The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-25 00:00:00

needless to add, would not be conducted with the
same good order and propriety under the new, as
under the present, system. As the law now stands
it is well known that the licensed victualler is not
only compelled by the dread of the infliction of
heavy penalties, neither to allow his house to be
open at improper hours, nor to permit drunkenness
or riot in it; but that he is even bound down still
more effectually by the interest which he has in
procuring the renewal of his licence, and preserving
the great amount of property—generally his all—
which he has invested in the trade. Let these salu-
tary checks, however, be withdrawn—let every one
who claims obtain a licence, and the good order,
and decency, and regularity, which now prevail,
will be no where to be met with—the trade will be
engrossed, to a considerable extent, by persons who
have neither property or character to lose—every
barber's shop will become a tippling house—and
every public house a resort for the most abandoned
characters; while smuggling, and adulteration, will
be carried to an extent which will bid defiance to
every police and excise regulation which can be
devised. We trust that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer will take these matters into his con-
sideration before he proceeds to overturn the
present system, which, if it be faulty in any
respect, has, at all events, the merit of pro-
perty and character against its abuse; and, on
the other hand, that those who are now crying
out for a free trade in beer will reflect that
the granting of their prayer would inflict upon them
one of the greatest nuisances that can well be
imagined—we mean the establishment of public-
houses in every principal street and square in the
metropolis, to the great deterioration in value of the
whole of the adjoining property. At present no
such consequence happens, because the licences are
granted by the Magistrates, arid care taken that the
granting of a new licence shall have the double
merit of being necessary for the accommodation of
the neighbourhood, and of being so situated as not
to be injurious to private property ; but let the
system be altered as proposed, and there will be no
check either upon the number, or upon the situation
of public-houses and places of public entertainment.
We bid landlords, and the owners of household
property generally, look well to this inevitable con-
sequence of the measure before they lend it their
sanction, by joining in the sen,eless cry for a free
trade in beer.—Morning Advertiser.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF MA CERY, MARCH 24.

EX-PARTE COOK AND OTHERS, IN RE AIMISH&LLS,

BANKRUPTS.

Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. MONTAGU ap-
plied that the petitioners, who were partners in
trade, and three in number, might be at liberty to
attend the summons of the Commissioners severally,
or by two at a time, to be examined, on the ground
of the inconvenience they must sustain by all leav-
ing London at the same time, the commission being
in operation at Manehe,ter. They had no wish to
avoid the examination, and it was now proposed
either that au auxiliary commission should be issued
in London under which they might all be examined,
or that two of them should go down, leaving the
third to be examined in London.

Sir C. WETHERELL opposed the application.
After some discussion, it was agreed that the
books of the petitioners might be inspected in Lon-
don, which might in effect reHder it unnecessary to
require their attendance at Manchester at all. If ne-
cessary, they should go singly.