The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

THE ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS

There are few duties in which the magistracy of a great
town can be more usefully employed than in the proper
regulation of its public-houses and taverns. It is a fact
notorious to every judge who sits upon the bench, that
more criminal associations are formed, more crimes hatched,
more robberies and outrages planned, in the low and dis-
orderly public-houses 'with which all populous towns
abound, than in any other places. Hence we regard the
duties, which are annually to be performed by the licensing
magistrate, as more than ordinarily important, and do not
conceive that we are stepping out of our sphere in convey-
ing to them what we know to be the sense of a large and
influential portion of our fellow-townsmen, with regard to
the mode of their performance.
During the past two years the town has sustained a
large increase of building, and, in consequence of the
operation of the sanitory act, a considerable portion of the
new erections is composed of cottage property—small
streets of houses, two and three storied, with rentals vary-
ing from £l5 to £24 per annum. In nearly every such
street we observe preparations made for a future public-
house, (if a license can be got,) and in the meantime for a
beer-house. Hence the unusually large number of appli-
cations for licenses with which the magistrates will have
to deal at the approaching sessions, many of which are,
no doubt, put forward by parties of unexceptionable cha-
racter, and backed by signatures of persons the only ex-

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ception against whom is that they are probably tenants of
the landlord,. for the advantage of whose property a license
is sought. With respect to the mode of dealing with the
major part, if not the whole, of such applications, we

would urge upon the bench the same considerations which
we urged last year. There are, unless we are sadly mis-
informed, existing in the back streets throughout the
town, in places which were once populous thorough-
^ but longer, not a d tuo-o'

fares, are so no A, rew licenseu
houses, too many of which serve only as the resorts of
vice which shuns the light, as the nurseries of crime, or
the lurking places of the criminal—houses in which the
Exciseman is never called upon to guage a cask of wine or
spirits, because the only receptacle in use by the poor
tenant is a bottle filled as required from the nearest gin-
palace. Let the owners of such property be allowed to
draft their licenses to the localities to which the popula-
tion they once depended upon has removed, and there can
exist no necessity for granting a single new licence for
years to come. It must be borne in mind that the new
streets, for houses in which licences are being applied for,
are not indicative of an increase of population to the ex-
tent of the tenants which they are capable of accommo-
dating. The bulk of them have been provided for the
accommodation of parties removed under the operation of
the sanatory act, or at their own option from unwhole-
some streets in the centre of the town, in search of a
better and a purer atmosphere. Let such parties take

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their public-houses, or what amounts to the same, their
licences with them. Abundance, and indeed far more
than is required, will still be left within the limits of the
old borough.

As we remarked last year, however, there may be here
and there, and particularly in the growing outskirts of the
town, a few isolated cases, in which the establishment of
a respectable tavern is calculated to be a convenience rather
than a nuisance to the locality. We pointed to two such
cases on a former occasion, in one of which (in Nether-
field-road, Everton) the applicant was successful in pro-
curing a license, and we believe has conducted his busi-
ness with credit and satisfaction to the magistrates and
to his neighbours.

Another case which we referred to last year was an ap-
plication for a license to a house, built by its owner for
the purpose on the Bootle-road, in the centre of an im-
proving and highly respectable neighbourhood, and seven
or eight hundred yards from any other public-house.
This application was not granted last year ; but we observe
that the owner of the property is applying again this year,
with, we learn, the support of a number of the most in-
fluential residents. For the last twelve months it has
been conducted most satisfactorily under a beer license ;
and it is furnished and in every way fitted to afford the
accommodation required. from a first rate tavern. The
extension of the town and the docks in this direction—the
number of cars and omnibuses passing along the road,
with the prospect of a large increase in the population
surrounding, we submit call for such a license being

granted.
There are no doubt other similar cases, here and there,
which will present similar claims ; and in all these we
have no doubt that the magistrates will exercise a wise
discretion, keeping in view the fact that we want only such
houses as are likely to be respectably conducted ; and that
to enable the tavern keeper to so conduct his establish-
ment, it is necessary that his business should not be so
divided by competition as to drive him to resort to un-
worthy and disorderly practices—to encourage tippling
rather than supply in moderation the wants of the public.

THEATRE-ROYAL.-MADAME RACHEL
THE FRENCH COMPANY.

Yesterday evening, the first appearance of this distin-
guished lady, accompanied by a very talented corps of
male and female performers, took place in our Theatre-
Royal, a most fashionable audience being assembled to
receive them. The lower boxes, in especial, we have
seldom seen better filled. The first
,piece was Scribe's
comedy ;of " Valerie ou L'Aveugle,' in which Mdlle.
Rabut sustained the part of Valerie, the blind girl, with
great efficiency. The closing scene, in which Valerie is
restored to her sight, was full of nature and feeling. The
part of Caroline was sustained with great naivette by Mdlle.
Vallee •, and-but we need not particularise further.
The whole was gone through most artistically, and eli-
cited unqualified admiration.
Of " Les Horaces," the tragedy, we scarcely 1

how to speak. It was perfect in every part, and a
to those who heard it acting suci

Mom wit-

during

plot is the well-known one to the Latin scholar of the
Horatii and Curatii ; and the part of Camilla was allot-
ted to Rachel.
In the first four acts we should

as impartial juds

given the palm to Sabina (Mademoiselle Rabut,) whose
acting was superb, as it was in the previous piece. But
in the last act,. Mademoiselle Rachel, as Camilla, asserted
her preeminence in a manner which left no room for any
competitor. More splendid acting we never witnessed
than the closing scene, which drew down, as it deserved,
a perfect torrent of applause.

Amongst the othei Parties engaged in the piece we find
it difficult in the very brief space at our disposal, to par-
ticularize. We may, however, mention Mr. Raphael
Felix. The acting, of this gentleman throughout was of a
very high order. Indeed the whole corps are most efficient.

The Observer,—a good authority—now says that Parlia-
ment will not be called together before the usual time.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton have arrived at the
noble lord's seat, Meggernie Castle, Perthshire. from
Croxteth Hall.

Mr. George Grist has been appointed secretary to the
Liverpool Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Association in
the room of Mr. Rowlandson, resigned. Mrs. Grist has
received the appointment of matron to the: institution.
We believe the appointments will give great satisfaction.
Yesterday, at the Police-court, two-half-starved looking
urchins appeared at the Police-court, charged with stealing
a quantity of potatoes from a shop in Dale-street. In
reply to the charge, all they had to stale was, that " they,
had had nothing to eat for two days." They were com-
mitted for seven days.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS. During the eleven last
months (from Sept. Ist "o the end of July last), there
were exported to Great Britain, from the various Ameri-
can ports, 2,706,202 barrels of flour, 779,711 barrels of
corn meal 3,084,910 bushels of wheat, 16,251,988 bushels
of corn, 451,214 bushels of oats, and 271,353 bushels of

barley.
MAN KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—A man, named
Henry Johnson, a labourer, at the railway, in Crown-
street, was accidentally killed on Saturdal
last. It appears that he was
two waggons past_ some point

in the act of moving
on the main line of

rails, and whilst doir

zgon deceased

was pushing at, knocking it

ceased

When taken up he
SALE OF LAND AT BIRKENHEAD.—Last night Mess!
Churton offered for sale, at the Monks' Ferry Hotel,
Birkenhead, a quantity of villa land, called the " Dibbins-
dale Vale Estate," situate on the margin of Bromborough
Pool, near Birkenhead. The quantity advertised was
75,000 square yards, in 19 lots. The attendance at the
sale was numerous. but the state of the money market

found insen;

had an effect upon the bidding. Four lots Only were
offered, one of which was knocked down at 2s. 6d. per
yard, and a second at 3s. per yard. The two other lots
offered were bought in. The total number of square
yards sold is 5,000.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KIRKDALE.--OD Saturday last,
a carter named John Woods, on his way from Liverpool,
met with his death in Kirkdale, under the following
circumstances. The deceased was driving an empty cart,
and behind him was a cart filled with manure. The horse
in the latter cart began to trot, when the driver immedi-.
ately stopped it, but the deceased, who was about five
yards in advance, made a stand, allowing his own horse
and cart to proceed until the other horse came up to him.
He then took hold of its head, and whilst endeavouring
to stop it, he was seen to fall down against the horse,
when both horse and cart ran over him. On being taken
up his head was found to be dreadfully crushed, and he
was quite dead. Verdict,_ " Accidental death."

THE LATE DEAN OF MANCHESTER.—The Hon. and
Very Rev. William Herbert, L.L.D., Rector of Spofforth,
son of the late Earl of Carnarvon, revised and re-dated
his will on the 25th of January last, which had been ex-
ecuted by him in the year 1845. He has bequeathed to
his wife, the Honourable Letetia Herbert, a life-in-
terest in all his property in England and elsewhere [ex-
cept Canada], also certain specific and pecuniary be-
quests, including the carnage and horses, the plate, &c.,
and that she may select from his books, pictures,
and furniture, to the amount of £7OO ; and after her
decease, he leaves the property purchased by him
in Therfield to his son Frederick ; his only freeholds he
leaves to his (laughter Louisa, with a pecuniary bequest.
The residue of his personal estate, and of the unsettled
real estate, to be divided between his said son and daugh-
ters, Cecilia and Louisa. The estates in Canada, subject to the
payment ofan annuity to his trustees, he has devoted to his son
Frederic and his heirs. His estates under marriage settlement
in the counties of Bedford and Hertford, over which he had
power of appointment, he has apportioned to his said son
and daughters, his son Henry having received his portion
in the lifetime of his father. He leaves to the Rev. C.
Richson, one of his executors, £lOO. The Hon. Letitia
Herbert, the relict, and his brother; the Hon. Algernon
Herbert, are the other executors. The personalty in Eng-
land and within the province of Canterbury was valued at
£4OOO. He held the rectory of Spofforth, Yorkshire, for
thirty-three years, the value of which is returned as
£1,538, per annum •, he was made Dean of Manchester
in 18" and died in the sixty-ninth year of hio age.