The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday being appointed for granting licenses
for =laic and dancing, Mr. Serge ►nt ADAMS, the Chair-
man, and a gre.tt number of Nlagistrates, took their
seats upon the Bench at ten o'clock.
Several applications for renewal of licenses having
been made and granted, _ _ _

Mr. C. Philips appeared on beaalf of Mr. Thomas
Rouse.

Sir PETER LAURIE objected on principle to licensing
the acme building for the sale of spirits and for the-
atrical amusements. He also objected to the manner
in which Mr. Rouse advertised the amusements at the
Eagle. He admitted that he had never visited the
Eagle.
Several Magistrates stated that they had visit •d the
Eagle, and bore testimony to the excellent and orderly
manner in which it was couductcd.
Mr. TOWNEND wished the Irsusie should be shut up
of a Sunday.
Mr. C. Phillips complained that Mr. Rouse bad
received no note, of any opposition. a-id that therefore
in makiog the application, he (Mr. Pitiilips) being un-
aware of any intention to oppose the renew..l, bud ab.
stained from going into the merits of the case.
It was ultimately arranged that the license should he
renewed, on condition of Mr. Rouse pledging himself to
close on a Sunday 01 that part: of his premises devoted
to purpose s of amusement. Mr. Rouse gave the pledge
r. quoecl, and also promised to correct his manner of ad
vertising, so as to meet-the views of Sir Peter Laurie.
Tie proprietors of the White Conduit House, of the
Yorkshire Stingo. and of -11 houses of the same n.iture
as the 17,,0e L.vero, were r.quired to give a similar
pl .d,ze to that ri qu:red of M,. Rouse, alid arc endorse.
merit was niide on the licenses 'to that feet.
Pil.vioui to the oppos tion being made to Vie rene:sal
o: Mr. Rouses I:cen•e, circa cot from the Ciaireti
Missiaoary Society to each of the M .gist rates, tvag r•
by the Cicrk. It besought the Mai.vstrates tot ro grant
any music licenses whatever, as they tended to a dese-
cration of the Sabbath, and to immorality.
Ou renewing the iicenbc of H. Bradiog for the Royal
Staudard Tavern,
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'the CHAIRMAN slated his obj.ct'ol, to the priteip'e
of making tne purchase of iivor a part of tiie pi ice of
admispion to placvs of taia de•cription.
Tne licenses for the S,,rand. And ti:e Princess's To'
v en. granted, after an ineffectual opposition from
Mr. Ni'VVilli4m, who appears to have constituted himself
objector-general to every species of public amusement.
On Mr. C!arkson applying for a renewal of the li-
cense to Mr. S:xnuel Lanc for the Britsnnia Tavern,

Hoxton,
Mr. Wines stated that last year Mr. Lane had ap-
plied for a music lic,-nse for a house in Seoreditch,
had been refused. The Britannia, a little quiet public-
house, had a music license for a small room which would
accommodate about thirty people. Lane had taken
the Britannic, and had erected a theatre capable of ac-
commodating five hundred people, and he put forth bills
regularly of the performances, one of which he could
produce to the Court. He did not oppose the renewal
of the license, but he thought the Bench ought to be
careful how they granted new licenses.

Mr. ARMSTRONG said that in every case where a
music-license had boen granted the premises bad been
enlarged.
The CHAIRMAN objected to the performances being
advertifed by bills.
Mr. Clarkson assured the Court that all the other
places to which licenses had been granted issued bills In
the same manner.

The CHAIRMAN thought the Court ought to be more
strict. H ohj.cted to the issuing hills altogether.
S2verai M.4:strates expressed xheir opinion that the
Court our.ht to take care that when they granted a
Eonse to a public-house it !awaid not be converted into
a theatre.

Oa a division the license was refused-8 Magistrates
voting for its renewal, and 13 against it.
Oa the application of Archibald Hinton for a re-
newal ot the license to the Crown Titvern, Clt.rkenwell-
green, . . . .

The CHAIRMAN said tho license had originally been
cranted to Sivouel Bird, who was the Me,ze-man to the
Magistrates, and to whom it had been grimed on con-
dition that he should not turn the atoe into a saloon
or theatre. He had, however, violated that pledge.
Ho had, in consequPneo,ceased to 1),-. Mess-roan to the

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11Ltgistrates, and it Mr. Bird had applied for a renewal,
he, as Chairman, should have held up his hand against
it. Ater a short diseussiott, the license nag refused.
Mr. BALLANTINE aptili-ti on behalf of Mr. C,Ltetil-y,
of toe SrAtiotwe Arms, Ciind,n•lown, for ri-ne v, ,1
his licettme. The license had t-ean granted in 1839 aitil
18M. Mr. Crutiatey had made no application, because
he iA as too ill to superiotend the amusements. T.,
house bad al,ras bean well conducted.
Mr. NPWILLiam opposed the application.

Mr. WILKs ,bought film as there hai been no Feense
last year thcy v,•ry wittiout it during the
present year.
0.. a division, the numbers were—Fir granting Abe
license, 4 ; ag :km it, 6. The application was conic-
qu..nt y te7ubed.
An applicator) mas made for a licence on behali of
J autos Stonop,of the 13, eeknock 4rm,, Wilder) lane row!.
Mr. M'WILLIANI, wlUle beariiiic testimony to the
high respezaoi.ity of the appl.eant, would oppose tioe
lie,nse because he thought it would do the applicant no

goof.
veral Magistrates stated that knowing the respect-
ebb, character of the applicant taey fe:t inclined to grant
the iiceri-ie.
Mr. WILKS said the qusstion was not as to the raw-
pect ability of the apptcant, but as to the pubic neces-
sity for a house for music and dancing in that neigh-
bourhood.
tic application was re id, and it was signed by 200
respet table persons resitting in the neishbourbood.
Sir PETER LAURIE said, that granting a license to
an iudivioual slid nothing as to the respectability of the
house. It might be transferred. He objected to grant-
ing these licenses to any place having a spirit license,
and he should oppose every application for a new license.
The appiic Aion was refused.
Mr. 13odsli in applying for a license for James
Bott, of the Princes, Royal Tavern, Westbourne-
grove, entered into a history of the Act under
which these licenses were granted. The inten-
tion of the Legislature, in passing that law, had
been to protect persons having those licenses from the
provisions of• the Vagrant Act, but not to authorize
them to do anything. Rut in consequence of the mono-
poly of the patent theatres, the public was deprived of
the proper supply of dramatic amusement, and the con-
sequence was, that under the provisions of this Act, the
Magistrates had suffered that dramatic amusement to
be provided, of which the public stood in need. The
house in question was situated in the county et a
distance from all places of public amusement.
it hail a large bowling-green, archery-ground, and
music-room ; and after the pleeedent set to-day of re-
fusing to renew a license because the holder of it had
enlarged his premises, he thought the Court might feel
assured that no alteration would be made in the pre-
mises ; and if any such were male, the Court had the
poxer of reusing the renewel.
Mr. Isil*Wierdass knew Mr. Bott, and believed him
to be one of the twist respectable men in the district ;
and in order to enable him to keep him elf so, he sheeld
oppose the granting the license.
Mr. WILKs said the preamble to the Act stated
that it was rendered n• cassary in cons, que"ce 01 the
siumbers of the lower orders frequenting these places
of amusement and spending their substance in riot, He
should oppose the application.
Sir PETER LAURIE b(1 eyed that if the sort of L-
i censes had been atwal-s rotated there would have been
gteni.e, number of theatr,,s.
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ate app iris i n w?,55
Toe apt lie tion of J. F. Ronnison, for the Albert
Tavere, C ndint-sirens, wits ,etused,
P:oe i :lox; made on iippJtc-Lrion for Joseph
in: t, 0' ill(' Swan Tavern, Gcolimae's fit ids.
Iu reason of the application was to enable the app!i-
cant to ha%e inarriqcs tel ii in his house,
ii.usic Wits of the crremon).
M. ARMSTRONG apre end, d that if Je.vish mar-
ere releie wed !here it niieht lead to a (leccr4-
tiro-. of the Civisrian Seel)
Mr. pi e:,(1,1-1:ast et,su• e:I the Court that such
;voted oevtr he tee case. The apphe:tion was signed
1)3 the Churchwardens, the o%ersects, Lind the P:ving
Colaniis,iorwrs.
Mr. M`WiLt.tam, in opposing the application, said
the it friend of its considered tne destruction of the
Brunswick The tie, even atteride•l as it was by loss of
I tile, 4 ble-sing.
Mi KS epprned th, application, which was refused.
Toe applicafion of Samuel 111itchill ;or a license fur
the Res, miry Branch was refined.
Mr. Bodkin applied on behalf of Henry Miller, of
the Cumberland Arms, City-road. Tee application
was supperted by both the Clergymen of the p
the Churchwardens, and 't he Guardians of the Poor.
It there were a foregone conclusion against granting
all licen:es, it would bo much !serer that some inten-
tion should be announced before hand, in order that
persons might be spared the trouble of corning there.
and that the farce of discussing the application might
not be enacted. The applicant would consent to the
forfeiture of his license it he should attempt to intro-
duce theatrical amusements.
Mr. ARMSTRONG said that the House was situate op•
posite the Eagle, and no doubt those who bad signed
the application considered that it would operate as au

antidote t. the poison of the Eagle, he should supp,,rt
the application.
Sir P. LkualE opposed the application, on the ground
that the license was not wanted. He knew bow easily
signatures were obtained, and therefore did not consider
them of any fire .t consequence.
Mr. WILKS said the Rector I:sed at the %Vest-end,
and the Curate had only been two months in the parish,
therefore they could not be supposed to know much
of the subject. It was painful to persons of pious prin-
ciples to see the persons sitting and smoking in front of
Mr. Miller's house on a Sunday.
The license was refused.

The application of Edward Jones for a license for the
Bird Cage, Hackney-road, was refused.
A resolution was then passed that an endorsement be
made on ali the licenses expressive of the opinion of the
Court of the impropriety of keeping open those parts of
the house which a-e devoted to public amusement.
The application of Henry Watts, of Shacklewell, was
refused.

Tlie license of Charles Random Baron de Berenger,
for a renewal of the license to the Stadium, Cremorne
House, Chel,:ea, was granted, notwithst aiding the op-
position of Mr. M'William and Capt. Fitzgerald.
The application for the renewal of the license to Co-
penhagen House was withdrawn.
S.r PETER LAURIE, helve the Court adjourned,
wished to state that the Court was under great obliga-
tiona to Mr. Wdks for the pains he had taken to in-
spect these houses.
The whole of the business of the Court having been
disposed of, the Court adjourned.
The licenses to Sadler's Wells, the Queen's Theate,,
Tottenham-street, the Pavilion, tht; Garrick, the City
of London, the Roy& Marylehone, and the Roy '1 Kent
Teeatr, s, and that to Exeter Hall, we,e granted In the
course of the ,norning.

SURREY QU A RTER SESSIONS,
KINGSTON, ticT. 21.
A man named Thomas Lee surrendered to take his
tri.tt upon a charge of at wing property to a consider-
ate atnowilt, belonging to a person named William
IVluedsy.
Me Chambers (!efended the erisoner.
It apt eared, from tie evidence of the prosecutor,
that two years ago he kept the Nag's Head pubic-
liou•e at Cb, ltenharn, and t tyn pri,oner lodged re tth him.
In the won't: of November, 1839, his wife lr!t him in
con-if-any with the prisoner, and took away with her, as
he represent-d, n 1001. notes a number of bnoki, a set
of china, and et tier articles. About a furttrght ago he
went to Biechingley, where I.e found tits Weft, hiving with
the prisoner, and on a sr arch eeing made in the house
he discovered same of the article, that bath been stolen.
Upon nis being cross-exainmed he sail that after
his wife went away from him he heard that she was
living about three miles if, but he did net go to make
any inquiry ,ither aitlr her or his property. He also
adnetted that he might have said that his wife might
go to the devil and he did not care for her. It further
appeared that he had met the prisoner several times
after his wile left him, and that he never made .any
charge against him.
The COUKT, alter hearing some further evidence, inti-
mated its opinion that the charge could not be sup-
ported, and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
A young man of genteel appearance, named Fre-
derick Williams, was indicted for feloniously uttering,
at Guildford, a certain forded cheek, purporting to be
the draft or order of one VF. Hovia-d, upon Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Smith, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Haydon nod Co., the bar-lets of Guildford.
Mr. Chambers appeared in support of the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Jemmett defended the prisoner.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
He was again indicted for uttering a similar forged
instrument, at the Godalming Bank, with intent to de-
fraud that establishment.
To this iudiettnent the prisoner also pleaded Guilty.
Mr. Chambers said lie was instructed by the prose-
cutors to state that they felt themselves compelled
to institute the present prosecution by a sense of their
duty to the public ; they, of course, had notethe slightest
vindictive feeling against the unfortunate young man at
the bar, but, on the contrary, they would be glad if the
Court, upon inquiry, should find that there sere such
circumstances of mitigation in the case as would enable
it to pals a lenient. seetence.
Mr. Jemmett, on behalf of the prisoner, said that
he was a member of a respectable and numerous family.
He was now only eighteen. years old, alit having formed
an unfortunate female connection, the consequence
was, that he had been reduced to a state of (distress,
and in a moment of desperetioo he commetel the
offence imputed t. him. He intreated the Court to
consider the youth of the prisoner, and tot to blast his
prospects for ever by a sentence that would remove nen
frem this coun•ry.
The prisoner, who had been crying bitterly, here ad.
dressed the Court, and said he trusted they would allow
him to express his deep enntritiou for what he hail
done, and he implored the Migistrat-ys to give h m a
ance of redeeming his charaeter.
The CHAIRMAN; after consulting the Bench, told the
prisoner tt.at he ea I been convicted of fina of the mast
serious offences that could he comtnitteil in a cornmer.
cal country, as it w is um! that struck at the ro;it of ail
confidence, a d tended to eauie most ,erious tnisehooe,
He was liable to he trietsported for lit.', ho. tine Court
taking his youth into consideration, and :ho the re-
commendations of the pros reators, ivied f tea prod ed
to th,tt extremity. Uuder ill the ctrcootstances, iii.
sentence of the Gout vra, that he be imprisoned in tee
Ceuety Gaol for two years, and that three months of
that time, at different periods, should be passed in soli-
tary confinement.
In addition to the other licences that were applied
for on' Wednesday, Mr. Jefnmet, made an application
for a rensevel of the license to Mr. Hodgson, of the
Duke's Head. or B ,wer-gardens, Stangate.
Cheitilere oppesed the appiication, on behalf of
the Dramatic Aut hors' Society, and said teat t at place
was originally ()ay litensed for music to aid time exhi-
bition of dioramic views, hut it had changed hands, and
had latterly, under the Magistrates' license, been con-
verted into nothing but it low theatre, in which dra-
matic entertainments were performed, and to which the
prices of admission were so lex as twopence and three-
peace. Every successful piece was itnneeiately per-
formed at this place, but the authors of them were nil-
able to get that payment to which, by a recent Act of
Parliament, they were entitled, because it was said that
this was not a legal place of dramatic entertainment.
He submitted that this was a great injustice, and that
as the conditions of the license were not adhered to,
the Court ought to withhold it.
Mr. Jemmett contended that no ground had been
shown for refusing the license, and he said that if Mr.
Hodgson exceeded his license he was liable to heavy
penalties for so doing.
After some discussion, the Bench granted the appli-
cation.
Mr. Chambers subsequently applied for a license far
the late swimming-baths in the Westminster-road, to be
used as a place for equestrian performances, similar to
Astley're in the name of Mr. George Batty ; but, as it
appeared that proper notice of the application, in ac-
cordance with the rules of the Session, had not been
ivcn, the application was abandoned.

POLIaINTELLA,ENCE.
GUILD ,
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HALL.r
Mr. Cunningham
:ietor of a publication
called " The Novel," waited upon Mr. Lane-sore relative to
an application made on Wednesday for summons un-
der the following circumstances :
John Rae said he, in conjunction with seventeen other
young raen, had deposited the sum of 5/. each with the
proprietor of " a novel newspaper," on the condition that
they were to receive 1/. per week as canvassers to
crease its circulation. They eventually found they were
deceived, as they never received even one week's
wages. Mr. Cunningham proceeded to say that
he had read the preceding statement in several
of the Morning. Papers ; and, as he was aware
there was ne publication save his own bearing the tame
of " The Novel" it became incumbent on him to deny
the facts as applicable to himself. He considered the
name " A Novel Newspaper" must have been either an
error in the reporting or typography, and he would
therefore request the worthy Alderman. if his memory
served him so far, to state what name the applicant used.
Mr. Alderman LAINSON having stated his inability to
comply with the applicant's request, the matter ter-
minated.
THAMES POLICE
Mr. Pe terkee, a master printer in Poplar, on Wedwsday
charged an appventice, who heel served three years ol
his time, with being very insolent, neglecting his work,
alisteiting
himself for several days, and setting upjebs of
his own with his master's type, and using his ilk and
presses. The apprentice at last absented himself from
his master s house when there was a press of business,
and did not return.
Mr. PELHAM, for the apprentice, said he should not
trouble the Magistrate with any further answer to the
ease but this, that the Court had no summary juris-
dialers, inasmuch as no premium had been given with
the apprentice.
Mr. BRODZSIP said the solicitor was quite right, the
indenture could not be treated under the apprentice laws.
Though reluctant to give such an opinion he must act in
conformity with the law.
Mr. Spoons, the chief clerk, said he had not been
disposed to give such a construction to the Act of Par-
liament.
Mr. PELHAM said the objection was first started At an-
other Police Court, and the opinion of an, eminent lass yer
taken, who put the same construction on the act, Whe);-
ever he prepared an indenture he always inserted the
sum of ss.
Mr. BRODERIP slid ls.was sufficient.
Mr. Peterken—Then, I must consider this indenture
as mere waste paper ?
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not bring his action against the appren-
j tice for non-fulfilment of the contract he had entered into.

Mr. Peterken said it would be useless to bring an action
against an apprentice, and it appeared he was without
a remedy, and that his apprentice could set him at
defiance.
Mr BRODERIP said it was a very hard ease, hut h•
could only achuinister the law as he found it.