The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

LICENSING DAY.—Yesterday being the day for the
annual renewal of the licenses for music and musical
entertainments throughout the county, there was a
very numerous attendance of Magistrates on the bench,
and the Court was crowded at an early hour. Mr.
Sergeant Adams took the chair at ten o'clock, when
business commenced.

The paper contained a list of ninety-three applica-
tions for renewals, of which eighteen were from persons
not licensed last year. With three exceptions, the
houses licensed last year were all renewed. The excep-
tions were—the Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve-ter-
race, Pancras-road ; the Royal Standard Theatre,
Shoreditch ; and the Colosseum, Regent's-park.
Amongst those granted were—Sadler's Wells, to
Richard Dixon and Charlotte Jones; the Queen's
Theatre, in Tottenham-street, to John Perry, now
Charles James James ; the Royal Pavilion, White-
chapel-road, to Thomas Gladstone, now Charles Con-
naughton and Henry Gaskell Denvil ; the Stadium,
Cremorne-house, Chelsea, to Charles Random (Baron
de Berenger) ; the Garrick Theatre in Leman-
street, Goodman's-fields, to Edward Gomel-sail
and James Bennet ; the New Strand Theatre, in the
Strand, to Lionel Benjamin Rayner ; the City of Lou-
don Theatre, Norton-falgate, to Christopher Cockerton ;
the Royal Kent Theatre, Kensington, to Thomas We-
therall ; the Queen's Bazaar, Oxford-street, now called
the Princess's Theatre, to Thomas Hamlet ; the Royal
Marylebone Theatre, to John Loveridge ; and Exeter
Hall, Strand, to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., Henry Pow-
nall, Esq., and Archdall Palmer, Esq.. &c.
THE COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK.

Mr. Charles Phillips moved for a renewal of the music
licence, last year granted to John Braham, for this well-
known place of public amusement.
Mr. Adolphus presented a petition, signed by twenty-
seven of the inhabitants of Albany-street, in which the
entrance to the theatre is situated, against the renewal.
The petition was then read. It appeared that for
months past the theatre had been kept open during the
greater part of the night ; that scenes of gross immora-
lity and indecency were common in the vicinity, and
frequently continued during the light of the morning, to
the injury of the morals of the petitioners' families and
servants, the most of whom inhabited houses nearly op-
posite, and to the annoyance of the neighbourhood ge-
nerally.
Several gentlemen who had signed the petition were
examined on oath as to the truth of its contents.
Mr. Braham, jun., contra, was then examined.
Ultimately the license was refused.
NEW APPLICATIONS.—The only case of novelty was
an application on the part of the Proprietors of the
well-known Richardson's show for a music licence.
Mr. Charles Phillips, in making the application,
said it was a kind of ambulatory theatre.—(A laugh.)
It might seem a case of novelty, but when they heard
the testimonials he had to adduce, signed by clergymen,
gentlemen, and superintendents of police, he had little
doubt the bench would give it a favourable considera-
tion. The show was used as a theatre for private per-
formances, and after the several fairs which it frequented
were over, if it seemed to take with the inhabitants of
the locality, they usually remained a few days to repeat
the performances. They wished to be able to remain,
if they thought proper, for weeks, but were under all
apprehension that they would be liable to penalties for
carrying on the musical part of the entertainment.
Mr. Was thought the Court could not entertain
the application. The words of the Act of Parliament
were
.‘ house, room, garden, or other place within
twenty The miles
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discussion the Court decided that they
had no jurisdiction, and declined to entertain the appli-
cation.

The other cases presented no features of novelty
whatever.

Lieutenancy
1, eve there is no doubt that the Lord,
of the county of Kent, vacant by the death of
the Marquis of Camden, will be centerred upon the Earl
of Thanes.

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