The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1841.

MARLS OROUG !I- ST REE T.

THE PICCADILLY SALOON.—Mr. Beale, the proprietor
of the Saloon in Piccadilly, was summoned by the police
for " knowingly" permitting prostitutes to congregate at
his house.

The case was proved by Inspector Jarvis and police
Sergeant Whall. They went into the saloon at night,
and saw 20 or 30 women of loose character eating and
drinking in the saloon. Some were alone, and others
were with male companions.
Mr. Wontner, who attended for the defence, asked the
police how they proved that the women they saw in the
saloon were common prostitutes ?
The inspector answered that he could swear to having
seen many of the women soliciting gentlemen in the
public streets; in fact, that they regularly walked in the
Quadrant at night. The men and women in the saloon
were not conducting themselves in a disorderly manner,
nor was there any appearance of drunkenness.
fr. Wontner said a summons had been decided before
Mr. Loizz exactly similar in principle to the case before
the Court. is had been held that the mere circumstance
of women of the ,:;,?wn entering a house for refreshment
(lid not come iLb in the, meaning of " knowingly" har-
bouring improper characters. The occupation of these
sort of women was sufficiently baa ::51 admitted, but then
they must sup as well as other people. resides, it had
not been satisfactorily proved that the women :,!.-ere were
the loose characters described.

Mr. HARDwrcx said it was useless to raise a ques-
tion on a matter that there could be no more doubt of
than that St. Paul's was St. Paul's lie wished to have
the case put upon a broader basis than a mere technical
objection or quibble.
Mr. Wontner replied, he would then take his stand on
the ground that no offence had been committed. There
was a case in point, " Silverthorne v. the Worship-street
Magistrates," which was tried on appeal at the Middlesex
Sessions, and the Magistrates' judgment reversed. If
three or four, or a dozen women of the town went into
a public-house to obtain refreshment, that was not know-
ingly harbouring bad characters, as had been over and
over again decided.
Inspector Beresford said, if a publican allowed prosti-
tutes to congregate in his house in large numbers, he
would be liable to a fine, and though the defendant was
not a licensed victualler, yet his house was liable to the
same rules and'regulations as public-houses.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, said there was no
penalty on publicans for serving prostitutes ; on the con-
trary they had a right to serve them. It had further
been held at the sessions that common prostitutes were
not to be considered as " notoriously " bad characters.
Mr. llAnnwicx thought that the Legislature did not
intend to prohibit women of immoral character from
entering houses of public resort for the purpose of ob-
taining refreshment. A penalty was only to be imposed
in cases where disorderly conduct was allowed, and
where drunkenness was permitted. The evidence of the
police went to negative the inference of drunkenness or
disorderly conduct, and, therefore, the summons must be
dismissed.

Mr. llAanvircK, addressing the Inspector, said he
thought the police ought to confine themselves to cases
in which they could prove drunkenness or disorderly con-
duct against the frequenters of the saloon.

NEWS by the FALMOUTH PACKET•

FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—The Montrose, Peninsular
steamer, arrived to-day—from Gibraltar, 14th ; Cadiz,
15th ; Lisbon, 18th (not communicating with Oporto);
and from Vigo, 20th. The transport Sovereign, Mr. T.
Pike, and Lieut. Donnetry, R.N., agent, with detach-
ments of the 4.2 d, 47th, 59th, and let battalion of 60th
Regiment on board, had put into Gibraltar, 30 days
from Malta, for ‘Voolvvieb. The Great Liverpool
steamer passed through the Gut on the Bth instant ;
the Carysfort, Captain A. B. Martin, C. 8., sailed
thence on the 9th for England. On the 11th the
Britannia passed to the Westward, off the entrance to
the bay ; on the day following the line of battle ship
Implacable arrived from Tunis, 17 days ; and the
Lizard steamer sailed for the Eastward. Lieut. NVooley,
the Admiralty agent on this voyage of the Montrose,
has been appointed to the Astrea, in this harbour.
The following is from Lisbon :—lt is stated that the
Pope requires from the Portuguese Government that
all the ejected monks be assembled in three convents,
one in Lisbon, one in Coimbra, and the other in Oporto,
and that previous to the confirmation of the bishops
nominated by her Maje3ty. It is also asserted that the
Portuguese Government was on the point of conceding
the re-establishment of the religious congregations,
notwithstanding that re-establishment would diminish
the confidence of the purchasers of national property,
the sale of the said property being considered null by
his Holiness.

It having been mentioned that Ministers intend
raising means of paying the next dividend of the ex-
ternal foreign debt by bonds denominated Tabaccos,
now existing in the financial agency at London, it sill
be well to ascertain if the amortisation of these bonds
has been determined on, and if not, whether Govern.
rnent has obtained from the Cortes any portion for the
interest of the same, as the estimate contains no item
with such application, and consequently such bonds,
until they acquire by law a stipulated interest, should
be reputed as solely of the value of the paper on which
they are written.
The Bill, abolishing the difference in duties, passed
the Senate on the 14th instant.

Algarve is still infested by factious bands. That
which was captured in Castello Branco was to be sup-
ported, whenever it should penetrate into Spain, by a
Spanish one which was said to have been organised on
the Gata mountains. The plan, however, must have
been frustrated, as none made its cppearance in that
direction.

The electors of the borough of Stoke-upon-
Trent have determined on giving a puhli., dinner to
their Member, John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., to cele-
brate his triumphant return for that borough, and
it is to be much regretted that the electors of
this enlightened constituency did not bring forward
another Liberal candidate in conjunction with Mr.
Ricardo, as from the analysis of the gross poll at the last
election it will be seen that Mr. Alderman Copeland
would have been in the minority with the Hun. Dudley
Ryder. It is to be hoped, however, that at the next
election the peace of the borough may not be unneces-
sarily disturbed by the Tories.--British Queen.

On Saturday last, the I-lon. William Petre,
eldest son of Lord Petre, whilst practising a horse at a
leaping bar in Thorndon Park, was unfortunately thrown,
when, we regret to state, he broke his collar bone and
otherwise bruised himself. Dr. Branfoot, from Brent-
wood, was shortly in attendance upon him, and he is now
doing as well as can be expectecl.—E