The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-14 00:00:00

RIGHT AT LAST

During the past week a decision was corn- to by the
magistrates of Bow street police court, which is of some
importance to licensed victuallers, and may be worth
the attention of the various police magistrates. The
facts are as follows :—For some time past the police of
the F division (by the orders of Sandreek, until lately
the stiperintendent) hive been in the habit summoning
the landlords of various public- houses in the district, for
permitting prostitutes to meet together in their. houses.
Among other houses proceeded against were the Old
Drury, the White Hart, &c., the landlords of which
were on each occasion fined to a large amount. They
invariably appealed against the convictions at the ses-
sions, and almost in every instance succeeded in over-
throwing the decisions of the stipendiary magistrates.
About a month since Mr. Smith, landlord of the White
Hart, disposed of his business to a Mr. Moncrieff, who,
after he had been in the house onl) four days, was sum-
moned for allowing prostitutes to assemble in his house,
When the case came on before Mr. Jardine, Mr. Duncombe,
the solicitor, drew the attention of the magistrate to the
fact that " prostitutes," in the prop'r construction of
the Act, were not within the denomination of notori-
ously bad characters, which had always been considered
to be thieves and frequenters of flash houses. In conse-
quence of this statement, Mr. Jardine, taking also into
consideration the short time Mr. Moncrieff had bees in
possession of the house, agreee to suspend the summons
for a month, in order that the police might see the
manner in which the house should be conducted, and to
see whether Mr. Moncrieff would still persist in carrying
on his business in the same manner. Three days after,
another summons was issued against Mr. Moncrieff for a
similar offence. On that occasion, Mr. Clarkson, the
barrister, attended for the defence. The Learned
Counsel informed the magistrate, that a short time since
he was present at the sessions, when Mr. Smith appealed
against a conviction for a like offence. Mr. Montague
Chambers on that occasion attended for the police commis-
sioners. and Mr. Bodkin for the appellant. The latter
contended that the conviction ought to be quashed, on
the ground that prostitutes were not included in the ca-
talogue of notoriously bad characters, and were not even
mentioned In the licence, or the Act of Parliament 9
Geo. IV., cap. 61. They had quite as much right to
obtain refreshment as any other persons. The Learned
Counsel for the Commissioners concurred in this view
of the case, as did also the Chairman ; and it was agreed
by all that the appellant was entitle to have the con-
viction quashed, which was instantly done. Mr. Jardine
said he was aware that no mention was made of
prostitutes in the licences of publicans, nor had he been
able to discover, until mentioned by the Learned Coun-
sel (Mr. Clarkson), on what grounds the numerous
appeals had been quashed at the sessions. He would
mak., inquiries respecting them immediately, and if it was
found to be the real reason he would alter his views of
such charges for the future.—Mr. Clarkson said he would
leave the ease in the hands of the Court, to be decided
aceordinz to the precedenthe had mentioned,and ifaday
was appointed for a re-hearing of the charge. On that
day Mr. Duncombe appeared for the defendant, and the
inspector on duty delivered a message from the Com-
missioners in Scotland-yard, to the effect that, in conse-
quence of the decision of the magistrates at sessions,
they had thought it advisable to withdraw the sum-
monses, and the complaint was therefore di missed.

IRELAND.
INQUEST AT RAM IvHASSTG.

The inquest was resumed on Monday morning. The at.
tendance of magis•rates and gentry was not so large as on the
previous days. A person named William Regan, who wit-
nessed the affray. was eumined. His statement was similar to
that of the preceding witnesses. He declared that he saw no
stones thrown before the commencement of the firing by the
police.
The proceedings were suddenly brought to a conclusion by
the indisportion of one of the jurors ( Sit. Gillman ).
The CORONER then •aid they should adjuurn, and suggested
that it should he until after to-morrow.

Mr. Scannell object,d to such a lengthened adjournment.
Commxtt --Let the noctor be sworn as to hii illness.

Dr. Tresilian, having been sworn, said he examined Mr.
Gillman, and found him very nervous and faintish, and much
in dread of his head, fearing apoplexy. He would not be in a
fit state to sit out the day.
CORONER—CouId he attend to-morrow ?—There might be a
possibility : but as he Will have to take medicine to-night, it
might be very dangerous for him to attend to-morrow.
The Court then adjourned until Wednesday at half-past nine
o'clock.

A party of the city constabulary, under the command of Mr.
Inspector Walker, with constables Crowley and Burchill, are
still quartered in the district.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—The inquiry was resumed this
day, at ten o'clock, but no new facts were elicited.
THE IRISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Dustart, JULY B.—The General Assembly againmet on
Monday in the Scotch Church, Capel-street, when a discussion
arose upon a memorial from Belfast, which prayed for the
abandonment of the Regium Donum. on account of the pass-
ing of, the Maynooth Bill. The memorial thus concluded :
" That your memorialists, as members of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland. most earnestly, but most affectionately and
respectfully, pray your reverend body to consider the propriety
of taking immediate steps to render the ministers of your com-
munion independent of all state endowment, your memorialists
hereby declaring their determination to contribute, as in duty
bound, according to the ability wherewith God may bless them,
towards a fund for supplementing to all such ministers an ade-
quate support."
JAMES GissoN, Esq., as a Commissioner on the part of the
memorialists, supported the prayer
The Rev. Dr. CARLILE, having left the chair, proceeded to
address the meeting. He said that in taking his stand there
no person could accuse him of showing favour towards Popery,
for no one could be more impressed than he was with the
withering and soul-destroying character of that heresy. Should
they throw away 35,0001. a year because the Roman Catholics
gained 30.0001.? Sir Robert Peel would say :—" Gentlemen,
here is the money we require to endow Maynooth." There
was another point too—if it was their duty as Christians to re-
sign the grant because Government had endowed Popery, they
would be bound to call upon the Established Church to do the
same What would the Roman Catholics like better ? How
they would be delighted to take possession of what the Presby-
terans had so magnanimously relinquished ; and, besides,
what was the alterative? He objected to the voluntary sys-
tem. He would not object to be supported by Christians, but
to receive support from those who might be enemies to Christ,
was more withering and blasting than to receive any payment
from the hands of Government.

The Rev. Dr. STEIS'AR T opposed the memorial, and con-
cluded 1)), proposing resolutions in favour of the annual grant
to Irish Presbyterians.
After some discussion, the resolutions proposed by Dr.
Stewart in favour of the continuance of the Regium Donum
were adopted.
PROCLAIMING THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS.

It is stated in Saunders' News Letter that Lord
tenant i. prepared to proclaim the disturbed parts of the coun-
ties of Leitrim, Roscommon, and Cavan, on receiving a reqm-
si'ion to that effect from the Lieutenants of the respective
counties.

The troops encamped have had every means taken to secure
their comfort ; the tents have been supplied with .imber floor-
ing. rail-,d six inches or more tram the ground.
Several I it;-houses, lined will sheet iron. have been con-
structed under the sut•erintend.nee of an eng-neer officer, to
house the police wh re arcommodation ea•.not. he procured for
them. Each loe house is cal able of eonta,ning ten men. They
have iron bedsteads, waich fold up into the smallest poesible
compass during the day.
The Newry Teegraph, an Orange journal, makes the fol-
lowinn• announcement :—All the acme sses of Lords Roden,
Enniskillen, and the other Orange leaders have been unavail-
ing. and processions are to be general on the 12th of July.
DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE—TtrEsnear.

Government Funds.—Bank Stock, 210—Three per Cent. Con.
sols. 99 99a—Three-and.a•Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101!, I—Six
per Cent., reduced to 41. sterling per annum, 68 68k—Four per
Cent. City Debentures, New, 94.. _

Railways,—Belfast and Ballymena, 61 I—Belfast and County
Down, 31—Cork and Bandon, 6i 7—Cork and Youghal, 3I—
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage, 21,4 —Dublin and Belfast Junc.
tion, 8/ I—Dublin and Drogheda. 115—Dundalk and Enniskillen,
3l—Enniskillen and Sligo, 2I I—Great Southern and Western,
221—Great Southern Extension, 10/ 11/—The Midland Great
Western Railway- and Royal Canal Company, 4 4l—Ditto,
Extension to Sligo, 2% —lrish Great Western (Dublin to Gal-
way), 4 Kingstown and Bray, 51 3(—Limerick, Ennis, and
Killaloe Junction, 5I—Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3}
Waterford and Limerick, 7—Waterford and Kilkenny, 21—Wex-
ford and Carlow, 2l—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 11

ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain Turner's company,
6th battalion, recently first on the roster for service in Canada
having been ordered to New Zealand, Captain Henderson, with
Lieutenant Hon. W. Yelverton, four non-commissioned officers,
25 gunners and drivers, the most part selected of those acquainted
with stone-cutting and bricklayers' work, and one collar.maker,
one shoeing smith, and one wheeler, are to embark in the Castle
Eden, hired convict ship, expected down to moorings near the Royal
Arsenal, from Deptford, for a passage to New Zealand. The
other portion of the company is ordered to Weedon for a short
period until an opportunity offers for their embarkation. The
change in the destination of Captain Turner's company has caused
the issuing of orders for Captain Stanway's company, tat battalion,
to hold themselves in readiness to proceed with Major Anderson's
company, I stbat,alion, for foreign service, at Halifax, Nova Scotia:
and Captain Vaughan Arbuckle's company, 6th battalion, is to be
mraediately withdrawn from Manchester. to hold themselves in
readiness to embark with Captain Glasgow's company, 2d battalion,
for foreign service in Jamaica.
A MAN KILLED BY FALLING INTO A WELL.—On
Monday afternoon, as Edward Letherland, plumber and glazier,
Scotland.bridge, was repairing a pump in the yard of Mr. B. Scho.
field, Cheetham-hill, he had the misfortune to fall to the bottom of
the well, and his skull was severely fractured. Eight minutes
elapsed before he was got out of the water, and he was then quite
dead. The deceased was forty-two years of age, and has left a widow
and two children.—Manchester Guardian.

SERIOUS EFFECTS OP THE THUNDER STORM.-
On Friday afternoon, the metropolis was visited with a heavy storm
of thunder, lightning, and rain. Although pretty general, its effects
appear to have been the most severe over Somers Town, Camden
Town, and the northwest of the suburbs. In Somer- Town, after
a tremendous peal of thunder, the electric fluid struck the corner
of a newly-built house in Seymour street, carrying away a stack of
chimneys, and the corner of the parapet, then taking an oblique direc-
tion, carrying away all the parts it touched, until it reached the
coping of the wall. Near the spot two working men were sitting
on a heap of bricks—one either sprung with affright some distance,
or was hurled by the shock five or six yards. He was picked up by
Mr. Silcock, who has opened a public.hmse, into which
the poor fellow was conveyed, in a senseless state. The other was
struck against a wall, against which he stood for some time im-
movable. A third man, who was driving pigs along the roast, was
also struck down. The explosion was so tremendous that most of
the inhabitants of that end of Seymour-street rushed out in alarm.
CH-CKKT.--THE N ENV IiULES AND THE UMPIRES AT
Loan s.—The subject of the altered rule with regard to the de-
livery of the ball, or rather the determination on the part of the
committee of the Marylebone Club to enforce the old I Uth rule, as
amended, in respect to the bowler being no-balled" if his Band
shall be too high, has given rise to a general discussion. It would
appear, too, that there was an indisposition amongst some of the
umpires to carry out the particular rule, and, therefore, as the corn.
mittee are anxious to avoid stultifying themselves by !means of their
own umpires not acting strictly up to the laws of the game, they
assembled in the at ernnoti of Motida, when they unanimously
rtii,ed the following re-olut mu, :—" That in future the tuntores be
appointed by the committee and paid sep,oate y from the sc,,itrs."
~ That no player belonging to Lord's ground h. permitted to
play or stand as umpit e in any matt h in which the laws elf cricket,
as laid down by the Marytehohe Cricket Club, are not strictly ad-
here,: to "

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