The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

CHESTER RECTING.-(THIS DAY.)

STAMFORD WELTER.

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4 raa.

TWO-YEAR-OLD PLATE. Five furlongs.
Gipsy, La Rose, Redpole f, Perfume, Good Hope,
Beautiful Bird, and Albert are hers.
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER'S PLATE.
One mile and a quarter.
Cerporal,Moat, Thalia, Conundrum. Minster Bell,
Weather Isle, and Scotahman's Pride are here.

CEBTRIAN HANDICAP. Six furlongs.
Roane, Viridis, Goojerat, Indian Star, Mistletoe,
Rejoinder, Graod Duke, Freemason, Deen, Conundrum,
Sell,lfillW, fitroeco, Rhine Wine, Lady Reashill, Returned,
Haminerton, Pride of Erin, end Curfew Bell are here.

BEAUFORT STAKES. One mile and a h►lf.

Viridie, Sumer, Rococo, Abergeldie, Priest, and Thalia
are here.

QUEEN'S PLATE. Two miles.
Prince Regent, Goodwood, Purveyor Knight of the
Garter Macaroon, Clara, Beauty, Viridl4 Mandrake, and
Corporal' are here.
DEE STAKES. One mile and a quarter.

Papillon, Mali', and untie we hers.
ARRTVED.—AinsIey, Ruedan Bear, Dick Ttupin, Paxton,
Jove, Brighteye, Tarquin, and Affection.

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
1 to 1 *get Blinkoolte (t)
sto 1 Beauty (t)
I; to 1 Paul Jonee(t)
7 to 1 Weatwiek (t)
7 to 1 Portant° (t)
12 to 1 Landscape (t)
DERBY.
a to I &get Lady Elizabeth (t)
9600 to 1000 Romerucian (t)
9to 1 Speculum (t to 5000
12 to 1 Paul Jones (t)
12 to 1 Blue Gown (t)
100 to 6 Orion (t)
25 to I Suffolk (t)

" NO THOROUGHFARE" AND " MONTE
CHRIHTO."

SINCE Mr. CHARLES DICKENS'S return from
America he has doubtless met with many gratify-
ing proofs of the esteem in which be is held in
public and private, but nothing has probably given
him more pleasure than the fact that the prolonged
popularity of No Thoroughfare at the Adelphi
Theatre has enabled him to witness a performance
in which he takes more than the ordinary interest
of an author. Though he almost began his literary
career as a writer for the theatre ; though his
stories are full of dramatic effects, and many of
them have been adapted to the English stage, his
success in that particular walk of art has been far
from equal to his success as a novelist. Like
most men, his ambition is not satisfied with doing
one thing well, and in addition to this his love
for the theatre almost amounts, it is said, to a
passion. It is not, perhaps, going too far to say
that if the public taste had rejected the Adelphi
drams with which his name, in conjunction
with that of Mr. WILKIE Commis, is asso-
ciated, the disappointment would almost have
counterbalanced the pleasure he must feel
at the magnificence and generosity of his American
reception. The drama was produced during his
absence in America ; the news of its success was
telegraphed to him through the Atlantic cable,
and he has returned to find it still living. When
No Thoroughfare has run its allotted time, its
place, we believe, will be taken by an English
version of Monte Christo, in which Mr. FECIITER
will sustain the chief character. It is some
years since this piece was represented at
Drury-lane Theatre by the company of comedians
belonging to M. ALEXANDER Dumas's " Thatre
"Historique,",andreceived in a spirit notvery credi-
table to the British public. An outcry was raised
against French actors and French plays, which led
to something like a riot, the leader of the mal-
contents being a deceased comic singer, and the
chief defender of the foreigners being the late Mr.
ALBERT Swim. We have given up some, if not
all, of our protectionist prejudices since that time,
and there is no reason to fear that Monte Christo
and Mr. FECHTER will meet with any opposition.