The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-07 00:00:00

THE NEW CITY LICENSING ACT.

NlANsiom-HousE.—Yesterday. is number of
publicans were brought before the .LORD MAYOR, charged
under the recent Art passed for the regulation of public-houses
in the City, with having each incurred the penalty of 51. by
permitting tippling in their houses during Divine Service.
Herring, one of the new police inspectors, and an officer,
stated that in the houses of all the defendants they found men
drinking during Divine Service, without the least restraint.
The Loan Maxon said, the Act required that all convic-
tions under it should be made by two Magistrates, as the pe,
nalties which it directed to be inflicted were heavy ; but as he
could not then obtain the attendance of a Brother Alderman, he,
would dismiss the whole of the charges. As this, however was
a new course of proceeding, as the City had been put to great
expence to obtain a new Act, and is oiicers had been ap-
pointed specially to carry its piovisions into execution lie
wished it to be publicly known that those who oMnded in
this respect would be dealt with severely by all the Magis-
trates of the City. He hoped the lenience shewn in the present
instance would operate more effectually than if penalties bad
been inflicted. This Act, it should be remembered, armed
the Magistrates with the tremendous power of inflicting a
penalty of:100/. for the third offence, and of incapacitating him
froth holding iacense for ever after.
One publican then pleaded,. that the persons in his house were
lodgers; but the Inspector reviied,----that, it a violation ef
the Act could be justified on that ground, theAq would be
of no use, for all persons found in public-houses
hours wouldi say they were lodgers. Another claimed exemp-
tion on account of his being near the water, and subject to the
arrival of travellers; and a third, because his was a " watering
house" for coachmen. It was the opinion of the Lord Mayor
that none of these grounds of exemption could supersede the
operation of the Act.
The charges were then dismissed.

CORONEWS 1
_NQuitsT.---Suicinc.----Yestertlay
evening at eight o'clock, an inquisition was held at the Globe
Tavern, Moorgatc, before Tuosias SIIELTOX, Esq., and a
respectable jury, upon the body of Joshua Vivers, livery-stable-
keeper, who put a period to his 'existence on Monday last, by
hanging himself. It aMared fDam the testimony of several
witnesses, that for some tune Past the deceased has been very
depressed in spirits, and on Monky
morning last he sent his
son and the hostler out of the Iva'', and on their return they
found him in one of the stables stkpended by
saddle-peg. lie was inanediattlY ci
„, t down, and medical as-
sistance resorted to, but without erteci, a cord from a
r.s the vital spark had
fled. The deceased was 08 years of ar
business of livery-stable-keeper for the
i latterlythe thereolllonly
hasal
seand had carried on the
L ast2o years in Finsbury-
Uteheatt, acould be assigned that
great falling off in his
led to the commission of the rash act. The Jury, after akw
minutes' consideration, returned the fcidowing cerclict—" That
pav
business,erri e n
whicht and
the deceased committed the act while hbouring Modes
tempor-
ary insanity."
AIELANCROLY ACT Or P3NATICISII.—A woman
of Grub, in the Canton of APPenzel, giving way
to that unhappy fanaticism which now misleads
the ignorant classes of society,hus just killed her
child, to save it from the persecution of the evil
spirit, whom Ole thought she recognised in the
features of a stranger passing through the village
in which she lived.—(Frankfurt Journal.)

who arrived at
Dover a short time since frog►► Brighton, in his
little cutter, only five feet long, which was given
him by his Majesty, put to sea yesterday morn-
ing, in the presence of a vast assemblage of per-
sons, on the hazardous undertaking of proceed.
ing to Calais. But having sailed about two miles
from the shore, the wind began to freshen, and
the Commodore was taken with his cutter ou
board a boat, hired for the purpose of, attendi►►g
him, and proceeded in 'this more safe method of
crossing the Channel.—(Kenti.th Gazette.)