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6uDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday afternoon an
inclu t
ditch, upon
et was held at the Fountain, High. street, Shore-
asPPiztured.., the body of Daniel Fergusson, currier. It
' frntn the evidence of William Entwisle, of No.
wa3 T.l`lY-street, Sh ored itch, turner, that the deceased
intention me
L. to his dinner on Wednesday, with the
Greenwich, °' afterwards taking his wife and family to
ID- --r and had not proceeded far from the premises
Wihhl • Bull, leather-cutter, of Shoreditch, his employer,
when he was observed to stagger and fall down; assist-
ance was mediate(ina
spark had fled,
ceased had
y rendered, but in vain, as the vital
His fell w-workmen stated that the de-
the complained duringo the last week of pains on
chest. Mr. Wildbore, surgeon, who was called in the
fitst
natio instance, was unable, without a post mortem exami-
n, to gi
er ve any opinion as to the cause of death. The
jury, howev made
V up their minds
rdi that it arose from
natural causes, and returned a verdict of--. " Died by the
idttgion of God."

THE HAYMARKET THEATRE.
Macbeth was performed here on Saturday evening,
Mr. Charles Kean resuming his old character of Mac-
, heth, and Mrs. Charles Kean appearing in that of Lady
Macbeth. It is now somewhat more than eight years
since we noticed Mr. Charles Kean's first impersonation
of this character at this theatre, and we then said that
the distinguishing characteristic of that performance was
genius. It is so still, but it is now genius
chastened, refined, perfected by careful study ; it
is now not merely the performance of a mare
of genius, it is the chef d'ceuvre of an artist of genius—
of one who hus cultivated his genius to the highest pitch
of perfection. The Macbeth of Mr. Charles Kean creates
greater sympathy than that of any other actor it has ever
been our fortune to see in this character. He makes us
feel that Macbeth is not all bz,d—that he has many ex-
cellent qualities, and that he is rather the victim of
circumstacces, of sore temptation, and of fatal
indecision; of character, than of inherent and
innate vice. The evidently sincere feeling with which he
even at the very last expresses his desire to pursue the
scheme of Duncare's murder no further was a proof of
this, and exhibited Mr. Charles Kean's reading of the
diameter with most telling effect. Ile was very fine in
the banquet scene, in which his heart-broken agony and
his efforts at endeavouring to preserve a dignified cocas
posure contrasted finely with his overwhelming and ener-
getic burst of passion when he is no longer capable of
concealment. The fifth act was throughout given with
great spirit and energy, and with the most telling effect.
The death of Macbeth is most artistically conceived and
perfectly executed. Wounded, faint, and dying, Macbeth
falls forward on to the stage, and to the last still glares
upon Macduff, still points his sword against him. This
dying scene is one of the finest things that Mr. C. Kean
has yet done. Mrs. Charles Kean has in Lady Mac-
beth thrown aside all conventional rules, and adopted an
entirely new reading of her own, which is most effective.
The Lady Macbeth of Mrs. Charles Kean is not the
matronly personage to whom we have been accustomed,
and who commands Macbeth in the earlier scenes with
more than matronly authority; the Lady Macbeth of
Mrs. C. Kean is the young, ambitious, impassioned wife,
full of feeling, full even of affection and love, !Mal
ambition, the master-passion, like Aaron's rod, swallows
up all the rest. By such a Lady Macbeth the Thane
might be tempted to undertake any task, however despe-
rate; and this reading of the character has one great ad-
vantage, it jars not with that respect which it is se
essential to the interest of the play that we should feel
fur the character of Macbeth. He is not the henpecked
husband who, against his better judgment, commits
a murder because he fears the commission of a murder
less than he fears the scolding of his wile, but he is one who
is so fascinated by his love for a fine, high-spirited incar-
nation of almost every quality in woman that can fasci-
nate a man, that he acts as one spell bound. The sleep-
walking scene was given with an intensity and a pathos
which we have seldom seen exhibited on the stage of late
years. One artiste, and one artiste only, could have ap-
proached Mrs. Charles Kean in this scene; Malibran
might perchance have equalled her, to surpass her
would be impossible. Wallack's Macduff was
a graceful and perfectly artistic representation.
The fight with Macbeth was excellently managed, and
the whole of the fifth act was given with a soldierly
bearing that told admirably. The whole of the music
was sung, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Fitz
william, and Mrs. Humby being the singing witches, and
Miss P. Horton appearing as Hecate. This part has
been useally given to a man, the bass singer of the com-
pany, yet we see no good reason for such a reparation,
for Hecate, alias Diana, is'really not only a woman,
but a young and beautiful woman, and,
therefore, most aptly represented by Miss
P. Horton, who sung the music delightfully,
and whose making up of the character was most classical
and effective. She wore a gauze mantle begemmed
with stars, and a sort of fairy cap, and her poses
were most graceful and classical. Messrs. Buckstone,
Tilbury, and Wigan were the three witches. Buck:tone
with somewhat questionable taste endeavoured
occasionally to make fun. Tilbury acted carefully;
but Wigan showed himself the accomplished
artiste—his making-up was superb ; there was
something haggard and unearthly about it, and
in his acting there was un expression of demoniacal
enjoyment that was perfectly sublime. The tragedy
was very carefully put upon the stage—all attempt at
show and spectacle has been most judiciously avoided—
the manners, the costumes, the furniture, are those of the
rude and remote ege in which Macbeth flourished; even
the banquet scene was the banquet of a semi-barbarian
chieftain who had been elevated to the dignity of King
upon the shields of his followers, and not that courtly
affair to which we have hitherto been accustomed.
The old accustomed tartans were likewise discarded,
and we had instead the primitive heavy mantle, the use
of which preceded that of the gayer tartan. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kean and Mr. Wallack were called for at
the conclusion of the tragedy. The theatre was very
well attended.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE IN 1663.—The following
is a copy of the first play-bill issued from Drury-lane
Theatre in 1663, the first year it was opened:—
BY HIS DIAJESTY'S COMPANY OF COMEDIANS AT THE

NEW THEATRE IN DRVRY LANE.
It being Tbvrsday, April Bth, 1663, will be acted a

. ,
Comedy called
THE UVMOVROVS LIEVTENANT.
The King ... Mr. Wintersell.
Dem, trivs ... Mr. Hart.
Selevevs Mr. Bvrt.
L-ontiva ... Major Mohvn.
Lievtenant ... Mr. Clvn.
Celia ... Mrs. Marshall.
The play will begin at three o'clock exactly.
Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. 6d.; Middle Gallery, Is. 6d.;
Vi per Gallery, Is.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE..--Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent honoured the performances at her
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with her pre-
sence. The suite in attendance upon her Royal High-
ness comprised Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Mary
Howard, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord James Murray, and
Colonel Sir James Couper. tier Majesty Quern Ade-
laide's box was occupied by the Viscountess Barrington,
Misses Barrington, Lord Lascelles, Lady Margaret de
Burgh, Lady Lascelles, and Mr. Barrington. Amongst
the visitors were—his Grace the Duke of Wellington
and Lady Charles Wellesley, the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort and Lady Henrietta Somerset, the Duke and
Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss
Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady
Augusta Paulet, his Excellency the Swedish Minister
and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency the Neapo-
litan Ambassador, the Charge d'Affaires of France and
Madame Montherot, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Marquis of Clanricade, the Marquis of Stafford, the Earl
of Lonsdale, the Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Fal-
mouth, the Earl and Countess of Bective,'Earl Wemyss
and party, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield,
the Earl of Pembroke, the 'Earl of Shelburne, Prince
Schoenfeld, the Baron and the Baroness de Stieglitz,
Viscount Enfield, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord
Eddisbury, Lord Sandys, Lord Templeton, Lady Fitz-
roy Somerset and Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Upton,
Lady Vincent, Lady Gordon, Lady Lesford, Lord and
Lady Newport, Lord IV. Lennox, Lord G. Paget, Lord
Harry Vane, Lord F. Gordon, Lord Gardner, Lord Ge-
rald Fitzgerald, Baron de Gerlache, Baron Lesfeld,
Lieutenant-Generald Sir Andrew Barnard, Bart., Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Burt., Lady
and the Misses Woodford, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard,
Bart., and Lady Barret Lennard, Lady Flower, Lady
Atkinson, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. George Edward An-
son, the Hon. Mrs. Herbert, &c.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—The
Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
the performance at the Royal Italian Opera on Saturday
evening with their presence. The Royal suite con•
sisted of the Earl of Listowel, Viscountess Canning, the
Hon. Miss Kerr, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, the Hon.
Colonel Phipps, and Colonel Bouverie. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the
Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz, and the Princess Mary and Prince George
of Cambridge, were also present, attended by Baron line-
sebeck. and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. Among the visitors
were—his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Peruvian Minister, the Princesses Herminie
and Melanie Metternich, Prince Richard Metternich and
Prince Schoenberg, accompanied by Mr. and the Misses
Morier, Colonel Dundas, and Colonel Wildman, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo, tho Marchioness of
Westmeath and the Hon. Mrs. Henry Murray, the Mar-
chesa Brancaleone, the Earl and Countess ot Sc fton, Earl
Bruce, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Durham, the
Countess of Cardigan, the Earl of Belfast, Lady Au-
gusta Gordon and the Misses Erskine, the Countess of
Belmore, Lady Charlotte Egerton, Viscount Tenspletown
and the Hon. Colonel Arthur Upton, Viscount Chelsea,
Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Mandeville, Viscount
Clifden, Lady Howard de Walden, Lady Caroline Maxse,
Lord and Lady Brabazon, the Baroness Rother, Lord
Archibald St. Maur, Lord Burghersh, Lady Brougham,
Lord Clarence Paget, Lord George Paulet, Lady William
Powlett, Lord James Stuart, Lord George Manners,
Lady Joddrell, Lady Woodford, Sir John Campbell,
K.C.T.S., and Lord Campbell, Sir Charles Smith, Bart.,
Sir Henry Beding field, Bart., Sir William Fraser, Bart.,
Lady Riddle, Lady Thorold,Sir W. de Bathe, Bart., Sir
George Armitage, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir
William Moleswcrtb, Bart. and Lady Molesworth, Lady
Wilson, Sir James Drummond, Bart., Sir Thomas Hare,
Bart., Sir James Mackenzie, Bart., Mr. Lyttelton and
Lady Bayley, Sir H. Meux, Bart., Mr. Arabin, Sir Wm.
Abdy, Bart., &c.
The annual examination of the wards of the Adult
Orphan Institution took place on Saturday last, at the
establishment in the Regent's Park, and was honoured
with the presence ot her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester and her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, who were received by the Marchioness Cornwallis,
the Earl Manvers, and the other members of the com-
mittees. The meeting was also attended by the Duchess
of Northumberland, the Countess Manvers, Lady Col-
chester, Lady Mary Ross, the Ladies Cornwallis, lion.
Miss Waldegrave, Lord Colchester, Rev. J. S. M. An-
derson, Rev. Thomas Bowdler, Rev. J. B. Ilayley, Rear-
Admiral Bowles, C. 8., M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Sir J.
J. Hamilton, Bart., Major-General Fanshawe, and
many other distinguished visitors. The Lord Bishop
of London, who kindly conducted the examination, was
pleased to express himself highly satisfied therewith;
after which the prizes were presented to the wards
according to their merit.
PRINCE HENRY OF THE NETHERLANDS —His Royal
Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, attended
by his suite, honoured the establishment of Messrs. J.
and W. Roberts, boat builders, of Bishop's-walk, Lam-
beth, on Friday, with a visit, and inspected their ma-
nufactory.
POSTAGE WITH FRANCE.—The Lords of the Trea-
sury having authorised a considerable reduction of the
rate upon international letters between this country and
France upon reciprocal terms, an alteration in that re-
spect may shottly be expected.