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

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 the 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 check 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 pearl barley flavoured with onions
—(a laugh)--11b potatoes, 28oz bread, 1 pint gruel, 1 pint
cocoa ; Wednesday, soz mutton same as Monday, llb 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 aie
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 hadalso 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 tho 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 of £2O 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 " 31azeppa." He would
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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 bra7nch to Mr. Draper'
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 otthe7per-
formances ; and Mr. Charles Beach, an author, living at 51
Cumberland-street, with Field, proved accompanying Field
and said his description was accurate.
Mr. Win. 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.

Cross-examined—lt is customary to call a performance
with more than two people a play. " Two o'Clock in the
Morning" is a dramatic performance, but it might be per-
formed in a drawing-room without scenery. In the case
of a comic duet like " The Cousins, or the Music Lesson,"
it would be different, as there is no dramatic plot arid no
dramatic illusion ; there would be no change of scene re-
quired either. These are the tests ; but it is difficult to
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and Cox" I consider a stage play, although there requires no
change of scene. There aro, however, several pieces which
could be performed without risk in a place of public resort,
which would be considered plays if performed in a licensed
house. A change of dress would not necessarily constitute
a dramatic illusion, because many a public singer changed
a hat or coat, olksome other modification of dress takes
place, but as I have before stated, it is almost impossible to
lay down a rule.
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is allowed by their theatrical license, and that is the only
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license fee is about four guineas a year, and two guineas
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