The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL

T
Tae MUZDER AT Huu...—C beiLtdaell the body
ofliaa Hutto° tanaisatodl IS y last in a
realist Wilful WWw spank aim pesos or
unknown." Oa ramie , the essessi, Theme was
brought before the m who, in wilingssooa of the
above verdict, discharged kin, with an istimills that if
aaythlow further transpired he would be liable te be bratght
sr MILL
LPAILLIT-MAIN COLLIERY ExPLOIROII.—By the list
et wabeertptime for the arm ee= familisa bereaved by the
entssorophe at Daley-Maio Clallisey. It appears that upwards
ef 1,2001. has been put down ihritti. I bIISOVOkat object,

NORFOLK.
THE INVALIDS AT STANFIELD HALL.—IN the Sitly
put of *a repeat week, Ilia Jenny bad exparieseed San
Malan tbea tar SIMS time put. Oa Sunday a farther per et dm be.. lOW area alas away, and Wain that time,
the mend tM irritation Laving been removed, we leant
that tits werimi his again retuned a more favourable op.
pearaose. The eervant, Ellis Chemin', e wino,. to pro.
gem to le met milleadary mower; bat neither in one Can
nor she Atm ban the patios* been able to leave their beds,
ow to het to bo mood from the position In white they were
plod al Os Ibto dth• Nary.

Ii•TMARIET.—CYKeefa's O called a comedy by
courtesy, bemuse is in Ike "Wild 0 de," was revived
at this theatre on Saturday evening. O'Keefe, like Foote,
was move of &Amer then a regular &amain ; but he had
nese of Foote 's blueing., fier did he use hie pieces as lam-
poons to blacken the character or expose the frailties of living
individuals. Still O'Keefe wee not • painter—he was only
• earicattnist. He could not give the sembhuice ef °moist-
eney or reality to his Oilman,. ; they are merely imaginary
beings, distinguished by nothing but the exaggeration of
some 060 feature, the exhibition of soots habitual foible, or
mom peouliarity of speech or manners, which is so cunatuntly
kept fa view al to be often ridiculous and amusing,
bat as Gem obtrusive and gamete. All O'Keefe's pieces
are fares. ; the only differ'sce being that some are farces
in two acts, and others farces to Ave. Bat fame, alter all, is
certainly • branch of the "legitimate dramas." A go..d
farce is a good thine, and we know of no canon of criticism
which prohibits a farce M five acts, provided the author has
vivacity enough to keep the *pinta of the audience from
I:=lduring • three hour' performasee. "Thug
(passes
,1" says Voltaire, "Awe 1. iptre missireser ; ' and
nobody, we believe, that has wen " Wild Oats" well acted
has ever hit the theatre under the intimate of wearineia.
This piece, coesequently, call it what we will, comealy,
or fame, has survived may drainage works fiT loftier
pretending, and will probably survive many mon.
It hag probably UM been mere strongly emt than
it sow is at the Haymarket. The pen of Rover might hem
been writtee for Mr. James Wal'aek so completely is it in
that 'clever actor's vein. Could he ;make hb aspzct a little
more youthful, his would be perfect ; but no
Ohm alga now em iteer2goadiellid eater seam egiately into
the split of the ebeeester—wind sows* wish sash sakes-
*.she nrestvid pis% j vrislity. sad eavelumes of the
et the ems time his keit s, try =We
pread:47:s:,""Vlisiliss et warm and pnweirs kV-
• are se men sere that 011esis Imola that
Rear's q pips, whisk Ye peene eat as m-
ike* es &mho ass his peeve% Medi earl the mese
the new of seloiskieg his esatestpseeg wheeling. They
me oily the obelisk= of a sligieskeek yea*, Owing
vest to hie lbslep is the hagemtge he loves best, and to
scams them Me a series if sealsd M imitations," for the