The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-22 00:00:00

THE GRECIAN SALOON.

At the adjourned Quarter Sessions for this county, held' at
Kirkdale, the appeal" Shaw against the Liverpool MagiStrates,"
came for decision on Friday, before the Rev. Jonathan' Brooks,
Chairman, and a tolerable full bench of magistrates. Mr Wilkins
-appeared as Counsel for the appellant. Dr. Brown, in stating
the respondent's case, said, that notwithstanding the notice of
appeal had not been properly entered, and was informal in
other respects, ithad been agreed that the case should be heard,
and that the inquiry should be confined to one simple- point,
whether the offence cotnininitted by Mr. Shaw was an offence
against the tenor of his license. He was the landlord of a li-
censed house first called "The Letters," but which had since
been changed to the title of " Grecian Saloon," situate at the
corner of Dawson-st reet, Williamson-square The conviction was
made by Messrs. Hall and Harvey, two of the Liverpool Bo-
rough Magistrates, under tha provisions of the 9th Geo. IV. cap.
61, sec. '2l, which authorized them in the case of a party offend-
ing against the tenor of their licence, having been previously
convicted within the period of three years, to convict in the sec-
ond case, in any penalty not exceeding £lO. In this case the
• fine had been mitigated to £5. The charge against the appellant
was that of knowingly suffering persons of bad character to con-
gregate together in his house, and that he (the learned counsel)
should be able to prove .beyond contradiction. On the night in
question one of the new police inspectors went into Mr. Shaw's
house, which was divided into three divisions, intended for the
• accomodation of different classes, according to the money they
t hda rtawn room up,
there a and
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had to spend. In one division, called " Grecian Saloon," a
wassitiaegne commenced
fortned,ani•iiittliis
musical
prole)lsic:rimi e,anwehei.ch was
were 18 females of notoriously bad character. In another room,
called the "Shades," were ten women. The performances there
were of an inferior description, being liinitett to the piano-forte.
The third department was called the "Saloon," and in that
were twelve females, making altogether forty in number, who
had been at different times seen going out and in, and were
known to the police as disorderly women. Inspector Bradshaw
and a police constable, named Murphy, proved the case against
the respondent as stated by Dr. Brown: The first witness stated
that he visited the Saloon at a quarter to eleven o'clock on the
night of the 26th of April last, and that Shaw was serving in the
Grecian Saloon, and one of his sons in another department.
In his cross-examination he admitted that he had received ten
shillings from the Watch Committee as his part of a fine of
twenty shillings levied upon a publican. That he had in all the
convictions upon his evidence received a moiety of the .•fine.
He did not expect any part of the fine in this case, as some
new regulations had been issued within the last three or four days
or a week. He did not expect a farthing at the time the infor-
mation was laid, although he got a moiety of the penalty under
Mr. Shaw's previous conviction. He knew the women to be dis-
orderly characters by their dress, and their manner of walking
up and down the streets.
For the appellant it was contended, that the corporation had
held out a temptation to their officers to commit perittry,.hy giv-
ing them a share in the amount of penalties recovered upon in-
formations which had to be supported by their evidence. It was
also alleged that as the place was intended fir the relaxation of
sailors and their sweethearts, and any person visiting the theatre
wishing to have a glass of wine or brandy and water, the same
law ought to be dealt out to the appellants' as to others, and the
magistrates would sa) that the evidence of the police inspector
as to the gay dress of the females was not a proof of the appel-
lant knowingly harbouring bad characters in his house, contrary
to the terms of his license.

The Court, after ten minutes consultation, dismissed the appeal
with costs.

A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM TO A CLERGYMAN OF
THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

On Wednesday, the 20th instant, the members of St. Ste
phen's congregation, Liverpool, through the medium of the
wardens, presented their minister, the Rev. Jacob Picton,
with the following token of their esteem, viz., a full set of robes,
a silver salver, and cup. On the plate is engraven the follow-
ing inscription :
" Presented to the Rev. Jacob Picton, A.M., minister of St.
Stephen's, Liverpool, this salver, together with a cup, and full
set of robes, by the members of his congregation, as a small
token of their esteem for his unwearied attencthiounmhtowathrdeednus.ties
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of his office. '6 G. . COMA:SS.
11. STUDHOLII,
" July, 1836."

On the acceptance of the present the reverend gentleman
thus replied:—" Gentlemen, (and through you I speak to the
rest of my congregation,) you have this day imposed upon me
the performance of a most gratifying, but at the same time
most difficult duty, viz., that of suitably thanking you for this
exhibition of your generous and affectionate regard towards me.
But I cannot express to you the gratitude I feel for so unde-
served and unexpected a token of your esteem. It is a token
of esteem which I shall always highly prize, not so much, how-
ever, for its intrinsic value as for those kind and generous feel-
ings which suggested it; and if any thing can render it still
snore valuable to we, it is the firm persuasion of your decided
and heautfelt attachment to those great and consolatory truths
of the glorious gospel of the blessed God which it has been my
privilege and happiness from time to time to publish amongst
you. May that attachment continue! May those truths be
for ever blessed to' you .and yours! Gentlemen, once more I
beg most cordially to thank you for this most gratifying testi-
mony of respect, and assure )ou that I shall ever view it with
the liveliest feelings, 'of gratitude to the latest moment of my
existence."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD.
SIR,—I wish you would be kind enough to inform your read-
ers whether it is the intention of the Conservative Society to
open any office where their friends may receive forms and ad-
vice respecting the registration ? The radicals have kept their
office open, and have been actively registering their adherents,
while the friends of conservatism are totally at a loss where to
obtain the most trifling information. R. G.