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THF:ATRR.ROYAL, DRURY-LANS.

TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, Nnverober 4,
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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.

WESTMINSTER LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY
OFFICE,
LONDOR, OCTORVII 31. 1910.
NOTICE is hereby wiee.., that is GENERAL
COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this OFFICE
will lie hoiden on WEDNESDAY the Bth day of November
Next, at Twelve of the Clark at Noon, at their House i•
the Strand. to sereive the Report of the Auditors, sod to
declare a Di•iibititil for the half var ending at Michaelmas
last. RICHARD RA RN FS, &circuity.
The Chair will he film' at One tielork precisely.

bar of the Homo., and hearing the whole of their deposi-
tions, and then being allowed time In prepare evidence l 0
meet them' He had milusitied,On this sterocience of Usstell Vs
absence, that lunch might depend oii the immediate
crnsw.examinati 111 l of • within. But was that solvaotage
in •ny degree equal to hearing the whole trial, mid then
leaving the accused the opportnnity of preparing defence
against every part of the eh trees, with the fullest knowledge
of persons, place., anti eirraimidanera ? Mae principle of
English justice there was which the Learned Lord impressed
with vehemence on their minds, without wisoch principle, he
declared, that all oilier prisitiples of their enrols& jurist,' 0.
dance Would be void and of no effeet. tie meant the psinciple
Brat ace-maims was no pant' a guilt. They were hinand
to mushier the accused innocent, until the evidence woad
no longer allow them to entertain that convici• . They
were bawd to give the illostisons party, upon whose rills-
duct they were gifting, the al (menu-fit of this principle.
With respect to the nature of the evidence and the futilities
which had been afforded to the procuring of svideree iii
support of the case, it most be admitted that those rsci-
lilies were greater far prucuriog evidence so auppart of
the Bill than bad been tojoyed in procuring evidence
in anew. r to the Bill. (If that consideration the seemed
must also have the ailvoitage. It could not be de.
'tied, at !rain such was his opinion, that. corn pt flare.
irours had been movie to twittg over Otheatea ageism the
accused by some parties who bad acted indirectly en support
of the 8011. Of that circumatance the SICCIIIOd ought to have
the full benefit, not only as affecting new r valence or a illitalife
to whom such corrapt spoilt-akin,. hail been twunglit home,
' loot if any ressonable aseapieimi of the same kind could he en-
tertained as to witnesaer, as to whom subornation had not
been proved, the accused must hive the full advantage of
thew. auspietsons. He would now state the grunkola of his
up' - . Laying aside all the suspicion% or mooted evidence,
the question which be had put to himself was, whether ur
lon upon that pail -if the testimony fur the Bill which was
indisputable, cowilmiesl with. such evidence as had
beta adduced on the defence, and also with the wood
of evidence iii the slefs nee—this all shit testimotty, taken
together, confirm the meamble of the Hill or not ?
The course lie should take we. of !Isis oolitic. lie appre-
hended that looking ilia at one or two tircumst•nres 'lnset el,
but looking to the whole of the fuels proved by witnesses
above all suipiciois—if their Lordship% then II ght it did
appear, and be was sorry to say it, lint irion the evidence he
could not form ally other cumluaion than that there had heels
an adulterous inte, courw. With respect to contradiction of
evidence, he thou-41d that frequently more of effect was given
in it in the summing up of the Judges than it deserved. It
often happened that a cocumtlance was proved as a fart,
on a trial, which it was impossible for the party to contradict,
merely because being false, he might reasmiably surliese it
could out be proved ; so where an milistilwal weeks to f tete
where nu other person was present, contradiction was im.
possible. Hat when fete were spoken Su as happening in
the presence of rosily itsilivatials, and they could prove be
olio perjured, the wino of contradiction then became of the
greatest importance ; and nu one had a right li. iniaallie the
witness was speaking falsely where such a immix, of persons
might contradict him, for if they did not contradict him,
then his statement might tee considered as negatively and
tacitly allowed by them to be trite. He would lake leave
to lay out of the rase all that Majorchi mid Demont
bad deposed : he might allow there were some contrailiciias
or many roar-ashrams,' in their testimony, if their Lord-
thip• pleased, not that he meant to my that built might
not have 'paten the truth. Bud laying out of their coolie.
deration she whsle of their testimony, their Lordships would
please to travel with loon ou baud the pular:se. Who went
with her Royal Highness on that aeration ? Lieut. Flynn,
Hieronymus, Camera, the Countess Oldi, and polite Austin.
Could their Lordships doubt that If the question its it trying
were merely this—" Did Bergetni and her Majesty %lei p ',Soler
the lent or awning on 6.pard the polacre?" could any rain
doul:t if that were the only issue, what would be the effect
of the evidence which hail been produced, and of that which
!abed not, loot whirl; might have been brought forward. He
' had forgotten to meow,. Lieutenant llownam's name among
the perm's* who accompanied her Majesty on that ices-
Sion. In the first place, let them look to the evidence of
Pelage° and the Captain Ile knew of no observation that
had been made nn lime eVilisilre of those two persons, ex.
mining 11w circumstance of the p ',mem. "Some Noble
Lord says, ' more that, that.' I sisall be glad to have point.
ed out to me where that more is. At present 1 form my
°pinion on what appear. to ow ; if hereafter more should
appear, there will he sufficient opportunities for me to cor-
rect my opinion." Tke Noble and League) Lord then con.
tinued and said, that with respect to the payment of those
two Witnesses, a thing which he thought of little or no co,:re-
oiretice, excepting that there Eqpt ased nothing to observe
upon, lie saw not how it could be otherwise, ea these was no
compulsory primes. to, bring foreign wilco-loses to this
country. Persons within their jurisdiction they might
compel,and those were paid for loss of time, with theexception
of lawyers and physicists ; but foreign witnesses could not
be brought here without paying then" for their loss of time.
He would suppose for a 11111 l neat that the Captain and•mate
had proved the flirt that her Majesty and Bergamo slept un.
der that tent, and looking to the evidence of 1:1)uu and
Hownsin, and to the reluctant manlier in which they gave
it, he thought that was strong confirmatory evidence. It
mill might be proved that they were ant •teeping together
by the evidence of every person lie had named. The Coon-
less Oldi, the maid servants, and all the persons who atept
below, might have been called, and he wonld ask if it were
possible lint to have had evidence of it ? Thu. it being proved
that the parties had slept there, front that and rotor cir.
cumat•nces he thought an edultrrons ihtercouree must have
had place. Their Lordships -would keep in recollection
the fact of the contiguity of the beds in every place—the
familiarities at different places—and all the circumstauces
of the 'levee of Itergattil, and not only liergaini, but
every other individual of h•s family—and the important
circumstance of the introduction of the Countess Olili,
without any comninnicsi. to the family, that she was
the sister of 'termini. Had she been • stranger, the toter- 1
position of her disinter between her Majesty's room and
Origami's, would hive been a strung proof of inunrence,
but introduced as she hid been, their Lordships could at
least draw sin inference of innocence from that circumstance,
of the intro mediate position of her chamber, relative to the
Priocess's and Regain 's. What then was proved on board
the polacre ? liorgiolo, at page 117, *fated what happened
on the outer voyage, and he had stated a circumstance
which had not received any contradiction, lie meant the
fact of Bergami carrying his lied to wlwrc he could see
her Majesty. He begged their Loribiliim partictilar linens ,
lion to Lieotenant Flynn's evidence. He was the person
who had the geinellt of the beds on time outer voyage.
tie 'mild beg their Lordships to put this question mu titem•
selves, how that mato, who gave inch minute evidence as to
the ri posing places on the outward Voyagr, should yet know
next to nothing on the voyage homewards ? Did nut that con-
firm the fact, that the parties did sleep under that tent? The
same observation applied to liownam's evidence. Another
observation was, that if the necessity existed for the
I arrangement, the ciocuinatauce taus) be well known.
How happened it then that they were moiler such diffi•
coley of stating the mire circumstance? The circum-
stance of the gull and the sitting on the bench had
toot been coutrarlicied, sad unless he bad been mistaken in
all the divorce cases which had ever come before him, and
unfortunately hie experience of them in that Hunse WAS not
' limited, such familiarities as there on the deck, take% with
due reference to the time and place, were proofs of *hat
passed below, sail the familiarities should be of sorb a
nature that a plain man could not but Mier that the
crime of adoltery had taken place. Bareiolo says be
was ordered to close the teat by Schiavini; now that
IWas an important circumstance, which might have added
welled to tbuZection as to the payment of the wi
it kbiayial
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With an additional Scrne.

Captain Mat-heath, Madame Vestria; Prachum, Mr. Mon.
den; I.nekit, Mr. Gallia; Filth, Mr. Kumla. Ms. lieseliuni,
M,.. tisrlowi! ; R,lly, liy a Lady (her first appearance in
I.nry. Miss Kelly.
In Art II will hr introduced a Rithatto, briar nearly a
repres•otation of the mode in which the celebrated
Maryle•bour Gard, its were illuminated un such occasions.
After which. the Musical Farce a
HIT OR MISS.

Diet Cyphrr, Mr. Dag fry; Janus Jumble, Mr. Paraarti;
Adam Stirline% Mr. ; Jerry B;iotsum, Mr. Knight;
tritifurke 'Jr. Weston. Mrs. Augusta Carolina
Illoneyninuili, Mr.. Ilarlowe; Clara Stirling, Miss Chbilt
Dully O'Daoky, Mrs. Bland.
The interior of the Theatre has been completely embel-
lished noel newly eleenraitil.
Th• chit( part I.l' the Scenery has been repainted, and •
new Arrhiteciural Drop Scene, designs(' and ixerntea: by
Marinari.

Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Beldamll, at the
PrIVMC Box Leitranee, Little Russell street, testi{ Ike cum.
pletion of the Portico
The D.wrs will Ire opened al Half-past Six o'Clock, and
the P:rformances on cacti EVCllilif (-eminence at Seven.
Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6.l.—Pit, 3s. 6.1.; Second
Prier, t..—Lower Gallery. 25.; Second Price, It—Upper
Galles y. I s. ; S.-cored l'rice, ail.

Mr. WAILIfk is engaged at this Theatre, snd •rill shortly
make Liv sive armee.

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