The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-04 00:00:00

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Mr. Bouoicault's iliuess still continuing, Mrs.
Bamicsolt will not act at the Manses beyond a fort,
niziat after Easter, and after this they will both to►e
ti 'ma holiday abroad. Tho rest change at the Primate's
will be of a Sbakeaperiaa character, Mr. Ryder, lir.
Cbarlt, Dillon, and a Mexican scar, said to be of great
promise, having arranged to opaa the theater.
The spectacle of Lady Oodira, if lioansed by the Load
Chumberlain, will be produced af Astley's Theatre daring
the mummer • ith Mies Meaken in the principal character.
The author is Mr. P.

The Lord Chamberlain no longer refuses to license the
dritin. of °lir". Twist, at the Qucea's Theatre, bat modi-
fications wi Ibe wade in the play. Dill Sykes will pro-
bably be alternl to Mr. William Sykes. Charley Batas to Mr.
Charles Botcs, old Fagin to the venerable Fazio, and
Nancy to Elizabeth, or toms equally genteel name. The
Field--lane businces will be softened down ; Bumble's feel-
ing' '9 bg spared, and Nancy's or Elisabeth's murder will
take Issas behind the Kenya This is one advanta; 3 of
Laving an ofllcial censor. Dickens may be Dickens in
literature, but ho west be something else on the stage.
A version of Hern...'s popular comic opera L`t:Ed
wiltrzn by Mr. F. U. Burned, tv in rehearsal at the
o!yinpis Theatre, where the usual dillioulty has arisen of
fueling • comic tenor Binger.
The St. James's Theatre will close to-night, and nothing
will be done until Mr. Felix reopens it with the French
company, who performed so successfully lent season.
Than is a rumour that Offenbach's Grande Defame
w.ll be given. The WAC.: Fawn in rehearsal at the
Holborn (a version by Mr. F. C. Bernand of the Bicie au
Bois) was fust produced at Mr. Headman's Theatre in
Liverpool.
The burlesque is preparation at the Strand Theatre.
called The Field of the Cloth of Gold, is by lit. William
Brough. The Tester season at the theatres scarcely pro-
uaua to ho a very active one.

EXTI:AOCLINARY DISCOVERY 01P A
MURDERED CHILD IN A CAD.

An inquiry into a very shocking case of child
w,urder was held last night at Guy's Hospital by Mr.
Payne, deputy-coroner.
From the evidence of Alfred Searle, the driver of a
Hauteur cab, No 1G,090, it appeared that on Wednesday
oiaht, at a quarter put nine o'clock, be vas
hailed in Craceehorch-street, City, by a lady and gentle-
man, who got into his cab. The gentleman
called up through the trap hole in the roof
and directed the witness to drive to South Hackney
Church. when the cab arrived at the church in question
the two paisengers got out; the gentleman told the
la ly to go on, and be would overtake her. He then
.topped and paid timbre, being Gd. over the proper
Amount. Witners then drove back strsight to London-
bridge railway station. He then found in his cab, at the
silo where the lady had been seated, a black leather
bag. Upon opening the bag—the lock, he declared, was
loose—he discovered the body of a male child wrapped ins
flannel petticoat. He immediately communicated with
the police. He bad acver :men either the lady or gentle.
man before. The gentleman, he thought, be would know
again, but he could not recognise the lady, for he only got
a slight glimpse of her.
Mr. George Keine, house-rurgooo, said. he examined
the body of the deceased child. It was full timed,
well developed, of the male me:, and had lived some
hours. The cause of death was suffocation, produced, he
believed, bye pillow being placed over the mouth and now
In his opinion the child-had boss murdered.
Tho Coroner said that he would adjourn the inquest to
enable the detective police to traces the parties who de.
posited the child in the fah.
The proceedings were adjourned accordingly.

THE EXECUTIONS AT MANCHESTER.
(THIS DAY.)

Om =soave.)
(nos OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

MANCIIESTZE, Barjaphor iloasura.

Miles Vireatherill, convicted of the murder at
Todmorden Rectory, and Timothy Faherty, were executed
this mos.:lug. There were 20,000 people present, who
rem orderly and deoorous during the final some.
Weatherill showed no km of shrinking ; nor did Faherty.
I: Ali stepped boldly to the front of the scaffold, and
oa the crowd. Then their lips moved in prayer is
the ropes were adjurtod. After the drop fell both
stru-3;lid slightly, and Weatherillb head jerked consul-
dvely five or six times.
Thi chaplain reports that Weathevill beam* quite con-
trite ; and Caleraft states that he showed more fortitude
than the executioner had ever before witnessed in wash a
caw

Calmat meeived a letter, signal "A Fenian," in which
the writer told him that he would be slot this morning,
hundred Fenian., with revolvers, being ready to " Wing
off" at him.