Star.
London, England, 1831-07-04 00:00:00

The fluctuations in Cur,sole during the morning
has been from 82i to 83i for the account, and at
present they are 821-83.
In the Foreign Market there is not a feature
worth observation.
Spanish Bonds are rather heavy.

Letters from Hambro' are of a favourable nature
in regard to the cholera. The above city is very
healthy and the cholera begins to abate in various
other cities.

MORNING CHRONICLE.—Tess Thew Bann
Houses.—Lord Althorp's declaration on Thursday night,
that " he would not consent to placeag In under authorities
the choice of the places in which there should be houses for
the sale of beer, will go far to put an end to the interested
cry which bas been raised against the immorality of the new
beer houses. Those who set up this err are too
knowing to complain of the fall in value of the licensed
houses, or the difficulty experienced in vending bad beer,
where there is a competition. Oh, no, a man must
be a fool, indeed, who, in scheming how he shall
empty his neighbour's pocket, does not, in a country in
which there is such a premium for cant, neglect to avail him-
self of the pretexts of religion and morality. Thus we find
the morality of the people has been unable to survive the
beer monopoly ; and if we are to believe the owners of
licensed houses and the magistrates, we can never hope
to see a revival of morality and religion among the peasantry
till the new beer houses are put down, and dear beer is
once more the order of the day. GOD knows there was
no lack of public-houses in England before the break.
In down of the monopoly. for there were few villages
without one or more ; but then morality and religion only
thrive, it seems, under a system which enables the knowing
aim to pillage the multitude. We have been favoured with
a copy of the evidence given by an able and intelligent Ma.
gistrate to Lord Melbourne, which we lay before our rea.
den, as it exhibits in a clear light the strong reasons for the
anxiety which so many people feel for the religion and mo.
tality of their Deer-drinking neighbours :—" To nig Mont
How. Loan Aleurouson, &c.—Regent.streeet, April 3, 1831.
BIT Loan—As it is your Lordship's desire to have the evidence
of experienced Magistrates upon the effects of the new Beer
Act, I respectfully beg leave to offer you mine. I have been
17 years an acting Magistrate of this county, and have
given my particular attention to the licensing system. In.
dividually I have five licensed public houses among snail
four hundred other houses, on my land at Stepney and
Shepherd's Bush, on which licensed houses, in addition
to the rack rents, I have been accustomed to receive
=um, of 3001 and I,OOOL each on granting
; I had let three pieces of land at considerable rents for
the purpose of building additional licensed public-houses
thereon. I have a leading interest in, and am in receipt 28
the rents of an estate of 1400 houses, whereon there are of
licensed public-houses. But, in consequence of the New
Beer Act, I can no longer expect large premiums to be
offered for new leases of the licensed houses, and the
land which I let at high rents, for the purpose of
building new licensed houses upon, is thrown back upon
my hands, new bar-shops being opened near them without
any permission or favour from me. Instead of being ear.
nutty solicited, not only by wealthy brewers, but by
Peers of the realm, and other great men, to grant new
licenses in favour of some individuals, and to restore li-
censes taken away for misconduct from others, the exclu-
sive privilege is so reduced in value as to be no longer
a subject of supplication ; and even the Licensed Vict-
uallers begin to look their liceners in the face with the
ease and independence of other tradesmen. All which loos of
profit and patronage to myself, however, is a gain of far higher
value to the waking part of the public; and I heartily re.
joice in the change. I have enquired into some complaints
against the New Beer Shops upon the above estates, and also
in this district, for which I act magisterially, and have found
them to be without any good foundation, and that they were
made to assist rival interests. The Beer Shops are generally
conducted on the most frugal plan, and seem scarcely to yield
a living to the keepers of them. They afford shelter ard
rest to the poor people, white taking their refreshment ;
but the accommodation of these houses appears to be so

mean and uninviting, as not to allure tbeiicustomers to
remain in them longer than is necessary. The licensed
houses continue to be decidedly preferred by the tip.
lers ; but the Beer shops are greatly useful to the hard
working classes, by keeping the licensed houses
in check in the price and quality of their beer. Upon the
whole, I consider the restoration of the right of a free
trade in beer to be the most beneficial act of justice which
has been conferred on the working people of this country for
a century past; and that the arbitrary licensing system is
now ♦ery properly limited to those houses which extend their
offers of excitement to the sale of spirituous liquors.
44 I have the honour to be, &c.
"J. T. DABBER BEAUMONT."