The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

After some observations from Lord A. thruncunay

Lord STANLEY thought in the natural course of
things, the Maori race must disappear, as all other abori-
ginal tribes had done who had ever come into contact with
European civilisation. What we ought now to do was to
satisfy ourselves that the colonists did all they could in
their own behalf ; then to continue to them such temporary
military aid as they needed, on the understanding, how-
ever, that it was kept down to the lowest point, and that it
would not be similarly given after the termination of the
war. There was one thing which he hoped would not
be done ; it was that the governor would not have any
power over matters of diplomacy and native relations
independently of all control on the part of his respon-
sible advisers. In short, he would say, limit your aid as
much as you can • withdraw it as soon as possible.
Lord R. CECIL urged that the Legislature was bound
to see that native rights did not suffer harm. At the same
time, as the management of native relations was to be
handed over to the colonists themselves, it was the duty of
Parliament to withdraw the power of England trom the
scene of conflict as rapidly as possible.
Observations -were also made by Mr. W. E. FORSTER
and Mr. KINNAIRD.

Mr. CARDWELL argued that there was ample room for
civilised culture, the growth of population and property,
and for both races to live side by side in New Zealand with-
out the necessity of dispossessing the Maories. And he
added, that if ever there was a native race capable of pro-
fiting by the advantages of civilisation it was the natives
of New Zealand. It might have been wise or not to make
the treaty of Waitangi ; but having made it it was equally
just, wise, and honourable, to observe its provisions. As
yet the rebellion had not been extinguished, but if the war
was dying out, and we withdrew the 10,000 troops we had
there, and intimated our desire no longer to be made the
instruments of perpetuating hostilities, he though we might
safely conclude that no war policy would be pursued by
the colonists. Ho did not believe it possible to subjugate
the Maories without the assistance of the power of Eng-
land, and that being so he presumed the colonists of them-
selves would not be ambitious to attempt it. He readily
accepted, then, the new policy which the colonial Ministry
and Assembly had recently offered to adopt.

Mr. M'EVOY moved to resolve that the Government
should now adopt the recommendations of the select com-
mittee of 1858, with regard to the claims of Ireland to a
grant of the half-cost of medical officers in unions, with
the view of providing for the same in future, as is now the
practice in England and Scotland.
Tho motion was opposed by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, on the ground that the re-
commendations of a select committee were not conclu-
sive reasons for guiding the decision of the house, and be-
cause a select committee had been reappointed to consider
the general question of Irish taxation.
After discussion, in which Mr. NEATE, Mr. WHITESIDE,
and other members took part, the motion was negatived,
upon a division, by 37 to 34.

Mr. AUGUSTUS SMITH addressed some remarks to the
house relative to the operations of the Westminster Im-
provement Commission, which elicited an explanation from
Mr. TrrE in reply.
The Game (Ireland) Bill was read a second time by
50 to 8.

The Private Bill Costs Bill was road a third time and
passed.
THEATRES AND PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
Mr. LOCKE, in moving for leave to introduce a bill
to amend the law relating to theatres and other places of
public amusement, said that its object was partly to obviate
the danger to which the public were at present exposed in
those buildings in case of accident or fire. The object of
the bill would settle the question that had arisen between
the theatres and music halls, and he understood there was
no objection to it on the part of the Government. Ho
moved for leave to bring in the bill.
Mr. T. G. BARING would not oppose the bill at that
stage. As far as he knew, however, the Lord Chamberlain
had taken every precaution to insure the safety of all build-
ings in which public entertainments were given. (Hear.)
Leave was then given to bring in the bill.
Mr. CHILDERS brought in the Marine Mutiny Bill,
which was read a first time.

The house adjourned at 25 minutes past 9 o'clock.

The Burglary in Mark-lane.

Yesterday the three men named Rowland (otherwise
Hogan), Bell, and Notley, who stand charged with break-
ing and entering the premises of Messrs. Twiss and
Browning, commission agents, at 47, Mark-lane, and
stealing three cashboxes containing banknotes and a
number of securities representing merchandise of great
value, were brought before the Lord Mayor, at the
Justice-room of the Mansion-house, for further examina-
tion.

Mr. Humphreys, solicitor, of Newgate-street (Hum-
phreys and Morgan), conducted the prosecution. The
prisoners, who are an very young men, defended them-
selves.

The manner in which the prisoners Rowland and Bell
contrived to get within the front door of the premises in
question in Mark-lane, by one of them taking a letter ad-
dressed to a servant girl living at the top of the house, and
saying he would wait until she wrote an answer, has already
been reported, as has also the way in which they afterwards
of a door, and Browningan entrance into tho offices of Messrs. Twiss and
anondthte ground floor by breaking the glazed panel
lock on thsoerainesiodfew;in a key ich had been left in the
hbgiueththaerest of the attendant circum-
bstraonucgehst,
clearly out until are very remarkable, were not
g,
whoye arday. It appears that Messrs
Twiss and Browning,
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commission agents, have two Jr:
inclosed in a strong-room in their office.
was never out
one of the iron
safes they kept all their more valuable.ln documents, includ-
ing securities for money, and the key of this
of the possession of one of the partners. It wasw
the efforts
by
one of Chubb's patent locks, and had resisted al
of the burglars to open it. The other safe contained the
books of the firm, some petty cash, and papers in two cash-
boxes, and nearly 60 dock warrants in an iron box, repro.. 1
renting merchandise to a large amount, but which a thief
could not have negotiated. All negotiable bills and moneys
belonging to the firm were kept at their bankers, accord-
ing to a custom common among merchants. On the even-
ing preceding the burglary Thomas Young, a clerk of the
firm, before leaving the office, which he did a few minutes
before seven, locked up the one iron safe of which he had
the key, and the strong-room, and left the porter, George
Rye, to lock up the premises. There were then in the iron
safe the two cashboxes and the iron box containing dock
warrants. Mr. Henry Wood, a principal clerk, had pre-
viously locked the boxes, and there was then in one of
them seven £5 Bank of England notes, an Australian so-
vereign, a bad halfcrown and a bad sixpence ; in another
a check for .£5 and some papers, and among the dock
warrants, fifty-seven in number, in the iron box, there
was a £5 bank note. On locking the strong-room, Mr.
Young placed the key of it, according to custom, in a
pigeon-hole in the office. The porter Geo. Rye, at eight
o'clock, on leaving for the night, locked the outer door and
put the key of it in his pocket. He had previously observed
that the strong-room door was locked, and that the key was
in the Pigeon-hole. It is already known how the thieves
were
un-
expected surprised, about 1 o'clock in the morning, by the un-
refusiug to answer returnanoark
of Mr.
Mr. Moore, a solicitor who occupies
chambers in the upper part of the house, and how, on their
a lightwho and
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on who was there, he called in the
police,the house for the remainder of the
getting into the offices, locked the
entered on the inside, and therefore the

police could not gain access to them without breaking open
the door, which they did not do. On the arrival, at 8 o'clock
next morning, of the porter Rye, he opened another door
of which he had the key, and entered with the officers, City
Sergeants Jennison and Speck. The prisoners Rowland
and Bell were then found, as stated on the first examination,
seated at a table in Mr. Browning's private room, drinking
rum from a sample glass, and Rowland was smoking a cigar
in an easy chair. The strong-room door was then open, as
was also that of one of the safes ; two of the cashboxes lay
on the floor broken open, and the place was strewn with
papers and in general confusion. The lock of the other iron
and more private safe, of which the principal partner always
kept the key, had been tampered with, but the safe itself
remained secure and intact. An iron instrument, having a
chisel at one end and a hammer at the other, and which
belonged to he premises, was found in one of the offices,
and on comparing it with marks on one of the cashboxes
which had been broken open, it was found to fit them ex-
actly. The key of the strong-room was found on a shelf in
the strong-room, and the key of the iron safe which had
been opened lay on the floor. The dock warrants had not
been touched, but the eight £5 notes, the Australian sove-
reign, and the che.ck for £5 were all missing. Not so the bad
halfcrown and bad sixpence, they remained in the cashbox
in which they had been left on the previous evening, and the
check for £5 was afterwards found with some papers in a
watercloset on the premises. The Australian sovereign
was found secreted in a stocking of one of the two prisoners,
but they had made away with the £4O in notes, and the
presumption is that they passed them to a confederate out-
side by the front door before Mr. Moore, the solicitor, re-
turned home at 1 o'clock and surprised them. The prisoner
Notley, who is only 18 years of age, had been in the service
of Messrs. Twiss and Browning as a porter until about 18
months ago, when he was discharged. Suspicion having at-
tached to him in connexion with the burglary, he was appre-
hended on Wednesday last, and he then admitted that he
had been in the company of Rowland and Bell on the night
before the burglary, that they wanted to commit it that
evening, but he advised them to wait until some other night,
his intention, he said, being to have nothing to do with it ;
that he met them again on the following night, when they
had some words, and he refused to join them in carrying it
out.

It may be recollected that the letter which the prisoner
Rowland delivered to the girl Bridget, who lived in the
upper part of the house as servant to Mr. Young, an archi-
tect, purported to have been written by Mary Notley, a for-
mer servant of Mr. Young. Yesterday Mary Notley, the
woman in question, and now the wife of a cellarman, was
called, and declared the letter to be a forgery, and that it
was written without her knowledge or authority. She is
married to a brother of the prisoner Notley. A waiter at
the City Arms Tavern, in Great Tower-street, proved that
he saw the prisoners Bell and Notley drinking together in
the taproom there on the night before the robbery. Onthe
lodgings of the prisoner Rowland, in Half Moon-place,
Whitechapel, being searched by Smart, a city detective
officer, two extraordinary documents were found—one
containing prescriptions for killing and fascinating dogs,
and the other a dietary table for convicts.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for the prosecution, read
them as follows :

" To Bill Dogs—A little liver cooked and some chloro-
form mixed with it. Let them eat it." (A laugh.) " A
little liver cooked and some aniseed mixed with it. Let the
dog smell it, and it will not bark." (Laughter.)
" Convict Diet.—The following is the new scale of diet
for the convicts employed on public works :—Sunday, soz
of cheese, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint gruel ; Monday,
soz mutton, and its own liquor, flavoured with onions—
(laughter)—and thickened with any bread left from previ-
ous day, llb potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint
gruel ; Tuesday, 1 pint soup made from 7oz shin of beef,
4oz fresh vegetables, 2oz pearlbarley flavoured with onions
—(a laugh)-11b potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint gruel, 1 pint
cocoa ; Wednesday, soz mutton same as Monday, lib pota-
toes, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint gruel ; Thursday, llb
suet pudding, llb potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint
gruel ; Friday, soz beef, 1 pint beef liquor, flavoured as on
Tuesday, llb potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint
gruel ; Saturday, soz beef, 1 pint beef liquor, flavoured as
on Friday, llb potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint
gruel. Each allowance of meat is weighed after being
cooked, and must be free from bone. The potatoes me
good." (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—They appear to have been anticipa-
ting their fate. (A laugh.)
Mr. Humphreys said at present it did not appear whether
the dietary table was a thing the prisoner Rowland had
himself concocted, or a copy of an authentic document.
The Lord Mayor was inclined to believe it was a copy o f
the dietary in vogue ; if so, it was a great deal more liberal
than that in workhouses, and was almost calculated to in-
duce a certain class of people to commit crime. (A laugh.)
It was then proved that a rough sketch on paper of the
internal arrangements of the prosecutors' office had also been
found at the lodgings of the prisoner Rowland. It was also
proved that the key of the strong-room was kept at the
time of the robbery in the same place as when the prisoner
Notley was in their service.

On that evidence Mr. Humphreys applied to have the
prisoners committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor asked if any of the eight £5 notes had
been found.

Mr. Humphreys replied in the negative.
The prisoner Notley demanded to know upon what evi-
dence he was about to be committed for trial.

Mr. Oke, the chief clerk, said the evidence that he knew
beforehand that a felony was about to be committed and yet
kept that knowledge to himself, which was a crime in law.
He would be charged as an accessory before the fact.
The prisoners, on being cautioned severally, reserved
their defence.

The Lord Mayor committed them for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.

The Theatrical Monopoly.

At the Westminster Police Court yesterday, Mr. Alfred
Henry Fowler, the nominal proprietor of the Regent Music
Hall, Regent-street, Westminster, appeared to a summons
charging him with performing a stage play at the said place,
the same not being duly licensed for theatrical perform-
ances by the Lord Chamberlain.
The prosecution was at the institution of the lessees of
her Majesty's, Drury-lane, the Lyceum, the Haymarket,
Astley's, the Adelphi, and the Olympic Theatre, who were
represented by Mr. Roberts, solicitor; Mr. Draper, solicitor,
appeared on behalf of the defendant.

Mr. Roberts, in opening the case, stated that this was a
prosecution under the 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 68, sec. 2,
which imposed a penalty 0f„.£20 per day for every perform-
ance. The allegation in this case was that the defandant
did, on the day named, Feb. 27, perform, or cause to be
performed, a burlesque entitled " Mazeppa." He would
call witnesses who would ,rove the performance, and then
should ask for his worship's judgment, with such a reason-
able penalty as he should think fit. There had been a great
deal said about theatrical monopoly, and the proprietors of
music-halls had raised it, but this was a penal act of parlia-
ment. If it was harsh the legislature had made it, and let
the legislature alter it if it pleased. It was not for him to
say whether it was so or not, but he appeared to prosecute
under the statute. His clients were the lessees of the me-
tropolitan theatres. They had large sums to pay for their
licenses ; they had to pay heavy fees to the Lord Cham-
berlain for each play, and considered that their rights were
being encroached upon by persons who had no such fees to
pay. He did not pretend to say that there was any thea-
trical monopoly, but if there was, let it be altered by all
means. He had held out the olive branch to Mr. Drape;
and advised him to plead guilty, as only a nominal penalty
would be asked for; but the latter had declined, and hoped
to succeed. He should proceed at once to prove that a play
was performed, and Mr. Fowler would, if he could, prove
that he had a license from the Lord Chamberlain so to do.
Henry Field, 51, Cumberland-street, Pimlico, who said
he was " general private inquirer," "the original private
inquirer of 20 years' experience in the police," but not "the
celebrated Mr. C. F. Field," gave an account ofthe:per-
formances ; and Mr. Charles Beach, an author, living at 51
Cumberland-street, with Field, proved accompanying Field
and said his description was accurate.
Mr. Wm. Bodham Donne, of No. 40, Weymouth-street,
examiner of plays to the Lord Chamberlain, said he had
heard the evidence of these last two witnesses, and from
their statements he certainly called this a stage play. There
appeared to be the plot of " Mazeppa," and whether serious
or burlesque, there was, he considered, no difference in
point of law. It contained the ingredients of the plot ;he
had no hesitation in saying that it was a stage performance.
The lady purported to be the Princess Olinska, the daugh-
ter of the Governor of Poland.

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