The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION. HOUSE.--Yesterday being the day ap-
pointed for the rehearing of the application of Mr. Hillary,
of the Poultry, for a license, to the Lord Mayor and Alder-
man Thorp, to sell wine, spirits,' and other excisable liquors,
at the house called the Union Hotel, or Shades, the Man-
sion-house had a' most numerous assemblage of tavern-
keepers, hotel-keepers, and licensed victuallers, at the ap-
pointed hour: It will bi recollected that on Saturday
list, the Lord Mayotand Alderman Thorp stated to the ap-
plicant that he should have the licence, and that the Court
of Aldermen interfered upon the ground that the subject
demanded a more grave deliberation than had been given
to it. The question having natorally excited the highest
interest amongst those who embarked large sums upon the
calculation that the usual difficulties would attend the ob-
taining of licences, there was a full meeting of Magistrates.
The LORD illsvoa stated, that he had conceived Mr.
Hillary had made out a prima fade case on Saturday. His
Lordship then stated the facts of the case, as they have al-
ready appeared. _ •

lerinan Wow) said that the licence had been applied
for irk. a very extraordinary manner; and he wished ,to
know what the motive of Mr. Hillary was for pressing
his application—what he ineant by his apprehension of
the effect of a second conviction t,—Mr. Hillary said, that
a second conviction wou:d be fatal to him as to any future
application fora licence.

Alderman Wool) said that was quite a fallacy ; the con-
victions had no reference to the licensing act, it was
founded upon the old police act, which did not at all
come into operation : here the precipitation was wholly
unnecessary..
Mr. Brooke, the deputy of the Ward, declared that be
had stated to hir. Hillary, when that gentleman, spoke of,
applying for a licence, that the Common Council of the
Ward had determined that no other housea than were al-
ready licensed should be licensed, as there was a sufficient
number of licensed houses in the Ward.

Alderman Woon (to Mr. Hillary)Pray, when did you
first call this house a hotel ? Mr. Hillary--I think, be-
tween two and three months ago.
Alderman WOOD—During the progress of the Bill ?
Mr. Hillary—Yes.
Mr. Law.—l attend upon the part of the licensed vic-
tuallers, and I can show that the, house is nut at all a hotel
under the 'meaning of the Asti of Parliament, by the cross-
examination of the applicant's witnesses.
Mr. Tilson (for the applicant) said, that the witnesses
werenot present. They had given their evidence, upon
which the grant of the licence had been founded.
Alderman :Yvon.—Have you any other evidence?--
Mr. Tilson considered the testimony just read quite sufficient,
Alderman C. SMITH thought that, by °tiering these ob-
jections to the act of the. Lord Mayor and Alderman Thorp,
they were paying a very ill compliment to those gentlemen.
The licence ought certainly to be granted.
Alderman WOOD said,' that the act all along alluded to
was passed merely for, the protection of hotel-keepers who
had neglected to apply for licences, and had nothing to do
With such-persons as the applicant.
. Alderman FAREBROTHZR asked the City Solicitor whe•
ther a licence once consented to by two Magistrates could
be recalled ? ,

The City Solicitor said, that if it appeared that any im-
position had been used in obtaining the licence, it could be
retracted at once. _

Mr. Law.said, that even if no imposition was used, the
claim of Mr. Hilhry was not valid. The act meant, in
describing " Hotels," the temporary residence of guests,
to which temporary residence eating and drinking were in-
cidental. Now, in the house sought to be licensed, the tem-
porary residence was incidental to the eating and drinking.
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen then proceeded to the
house of Mr. Hillary, and upon their return his Lordship
stated, after some deliberation with his brother Aldermen,
that them,greed in opinion that it would be fair to give.
Mr. Hillary titne to produce further evidence that his house
was an hotel, as well as to bring forward those who had
already been examined. For this reason they postponed
the decision, fur a fortnight.

GUILDHALL—Mr. Sylvester Murphy was charged
with robbing Mr. James Hudson of his gloves and pocket
handkerchief.

Mr. James [Judson is a Manchester man, a dealer in
" soft goods," and he is sojourning, during his stay in
town, at No. 65, Jewin-street, Aldersgate. On Wedues-
day afternoon, by way of mixing a little recreation with
his business, he strolled out with a friend as far as the Bel-
videre Tea-gardens, at Pentonville ; and there they played
a game or two at skittles, and after the skittles they drank
a glass or two of grog, and after the glass or two of grog
they parted highly pleased with the Belvidere and the grog,
and with each other, and every thing,
.and in that pleasant
mood Mr. Hudson set his face towards the City, with the
intention of making his way back to his lodging in Jewin-
street, with all speed—for it was then growing somewhat
lute for a sober decent Manchester dealer to be " wand-
thering- about streets i' Lunnun." Nevertheless, he
reached the upper end of Alder:gate-street (as he verily
believed) without molestation; but be had not progressed
many yards further, when the prisoner, Mr. Sylvester
Murphy, took bold of his arm ; and, without speaking a
word, began progressing along with him. Mr. Hudson
thought this was very strange conduct in a stranger, and
after some little consideration, he ventured to say to him,
" have not the pleasure of your acquaintance ;
and, I am much obliged to you, but I can walk very well
without your assistance." To this remark, delivered with
all possible civility, Mr. Sylvester Murphy replied, " Be
asy, my jewel, and come along !—lt's very drunk ye ari,
and I shall see ye safe home." Mr. Hudson assured him--
or endeavoured to assure him, that he was not particularly
drunk, and that he could find his road home very com-
. fortably, if he would let him alone; but Mr. SylvesterMu►-
phy would not lselieve him, and stuck close to him until
they reached the door of Mr. Hudson's lodging in Jewiii-
street. " When we got to the door," said Mr. Hudson,
in continuation of his account of the matter—" when we
got to the door, he either pushed me, or pulled me, or I
reel'd over ;—however, I was over and he ran away with
my gloves and my pocket handkerchief." And that was all
Mr. Hudson knew upon the subject.
Mr. F. Bassett, a law-stationer, deposed. that he is a
stranger to both parties ; and that, as he was returning from
the theatre, lie saw the prisoner hurrying the. prosecutor
along in a very abrupt sort of way;" and, wondering
what was the meaning of it, lie followed tbenti until they
stopped before the door of a house in Jewin-street, where
he saw the prosecutor fall with a " tremendous crash," and
the prisoner running away as fast as his legs could carry him.
By the testimony °father witnesses it appeared that Mr.
Sylvester Murphy laud not ran far before he was stopped,
when not only where Mr. Hudson's gloves and handker-
chief found in his pockets,' but .also a note which he must
have. abstracted from Mr. Hudson's waistcoat pocket during
their walk.
In his defence, he said' Mr. Hudson was " intoxicated
entirely," and he offered his services to him in " pure
charity." "He was so much intoxicated," added he,
" that lie was extrainely troublesome to me, and his bat
fell off; and whilst I was putting it on him again, lie
knocked mine off ; so then I saw a handkerchief lying on
the wound, and, upon my hoooor and conscience, I thought
it was my own tumbled out of my pocket, and I picked it
up of course. Thus,- when we got to his door, he would
make me gc, in to drink, and lie tumbled down in my
struggle to get away from him." As to the gloves and
the note, lie had "no idea in life" "how they came into
hisixicket ;—and he was committed to Newpte for trial.
He is a respectable-looking young fellow, and described
himself as a pianoforte-maker at Clementi's Tottenham
Court-road.

THAMES POLICE—THE ST. KATHARINE'S Dock
Comr.ANY.—The question of the right of this company to
eject summarily hollers of houses, came again before Mr.,
IiALLANTINE yesterday. A complaint against Mr. Thomas
Baker, landlord of the King's Arms public-house, Burr-
street, preferred, and upon it an application fur a
vari a7lcaosi ejectment was grounded.
3rTooke,.
on the part of the Company, said this case
was somewhat different to that decided on Tuesday. Mr.
Baker was a tenant at will of Messrs. Head and Co., the
brewers, who had given him notice to quit, because they
had calculated upon selling the premises to. the Company,
and afterwards having entered into treaty, and the premises
being sold to them, the Company gave the notice required
by their act, therefore Mr. Baker held possession, although
he had received his landlord's as well as the Company's
notice.

Mr. Morsley, for the defendant, said it seemed from this
showing, that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction whatsoever.
Mr. BALLA NTINE considered that as yet he had a juris-