The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

thoughtful reader. And in the theatre, their fascias-
tion is as irresistible over pit and gallery as over I
box and stall. If ever Ragland has had a
'Titer with whom the language, the spirit, the
imagination of the nation have been proud to claim
kindred, it is Sitaxernsar.. If ever a fame was na-
tional, it is the fame of &TAUPE/JUL Critical Ger-
mans claim to have penetrated the core of him, to
have " plucked out the heart of his mystery I" but
the rudest Englishman who ever paid a dulling at
the door of a barn to see "t' play, feels the awe that '
testifies to an unwonted power as he listens to
Macbeth or Lear, their majesty, unquenched even by
tawdry dresses, ill painted scenery, and vulgar rant-
if ievell4r a glory were national, it is the glory which
shines round the name of BHAISPEARZ. Ills fame has
gone forth over many lands, but his home is here.
The opportunity of acquiring that home for the nation
must not be lost. That the house is SHAESPEARKS
birth-plies is more than doubtful. But that it was
his father's property, and probably his own early re-
ideate', we have no reason to disbelieve. This is
not the place for troubling cur readers with
the evidence on the point, which they will,
no doubt, see quite enough of before the sub-
ject is exhausted bb daily and weekly pre.
Another opportunity is included in this of purchasing
the property in Henley-street It gives the pur-
chasers a chance of getting rid of the ridiculous and
distracting showmanship which besets such places in
this country. We are the vulgarest nation on earth,
where the dead are concerned. Listen to a Westmin-
ster Abbey verger on EDWARD III.; or a Canterbury
beadle on the Black Prince or Motets A BECKETT ;
or the famous old woman at Raclin on the sucked
mason and his gifted apprentice. No matter how
rich in historical associations, how suggestive to
' the memory or imagination, the subject of the
tale may be, it is hopelessly degraded, flung
into the lowest depths of bathos, by the glib, un-
punctuated, unmeaning rigmarole which the exhi-
bitor has been crammed with, and taught to disgorge
hourly for a certain consideration of shillings. All
this mast gradually disappear if our enthusiasm
really be truer and better informed than it was
twenty years ago. We trust that the showman may
be got rid of at Stratford-upon-Avon. All that is
wanted is a quiet attendant (a policeman would do,
if Stratford boasts such an official, and he can be
spared from the little boys), to see that visitors
do no mischief or commit no depredation,
in their desperate English relic-worship. Cards,
simply and intelligibly describing what there is to
be seen, and scattered through the house, would ful-
fil the functions of a guide, without disturbing those
whe come knowing what they are to see, and wishing
only to enjoy the impression from it.
The office of castor would thus be almost a sinecure,

except for the duty of keeping the house clean and
free from damp or de a.
These hints may be w tyorth the attention of the com-
mittee, and remove from SEMESPEAREN house, when
it passes into other and worthier hands, some incon-
gruous absurdities which vulgarity, ignorance, and
cupidity have grouped about it.
The one thing we should most deprecate would be
the ing that Lord MORPETH proposed—entrusting
the dwelling to the care of the Woods and Forests.

An outline of the following foreign intelligence
appeared in a late edition of the Express last evening:
The press and the in Paris continued on
Sunday to be engrossed by the terrible drama of the
Hotel Praalin. The wretched assassin (for there is
now no reasonable doubt of the criminal) attempted
to escape from the misery and shame which awaits
partrarti him by son. He swallowed a phial of laudanum
but y, as is said, owing to the over-dose, and
y to the remedies applied by the medical men in
attendance, the drug failed to destroy life, although
it produced great and long-continued prostration and
stupefaction.
The proceedings of the Chamber of Peers were on
Saturday wholly occupied by this revolting crime.
After the garde-des-sceaux had read the royal
ordonnances, published in our paper of yesterday, the
peers adjourned to the Council Chamber, and having
deliberated some time, the Procureur-General du Ror
delivered a requisition to the court, bearing the accu-
sation against Charles Laure Hugnes Theobold,
Hue de Choiseul-Praslin, peer of France, and
against his accomplices, should there be any.
Some other formalities having been observed,
the following peers were named as a Committee
of Instruction:—the Duke Deems, the Count Pont&
cadent, Count de Saint-Aulaim, Quin, La Plague-
Barns, and Vinoens-Saint-Laurent. This committee,
with the Chancellor Pasquier, sad the chistregistrar,
repaired, immediately attar the semi edging of the
wart, to tie Lionsabews prier, sad proceeded to
Morro stn thu Doke de Perils. Upon this exami-
nation at the Omer, the other asesemry steps will
bip taker Irking him to trial before hie peers. When
that will happen road yet he aseerrined.
The removal tithe wretched man tram the scene
ad aims to the pima of the Luxembourg is thus
hmesibed in the deritie des Thbunaus :

On eatarday morning, at four o'clock, one of the Maine
of the Chamber of Peers, accompanied by Dr. Andrei, phy.
Mei= to the chamber, presented himself at the Hotel Pearl=
with the warrant. Having been introduced into the cham-
ber where the duke lay in bed, guarded by the °Steers of jos-
ties, the doctor cubes 4d himself that the effects of the
poison had sufficiently parsed away to allow of
the duke's removal without risk. The builder them
communicated his terrible merlon, and read to the primmer
his warrant for removing him, end also the order of the
King which constituted the Chamber of Peers into a court
of justice. The wretched nobleman beard these dareassate
read without speakiag a word. He merely made an effort
to Mt op, as if to indicate that he was ready to ready the
demands of jogai= His valet then dressed him, and he wee
win ready to depart. He was sustained, in descending to
the street, by two Rerseria,who, with other assistance, twit
him into the earner= which was ready to receive
31. Louis, chief of the municipal police, war already in the
carriage to receive the wretched prisoner, who was also se-
eampenied by Dr. Andra, the prefect, and the valet. The
hulaeler and other officials followed in a second coach
a third conveyed suet police agents and officeras had
been wso to gaud the prisoner from the time
Ids wise bow known. In consequence of the
state of the rinser, the carriages proceeded at
slow peer, au' the journey occupied an hour. At six
lido& It arrived at the prison gate. During the transit the
eruntenance of the duke was contracted and o
with a livid paktum. He observed the stricter=
When told to slight, he war too weak to move without se-
detest= and woe half carried by the arms into the apart-
ment prepared for his reeeptiom. He was immedistelarowit
ewe bed by his valet, who was by special permirsion
to remain with him for a short period.

The aline journal adds that both on Friday and
Saturday Mdlk. Lusy was interrogated in the
Conciergerie, where sbe II still maned, by the magis-
trates, charged with the preliminary proceedings.
She continues to protest with much energy that
nothing of an improper character ever passed between
her and the duke.

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" We are aaeured," mamas the Gazette des Tri-
bunaux "that the examination of the body made by
the medical Ma charged with that office by the magis-
trates, resealed to them upwards of thirty wounds,
which the unfortunate Duchies de Praslin had re-
ceived from the hands of her murderer."
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which, • of doubtful accuracy, would not bare
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