The Sun. — 1854-08-21 (London, England)

IMARYLEBONE.—Acase of considerable importance both to the public and publicans arose under the New Beer Act ; the question, in fact, being whether it is lawful for those persons who leave London on a Sunday, and visit the suburbs, to obtain refreshment at an inn or not. Mr. Robert Ware, proprietor of the Castle Tavern, Hampstead-heath, better known as Jack Straw's Castle, was summoned by the police for keeping his house open for the sale of spirits, &c., between the hours of half-past two and six o clock. The evidence went to show that there were five different persons who entered the hotel before half-past 2 o'clock and had their dinner. They also had wine and ale, and they paid their bills before half-past 2 o'clock, but they remained sitting after that hour with the wine and ale before them. The police entered the room, and were satisfied, from the inquiries they made of the persons themselves, that these facts were true. It was also proved that two of the persons came in a brougham, two more in a gig, and the rest on foot ; all appeared to have arrived from a distance, and the horses were taken out and placed in the stable. The gentleman who came on foot said he had left the Hampstead omnibus not far off, and had walked to the defendant's house, where he was sitting at dinner when the police entered. He considered that they had no right to intrude upon him, and that their conduct was greatly to be censured. Sunday was the only day in the week upon which he could obtain fresh airf and he made a constant practice of going to Hampstead-heath to dine. Mr. a solicitor, who appeared for the Suburban Guy, Innkeepers' Society, contended that the defendant had notan ot kept if innkeeper sold spirits before that time to, persons in his house, those persons had 3ae i also to stay as long as they pleased to drink them. suoaceonwteenrdeed that the persons present in defendant's house travellers within the meaning of the act. bond fide Mr. LONG said, as to the first point, he considered that allowing the drinking of spirits, &c., after the hour named, by persons who had previously, was in the light of a continued the liquor linfued sale, and it would be making the law a dead letter he were to decide that persons might stay as long drink what they had purchased beforeas they liked to rfohalf-past two. The law did not look to a landlord to 131 e iities, and it was sufficient that he should sorldn: mP u to ie his clear° sbestsbi his . exertions, and, to show that he had do house at the appointed hour. As to the second it was evident that the act had not defined the mepaoniiut; of the word " traveller," but had left that to be decidedn' by the magistrates before whom the evidence was brought. If a person were to go from Cheapside to Piccadilly and dine there, he could not conceive such a person to collie within the meaning of the ' word traveller • but if a person left London to go to Hampstead, Richmond, or any of the suburban villages, and dined there, he should consider such person a bona fide traveller. In the present case he thought there was sufficient evidence to prove that the persons in the defendants house were bona fide travellers, and he should therefore dismiss the summons.  Mc—BDER OF A SOLDIt company of the Royal BY yreSoinCoMßADE.—Richard Wilkinson, a private in the 18th Sappers and Miners, in a barrack-room . shot dead , on thea t morning of the 29th of J was ane deliberately last, . Halifax, Nova Scotia, by his comrade, The two me private in the same corps. InViiilal idarlaissSoiri Ida together in the regiment on the most intimateere conyterm s-se,rof friendship for more than seven years, and w ing with each other, and with other men in the room, when, without any apparent provocation, Sime went to Wilkinson arm-rack, took down his firelock, and shot . 7. , son through the heart, the bail passing out at the right side and breaking the right elbow. The unhappy victim sank instantly, and the indignation of the men in the barrack-room at the atrocious deed was so great, that, but for the prompt interference of a non-commissioned 1 officer who was prvent, the murderer would have been seriously injured. A coroner's inquest was held on the body, and a.verdict of wilful -murder returned against . . i .rnini . Sime, who a.eotted to prison. to-take his trial at the ensuing court sessions, which will come on in November AO4 I