such assemblages, there could be no
doubt, that the evils which had been complained of
arose, and therefore by granting these licences freely,
the Court would be avoiding those evils by removing
the causes. Under these circumstances, the Court
would not take as a valid objection to an application
the fact that another licensed house was within a
short distance of the house sought to be licensed.
The Court would in all cases consider the size of the
room in which the musical entertainments were to be
given, and the character of the house, and, with regard
to public-houses, it was indispensable that the appli-
cant should be the holder of the licence of the house,
so that the Court might have a guarantee for proper
usage of the musical licence. Where the public ac-
commodation required the licensing of a particular
house the Court would always grant a licence for that
house, under the conditions he bad mentioned.
Mr. PARRY said it was with very great pleasure
that he heard the views of the Court so liberally ex-
pressed by the chairman. The liberality evinced by
the bench last year in granting these licences had
produced none other than the most beneficial results
—not a single complaint had been made by the police
of any of the houses the magistracy entrusted with a
licence, and be had no doubt the course now taken
would give general satisfaction.
The following original applications for licences for
music only were granted :—Thomas Wells, Pegasus
Tavern, Green-lanes ; James Deacon, Sir Hugh Myd-
dleton, Clerken well ; James Toomer, the Manor
House, Green-lanes, Stoke Newington ; Samuel
Shannon, New Crown, Ball's-pond; William Gard-
ner, Duke's Head, Whitechapel ; John Gerhold,
Prince of Orange, Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel ;
Joseph Wade, Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell-green ;
Henry Brading, Sir Robert Peel, Shoreditch ; Charles
Clarke, Eight Bells, Ironmonger row ; James Ren-
nell, Rose and Crown, Knightsbridge ; Henry
Geerge Oliver, White Hart, Drury-lane ; John Cole,
Brownlow Arms Tavern, Brownlow-street, Drury-
lane ; William Wetherby, Rising Sun, Knights-
bridge ; Edmund Gilbert, the Lord Nelson, Road-
side, Whitechopel; John Robert Bowen, the Seven
Stars, Brick-street; John Farrington ?eters, the
Old Will Somers, Crispin-street; George John Gil-
der, the College Arms, Goulden-place ; Edwin Charles
White, the Prince Albert, York-street, Kingsland-
road ; Thomas Lee, the Beckford's Head, No. 38 Old-
street; Joseph Mincher Pugh, the George, No. 108,
Old-street ; Luke James Marshall, the Sir John Fal-
staff, No. 126, Old-street; William Smith, the Dol-
phin, No. 134, Old-street ; George Win. White, the
Crown, No 154, Whitecross-street ; Charles Abbott,
the Rose and Crown, No. 20, Colville-place, St. Pan-
cras; George Kirby, the Lamb Tavern, Kingsland-
road ; William Webb, the Ship Tavern, Camden-
street ; Nathan Mare, the Rising Sun, at the corner
of the New-road and Charlton-street, Somers Town ;
William Michael Davis, the Sportsman Tavern, at the
corner of Oakley-crescent, City-road ; John Gibson,
the Perseverance, Southgate-road, Ball's Pond; David
Smith, the Lord Nelson Tavern, Duke's-row, New-
road; Robert Bragg, the Britannia Tavern, Britaonie-
row ; William Thomas Hamilton, the Blockmaker's
Arms Tavern, No. 1, Ashley-crescent ; Thomas
Franklin, the Woodman, No. 11, Doyley-street,
Sloane-street; George Slater, the Blue Anchor, No.
92, York-street ; Daniel Sebbon Baker, jun., Baker's
Rooms, No. 107, Upper-street; William Tyler, the
New Clown, No. 62, St. John-street-road.
THE LATE BALLOON ASCENTS AT CREMORNE,
GARDENS.—When the case of Mr. T. B. Simpson was
called on in order, that gentleman did not answer,
and consequently it was ordered to remain till the list
was gone through entirely. When called on again,
Mr. Simpson answered, and in the meantime he had
instructed Mr. Parry to support his application.
Being a transfer case, it was necessary to prove the
service of the usual notices in compliance with the
standing orders of the Court, which require that
notices of all transfers and new applications shall be
served before a given day, the 20th of September, on
the churchwardens, overseers, clerk of petty sessions,
clerk of the peace, and posted on the premises and on
the door of the nearest police-station. In Mr. Simp-
son's case the proof of service was complete in every
respect, save that of the station-house. It was shown
that the notice was served at the station-house on the
18th, and Mr. Simpson himself deposed to his having
seen it posted outside subsequently, but he could not
say that he saw it within the two succeeding days,
though he could say that he saw it within a few days.
As no person was present who could prove that the
notice was posted before the 20th, the chairman sug-
gested that Mr. Simpson should forthwith procure
the attendance of some one from the station-house
who knew that fact, and accordingly Mr. Simpson
left for the purpose of complying with the magis-
trate's suggestion.
When the other business had been gone through
Mr. Simpson had not made his appearance, but the
subject was resumed.
Mr. PARRY hoped the Court would not act without
considering the immense interest Mr. Simpson had at
stake, for the withholding of his licence would be
almost his ruin.
The CHAIRMAN said it was the standing orders of
the Court, and not the Act of Parliament, that re-
quired the proof which in this case was absent, and
those orders could, if the Court pleased, be suspended.
Mr. PARRY was very thankful for that suggestion.
Captain CARPENTER thought the proof before the
Court sufficient. The notice was served on a police
officer at the station-house, and was afterwards seen
posted. What more was required ?
An Hon. MAGISTRATE said he could not but ad-
mire Mr. Simpson for the manner in which be bad
acted. He had persisted, like a truly conscientiou,e,
man, in saying "a few days," when " two days"
would have removed all difficulty ; and there was great
interest at stake, as the Learned Counsel had said.
On the motion of Mr. TURNER, the standing orders
were suspended.
Mr. liemsneAn wished to know if this were not
the case of Cremorne Gardens, and if so, why,,t e
application was put in the list as " the Stadium
Mr. PARRY said certainly it was the case of Cre-
morne, though called " the Stadium ;"
that was
name originally in the lease, and be understood it was
a the
a
necessary to adhere to that name. The licence
ways had been granted for the Stadium, but it was
well known ttiat it was for Cremorne.
Mr. KEMSREAD said the case was at last properly
before the Ccurt. It was Cremorne, not the Sta-
dium, and consequently bore a very different aspect.
The CHAIRMAN said a place ought to be called by
the name by which it was most commonly known.
Mr. PARRY said no doubt the proper way would
be to describe it ae " The Stadium, otherwise ere-
morne."
Mr. KEMSHEAD said he had a word or two to say
on Cremorne. The question before them, and
which they had to decide was, in what way they, as
the licensing magistrates, whose duty was to protect
the public, were to expect these gardens to be con-
ducted for the future. They, the magistrates, were
the only parties who could ask that question, and after
what had taken place lately, it was important for the
public that it should he now decided.
Mr. PARRY said the only complaints ever made
against Mr. Simpson during the whole of the time
that he had had the Albion Hotel, the Adelaide Gal-
lery, and Crown:lei were the two preferred recently