The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-18 00:00:00

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ADELPIII.—A new domestic drama was produced
last night at this theatre, with every advantage that the
experience and care of the management could bestow upon
it. To attempt a detail of the plot and incidents that were
crowded into • representation enduring nearly three hours,
would involve us is a labyrinth from which it woeld be
difficult to escape. It must therefore euffiee if we indicate
that the staple incidents comprise arias dying uncl ,e a fawn-
ing ',legacy-hunter, an orphan niece, a roguish lawyer, a
repentant burglar, and a lover, who, like the Dens of the
Poet, worthily steps is and offers his istersit at the ammo-
prune critical moonset when, Int far him, all would have
been lost. Madame Celeste was the nucleus around
which all the successive events revolved, and she
fully redeemed the hopes of the author by concen-
trating upon herself the whole interest of the drama.
The secondary parts of the plot and the minor characters
constituted, in our opinion, the principal attraction. Paul
Bedford, as a stray lollpop-wller, and Mrs. Frank
Matthews, as his wife, afforded a fund of amusement to the
adm;rers of the grotesque: whilst Mr. Munyard, as Pegg,
the lawyers clerk, not only excited merriment, but gave
, indications that he possesses a species of comic talent which
has been absent from the boards ever since little Knight
"shuffled off this mortal coil " We need hardly observe
that the drama was successful, but perhaps it may be excu-
sable if, for the benefit of future auditors, we hint at the
expediency of shortening the fret two acts, and thus of
hastening the advent of the third, which really contains as
, much legitimate and racy humour and fan as we have for a
i long time put witnessed n a new piece.

Paornanens, ko—lhe Rev. H. Burke to Magberocrout, R. dip,
Umber: the Rev. C. Mande to St. Michael Trory, P.C. die. Clogber ;
the Rev. J. W. Ferguson to the ministry of St. Peter's Episcopal
CL Edinburgh ; the Rev. W. S. Patterson. M.A., has been an.
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hdeld meator's Vicar, Sub-Chanter, and Divinity Lecturer in
Varner.—Howedral.
Caple, R. W., Sellers Hope, near Ram Hereford-
shire, die. Hereford, 3441. with residence; patron, Her. S. leaekhoese,
vacant by the death of the Rev. H. A. Stillingfket, St. Patrick's Chapel
of Ewe, cur. Newry, co. Down, Ireland ; Commerton, P. C., Cumber-
land, db. °tribe 1001.: patron, Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, vacant
by the desdh of the Rev. J.
The Iliehop of Enter has reNeed to license the Rev. H. J. Bowden
to ChM= Chapel, Plymouth, wboee preferment appeared in the Daily
Nam 'thee 13.
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NAVAL.

The Sidon st.-v., Capt. Henderson, which returned to
Woolwich after the experimental trip on Tuesday, will
remain at that port for some time to remedy her defects.
Much yet remains to be done to her before she will be in a
fit state to go to sea. The steam pipes are not placed by the
side of the funnel, as in the ordinary method, the whole of
the steam being blown out of the side valves. This was a
beneficial alteration in the case of passenger baste, es_it Pre-
vented those unplauant " salutations " with which the Pas-
sengers were occasionally greeted, known technically as
" blowing off," in which water, containing a large quantity
of most tenacious filth, was showered down on the pas-
sengers. In steam ships of war, however, the kiprovement