The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1841

were present. In one instance, a tradesman was ar-
raigned like a felon before the Beach, because he
resisted any violation of the sanctity of his dwe:ling by
officious and tyrannizing policemen. In another instance,
the mere circumstance of a drunken man reeling out of
a public-house, without any information of where he
obtained his liquor, and so on, were deemed sufficient
grounds for accusing landlords of respectable
house., and subjecting them to the degradation and
annoyance stated ; while, if any unfortunate publican
attempted to raise his voice against the ill-usage
and overhearing conduct of the police, he was instantly
told that he could do no good by denying the state-
ments that were made against him. In one case Mr.
ate, went so far as to express
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against a licensed victualler because he permitted sing-
ing in his house, which he declared he was ignorant was
contrary to law ; and to such an extent did the ap-
proving remarks of the Magistracy encourage and pro-
mote the insolence of his police, that even the barristers
and professional men in attendance did not escape, when
they were continually trotted out of the Court, there
to kick their heels in the hall, while the sage
Magis-
trates deliberated on each individual case. This un-
heard-of impudence drew forth an application on the
part of Mr. Bodkin, which ended in the Chairman
giving orders that a space should be cleared around the
door, in which the counsel and others were "accom-
modated" with standing room I

There were in aa twenty-seven new applications for
licenses, but the two most important ones, were that of
Mr. Charles George Tinney, the high constable of this
division, and Mr. Henry White Vousley, late chairman
of the Governors of the Licensed Victuallers' Charity.
Mr. Tinney's case was taken with two other similar ap-
plications in the neighbourhood, and it was opposed by
Mr. Bodkin, on behalf of the licensed victuallers in the
vicinity.--Mr. Bodkin, raised an objection under the
16th section of the licensing act, which provided that
nn sheriff's officer, bailiff, &c., should be allowed a license,
who was called upon to execute the legal process of any
Court of Justice, &c. The high constable he (Mr.
Bodkin) affirmed came within the operation of this
clause, inasmuch as ho was required to execute out-
lawries and enforce the county rates, and therefore
if the Court granted him a license it would be nua and
void. Another objection, and which applied to the
other two applicants, was, that there were already three
licensed house' in the immediate neighbourhood, and
the wants of the inhabitants were fully supplied.—Mr.
Wire, for Mr. Tinney, said that he held the applicant's
resignation in his hand, which he would hand in if the
Bench granted the license, and that the extra accommo-
dation of this house, which was No. 20, King-street,
New North-road, being required by the inhabitants, was
fu!ly demonstrated by the petitions before them, which
bore nearly 400 signatures.—Mr. Clarkson addressed
the Court for the other applicants, and the Bench re-
fused to grant a license in either of the three cases.—
Mr. Bodkin then said he had to apply for a license for
Mr. Henry White Vouslcy, for the house N 0.9, Duke-
terrace, Islington.—lt appeared that Mr. Vousley had
purchased the premises of the builders, and had stipu-
lated for the closing of two beer-shops in the neigh-
bourhood, in the event of his license being obtained. His
petition was signed by 222 inhabitants of the immediate
neighbourhood, and he had a written representation
highly flattering to him from the overseers of St. Mary,
Islington. Mr. Vousley likewise produced a testimonial
from Mr. Hawes, M.P., setting forth that the former
had been chiefly instrumental in obtaining the introduc-
tion of the clause in the New Police Act for shutting
public-houses on Sunday mornings, and in addition he
handed up to the Bench a petition, in favour of his ap-
plication, signed by the rector and lecturer of Ber-
mondsey, in which parish he held a public-house for
nearly nine years, the Churchwardens and Overseers,
the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and Mr. Cur-
ling, a Magistrate for Surrey. The Learned Counsel
remarked, that if he was not successful in this applica-
tion, he should despair in being so in any one he might
have the honour to make.

A petition got up by some of the licensed victuallers
of Llington, and signed by 120 inhabitants, was read
in opposition to the application, but no professional
gentlemen attended to support it.—The room was
cleared, and upon the re-admission of strangers, the
Chairman announced that the license was granted.—
Mr. Vousley briefly thanked the Magistrates.—The
sitting, which continued up to a late hour of the evening,
did not possess any other point of public interest.—
Sunday Times.

Indians, who, to the number of 800, had come down
from the North, and had proceeded to Cartoze, murder-
ing every one they met, with the exception of the young
women, who were carried off. The horrid mode they gene-
rally adopted was to force wooden skewers though the
flashy part of the arms into the side, extending those
limbs horizontally and also others through the legs ; the
wretched victim was then stuck upright by the road
side to perish, without a possiblty of rendering each
other any assistance. A French gentleman, M. Besant,
had ventured, in company with some MexicanF, to their
camp, to remonstrate with them, or to bribe their re-
turning, but the party never returned to their homes ;
it was believed they had perished. The town of Ha.
cienda del Salvado they had burnt to ashes. Another
section of the tribe was in the rear. The gentleman
who lately proposed in a pamphlet to the Mexicans a
monarchical form of Government, Don Jose M. G. Es-
trada, took refuge on board the Vidor at Vera Cruz,
under the feigned name of Senhor Gomez, and subse•
quently went on board the Sheldrake, in which he took
passage for Havannah.
The Sapphire, troop-ship, and Abercrombie Robin-
son, transport, left Gibraltar for Barbadoes on the
29th ult., with the 47th and 59th Regiments on board,
from Malta.

The Espoir brig, Lieut. J. Paliser, arrived at G,b-
raltar, on the 3d of March, from Lisbon.
The Waterwitch, 10, Lieut. Matson, left St. Helena,
for the Cape of Good Hope, on the 26th January. On
the Bth of that month, she, with tne Fantome and
Brisk, chived a slaver, but, beating them both in sailing,
she first came up with the chase, which proved to he
the Brazilian vessel Orasimbo, of 192 tons. Captain
Butterfield, as senior officer, sent her for condemnation
to Sierra Leone.

The Great Lverpool steamer was put out of quaran-
tine yesterday, and proceeded to Southampton Water,
to fit for her next trip to Alexandria, on the Ist April.
The Torquoise and Merlin yachts have this week
returned from the Mediterranean ; and the Mischief
yacht has sailed for that quarter.
We recently noticed that our African Squadron bad
destroyed a Slave Depot on the Coast, and had libe-
rated 1,500 slaves. The following is the American ver.
sion of the affair :—Accounts received from New Or-
leans, state, that a brig had arrived there from Gallinas,
coast of Africa, with intelligence that an outrage had
been committed by a British man-of-war, upon the fac-
tories of Don Pedro Blaney and Dan Pedro Martinez,
at that place. The crew of the man-of-war, landed and
destroyed goods to the amount of 500,0005, and 1,500
negrces employed by them, had made their escape.

Tne Chief Justice of Jamaica, Sir Joshua Rowe and
Lady, are waiting, at the Pier Hotel, Kyle, for a fair
wind to proceed, in the Tulloch Castle, to his resi-
donee.

Commander Washington, late Secretary of the Royal
Gelgraphical Society of London, commissioned H. M.
steamer, Shearwater, on Thursday, at Woolwich, for
the purpose of carrying on the survey of the North Sea.

IMPORTANT TO. MATES OF THE ROYAL NAVY.—
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been
pleased to direct that no mate shall be allowed half-pay
without having Jaren previously surveyed and reported
unfit by the Inspector-General or the officers of one of
the naval hospital: at home. The medical officers are
therefore to report particularly in each case the probable
period at which the invalid may be again fit for em-
ployment ; and at the expiration of such period the
mate is to repart himself to their Lordships, in order,
that, if be should state himself to be still unable to
serve, proper measures may be taken to ascertain his
continued unfitness, after which, and should he be de-
clared fit for employment and still withhold his services,
his half-pay is to be respited. Mates who may apply
for the retiring pension of 2s. 6d. a day, after twenty
years' service, will not be re-admitted after having ac-
cepted such pension.