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A party in Marylebone are endeavouring to secure the return of Mr. Urquhart at the next election.
The new Metropolitan Police Net is now in operation. One of its provisions prevents the sale of liquor on Sundays before one o'clock ; and it was remarked that, in consequence of the regulation, London was more orderly than usual on Sunday last. On the previous Satur- day night, however, the rush to the gin-shops and public-houses to pro- cure a supply for the next morning's consumption, created some dis- turbance. The shops were cleared at midnight with difficulty.
Many of the proprietors of gin-palaces in London and the suburbs have placed in their windows immense placards, with the clause which relates to the closing of public-houses on Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday, until one o'clock, printed in large letters. At the foot of durplacard appears the following announcement : "As we are prevented by law from serving until one o'clock, please to bring your jugs and bot- *8 on Saturday night."
At the Town-hall, Southwark, on Wednesday, Stowell the informer applied to Sir Peter Laurie, who was the acting Magistrate, for sum- monses against parties who had violated the New Police Act. Being questioned by Sir Peter, Stowell said that the new act would give him much additional employment ; that several publicans kept their pre- mises open last Sunday, and that the innkeepers generally were snuck dissatisfied with the act. Sir Peter Laurie said- " The hemmed victuallers are now feeling the effects of their conduct. They Lave been hallooing on those men in the Goverument as the greatest friends af liberty., and now the Government turns round upon them and does every thing in its power to injure the publican."
Stowell remarked, that many of the most respectable publicans con- tired the act a very excellent one ; 'whereupon Sir Peter rejoined— "Tire clause which compelled the closing of their houses thwicff morning was all very well ; but there were other clauses which agia,(71,1_ grievously, and which they might depend on it would be carried out,pka° hardy by the Police Magistrates, who, being under the entire control-et --g,,, cretary of State, must and would, as a matter of course, swell out theirs'ot; victions for the purpose of proving their utility."
On Monday, the Police gave notice to those persons who have Mill%) kept coffee-stalls under the Piazzas of Covent Garden, that they taut discontinue the practice, as it is an infringement of the new paie Bill.
At the Marylebone Office, yesterday, the Reverend Robert burn, of 14, Upper Montague Street, Montague Square, was settto prison for three months, as a punishment of grossly indecent be/4A* to two respectable women in the Regent's Park.
On Tuesday, a gentleman applied to the Magistrates of liaryt Garden, to know if they could assist him in recovering 8s. from spill). Usher who had announced a work to be completed in so manym, hers, but which had suddenly stopped in the middle, after the applical had "taken in" eight of them. The Magistrates recommended an ap. plication to a Court of Conscience or to any attorney.
The town has been placarded for some days past, offering 504 reseed
for a female who bought some tea at Ridgway's, King William Street, City, and paid for the same with a 201. note. This note belonged to Westwood, of Prince's Street, who was murdered some time back ;84 it is supposed to be about one of the first put into circulation.
The British Queen will leave Gravesend on Sunday, on her see* voyage to New York.
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