The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-13 00:00:00

SEABORNE MAILS.

[N signifies that the mails are sent Prong the General Post-o Mes
by the night—end M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in I From what w.,„
PLACES. General Post-office port dis- 'dtr.
London. patched.
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America (by Brit. pkt.)N Sept. 15 .. .. Liverpool ,Sept. 15
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Sept. 16 .. .. ;Liverpool ..Sept. 21
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America (by U.S. pkt.) M Sept. 17 .. Southampt. Sept. 19
Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month (Plymouth Oct. 3
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.'Dover .. Sept. 18
.
Belgium .. .• .. N Daily .. .. .Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Buenos Ares • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
California(viaCkagres)M 2d& 17th of month Southampt. Sept. 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. pct. 3
Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th amo 'Dover * • 'Sept 20
* I
Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. 'Southampt. Sept. 20
Channel Isles .„ .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th.Sa
Chia Mll7th of the month Southampt. Oct, 5
France .. .. M&N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. TwicedaLly
Greece* • • • • .. N,7th 17th27th of mo Dover
•.Sept. 20
Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday ,London .. Tees. Sat.
Holland .. .. .. M Wednes. & Satur.i London .. Moa.Tkrt
Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the meathiSoutharnpt. Sept. 20
.. .. M & NTwice daily .. ;Holyhead.. TwJezlaily
Ireland
India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Sept. 28
Duna (via Marseilles) /...7thaz 24th ofmonthlDover .. Sept. 15
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• M 20th of the month
ilSouthampt. Sept. 23
Mediterranean (via I
Marseilles) .. .. N 7th& 24th ofmonthl Dover .. Sept, 15
Mexico .. .. .. M2d of the month. I Southampt. Oct. 5
Madeira .• • • .. 81,9 th of the month . 'Southampt. Oct. 16
Malta* .. .. r 17th,17th,19th,27th
Dover i Sept. 18
/ I & 30th of month
Naples* .. .• • • N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover •• Sept. 22
Papal States* .. .. ./slslllsth 25th efmo Dover .. Sept. 22
Peninsular.. • • .. M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Sept. 16
Peru .. •• •• •• M 17th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
Tuscany* .. .. • • N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. Sept. 22
West Indies .. .. 3117th of the month Southantpt.lSept. 20
West Indies (except
HavEunia & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southampt. 'Sept. 20

t2d of the month ..
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In consequence of the great public attention which
the law affecting the music and dancing licenses, not
merely in and about the metropolis, created some year
or two since, especially among the magistrates them-
selves, with whom there was an unusual difference of
opinion upon the subject, it will be recollected that a
committee of twelve justices was appointed by the
Court to take the matter into consideration, to obtain
the opinion of eminent counsel, if necessary, and to
report to the Court the conclusions at which they
arrived. After extending their deliberations over a
period of sixteen months the committee have made
their report, and the Court has adopted it, and passed
resolutions in accordance with its recommendations.
The report is as follows ,
" Your committee have to report that the powers pos-
sessed by the Court in the matter referred to are derived
from the Act of 25th George 11., c. 36, the provisions of
which are, however, to some extent restricted by subse-
quent enactments. The second section of the Act pro.
videa that any house, room, garden, or other place kept
for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment
of the like kind, in the cities of Loudon and Westmin-
ster, or within 20 miles thereof, without a license from
the Court of Quarter Sessions (who are thereby authorised
and empowered to grant such license as they, in their
discretion, shall think proper), shall be deemed a dis-
orderly house or place, and renders the keeper thereof
subject to a penalty of 1001., or otherwise punishable as
the law directs in the case of disorderly houses. The
same section further empowers a constable or other per-
son being thereto authorised by a warrant of a justice
of the peace, to enter such houses and places,
and to seizs every person who may be found teerein,
that they may be dealt with according to law. The fifth
and several subsequent sections of the Act contain pro-
visions for encouraging and facilitating prosecutions
against persons keeping disorderly houses; and the 12th
section empowers two or more justices to deal in a sum-
mary way with the parties brought before them under
the second section already mentioned. Upon consider-
ing the eff,ct of the above provisions, your committee
found that doubts were entertained by different members
of the bench upon three points, viz.—lst. Whether the
Court is legally authorized, on the grant of a licence
under this Act, to limit it to one particular sort of enter-
tainment, as to music only, or dancing only; or whether
a licence, if granted at all, must not extend to every kind
of entertainment within the put view of the Act. 2d.
Whether, assuming that the words Ocher public enter-
tainment of the like kind ' include scenic entertainments,
the power of the Court to grant licenses for such pur-
poses is not taken away by the Act of the 6th and 7th
Victoria, c. 68, for regulating theatres. 3d. Whether
the power given to the justices by the Act of George IL,
to grant warrants for the apprehension of persons found
in unlicensed (1. s. disorderly) houses, is not repealed by
the Act of the 6th of George IV., c. 83, respecting the
punishment of idle and disorderly persons. The great
practical importance of the above questions, and the diffi-
culty felt by many members of the bench in dealing
with them, rendered it (your committee thought)
desirable to take the opinion of counsel upon
them. They, therefore, gave directions that a
case should be drawn up and submitted to Sir Frederick
Thesiger and Mr. Crompton, which was accordingly
done, and the case, with the opinion of those gentlemen
upon it, is annexed by way of appendix to this report.
It will be seen that the opinion is decidedly in favour of
the power of the Court to grant partial licenses; that,
according to the same opinion, the Court of Quarter
Sessions, has no longer the power (if it really ever had
it) to grant licenses under the 25th George IL, for the
performance of scenic entertainments, and that the
council think that the justices retain the power of issuing
warrants for the apprehension of persons found in dis-
orderly houses, although they appear to doubt whether
that power can be exercised with much practical benefit.
Upon the first of these points your committee have no
hesitation in adopting the construction now put upon the
statute, which they believe may bo acted upon by the
Court with perfect safety. If the Court concurs in this
view, it has power at once, without any further legisla-
tive enactment, to carry into effect one of the recom-
mendations made by the assistant-judge in his printed
letter of last year, by restricting within narrower bounds
the granting of licenses for public dancing, and allowing
a wider scope to entertainments confined to music, par-
ticularly when not held at taverns. Your committee
think the suggestion to be entitled, at the least, to
serious consideration. But whatever may be done in
this respect, your committee think that some alteration
is requisite both in the form of the notices for
applications for licenses, and in the form of
the licenses themselves, and in the endorse-
ment thereon. Your committee think that every
sort of entertainment for which the applicant
wishes to obtain a license, or for which the Court in-
tends to grant one, ought to be distinctly expressed en
the face of the notice, or of the licence, in order, on the
one hand, that the Court may be able to judge of the
legality as well as propriety of what the applicant wants,
and, on the other hand, that the latter may be free from
all doubt respecting the extent of the privilege conceded
to him. The general expression other entertainments
of the like kind' introduced into the Act of the 25th of
George 11., was intended, your committee believe, to en.
able the Court to judge whether any entertainment
(other than music or dancing) for which a license may
be applied for was or was not within the scope of the
Act. By inserting the phrase in the license the Court,
however, throws upon the license the task and responsi-
bility of determining what it is that the Act contemplates,
instead of deciding the question itself'. Upon the second
and third points referred to couesel, your committee ace
no reason to doubt the accuracy of the opinion given.
They think, therefore, that all licences grunted under
the 25th of George 11. ought to be so expressed as to
preclude any reasonable intendment of their authorising
the exhibition of scenic entertainment. With respect to
the subject generally, your committee agree its the
opinion expressed by the assistant-judge in the printed
letter already referred to, that additional regulations are
wanted for the supervision and control of places of
public entertainment, and for the summary punishment
of misconduct on the part either of the managers
or frequenters of such places. They further
agree with the assistant judge in thinking that
some of the restrictions now imposed by law on those
places are not well adapted to the existing condition of
society, But these topics are so fully discussed in the
letter of the assistant-judge, as to enable the Court,
without any further assistance from your committee, to
determine upon the course which it may be proper to
adopt. Your committee does not appear to be autho-
rised, by the terms of the present reference, to take steps
towards obtaining an alteration of the law, either by an
application to the Government, or by a direct appeal to
the Legislature.

Iu the case laid before counsel the provisions of the
statutes, 25th George IL, and 6th and 7th Victoria, c.
68, were set forth, and the following questions were sub-
mitted—First, whether the Middlesex justices were at
liberty to grant licenses, under the 25th George IL, for
any one sort of entertainment of the nature spec.fied or
reterred to in that Act, exclusive of all others, viz.—for
' public dancing or music,' or for public music only;' or
whether the justices' powers are confined to the grunting
of licenses for public dancing, music, or other public
entertainments of the like kind,' collectively? Second,
whether the statute 6th and 7th Victoria, c. 68, does or
does not indirectly repeal the statute the 25th George
IL, c. 37, so far as relates to other public entertain-
ments of the like kind,' and whether persons who, under
colour of the licenses granted under the 25th of George
11., suffer scenic representations to be performed in their
houses are not liable to the penalty given by the 6th and
7th of Victoria. Thirdly, whether the enactment of the
sth of Georgo IV., cap. 83, takes away the power given
to justices of the peace by the 25th of George 11. to
issue their warrants to constables to Enter the houses
or places therein mentioned (and whici; by the last
mentioned Act are to be deemed disorderly' houses ur
places), and to seis- the persons found therein.

" OPINION.

" 1. We are of opinion that the Middlesex justios
are not compelled to grant licenses fur public dancing,
music, or other public entertainment of the like kind'
collectively, but that they may at their discretion grant
the license for music only, or for dancing only, or for
music and dancing; nor can we entertain any doubt
on that point when we observe the words of the Act to
be in the disjunctive, which seems to leave no ground
for any other construction..

"2: We should have thought, if the question had
been open to us, that the 26th of George H. did not sp-
, ply to scenic representations at all, but the words' other
public entertainments of the like kind' have been so long
treated or acted upo❑ as including scenic representations
that we are precluded from expressing our own inde-
pendent opinion upon the point, and are compelled to
accept the interpretation which has been put upon them,
and from which it necessarily follows that the 6th and
7th Victoria, c. 68, does indirectly repeal this portion of
the 25th George H., and that parties would be liable to
the penalties of the latter Act for suffering scenic repre-
sentations to be performed in their houses.
" 3. We are of opinion that the sth George IV. does
not repeal the 25th George 11., es to the power given in
the last-named statute for justices to issue their warrant
to constables to enter disorderly houses. We find some
difficulty in understanding what the Act intended should
be done with the persons not the keepers of the houses
who may be seized, in order that they may be dealt
with according to law.' Provision is made for punishing
the keepers of disorderly houses, but nothing is said as to
what is to be done with the persons found in them.
" F. THESIGER.
" CHARLES CROMPTON."

Under the recommendations contained in this re-
port an important alteration has been determined
upon as to the forms of licenses to be granted at the
approaching Michaelmas session, not only to new
applicants, but to applicants for renewals. The Court
will not in future insert i❑ licenses to be granted
under the Act 25th George 11., chap. 36, the words
Or other public entertainment of the like kind,"
but will in all cases specify the particular entertain-
ment which may be given. A notice to this effect
will be forwarded to all persons at present licensed,
and advertised for the information of those who intend
to apply for licenses at the Michaelmas session. At
the next meeting of the Middlesex magistrates a pro-
position will be made to alter the standing orders in
accordance with these new regulations, and that in
future, applicants give fourteen days' notice instead
of seven as heretofore, to the Clerk of the Peace, and
to the clerks of petty sessions, of their intention to
apply-

The Bulletin de Paris says—" All the accounts
from the departments state that the harvest has exceeded
the moiit sanguine expeitationg.:,

401 In th Countr
J. Price and J. Lavende er, Birrmyn.ghata, Filer ,„
Oct. 21, at half-past eleven, at the Court, 1,1!113113g
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATbp•
At the Court, Basinghall-strset. k'
W. S. Mereweather, West Ham, Essex, br'efa
nolO
Oct. 6, at one—C, Johns, Great Queen-street, --I%tia°
Inn-fields, and Kirby-street, Hatton-Rarden't gel°.
dealer and looking glass manufacturer, Oct. 716'
In the Country. 0 stood elefe!'t
C. F. Thomas, Bristol, ship broker, Oct. "tad 9'
at the Court, Bristol—S. Joule and J. ),-00010; •
Soule, as advertised in last Tuesday's Gaseftei• *-rti ac"
field and Rainow, Cheshire, ribbon manufacture" go'
cotton spinners, Oct. 1, at twelve, at the Coti,rfrr, t,9cl'
chester—J. Chew, Manchester stuff manufs°l-„ sa4,
3, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Tee° if°ll
Peate, Osvvestry, Shropshire, drapers, 00.7' titiniter,i
eleven, at the Court, Manchester - T. J. Kink:: sal '
Worcester, innkeeper, Oct. 14, at half-Pa" -el •
the Court, Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED. nitiaari
J. Barr, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, earthen Ware-0 e date
il
turer, certificate of the third class after twentY,.;:ll•
from Aug. 28—G. Smellie, High-street, Sha`',Aelec°%-
versmith and general salesman, certificate of l'nacait,"
class—H. Peach, Thorne y, I f E butcher,ttp",
Great Percy-street,
salesman, certificate ' 37' s o B
of the second class— • , tor
Pentonville, railway 00134.-c
builder, certificate of the second class.
PARTNERSHIPS DlSSOLVED'oatbelliret'
R. Giles and S. Morgan, Newport, 3100.,133
contractors—J. S. Orford and W. Kirkham, ni6134-01ar'"
paper hangers—J. Saward, dC. T. '--
Hereford-place, Commercial-road East" linend"Pe6sh'
T. Hones and W. Hones, Colvin-terrace,
mongers—O. Ormerod and T. Harrison, Hindlelo'sla°c
brickmakers—R. M. Wright and W. Peirson, nod nv•
street-buildings, City, drysalters—S. Scroricr°l:tel'
Cartwright, Dudley, Worcestershire, coal Ina',l.l.lli6'
Sanderson, W. D. ,Sanderson, and T. Eastvenn,eaali
chester, leather factors—T. Blakey and J. Sli'iceNtlitr
machine makers—R. Philip and J. Wlnneg' o'srlier
friargate, Kingston-upon-Hull, ri t Wa. Atql
and J. Chamberlin, jun , Norwich, Pn er
grocers-;,..1
and E. Gee, Liverpool, wholl dealeta
tea nesss-r,
Carrutbers and W. Gibbons, Overa Lrwen,
aa
silk bonnet wiro macutacturers—H. W. PolvD"
Protheroe, Austinfriars commission agents.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Boyce, King's Lynn, Norfolk, labourer.
William Wood, Lydd, Kent, baker.
Walter Slater, Brighton, watchmaker.
John
Isaac
Craven, Bradford. Yoskshire
cabinet Maker'er
Dyson, Melthatn,f
Yorkshire, suaDu a
woollen cloth.
John Share, Dudley, Worcestershire, miner.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. eslll°
A. Gentles, Falkirk, currier, to meet within
Bell
Inn, Falkirk, Sept. 16 and Oct. 7, at two'
to ,
within the Royal Hotel, Dundee, Sept.i
to meet
ai
P. Kimond and Sons. Dundee, mercli,a
• and
t e $
at twelve.e°
W. Smith, Inverness, grocer, to meet within
„,010
Royal Hotel, Inverness, Sept. 18 and Oct. 14, at "fi.
J. Main, Edinburgh, bootmaker, to meet „lose'
Dowell's Room?, Edinburgh, Sept. 18 and Oct' n,,
J. Boyd, Dundee boot and shoemaker, to meett cae'l
the Fleece Tavern, Dundee, Sept. 18 and Oct. 9' -
PRICE OF SUGAR. 051:
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sng Sep
puted from returns made in the week ending 000
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable
_ on the importatien thereof into Great Britturi:-',A °etc"-
From the British possessions in America
225455:
81S:` pi
From the Mauritius
From the East Indies 285. 9bd.
Average
price o" three foregoing de-
scriptions of su.r_ir jointly computed asabove, and exclusive of du' ty 255. 311 "
By authority of Parliament, „La.
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' C°lllr
Grocers'-hall, Sept. 12.

RAILWAY SHARE MARK"— ,
BRISTOL, SEPT. 12. s
tind° etc, °ld
STOCK EXCHARGR. —The share market con
tremely inactive. The only transactions reperte-gidlsil-
were—Great Western (Original Stock), 75% --
Stock, 436
LIVERPOOL, Sapr. 12. tI3I
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market opened •.?„, bu.
morning, with a tolerable demand for the beat stoc" The
towards the close became flatter, and closed he3vihitr.gt
transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancas4,4 0113fr4
Cheshire (late C. and B. ), 15—Ditto, 221. Shares, i16.,,•-•
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 491/9 Ditto, Fifth_,s,B 'ijaarte':
—London and North-Western, 113 Ditto INew.os'efereec"
11 :A6pLilliiidalarinchd,este,
and Dover, 19k. 44—Ditto,Sheffi Helda,lvaens,d
IL9A3i7ncdolins.s—hisreo,aLthr.,,sterri
MACHSTR, rn 2. bTbe
STOCK EXCHANGEN
.—ThE ere was SaE fairlamoun- °f
ness done to-day, but prices had a downward tendel2cl.--.
transactions were as follow :—East Lancashire, 1313 disc
cashire and Yorkshire, 49%—Ditto, Preference,,;fereec,
Ditto, Fifths, 8% dis.—Caledonian, 10 Ditto,
6 i 5-16—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Loodoo
121/¢ dis.— Wharfdales, 58. —M i and Stock, 434,,rrichesterd
and North-Western, New Quarters, 1% IL—Ditto, Luatero
and Birmingham Quarters (C), p.—South-Elis,Nrortho"
Dover, 19%—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole
Division), 20.

BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 12. n ,Cllol°ll
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The business transacted
,‘,O.
to-day was limited, but prices generally were Pr" sol'
supported. The only transaction reported was—Scit'
fordshire, 314) dis.

v., at, frhT
THISTED, SEPT. 5.---The Gustava, of -,tl/„to
Stockholm for Amsterdam, has been assistea +"boste.
port dismasted. and with part of cargo thrown or Prt
DRONTHEDI, AUG. 27.--The Pnosnix, hence :4,-Ire 10'
land, was stranded off Mugaroen during a g-
we(4c.
uoson%°
rADVERTISEMENT.J—TIIE EARL OF ALD-m-irsealo
•ND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.--All astounding cure by thi 00;5,
medicine, after every other means had failed. See extra°, 2, It,
Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Ftmlial_fot
Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your F.— tiler. of
fected a cure of a disorder in my firer and stomach which "—t
eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent' or ›`...4"11
been able to effect; nay, riot ever the waters of COL,'baniiiii ""ig
rienbad. (Signed) " ALDBOILOUGE." These wonderni:ooli
cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (a.ls°,,trAnd, sra
Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244,
by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst., at New OrQueenq 6
OF A 80N.
the wife of Lieutenant William 6,:sr. 6
rafien, 0
Artillert•. mood-street,p.D.R
Koval
Di ric
On the 10th inst., at Ebury-street, the wife of the Scrf.
Brymer Belcher.

the
of Captain Gustavus Coulson, R.N. 160
OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 9th inst., at Newburgh, Northumberland,
Old
On _he 10th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, ster r ee, Side-Par"'
*
wife of T. J. Angell, Esq. 'e -ter a

Joohnnsttohnee9,
tEhsqin.,stt.oaJtulia,only daughter of dra• '
On the 9th incsat.;enactii:Ahlll4lqlS:ollaurilesE.A9l:angham-place, .fi
motilliidll.
ofW hlivtnolracresshte,rofc ikpr, ALA'
F. vvii„._ , hter
, Maidstone, the Rev. . • . twig
of H. God den, EN
olleg.:, Oxford, to Martha, youngest
-
of Sonierfield-house,e•

the 11th inst., i
Busfeild, Esq
OnDIED. ,i, Willis°
n Bury-street, St. James 'F,
aged 72•Bobert
On the 10 ' " •
ALP , of Upwood, Yorkshire,
10th inst., at Dorset-Place, Clapham-rosuo
Broughton, Esq., aged 75.
On the 9th inst., at Richmond, ins oil"
mond, Surrey, I
Blisset Ellis, aged 73. e d 61'
On the 9th inst at Woolvers Dean Andover, ti.,e of
, izscl.,
Georgians, relict "
of the late John B. Richards, -~
B r 3,
anston-square. catiliatil ft'
On the 9th inst., at St. Aubyn's, Southsea, JP
Harris, Esq., late of Oporto, aged GO. DO,
Ina,
On the 7th inst., at the Crown Commercial
alTle-
Ay.
Sarah Matilda Lane, wife of Mr. John Lane, and Wtbb
ter of the late Thomas Love,. Esq" of Isleworth, -I
sex, in the 43d year of her age. --

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