The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION

COMMITTEE.—(THIS DAY.)
The members of this Committee re-assembled at the
usual hour this morning; Mr. Bouverie in the chair.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, who was called yesterday en be;
half of the petitioners, and who, accerding.to a fore),
witness, had been heard to declare in the King ge
"D— it, I have no right to grumble, for I base ,ld
10 sovereigns from Best and his party," was crosslezr
mired this morning by Mr. Alexander, for the gal
Member. She said there was no truth whatever in
had been stated about the declaration at the King's
Jesse Cooke, the husband of the last witness, sten
that ho rode with Mr. Joseph Best, in his dog-eer.
to Woolverly, where he retired to a public-hogs;
kept by the witness Williams, where ho had some,,L
and stopped all night. This was on the Sunday belt;
th© election. Next morning, about six o'clock, his
started off to Kidderminster, and arrived there about
seven. He bought a new bat, and then :returned ,0
Woolverly. After dinner f e went up to Mr. Best
house, the father of the sitting Member, where he
Mr. Arnold Best, the sittidg Member's brother, ando
gether they went out to a rabbit-warren shooting.
returned borne to Williams about eleven o'cleck, but
although his wife was sleeping up-stairs he preferreoo
sleeping below on a sofa in his clothes, because he hat
get up early in the morning.
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Similar evidence to this, intended to etTne
bribery or treating against the agents of the a1t6,11
Member, occupied thee attention of the Committee w
whole of the morning.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. ,n
The engagement of Mr. Macready, which was
have commenced last night, was unfortunately Abe
vented by the sudden illness of that gentleman.
following certificate was published by Mr. Webster
"iI beg to state that Mr. Macready is labourtog.
under neuralgic rheumatism, so that he is unfit to 11,11
dergo professional labour. "JOHN ELLIOTSON• f
in this painful dilemma Shakspere's comedi,i(lb
Much Ado About .Nothing was substituted, erg.
Mr. James Wallack as Benedick, and Pr:
Warner as Beatrice. Our opinion of the va
nedick of Mr. Wallack we have enunciated o.° a
former occasion ; the character is conceived 1°
thoroughly Shaksperian spirit, and he brings to its der
velopment an inexhaustible flow of high comic huOu.;
The brilliant wit with which the dialogue is instinetle
tasted with a full flavour of its richness, and,,t.bd,
scene of the challenge of Claudio is marked by dig
nifled bearing cud chivalrous devotion for Beatrij,".
Mrs. Warner's Beatrice lacks the feminine que.l
with which the poet has endowed the part ; the ViD„,
fulminated, and the sparkles of sarcasm and the de
o
licate irony are poured forth with a vehemence all" It.
continuous vigour which tends greatly to mar they
effect. Miss Reynolds's Hero is gentle and graced
ful ; and the Dogberry and Verges of Keeley °et
-
Buckstone are companion portraits, as rich in c01e,,,,°,
as they are truthful in drawing. At the end of „a
comedy, Mr. Wallack and Mrs. Warner were cs"e
before the curtain.

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