The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-22 00:00:00

NEW SALE OF BEER ACT.

The following are the Heads of the Act for regulating the
Sale of Beer and Cider, passed at the close of the late Ses-
sion of Parliament, the provisions of which, judging from the
discussions in the House of Commons on the subject will be
rigidly enforced :

-An Act to amend an Act, passed in the first year of his pre-
sent Majesty, to permit the general Sale of Beer and Cider,
by retail, in England.
Licenses to be granted for the sale of beer, but not to autho-
rize consumption thereof on the premises, unless granted upon
certificate.
Every person applying for a license to deposit with the Com-
missioners of Excise a certificate of good character, signed by
six rated inhabitants of the parish, and certified by one over-
seer. if not ten rated inhabitants in the place, the certificate
to be signed by the majority of them, and the overseers, if they
refuse a certificate, liable to a penalty of 51.
Permitting drinking beer in a neighbouring house, or any
street, deemed an evasion of the Act, and subjects the party so
offending to a penalty.
Liability of billeting of soldiers to extend to the retailers of
beer and cider, the same as under the Mutiny Act.
Appeal.
Provisions as to the hours for opening and closing houses.—
Opening five o'clock in the morning, to close at eleven at
night ; and constables empowered to enter licensed houses
under the Act.

Penalties for making use of false certificates 20/., and to be
disqualified for ever from obtaining a licence to sell beer or
cider, and all retailers compellable to produce their licences on
the requisition of two magistrates.
Old duties repealed, and new duties granted in lieu thereof,
and such duties to be under the management of the Commis-
sioners of Excise.

Licences under the Act not to authorize the sale of wine, or to
suffer it or other spirits to be consumed on the premises. Pe-
nalties on unlicensed persons, selling beer or cider by retail to
be drank off the premises 101., on the premises 201.
The board over the door to state " Not to drink on tho pre-
mises."

Persons licensed to sell beer or cider under the Act liable to
the penalties imposed by the laws of Excise for selling spirits
or wine, sweets, or made wines, &c.

The Act to commence the 10th of October in the present
year.

Lord .Denman is expected to arrive at his residence
at Stoney, Middleton, on Wednesday next, where he will pro-
bably remain until October. His Lordship's family are already
there, and we understand that the house has recently been
considerably enlarged.—Derbyshire Courier.

TIIE SPEAKER.—The Right Honourable Charles
Manners Sutton, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
whose sojourn for four months at Lauriston House last year
proved a source of mutual gratification to himself, his family,
and the inhabitants of Dover, is, we are rejoiced to learn, again
about to visit us. Eastbrook House, we hear, is engaged for
the Speaker's residence this season. Liverpool House has
been taken by a family of distinction, where, it is said, Lord
Althorp is also expected. A house is likewise wanted for. Lord
W. Russell.—Dover Telegraph.

Our ambassador, Lord Minto, bad left Berlin for
the capital of Saxony.

Lord Chief Justice Denman, on pronouncing sen-
tence of death upon Sampson, at the late Wells Assizes, did
not conform to the judicial custom of putting on the black cap,
an omission which, having also occurred in other parts of the
present Western Circuit, affords a presumption that this feature
of the judge's awful duty is in future to be dispensed with.

We are extremely happy to hear, that on Sunday
last Mr. Coupland, surgeon. (who has the sick poor of Boston
confided to his care), reported that all the cholera patients
under his hands are now recovering, and that he had no new
cases.—Boston Herald.

We have to record the death of Charlotte Lady
Chichester, of Youston Park, Devonshire, the wife of Sir
Arthur Chichester, Bart., and the daughter of the late Sir J.
iiamlyn Williams, Bart. She had long borne with Christian
fortitude a very distressing state of health, and expired on the
18th inst. of a fit of asthma, leaving a husband and six chil-
dren to lament her loss.

On the 14th Count Matuszevic, the Russian Am-
bassador, killed 55 brace of grouse, to his own gun, on Mr.
Massey Stanley's moors at Killeen, near Inverness.
TIIE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF MONTROSE.--
Their Graces and the Ducal House of Beaufort, we believe,
are now the only occupiers of rank remaining in Grosvenor-
square.

The Marquis of Hertford had a narrow escape the
day previous to his departure from town. His Lordship was
driving a pair of high-bred horses in a new ohaeton in Hyde
Park, and when near the stone laid by the Duke of Welling-
ton, for the building now in progress, the horses took fright,
and galloped off, taking the right, fortunately, instead of the
left side of the road. At the angle, near the Hermitage, the
animals rushed through the fence, and threw his Lordship and
a young lady out of the vehicle, but happily neither received the
slightest injury. The carriage was broken to atoms.

It is reported in the military circles of Plymouth,
that Sir James Cockburn, Adjutant-General of the Royal
Marines, is about to succeed to the Governorship of St. He-
lena, with the Isle of Ascension as a dependency, having
under his command a battalion, with a Field Officer of the
corps.— Western Luminary.
Mr. Frankland Lewis has announced his intention
of retiring from the representation of Radnorshire. It is re-
ported that Walter Wilkins, Esq., of Alaeslough Castle, will
come forward as a candidate to represent the county of Radnor
in his place.
The resignation of Sir Daniel Sandford is much
talked of at Paisley ; Mr. Kirkman Finlay is named as the
probable Tory candidate ; and Mr. Crawford, who so nearly
got in at the late election, declares himself ready to start again,'
if called on by a majority of the inhabitants duly convened.

STARCH DUTIES.—We are happy to learn that
Mr. Ewing, with his usual attention, has intimated to the
Secretary of the Meeting of Bleachers and Starchers in this
neighbourhood that, after frequent applications to the Treasury,
orders have now been issued to terminate all proceedings in
Exchequer relative to starch duties.—Glasgow Courier.

GA Rlt IC K'S It EA D I NG.—l'll tell you the most
ridiculous circumstance in the world. After dinner Garrick
took up the Monthly Review (civil gentlemen, by the bye,
these Monthly Reviewers), and read Sir Eldred, with all his
pathos and all his graces. I think I was never so ashamed in
my life ; but he read it so superlatively that I cried like a
child. Only think what a scandalous thing to cry at the read-
ing of one's own poetry I could have beaten myself; for it
looked as if I thought it very moving, which, I can truly say,
is far from being the case. But the beauty of the jest lies in
this : Mrs. Garrick twinkled as well as I, and made as many
apologies for crying at her husband's reading as I did for cry-
ing at my own verses. She got out of the serve by pretending
she was touched at the story, and I by saying the same thing
of the reading.—Mrs. H. More's Life.

A little while previous to Munden's retirement his
health was precarious, and Elliston agreed in consequence to
give Munden 10/. per night, instead of a settled weekly salary.
The number of nights not being specified, the lessee only called
upon the veteran's services when he imperatively require:l them.
This, as Munden recovered, was wormwood to him; however,
the time of retribution arrived. His Majesty bespoke a play
and farce ; Elliston omitted Munden's name because the house
would assuredly be full to the ceiling, and employing Muuden
would be throwing; 101. away ; but in the green room a notice
was affixed, desiring ‘f all the company to attend to sing the
national anthem." This was enough ; Munden joined the
group, and, on the strength of the managerial notice, claimed
and received his 101. that night.

DAYS OF THE CREATlON.—Supposingthat there
are inhabitants at the poles of the earth, how must they under-
stand the days of creation ? To them a day of light is six
months long, and a night of darkness is six months long, and
the day made up of night and day covers a year, and it is a
day too limited by morning and evening. Such petsons,
therefore, must suppose, upon the literal understanding of the.
days of the creation, that at least six years were employed upon
:the work. So also at the polar circles, there is every year
one day, that is, one confirmed vision of the sun for twonty-four