The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-29 00:00:00

RETAIL OF BRITISH SPIRITS IN

LICENSED HOUSES.

At the adjourned Middlesex Sessions yesterday,
a deputation, representing the licensed victuallers of
the county generally, (but more particularly that
portion engaged in the retail of wines and spirits at
bars situate in front of their houses, and having im-
mediate access to the street), attended and pre-
sented the following petition, on which they prayed
to be heard, either by themselves, or by their coun-
sel, Mr. Brodrick. _ _ _

FRANCIS CONS; Esq. presided as chairman, and
by his direction the petition was read by the clerk
of the court.

Considering there was nothing particular expected
to be brought forward, there was a more than usually
numerous attendance of Magistrates upon the bench.
The petition was most attentively listened to by
them. It was as follows :

" To the Worshipful the Magistrates of the county of Mid-

diesex in Session assembled.

" The humble petition of the undersigned Licensed
Retailers of Wine, Spirits, and other exciseable
articles, residing in the said county, on behalf of
themselves and the other licensed retailers of beer,
wine, spirits, and other exciseable articles,

" Showeth,—That your petitioners have for many years
been licensed to conduct, and have conducted with inte-
grity, credit, and respectability, the business of retail wine
and spirit dealers, and have never in any way been charged
with or committed any breach of the condition of their
licences.

" That the resolutions passed and published by your
worships on the 29th of October last, have created great
anxiety in the minds of your petitioners, and the numerous
other persons engaged in the retail sale of exciseable liquors,
inasmuch as they have embarked their capital in the busi-
ness which they have been regularly licensed to carry on,
and have carried on for years, conformably to the tenour
and conditions of the licences so granted, and conformably
to law, as they have always believed, and are now advised
and believe.

" That other resolutions passed aho by your Worships
on the 21st day of January instant, in relation to the
business conducted by your petitioners, lead your peti-
tioners to believe, and your petitioners are so advised, that
the Legislature only can furnish an effectual remedy for
any inconvenience existing or supposed to exist.
" That as evidence of the great amount of property em-
barked in this business, your petitioners beg to represent
that the annual duty raised upon foreign and British spi-
rits only amounts to nearly seven millions of pounds ster-
ling, exclusive of the very large revenue derived from
wine and beer, in which your petitioners also are very
considerable dealers.

" That, considering the great amount of property em-
barked by your petitioners and those engaged in the same
business, and the ruin and distress which are always pro-
duced by a forced change in the conduct of any business
made by those who cannot, from their habits and station
in life, be possessed of that practical knowledge necessarily
possessed by those engaged therein, they humbly, but con-
fidently, trust that your Worships will not refuse to hear
them by themselves or Counsel previously to coming to
any final resolution on the subject.
" Your petitioners therefore humbly pray to be heard
by themselves or their Counsel thereon."

The petition having been read,
The CHAIRMAN stopped all further obseevations,
upon an understanding that its contents were to be
fully discussed at the next county day.

The Siamese youths have, we understand,
stood the late severe weather very well, and are less af-
fected by it than the members of the American family
with whom they crossed the Atlantic.

Such is the competition at present on the
Hastings road, that one coach from this place (the
Wonder) takes passengers for a shilling, and another (tAie
Blue)—gratis. This savours of the times when travel-
lers have had a good dinner given, to tempt them to a
journey,—.Brighton Paper.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Earl Grosvenor, from his seat, Eaton Hall, Cheshire; the
Hon. Colonel and Lady Eleanor Lowther, in Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square, from the Earl of Lonsdale's seat, Cottesmore,
Rutlandshire ; Lord Molyneux, in Arlington-street, from the
Countess of Craven's seat, near Coventry ; Lord Saye and Sele,
in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, from Belvidere, Kent; w.
and F. Cavendish, Esqrs. at Burlington House, Piccadilly, from
Lord G. H. Cavendish's seat, Holkar, Lancashire; the Lord
Bishop of Sodor and Man, in St. James's-street, from Scotland .
Mrs. Peechey and Henry Peechey, Esq. in Bond-street, from
Chatham; Mrs. Houstoun and family, at Gould's Hotel, Jet-
myn-street, from Brighton; Colonel Dixon, at ditto, from Chel-
tenham ; Captain and Mrs. Harrison, in Pall-mall, from Hast-
ings ; William Newton, Esq. in Harley-street, from his seat in
Norfolk.