The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

PL Ifr. Stiiits,LOMON, pRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1841.

BEER-SELLERS' ANNIVERSARY
DINNER.
The Seventh Anniversary Dinner of the Metr)poli
tan Beer-sellers' Protection Society took pla !e pster-
day at White Conduit House. Upwards of 1,000 persons
sat down to a most excellent dinner to celebrate the
event, and the utmost harmony prevailed throughout the

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design has been discovered, and they had been defeated
by the very means by which they hoped to gain, their
vile ends.—(Cheers.) He was sorry that the Commis-
sioners of Police had put a restraint upon their officers to
lay these informations. For his own part he respected
the police much, but he believed on many occasions they
acted against truth. As an instance of that he might
mention a case that took place at Battersea. In that in-
stance the individual keeping the house went out to see
a relation that was ill, and on his return, about
one o'clock in the morning, he discovered that the
police, fancying they heard persons talking in the house,
had demanded admission, and there discovered two of
their own body, who had been sent for by the persons
left in charge of the house, because they thought, from
the noises they heard at the back, that some one was
breaking into the house. It was stated to the sergeant,
who, instead of believing it, asserted that the landlord
had harboured two of the police, and for so doing he
brought an information against him, and _swore that
he saw the men sitting down by the parlour fire,
smoking their pipes. On the first hearing the Magis-
trate adjourned the case, but upon its being brought
again before him, he dismissed the information. But
this was not all they had to contend with—there was the
question of lodgers, and the amount at which they were
rated. On both these points every difficulty had been
thrown in their way, but he was happy to say he had ,
been enabled, in every instance, to overcome them. In
Kingston, a subscription had been raised for the purpose
of preventing any house there having a beer license, and
the rates had been made upon a principle that would
prevent them from obtaining that license. He had
taken Counsel's opinion on the subject, and had succeeded
in quashing the rate that had been made.—(Cheers.)
Another instance, at Kingston, was with respect to Mr.
Shaw, a member of the Society. That gentleman had
taken two houses and joined them, and although the
rate on one would not have entitled him to a license,
yet when joined together the rates were sufficient, but
because there was a door in the front, and another at the
side, it was gravely contended that there were two houses.
He (Mr. Ashley) objected to any such notion, and suc-
ceeded in obtaining the judgment of the magistrates that
it was but one house—(Cheers)--it was therefore li-
censed, and the beer-trade was carried on in it.—
(Cheers.) In conclusion, he would only say that since
he had had the honour of being appointed Solicitor to the
Society, he had done all in his power to protect its mem-
bers against those miscreants the informers.—(Cheers.)
He was glad to say that he had succeeded, and the power
that he had obtained over them he would take care not
to part with, in order that the interests of the beer-
sellers might be protected, supported, and indemni-
fied.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BISHOP wished shortly to advert to some circum-
stances connected with the Excise, that had lately taken
place. At the commencement of the present year seve-
ral cases had been referred to him of persons who were
about to leave their beer-houses—their successors were
not rated, their names were not in the rate-book, and
they wished to know in what condition they would be
with respect to their license. A struggle took place with
the Excise on the subject, and when he first appeared
before the Chairman of the Excise, he and the Deputy-
Chairman, together with the Solicitor and the Com-
missioner, decided against him. They decided that the
party that came into possession must stop till his name
was in the rate-book before he could obtain his license.
He (Mr. Bishop) contended that that was not the view
laid down by the Law Officers of the Crown, when he
(Mr. B.), the Chairman of the Excise, and the Law
Officers were present. He (Mr. B.) requested them to
take other advice ; they did so, and the result was that
the Solicitor to the Excise took the same view that he
did, and it was decided, ultimately, that the
successor of a beer-seller, whose name was
on the rate-book, might obtain a license if he had
given notice that he had taken the house and was willing
to pay the rates due and those that might be due.—
(Cheers.) He was happy to say that they had most
gratefully responded to the toast of the Public Press, but
that response would be utterly useless unless they re-
sponded to it by their actions at home.—(Cheers.) Let
them all take in the paper that advocated their cause, and
when he said that, he wished to inform them that
The Sun was the only newspaper that had thought it
necessary to send a gentleman there to report their pro-
ceedings.(Cheers.) He would, therefore, advise them
to tell their friends, if they wanted to know what had
taken place at their meeting, to look to The Sun to-
morrow.—(Cheers.)
Mr. DYKE proposed the health of the Chairman, whom
he said had always been willing, both by his exertions
Ind his purse, to support the beer-trade.
The CHAIRMAN shortly returned thanks, and con-
cluded by proposing the health of their worthy Secre-
tary Mr. Bishop, who had done more for the benefit of
the Society than all of them put together.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BISHOP returned thanks, and the company then
broke up, every one appearing highly delighted with the
favourable representation that had been made of the af-
fairs of the Society.

evening.
Mr. Strong, of the firm of Richmond, Larcharr, and
Strong, was unanimously call upon to preside.
After the cloth was withdrawn and " Non Nobis Do-
mine " sung by the professional gentlemen present,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of her Majesty
and Prince Albert, which was drank most enthusias-
cally. Solo and chorus—" God save the Queen.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Puke
of Sussex, and, all the Royal Family resident in Eng-
land, which was also drank with the greatest en-
thusiasm. Glee—" Life's a bumper."
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the Metropolis
tend Beers-sellers' Protection Society. And in doing
so he regretted extremely that its proposal had not fal-
len. into hands that were far more capable than himself
to do it justice. Glee—" Willie brew'd a peck o' maut.'
Mr. BISHOP, the Secretary to the Society, on respond-
ing to the toast, observed that it had fallen to his pro-
vince to say a few words upon the toast that had just
been proposed of " Success to the Metropolitan Beer-
sellers Protection Society." He was quite sure, from
the manner in which all present had responded to that
toast, that they felt, like himklf, a real wish that suc-
cess might attend the Society, and that the same bond of
unity which had hitherto existed might still be conti-
nued.—(Cheers.) They had met that thy to celebrate
the seventh anniversary of the institution of the 1
Beer-sellers' Society.--(Cheers.) When they met to
celebrate the first anniversary they were few in numbers,
and their efforts were then comparatively small ; but
since that ' time their energies had been called I
forth, and he thought that he need hardly tell
them that such: success had crowned their exer-
tions as to make them really wish for the,
success of the Society. It was but a short time`
since they had struggled hard for their existence as
tradesmen, but he was happy to say that they were ad-
mitted into the pale of privilege.—(Cheers.) They were
no longer the proscribed class they had hitherto been.
—(Cheers.) They might now accommodate a neigh-
bour when they required it, and all they had to do was
to show that they were deserving of the privileges they
had, that they were entitled to those that were withheld
from them—(Cheers)—and would not rest satisfied till
they had obtained them.—(Cheers.) It must be Dome in
mind by every member of the Society that, although
they were in possession of these privileges at the present
moment, they might be again assailed, and, if they were,
he would venture to say this, that there could not be a
wiser mode to render those assaults harmless than by
having their whole body so united as to set them at de-
fiance. This was one of the main ends of the Society ;
but that was not all, there was another object they had
in view, and that was to establish on a firm foundation
the pension fund. While they themselves were it
possession of privileges, while they saw around them so
many smiling and happy faces, they ought not to forget
that there were those in existence upon whom the hand
of adversity had fallen.—(Cheers.) They must recollect
that the widow, the orphan, and the decayed beer-sellei
were alike objects entitled to the benefit of the pension
fund.—(Cheers.) He was happy to say that that fund
was on the increase, and that at the present moment
they had funds sufficient to give relief to all, and that
the widows and orphans would not go away from the
doors of the Society unrelieved.—(Cheers.) In making
this statement, he must not forget the main purport for
which he had risen. He had to thank those present for
the manner in which they had drunk the toast, but he
had also to propose the health of Lord Monteagle, the
patron of the Beer-sellers' Pension Fund.—(Great cheer-
ing.) That Noble Lord had rendered them the greatest
service in their Parliamentary struggles, and in render-
ing those services he had been most kindly assisted by
their other Parliamentary friends. Lord Monteagle, when
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and perhaps better known
as Mr. Spring Rice, had taken their case in hand.
—(Cheers.) He had done that which he was solicited
to do, namely, to make inquiry into the character, nature,
conduct, and management of the beer-houses, and the
consequence of those inquiries was the bringing in a
Bill which, although it was dropped at the end of the
session, was revived in the following year, and the pre-
sent flourishing.state of the Society, and the privileges
they then possessed, was the result.—(Cheers.) They
were greatly indebted to other Parliamentary friends,
on that occasion, but to none more than Lord Mont-
eagle.—(Cheers.) Their old and long-tried friend Mr.
Warburton, had a strong claim upon them for the exer-
tions he had made on their behalf ; and Mr. Wakley,
the Member for Finsbury, had done all in his power to
extend the boon held out by the Society to the widow
and the orphan, while the Bill was under consideration.
--(Cheers.) He need not go over the whole of the
names of those Members who had advocated their
cause, because he felt convinced that they were SEIZURE OF THREE BRI/ISH OFFICERS BY
written on the tablets of the memory of all present THE BURMESE.—{From a letter in the United Service,
too strongly to need it. He would, therefore, conclude Gazette.)—" MOULMEIN, JULY 10.—You have probably
by proposing " The health of Lord Monteagle, the patron
of the Pension Fund, and our Parliamentary friends." heard of the seizure of three British officers of the
Madras army by the Burmese authorities ; the parties
Glee—" Hail ! smiling morn." are Captain-Brett, of the 21st Light Infantry, and Lieu-
The toast was drank in the most enthusiastic manner. tenants Revell and Gib, who, whilst on a shooting excur-
Mr. STONEWOOD rose to propose the toast of "Our sion, having accidentally overstepped the boundary line,
country friends, and continued unity." He was sorry were immediately seized by a body of armed men, their
that the proposal of the toast had not been placed in guns forcibly taken from them, and they were marched
better hands. Those present, he would venture to say, on foot for two days and nights, a distance of above
little knew the services that hvl been done them by their sixty miles, to the town of Martaban, immediately
friends in the country during the struggle that they had opposite the contonment of Moulmein, on the right
to undergo.—(Cheers.) In the rural districts, the Act bank of the Salween, where these officers were
of Parliament, which came into operation about twelve placed in durance, after undergoing repeated indig-
months ago, had been most severe and persecuting. nities and considerable violence. Strange to say. too,
Although the London Committee had struggled hard to the British authorities at Moulmein took no active steps
f obtain a fair mode of carrying on their trade to all, yet for their release beyond despatching a few letters to the
difficulties had always surrounded them. Those difficul- headman at Martaban, which only met with insulting
ties arose in several ways : in the first place, the rural replies, the Burmese authority positively refusing to re-
districtslease the officers until he should hear from the Gover-
pecuniary had never rendered them any assistance in a
norofl3 e 1 i n . This tacitly
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authorities.ittn opgn British oaeoi
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point of view, but the small towns had ren-
-(Checered them great assistance in the House of Commons.
soi cersrbunhibre sufferet:obso,vguns,degradation
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daunjustifiable
it sevens
ers.) In the country there were 7,610 public-
houses under an 81. annual rental, and 7,650 beer-houses,
and it must bo known to all that no beer-house could
carry on the trade until it was rated to the poor ,
at 81. The result, therefore, in the country, was those gentlemen excited an extraordinary sensation
almost tantamount to sweeping the beer trade out and sympathy throughout the cantonment aud town
of existence. With respect to the large towns, they had of Moulmein, and had not immediate steps been
rendered them great assistance. Birmingham, Man- taken to keep down the ebullition of indignation
chester, Bristol, Bath, Huddersfield, Stockport, aud many which existed amongst the European inhabitants
other places he could mention, had struggled hard with and soldiery of the force, they certainly would have
them to settle the question, and it would, therefore, ill made an attempt to rescue their countrymen,
become them if they did not toast their friends in the and which would probably have led to consider-
country, and toast them well too.—(Cheers.) Every able loss of life, as a Burmese force had been collected at
person in the beer trade ought to be a member of their Martaban to resist any attempt at hostilities. lam told
Society, as it was essentially necessary for the interest that the three officers have been placed in arrest, pend-
g
of all that they should be united ; if they were so, they in a reference to the Commander-in-Chief, for having
would be sure to obtain all they required, but if they disobeyed some local order which had become obsolete,
were not, the worst results might be anticipated. He and, though the affair occurred so far back as the 18th
hoped, therefore, that those who were not members that of January, they have not yet been liberated. You may
night would be so before that day month.s--(Cheers.) think it strange that the Moulmein Cnronicle has never
Mr. Stonewood concluded by proposing the health of made any mention of this disgraceful affair. The fact,
" Our Country Friends, and continued unity, not forget- however, is, that the person who conducts that journal is
ting Mr. Sefton, the delegate from Stockport." an American missionary and master of the Free School,
The toast was most enthusiastically drank, together and, as the authorities are studiously anxious to keep the
with one cheer more for Mr. Sefton. matter quiet, he has probably culculated the advantages
Song, "Hampton Court," by Mr. Kerridge. of remaining silent in affairs of state policy."
Mr. Itesvienes proposed " The Ladies," which was
When Sir Robert Peel was last in power, there
drank amid much cheering.
was
.one Member of is Administration about whose 1
Mr. BISHOP then rose to propose " The Public Press,"
and in doing so observed that the toast he was about to " sayings and doings" lie was said to be peculiarly
propose was one which, if they had any gratitude, they anxious—so much so, indeed, that one of his colleagues
would respond to in the most enthusiastic manner. assured a friend of ours, that "Sir Robert never awoke
That toast was the " Public Press."—(Great cheering.) of a morning without expecting the first piece of news
He felt somewhat interested in this question, for in his to be that— had played„ some prank which had
younger days he had been brought up to it, and since he blown up the whole concern." We NVecowuolander who this
had been pressed into the service of the beer-sellers, he gentleman,so capable. of mischief, possibly. be..
had found the greatest advantage in his labours in their Is he to be in the new Tory Ministry 7—Liverpool
cause through the medium of the press.--(Cheers.) He Chronicle.
thought that they owed a debt of gratitude to some FIRE ON BOARD THE DUCHESS OF SLITHER.
portions of the Press, which they would never be able to LAND STEAM-SHIP.—On Tuesday night, at eleven o'clock,
repay, for the manner in which they had advocated their the large steam-ship Duchess of Sutherland arrived at
interests, and he trusted that the Members of the So- her moorings off St. Katherine's, from Aberdeen, with
niety would mark tbeir sense of that advocacy by select- 100 passengers, and a large and valuable cargo, consist-
ing, where they required newspapers in their houses, ing of 174 oxen, a number of sheep, about 56 tons of
those that had stood forward as their firm friends. Indoing dead meat, 300 boxes of salmon, about 500 barrels of
so they would be only following a strict line of duty, herrings, for the London market, and a great quantity
while at the same time they would be strengthening of manufactured goods. The cattle were landed the same
press it
their own interests. With respect to the daily night. Yesterday morning, soon after six o'clock, the
was due from him to say that the Times had devoted crew and labourers commenced discharging the cargo
one of its best leaders to their cause—but the Times into lighters and barges alongside. A few minutes af-
was not the only newspaper that had stood up in their terwards the people were alarmed at a dense body of
defence. The Sun Morning and Evening Newspaper smoke ascending from the engine-room, and it was soon
had most manfully advocated their cause at a time when ascertained that the vessel was on fire. No time was lost
they greatly needed it.—(Great cheering.) Of the weekly in manning the hand-engine on board, and a stream of
press there were several newspapers which had done water was discharged into the after larboard coal-bunker,
them great service; among that number he might men- where the fire was raging. The flames, however, were
tion the Examiner and the. Dispatch. Such being not subdued until part of the deck was cut away, and
a great quantity of water thrown below. The people
the case, he would again press upon every member
of the Society the necessity, if they wanted newspapers, on board exerted themselves in a most ',-praiseworthy
of selecting those which advocated their interests.— manner to subdue the flames, which at one time threat-
(Cheers.) In conclusion he had only to express the plea- ened the destruction of this, magnificent ship and her
sure he felt at seeing the Solicitor of the Society pre- cargo. The damage done was inconsiderable—a few
sent, as he felt convinced he would make statements to barrels of herrings, and the inside skin of the vessel,
them which would place in a far clearer light than he were scorched, and some injury was done by the water,
could the difficulties with which they had to contend. He but not to any amount worth naming. The fire was caused
had no doubt that many present might feel surprised that
he should introduce that gentleman's name in connection by the ignition of the coals in the bunker the heat of
the furnaces during the voyage.
with the public press, but he did so because he and the
At Guildhall, yesterday, Richard Archer, a law
press went band in hand to do them justice.--(Cheers.)
The worthy Secretary concluded by proposing " The writer, was brought up before Sir John Cowan, charged
Public Press, and may it never record the beer-sellers, with violently assaulting a young man named Millard,
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ya injuriesri ndwmareane
received
fiiovgfeltdlht
anotheri
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lad,hthe Charing-cross
prisoner.
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appeared through
ingratitude."—(Great cheering.)
The toast was most enthusiastically drank.
ennamtheed
prisonerSu therla Sutherland,
interposed
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Comic song by Mr. Clifford.
and struck Millard a se'vere blow on the head';NwNuhhpiicochhn
Mr. ASHLEY, the solicitor to the society, then came
ts:;veiale\ene,roeoluvfnash:rhe elrasebtdairdlallivfnarr.ose
mms:aillitilnhl
sleainrihdndoasa was
dcaonngveeryoends
forward, and was received with great cheering. About causedtocs
teartttiifie.
ehda.Ao
setpcohienatracttlui
a,
two years ago he had been appointed Solicitor to the.
Society, and during that period he hadgreat pleasure in
saying. that het had seen the noble objects the Society bad
which Sir John ordered him to be brought upnpgitaearlg, again on
iiiviev, namey., that of destroyingithemonopoly in the
beer trade, carried into effect.—(Cheers.) The trade,
Saturday next.
HACKNEY CHURCH-RATES.—ANOTHERDE-
eeyenwsnaisngheyledari.n theA fptteirristhhecphasurscilneg toof
however, was still under
ssoehaiectkylesa,nbdutithse
fbreielinedvse,dtitposaet
by the exertions FEAT.—Yesterday morning, a meeting of the Rate-
pmaaykTer ens orafteHfoacrktnh
toder a
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Society would
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waspropose
d accounts,,
(Cheers.)ln g fanother
expenditure. This was opposed, and Mr. Miall moved to
stry, they must bring
forward libe-
amend the postponement of the question for 12 months.
rmeisgphecttfotormthatht,ethisatitoi,whoever the individuals might be who Penny
They
' al; 1 e
wholere ne
n° ti v,
' was glad to see the efforts of Mr. Pennington seconded the amendment, which was
be forgotten.He
ral measures and among them the beer-sellers must not
d with then put to the vote, and carried by 90 against 34. A
had much to do with Poll was thereupon demanded, which would remain open
success.—(Cheers.) He had not .
his time being
Mr. Bishop, their indefatigable Secretary, crowned
,
the Parliamentary business of the FEMALE EDUCATION.—Women, society, till five o'clock yesterday.
niosthing ;
en, such is their
e whengives yhoisuthi s
admirationgon'e,
for
rll
whose trade it unfortanate style of education, hazard every thing upon
from the attacks of those infamous men c 1 , .
chiefly employed in defending members of the Society I
gone.
was to lodge information against them—(Cheers)
had
rsb)e—onain
Nthoe ehasutmoanf theere
he was most happy to say that his efforts . ,
1 d
every twenty ' either the e a must be c iarme , or the und
tended with unexempled success, for out of erstanding
t ates by the: tified. Eyv r human being must p t i -
oases that had been brought before Mahn great
diateur;
up w th the
(Gr t I
coldest civility,
. .
e yhas neither the - u
informers, he had succeeded in defeating fifteen—( who ' civility, charms of youth nor
cheering)—for he had obtained a is
total and entire dis- , the wisdom of age. Neither there the slightest corn-
missal of those informations.—(Cheers.) lishments • no man
He had seen i miseration for decayedsaccon3l3 ,mourns
those informers come forward and endeavour to support over the frogmen :5, h
ts of a dancer or drops a tear on the re-
their case by the grossest perjury, but their infamous lies of musical skill.—Sydney mit .