Licensing In The County O...
The Times, 1824-10-01T00:00:00

On Wednesday, the adjourned day for deciding upon the appli. cations for the recovery ef suspended licences was held at Horse. monger-lane Sessions-house, where a bench of Magistrates presided; TIOMMAs LETT, Esq., i the chair. A discussion took place upou the prepriety of restoring the licence of a public.house near the Westminster-road, which licence had been suspended in consequence of the non-residence of thie person in whose name it haa been granted. Upon a former day we noticed this case, atnd stated that the consideration was postponed. In the inrterim Mr. Gurney,the cbunsel, was consulted upon the question whether theact of Parliament allowed a pern possesing a licence to sell beer, &c. in a certain house, to make use of that liesnce, he (the holderof the licence) not being an occuliant of the said house. Mr. Ourney's opinion was decidedly that the liceuce was not in such cse available, and that the victualler had practised an imposi- tion upon the magistrates during the whole time the sale of beer,&c. had been going on In the house. It was ascertained, that though the licence had been granled every year in the nameof a victualler, that person had no, occupiedtl;c house for six years; and Mr. Gurney said, that for that whole pe- riod, the licence was mot worth a farthing in law, and tlh.tt every drop of beer drank upon the authority of it was consumed illegaldy since the year 1818, at which time the applicant for the licence had left the house. It was.not, as was supposed on the licensing day, to decide upon the right of double occupancy this case was adjoarned; but that fzncied right being comprehended in the case nut to counsel, the victusalers will take the hint, and stay wherever their licences are. The licence in this aase was for these reasons taken away altoge- ther. 1'he injutry must, in consequence of the loss of the licence, be of course very great to the prese3t occupant, who purchased the house for 2,0001. The Magistrates were also engaged in disuqssing a Proposition which vwas made by one of their body. for the advantage of a very extensive and populous neighbourhood. It was proposed that the licences of some public hotisesin Kent-street, in the Borough, the rieighbourbood in which thieves of all descriptions are to be found, should be removed to different Fprts of the county, and one victualler applied.for the removal of his licence from the fortmer spot, ta the ent.road,closetothe svellknovrn inn, ccaled the BuU Inn. Tothis it was objected that the regular day for licensing public holses hav. ing passed7, the bench had not the power to grant alicence to a house v~tbout the regular forms being gone twrough, and that ain infringe. ment of this rVfuioi, w-l.;-tt6nded with endleas and inmcu cul,.ble inconveence...:. * : For theprcent'z3oe vhtz'UI take place, but itis pretty I well ascerta ziedj.fgi,t;it ziet s iencouxzgerment wiU begiv'en I by the inmistrgt~s ~t4JeI: eio eiswho may think propel' to re' mnove from. a--nes3tti : vhii the vbench are determined tF in- prove, if imrtiWl -'S''p't3ble. It t,eeme tobe thelplaln of the magLs sa 'p'r,eV9I tlbit. carr,vingl 'os Of s~~he abt vnd Spirit buiiinctz5 in ceevri~ ifreF calculated td d tufg& to bnad:cha- racters. ._._-_. LrCENSING INV THE COUNTY OF SUIRREY.