The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-06 00:00:00

HIGHI3URT BARN.

The application of Archibald Hinton for the renewa
of a music and dancing license for the Highbury Barn
Tavern was opposed.
Mr. Parry appeared in opposition ; Mr. Clarkson and
Mr. Sleigh in support of the application.
The petition presented against the application was
signed by the Rev. Mr. Collison, the incumbent of
Highbury, the churchwardens, and by 142 persons re-
sident at Highbury and the neighbourhood.
The learned counsel, in opening the case, said the com-
plaint
against Mr. Hinton was that he had violated an en-
gagement he entered into when the court granted the
license, and those for whom he appeared to oppose the
renewal of the license asked the bench not to grant the
application unless Mr. Hinton gave a guarantee that he
would strictly adhere to and abide by his original engage-
ment.. The parties who now opposed did not oppose the
original application, for this reason, that in his original
petition Mr. Hinton assured the bench that he did not
intend to use the license in any way that should be dis-
agreeable to the neighbourhood, or to produce disquie-
tude in the vicinity, or to convert Highbury Barn into
an ordinary dancing place ; but, on the contrary, that
he only wanted it to enable him to provide such enter-
tainment to those parties who regularly used his hernia,
such as friendly clubs and benefit societies, who had din-
ners, &c., there. Instead of carrying out this, however,
Mr. Hinton had converted Highbury Barn into dancing
gardens, and the town had been placarded with an-
nouncements that the admission to such entertainment
was at the rate of sixpence per head ; and there was re-
gularly a military baud in attendance performing from
four in the afternoon until eleven at night. When the
parties who resorted to Highbury Barn left, as they
did at late hours, the whole neighbourhood was dis-
turbed—their conduct was disorderly and an annoyance
to the neighbourhood, and he was instructed to say that
instead of the establishment being conducted as Mr.
Hinton had represented to the bench that it should, it
had been a perfect and decided nuisance to the neigh-
bourhood. The opposition was not on general but par-
ticular grounds, and on the part of those by whom he
was instructed, he called upon the court to uphold its
own authority, and enforce the condition on which alone
the license was granted. He would admit that there
was nothing to complain of as to the conduct of the p tr-
ties in the gardens, but the result of the conditions on
which the license was granted not being adhered to, was
that a considerable nuisance had been created in the
neighbourhood.
Evidence in support of the petition was then gone
into at some length. It was complained that the con-
duct of persons leaving Highbury Barn after dancing
had terminated had been riotous and indecorous ; that
women of loose character, who had been there, annoyed
gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood on their way
home by their olicitations ; and that the neighbourhood
was disturbed at night by the persons leaving Mr. Hin-
ton's establishment. A band of music was continually
playing from the afternoon until eleven at night, dancing
was going on, and 6d. was charged for admission. The
witnesses, however, could not speak of any formal
complaint having been made with reference to Mr. Hin-
ton's place of entertainment—all that was said against
it was that the neighbourhood was disturbed at night by
the conduct of the persons who frequented " the barn"
after they had left.
Mr. Clarkson then addressed the bench on behalf of
the applicant. He forcibly contended that there was
not a tittle of evidence given to warrant the bench in
refusing the license. Mr. Hinton had made• an engage-
ment, and havinanade it it would have been better if
he bad not broken it, but he was not to be held re-
sponsible for the conduct of persons not on his own pro-
perty ; they might have been elsewhere than at High-
bury. • No complaint had been made as to the manner
in which the place was conducted, indeed ho would
show that it had been well conducted, and most pro-
perly managed. The learned counsel urged the vast
interest which Mr. Hinton had at stake, and hoped that
the bench would not commit the, to him, ruinous act of
refusiel the license on the grounds set up by the oppo-
sition. He did hope that the bench would grant the
license, and thus enable the public to have (at High-
bury) what they. required, a means of innocent and legi-
timate enjoyment.
Evidence was then given in support of the applica-
tion. Mr. Hinton himself was txamined. He stated
tlvit he commenced giving these entertainments at Whit-
suntide in the prssent year, and he had the band of the
Grenadier 0-cards there. They performed from four till
six when there was a lapse of an hour, after which they
went on again till eleven. Shortly after that hour the
place was closed, except on special occasions when
private parties were there. He had police officers in
attendance whom he paid himself, and lie used every
exertion and endeavoured in every way to the utmost
Of his ability to conduct his establishment respectably,
orderly, awl with ow oily yieldpf preserving strict pro.
priety and decorum.
Inspector Thatcher and two sergeants of the N divi•

sion were also examined. They gave Highbury Barn
the highest character. They said it could not have been
conducted with more propriety than it had been by Mr.
Hinton, and the neighbourhood had been more quiet
this year than formerly. As was the case with all
places of public entertainment, no doubt persons of bad
character were admitted at Highbury on paying their
admission, but the general frequenters of the place were
a very respectable class of persons, who went there for
an hour's amusement.

Mr. Parry having replied,
The Chairman, Mr. Pownall, put the question, when
the license was refused by 7 votes to 3, there being 11
magistrates present, including the chairman.
Mr. James Toomer applied for a license for music and
dancing, for the Manor House, Green-lanes, Stoke New-
ington. The appli*ut had a license for music, which
he now applied to kayo extended to dancing.
Mr. J. P. Doyle supported the application.
The license was unanimously granted.
The court will sit to-day to dispose of new applica-
tions.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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MANSION-HOUSE.—Robert Ware, a butcher, re-
siding at. Grcenhithe, was summoned before Sir R. W.
Carden, charged with having unlawfully sent to New ;ate
Market a quantity of meat for the purpose of being sold
as human food, the same meat being in a putrid state.
The. proceedings caused a great deal of interest.
Mr. Pocklington, the inspector of meat in Newgate-
market, said on the 2d of October I went to Mr. Webb's
Shop, 21, Newgate-market, and I found there, between
six and seven o'clock in the morning, four quarters of
beef inside the shop. They were carried in there by John
Ludlow, the carrier, and his Man, in my presence. I
examined them and found them stinking, and green and
bruised. From my experience I should say that'the
beast had been smothered. From what I ascertained
upon inquiry, I went down to Greenhithe, in Kent,
where I got further information, and I made inquiries
for the defendant there and saw him ; but as I was about
to speak to him he ran away.
Cross-examined—l did not see the blood of the
bullock.

Mr. C. Fisher, Inspector of Meat of the city of Lon-
don, confirmed in the most complete manner the evi-
dence of Mr. Pocklitigton.
John Ludlow, carman in the employment of the South
Eastern Railway Company, Bricklayers' Arms Station,
said—On Monday lust I delivered 4 quarters of beef at
Mr. Webb's. I saw Mr. Pocklington there and be exa-
mined them whilst I was there. I brought them from
the station. Two of the quarters had cloths upon them.
The others bad no cloths upon them. When I de-
livered them Mr. Webb's man would not sign my book.
George Renton, foreman to Mr. Webb, of Newga,te-
market, salesman, said7--On Monday morning, at half-
past 4 &clock, as I came to the door to my work, the
defendant stood at the door, and he told me that he had
come up by the train on Monday morning, and that he
stopped at the Bull. He said he wanted to see Mr.
Webb and asked me if I was he. I said no, I was his
foreman. He told me he bad a body of beef. for Mr.
Webb to sell that would come by the South-Eastern
Railway. The bullock,.he said, had jumped overboard,
and a waterman had towed it ashore. He also said.
that, he had • stuck it, that it had bled freely, and
that he had taken 15 stone of fat from it, and that
it made 3s. sd. a stone. I asked him what sort
of moat it was, to which he replied that it was
quite sweet when he packed it, which was between
half past four and five o'clock in the afternoon of
Saturday, and it was perfectly sweet when he
left. He stated that before it was sold he wished

the inspector to see whether it was fit for human food,
or whether it was fit to go to the boilers (for the fat).
He waited about f9r the waggon coming in, and after-
wards Mr. Pocklington came in, and I told him I had
got a body of beef coming in, and the young man
wished, before it was meld for him, to see it, and he said
" Very well, he would," and he came several times to
see it, and he saw the waggon come in, and I said,
"Here is the beef come in," and he followed it into the
shop and stuck a skewer into it, and said it was not fit
for human food and he must take it. It was not
offered for sale. The fore quarters were in a good state,
bat the hind quarters were stinking.
James Fulljaines, of Greenhithe, Kent, said—On Sa-
turday last, betweeti four and five o'clock, I saw the
defendant and his brother dressing a bullock on the
shore of the river Thames. The defendant's master was
superintending the dressing of the bullock, and I saw
the defendant chop the bones from the bead and matter
ran out from the nose. I supposed it was for the dogs,
but from information I received, I said to a Mr. Mar-
tin, who was present, in the defendant's presence,
" What are you going to do with that beef 1 They, tell me
you are going to dress it and send it to London ' and
if you do that I shall write to the Lord Mayor." They
laughed and jeered at me. I afterwards saw the cloths
fetched for the beef to be packed up, and I saw the
same body of beef taken in a cart to the railway sta-
tion, where it was left, and one of the men said, "•We
have taken the beef down and you can do as you
like." The defendant was there at the time, but I
eaa't say who it Was that spoke. The first I saw
of it was a horse drawing. the body of the animal
out of the water on to the ground. The animal was
then dead. •I afterwards saw them dressing and
skinning it, and Mr. Martin told the men to take parti-
cular care in the dressing of it, as he had sold worse meat
in his shop. The defendant was one of the men. I
went to the station and saw the beef there, and I re-
ceived information how it was directed.

Sir R. W. Cardensaidthe case was a very serious one

indeed, deeply affecting the public. He felt that it must
be fully investigated. It appeared from the evidence
that two other parties living at Greenhithe were impli-
cated in the transaction, and in order that the ends of
justice might not be defeated in a manner which so ma-
terially
involved the health of the inhabitants of the
metropolis, he should direct the City Solicitor to conduct
the prosecution. He would consider whether the other
parties alluded to in the course of the investigation
should not also be prosecuted.
The Alderman then remanded the case till Wednesday
next, and required the defendant to be bound over in
his own recognisances in the sum of 401., and to procure
a surety in 20/., for his appearance at that time.
The following letter, which was received by the Lord.
Mayor, and which describes the practice of some of the,
people who send supplies to the London markets, was
rend in the court : _

" Birmingham.

" My'Lord,—The attention of the public has lately been
called to the state of meat sent to the London market from
Longworth, in Somerset. I fear it is only one of hun-
dreds of cases which are daily occurring in all parts of the
kingdom.
"The butchers in this neighbourhood make no secret as to
their custom of sending stale or diseased meat to town.
The other day I had a sheep and two calves taken suddenly
ill, with violent inflammation. I sent for the butcher to
bleed them, but they wore dead when he came, and he very
quietly remarked to me that if they bad been stuck an hour
sooner they would have done nicely for some of the London
folk. He then offered to buy the carcasses from me, which
I declined to sell him, as I thought 'the London folk'
would bo better without them, but he said that " it was
like throwing away money to bury them." On Saturday
last another butcher called on me to sell me a sheep. Ho
wished to show me that ho had a 'nice little business,'
and took out of his pocket a cheque for stale meat' from
a London butcher for 11. 2s. 6d. You see,' he said, 'he
will always buy from me anything which I cannot sell hero,
or which is not good enough for nay customers, be it a small
or largo quantity; but if the quantity I send is not worth
a pound ho waits till he receives a second supply before he
sends me my money. There are now a great number of
rotten sheep which had lambs in the spring, and have now
been fed up as far as they can be, and will bo killed off, as
the farmers here say, before the cold weather will kill
them, and their caressys sent to London ; that they make
very bad meat, but the Londoners never know the differ-
ence.' "

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP.
WRECK.

Yesterday a special general meeting of the friends
of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation
of Life from Shipwreck was hold at its offices, John-
street, Adelphi, to consider the recommendation of the
committee to alter the title of the society ; Mr. Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN observed that it was not without
some reluctance the committee had recommended that
the title of the institution, which had now been in
existence upwards of thirty years, should be changed ;
but they had yielded .to a sense of duty on this point,
as they bad reason to believe that by doing so the im-
portant objects of the institution, which would not in
any way be altered by the change of title, would be
greatly advanced.
A resolution was then passed that the title of the in-
stitution be hereafter " Royal National Life-boat Insti-
tution, founded in 1824, for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck.".. .
It appeared that the Board of Trade had transmitted
a communication to the institution which had for its
object the forwarding of saving life from shipwreck. The
cmnditions of receiving aid from the Mercantile Marino
Fund are to be—

1. That the institution provide a life-boat and boat-
house of a kind and in a situation satisfactory to the
board.
2. That the boat and boat-house be subject to the in-
spection of the board's officer.
The nature of the assistance contemplated by tho
board is that of giving rewards for the manning of boats
in circumstances of danger, and for the preservation of
life. The average cost of a life-boat, with a boat-house,
and a carriage to transport the boat readily from place
to place, is about 3001., so that to meet the conditions
of the Board of Trade ample scope is left for the exercise
of benevolent exertions. From the Admiralty " Wreck
Register," as published in the Life bout Journal of the
institution for the current month, it appeared that the
wrecks during the past year on the coasts and in
the seas of the United Kingdom were 832. Of
these 253 occurred on the east coast of Great Bri-
tain, 76 on the south coast, and 130 on the west
coast ; 81 wrecks took place on the coasts of Ireland
6 were cast on shore at Scilly ; 11
,at the Channel
Islands ; 3 at Orkney ; and 12 at the Isle of Man ; the
remaining 2GO wrecks occurred in the surrounding sea,.
'Fite whole loss of lives during the year, as far as could
be ascertained, amounted to 989. Surely, with such
appalling facts as these before them, the British imblic,
will riot withhold their assistance to provide life-boats on
the coat. On the contrary, we believe that a liberal
response will be made to the appeal of the committee for
additional contributions, and that the great national
cause of " preservation of life from shipwreck" will not
be allowed form an exception to the many other good
causes so benevolently and liberally supported in this
country. All now that is required is hearty and cordial
co-operation to see every suitable place provided with

life-boats. An excellent plan of life-boat is in use by
the institution. The other day we had an opportunity
to see a harbour trial, at Limehouse, of one of the boatsi
built on that plan, and nothing, except on one point,
could have been more satisfactory than that trial. Life.,
boats were ready to be sent to the Skerries, on the was..
uf Dublin ; to Boulmer, Northumberland ; and Apple,
dore, on the coast of Devon, the latter being the fourth
boat the society had stationed in this dangerous locality
during the last thirty years. The proceedings then
closed.

COUNTRY MARKETS.'

DERBY SMTHFIELD.—OcT. 3.

There was but a scanty supply of fat beasts to-day, whit];
were readily sold. The number of sheep was about t 124.
average, fully maintaining last week's prices. Fat pigs no:.
so numerous. Of fat calves we had but few, which sold well:

The following wero the quotations :—Boof, 51d to 6d
mutton, 6(1 to 7d ; lamb, 7d to Od ; . veal, 7d to 74c1 pu :
lb. ; pigs, 9s 6d to Os 0 d per score ; rough fat, Os Od to (r.
per 141 b.; hides, 31d to 41(.1 per lb ; calf-skins, 4d to 0 •
per lb,