The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

THE SARDINIAN CHAMBERS.

The Turin journals publish the report of the com-
mittee appointed to examine the Annexation Bill.
It is of great length, and altogether favourable to
the measure. The document declares that

Neither in its substance, nor its purpose and ob-
ject has the law need of justification. It is the
affirmation of our national right—it is the develop-
ment and almost altogether the complement of
our national programme. The union we hope for,
and which is intended formally to authorise, is the
logical and necessary consequence of the already
accomplished union of the other provinces ante-
cedently enfranchised: It is the application of
the same principle—the corollary of that system by
which the political constitution of Italian nationality
has been definitively settled in the form of an united
kingdom under the sceptre of the House of Savoy.
Those only can oppose fresh annexations who were
opposed to the first, and that out Chamber was not.

M. Andreucci, the reporter, concludes as follows

There is nothing, therefore, to oppose the favour.
able reception of the bill. By approving it, the
Chamber will decree an act which is an immense
step in the national life and in the constitutional
polity of Italy, and will, with its full confidence,
give to the King's Government all the moral
strength it needs for the accomplishment of its
task. But the committee, deferring to the initia-
tive expressed by a great number of members, it is
of opinion that the Chamber will not have entirely
discharged its duty if it did not declare by an ex-
plicit vote its applause, its admiration, and its gra-
titude, as well as that of the nation, toward him to
whom and to whose valour Italy owes the triumph
of its liberty. The committee, therefore, terminates
its labours by proposing to you the following order
of the day :
" The Chamber of Deputies, at the same time
that it highly applauds the signal bravery of the
land and sea forces, and the generous patriotism of
the volunteers, bears witness to the admiration and
gratitude of the nation towards the heroic General
Garibaldi, who, by succouring with magnanimous
ardour the populations of Sicily and Naples, has re-
stored to the Italians, in the name of Victor Em-
manuel, so great a part of Italy."

NEAPOLITAN NEWS.

LEGHORN, OCT. 8.

The following is a note addressed by Count
Cavour to Baron Winspeare, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Sicilian Ma-

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS--(THIS DAP.)

LICENSING DAY.

The Middlesex magistrates sat to. day for the purpose of
hearing the opposition, to the renewal of the licenses to
Cremorne• gardens, the Alhambra Palace, and the Boar and
Castle, Oxford-street.

THE I:LHAMBRA. PALACE.
Mr. E. T. Smith, by petition, applied for a renewal of the
license to the Alhambi.a Palace.

The application was opposed by the lessees of the Hay-
market, Adelphi, Lyceum, and several other theatres.
The license was, after counsel for the opposing parties
had been heard, granted unanimously.

CRI3MORNE-GARDENS.
Mr. Sergeant BallEmtine applied, on the part of Mr. T. B.
Simpson, for a renew al of the license to Cremorne-gardens.
Petitions from the vestry had been presented against the
application, and a strong effort was to have been made, but
he supposed that discretion had prevailed ; and he was in-
formed that although the petition had not been withdrawn it
was not the intention of the Chelsea vestry to appear by
counsel to resist his application. The conduct of the vestry,
he thought, was high ly censurable—he would say bigotted ;
but, from what had come to his knowledge, the principle
mover in the affair ;as a person of some influence of the
name of Rabbitts— (laughter)—" Roaring Rabbitts,"—.
(loud laughter)—as :he was called in the neighbourhood.
This single individual had, it appeared, a great objection
to thousands of people ) amusing themselves as they thought
proper, and had got up the movement to ruin Mr. Simpson,
by withholding from him a license for Cremorne-gardens,
after he had expended many thousand pounds on the
provement of the property, which was now one of the most
favourite resorts of the pleasure-seekers of the metropolis.
The manner in which Mr. Simpson had conducted the
gardens was praised by e N erybody, and it was rather too
bad that because a few straightlaced persons disapproved of
harmless amusements Ids client should be put to the an-
noyance of having opposition raised year after year to
his application for a rem ewal of his license. He did hope on
the present occasion th a bench would unanimously grant
Mr. Simpson that whici i he asked, and thus mark in the
strongest manner their disapproval of the movement that
had been attempted to bo got up against him.
The Bench, immediatthly the learned counsel resumed his
seat, granted the removal of the license unanimously.
THE BOAR AND 'CASTLE, OXFORD-STREET.
This was an application L on the part of Mr. Chas. Morton
for a license for the Boar and Castle Tavern, Oxford. street.
The opponents to the application were the lessees of the
different theatres near :the spot—Mr. E. Weston, of the
Music Hall, Holborn ; Mr. Hart, of the Raglan Music
Hall ; and several others .

Mr. Ballantine said he had now to apply on the part of
Mr. C. Morton for a lieter ise for the premises known as the
Boar and Castle, situat ;o in Oxford-street. Mr. Morton, as
it was probably well k nown to all the magistrates on the
bench, was the gentle man who originally conceived the
idea, by way of it aproving the tastes of the mul-
titude for music, of erecting a splendid hall, in
which none but mut tic of the highest order should
be heard, and the t admission was fixed so low
that all had the opport unity of availing themselves of the
entertainment. The re umlt of the bold venture had been a
great and undisputed st t ccess, so much so that within the
last few years the numl nr of music halls-that had started
up in imitation of the Canterbury Hall was very great.
Not content with cultiva 'ing a taste for music, Mr. Morton
had made another bold e 7 :periment with respect to the sister
art, painting, and with t.l le same success. It was true Mr.
Morton had not had so many imitators in that, the reason
for which was apparen t. He thought the bench would
agree with him that it 1 vas, to use the mildest term, most
ungracious that those very persons who had with profit
followed the example Mr. Morton had nobly set them,
should now come forwa rd and oppose his application for a
license to the premises i n Oxford-street. He had no doubt
but that the bench wor Old unanimously assent to the appli-
cation of Mr. Morton. , to whom the public were under a
deep debt of gratitude .

Mr. Robinson, on t' he part of the opponents to the grant-
ing of the license, f ,aid--The license asked for was not
needed by the neighb ourhood. The house was surrounded
by theatres, mu sic b alls, and public-houses, and if Mr.
Morton was allovyed -to erect the concert-room which he
proposed upon the ground now occupied as stables at the
back of the premise 1.1;, the greatest inconvenience to the foot
traffic in the street o vould be occasioned. The premises for
which the license w. a s required were not yet built, and he
thought there would be plenty of time for Mr. Morton to
make his application after he had completed his building
operations.

The Chairman (M r. H. Pownall) said there was nothing
singular in Mr. Moi .t< )n making the application before the
concert-room was b t All the licenses that had been
granted to the most , important of them had been given
before they were cons' tructed.
Mr. Woodwark, a magistrate, asked whether Mr. Mor-
ton had disposed of h: is interest in the Canterbury Hall.

Mr. Sergeant Balls ntine said Mr. Morton had still some
pecuniary interest in that place, but he had nothing what-
ever to do with the in tanagement.
The license was gri ►nted unanimously.

POLICE INIE, TGEN CE-( 1711.8 DAT.)