nagement of a licensed house or hostel* he will be refused his license. He should therefore be prepared with evidence to rebut, at the time of his application, all undue opposition which he may expect to be made against him on these grounds. If he finds himself unassailable in either of these respects, and, when he intends to open a house which has not been before licensed as an inn or public-house, made sufficient inquiry that there is need for such a house in the neighbourhood, and that there is a probability of success in it, he must, before he can obtain a license to keep an inn or public-house, and sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed in a house not kept at

* This word, though become obsolete, is the ancient and legal term for an inn or public-house; and from it the keepers or landlords were called hostellers, or hosts; a term to which Shakspeare has given emphatic significancy in his expression "mine host;" and which is still more grateful to the ear, as implying a larger share of frank good humour and obliging condescension, than the more fashionable appellative-landlord.

But language changes with manners: what was once indicative of the good qualities of our nature, becomes, by a strange perversion of taste, of a ludicrous meaning; while some unintelligible and aristocratic term usurps its just and ancient office.

the time of the application for the license as an inn, ale-house, or victualling-house, cause the following notice to be affixed on the door of the house for which he intends to apply for a license, and on the door of the church or chapel of the parish where the house is situate; or if there be no church or chapel, on some other conspicuous place, on three several Sundays between the 1st of January and the last day of February, in Middlesex and Surrey; and elsewhere, between the first of June and the 31st of July, at some time between ten and four in the day.-Stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 10.

To the Overseers of the Poor, and the Constables of the Parish of and to all whom it may concern.

in the parish of

I, A. B., [stating the trade or occupation] now residing at in the county of and for six months last past having resided at in the parish of [or, as the case may be, in the several parishes of] in the county of do hereby give notice, that [if application is intended to be made to a special session, the cause for such application must here be stated] it is my intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting [or at the special session] to be holden at

on the day of next ensuing, for a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed in the house, or premises thereunto belonging, situate at [here describe the house intended to be opened, specifying the situation of it, the person of whom rented, the present or late occupier, whether kept or used as an inn, ale-house, or victualling-house,

within three years preceding; and if so, by whom, and under what sign], and which I intend to keep as an inn, ale-house, or victualling-house.

Given under my hand this thousand eight hundred and

day of

one

This notice should be either printed, or written in a fair and legible hand; and a copy of it must be served on one of the overseers of the poor, and also on one of the constables or other peace officers of the parish in which is situate the house intended to be opened, within the month of February, in Middlesex and Surrey, and elsewhere within the month of July, prior to the General Annual Licensing Meeting.Stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 10. MEMORANDUM.-It may be proper here to state-as I have known an instance of peculiar hardship, in the case of a very meritorious individual in Lancashire, with a large family of motherless children, having, through ignorance of this provision of the Act, put himself to much unnecessary trouble and some expencethat the sixteenth section of the Statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, enacts, that no sheriff's officer, or officer executing the legal pro

cess of any court of justice, shall hold any license under this Act; and that any license granted or transferred to any person exercising any such office, shall be void.

2. Application for Ale License.

When the applicant for an ale license is properly prepared and qualified, he should inform himself of the proper time and quarter for the application. This information is afforded him by the provisions of the Statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 61.

By the first section of that Act, all the laws respecting the licensing of public-houses are repealed, and licenses are grantable only at a special session of Justices, to be held annually, and called the "General Annual Licensing Meeting," or at some adjournment thereof; which meetings are to be held in Middlesex and Surrey within the first ten days of March, and in every other county, on some day between the 20th of August and the 14th of September inclusive. And

the second section of the Act directs, that there shall be held, twenty-one days at least before each such General Annual Licensing Meeting, a petty session of Justices acting for each county or place, the majority of whom then present shall appoint the day, hour, and place for the licensing meeting for each division or place; and the constables of every constablewick are to affix a notice of such day, hour, and place of meeting, on the door of the church or chapel, and, where there shall be no church or chapel, on some other public or conspicuous place, within their respective districts; and also give, or leave at the dwelling-house of each person keeping an inn or publichouse, or who shall have given notice of his intention to keep an inn or publichouse, and to apply for a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk, &c. on the premises, notice thereof.

And the Justices may adjourn the General Annual Meeting, and such adjourned meetings are to be continued to such times and places as are convenient, to