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London, England, 1840-08-10 00:00:00

THE AMENDED BEER BILL.

The following are the principal provisions of this Bill,
which received the Royal Assent on Friday :
1. License to retail beer is not to be granted to any
but the real resident occupier, nor in respect of any
house rated at less than 151. per annum within the bills
of mortality, or in cities, towns, and boroughs, containing
10,000 inhabitants ; nor less than 11/. per annum in
cities, parishes, or places exceeding 2,500 inhabitants ;
nor less than 81. per annum in parishes or places situated
elsewhere.

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3. When any person shall become the occupier of a
house newly erected, and not yet rated, and shall be de-
sirous of taking out a license to retail therein beer and
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4 In extra-parochial places licenses may
begranted
on the certificate of two inhabitant householders of the
required annual values.
5. Makes the penalty 201. on Overseers refusing to
other grant certificates, and on Overseers and
granting false certificates,
6. Makes the penalty 501. for forging certificates, or
wing false certificates. Licenses obtained by false cer-
tificates to be void, and the persons obtaining them dis-
qualified from any future license.
7. (Added by the Lords)—Licenses to be void on
conviction of felony or of selling spirits without license.
8. On the death of a licensed person the executors or
administrators, or the widow or child, may be authorized
to sell for the remainder of the term of license.
9. Persons licensed to retail beer or cider, to make
entry with the Excise.
10. if any person licensed to retril beer or cider
under the said recited Acts or this Act, shall receive
into or keep or have in his possession in any cellar,
room or place entered for storing, keeping or retailing
beer or cider, any wine or spirits or sweets, such per-
son shall, in addition to all other penalties, forfeit 501.,
to be recovered and applied under the powers and pro-
eisions of the said Acts of the 7th and Bth years of the
reign of his said late Majesty King George the Fourth,
and the 4th and 5h years of the reign of his said late
Majesty King William the Fourth ; and all wine and
spirits and sweete found in any such entered cellars,
rooms or places shall be forfeited ; and on conviction of
any such licensed person in any penalty for Navin; wine
or spirits or sweets in his possession, or for selling or re-
tailing wine or spirits or sweets, the license o such
person for retailing beer or cider shall become null and
void, and shall be so adjudged.
11. Officers of Excise empowered to enter the pre-
mises of licensed beer retailers.
12. And also the houses of persons selling beer at
the rate of one penny halfpenny, or less the quart.
13. Additional penalty on unlicensed persons to be
sued for by a peace officer.
14. It-peals 1 Will. 4, c. 64, s. 14, ant 4 and 5
Will. 4, c. 85, s. 6.
15. No person licensed to sell beer or cider by re-
tail under the said recited Acts or this Act, shall have
or keep his house open for the sale of beer or cider, nor
shall sell or retail beer or cider, nor shall suffer any beer
or cider to be drank or consumed in or at such house at
any time before the hour of five of the clock in the
morning, nor after twelve of the clock at night, of any
(lay in the week, in the cities of London or Wcstmin-
ter, or within any parish or place within the bills of
mortality, nor after eleven of the clock within any city,
cinque port, town corporate, parish or place, the popu-
lation of which, according to the last Parliamentary
census, shall exceed 2,500, or within one mile, to be
measured as aforesaid from any polling place used at
the last election for any town having the like popula-
tion, and returning a Member or Members to Parlia-
ment, nor after ten of the clock in the evening else-
where, nor at at any time before one of the clock in the
afternoon, nor at any time during which the houses of
licensed victuallers now are or hereafter shall be closed
on any Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas-day, or any
day appointed for a public Fast or Tnanksgiving ; and
it' any such person shall keep his hour r open for selling
beer or cider, or shall sell or retail beer or cider at any
time other than as hereinbefore prescribed and di-
rected, such person shall forfeit the sum of 40s. for
every offence, and every separate sale shall be deemed
a.separate offence.
16. Justices msy mitigate penalties.
17. No person licensed tceretail beer cre,cieret to 'for-
feit his license for a first offence against the tenor of his
:icense, and no license to be void unless so adjudged.
18. Licenses may continue to be granted to persons

licensed before the passing of the Act whilst they con-
tinue the occupiers of the same house, notwithstanding
the House is below the qualification required by this
Act.

If). Pecallics under this Act, where not etherwi.i.c
directed, to be recovered under the provisions of ttic.
former Act.

20. Recited Acts to continue and be in force, except
as hereby altered,

21. Powers, provisions and penalties of 1 Will. 4,
c. 64, and 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 85, to apply to persons
licensed under this Act.

22. Act not to affect the two Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge.

FREEDOM OF THE CITY, AND
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO PRINCE
ALBERT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.

Prince Albert has signified to the Lord Mayor his
intention to become a freeman of the city of London
on Friday, the 28th instant. His Royal Highness will
be received at the Guildhall by the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, Aldermen, and City officers ; and the cere-
mony will, it is said, take place in the Court of Common
Council. As, however, it is expected that a very great
curiosity will prevail, particularly amongst the 1 idies,
to sec his Royal H ghness, the Hall itself will probably
be the place in which the frccdom will be presented to
the Prince. When Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg
was presented with the freedom of the City, soon after
his marriage with the Princess Charlotte, the ceremony
was performed in the Hail.
After the ceremony his Royal Highness will honour
the Lord Mayor with his company to dinner at the
Mansion•house, when a magnificent entertainment
will be prepared, and the Prince will meet the
members of both Courts of the Corporation.
The day is looked forward to with great anxiety, not
only on account of the app inted honour of the Royal
visit, but because at the very period solicited by his
Royal Highness for becoming a fellow-citizen turtle and
venison will be in the h;ghest state of perfection. In
fact the excitement amongst the members of the Court
of Common Council will be quite a bore uatil the enter-
tainment shall have terminated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

EXTENSIVE FORGERlE3.—Forgeries to an immense
extent have been lately committed by John Kenyon
IVinterbollom, of Stockport, solicitor and broker, by
which the delinquent is supposed to have realised be-
tween 60,0001. and 80,000/. On Saturday a warrant
was applied for by Mr. Masters, of the house of Bush
and Masters, solicitors to the Committee for the Pre-
vention of Forgeries and Frauds, for the apprehension
of Winterbottom, who, it was stated, had since Satur-
day the Ist inst., absconded, after having committed
several forgeries, and having also, it was supposed, taken
with him a groat number of deeds and valuable securi-
ties not his own property. The warrant was imme-
diately made out and put into the hands of John For-
rester, the officer.
Tue sum of 2001. is offered for the apprehension. of
the delinquent, who is described as lately of Stockport
and Heaton Norris. in the county of Lancaster, attorney-
at-law and banker. A number of persons are likely to
be severe losers by the conduct of Winterbottom, in
whom unbounded confidence had been reposed. It
is believed that two ladies have suffered to the amount
of 5,000/.
Winterbottom is thus described :—About 55 years
of age, 5 feet 6 to 7, rather stout, and square built, in-
clining to corpulency ; short and quick step, walks
erect, not much colour. at present rather sallow-look-
ing ; large face, with pleasant expression, and common
features, with grey whiskers ; hair light brown colour,
but rather bald ; thick-necked, voice loud, speaks
thick, with a strong accent, and rapid delivery ; dresses
in a black coat, black cloth waistcoat, and checked or
plaid trousers.
The Foreman of Mr. Albert, a tailor, of 52, King
William-street, came to the Mansion-house after the
Lord Mayor had retired from the chair, and asked
what he should do under the following circumstances :
Two persons, one of whom acted as the master and
the other as man, called at the shop of Mr. Albert, and
the master ordered that his servant should be fitted with
a coat. A coat was accordingly supplied, for which the
master paid with a .5/. note. The servant then requested
that his old coat and waistcoat should be packed up in
a parcel, and laid aside, and said that he would call
for them in the afternoon. They both then went
away, and Mr. Albert directed that the coat and waist-
coat should be put up according to the direction. As,
however, one of the men was obeying the order, out
dropped from one of the coat pockets a bundle of notes,
some of which purported to be paper of the Bank of
Hindostan, and others were of that well-known bank
called " the Bank of Elegance."
Mr. Hobler—Did you ascertain whether the 51.
note with which the gentleman paid for the coat was
unexceptionable ? Applicant—Certainly ; we took
every necessary precaution as to the money received.
Mr. Hobler then advised the applicant to leave the
notes at the Mansion-house, and if the gentlemen called
for the ald clothes to tell them that the Lord Mayor
would be glad to speak to them.
The applicant said that the advice should be followed.
He added that the master and man appeared to be on
such terms of familiarity that in all probability they did
not stand in that relation to each other.
Mr. HOBLER—They may be in the habit of acting
in the characters of " Archer and Aimtvell," occa-
sionally exchanging parts to suit convenience.
A man of colour named Louis Filippo, was brought
before Alderman Gibbs, who sat for the Lord Mayor,
charged with having assaulted several officers of the
city police. The black cut a hideous figure, his face
being very much swollen, and his forehead covered with
a plaister, in consequence of a gash which he had re-
ceived from one of the force.

A city policeman stated that he was called by a gen-
tleman to prevent the annoying importunities of the
defendant for charity, and that the moment he inter.

ercd, the defendant acted in the most violent manner

imaginable, not only by striking at the officers, but by
kicking them in the most desperate and dangerous man-
ner. Some gentlemen cried out to the policeman to
use his staff. and the crowd which congregated, to the
number of between 200 and 300, took, as is almost
always the case with a crowd, the part of the offending
person, and pressed down upon the officers. The con-
duct of the defendant becoming more and more desperate
witness struck him with his staff on the head, and, with
the assistance of others, took him to the station-house,
where his violence appeared to be unabated.
It was stated by others that the defendant, who has

for some time been known in the city as a person in the
habit of soliciting charity, had, upon former occasion,
acted outrageously, and Mr. Miller, the relieving over-
seer of St. Sepulchre's, who happened to be passing at
the time, stated that he advised the defendant, in the
French language, to go away quietly, and that the man
continued to conduct himself in an obstreperous manner.
The defendant denied that he had struck or kicked
any of the policemen, and asserted that the officer who
had struck him with the staff had received no provoca-
tion, except the angry words which so naturally followed
ill treatment.

Mr. Lewis, an umbrella-maker, stated he was pass-
ing, at the time ; he did not see the black strike a blow,
but he saw the policeman, No. 445, bit the black on
the head with all his force with his staff. The unfor-
tunate black instantly dropped like an ox, and about
half a gallon of blood flowed from his head. Many per-
sons, and witness among the rest, thought the man was
killed, and cried out, " Take him to the doctor."
A letter was addressed to the Lord Mayor by a wit-
ness to the transaction, who stated that he was obliged
to leave town, and could not attend to give evidence:
The letter spoke in terms of the strongest indignation
and abhorrence at the conduct of the officer who struck
the black, and stated that there were a great many
who were as horror-struck at the scene as the writer.
It also called upon the Lord Mayor to pay attention to
the evidence of a soldier who assisted in raising the
black from the ground, but who was refused admission
to the station-house in Tower-street, when the man
was taken thither.

No soldier gave evidence at the Mansion-house.
Alderman GIBBS ordered the defendant to find bail
to answer for the assault upun the officers, and com-
mitted him in default of sureties.