The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

LICENSING IN THE CITY.
Yesterday being the eay appointed for the hearing of
the opposed applications to the City Magistrates for
licenses, the Court at the Guildhall was crowded by
many anxious visitors.
In Portsoken Ward, Wil iam Lake applied fir al:cense
for his house, No. 73, in the Minoiiei.
Deputy TYARS (of the Ward of Psrtsokcn), assured
the Court that the e was no occasion for any new house,
as the neighbourhood swarmed with public-houses, there
being no fewer than 21 of them within a very limited com-
pass, and actually starving each other out.
L;eense refusei without hesitation.
Mr. PAYNE, the barrister, app!icd for a license for
George Malkin, cf No. 3, Noble.street, Aldersgate
The petition in favour of the licerre was signed
by 82 persons, 37 of them were connected with the Post-
offico, and the 'Tense was oily opposed by one individual,
and he was a publinn—Licensext fused.

Mr. CLARKSON applied for a license for John Neigh-
bour, of Nc'. 56, Cannon-street. Tike applicant's peti-
tion stated that his house was an eating-house, at which
on the aver ge 130 persons dined daily, and that a great
many of them were very reluctant to leave it after dinner
withcut partaking of wine or spirits. The recommenda-
tion was signed by 75 Fersons, and stated that the house
should not be comei-ted into a gii shop.—License mimed.
Mr. CLARKSON apilied for a license for Samuel Muline,
of No. 11, Ironmonger-lane.

Mr. LAURIE opposed the application. He considered
that necessity was the only ground of application, and
ti ere existed no necessity for additional nuisances in that
et ighbourhood, in which there were sire Ady thirteen all
c!oicly packed irgilther.—Licease refused.
Mr. PAYNE applied far a license for Francis Jones, of
No. 11, Poul,ry, and No. 36. Bucklersburv, caned the
Albion Hattl. It d d net appear t, the Court that the
ownership was satiJactorily proved, and Mr. Payne is it's-
cw the application for the preseir.
Mr. JAMES applied for a license for Eliza Ann How, of
No. 52, Mom-gate stiezl. The house is a respectable
house.—Liccnse refused.

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A license was granted to John Belton for the Fountain
Tavern in Redcross• street, the old house having beers
pulled down.
A license was applied for William Lowis fir the 11)1 ag
Horse, Milton-street, the old house having been pulled
dowr.
Sir MATTHEW WOOD (the Alderman of the Ward) said
that I.e by no means objected to re-licensing the house,
but he was sorry to say that V-e:e were many public-
homes i t the \Vara which were not gct:ing a living for the
propric'ors.
111-. LAURIE said that there was no petition against a
license to the house in quciti)n, but he submitted that Oa
evidet.ce first given by the Alderman of the Ward ought
to to conclusive. There ste.-c already too many public-
houses in the re'glabourhood, and, therefore, it would ho
charitable to those hnuscs, as well as to the owtier of the
Flying Ifirse, to rtitse to allow a house, under such cir-
cumstances, to be re-opened.
Mr. CIARKSON—For ‘whonl do you at'end?
Mr. LAURIE— For the Licensed Victuallers of the ward
where the house is in.

Mr, CLARKSON-1 he I let some of your clients give up
their nui,aneeF.—( Laughter. )
Sir P. LAuruE-The Beach are of opinion that it h a fit
home to be lieens( (1--License granted.
Mr. Woot.Ea applied for a 1 c•mise fnt Thomas Jordan,
for No. 99, Holborn-hill.—License refused.

The LicenseF, which were posToced at the General
Meeting on the Bth of March, were then, after some ani-
malversions upon the proprietors for the violations of the
law of which they had been guilty, and for which they had
been fi- el, wcr3 Arm renewed. A few applicaticns wero
ordered to be repit 2cl on the apped day.—Adjourned.

Sir Ronald Ferguson has been suffering rather
severely from the prevailing epidemic, at his house in
Boltor-row • but we are g'at to learn that the worthy
Baronet's indisposition is not of a dangerous character, al-
though he is still far from being well.
We regret to have to announce the death of
Arthur Browne, Esq., cf G!encorrib, father c;f Mr. R.
D. Browne, .ti 1. for this county. The deceased was a
gentleman of the best private charcetcr, and his &Atli will
be much regretted.—Mayo Constitution.

We have this day learnt that our Government,
in of der to prepare for any emergency that may slating out
' of the case of M`Leod (and if tie republic execute him,
we do not think there is a man in this Ur.i ed Kingdom
but nil! demand justice), have directed six regiments to
hold themselves in readiness to embark for Isl,rth Ame-
rica—two of which a-e the 19:h and 84th regiments, now
in ham,. It is also stated in pr:vate letters from the
first circles iu Pa,is, that Lord Granville, on the 27th
ult., officially announced to M. Guizat that the English
Government would find it necessary to send t,:n sail of the
line to the same quarter. Of course a fleet of steamers
will form part of such an expedition. —Banpshire Tele-
graph.

_ At the recent Quarter Sessions for the county .
of Hertford a man named David Sams, about two and
twenty years of age, was tried before the Marquis of Sa-
lisbury and sentenced to be transported far life for felony.
Although so young in years the career cf crime of this
individual has been of an almost unprecedeited character,
and his case will show how unavailing are the most solemn
warnings t ) the mind tatutaily addicted to crime. The
first offence alleged against Sams was that of the robbery
and murder of an old pensioner named Benntt', at Tewin,
year Hertford. Ile was tried with two other young
men, named Roach and Fletcher, at the Horts Assizes,
when, although there appeared to be very little moral
doubt that ho had been the original concoctor of the
scheme, and had aet:vely assisted in the Perpetration of
the berrible crime imputed to him, owing to a failure of
the necessary evidence as to his identity, he was acquitted,
and Lit two unhappy companions were convicted, and sub.
sequently executed. Abnost immediately after this awful
warning Sams committed another robbery, and was
tipsorn.smonemntent. I-ad
tried. and convicted, and sentenced to six months'
in
Shortly
ythouisng m
period of im-
prisonment
named
Thomas Taylor, who had also been charged with
being concerned in the robbery and murder of the old man,
pr
i was taken into cust,dy, and upon his trial Sams was ad-
mitted as witness for the:Crown, and he then detai'ed all
the circumstances of the murder, and stated that it was
committed by the two men who were executed, Taylor,
and himself, and that they divided the money between
them atter the dreadful deed had been committed. Upon
this evidence and oche) corroborating testimony, Taylor
was convicted, and he was also executed. It would have
barn thought that such circumstances as these would have
induced Sams to change his wicked courser, the more
spccial'y as some of the gentry of the neighbourhood of
Hertford intereFted themselves in his behalf, and obt-i red
him employment, whereby he night hive earned a
reTeet tile subsistence ; but he speedily took to his
old course of life, and his employers could keep
him no longer. He then left this part of the
country, and
it has been ascertained that he was
afterwards tried and convicted upon two charges of felony.
lie then returned to Heitford, and in a very short time he
and two of his companions broke into a farm-house, near
Ware, and for this offence be t,ok his trial at the Quarter
Sessions as above stated, and the case being clearly
brought home to him, the Ju:y found him and his
companians Guilty. The Marquis of Salisbury, in
pa‘sing sentence upon Saw, observed that he never
knew an instance of so hzrderied a criminal as he ap.
peered t..) be. He had had the most dreadful warning on
a former occasion, but it appeared to have bad no effect upon
him, and he had gone on his career of crime until jus-
tice bad at length overtaken him. The Noble Marquis
then observe 1, that he thought be should be neglecting
his duty to the public if he did not pass upon him the
severest sentence of the law, which war, that he be trans. -
ported for the term cf his natural hfe. The convict
heard the sentence w.th the greatest coolness, and at its
conclusion he nodded to one of his old companions in file
body of the Court, and then walked away laughing from
the bor.

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LOCIIGILPHEAD—THE DEAD ALIVE.—OIL
the ,week bcf.rre last Allan M'lleugall, mason there, re•
c(i,e'l a lelter from Captaia David Morgan, of the Sir
John, of Newpor,, doted Kingston by Dullia, the 6th
February, informing him that Cohn 1111310ttg..11, his son,
was emplo3el along with tome ethers in lashing the
long-boat in the midst of a heavy gale, when a tremen-
dousa sea broke en board, which tore the boat. faromwhtn
fro taings and drowned all therein—inferm
of course plunged all his friends in
gall; morn-
the deepest grief. About one o'clock .I°_
'alarmed with a
ing of Friday last, the family werewithin inquiring who
knock at the door, and on those within
.n
t the voice iof
was there, the answer was" given. drowned. On. tha
mourned as atirhead in
the son whom they
r fainted away, believing
doer being opened, the
inotwbeand on recovering
kLocnb
she was
that it was a phantom she Eason
in life till she had felt
not satisfied that it was lee Colin and two others had
ppo red that
him all over.
It a—
deck of the Sir John in the boat.
he 2n carried off
tha
rail or oar, food or water, borne away
They were, withoutience 2
cf the wind, it requiting unre-
mitting baling
",atinued for thtee days, when they were
c.mdition they
cv'essel bound to Bordeaux, from whence '
picked up by dto Fngland, and last Friday
-were transferred ,
Colin
they his !dome with no covering but a shirt aid
, dat
arrive
trouserr.
About six months ago, the same lad and
another were the only persons saved from a vessel which
was wrecked on a leo shore.
THE RAILWAY FROM PARIS TO ROUEN.
--
The Cuurrier de l'Eure sa3s the Paris and 'town Corn-
ra,,y have commenced the works. Thu Company have
just mada.a contract for the construction of every part
of the rarh-o 01, from Possy to Afarier . where, as is
known, it nil le,r,orcli off on the, road of St. Germain.
This line comprises the ellistruction of two large bridges
over the Seine, one to Besons, the other to [liaisons. A
zee and line is also under taken on similar terms for the com-
pletion of two of the most important and difficult works in
the whole line ; the tunnel of 3,000 metres, between Rol-
lebohe and Bonnieres, and the excavation bt Vennbles (in
the arrondissement of Louviers). A third contract is
going to be enteted into immediately for the portion in
Poissy and Mantes; indeed all the plans are
bo arranged,_ old
every preparation made for commencing..the_ road from
Mantes to Paris in the year 1842, that is in th
will o.corx.rse of
15 months ; and it is expected that the whsle line
finished in 1843.
amount of duty paid last year
ToßAcco.—The miaow . ,
earl 2,359,0001. Of the
on this article nmounted to
three kingdoms, the
England, v073,000r. ; ,
273.000/.
The Temps says proporli,ins of duty are
irrsPelLrlland, 613,0001, ; Seotland,
, . .., .
that the Prince tle Joinvitie is
the Chinese seas, whet e it is necessary that
tthoobe sent to
French
flag
should be in a sta'e of observation.
EXPECTED NEWS FROM THE UNITED
STATES,—The Ro) al mail at( amer Columbi,, shish
would sail from Baton on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d
instant, is expected to arrive every tide. No intelligence
of her apyroaeb Lad been received at the hour at which,
to secure the transmission of our papers to the country by
the early mail, we a7e compelled to put our journal W
prom —Liverpool Albion.

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