The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

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Iwhen given by two sopranos and one
contralto. Madame Sainton-Dolby gave deep I
expression to her several recitatives and incidental
solos, her chief effect, of course, being produced in
the air, " 0 rest in the Lord," which was repeated
at the request of the noble president (applause not
being customary at these oratorio performances).
The performance of the whole oratorio was a re-
markably fine one, worthy indeed of the special
identification of the work with Birmingham, to
which we have already alluded.
The expectations of a more than usually anemia-
ful isms to the present festival seem likely to be
fully realised, the returns for this morning's per-
formance showing the following results t —President
and vice-presidents' seats, 271 at 21i. each, 2841.
115. ; secured seats, 904 at 21s. each, 9491, 4s. ;
unsecured seats, 438 at 10s. fxl. each, 229/. 195. ;
donations and collections (including 1851. from the
President), 6411. 3s. 7d. ; total, 2,1041. 175. 7d.
The total receipt on the Tuesday morning in 1864
was 1,5821. 2s. 4d.

The following were among the audience this
morning :

The President, the Earl Beenehanrp, the Mayor of
Bk-
minShao and party, the Berl sad Counter a( fterie and
Lady Harriet Herbert, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., and party, Mr.
Dixon, /LP., the Lord Eliot, M.P., Lord Raglan and the
Hon. Charlotte Somerset, Lady Willoughby de Broke,
Lady Catherine Parker and the Hon. Mimes Verney,
Lord Willoughby de Broke, the Earl of Bradford and
party, the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., and the Mimes
Adderley, the Bishop of Rochester and the Hon. Mrs.
Claughton, the Dowager Lady Ward and party, Major.
General Sir W. Gomm and lady Gomm, the Dean of
York and Lady Harriet Duncan and the Mimes Dusan,
Mr. John Hardy, M.P., and Mrs. Hardy, the
Honourable Mr.. Boothby and Mims Mary Anson,
Sir Win. Westbrook' Burton arid Lady Burton, the Rev.
Sir Win. Gibson Carm4chael, Sir Robert Hamilton, Bart.,
and Mrs. Roes, Mathew B. Hale, D.D., Bishop of Perth,
Australia, and party, Lady Essay and the Rev. Basil K.
Woodd, the Hon. Major-General Legge andMias Lew and
the Hon. Mils' Clinton, Sir Theophilus Biddulph,
and arty, Sir Wm, Parker, Bart., and Lady Parker and
party, the Reoorder of Birmihamand Mrs. Adams, Mrs.
Dugdale and party, Lord Rendlesham, La.

drama.

MISS KATE TERRY'S "FAREWELLS" AT THE
ADELPHL

Last night Miss Kate Terry appeared as Juliet in I
Romeo and Juliet, and to justify a notice of this imper-
sonation we must almost assume that her retirement from
the stage will be only temporary. She is announced to
perform this character twins more during the present week
—on Thursday and Saturday—and to play Beatrice cm
the other two nights, to-night and Friday. Alter this
week she will go to Manchester, so we are informed, for
one month, and after that month we shall lose
her as an actress. Miss Terry, we need scarcely say, is
still young, but she has been a long time before the public.
She began early. The great Shakespeariaa revivals at the
Princess's, when that theatre was ender the management
of Mr. Charles Kean, derived • charm from her perform-
ance of nearly all the juvenile parts. In this theatre she
was tutored by Mae. Charles Kean, which may or may not
have been an advantage. Many great actors and actresses
who possessed that mysterious quality known as genius or
instinct had very little training, especially the founders
of styles of acting. We have heard it stated that
Mrs. Alfred Wigan did much to mould the impul-
sive genius of Robson, but having seen that remarkable
actor in many of his best parts years before he was heard
of at the Olympic, we can only say that such tuition, if it
ever existed, had very little effect upon his style.
Mine Kate Terry ciamemoreprominentlybefore the public
under Mr. Fechter's management at the Lyceum, and her
intelligent acting gave a value to many comparatively
worthless Anglo-French dramas. When Hamlet was at
length thrived, she had an opportunity of distinguishing
herself as Ophelia—a character in which many far leas
clear-headed and ambitious actresses have been more or less
successful. There was a dreamy poetizal grace about the
performance that was very striking, and singularly in har-
mony with Mr. Fechter's Hamlet.
Her next move was to the Olympic, where she appeared
in • succession of Anglo-French dramas, of more or less
merit, some of them being of a highly sensation►l charac-
ter, and also played Viola and Sebastian in a revival of
Twelfth Night. From the Olympic she went to the Adel-
phi, where she has appeared in many dramas of a domestic
kind: same of them remarkable, but unsuccessful, like
Rad ; others successful, but not remarkable. She has
followed in the footsteps of Miss Bateman by performing
pastoral drama, as Dora, and has selected Bulwer, Sheri-
dan Knowles, and Shakespeare for her fiaal appearances
in London.

bliss Terry's acting has always seemed to us to be more
intellectual than emotional—to have more head than heart

in its composition. There toss been a want of blood, of
vitality in many of her clever and highly elaborated im-
personations. Her voice and face have, to a certain
extent, been against her : the former is thin and slightly
heady ; the latter wants openness and breadth of effect
about the eyes. She is seen to most advantage in parts
requiring repose of manner, but stage repose is, after all, a
mere second-rate artificial trick that has no claim to stand
by the side of force and passion. Mr. Charles Kean
practised this trick till it became absurd in some of his
characters—particularly in a drama called Pauline, and
Mr. Alfred Wigan made good use of it in Still Water. Run
Dom.

Miss Terry's Juliet is one of her best impersonations.
Nearly everything she does in it is done with apparent
effort, but the intention is excellent, and the execution
only fails in parts from pure physical weakness. The
potion scene in the chamber, for example, requires more
bodily force than she is able to throw into it. The point
in the scene with the nurse at the close of the third act
where Juliet ceases to be a weak, loving girl, and becomes
suddenly a strong self•reliant woman, was admirably
marked. The balcony scene was a little artificial,
but very charming—not, perhaps, girlish enough,
sod not so demonstrative as Mdlle. Stella Colas
made it. In elocutionary grace and power it was
equal to Miss Helen Fancies recent performance of the
same character. The house was crowded in every part,
and the stalls contained many public men and other
celebrities.

We cannot take leave of Muse Terry, if it is to be a lee vs-
taking, without thanking her heartily for much she has
done, and particularly for her consistent efforts to main-
tain the dignity of her art. She has never been guilty of
slop-work. If she should ever return to the stage, she
will always be warmly welcomed back as an intelligent,
agreeable, and conscientious actress.

SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. —The arrange-
ments for the forthcoming annual congress of this associa-
tion at Belfast, on the lath September next, are now near
completion. The Hight Hon. Lord Dufferin and Clan.
deboye will preside over the association, and deliver his
inaugural address on the evening of the opening day. The
jurisprudence department will have the Hon. Mr. Justice
O'Hsgau at its head, with the Irish Master of the Rolls
over the Repression of Crime section. Dr. Andrews,
F.R.S., vicelpresident of the Queen's College, Belfast, will
preside over the Education Department, ; Sir James Simp-
son, Bart., M.D., of Edinburgh, over that of Health ,•
and Sir Robert Kane, F.R.S., of Dublin, over that of
Economy and Trade ; with Mr. William Mulholland, of
Belfast, so chairman of the Trade section. The Queen's
College has been placed at the service of the association,
and the departmental meetings will be held in the various
rooms. Arrangements are in progress for the holding of
soirees, and excursions are being organised to places of
interest in the neighbourhood, in oonneximi with the
association. Altogether the prospect bids fair for • large
and influential gathering.
The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company's steamship Chiltern, which left Greenwich on
the 13th with the cable to be laid between Placentia and
Sydney, arrived at Placentia yesterday, at one o'clock.
The new land lines between Heart's Content and Placentia
have been completed, so that after the cable is laid direct
communication will be established between Sydney and
England. We are informed that the Cuba arrived at
st Ave o'clock on Monday morning ; all will.

(TWOPENCE

THE BOUNDARY CONMlsalun.

The districts appointed tinder this commission
to the various amistant commimienere are thus an-
nounced :

1. Metropolitan (1 district, 9 inquiries), compng
boroughs of Chelsea, Finsbury, Hackney, LondonuaX2,
Marylebone, Tower Hamlets, Westminster,
and Southwark. Major-General Bainbrigge, R. 8., and Mr:
N. J. Hadar.
_

1 South Resternirilisab-districts, 33 inquiries) : Bub-
distrioteitinoom bccoughe of Abang dos, Walling-
ford, R c , iadeor, Guildford, Arel, Chichester,
Horsham, Midhurst, Shoreham, Andover, Christohnreh,
Lyenington, Petandleld, Portsmouth, Southampton, Win-
chester, anal Newport (Isle of Wight( (18 inquiries).—Mx.
J. Horne Payne and Limatenant-Colimiel Biddulph, R. 4.
Sub-district B, comprsan. boroughs ;of Hythe, Maidstone,
Rochester, Can =nd (new), Greenwich,
Sandwich, Brighton, Lewis,L Rye, Chatham, and
Dover. Counties to be di ed, West Kent and RAO
SurreyE. (15 inquiries). —Mx. J. Kaye, and Captain Palma,
R.

3. South Midland (1 district., 13 inquiries) comprising
boroughs of Northampton, Peterborough, Huntingdon,
Bedford, Hertford, Cambridge, Buckingham, Aylesbury,
Wycombe, Marlow, Banbury, Oxford, and Woodstock.
Mr. B. C. Palmer and Captain James R.E.
4. Eastern (1 district, 11 inquiries), commixing boroughs
of Kintir;s4inn Norwich, Thetford, Bury St. Edmunds,
Eye, , dolohester, Narwhals, and Maldon. Counties
to be vided, Norfolk and Essex (11 inquiries). Captain
C. B. Brackenbury, 8.A., and Mr. Hugh Cowie.
5. South Western (2 extb-distrieM, 39 inquiries).—E*
district/A, oomprisixig boroughs of Caine, Chi pi.Oita,
°tickled., Devises, Malmesbury„_ Marlborough, • ..
WeMbury, Bridport, Dorchester, Lyme Regis,
Poole, Mafamb , Wareham, Weymouth and Meloombe
Regis, Bath, Bridgwatar Frame, Taunton and Wells.
County to be divided, Bc4nereetehire (22 inquiries). Mr.
W. S. 011ivaat and Colonel Handily, B.A. Sub-distritt B,
comprising boroughs of Barnstaple, Eerier Tiverton,
Ashburton, Dertreouth, lioniton, Plymouth, 'Devonport,
Taviatock, Bodmin, Higdon, Launceston, bakeard,
Penrhyn and Falmouth, St. Ives and Truro. Couna:
be divided, Devonshire (17 isqiiiries)—Major Du R.E., and Mr. John Brainston.
6. West Midland (3 sub-districts, 30 inquiries).—Sub-
district A, comprising boroughs of Birmingham, Coventry,
Warwick, Bewdley, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham,Kid-
derminster, and Worcester (9 impuries)—Lient. I
KW. Ward, R.E. and Mr. John 1.. Wharton. Sub-
district B, coin bon boroughs of Lichfield, Newcastle-
under-Lyn., Staff , Stoke-upon-Trent, Tamworth,
Walsall, Wednesbary (new), and Wolverhampton. County
' to be divided, Staffordshire (9 inquiries)—Mr. F. D. Longo
and Captain Pratt, B.E. Sub-district C, comprising
boroughs of Bridguorth, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Wunledh,
Hereford, Leominster, Cbeltenhm Cirencester, Glou-
°ester, Bristol, Stroud, and Tewkesbury (12 inquiries)—
Captain Wilso ,n B K , and Mr. J. S. Degdale.
7. North Midland (1 district, 12 inquiries), comMisiol
the boroughs of Derby, Best Raiford, Newark, Notting-
ham, Leicester, Boston, Great Grimsby, Grantham, Lin-
coln, and Stamford. Counties to be divide.), Derbyshire
and Linoolnshire.—Mr. E. Bullock and Captain Sand-
ford, R.E.

---87,17Cath Western (2 sub-disbicts, 22 inquiries.—Sub-
dietrict A, comprising boroughs of Clitheroe, Burnley
(new), Blackburn, Preston, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, and
Wigan. Counties to be divided, North L.uictshire and
South Lancashire (10 inquities).—Lieuteneut Homier, 2nd
Life Guards ; and Mr. F. W. Gibbs. Sub-district li, °ap-
prising the boroughs of Liverpool, Manchester, Salford,
Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, Birkenhead, Chester, Stoek-
wt, Macclesfield, Warrington, and Staleeiridge (new).
Count? to be divided, Cheshire (12 inquiries).—Liente-
nant-Colonel Gordon, ILE., C.B. and Mr. P. Cumin.
9. Yorkshire (2 sub-diatriote, 21 inquiries).--Sub-district
A, comprising the boroughs of Beverley? Hull, Melton,
Middlesborough (new), Northallerton, Richmond, Scar-
borough, Think, Whitby, York, Ripon, and Roared*.
rough (12 inquiries)—Lieukoant-Colonel Milward, R.A.,
and Mr. Frederick Clifford. Sub-district B, comprising
borough, of Bradford, Dewsbury (new), Halifax, Hudders-
field, Leeds, Pontefract, Sheffield, and Wakefield. County
to be divided, West Riding of Yorkshire (9 inquiriesi—
Lientenant-General Sir Richard Dawes, ILA., K C. 8.,
and Mr. Swims* Tindal Atkinson.
10. Northern (1 district, 11) inquiries), comprising bo-
roughs of Berwick, Morpeth. Newcastleupou-Tyne, Tyne-
month sad North Shields, Darlington (new), Durluou,
Gateshead, the Hartlepool (new), South Shields, Stock-
ton (new), Sunderland, Carlisle, Cockeruiouili, White-
horse, and Kendal—Major-Gencual Moody, R.E., and
Mr. A. Bathunt.

11. Welsh (2 sub-districts, 60 Inquiries).—,Subdistrict
A, oomprising the boroughs of Beaumara (Arulwch, Holy.
head, and Llangefni), Cardigan (Aberystwyth, /War,
Loropeter), Cansarvon (Bognor, Criodeth. Gummy, Nevin,
Pwllheli), Denbigh (Holt, Rnthim Wrexham), Flint
(Caergwyle, Caerwys, Holywell, Mold. Overton, laud.
Wan, St. Asaph), Montgomery (Llanfyllin, Llanidloes, Mac.
hynlleth, Newtown, Welshpool), Radnor (Cefullis,
Knighton, Knuckles, Natalia*, RhoyaJer)—(7 districts,
pi inquiries)—Captain Nagle, MA., and Mr. H.. 0.
Harlvale. Subdistrict B, comprising boroughs of Break.
mock, Carmarthen (Lionel), ), (tkmbridge, Lan-
trissaint), Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouth (Newport, Ussk),
Swansea (Aberavon, Kenfig, Loughor, Nestb), Pembroke
NMilfonl, Tenby, Wiston), and Haverfordwest (Fiabgaard,
arberth)-8 boroughs and districts (22 inquiries.)--
Lieutenant-Colonel Rally, R.H.A., and Mr. J. L.
Johnston.

ROYAL NATIONAL INFIRMARY AT MARGATE. -
The annual visitation and public meeting in connection
with the Royal National See Bathing Infirmary at Margate
took place on Mondsy. The visitation of the several winds
of the hospital took place about two o'clock, the cleanly
condition of the rooms and the comfortable date of the
inmates giving great satisfaction. After this a private
meeting of the court of governors was held, and subse-
quently a public meeting took place at the infirmary. The
treasurer (stc. Tomkins) occupied the chair. The boo.
secretary (the Rev. J. G. Hodpoa) reed the annual report,
which showed the institution to be still in a tlourishiqr
condition ; it pointed out that the sum of 10,000/. behing-
ing to the institution was still invested, notwithstanding
the fact that for the past few years the sum of 6,OUUi. 054
been spent in enlarging the institution; it showed that
the hon. secretary's ss. list had produced to the society for
the past year no less a sum than 1,641 W. With regard to
the benefits conferred by the institution, it stated that the
number of patients treated and discharged since August
14,1666, was 641. The result of the treatment of these
cases was as follows:—The number cured was 2118 men,
107 boys, 72 women, and 92 girls, so Ord there were :CM
cured: being more than one-half of the number diacharged.
Of the remaining number there were benefited :414
=nits, while 64 were discharged unimproved, and 14

STHANON CASE or POISONING BY STRYCHNINIS.—
Aft inquest has been held at Sunderland on the body of
Michael Pardon, a wharf labourer, aged thirty yeme' who
it was suspected bad died from poison. On Thursday
night he and his mother had some supper of tea and bread,
and a grandchild had milk. During the night the neigh-
bours in the same house heard deceased screaming with
pain. The screams lasted fur more than half an hour,
and the neighbours went into the room and found deceased
in bed, and in great agony. He was attended to, AM' some
time after he came round sufficiently to thank his friends
and to smoke a pipe of tobacco. He was then left, but
early next morning, on the neighbour. going in spin,
the man was found to be writhing in great agony and
Mr. Evans, the parish surgeon, .1.11 sent fur. liefore
him arrival the man was dead. Deceased's mother and
the child were also foiled to be very ill, with the same
symptoms, but by prompt attention they were brought
round. When the post-mortem of the body was to have
been made, the neighbours of deceased were unwilling to
permit it, and it was only by a strong guard of police that
the medical officer was permitted to examine the body.
Mr. Evans stated at the inquest that the man had died
from the administration of strychnine. The deomsed's
mother was examined, and stated that there had been no
quarrelling, nor was there any rat or vermin poison in the
house. She felt ill after taking tea. She was unable to
state how the poison had been administered to deceased,
nor could any of the neighbours who were called as wit-
nesses throw any light on the matter. The jury returned
a verdict that deoeeaed died from poison, but how admi-
nistered there was no evidence to show.

THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT CLETTFMRPES.
—Two other bodies have been recovered close to the spot
where the boat went down. One of them was removed to
the demlla- use of the hospital at Grimaby, and was
searched by a policeman, when a watch, which had stopped
at 1.33, was found ; also several documents. The features
were disfigured so much as to be unrecognizable. Arnonget
the papers • return half ticket from Cleethorpes to Ash-
tomunder-Lyne was found, also a " contribution card" of
a sick and burial society held at the house of Jesepli Knott,
Red Lion Inn, Ashton, which showed that the last pay-
ment of three shillings was made July sheikh. This esta-
blished the identity of the corpse sa being that of Thomas
Platt. The other was that of Mrs. Rawlimon. An inquest
wee held, and a verdict of "Accidental death" returned.
MOLD AND DENBIGH RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held yesterday at the °frame,
Ethelburgmhonae, Rishopagatmstreet, Mr. A. T. lioberte
in the chair. The business transacted was purely formal,
and at its conclusion it was agreed that an adjournment
should take place for six months.
The Aberdeen herald has the following adver-
tisement :—" If the person who took (it is concluded by
mistake) the white waterproof coat, belonging to Mr. Pitt
Taylor, on Tuesday lest, will apply at the barracks, he can
have the peg it used to hang upon, as it is of no further
use to the owner !"
Two brothers, John and Thomas Trobe.
respectively 18 and 20, while bathing at South ShUV,
on Monday night, were swept to sea and drowned.