Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1873, Page 5

| . £50,000,000. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2] = 1873. 5 —— WASHINGTORN. The Death .of Bulwer-Lytton ---His Rank in Liter- ature. gis Brother and Son---The Clay- ton.Bulwer Treaty. Balwer’s Novels as Compared with Dick- ens’-+-Living Within the Limits of Art. =~ From Qur Oun Correspondent, WASIINGTOX, Jan. 29, 1873, A menwho has had his enemies, and who Ia~ sored under the general dislike of the ago for \ristocrets in literature, has just.passed sway: BULWES. £ yx ‘o belonged, however, to the greater guild of ‘siters, and worked for the nobler uses of the 1ge and our race. His descont he could not help, snd in much he proved that bereditary rank is 10 imaginary line, and that we are all open to the convictions, ihe institutions, and the liber- slities of tlo modern age. - 1f Bulwer ever visited America it has elipped my memory, elthough his elder brother, HESRY BULWER, was British Minister to tho United States from 1549 to 1852, 2nd concluded with ‘John M. Clay- fo, of Delaware, the famous Clayton-Balwer Trests,—s treaty, by the way, not unlike in motive the High Joint Commission pro- dded for twenty-ome years subscquently. # was = canal firenty, aud Clsyton s patunally contrived for providing for esasls, as be represented Delsware, through which State tho fitst consequential canal scuth f the Hudson was opened in the year 18%9,—the only work of note in the State, except the breakwater at Henlopen. A THE CLAYTON-BULWER TEEATY w5 years in advance of its time. It wasa Christian conference of neighborly - men, one of whomn had eaten well-done roast beef for years, snd the other fricaseed chicken, and neither of them wanted wars or the rumor of wars. The Clsyton-Bulwer Treaty was opposed by =ll the avage manifest-destinariang, many of whom | tit fhe dust in subsequent battle-fields, or were distingnished for a-dor to meke Slavery the moral sense of the New World: DBarksdale, (lingman, Cobb, Edmundson, Horace Maynard, Edmand Rufin, Zollicofler. The object of the treaty was to connect the oceans, twenty yaars in sdvance of the Suez Canal, by a mutual protect- orate of America and England. Had that design been . established, England and America—the Anglo-Saxon race — would bave been joint partners in the commerce of the globe. There would have been no English sympathy for the Rebellion, no “ Alabama " and “Florids,” no Spanish atrocities in Cuba, and po Maximilian tragedy. The Suez Canal wonld not have been the routé to the Indies. We would have made a channel across Nica~ mgua. We would have for THE TRUE CONFEDERATE STATES, America and England, partners in. Free Trade sad in the commerce of tho - earth; for, - with such an Gnderstanding in 1850, twenty years of misconception might bave been anticipated. Occasionally it looks asif the Monroa docirine wes aAraud. The best that has been done for Sonth American independence was by Lord Cochrane and the English, To arrogate the privilego® of doing all’ the phi- philanthropy for & whole continent smacks of a eelfish intent; and to postpone an inter-oceanic ship-canal for twonty years be- causo we are ourselves unable to achieve it, might bo called the Monroe Hoggishness. In {he year 1858, the following Liberal Democrats, amongst_others, voted in the House for the Lieyton-Bulwor Treaty: - Rouben Davis of Afis- sisappi, Horace F. Clark (son-in-law of that Commodore Vanderbilt who has never soliciteda 2nd-grant), Faulkner, George W. Jones, Lamar, Cetcher, Daniel Sickles, and Whitely of Dela- ware. THE MOEAL MPANING AND INTENT of the treaty was either frustrated by tho brutal Spposition it encountered, or the treaty itself vaentod the purpose it apparently sfl{mm{ed. ftke littlo railiay from Aspinwall to Panama tied np the Isthmus with a corporation, and for- e npproaching seas to Mmix” their waters. Bixteen years afterward, Oakes Ames and Du- raul—those Murrells of the land—Iaid the Pa- cific Railway by corrupting Congress, and it was opened, at a cosi to the Government and private fifim of - £120,000,000 (including what Mr. ey calls * the profits ™), the very same year tuat tho Sucz Canal was completed at a cost of There is still no Nicaragua Canal, although there is plenty of Monroe doctrine. John AL Clayton thus was the anthor. of the Fieh policy toward England, and Henry Bulwer anticipated Edward Thornton. 1t wes in America that BULWER'S 50N A caltivated his poetic tastes, and probably laid the ideas wmc§ underlie his poems; for he was in Washington City between the ages of 18 and 2. Edward Robert, or * Owen Meredith,” is a better poet than his father in lighter mattersy but society, and not man,—the sentiments, an not carears,—mnke the staple of his pieces, Robert Bulwer is the heir of his father; and he Las Irish blood in his veins, his termagant mother having been of that race and country. THE XOVELS OF BULWER LYTTON Eayobeen contributions to tho dignity of the British Nation in » more direct senso than the novels of any other person, except Sir Walter Scott. - Dickens wrote for a great mess of fire- &ido people, and in but two cases somght to vivify the episodes of larger history. His * Tale of Two- Cities™ leaves the impression of the French Revolution that it was o great human ekl st 4o no tune, ¢ Barmaby Badgd" does distingnish a small riot, elso forgotten excapt inlocal literature. The power of Dickens is rel- atitely imgnsing according to tho smallness of thestage he plays, upon. In general views, in philosophy, ia morals which point the lear index finger, and in tht pssimilating power of intellect ‘which iiie!m the greater and the less, and re- produce both in the true acd equitable propor- tions and strength df art, Mr. Dickens was | NEVER EITHER GREAT OB CAPABLE, Ko was forover fetching out of the woes of ood stimulation for tears,—woes inevit- 2bl6 and common to naall, s traly 8s the cut- ting of teeth or the distress of vaccination. Hoy many Dotheboys Halls are there in real life? How many Little Panls die of cramming? How many Oliver Twists are sold and made thisvea ? The philanthropy of Dickens is ut- tetly lacking in indication ; it devises nothing,— destroys nothing. It is 2 most eflective, most Qesigning play upon the reader’s emotions, for es never quite clear, and it sel- om strikes and guides the steady currents of onr natare, whichin indignation are resistlesa. Mr. Dickens could no more have made ¢ Henry Eemond” live out his story go modestly, and yet touch with life and truth ‘all the adjacent fea- of the reign of Queen Anne,—the politics, the vice, the genius, the beauty, and the tend- €ncy of that age, than ho conld have formed flcgfili:hu,:r “ Rienzi,"” o:m‘; Kn:old.'t' i 0 high test of the influence of litera- tare to be eh ki IT§ INFLUENCE UPON THE CITIZEN, he unit of Socioty and the State. Mr. Dickens bss e the great democratic suthor. Fherein? Let all his motley circus-company froceed 1o tho polls, snd what a reflection do 6y present upon the propriety of liberty and Tepresentation? Thoy all seem to teach the that & clob-foot is & fino thing in its Wy that gn wigiot Sghtiog in_tho riots s a average type of the agitator; that content- Bent under tha eircumstances of dobt andbank. Haptey is rther a good occasion for humor; and 4, ‘on the whole, to be m earnest about any- is either to be a nuisance, like *rs. J Y, or & heep, lilo “Mr. Pickwick.” this literature, ~ Ii is an extension and a pro- dgation of some sort of show-life; it is not the 6 Wo live, the mind of whichwo are possessed, for tho destiny for which we ever, oven insensi- Hy,contend. " Alr. Dickens was the master of & style then Buliver,—more finent, variable, even more cloquent. His w88 fint of a prodigy in language—s sort of u':my Blind Tom. But he lacked objects, and W bubbles. We feel, as his performances that a_poorhouse, a jail, and & theatre -Bave broken loose, and there is no keeping our children aud servants still, who crawl up at the d‘;fiow and exchange slang with the proces- Bulwer, with no more than talent, iy GSED VIRHIS THE LIS OF ART. 3 diguity is pover down, His bumor is beavier, but we romember it longer. The man who sought to repeople Pompeii, vindicate O'Neill, and vitalize La Valliers, if not & genias, was a great, productive citizen. AT REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. @ _ music. The remarkable sale of seats for the Italien Opera season,—one of the largest ever known in Chicago,—is an evidence that, nottvithstanding the high prices of seats and the financial strin- gency of the times, people will go to be amused, and will go all the faster and more furiously when the prices are highest. Nearly all the available seats for the Lucca nights -have been taken, and it now remains for Young-America to rnpywma support of Miss Kellogg, that our fair young cantatrics msy not be completely overshadowed by the fair young Berliner. Lucea will open the ball on Monday evening with the “Favyorita,” which las never been, notwith- standing .its name, a favorite here. Opening night, howevor, will saveit. Kellogg follows with ““Trovatore,” which has always been a strong opers hore, and has never failed to draw. All of the Eastern musical papers, whose opinions are worth having at all, concur in giving Kellogg high praise for her personation of Leonora, and “Trovatore,” therefore, ought to draw, both for Kellogg's sake and for tho intrinsio morits of the opera. - On Wednesday night, Lucea appears in ‘“‘Faust,” one of the most populer of all the current operas, and the eale for this is even larger than for the opening night. Kellogg fol- Iows on Thursday night with ** Linda,” one of the most beautifal of all the light operas on the - stage, snd Kellogg is one of the best Lindas. The opera for Friday night has mot been officially announced, but it will probably bo either “Don Giovanni” or *The Marringe of Figaro.” In either ovent, both Lucca and Eel- logg will appear. If it should be *Don Gio- vanni,” Lucea ‘will take Zerlina, and Kellog, Donna Anna ; if “Tho Marrisge of Figaro, ‘then Luccs will take Susanna, and Kellogg the Countess. Beyond this, no announcements can ‘be made until the arrival of Marctzek and the troupe. It is not fmprobable that “ The Hugue- nots,” *‘Traviata,” * Mignon,” aod ‘Fra Diavolo” will coms in the second week, as these are among the strongest operas in the repertoire of the troupe, and aro all drawing operas. It is ot improbable that the receipts from the Lucca nights will eqaal, if not surpass, the receipts in any of the Eastern soasons, If the adherents of Kellogg ive a practical . expression to their professions of admiration, they will rally to the su%port of the American prima'donna, and make hernights comparatively, it not equally, Temunerative, Concerning the restof the troupe wecannaot say anything. The criticisms of the Eastorn press afford no means of judging their capabilitics, as they aro conflicting and some~ times unintelligent. The real standard of the troupe will have to bo estimated here, and it is fortunate that Chicago opora-goers are in & position to do it, a8 the previous performances of the tmnge in New Yoik and Boston, and in .some of the provinciasl Now. England towns, like - Providenco, Hartf and New Haven, have in peality only been :xe- hearsals for Chicago. We shall undoubtedly get the very maximum of the capability of tho troupe, provided the operatic sore throat doesn’t setin. In view, however, of the elogant audi- ences which are already guaranteed Ly the pre- liminary sale, and the cosy, elogant theatre in which the tronpe is to_sing, we doubt not the operatic epizootic will be left at the East. It only remains for opera~goers to get their hats and cloaks, thair fans and lorgnettes, and libret- i, which have been rusting so long, and prepare tHemselves for the dutics of the fortlicoming fortnight. follows : The cast for *‘Favorita” will be as 'THE PRESBYTERIAN OHURCH CONCERT. A grand concert will bo given &t the new First Proshyterizn Churel, comer of Indiana avenus and Twenty-first street, on Thursday evenin ‘Toxt, undor the direction of i, G, O Knopfel, upon_which occasion the new organ of tho urch will be exhibited for tho first. time. Tho singers who Liava boon secured for this occasion, An the excellence of the programme, givo. every promise that this _concert will be ono of the most notable musical- enter- tainments ever given in tho city, and will divide the attention of musical people, with the opera even. The ladies and gentlomen who will take a1t in the concert sre as follows: Organ, osars: Falk, Flagler, and _Knopfel; piano, Miss Eva Manniero and Mr. Ledochowski; so- prenos Ars. 0. L. Fox, Mrs. J. A. Farwell, and . H. Aldrich; contraltos, Mrs. O. K. Johnson, Mrs, A, R. Subin, Miss Mary Holden, and Miss N. French; tenors, Mossrs. Gates, Howard, Sa- bin, and Otis; bassos, Messrs. Hubbard, Sprague, and Goldemith ; harp, Mr. Lyon ; vio- lin, Mr. Sir; flute, Mr. Bareither; cello, Mr. Bachmann. The programme will be as follows : rs. 0. Foz. 4, ** A Tear Shed st the Grave of Rosain{’ . Ciardi Messrs. Enopfel, Falk, Lyon, Sir, Bachkmann, and * Bareither. 4 6. * Volkslled™........ J < Choir of Second Presbyterian Church. 6. Variations on a Scotchair..................D. Buck Mr. Louis Falk. 7. 4Tho MEBSIEO™, .o eseensnrwnssrensesss Blumenthal Hira, 1. Aldrich, PART IL 1. Gloris in Excelsis. . .Enopfel Choirs of the First, byterian - Churches. 2. Grand Duo, for two pianos, and organ . obligato. Miss Eva Mannicrs and detsrs, Enopfel. 8 Vealteooro i 7 of Second Prestiteria 4. (z) Transcription, * Robin Adair”. (b) Prelude, in B mminor. y. L. 6. “ Lift Thine Eyes,” tri re. Farwell, Foz and Joknaon. 6. “ Miserere,” from VOLOT. e e vaes Alessrs, Knopfel, Flagler, Bachmann, and 5§ 7. Festival ..Zindel Jr. 6. ¢ Fnopsel. THE BOSTON SEXTET CLUB, which was to have sung here on Monday and Tuesdsy ovenings of this week, under the au- ‘spices of the Star Lecture management, has vio- Iated its contract, and therefors will not be here. The next musical atiraction promised by the Star management is - THEODORE THOMAS, N who never violates contracts, and will bring his orchestra here for concerts on Mondsy and Tuaes- day evenings, Feb. 17 and 18. Miss Anna Mehlig, the delightful pisniste, comes with him, and a new golo violinist and ’cello player aro also promised. - What his programmes will be is not yet known. N THE GEEMANTA CONCERT. The pra%mu for the Germania Concert af Vorwarts er Hall, to-day, is as follows: 1. “Remembrancs of 5t. Lonis.” .Euppe Leutner §: Potpoarrie Syseal Dispates Pot) —¢ Musi e] £ Obes 6010 £rom Don Paaguali " Mr. Bareither. 6. a. Gnomen Polka ‘Trifling 7. Overture to * The Bohemian Girl 7. 8. Potpourri—** Collection of popular airs 9. Quadrille, “ Artists’ Festival ... TURNEE HALL. . The following is the programme for this after- noon'’s concert at the new Turner Hall, North Bide : 1. Souvenir March.. 2, Ove ¢ Where 3, Second finale from * taire, Zikoff Suppo rmed by Mr. £, Tlrici. Josef S‘l;a\uu o - MUSICAL NOTES, Tostee is now 54 Gounod has got the neuralgia. - & Tannhauser * sausages are sold at Bologns. Rubinstein concerts are‘anhounced in Mobile for this week., Mr. 8. C. Csmpbell will leave Egypt for Amer- jca about the et of April. et Miss Adelaide Phillipps will soon leave Boston on & Western concert tour. - " A Cincinnati critio_affectionately allddes to « Rube, the pisno-pounder.” Miss Pauline Canissa has been engaged to sing in the German opera troupe which appears naxt ‘month in Richmond. The singing of 5 tenor, M. Roussel,at Brussels, in Teifs ¥ William Toll,” gives hopes of a successor to Duprez. The new comer hasa sing- ing ul de poitrine, at all events. M Lecocq's highly successful comic opers, “In Fille de Madamo Angot,” now pla_vm!f in Bruseels, will ho soon brought out at the Foleis- +| which will not fail to be of service to her mnow. Dramatiques. Tho work i3 also in preparation in Vienna. 5 M. T. P, Rydor hag resignod tho position of organist at Tremont Temple, Boston. His suc- cessor is Alr. Carlyle Potorsilon. . Mr. G. E. Whiting will produce, for tho first time in Americs, some of Gounod's now choral music, at Boston Music Hall, Feb. 16. The Boston singer, Mr. Charles Adams, who has met with great success abroad, will prohbly return home next epring. - The Hendel and Haydn Society of Boston will give *Judas Maccabrus™ Feb, 8, and *Elijah " on the 9th, with Madame Rudorsdord¥, Miss Fair- man, and 31r. Varley as soloists, Miss Addio 8. Ryan, Mr. James Whitney, Mr. Geo. R. Titus, Mr. F. Boscovitz, and Mr. §. L. Btudley have been giving concerts in Canada. The Seguin Opera Company drew on their € capitalist,” the othor day, for funds to.procaed with, but found the Atlantic Ocean had put estoppel to their drafts, Mr. Stoepel -had gone to Europe to “produce his own operas.!” - The new Beethoven Quintet Club is rapidly winning & foremost position. It comprises | Mosers. C. N. Allen, first violin; H. Heindl, second violin; J. C. Mullaly, firut viola; Chas. Koppitz, eecond viola and flute; Wul-Fries, ‘cello. P ‘The London papers eulogize the fresh voice end personal beauty of a new prima donna—and who do you suppose it is? None other than i\}mn& I“:ost:l B ), o sung hm mh' “ Opera ouffo,” and went away, o8 ove thounght, to dio with consumption. " - 2e o e The active members of the Apollo Club, of Boston, were recently hnndsnmn?; entertained by Mr. Charles A. Swmith, an associate member, .who availed himeelf of tho occasion.of .his birth- day fo foast Dis soul with singing and to feast the singers with ns dcnghmfi 4 BUpper as was over served in Boston. 5 Tho Carnival season ab Naples was opened with Donizetti’s * Maria di Rohan.” The Apollo &t Venice began with Rossini's ¢ Semiramide.” Signor Vulenza's new -opers, ** Lo Fate,” Lag succeeded at tho Caraiploy Thentro, in Venice. At Mantoa, Moyerbeer's ** Africaino” was the opening opera, and st Turin, Sonor Gomes' Guarany.” i) The last performance.of .the Lucca-Kollogg troupo at the Boston Theatre, on the 25th ult., drow sn_immenso audience, which was very en- thusinstic ovr tho singing of the principals in “ Mignon,” though disposod to-find fault with the apparent carelesenesa of the chorus. Floral tributes wero profuse. Among the more con- spicuous of the floral offerings presented to Miss ellogg, was & magnificent basket of rosebuds, camellins, and violets, the bandle of which boro the words au revoir in immortelles. For tho twonty-first time “ Romeo .and Ju- lict"” is being set fo musio. A Milsnese journal enumerates twelve musicians who have lyricised the Slakspearean play, viz. ¢ Donds (Dresden, 1772), Schwanberg (Bruziswick, 1762), Marsscal: chi (ltome, 1789), Rumling * (Carlsberg, 1790), Dalayrac (Paris, 1793), Zingarelli (Milan, 1796), Gugliolmt 1910), Vaceai (1626), Bellini Q813 Marcheiti (Iricste, 1665), Gounod (Paris, 1867). The Arcadian (N. Y.) says Allle. Liebhart receatly sang Home, Swoet Homo," in Indian- apolis, in a watered sills, trimmed with pea- green sctin, executing a cadenza of her own with her bair arranged a lz Pompadour. She afterwards gave the charming b of “Tive o'clock in tho Morning,” in a magnificont morn- ing dress, with Valencionnes lace encircling the top and continued down the front, as o jabol Her singing of ono of Schiumann's songs, in & magnificent tucked muslin jecket, edged on the outside with & Tow of embroidered insertion, elicited the warmest encomiums of the critics present. Mr. Ossian E. Dodge, the vocalist and more recently a citizen of St. Paul, Minn., haa obtain- ed a divorce from Ars. Dodge. In a lawsuit about the custody of the children, he makes this golomn statement on oath: *‘ Eversince she was married she has Lopt_a six-barreled loaded re- Yolver in her possession, with which &he has & great many times threatoned to blow my brains out and to shoot me.” He further deposed that Mrs. Fanny was in the habit of beating the son whose custody she now desires- over the head ‘ith s bathing-brush 20 inches _long, and so severely a8 to break the handle of tho brash.”. When this weapon was not at hand. the affee- tionate mother used the tongs. No wonder 1 poor Dodge wanted & divorce -~ =« .- - DRAMATIC. The chief dramatic event of the ensuing weel, and one of the chief ovents of the season, is the engagement of Miss Carlotta LeCloreq at the Academy of Music. This lady ‘will bo remem- bered in Chicago in connection with the appear- ance of the great #ntor, Charles Fechter, at McVicker's Theatre, about two years ago. Miss LeCloroq was then engaged by Mr. Fechter to play the round of leading female characters in the pleces presonted by him, and she was recog- nized as an artist eminently worthy to bo asso- ciated with one of the most celobrated actors of the sge. Indecd, she sharod the honors equally, and left behind her an impression For her first week attho Academy of Music Miss LeClercq announces & rare list of attrac- tions, commencing with “The Lady of Lyons,” which she presentsin a new version, the play having been expressly revised and ro- arranged for her byits author, thelate Sir Ed- ward Bulwer Lytton. *The Lady of Lyons” will be given on Monday and Tuesday evenings, snd at the Wednesday matince, with Miss Le- Clercq”as Pauline, and Mr. -Milton Nobles &g Claude, with other characters by the excellent Academy company. On Wednesdsy and Thus- day nights - Miss LeClereq will appear 83 Peg Woffington in * Masks and Faces,” and on Friday and Saturdsy nights, sod at-the Satarday matinee, as Rosalind in Shakspeare's comedy of “As You Like It.” For the second and last week of her engagement, Miss Le- Clereq will appear a3 Galatea inthe greatest and last of London euccessos, Gilbert's mythologi- cal comedy, *Pygmalion and Galatea,” in which she recently achieved the most brilliznt succers in Boston. 0 HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE. . The comedy bill at Hooley's Opera House dur- ing the past week has attracted large audiences, who have been delighted and ~ entertain by performances of the _finest charac- tor, - bringing out John Dillon in {wo of his great roles, thoso of Paul Pry, -in the comedy of that_namo, and Algjor Wellington DeBools, in *Everybody's Friend.” A com- anion of Mr. Dillon’1n the lettor character with ohn 8. Clarke, one of the world's greatest comedinns, results most favorably to the Chi- cago actor, whoso admirers can justly claim for Yim equsl distinction and merit. For this week, H. J. Byron’s interesting and powerful drama, *“Blow for Blow,” will be produced, with the elegant scenery and appointments peculinr to tho stago at Hooley's, and with the [clowing cast of characters: v Prologue: John Drusmmond. 3, Jae, C, Padget Charley Spragga. .ifr, John Diflon Josiah Craddock . 3fr. W. B, Arnold Licutenant Linden, 2. N dir. W, T Woodsild ir, Kenward, Afr. W, 5. Woodfleld 2r. jas, . Padget 2r. Jobn Dillon "Alr, Ruasell Sogy r. Walter A, Kelly Alico Potherick, " ~ Mildrett Craddock Miea Eato Moek Iady Ethel Linden. 3fiss Marie Louise Miss Wobbler, {iss Emma Cline 2rs, Monlscy. ... iss Emma Siowa On Friday evening of this week 3fr. Dillon haza a benofit, the bill for which—cartain to be a glorious one—will bo duly announced. # False Shame,” racently brought out in Lon- don and New York with great_succese, is under- lined for early ?roduction at Hooley’s. 2'YICEER’S THEATRE. - The three weeks' engagement of Dion Bonci- canlt and wife, which closed at McVicker's Theatre last evening, wes not financially sue- cessful according -to its deservings,—n condition _ of _ things, it must 'ap- pear, which srose not 80 yxuch from & lack of nppreciation by tho public of .the ad- mirable entertainment for which the engage- ment will always be notable, as from tha fact that it was sandwiched between two extraor- dinary attractions—Charlotte Cushman preced- ing, und the Italisn opera following. What with the drain of the first upon the pockets of theatro-roers, and the holding off for the second, Az Tousicaul: oecupled anumilortunate poaition but ho may take to Mimself much sstisfaction in the knowledge that his stay in Chicago has greatly enbanced his n:sémhhon here both a8 an actor and an '":xhii'ny 0 finvelprw%dmu :::ée of “Kerry"” and Kerry—the play and the - ing character therein—is something of which any living man might be proud. e This week and next, whilo the theatre is be‘:fi occopied by Itelian Opers, Jr. AcVicker will 1 “shoul | clapse.”. ‘There ia the whole story. Th talo the ladies and gentlemen of his compan npon a provincial tour, supporting Edwin Boot! in his appearances in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and other cities in Michigan. By this plan the com- any will derive the advantage of thorough re- earsal in the plays to-be produced at McVick- or’s by Mr. Booth following the opern season. ATEEN'S THEATRE, s after an unsuccessful struggle with adverse cir- cumstances, among which bad weather, strong |. counter attractions, and what seems to be, for tho present, an unfavorable location, have been the ~ most disastrous, was closed Inst . ovening oa & rogular . of amusement, to be hereafter ropted for tran- sient entertainmonts, for which-it is rendered poculiarly docirablo by tho slogant claracter of o sudiforinm, the comfortablo_seats, and the Iarge stage. - The public will regrot that so-de- serving an enterprise as that of Mr, Aiken's b meet with 80 poor. encouragement, and his many friends in Chicago will earnestly hope’ for the time when the theatre .can .bé success- fully reopened. . . MYERS' OPERA NOUSE, _ o An entire change of programme is announced at Myers’ Opern Honse, where the minatrels will figuro this week in a rich bill of novelties, and will ‘continuo to deserve the .compliment of nightly {acing largs snd ologant ‘assemblages of ladies and gentlemen. Besides tho usual melange of mow aud good thingain tho firat part, we have Mackin and Wilson in Lheir superb songs and dances;” a vocal quartette, ** The Enight's Fare-"| well; ‘ The Haunted Man,” by Kemble, Cotton, ana Rice; a banjo_solo_ by Clarenco Burton ; 4 A Pay’s Fishing,” by Rice and Arlind;ton 5 8o lections by the oxcellent orchestra, and; in con- clusion, the sketch, ¢ More Suitors Than One,” bg'u Arlington, Rico, Cotton, Surridge, and Fos- 6. . . GLOBE THEATRE. At tho Globo Theatce, this week, Miss Fanny Herring sppears in ‘ Tho Fomalo Dotective,” which Es followed bya succession of variel sets. Mr. J. L. Weathorwax, one of the propri- olors, takes & benefit on Kridsy night, when ¥ Jack Shoppard " will bo_produced, and Alr. Carroll and his sons will appear. B GENERAL GOSSIP. - A map in Toledo, Ohio, never gaw the * Black Crook,” owing to the fact that he is blind. The old farce of * Maitre Pathelin,” has lately boen played at the Thestro Francais. This ‘picce dates back to about 1470, A recent molodramatic revival in Paris de- tained tho audience from 7:30 in tho evening until 8.0clock tho next morming. Shoridan’s play of The Rivals” has had a run of fifty nights, this season, st tho Charing Cross Theatro, in London. Ab-yearold dsncer and eingar, called “ Baby Baugon,” {8 creating n urore at tho Motropoli- {an Vasiotios, 1n Washhagton, Rev. Mr. Chew, of Reading, Pa., is preaching the sinfulness of ,theatres, and is helping tho mavagers to fill their houses. Mrs. Calvort's rovival of Shakspear’s Henry 7.” bas hiad & run of seventy-four pérformances, at the Prince’s Theatre, Manchester, England. * How I Found Robinson Crusoe ” is the title of & burlesque at ong of the London theatres, Stanley and Bates are both shown up in the most nonsensical manner. Mr. Bothern will be in Californis in June and July, and in Australia in September and October. He will then return to tho United Btates, and re- main hers thronghont 1874. k . The old American Theatro, on Walnut street, Philadelphia, is_to borenovated and started afresh, 08 & variety theatre. It has been pur- chased by Mr. W. F. Campbell, of New York, for £90,000. The building is 80x150 feet in size. * Pygmalion and Galatea " was withdrawn at the Haymarket Theatre, on the Sd inst., after & run of twe hundred and thirty-geven nights, and, on the 4th inst., Mr. Gilbert's new fairy comedy, #THo Wicked World,” ook its place. They have an excoodish:flgg;mflhb)e theatre and some great actors at McConnellsville, Ohio. The roceipts are often as much as 3150 & night, and the local press assures usthat the man who plays Rip Van Winkle is superior to Mr. Jeffer- eom. . - Y Atclown 'recently astonished an audience as- sembled ip & North Carolina circus tent with a forciblp sermon upon their duty in contributing to the mdmon of “the G ‘The sermon was apparently well received, fof on the following day he preached in public, sad apart from thio cus, upon the subjoct ‘of Christian . missions, andBuccoeded in collsc considerable sum for the benefit of the heathén. One afternoon, sbont the year 1350, whila Edwin Booth and his father were walking on Pennsyivania avenue, in Washington, they mct John Howard Payne, the suthor "of ‘¢ Brotus.” The elder Booth af onco asked him to come to the theatre where they were playing, but he at first declined, saying he had not- been in o thes- tro for twenty e, Hearing that his own play was to bo acted he at last conscnted to soe if, and its performance that night—the elder Booth 88 Brutus and Edwin 23 Tilus—was the last play he saw. All the Parisian playhouses are being furnish- ed with'smoking rooms, so_that spectators will 1o longer be forced to wander up and down ‘in the street in the cold or in the rain when they wish to while away a long entr'acte with a. cigar- etts or cigar. -Thero is a neat little snuggery at the Vaudeville for the accommodation of smok- ers, and it is always woll attended between tho acts. The Theatre Italicn s following euit, and is hnvm%cnnutmctml s handsome fumoir on the round floor, large enough to_seat 100 persons. t 18 in the Pompoian style, with paintings rep- resenting the nine Muses. Augustin Daly made this speoch at the open- ing of the new Fifth Avenue Theatro: TADrES AXD GENTLEMES : Tappear before you with pleasnre. T asiur you I feel decply the favor you svo shown me. throughout my career of succesaes, and the sympathy expressed for me when that success secmed to be momentarily checked, I welcome you to- Dight to 8 new house, but really to the old Fifih Ave- nuo Theatre, Aly littls jewel-box uptown is gone, but the jewels are all safe, }lere you will sce the ssme ar- tists with whom you have passed g0 many pleasant hours, In fact, the Fifth Avenue Theatre is not de- stroyed. There ia a change of costume, a shifting of the sceno; ihat {sall. The curtain rises to-night uponan- other act. The list one ended on New Year's Day with a tableau got up, a8 wo gay, and this time with consid- erable truth,*at o cost of many thousands of dollars to the management.” Between that sct and thie, as wo £ay, also, “a period of three weeks is supposed to e play goes The Fifth'Avenue Theatre, like “the king, s dea but if you say 8o, Long Livo the theatre ! Rev. John Weiss, the Unitarian clergyman whose extrome radical ideas of Church doctrine created & decided broeze during his recent visit to Chicago, has been invited to deliver bhis courso of gix lectures on “The Character of Shak: peare,” the request being signed by W, C. Bry- ant, F. A. P. Bunard, George C. Barrott; C. I Chandler, Goorge Riploy, Szmnel_Osgood, Hen- 1y Sedley, F. O. French, Henry Ward Beccher, 0. B. Frothingham, Henry Holt, Henry AL Field, Daniel E, Kollins, Jr., Parke Godwin, Horace TRussell, Chas. A_ Joy, Benj. K. Phelps, White- law Reid, John H. Platt, Wn. M, Evarts, George Willism Curtis, Edward B. Merrill, J. AL Bundy, Ogdew N. Rood, Ilenry G. Stebbins, S. H. Gay, C. P. Cranch, Oliver Johngon, David G. Francis, Erastus Brooks, James C. Carter, V. Botts, Charles Butler, Edward L. Youmans, Joseph H. Choate, John A. Weoks, Mr. Weiss has complied with the request, and will deliver the lectures on tho ovenings of Feb. 7, 10, 14, 20.23, and 23, His subjects, are, respectively, “The Causo of Laughter,” “Wit, Irony, and Humor," “The Humor of Shakspeare—Tonchstons, Bottom, Dogberry, and Malvolio;” * Ajax, Macbeth, an Lear;™ * Falstaff ;” “ Hamlet.” * BEALISY OX THE STAGE. o Under this head tho following appears in the Now York Etening Post : ‘There §s a sensational play now performing at Syra- cuse, N. Y., in which is carried tolts cxtremest point. An‘actress stands with an spple on ber head which (the spple, not the hesd) i3 then shot off by sn actor with an actual rife, real powder, snds genuine bullet. The performance is said {0 have **drawn well,” and wo do not doubt the statement, - There are plenty of peoplo everywhere who bavo o morbid desire to witness a horrible sccident, to whom killing and maiming are only subjects’ of curiosity, .and who snatch a fearful joy from the jaws of death itself. 1t is the sume’ pirit Which rang in _the old Tontin ¢ Habet” of the amphitheatre, which pre- Jented the turning of the im ‘thumb when tho conguering gladiator stood above his dying victim, which has its clearest modern exponent in the Spanish bull-fight, and which makes it possible for s comma- nity calling jtself civilized to witness, and a journal of on. a3 Jour time to commend, a spectacle I{ko this. ~When the rifle bullet goes astray some evening, and lodges in the brain instead of the apple, there will bo some Smong the andlence who, if they do not confees it even to 1h d\mwfll Do secretly eatisfied thereat. Truly the brutallis of humanity s & mightier power than civilization jtself. But the tiger is dangerous though he be chained, and those who feed him with such in- flaming diet a3 this deserve some rostraint themselves. gt el i —The maeting of the Evangelical Alliance will cost the churches of this country sbout £10,000. This will be expended in paying the fare of delegates both ways, and in entertaining them_ while here. Already $10,000 has been raised, and 20,000 more is looked for from New York and Brooklyn. A meeting was beld at Dr. Adams' Church, New York, recently, at which Dr. Schaff reported the acceptance of his invifa- tions by * great and good men in Scotland, Ire- land, and n,,—l..mi.i nce, Holland, Germsoy, Switzorland, and Tialy. Spain will be repre- sented, and Scandinavia, and the mission fields of Asia and Africa.” - blows. CHIEN D'OR. The Romance of Early Cana- : dian History. The Leglend of the Chien d'Or. The Dark Days of French Dom- ination in Canada. A Beminisence of the Hero of Trafalgar. " Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. QuEzEc, Csnada, Jan. 23, 1872 The American tourist, on his arrival in Que- bec, gonerally consigns himself to tho care of & hack-driver, and upon his Jehu he depends for information concerning the legendary lore of this quaintest of cities of the New World. His first introduction to the relics of departed days will bo at tho head of Mountain Hill, and there +will Jarvey tell-him an, extraordinary story about - . . THE CHIEN D'OR, or the famous Golden Dogof Philibert. But Jarvey is, as a rulo, & very inaccurato describer ; £0 I have taken the trouble to writo the history of the most colebratod house in Quebec, for the information and amuscment of your readers. Atthe presont day, Quebeo is undergoing transformations. . The hand of progress is widening the old streets, which, in the days of Begot, wero not thought narrow; the silent though open-monthed gates, gun-defended, are disappearing; Lero and there tho forbiddin walls are tumbling into ruin, and no one heeds the process of decay. The old historic honses are being removed to make room for tho palaces of commerce; old things are passing away, and all things are being made new.® The old house of = .. “NICOLAS JAQULY, DIT PHILIBER,” has also dissppeared, and on its site rises a splendidly-inassive structure of granite, the new Post Offico of Quebeo. Tho old houso had not the remotest resem- ‘blanco to a palace. It would have made a capi- tal hauntod house, to figure in o ghost-story; long, low, grasping the gronnd of its foundation, "and stretching back to the battlement of.the fortifications. Tho legondary ivy which had clustered around it from its birth with the lapse of years had o’er-shadowed its walls with most Iukuriant growth. The hoariness of years gives to such structures an- impressive appearanco; there is cast about them the rich halo of mystery, the echoes of a forgotten past. The House of the Golden Dog was ONE OF THE M0ST REWARRABLE of the old historic houses of Quebec.” The dissimi- larity of the period it recalled, the cvents which had marked L. : now distant era of French domi- nation, as well as the dark and painfal mem- ories gurviving of one of the mother-coun- tries of Canads, all contribated to lend to the legend of the Chien d'Or & certain picturesquo gmm. It very eito was historical long befo.e hilibert leid its first stone. It stood on the northern portion of tho Grande Place or Es- planade du Fort, the southwestern portion of whichnow constitates tho present Place d'drmes. Buado street, which it fronted upon, took its namo from Louis de Buade, tho sturdy old Count de Frontenac, who, in 1690, inhabited the ad- joining Castle of St. Lionis, whose foundatién now serves as tho Darham Terrace. On the Grande Place, THE NTXTED HUBONS, fiying. from their bloodthirsty and_implacabla foes, the Iroquois, sought refuge. The remnant of the trite who had ecscaped the dreadful butchery of 1649, on Lake Simcoe, had asked and obtained from the French Commander leave to encamp uuder the walls of the fort, so that they mlf t have protection from their cruel ene- mics. Then camo A DEED OF BLOOD of much later date. ‘The assaesination of Phili- bert by de Repentigny carries us, also, back to the days when Canada flourished under the lily- spangled banner of fhe Bourbons; when the legendary lore of the country ook its rise; when the romantic incidents of a romantic age found their chromiclérs in corpulint and well- cared-for Abbes, whose only fear was, that tho growing power of their neighbors, the colonists of tho New England plantations, would some day drive thom from their posacssions. t appears by the corner-stone recently found in demolishing the Chiend Or, that it was Nico- Ias Jaquin Philibert who caused this house to be erected, in August, 1735. THE CORNER-STONE is & singular relic. _Under tho date 1735 are the lotters P and H,—tho space between being taken up with a Greel or St. Androw’s cross. ‘This cross is engraved in tho stone, and colored inred. On the stono was found s leaden plate, with an inscription, ‘There wero traces of the impressions of coins on the lead, but these coins have not been found. But to the Chien d'Or: On the front of the old building was - TIE FIGURE OF. A DOG, couchant, gnawing & bone, with the legond un- dernezth : Je svis Vo Chien Qvi Rouge ho en lo rongeaat je prend mon Repos Va tems viendra qvi 2est pas veny gvo jo morderay qvi m'a vra-mords. (The dog am I who gnaw3 tho Lone; In gnawing the bone I take my reit ; The time {3 coming, but not yet come, Whcn Tl bite him who bas bitten me). Nicolag Jaquin Philibert was a wealthy mer- chant of Quebec, the Capital of Now France,—a man high in public estimation. Ho was at one timo engoged in supplying the Government with provisions for the troops, and out of thoso transactions 2 GREW THE QUARREL with Begon, the Intendant, wkich led to the Golden Dog business. Philibert was building his house. Begon, who had formerly been a mer— chant in Bordeanx, was Intendant of New France, and he disputed certain claims which Philibert bad made against the Govornment, and the claimant failed to make good his demands, The quarrel was hot, but in thoso days it wai not to bring a_dopartment up to the paying point, o Philibert had to take his claim out in Eatiric revenge. But Begon, though he conld not reach the merchant Limself, knew a plan s good: Those were tho days when the military Svore billetted upon the peoplo. On the 21st of January, 1748, & military order was givon, billet- ting Pierre Legardenr, SILUR DE BEPENTIGNY, _ upon Philibert, Philibert, choleric, and op- posed to imposition, quarrelled with de Repen- tigny, and a ducl ensued upon hot words and Do Repentigny wonnded his adversary mortally, and in this heobeyed the commands of the Intendant to the letter. Tn-theeo days,—the fighting days of adven- ture, when daelling was in fashion; when deeds of sadacity, valor, or blood made or unmado men,—the small offence of killing a fellow- Croabure, particularly if the victim was.a mer- chant, and the assassin bore a noble name zod stood high'et Court, was easily atoned for. - The following year de Repentigny : A ind retaraed from Acadl from Louis XVIL, and returned Acadia (Nova Scotia), whither ho had retirod. This man +was o soldier of renown, and his pame occurs in the list of ofticers serving under the Chsvalier de Leni, at the Battle of St. Foyo, on the 28th of April, 1760, when Murray, who had incautiously lert the protoction of the walls of Quebec, was defeated. £ ‘But tho story does_not end here. Philibert 1oft a s0n, young atthe time of his father’s mur- der, but old enough to know that the death ehoald be svenged. His mother, too, impressed upon his mind the duty of following the aseassin of his father to the bitter ena‘:mfi be listencd to the lessons. - Years passed, but the avenger was ever upon the track of De Beg:upgny, and at Iast, in the capital of the Fast Indian settle- ‘ment of Pondicherry, was THE ACCOUNT SETTLED. . The murderer and the son of the murdered man met, and both fell, mortally wounded. 8o Fays ono legend. Another tradition is, that the duol took piaco in Europe, and Do Repentigny came off victorious, mfln g the son as he had Tilled the father. Inany event, the final quar- rel conld mot have been befors 1760, since, at that date, Do Repentigny was still in New France. i R There are many other iraditions concemning the Listory of this extraordinary house, and the origin of its stono. Some say that it was Phili- ‘bert’s widow, Marie Anne- Guerin, the wife he had wedded on Nov. 23, 1733, and for whom he had bnilt the home, who caused the sculptured dog and the inscription to ba placed in front of the house. oo After the conquest of Canada by the eoldiera “mer of Great Dritain, from 1775 to 1500, the housa of the Chien d’ Or went under the name of * Free- mesons’ Hall.” In 1762, Miles Prentice, & mem- Lor of the mystic craft, and who bhad becn a Sergeant in Wolfe's army, kept there A CELEBRATED COFFEE HOUSE, much frequented by the ewells of the period. ‘This is the same Miles Prentico who, as Provost Marshal, was charged with arresting that daunt- less Huguenot, the agitator Hugh du Calvet, who claimed for his fellow-citizens the whole-of tho privileges of British_subjects. Du Calvet, after his arrest, was confined in a cell of the Re- collet Convent, then used as 8 prison for ‘polit- ical offenders. Thia convent, burned in 1796, stood partly where the Aoglican Cathedral, built in. 1804, mow - stands. This _ Miles Prentico had either a daughter or a niece of wondrous besnty, young, sprightly, accom-- plished, and fascinating. She was the centre of attraction in the home of Prentice. Hither, in 1762, came the DIMORTAL HARATIO NELSON, then the yonthfal commander of the Albgmarle, s frigate of 26 guns, which had- convoyed: soma antmen to Quebec. He, with the military officers, and_the gentey of tho place, bocame a habifue of Miles Prentice's coffee-house; and he fell in love, furiously and madly, wit le- moisello. 5o infatuated was he that he OFFERED HEB MARRIAG and firmly declared that he vmui'l leave the service rather than be separated from her. Southey, in his life of Nelson, tells the story very pithily. The Albemarlo: was about to leave the station; her Captain had taken leave of his friends, and was gone down tothe riverto the place of anchorage, when, next morning, Mr. Davidson—a - person with whom Captain Neleon had become acquainted— to his surprise saw Nelson coming back in his boat. Upon inquiring the canse of his re- appearance, Nelson took his arm, and told him he found it sbsolutely impossible ‘to leave Quebec withont ngum goelng the woman whose society had contributed 80 much to his happiness there, and offering her his hand. *“If you do, our ruin must follow,” said his friend. *‘ Then et it follow,” eaid Nelson, “ for I am resolved to doit.” “AndI," said Davidson, ‘“am resolved that you shall not. On this occasion, Nelson was lessresolute than his friend, and suflered himself to be led back to the boat. ' Had love provailed, and marriage fol- lowed, with & rotirement from the navy, how very differont might THE WORLD'S HISTORY & aftor this period be written. Would his destiny have beon the same? Wouldhe have immortal- ized himself at Aboukir, and saved England at Trafalgar? Would Napoleon have become gu- preme on sea a4-on land? Little things bring about great results. Later, in 1790 and onward, we read with what zee] the men who were the forefathers of Que- bec's gencration of the present day,— the volunteer and militia officers 'of 1775, ~tho men who had stood sgainst and rggmlaad Arnold the traitor and Montgom- ery the unfortunate, at Sault su_Matelot street and Pres do Ville,—used to celebrate the st of December, 1775, the onniversary of .the combined attack and repulse. They styled them- gelves the Veterans, and here they hold their mestings. In this venerable hotel, A NOST SINGULAR SUICIDE fook place. A merchant of Three Rivers, of the name of Badoau, spending » few days in the city, had pat up at the Chien @ Or. Whether it was dnring those gloomy November days go de- structive to Englishmen, or whether love had stepped in the way, I cannot say. One morning the Trifiuvian was found stone-dead, hanging by tho neck to a large nail in the wall. Like Ben. Battle: - And there he hung Hll he was dead . _ Asnoynail in town : - For, though distress had cut him up, It could not cut bim down. . Bubsequently the old house was occupied as an auction-room, and a3 a’ printing-office for the Mercury, and the Quebec Provideut and Savings Bank. Tt had formed part of the Pozer estate, and the old millionaire, JACOB PO resolved not to comply with the mnew - “icipal rogulations and remove the stone steps, stood protracted litigation on this point. Alore, he 8tood on the same ancmsching:teps with & pair of horse-pistola in his hands, and dared any bobby of the new civic force to remove them. In 1853, the Government purchased the build- ing for £1,000, for > : A POST OFFICE for Quebec; and, after serving this purpose till 1870, the exigencies of circumstances required that more commodious buildings bs procured and so the Chien &' Or should como down. on the front of the new_huilding we still see the ‘mysterious dog crunching his bone, just aver the bust of the founder of the city, Samuel do Champlain. The busy tide of life flows daily ‘past tho time-honored 8pot, paying littlo heed to its traditions, but, to the thoughtful, theemblera- atic dog will ‘present just éuch material for in- vestigation as to Captain John Knoxwhen he saw it on the 18th of September, 1759, when Do Remesay’s capitulation opened the gates to the arms of Great Britain. LESTER. P TO THE EVENING STAR. | DY OSCAR 1L, KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAT. Translated fron the Sicedish by Cart Larsen. Velcome! Summer evaning hour, Which, o'er palace, cot, 2nd bower, Thy rosy veil fots fall; ‘Welcome! sacred Sabbath peace, ‘That, when hours of turmoil cease, Teind Nature sheds o'er all. In the dim grove the sunset lay, Beyond the fir-treo-bordered bay e wood grew silent o%er; . No breezes "mid fts Jeaves arise, The swell of the last billow dies Tpon its late-kissed shore. Tho light cloud of the purple glow Still lingers at tho suaset-low, Radiant with gentle beams ; While Vesper, at ita upper brim, Sita slsly peeping from within, ‘So aweet and coy ahe seeme. What meanest thou, my lovely star? 0, conld I know it from af And write it in my son; Vainly for thee I strike my isre, Thou only dost the thought inspire ‘That tracks thee close along. Thou art 80 far from us below, Dimmer ths traveller’s path must grow, Though lighted by thee o'er ! But, as the hours of night advance, Los3 scems the distance of thy glazice, Tta glitter yet more clear. ‘Hope scems within the light to stay, Lispering : * Doubt not there comes a day When thou ehalt reach to me ! Ooly ahut not a weary ore, - X shine that, as the night goes by, Too long it may not be.” 0, why should T not waken ttien, My heart’s best muste striko again From off my strings of gold | About this star of mizo I'll sing, Ever enchanted listening. To what it doth unsold { . FASHION. i Silver and gold embroideryis & new adornment for ball dresses. < ) illiards is becoming & very fashionable amusement for young ladies. y —8ilk gauze ia the favorite material for ball dresges this winter. —Flowers are scarcely used at sll in bonneta this winter, feathers supplying their place. —Black velvet muffs are quite fashionable this winter, those trimmed with fur particularly so. —The Iatest thing in street costumes is the ¥ Dara d'Istria.” —Three diamonds in a row have superseded the solitaire 28 an engagement ring. —You ars snubbed in New York if you haven't » tortoise-sfioll belt with s silver buckle. —Bil —A hanging en of sponge is one of the Iatest novelties in window gardening. —Society ladies in New York use eo much powdar this season that many young men have been compelled to purchase their second dress- coet. 3 —Seal-skin parlor-mata aro the latest fashion- nhlenl!ectld on. i Gt Fagki . 5 —Repped goods are co into fashion s upelr:izglv Ingsh poplins. s gl —Beautifal jewel cases are now made of thick but very transparent glass with gilt mouldings. 1In the bottom is a satin cushion for the jew —White jet sounds somewhat anomalous; nevertheless such an article exiats, and is a fa- vorite garniture for evening dresges. —Swell smoking-room chairs are now uphol- stered with seal skin. They aro very handsome, very comfortable, 2nd cost a small fortune. —Shades of blue silk, adorned -with ‘an im- menes embroidered monogram, decorate the ;Eindawa of a fashionable New York up-town res- ence. . —Veila of black lace are now worn in full dres, caught on the top of the head with a gold ornament, and the ends floating dovn overs the shonlders. s —Combs are to_be sgain universally worn in evening dress, Tho high Spanish comb is the favorite. This was mada popular by one oz v of the actresses in * Article Forty-seyen,” at the Fifth Avenno Theatre, New York. ° Wedding and invitation cards generally sre now long and narrow, enclosed in an envelopa of similar shape and eize, upon which should be tho initials of the prospective bride. —Tho Ulster overcoats are 5 gT fellows who go out much in dres that oneof these grrments will save them a fioml deal of cough_mixtures, troches, and the ke by the end of tho year. —Literary matinees are en regle once more among New York demoiselles. ey are curions affairs,and invariably terminate with a danca whenever & sufficient number of young gentle- men are present to make up & set. —The admisture of contrasting colors is & fea- ture in imported costumes. Deep violet is ns- “sociated with pale rose or pale blue in the new- est models. Bronze and pale green, maroon and buff or earn, are also favorite combinations. —Af tho m_rlrfieu of the season in New York, two pecnliarities in dress are very noticeabls, the great number of white silks worn and the utter banishment of vergademllck dresses, —The square dances have gone fotally and ir- remediably out of fashion ; they aro not danced at all in good society. We see them still at Dalls, but o those all sotts of people go, and the programme must suit all tastes. —* Smilax" has suddenlybecome the wing of fashion; “no party ehould be withont it;” it Iurks in bouquets, trims dresses, and decorates chandeliers, and we have even detected it in the chicken saiad; it never wilts, sud, after tho party ig over; it might bo utilized as a dish of- greens, or something of that sort. ; ~I'o reminiecenses of the Roman Carnival have been introduced into * Germans” this win- ter. One is s little lattico armngement, like the movable stands on which the ligneous armies of - our youth marched and countormarched, which are used to convey bouquets across tho room to the chosen partner; the other little balls of Baper, which, on Lelgg thiown at 3 men, burst; sud deluge him witd & reign of paper snow- ea. PERE HYACINTHE. Ele Makes n Religious Address in rarive Puaris (Jan. 26) Correspondence of the London Guardian. ‘The Pere H; ncin?)’.\mol,dxs he still continues to bo cailed, oponed his mouth yesterday morning, for the first time in Paris since his change alike of ecclesiastical and social position. The occasion of his doing go wes the decision of the French Evangelical Protestant Communion to hold & week of intercessory prayer for the restora- tion of ‘Christian _‘upity; and the local- ity was M. de Presscnse's Chapcllo Tait- bout, in tho Rue do ~ Proyencc. The Pere Hyacinthe was eolicited to addre:s the meeting, and he consented to do so. Tho Eoeifiun was not, perheps, hat which he would' ave voluntary chosen fora reappearance be- fore a French public after quitting tho pulpit of Notre Dame.- But it scemed scercely probable that any other would be open to him for goms time tocome in Paris. An anthorization frem the * authorities” is necessary for him to speak in public anywhere olse except in & placo of worehip ; and such 2 notoriens trimmer as the' present Afinister des Cultes, who recently strack 0 army chuplaiua ot of is_budget to please the Extreme Left, and then allowed their place to be filled by Jesuit chaplains, serving gratis, to please the Estreme Right, is not likely to incur the responsibility of granting & licensa for public spe: t6 the Pere Hyacinthe. The Intter, therefore, has broken silence a8 above intimated. The curiosity and interest to hear him again seemed to be very great, for the *chapel was filld to overflowing mearly an hour, before the time announced. ecnngmgn!iun, though mainly Protestant, was of » mixed char- acter, and many Catholics were present as well a8 Episcopalians, both English and American. The proceedings opened with the announcement, by a pastor from the pulpit, of the week of inter- cession, followed by & prayer and psalmody, af- ter which the Pere” Hyacinthe was introduced, and epoke, not from the pulpit, but from tha raised platform in front of it. His address wag chiefly of a general character, upon_the object of the mesting, He was carcfal, however, a8 regarded himself, to make it quite clear that, although most snxious to promota the movemeut in favor of Christian unity, and willing o attend and spealin a placo of Prot- estant worship in order to do go, he came thera 83 & Catholio and faithful member, 8o far as per- mitted to him, of his own Church.’ He then very radently procacded to make his hearers awarg t any attempt to reconcile or promote a union Dbetween extreme opinions on cither side must necessarily prove amere hallucination. Detwecn those who &tood ont for the principlo of abso- Iute authority, like the Ultramontane Party, and Jor that of unlimited frecdom of individ; “ual opinion, like the ultra-Protestants, thera nevér could, he sald, be any common ground of agreement or reconcilistion. Union could only be effected by mutual modifications of these ex- treme opinions on either side. Both were equal- 1y wrong and erous in Pere Hyacinthe's opinion; for, as he P&‘Ly oxpressed it, clerical’ calisin whs just as dangerous to the Church #8 political radicaliem was to the -State. Large, Tather thsn broad, catholic views wera the only real basis upon which the reunion of ~Christendom could be hoped for—tke “rounion. of Ontholica and Protestants™—or, as he repeated it, putting the two antagonistio principles in the absclate form of opposition i ey ‘Eiware stand foward, and ara spoken 0f as regards each other in this country—the reunion of Catholicism and Prot- These -views, enforced With much freedom and firmness as eloguénce upon his Protestant suditors, seemed to be sccopted with entire-approval ; and it was, -estantism. sl with as perhaps, in return for the indulgence shown to ' this portion of his address that tho. Pere ' Hymcinthe, in his eloguent eroration, took oceasion to enforco strongly the octrine that * faith,” and not the person or chair of St. Peter, was the “rock” upoa ‘which the “ Universal Church of the future” must bo made to rest. After s short address from M. de Proesence, who, while animadverting on Ultra- montgne intolerance, did not omit gome useful advice o his co-religionaties on their own sec- tarian narrowness, this very interesting meeting broke up, with the 2ruouncement of meetings for prayer and intercession throughont the weei. S S B THE LONG AGO. 1 loveto pause, as I journey on, With weary feet oler Life’s rugged ways, And converse fold with tha past and yone, Down in the shadows of other days; To turn again to tho olden time, -~ To flawery vales whers the rivers fow, To alray 'mid scenes of my life's oung prime, ‘Adown tho paths of (s Long Ago. ‘The Long Ago! How the shadows rise, ‘The long-departed come back once wore, The loved and gone, with their epirit eyes, Greet mo aguin s'in days of yore. Erom Mem'rs's sacred Valballa vast Come wild, sweet symphonles, soft and Ior, The music weird of the clolstered past, The gentlo voices of Long Ago. They come,~a gay and a happy band,— ho younig and Tair, and the fond sad tras 1 hear each Yoice, and I grasp each hazd, As once of old { was wont to do. 1 stray through the valleys feir, rough verdant meads whero the flowers blow; The bird's sweet songe, and the fragrast air, Como back again from Long Ago. But soon they fade in the mist awas Again the clonds and shadows fall s No more I stray through the meadows gri— “Tho birds are mute, and the flowers Aro dead, and, down In the churchyard lane, ‘Where grass and weeds in the fatness grow, Are hidden decp 'neath the moasy stone The cherished frlends of the Long Ago. And bidden there, In that dwelling lone, Bleeps one I loved,—slecps & maid ds fair A ever breathed in Love's kindly tone, Or chased a frown from the brow of Care ; ‘The us wealth of her clustering hair, ‘The untold heav’n of her eyes’ soft glow, Aro loat for aye, and the winter air Bweepa down the patha of the Lang Ago. e —— Fowls in Elue Spectacles. We ara told “ thers is nothing new under the gun,” but & eat in epectacles is not an every-dsy eight. A ehort time gince, & cat was scen editiog uietly at the door of an optician in the' Rue &‘mflmt, Paris, wearing a pair of spectacles. The cat's master explzined that animals weze a2 often short-sighted 1a men, and suffered tha same inconvenience from that infirmity. “‘ Many horses,” gaid he, ‘‘are afflicted in the eame man- ner, and I hope the spectacles, for which I have taken ort s patent, will have a great succesa. But 1do not stop there. We often observe fosls in poultry s dic_suddenly, though ehortlr beforo in good condition. This is caused by u malady of the eyes; they no longer sce their 1 and succumb from inanition.” And tLe ingenions artit-showed several miniature pairs n!gblun and white spectacles, anch as m:f t bo worn by dolls—supposing them to need such appendages. Fowls in biue spectacleal Wby not aleo fishes & —_—————— —The American Bishop McIlvaing, at a recent consecration of Bishops in Westmiuster Abbey, sppeared in a black gown, to the great scaudal oytha Guardian newspaper,which attributed the Bishop's costume certain ecruples o: to the robes in the days of tho Ref- i this a ° correspondent comes to the rescue and explaing this im;; fant matter. -Bishop Mcllvaine, it appears. went to the Abbey solely to be ome of the co gregation, and was advised to put onag merely that ho might get near the pulpit. H: had no thonght of participating in the servicc until the other 0p8 wera proceeding to tl 1sying onof hands, when the Afchbishop #pecial- l{ requested him to join in the ceremony. S the Right Reverend Father was not intentionsliy he lox in his clothing after all.