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SOME HISTORIC TRIALS.
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DRURY · LANE'S GOOD YEAR.
BIG INCREASE IN PROFITS FOR PAST 12 MONTHS.
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The directors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Limited, recommend the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus of 2į per cont. (less tax) for the year ended June 30th last.
The accounts for the twelve mouths, show that the profit amounted to £68,590, and, after deducting fixed charges, cost of productions, etc., there remains a net profit of £40,008. The balance from the
[BY THE NT. HON. EDWARD BEORTT, I.C., FORMERLY FOXE SECRETARY.]' “Famous Trials of History "* is a book which will be read with pleasure and interest by lawyers and laymen alike. The stories are told with just sufficient technical detail to arrest the attention of the legal reader, and, are, at the same time, full of engrossing human interest. It must be conccded that some of the cases narrated hardly meris the descriplast account was £8,074, making £33,09%. tion of either "famous" or "historical But that obvious criticism," as Lord Birkenhead himself calls it in his pre. face, he admits and disarms at pace. The treatment of the cases is avowedly untechnical and fited to the comprehen- sion of laymen, and the book does not claim to do more, though, in fact, it does much more, than amuse an idle hour.
It is proposed to transfer to reserve income tax account 20,000, and to 2,000, leaving £13,460 to be carried for ward after the payment of the dividend and bonus."
Since the date of the accounts, the directors have paid off four debentures; of £5,000 each, reducing debentures out- standing to £40,000.
Last year the net profit was 28,547, and the dividend $ per cent. less tax, while £2,200 was placed to reserve.
The prosperous state of affairs as Drury-lane, must be attributed to the success of the spectacular American musical play Rose Marie." The play itself has broken a record for the run of the great house, and it is confidently ex- pected that it will contnine until March next year, when it will celebrate its second birthday.
Mary Queen of Scots. The stories of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, of the trial of Thomas Went worth, Earl of Strafford, and of the trial of Warren Hastings are undoubtedly the best in the volume. They are written with lucidity and vigour, and they deal with the events of three of the most im- portant periods in our national history.
Mary Queen of Scots was one of the central figures in the arena when Eng land was fighting for her position as a first-class Power among the peoples of Europe, and during the final struggle Its original production was the cause between Catholicism and Protestantism (of much controversy, for it will be re- for religious supremacy in these realms.membered that Mr. Basil Dean, the Thomas Wentworth played a leading manager of the theatre, was opposed to part in the prolonged contest between the production of Rosa Marie? He the English people striving to secure had seen the play in the States and did their constitutional rights and the not think that it was suitable for the Stuart Kings claiming to govern by Lane. The other directors opposed his Divine Right.
production of a substitute, "School for Scandal," and Mr. Dean resigned, with the result that Rose Marie" enne to Drury Lane.
Warren Hastings was one of those great builders who, in spite of ignorant and unreasoning opposition at home, in Ispite of unfair and often cruel criticism, fought against heavy odds to create the Greater Britain of which wo proud, without whom, moreover, and his whole-hearted work our Indian Empire would not exist to-day
Are so
The triangular diplomatic duels be tween Elizabeth and Philip of Spain and the King of France, and the real or alleged-Popish plots, as told in the story of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, are of absorbing interest.
Was the Sentence. Right?
The cost of the production was phenomenal, and in its first year charges of more than £250,000 were paid out The authors received £9,000, and the artists £60,000. More than £30,000 was paid in entertainment tax. The dresses, scenery and properties cost, something like 425,000, and advertising £11,000. Up to the present over 1,000,000 people have been the play, and over 1,400 costumes have been used
strong. But it would be inconceivable to day that any judge could behave in a criminal trial as Scroggs, the Lord Chief Justice, behaved in that case, or show such grave unfairness to the prisoners on trial.)
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Was Mary rightly and justly executed Lord Birkenhead says "She was cruelly treated at her trial. Without aid of counsel, a lovely woman was confront- Fed by the best brains of England. She defended herself steadfastly and bril liantly, weakened as she was, by lang Political considerations influenced the years of imprisonment; but she was done words and actions of some of the judges to death." Possibly that is true, but then to an extent which would be im having regard to the European relations possible now. The story as told is in- of England, having regard to Mary's teresting as a tale of a strange and un- proved relations with Babington and his solved mystery, but it is also interesting plot to assassinate Elizabeth, having resa a record of the habits of mind and gard to the stern necessities of the times, speech which prevailed in other times. was not the sentence right!
Was the Earl of Strafford guilty of treason? The answer in strict law, says Lord Birkenhead, must clearly be in the negative. Nevertheless, he continues, il the purely legal aspect is set aside and the case regarded from a wider stand- point, without doubt Charles was work ing to substitute arbitrary government for the rule of law, and Strafford, his chief and most potent instrument, was a grave menace to the constitution.
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The trial of Deacon Brodie also, besides being the story of an interesting criminal case, was the occasion of some sharp. passages between an apparently crusty old judge and a young and un- known but headstrong advocate, who, having no real defence to urge on behali of his client, determined to use the op- portunity to make a name for himself. Is such a course of conduct entirely un- known to those of us who are now elderly members of the Bar ↑
The Casement Trial.
Most readers of the three stories as told by Lord Birkenhead will feel strongly that Mary Queen of Scots and Thomas to be appreciated. Some of the trials For the rest, the book should be read Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, having re- gard to the times and circumstances in are old stories retold, such as the trials which they lived, were of necessity and of Lord Mohun, Captain Kidd, Eugene rightly put to death, and that the treat Aram and Colonel Blood, who stole the ment meted out to Warren Hastings is Royal Crown from Charles II. Some a dark blot on our nations! history. As are modern, and, indeed, relate incidents the author truly says: "Names which well within the memory of most of us, will always be illustrious in English but they are told by one who, having history were employed in the attempt writes with full inside knowledge.
been professionally engaged in them, disparage and destroy 婚 most dis- tinguished Englishman. Those names will be the poorer by reason of their
exertions.'
Of those, two have a war interest- namely, the case of the German hospital ship and the trial of Roger Casement; and one, the Southern Rhodesia Land case, will have great interest for all those who are engaged, in the problems and dificulties of our Colonial development. and of our treatment of the native races in our Dominions Overseas.
To all students of the history of our prison system and of the growth and development of prison reform the story of the Wardena of the Fleet will be of absorbing interest. It is a vivid picture of the horrors and atrocities which were perpetrated in the Fleet and the Mar one of Lord Birkenhead's greatest efforts; It cannot justly be said that this is shalsen prisons and of the terrible suffer it does not claim to be. But, again let ings of the wretched debtors who were it be repeated, it does much more than confined there. It is a gruesome story. Even in those callous days there were merely amuse an idle hour, which is all that Lord Birkenhead asks for it.Daily some whom the revolting details filled Mail. with indignation.
Famous Trials of History." By the Earl of Birkenhead. (Hutchinson, 978.)
A committee of the House of Commons, after careful investigation, found that grave crimes had been committed, and ordered the offenders to be prosecuted. The prosecutions took place with results which appear to us with our modern out- look to be astounding. The general public, appear to have received the tales of suffering and misery with apathetic indifference, even treating them as a mat- ter for humour. The story of the War dens of the Fleet'is a record of six trials
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The effect enacted some measures of reform, and by excess acid in the stomach, thereby, no doubt, helped to lay the the digestive organs, until finally the trouble this acid is to steadily and increasingly weaken foundations upon which John Howard may become so deep seated as to render a caro ONE AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE income tax returns revealed. Some of and his co-workers built in later years.very difficult. Yet, once this acid is counter- The Ways of Judges, didacted, few organs heal so readily as the
New York, September 10th. stomach. This is the very reason why There are 11,000 millionaires and Of the remaining chapters, some are Biurated Megnesis is so successful in probably one billionaire in the United undoubtedly merely amusing, but others treating cases of digestive disturbance; # have in addition points of real interest.'| The trial of Green and others for the just neatralizes the harmful acid the States, in the opinion of Joseph S.
McCoy, treasury actuary enters the stomach" and moment it murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey is food-fermentation impossible, thus ridding "The billionaire probably lives in a striking example of the different the affarer of all cause of irritation and New York," Mr. McCoy guessed in the methods in which judges conducted trials in, those days and in which they conduct Weaknees, From the first dose the eass is current American Bankers Association
whilst a keen relish for one's food is Journal. appasticcable. Let Bisurated Magnesia them now. It is true that in those days soon
Nine years ago, when war profte held religious animodities were very bitter pat your stomach sight. It is quite inszpen- away, there were 11,800 millionaires but and the feeling against Papists was very five and you can get it at all chemists stores 2,800 of these toppled in 1920 and 2,000
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New York, with 2,800 millionaires, leads the list. Pennsylvania is next with 1,052, then Illinois follows with 800, Massachusetts with 810, California 470, and New Jersey 300. North Dakota and Now Mexico have one each.
Next to the billionaire are three men worth 81,000,000,000 between them and in 1994 there were 74 Americans with in- comes of 81,000,000 a year.