The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS, YESTERDAY.

The annual licensing sessions for the borough of Liver-
pool, was held yesterday,' his worship the mayor in the
chair. Oa the bench at various periods during the day we
observed Charles Turner, Esq., Eyre Evans, Esq., Wm.
Rathbone, E-q., Geo. Grant'. Esq., Thomas Bolton, Esq.,
Robertson Gladstone,Esq., J. H. Turner, Esq. and others.
The number of applications was 219, and the court
during the day was crowded to excess by anxious ex-
pectants. Contrary to the ordinary practice, which has
been adopted in applications for new licenses, to read
over the names of-those only to whom they bad been
granted, leaving the other parties present to retire, the
court proceeded to call over the names of each seriatim,
the unsuccessful as well as the successful, which ery
tedious precess occupied the greater portion of the day.
The number of new licenses granted up to the close of the
proceedines was only (eight, viz. :—to Thomas Edwards,
Gore-street, Kirkdale ; William Rigby, Limekiln-lane;
John Smith, Leeds-sheet ; Henry Haves, Church-street;
Margaret Jones, Peter's-lane ; Henry Booth, Lime-street
Railway • Station; Lydia Bentley, London-road ; and
Edward Denson, Islington-terrace. The answer given'
from the bench to 'the remaining applicants was, that
licensed houses were not required in the respective neigh-
bourhoods to which their applications referred.
After a number of refusals had been made to parties
applying, each of whom had been previously called upon
to state the grounds upon which be or she applied for a
license, Ka Eyre Evans rose and remarked that he had
sate there for above an hour listening to the constant plea
of the magistrates. that licenses were not wanted in the
various localities applied for. He understood, however,
that such licenses were worth from XICO to £5OO each,
and from the number of applications which they had
before them that day, they must conclude that they were
wanted (laughter and applause).
Several cases occurred in which some sparring took
place between parties who had applied for transfers, and
other parties who thought that they had previous rights to
be favored. The case which created the greatest interest,
however, was an application by Mr. Snowball, in behalf of
a party named Hughes, for a new licence to a house situ-
ated at the corner of Great Orford-street and Mount-
pleasant. Mr. Snowball, in advocating the granting of
the license, dwelt upon the fact that there was a large and
respectable population in the neighbourhood, and no
licensed public-house within any reasonable distance. He
understood that the objection to the license being granted
would be, that a public-house in that neighbourhood
would be an annoyance to the ladies and gentlemen who
were in the habit of meeting at the Wellington Rooms,
who were afraid that it would furnish opportunities, by
which the drivers of their carriages, and their servants,
might be encouraged to make it a resort for drinking,
whilst they were partaking of the enjoyments of the dance.

Mr. Robertson .Gladsfone here rose and observed that
he felt. confident that such motives could not be imputed
to the magistrates in any course which they might adopt
with respect to the grenting of this license. He himself
would pay the same attention to the prayer of the poor.
applicant as the rich. It appeared that in this district
there was a population of between 2,000 and 3,000,- with-
out the accommodation of a licensed public-louse; and
he could not see that the feelings. of the frequenters or
the Wellington Rooms, who met only once in three or
four weeks, ought to be consulted on the matter so much
as the convenience of the residents in the neighbourhood.
As to the plea with respect to their coachmen and servants
using such a house, they wanted it. They were generally
summoned about an hour before they were wanted ; and
the Wellington Rooms were principally frequented in
winter. Such a house in the immediate neighbourhood
was therefore required, and he moved that a license be
granted to it.
Mr. Eyre Evans seconded the motion.
Mr. Bolton explained, as one of the reasons which
would induce him to refuse, this application, the fact that
a transfer license was asked for a house on the opposite
side of the street (Mount Pleasrnt.)
Mr. Evans said that he was willing to allow both, and
would move that both be granted.
What was thought to be a rather hurriedly forced on
vote was then taken, and the application refused by 7
votes to 2.

Mr. Gladstone was cheered repeatedly during his
speech, and it, was generally expected by the auditcry,
upon whom his remarks had made a strong impression,
that the license would have been granted.

LICENSE TO THE REFIZESIIMENT-ROOMS, RAILWAY

STATION, LIME-STREET.

Mr. tip' AGSTAFFE applied to the bench for a license for
the Refreshment-rooms, at the Lime-Street Station of the
London and North-western Company, to be granted in
the name of Henry Booth, Esq., secretary to the Com-
pany. Mr. NV. based his claim on tLe ground of the
propriety of enabling the company to proNiLle refresh-
ments for parties going by the early morning trains ; and
contended that the station ought not to be regarded as a
terminus, but as the connecting link of a railway, and a
water journey., as, for example, from the north or south,
to Ireland and Scotland.
Mr. SNOWBALL was proceeding to oppose, on the part
of the victuallers and hotel-keepers in the neighbourhood,
when

Mr. THOS. BOLTON rose to protest against an opposi-
tion being offered •by such parties, who only.wanted to
protect their own monopoly.
Mr. SNOWBALL proceeded and said that the hotel-
keepers :in the neighbourhood had a right to complain
when they found that the company intended to open a
front of their rooms iAto Lime-street. He would with-
draw his opposition if the directors would assure him that
they did not intend to open a dram-shop. This-efier not
beirg accepted, the learned gentleman denounced, in
strong terms, the injustice of a great public company being
permitted to direct their great powers and capital to carry
on a competition with private individuals, as, for instance,
the proprietors of the Queen's Hotel opposite the station,
who had purchased their property from the Corporation,
never expecting that the London and North-western Rail-
way Company were going to become dram-shop keepers.
After a few further remarks, and a reply from Mr. Wag-
staffe, in which it was stated that the opening into Lime-
street would he solely used as a place of entrance for pro-
visions, &c., to supply the rooms, the license was pro-
nounced to be granted unanimously.. There was more
than usual the number of magistrates on the bench &Ling
this case, who shortly afterwards left the court.
After delivering some licenses not previously called for,
the court adjourned till Wednesday.