To The Editor Of The Time...
oir,-L wios pauen sotpinsed to le2rn, from the Bow-street police rport, iD yAur o aper of his day, that in answer to the application of *tne parish officers of St. Clement Danes, and the liberty of the Rolls, Sir R. Birnie should have stated, that " Elder wine houses not being licensed vir.tuallers, no efiorta could bene.2debyhim tocheek them." If'Ihe worthy magistrate will refer to theact 3 Geo. IV., cap. 5S, eornrmno yealled the Po ice Act, he will, if I ara not mtitaken, find a clatse (sect. 17) relatirg to "shops, or rooms, ar otherplaces, open. ed for the sale of, or inl'er the pretence ofF selling, ready mnade coffee, tea, and oA%er liquiors," which, by the application of a .afer and sounder imecretion in the irterpretation of acts of Parliament than is'ofieDtimnes exerdised in policeofflces, will place in his power the means of effectually cheeking and restraining, if not of altogether abadin*, the nuisance in question. I am, Sir, vour ohedlenr CIVIS. IU 'l J VJl. U. 1V TIlE Ef DITOR OF TjjjE: TMllfS.