The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1846,

when it was removed from the breas: and brought up by
hand. It was ailing from its birth, and could keep nothing
on its stomach. Ott the 27th of August part of the family,
including Mrs. Fooks and her infant, proceeded in an open
chaise to Dartford, and three days after the child died, not
having been seen by any medical man in Dartford.
The removal was not made by the advice of the
physician, who was surprised at it, particularly at
it taking place in an open carriage, but it was clearly es-
tablished by the evidence of the medical men, that the child
died of inflammation of the stomach and bowels, arising
from natural causes. Mr. Fooks brought home a coffin,
registered the death, and took away the body. His subse-
quent prneeediags, which excited the suspicions, and the
finding of the body, have already been stated.. On Mr. W. C.
Foetus being examined, he entered into a discussion with the
coroner asto the course of proceeding, and required to have the
evidence read over to him, which the coroner refused.—The
jury returned a verdict of " Death from natural causes."—The
coroner informed Mr. Fooks that he had only himself to
blame f•re what taken place; his conduct was a violation
of the general usages and feelings of 1,-e.cts
said be would not there attempt to justify himself; he was
perfectly willing to take upon himself all the odium that
might attach to the case. He had none that which his con-
science and his feelings dictated, and should do so again, as
being consonant with what he considered right.

int Drama.
Sulu:KY.—This house was last night again filled to
overflowing by an audience that assembled to witness the
tragedy of " Macbeth," and the performance of Mr.
Macready in that character. The celebrated Dr. Jo'snson
thought it necessary to deprecate the ridicule to which ho
imagined that the supernatural agents in this play were open,
and actually went the length of assuring the world that the
scenes of enchantment were considered both by Shakspeare
and his audience " awful and affecting." It seems strange
that so acute a critic did not perceive that these
scenes were only awful and effecting because of the crime
into which they led Macbeth, and that without them, the
murderer of his king and his guest, the butcher of Macdull's
wife and children, the assassin of Ban quo, far from being an
object of sympathy and interest, would be a monster of sick-
ening and unendurable ferocity. Up to the moment in
which he encounters the witches on the heath he has been a
loyal subject, a frank, heave soldier, and, what to the last he
remains, a doting husband; on the heath the predictions of
imperial greatness hail him, and from that moment he is
altered—on the instant he is a traitor at heart, and in rapid
succession becsmnes a murderer, an asaassio, a slaughterer of I
innocents. Yet the original nobility and gentleness of his
nature are ever and anon unveiled. His conjugal love knows
no diminution, and thus he excites feelings of wonder, ter-
ror, and pity, in which the kindled detestation of the spec- 1
tator is quenched. Mr. Macready's representation of this cha-
racter hill: its chief features well known. Of all his perfurman-
ces.it is the most popular and the moat appreciated ; on one or
two only of the minute details, therefore, do we think it
necessary to dwell. He pictures the guilt of Macbeth as
fleeting and interrupted; each crime, indeed, engendered by
its predecessor, but only perpetrated after a conflict
between the good and evil principle within him.
Thus. as the suggestion of fresh murder is presented
to his mind, ho stem, like a man standing on a
precipice, and fighting a losing battle with the terrible
temptation to fling himself off. The bustle and business of
the fifth act are generally permitted to divert the attention
of tha spectator from the situation in which the poet sup-
poses Macbeth to be ; but the tone of affected mirth, yet keen
anguish, with which the actor gave the passage,
" Doctor, the thanes fly from me,"
told at once the open defection and covert treason that
were soon to tie him, "bearlike," to a stake. The most
touching passage in the whe'e performance seemed to us
the refusal to fight; it was spoken in sorrow rather than in
fear, as if the bold defiance contained in the succeeding
speech were ready to be uttered, and the honour of the gen-
tleman, and the courage of the soldier, were surrendered at
the bidding of some imperious fatality. We did not observe
any readings actually new to us ; but the opening of the
soliloquy in the seventh scene of the first act was so spoken
as to make us wonder, despite Dr. Johnson's lengthened
note, how it ever could have been read in a manner different
from that indicated by the following punctuation :
"lilt were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence and catch,
With his surcease, sumess."
Mrs. Ternan played the part of Lady Macbeth with great
spirit; but contrived to spoil, by want of tenderness, the
affecting passage in which this inflexible, and otherwise re-
solute, woman confesses that she would have murdered
Duncan had he not resembled her father as he slept. Mr.
Cooper's .11actinfr does not require particular notice. The
other performers exhibited proofs of careful study.

CRICKET.—On Tuesday and Wednesday Messrs. Felix and Myna
played a single-handed math—each gentleman having two others to
dell for him- -at the White Hart, Bromley. Mr. Menu wee the victor;
and as this is the second time he ban conquered Mr. Felix, he has
enhanced We reputation.

Eats Ent,Wove,.

MIDDLESEX SESSl,sNS.—YasTrartar.
Before Mr. Beijeant Adams.
SMALL. THEFTS AND CHEAT PUNISHMENTS. Ellen
Nichol was indicted for stealing a flat-iron, valued at ls.,
the property of Edward Mailers. She was found Guilty, and,
in reply to a question from the learned Judge as to whether
she had been before convicted, she said that "she had had
four months for sixpence, and nine months for eightpee,"
which was found to mean that, upon being convicted at the
Central Criminal Court for stealing some articles worth six-
pence, she had been imprisoned four ;nouthe ; and again,
upon being convicted at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing
meat to the !!"‘.l:.ug value of eightpence, she had been sen-
tenced to nine months imprisonment. She was sentenced on
the present occasion to transportation for seven years.