The Statesman. — 1823-04-08 (London, England)

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—The Tragedy of Macbeth was performed at this home last night, with the novelty of Mrs. OGILVIE'S first appearance in the character of Lady Macbeth. Of this arduous part, she ac quitted herself in a manner to sustain her previous reputation with the public, and which cannot be regarded as other than successful. The scene in which Lady Macbeth is made to work upon the daring imagination of her Lord, and tempt him on into the path of criminal ambition, and that wherein she betrays the distempered restlessness of the guilt-stricken soul were those in which this Lady obtained the largest portion of applause. Mr. MACREADY gave ample effect to the part of Macbeth.— With his usual energy and truth. he wrought up the harrowing portraiture of the ambitious murderer and reckless tyrant. His last scene was rewarded with considerable approbation. Mr. ABBOTT'S billCdiff was all that could be wished for, either as regarded the char le. ter itself, or as one which contributes to give so much effect and prominency to the other principal parts. - - -  Joseph Sabine, Esq., the Secretary to the Horticultural Society of London, has sent to the Botanic Garden, Hull, six tubers, of the native potatoe, about the size of the hazel nut, the produce of tubers, obtained last spring from South America, grown in the Society's Experimental Garden, at Turnbull Green. They are the first which were ever introduced into thiscountry, and are considered a great curiosity. There has been a vacancy in the" Latymer Free Grammar School," Hammersmith, for a school-master ; and when the election came on, before the Trustees, fix., on Thursday last, there werefbrty-eight candidates! The salary is 2551. &year, besides the perquisites of residence, coals, candles, talc.; and the revenue of the property, improved in consequence of recent investigations, is about 6501. a year, for the education and clothing of SO boys and girls.  A correspondent at Toulon, after extolling the Experimental Physiology of Magendie, adds—" About three weeks ago be made a very extraordinary discovery, and one likely to lead to most important results. He divided the principal nerves of an animal at different times to become acquainted with their different uses. To his great astonishment, he found invariably, en dividing a pair of proceeding from the spinal marrow, that he deprived the animal of motion and instinct. On cutting the one to the right, the animal was deprived of instinct ; and dividing the left, of motion ;—without destroying life. This very curious fact has not yet had time to be known in England."  The Monthly Magazine for April, 1823, gives the following extract from a work by M. Hourens. The experiment detailed in it had for object—an examination into the causes of Nervous Sensibility. A Correspondent thinks experiments of this description extremely reprehensible:—" To observe the pi ceon losing by degrees its faculty of flying as its cerekellum is removed ••• then, that of walking; and, lastly, that of holding itself lien upright posture, and this also, is only cradually lost.— The animal begins to be incapable of remaining erect upon its legs; and then its feet become unable to sustain it. At fast every fixed position becomes impossible—it makes incredible efforts to attain some particular posture, without being able to accomplish it: and yet, when exhausted by fatigue, it seems desirous of obtaining some repose; its senses are so clear, that the least gestures of the operators produces a re-commencement of its contortions, without the slightest convulse 7e motion, so long as the tubercula or the medulla oblongata remain uninjured."