The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-04 00:00:00

ADELPHI.

The Adelphi opened yesterday evening with the
stock comic drama of Good For Nothing, is which Miss
Woolsey (Mrs. A. Meßoo) sustained bee original character
of "Our Nan." It is almost needess to say that this ac•
complished actress gave a perfect reading to the charade".
marking with admirable skill that fine distinctioe betwria
homelier' and coaneeess, which is so difficult to observe in
coooeptions of this kind. Mir Woolgar was in the early scenes
quite as comic as the greatest gourmand of broad fan amid
desire; whilst towards the end, she elicited the racers and
earnest applause of the discriminating portion of the
audience by some of those fine touches of hellos and pathos
is which since the retirement of Mr.. Rally from the stage,
she stands unrivalled. In the sewed and third pieces the new
Irish comedian achieved a highly satisfactory sumer. Some
years since Mr. Collins obtained oonsidrable favour with
London audiences by his performance of P►ul Clifford, and
his spirited song of " Harrah for the Road." Since then be
has bees starring it in America, and now returns to his
old quarters with the mantle of Tyrone Power about
his shoulders, and finding it, on the whole, a by no means
ill•fitting garment. His became is the Power brogue, and
his prate an the Power points, but there is more effort i■
his acting, and scarcely that peculiar drollery of manner
which marked Power as the low coniehaa par excellence,
independent of all local colour.

After a short reams Aatlay's Royal Ampitbastre
rworseeed far the seem lass sight, nods circumstances et
unusual attrastion. la his preliminary announcement,
Mr. K. T. Smith states that he has made arrangements
which will be sure to cre►te a world-wide sensation, and
there can be no doubt of the entire correctness of his
prophecy. The theatre was crowded to excess last night,
there being scarcely stead* room m any part,
• vast crowd being deters together by the cari-
osity they felt to' se the difficult part of Ma•
repos sustained by • woman ; nor were they disap-
pointed, for it is but justice to Miss Adah J. Meehan to
nay that she sustained it last night, from the commence-
ment of the piece to the end, with a fire sod energy,
which elicited alike the astonishment and admiration of the
spectators.
Os the conclusion of each het, sad there are three, Mr.
Smith sod Miss Menkee were called before the curtain aid
received the plaudits of the house. though some little
laughter was sated b► the evident necessity the lady was
under to conceal her Mazeppa costume (or rather so cos-
tume) under the folds of • cloak, the exigencies of the piste
sot giving her time to change it. Aslant unusual on theist
productiou, even elan old piece. with sessenery. dresses and
stage properties, some of the scenes stook fart, sod we wean
treated to • dialogue between two of the ieferior perwmages.
is what was summate be • woodland park, bat in which
theandiese wore left to imagine • red curies to be a portioe
of the wood ; with the exception, however, of that little me-
redoes, and the dragging of the piece produced by the
length of tinto it took to set the machinery, the whole per-
form•aee seat cdf very satidairtorily. On being
called before the &Wises for the third time, Miss Minims
made a abort address, expresiog to the first British audience
before whom she bad performed her profound gratification
at the kind miumer in which eke had been received. We
mast not emit to mention the very creditable way in which
the character of Abder Khan was represented by Mr. Sam.
Emery, and Oasis, by Mime Lucy Lusbtoo. The minor
oharaotwe were also well sustained. The piece, together
with the humorous little trifle by which it was preceded.
The Daubletrekieti Rohn, is ass•useed for repetition every
night till farther moths.

Till BITSTILIOUS AFFAIR AT ACTON.—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Jams Bird, the coroner for the eaters
divisiee of Middlesex, holden Inquest at the George mid
Grego° public-house, Acton, oil ram of the bud: of two
infants which were round coocealed is • ova-chest. used as •
toilet-table, is the bedroom of Mrs. Margaret Campbell, a
married lady. residiag at No. 21, Argyie-villss, Mill-hill.
road, os Friday morning last, by the servant, Mary Murray.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. 0. Lewis. of Ely-place, at-
tended to watch the cm at the part of the accused ladies,
who, however, were not preteut. The proceedings having
bee. formalle closed, the coroner. jury, sod minsel, who
were accompanied by Mr. G. Lewis, proineded to view the
bodies, which were deposited is the dead-holm edjoimg the
church. Ou the raters to the inquest-room Mary limaye
the servant of Mrs. Campbell, was examined, end she re.
posted the *eidetic* she gave before the magistrates oe Satur-
day. Mr. Henry Batley Liogbam, a regnitersd practitioner at
Acton, said, in answer to questions from the corow-r, that
be nude • post-mortem examinstiou of the bodve that
morning, bet be *wild not ay whether the children were
born alive or mot. lie coasidered that the cbikben had
bees deed between two sod three years. The ooroner
here stopped the ioqulry, and painted out to the jury
that the evidence of the mafiosi gentleman dithruied
them from proceeding further with the iovestigation. It
wee ineessary, to °meditate the crime of murder, that
evidence should be forthcoming that the deceased Vibe
were said to bare been murdered had bean alive. Is
reply to • question, the coroner maid that there was no
other medical evidence; and Impactor Searle awed that
be con:d tot produce any evidence as to bow long the
Andres had hese in the box. Mr. Sleigh observed that
the bodies were in • perfectly mummified stet*, which pre-
cluded the poseibility of cay evidence being given that
they bad lived. The jury consulted together for • few
minutes, sad thee returned • verdict -

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