Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1873, Page 7

A THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1873. 7 4od o mavy were tho cbstacles in Blacher's T, that it took three hours from Bulow's first S ce on St. Lambert, before half his corps could be brought into acticn. 1t was ‘half-past % when tho Prussians begar. their attack. Here, agpin, we cannot but regard Napoleon a5 guilty of an unpardonable noglect. Blucher eaw at once the importancs of the steep valley of the e, and, lest his ‘movement ehould be dis- soverod and intercepted, seized tho Wood of Pasis on the otker sids. But Napoleon, fancy- ing that only & detachment or £wo of Prussians fisd gono to Wasre after the fight at Ligny, had .gaken no steps to prevent their march to Water- oo. Upon the capture of the hussar he at once despatchied to Marehal Grouchy intelligenco of the intercepted lotter, with orders to march gpon 5t. Lambert, and take the enemy in rear. wIose not sn instant in drawing near tous,” he added, *‘in order to crueh Bulow, whom you will catch in tha very act (en flagrant gelif) This letter reachod Grouchy, but nob 4ll 7 in the evening, when he was engagedina fight with Thielman. Of course, he could lend no help to the Emperor that day, and woa obliged to content himself with the hope that Napoleon might have triumphed withoat him. Napoleon made during the battle five distinch stiackson the English line, only one of which was successful, 2nd that but pertizlly. ITis sec- ond attack, which was made by D'Erlon’s in- fantry corps, 18,000 strong, zided by Kellerman's ¢avalry, was 8 furious onslaught on the British centre and left wing. Led by Ney, **the bravest of the brave,” and supporied by an artillery fire from 74 guus, it drove beforo it the Dutch brigade forming ,tho front lino of the allies; but roceived so deadly s volley from Picton's English infantry that it recled back in confusion, and lost 2,000 men as prisoners. Tho chief fault of this charge was thut the columns were too deep for attack, and too close to bo deployed. “Unfortunately, owing to the softness of the soil, the artillery was obliged to remsin etationary, and fifteen pieces were czpturod by the pursuing English sausdrons, and rendored useless by being upset inthemud. It was now hali-past3 o'clock, and, thongh Wellington's army had suffered soverels, the British line remainad everywhere unbroken, whilo each passing hour had carried away a frag- ment of Napoleon’s Empire. The third attack was that made by the French cavalry, unsup- ported, upon tho British centro. Thesa mag- Tificent troops passed through the’ first line of the enemy, shouting Fivel Empereur !"but the second opposed to them an impenetrable barrior. Squadron after squadron, amounting to not lees than 12,000 men, dashed against the British ‘squeres, but in vain, They couldnot break throngh the impenetrable hedges of bayonets, while, a8 they retreated, the fire from the inner ranks mowed them down like grass. Through whose fatal blunder the firat brigade requested by Ney was followed by the whole of the reserves, nobody cantell. It was s fearful mistake. Napoleon declares in his Memoirs, that he sent Gen. Bertrand to recall them, but that when be ar- rived it was too late, o8 they were already en- goged. Afterwards, as e crossed the thresh- old of the Tuileries, he is 6aid to havere™ marked: *Ney beheved like a fool. He sacri- ficed my cavalry.” These storics may be true; but they look to us like fictiona invented after {be fact. Canany ome belicve that Napoleon, sitting in the midst of s grest batile fought ona narrow epace, and surrounded by by an smple staff, was unsble to pre- vent his lioatensnts from sscrificing his cavalry at the wrong momonts ? The murderous loss to that splendid arm which resulted from the use- Jess gesaults on the British squares, may mot have been caused by Napoleon's orders or by Ney's ; but both permitted the vain charges to be repeated until the borsemen were almost to- tally destroyed. This disaster not only had a 4ztal infiuence on the fortunes of the day, bat i7as the main couse that Nepoleon's defeat be- ceme ono of the most overvhelmingrouts known in history. Napoleon's fourth grand attack, made by in- fastry under Ney's direction, was the only suc- cesstul one of the day. Itlodged the French in La Hayo Sainte, and penetrated for & ‘brief time the British line. The grape-shot from several fold-pieces, which the French had brought up, tore fearful gaps in the German brigades, and {he side of one square wss literally blown away by s tromendous volley from the French guns. For the first time the situation of tho slliod army was really critical. Had the Young Guard beeu present to support Donzelot at La. Hayo Sainte, the result to Wellington might beve been most disastrous. Why, then, wers they pot there? Bocause they bad been sent to Planchenoit, on Napoleon's right, to aid Loban in keoping off Bulow. In like maaner, the last desperate attackn on the ‘British line by the two columns of the Imperial Guard failed because thers was no cavalry to support them; and why was there no cavalry? Because this force had béen needlesely sacrificed in the third aftack, 1nd becauso some 2,500 of them bad been do- lached against the Pruseisns exly in the after- noon, when, by seizing the defile of Lasues with s0 infantry force, Bulow might hsve been kept back without & horsoman being sent to that point. The Guard was attacked by a destructive fire both in front and flank, and whole ranks fell 14 once like grain before the resper. Even under fhese disadvantsgeous circumstances, it might have maintained somewhat longer its impetuons attack, which has been called * the misdnoss of despaix ;" but at this moment Zioten's corps de- bouched from the Ohein road upon the English left, end, sttacking the French right wing, drove oIl beforeit. Tho effect produced on the rest of the French army by the repulse of the Guard and the sudden onslaught of Zieten, was com- ploted by tho general advance, for which Wel- lington, with the instinct of genius, suddenly foreook his sttitude of defense; and as Blucher's victorions legions Were pouring across the sole lin of retrest, while the last reservesof tho French had been ecxbausted, the defest was turned into s panic and s Tout unparallaled in history. To sum all up,—the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, which decided the fate of the Empire, 2nd sent the victor of s0 many fields an exile to §t. Holens, was due tono ascident, but to his own blunders, and the superior strategy of the 2llied Generals. It resulted simply from his own Qelays befors and after Ligny; from his feilure to separate the Prussians in that battle from the English, by, stiacking their right wing, instesd of the centre and left; from mot employing D'Erlon's corps either to belp Ney or to crush the Prussians, instead of suffering them to re- srganize and retrest on Wavre; from sending Grouchy to tho cast to purene them, when thoy wero out of his reach, and thus plscing 83,000 men ““in the air;” from fighting 5 ‘battle with Wellington on the 18th of June, instcsd of on the 17th, when Blucher could not have helped him; from beginning tho battle at Waterloo Joveral hours too late; from the non-occupation »f the Wood of Paris, and the worse than use- tess slaughter of thonsands of brave soldiers ab Hougoumont ; from the ‘hurling of his troope gainst the enemy in too dense masBes; trom the fallure to support his infantry {harges by cavalry, and his cavalry cbarges by & Juficient force of infantry; and lastly, from tho sexrible mistake of suffering the cavalry reserves 70 bo engaged to soon, * A few drops of water, more or fower,” says Victor Hugo, * prostrated Napoleon.” What nonsense! Did tho rain re- tsrd the Prossisns? What else was it but tho sxecrable roads that kopt them from attacking the French several bours earlier? *'But Wel- fington would have been beaten, but for the ar- rivel of the Prussians.” Indeed! Was he mot Tooking for and counting upor the spproaching army of his ally 06 purt of the Sght? Wes ho not watching from early afternoon the lessening pressure which told him that Napoleon was forced to strip himeelf of his formidable re- serves, to Xeep of the Prussians? Abovo all, had be not prepared, ou the days before, in con- cert with B fiery 0ld" Prussian ‘Marshal, this fotal strokio of war, and was it mot precisely bo- canse of this that ho took & the gauntlet which Napoleon had thrown down i THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Thomas Clarkson, William Pitt, and the African Slave Trade. London Social Life—-St, Olaf’s Foun- tain—Adventure with a “Boule-Dogue.” Chopin and *‘ George Sand "---“ Georgo Eliot” as * Almost an In- spired Critic.,” Bo far, Robert Dalo Orwen's Autobiography derivon its chiof interest from thoso passages which are not sutobiograpbic. The trumpery details of javenile compositions, and infantilo fevers and moasles, fervo to mark the intervals between an occasional good story or striking pastage in some othor person’s life. Ono of his stories gives tho yea-yea and nay-nay OLD-TIME ENGLISH CLERGY a rather unclerical embellishment Ono instance of profanty, I remember, greatly scan- Toe, brougiit up 3 1 had been to Yenerate min- fSters of tho Gospel. I waa sitting on my impatient pony, one gray morning, next to o jolly, well-mounted Porats who had just joined the hunt. Bad been turned into a’ dense copee, Tiomentary sxpectation of the sigual announclug tiat Reynard had got away bofors the doge, when a Lorse- g, riding up, told s that “the stupid animal had sutférod hisasel to bo killed only a fow yarda from whero ho was uncarthed.” *: n the creatura I” broke forth my clerical neigh- bor D ot s & $og 1% Adding, perheps n roply to my astonishment, * And that's 8 good deal for a to say.” i PITT AND THE BLAVE-TRADE. Whilo 1 Londdn Mr. Qwen bocame acqueinted with Thomas Clarkson, tho famous English Ab- olitionist. Clarkson gave him a graphic account of tho interview which ho obtained, throngh tho influenco of Wilborforce, with William Pitt, thon Prime Minister: With the directuess of a msster-mind that grost man plunged o the subject st ance, 1 know that you vo pestowed much study ou this matter, Jr. Clark- so” o said bt T waat dotal. Can you give Yes, 1f you will allow your secretary to bring in ‘some books which I loft in the ante-chamber.” Four ar five ponderous folios, labeled rospectively Dy Book,” “Journal,” and ** Ledger," wore pro- aaced. Pitt mentioned' the name of 80w well-known Slaver (th sbip Drooks, 1 thinkit wae), and ssked, Do you know anything sbout her 7" “wYls: doyou wish to seo an sccount of herlsst *Pits assenting, Clarkson, after refesence {o the index of ome of his' journals, lsbeled *Slavo-Voysges” handed the volume, open at the ‘parrative demanded, 1o the Mintster, who read it with tho closcst atteution ; hen naked, % Do you know the names of the ofticers 2nd sallors who were shipped for this vosage 2” “ Here they ar¢,"—0) ono of the ledgers ot 3 psge headed “ Thie Bhip Brooks.” #%Ah 1 did you take the testimony of any of these sailors 27 47 81d of this one,"—polnting to his name,—* and Thera it s, "—opening the lodger at another page, head- d with the man’s pame. “Pitt read his testimony, from tho firat page to the last, “ Any other testimony 2" ho then asked. “Ciarkson gave him threa or four more to read, which Do perused with the samo care, then added, *The SUrgeon | id you oxamine him ?” “Here {s his teatimony.” The Minister ran it over, taking notes a5 he did so. 4 An important witness that, Alr. Clarkson, Can you tell whero be is to be found 7" * Just ot present he is st uea ;. ‘but the Brooks will be in during the summer, and then his address will be — giving it. T Cin the salor witnesses be procured if they are wanted 2" "Next summer they can easily bo found.” And Ciarkaon, naving copled from a ledger the names of the boarding-houses in Liverpool which each respect- Ively Zroquented when on shore, handed them to the Minister. ¥ gy more vessels 77 asked Mr. Pitt, #Twenty or thirty more, if you have time to exam- fne the testimony regarding them.” e1 shall make time, It is & very important foqairy.” This rapid cross-sxamination, Clarkson told me, lesied three or four hours, during ‘which, he said, Mr. Bt st havo looked over attentively not less than s hundred pages of mapuzcript, To every question put, B arkaon hiad s gatisfactory answer ready. When the Siave-voyages hnd ocenrred sears bofore, and some of the eatlors éould mot be produced, it was stated what Bad'become of them, whether by death, discharge, oF A ertion. . Pains hnd cven been taken, 'in every cise, {0 recard the former abode or servics of each, togother otaiia time of his entry, copled from the books of tho vessel. The effoct produced on the Prime Minister, during {his memorable interviow, exceeded, Clarkson said, ‘his most sanguine anticipations. S Then Bitt bad glanced over the last page submitied t0 him, o closed the book snd said :. “‘That will do. Pdontted whothor the slave-trade waa the iniquitos L srhich many good men havo represented it {0 A o bave removed theso doubts, Mr. Clarkson ; and I thank you for the wonderful pans you have B End thefacts you have brought beforo aie. You R depend upon whatever T can do, upon all the per: e infuence T can exert, to further your wishes. I 9% ot bo_ able,"—ho hesitated & momont.—t there e circumstances that are Lkely to provent this being T s Cabinet question. Butnothing shall preveat e eom expressing, 5o far a3 Lcan benefit tho cause v Sotag so, v inaividus) opinion on this sublect. O os to me whenever you havo anytbing impartsut to o wnicate, without ceremony or previous appoint- ment, Ishal g{- instructions the ‘unless X az very spocizlly en ‘you be semitted at once. Anyp3 Al order. _ erhaps Imay communicate Afiieas produciions ; and they were brought {rom the ‘They ihcluded mative manufactures of Eeton, leather, gold, and ron. Pitt ezamined them Sath interest, snd spoke with emotion. A feat that we have underrated these people, Mr. Clarkson. We owe them a debt for the miseries S atded to bring upon them. It would bo worthy f England to bestir herself for tho civilization of Sirioen rica. Fhep, atter sitting ailent for some time,—much dismissed bim with a that year Titt caused to be madeto the French Govern: et communication in which he urged a union of the two countries to abolish tle slave-trade, O wer from France wis unfavorsble ; and ss the cor- I rondonce was ot made public at the time, fev: per- oms knew that it bad taken place. Pitt kept ‘hia word, Siao, to M, Clarkson, —giving Liz sccos AF all times, e frniahing him with many important documents Hich could only be had by n government order. ¥ He w28 l‘rq‘I to the atlun," Ghrf.lan N;‘ g“llzg;a, « grom the early years of our grest struggle 1 R . He-did mot live to £ce the Abalition bill Cosend ; yet had it mot been for bis aselstance at erltl: B ents, we might not_Liave succeeded in passing o io. tlie day. Fox, when that bill was oniis ‘Fesrage, aid bim full jusfice un that score.” +The Exploits of EDMOND GENET in the United BStates” sre tlie subject of James Parton’s chapter, which does that impertinent diplomat scant. justice. E. 8. Nadal recorda some TMPRESSIONS OF LOXDON BOCIAL LIFE and of that particular phsse of it we call s0- ciety,—an institution wise men are accustomed to hold 1n great contempt while very giadly ac- cepting its invitations. He seems to have been ially impressed by & narrowness of soci fi’? 2nd an 08t corroding self-conscionsness in incessant and destructive activity : ‘Englishmen_sppeared. to me to be criticlsing them- e PR ia truo of oursclves, and it 1s trus T elucaied English people; but the disease reaches O romeat form smong Englishmen of frabion and foaiity. T once aeked ome of (he kindest and cleverest B hvin T kmew, * Can ayoung msn in this conntry. o8 postry to_the ladics,—not his own, of course, but T ora book?” 4 No,” gald be, * that would be rather o pro-mis-ing " (shaking his ‘head snd pronouncing T rdslowly). On refiection, 1did not remember Having done bt thing myself for years, but I hardly ed as one of the things motto be done under any circumstances. i i very grest sell-consciousness and doubt 35 to what o do, it was an advantage tohave same particalsr Tome st and the range of consersation narrowed within derstood limits, - By this, language, s & oxpression, 1 abolished, ~ snd some well-un medfum of B A rices, Some-tiah, polit i upon,—the races, horse-fle hort, providing it fa not ienaarea i 'a. dafinits or o giaal manncr. Noman should say anything which I E i clock by them, and regulste it carefully whon frindines to g0 faster, The following in3 simple and iy nderaiood specimen of » club conveszation < I beaker— Are you golng to the Aldersbott to-morzow 77 5 ‘Second. Speaker—¢ No.” First smgen—flVhy Zrnet you goind to Aldershott oonad Bpeaker— Ob, I bate Aldershott.” B fotlown a pause of longez durstion, during which tho first spfil;‘ Teads over the Pali Mall Gazetie for e NRAURS | aier, bring bo gln a5d eelt- zen8 ‘English sccioty people make but littlo effort to imprsus or utaniu%c;o and they have no wieh to D hont individually remarkable, becauso that bo Aot Smbition among them s & very excep ot sl thing. What they do valuais the % get ting. ony" and tho inevitablo effect of living g g thom in to make one think that that is tho best thing one can do: ‘But whilo the lust of the eyes and the prido of life are eversthing ~ to upper-cless English ou wonderfully little eatd about thesc fmu::fméfny!ch:fi Thackeray, tho poets and satirists, and the goody ol1 maids who write the movels, though they quitesbut thomouths of thes brove pentlcmen, have Ly o Imeans driven euch thoughts out of their Lesrta, To give you to understand that they are persons of conse- hisinner life, and gathered to herself all that vin Qeepost and most sacred in his heart. *Georgo Srn ¢ occuped at that time much tho same pordzion tc $ho loading spirits of the age that her gifted aister sccupied during the troubled dass that followed first Rovolution, With less profound phicsophy,le's caim insight, opd lean Caith than Madanie do Stas], the S tence, they would think the last degres of valgauity. | zuthor of w33 Koen - Yet, if they do not claim consequence, it is Lot inis | strating, more _egsentially sn st Both they do ot Taluo conscquonce; They kncw (hat to | entered into the gret sosial and polttical auestione of assert openly thelr demand 18 not iho best way to have | the day; both wiclded an {mmense power; both wers it accorded them, Tae a1 ty of Mrs, Gov. B conductors, §s usknown in England. But the ‘anners, £ different apparentiy, axe ot so different ‘domand cousideration znd conee- d rovn and Mrs, Sudge Jones for the best rooms at the hotcls, and the reccguiticn ond sympathy of all tie ratiwey eathusaetic, sywpathetic, sod spontsneous. Bat tha Saperienco of Asdamo Dudevant had been lees fortu- ke Jlaving =t sn culyage contracted a mariage de Paivenance, and finding {he yoke grow (oo galling =8 {ho yeara pisnad, sho ad boldly shaker! it off, and in g0 doing had freed berself from all forms that were two o one only more success(ully then (ho otk | purely g ventional, In spite of tho prejudice raised quence, . Tho quict demeanor, o sedulous avoidance of selt-sseertion, the critical look, the elightly reserved ! o of con= ‘makie the same {nferior clafm, Tho s it in s wisc, refined, and succesaful ws: {hio other in foolish, Tulpar, and unsuccessful way, “4Pose” is tho name given to this wise, rofined, and ‘bearing, say very plzinly, “Bee, Lama sequence.” Both one make saccessful manner of sclf-assertion, It may be A o ualily of slaolate quiescence. By ald of it wo movo with the semblauce of uuconscloze- ness through a throng of which we are ins) every individual, Society bas discovered (what young find it s0 hard to learn) that by looking quit Dlank wo keep people \mcgemex)' 1o ibo dark ae £ what wo are That which Serjr, Buzftz found so ditlicult,—to o0k a3 thongh no one Wero ng about. loaking at him,—London society has learned to do. ‘“8T, OLAX'S FOUNTAILN " is a Norwegian poem by the talented young Hjal- mar Hijorth Bogesen: ‘Like s ball of blood-red fire Binks tho sun o'er orests elecping, Wondrously in splendor oteeping Glaclers far with cloud-capt spire. Leaning on bie stalwwert steed, Btands ing Olal, sad snd wea Loath to view tho ruins drear: Whereon flames cxulting feed. From below, » muffled ring, ZLiko the fer, unceasing dirges Of the faintly murmuring surgss, From his musing wakes the King? And a vast and weary throng- Peasants, armed with rcytes, and ‘brewny Spearmen, clad in wolf-skins tawny— Slowly witd the hilla along. Bpoke a_warrior grave and hoar, To the King his voice upifiad : “Tossed and vanquishsd we have dritted, Saintly King, unto thy shore. #7e have cried to Thor and Frey; But our gods no MOTO &TE BEAT 1S, TWrathiful Thor no more will hear us. Give us water ere wo dlo! # Yo have heard that Christ the White Hath a balm for each diraster. e will worthip him, O matter, Who ous armics put'to flight. Then with holy zeal aglow, With the power of strong believicg, Swift tho King, his sword uplcaving, Smote the barren mountain's Lrow, Jnto splinters sprang the sword ; ‘And tho mountain's ancient giant® Rouscd its cchoes, flerce, detiant, As if mocking Christ the Lord. A but from the eartb’s decp breast Game no bubbling fountain burstiug ; And tke barren land lay thirsting, Tith ita heavy doom oppressed. Roee a peasant then, and said, Chuckilug with a cunning, low laugh, X wo kriow, forsooth, Klug Olaf, il 15 anclent Thor not dead.” ferce the royal warriors frowned. iy the wretch " they ehouted wiidly. But the King rebuked them mildly; Low he knelt upon the ground. Grave and aflent atood the throng, While he prayed with deep contrition : “Tord, O ave them from perdition 1 om weak, but Thoa art strong.” And his toars fell hot and fsst; Waked to life the barren mouniain ; Upward sprang a bubbling fonntaiz, ‘Rushing o'er the sun-bleached waste, o is sheathed King Olals sword ; ‘But the cross hin zeal histh planted In our land stands bright, undaunted, Gleaming over dale and fjord, And his fountain pure and clear "Aid the drooping alder-bushea 8till withs joyous cadence gushes, Fresh, unchanged, {rom Jear o year. * According to the populsr belief, s of trolla and stantly waging war could not endure the poise of Lis church: I * A CIIANCE ACQUAINTANCE,” which ripples slong in the_most delightful way in tho world, which is Mr. Howells' way of writ- ing, thero is quito s thrillipg adventure, 23 ventures go nowadays. were wandering about Quebec, #cene of Arnold's attacl in 1775 : ‘ther houe; the golitude relleved only by every Newfoundisnd dogs that stre:ched themeelves upon Tho monotony of fhese shops and dogs took Kitty’s humor, and as they ent alowly by eho made & Jest of them, a3 ebe used to the threeholds of the cooper-shops. do with things sho eaw. i Bat hiere'a a sliop without a dog1" she said, pres. entiy. “This can't be & genule cooper-shop, course, without » dog. Baps!” she added, pausivg glineing up at a sign—*4cademic commiereile d feratrei—set under an opper window. ‘efore the thr arions place for & seat of jearning! What do sou sup- ‘between cooper-sh0ps and an poss is the connection ‘scademical education, Ar. Arbuton 27 ‘Bhe stood looking up a¢ the sign that moved her mirth, snd swioging her shut ‘perasol idly to and while 3 ‘iflm of Inughter played oxer her face. Sudde: the open doo: clutchod it throat with both his banda. e ‘et tho torror of her face With & quick glanca, «T beg your pardon, doo't call out, please,” s sald, 8T ituh 0 5 el | SoGre from time to time oppressed by 8 scoso that the Bt from within the shop came loud cries and male tions, glais!” with appulling screatms for Wil ancouth Littlo fgure of man, barebeaded, oyod, came fiying out of the open door. iron, W inat the’ muzzle of ihe hideous brute. the gro Jently 28 ho had launched Jet ptood epell-bound, and bafors tho crowd Ippeat of Mr. Arbuton’s rescucr bad soa what had bapponed. pectators, ' who begas being in & 004 heavens” gaid Mr. Arbuton, ‘what abominsble scone 17 Iis face was deadly pale, a2 ho deliverer, Whom he saluted, with s “Merci bies {" spoken in & furned from thess insolent intruders to e the mountalns giante, who were con- eqainst St OLL becausa they Tho occasion of it was s “boule-dogue.” Miss Kitty and Mr. Arbaton “doing” the e emed to be going on in | claim; “how can an author of sing 0, that nccounta for it, per~ “What s | speak more , 61 = a shadow soemed to dart betwist her and 2y, Mr, Arbuton was hurled violenily % her, snd, a slie_strugglod to keep her footing B shock, she saw him bent over a furjous dog, | mola, that hung from the breast of his overcoat, ‘while he %0 nom do Dieut cest lo boule dogne du capl- Tlo wore » hoper’s apron, and ho bore in one hand a red-hot with contlauous clamor, ho dashied ith- 8 s sound the dog loosed hils grip, ond, dzoppizig to und, fied ato the obscuity of ihis shop as sl- ‘bimself out of it, while Bitty that the ‘summoned could fod himself, snd looked angrily round 5 fiveral opinfons and ndepeadent life, she be- came the centreof the most ‘i) t circle of Paris. S thia cixclo Chopin drifted. Notwithstanding his disliko of literary women, ho was forced to recognize tho fascination of a rpirit 80 stron; and self-reliant, 0 briliisnt snd o gifted, but withal so tender and so punial, Henceforth sbe ¥as the gulding atar of his lifo. {5 o antumn of 1837 Madame Dudevant went to {126 Talo of Mjorca for the hiealth of her son Maurice, % | Chobin was sullering severely from a discaso of (he 102 |- Tuan, o which he was victim for eo many yeste. ‘Hoping tofind relfef from the mild alr of the Alediter- Tancas, ho sccompanfed hor. They found lodgings I rafned Carthiusian conventin a lonely o oied Sart of the ialand. “It is the most besutiful Shot T Liave ever lived in,” writas Mdame Dudovant, «3nd one of the most beautiful I have ever seen, Ia Charirenss s 50 picturesque under its festoons of iy, o doners grow so luxurintly in the valley, tho ouniain alf 1s 80 pure, sud the sca 50 blue 45 the "he pictare i3 & o one: » man, lonely, and an artists 8 woman who is sn_rtiat too, nd. o whore fonder eye ho reads the secrets of 'his own souly a quict spot of rarest beauty, from which the glaro and 25 f thip great world s forever slut out; sof: broezcs, fieavy with tho perfume of Orongs groves, tho far-of Stetsay musicof the es, the simplo lifo with its Pleasant details, the morniags of busy work, fue “evening roinbles among the ivy-hung cloist The one absolutoe sontiment of his life was un- oubtedly bis attachment to Madzme Dudevaut: For eight years she watched over him in fllness with anwearsing care, comprehended his genius, under: Tio0d his caprices, sympathized with hig sorrows, and sustained him Uy a strength foreign 1o his own, He $ad no immediste ties, sud every fibre of his naturo Emined itaclf about tiils brilliant but tender-hearted Soma. A epocles of emotional epicurism, Dot un- Somimon fo femperaments like his, might lead him to Yoy with feoling elsewhere, to enliven the moment ; but oviry other sentiment was quickly forgotten in' this apoup of iatoxication, 0 ‘perilous, yet 80 fall of charm, ‘His individual and musical characteristics are thus summed up by the writer: While ho lived, Chopin was not widely known. It was his misfortune, in common with all posts and art- Tots who strike no dominant veln, He conld not write for the multitude sny more tha Slelley could, for he appealed noither t> meu’s senses nor men's paseionz. Ho never attempted anything cpic or dramatic, never produced an opera oF aR oratorio, OF Any WOrk Uf groat ‘He had some thoughts of compos- Ing » national opera, but they wers never carried into execution ; indeed, it is a matter of great doubt Shether ha could ever have succoeded as a dramatic Composer. Ho conld not sufficiently comprehend pas- slon as it cxisted in other minds, e co Id not forget. Rimself. 7Tho world gave backa refloction of his own inner ciperiences. His genius was essentialiy Isrical, and his fame rests principally upon his short composi= tons—his Etudes, Waltzes, Polonaises, Kas, and ’u]?‘"d’ matjonal color- ar civilization; but o= the Nocturnes, These ing, they would ' make {hein houschold words, He cowld not picture feeling in'its fresh and aimple phates s Burns did, as Beran- ger did, s Mozart did, as all popular poets aud arlints favedone. Ho leads us into & region foll of melsn- choly and mystery,” esys ono of his critica; *but we Ganmot remain thare long ; we experience s 'feeling of Suffocation, we gesp for air.” liis sudicnce is found Amoug tho thosen (e who have penctrated decply lato the Toysteries of existonce,and felt, in all helr sad significance, thoee expressivo words of Bossuot, At Hiea bottom of everything one finds empiiness and nothingness.” “Amother Toaton whyhls varks can_nover, become universally popular. lies in the extreme difficnits of Playing them well. There va a delicate individuslity about hin own rendering that deflas all successful imitation, Tt requires a poetic senseas finc, swift, and pensirating 83 his oma. ¢ RECENT LITERATORE,” which, in the hands of Mr. Horellg, is one of the most rordeble and instructive departments of the Atlantic, and s ve model of what literary criticism should be, has moticesof * Middla- tmasch ;" Backlog Studiss,” by Charles Dudley Wamor ; Underwood's * Eand-Book of English Literature;” * The Woods and By—W‘fi: of New England,” by Wilson Flagz ; “The Mionosinger of Germany,” by B. E. Exceger ; *‘ Modern Tur- key," by J. Lewis Farley ; **A Journey to Ey and the Holy Land in 1%9-7i0,” by Henry D.D.; ** The Clsss-Room Taine—His- tory of English Litorature,” by Jobn Fiske ; «Modetn Leaders,” by Justin McCarthy. r. Howells’ views of *‘ GLORGE ELIOT and her Izst book are new and noteworthy. He says: When we have said that ¢ George Eliot ” s almosten inapired critic, have we not sald what in really the mont important thing about her? No doubt at such a1 opla- fon thoussnds of ber sdmirers would hoid up thelr ired criticl” they would ex- gular dramatic pow- ex, snd of equally sin power of buman delinea- tion, be called a critic?” This, however, s the ques: tion!, If “Gsorgo Eliot ” has real dramatic power, and has imagined real characters, there 1s no doubt that it ia folly to say {hat she s primarily a critic; But we {hink ahe hza not. What aho has done has beon to de- seribe, with such wonderful minuteness and ironical thoughts and feelings which, un. Dands in horror. “ Inap the of | force, the Qer " given circumstancos, & Kkind eshold, and | of m{aman might bave t we aro o | forced to edmit the posaiblity of the picture, orsto ccurately, the reaity of the report. Bo- peak $Pios this, aho has & wonderful power of reproducing Scenes of ‘every aort with which she is famillar, or, Jather, with which et sudience fa fsmiliar,—a faculty “Phich ‘soams to us, at least, not & pictorial oF im: Tive one, but rather that facully of description which Sonies of observation and general power of statement. That this s frue may be occasionally seen when George Eliot” attempts romoie studies, like that, for instance, of the mediaoval Itslian barber-shop in | Tios T ahop in which we feel too acutely sensible of )y Tho dayTight of tho English intsllect of the nineteanth century, as well as the keenness of *George Ellot’s ¥ frumor, to make ourselves quitest home. Even in the English scones, as bas bean well ssid by & rocent criticy T3z warthica who make refiections on life and on e other. are, after all, ouly masks through which fGearge Ellot” is ventrloquizing. . = - - - < Fhe Suthor of {hese volumos 8 & critic. Her maxim —&Enow thyself and things in genertl”—she hss Taken profoundly foheart, and as 3 Tesult wo haze & body of what might bo éalled sympsthetic erudition Buch, 03 10 one elso ver dreamed of. History, science, 5, literature, lsnguage, she {s mistress of. ~ Tpon, all {hese fields shie draws. Human life, however, 1s her Interest: in this all her studies centre. Her observa tion is always beginning, never ending. _Certainly, if ‘writers are dlflded.bal:n Geothe somewhero suggests, into those who are to say some one thing, o pro- hice some single literary fower and dle, and those Whose life is one constant development, lixe that of Fatarohorself, in which edacation and production g0 o aide by aide to the end, * Georg Eliot % would ncluded in the Jatier class, Gthe himself belonged an | 5 Shd, as L. Taine sayw, Gatho was the frst of modern ten to appreciato iho changed relations be- Feen man and nature which the now renalsssnce Was tointroduce. —_———— 0L steady voide, Then hodrow off bid overcoat, | . ;t]hlch bm‘:‘ug by the ?vs’fl éeel:’l;k;gfl :;‘:u iy Religious Phenomena in indiante Gishonored in the sncounter, Ho at it shud- L d,_’d:& T a, coeante S e i Rockule (Ind) Correspondence of the Nw York Her. gust, 'and -made a molion g There hns been o sivgular phenomenon at- folo” o strest. Dut bis eves sguin fe SRS | tending religious i (Parke) county E]omnng that it was not his dog, that of zlish ship-captain, who had loft it with him, and Whom be bad many a time besought to hsve the beast T8 kmowing it to be dangerous, 3r. Arbuton inter- K pted him in French:_“ You'se done me tho gretest F cahnot repay you, but you must take this” e a8 ho thrust a bank-Rote (oto the littlo man's 175, bat it s too much 1 But it is like s monsicur 50 service, began_ the bewild turned sbruptly awsy who trembied st bavin spectstors, and seiing from shaved the guil taring after him. She scarcely ds e rt, 3 she found herself doing DOW with a tering volce. T3, 1 believonot,” he ssid with » glance at the which was buttoned acroes his chest cr hand, he placed it on his arm, where bo held 1t close a3 ho strode sway, leaving jored_ask him it ke during this past wintor, very similar to what was the | known to the early settlers of this Btate and Fontucky, as the * jerks ' mentioned in ** Boter Cartwright's Amobmgnphv." The * jerks” was o apnem of involunfary jorking which seized saint and sinner slike at the revivals, first in 1804 and next in 1819. The more the subject Tosisted tho more violent the pssma became. Caxtwright thought tho jorks n gonuine visita- sinners snd confrm the righteous ; but a manifestation that imme- Gintels Zollowed the # jerks in 181, to-wit, the { unning and jumping " exercise (which I take it was modern shouting), and going into i.rnm:u'i he considered s miserable delusion, aDI E::nchml against it s8 such; though from T Ascount it was as genmne snd unavoidable as the ' jerks” He says pariony would claim to go into & trance, and remain cold and apparontly insensiblo for hours and days, and, in some instances, Over & week, taking 10 fooi or stimulant during the entire time. Such persons, on their retarn to consciousness, WOl that thoyhad scen hell and heaven, fal- and Lerye g declare 3 Hosca; e and bad talked with God snd the sngels. Sob 3, fad all happened o suddenly, snd in uh;ifi'«.:?& sudhied alked At 2Eelts Ve une o adneen ftall It vwas barely intelligible to ton himself, who, a8 Kitty had Toitered mocking e s oo of G oy, Shnc o ch an onl see thio dog &0 e cruel brute on hiz breast as it i st ung itse 3 4 not thought of o in st Bo pad U °Ho knew that ho was B e mt be did nob cars for that; be cared Ihat she was safe; and os ho Der ‘here passed through it s thrill of t his heart, there p: gt e pressible tendomess, 8 a e & raptare as of Liaving won ber and made tor, by saying her from that horrible or bis owd forever, by BSEOR but mow dwelt con- “obeolete frivolity of en alien Bing o teold doubts and bindering scruples which risk, The maze in whi cerning her seemed an P ad felt from the first were gone: £one for his world. Tooked down with & glance Wl interpret. y FREDERIC CEOPLN, the brief, brilliant genins who and finely-wrought aketch licate of a very cellehe We reproduce, in part, Amends R. Gere. Qescription of “ George Sand’ 1t wes In 16C, in the litern celebrated woman whose uence over ‘grester other person ; who fathomed tho clos tho danger to him- Siia world7 In that divine moment, {ne tender eyes st which bo there was £o world but in iuh de 'gn o not how to 1:ad no homs, e D Jatherland, _and wendered Atfully and Sodley i his lifo as in bis music, is the subject ome of tho happiest of tho few happy scenes of “his life,—his acquaintance with nd musical salon of . that ho first _met the character than that of 2Dy ely-kept secret of manifestations in this county this Wit e CThe first was ab Otterbine ~Chapel Sovon milen esat of this placo, st a United Brethe Fon sevival conducted by Xov. Mr. Wimaat, & noted revivalist. The next was 8t & Quaker re- Toeal (or innovation, as the old oues term it) iy The north part of the county. The third caeo wran in tho west part of the county at s religions meeting of the Pothodists snd Quakers jointls. Bood 1he fast was at Annapolis, soven miles north of biro, or near tho contre of the conaty, sts S otonctat rovival just closed. At this vevival among others who went iato s trance wad the pastor in charge. On his return to conscions= e Sanetho.samo experience a3 did the other ubjects st this and tho other meetings, Ohat 1o had seen hell, hoaven, sngels, and €ome Goparted relativos. ' The ssversl subjects of these trances are of such character 8% to pre- un- feigned. Much local speculation bas. to ?hab it is, :mlwhnt?: means, Will wonders never cease the Theatrs The Committeo of the proprietors of the FUCC L osent lesaee, Mr. or e D e paid a rest of £5,000 per annuzm, He now offers £6,000, 3. Mapleson £e 00 500, and Ar. Mansel £7,000, 1f Mt - o o oamager of {nat estanlishment, Be o O e Maatve f0r ihe fall months to Mr. Catl Ross, for the purpose of giving & season of Eag! opera, b nir REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. THE DRAMA. The effcct of plecannt epring weathor, and an improved condition of the streots and sidowalks, has boon poculiarly moticesblo during tho past weok in tho attendanco at the various places of smueement. Probably in no woek since the fira has the patronsge been so largo in the aggre- gate, and at tho eamo timo 50 evenly distributed. Each of tho managers has had occasion for con- gratulation apon the strength of tho brightened prospect which follows n long sud gloomy inter,—one of the soverest ever known in its offccts mpon amusemont matters. At McVicker's, Mr. Booth, in * Hamlet,” Las drawn crowded bouses. Tho samo bas been true of the mewly-sugmented company in % Peril,” at Hooley's Opera-Houso; at tho Acadlemy of Music, Oliver Doud Byron has played to & good business; the minatrols ot Myors' Opera-House hiave faced fine andiencea in numbers and quality; and Wilder's National Circas has crowded Nixon's Amphitheatre since its opening night. That this should baso in the height of the Lonten Season is somewhat ro- markable, and it argues either (or both) that the attractions havo heen exceptionally strong, or alze that the city is unusually fall of trausiont poople. Tho coming week gives promiso of 8n equally flonrishing and active stato of thinga in the amusement world. AT M'VICKLR'S THEATRE Shakspeare's great tragely of ¢ Julius Cesar” i3 to be proluced, in = stylo of great splondor, sccording to tho annonucement of Mr. McVicker, who has beon Dusily preparing for this ovent for several weeks past, and who promises that the most critically careful attention shall be bestowed in the matters of ul_abomu and historically correct costumes, scenic appointments, proporties, and stage ac- cossions in general. With the recollection of & very fino performance of “Julius Ceesar” etill freah in the minds of our theatre-goers, an added interest will bo felt in the play as given at Me- Yicker's. On different occasions during the week Mr. Booth will assume the threo principal roles of the tragedy, appearing us Brutus on Monday and Fridsy, with Mr. O'Noill as Mare Anlony, snd Mr. Power as Cassius; on Tuesday and Saturday, Mr, Booth as Cassius, MMr. O'Neill as Brufus, and Air. Power as Antony ; Wednesday, Thursdsy, and the Saturday matinoe, Br. Booth 38 laro Anfony, Mr. O'Neill a3 Brulus, and St Power s Cassius. Following iy tho distri- ‘bution of the remsining characters Julius Ca: first hos Jultus C: sar (uis appearance) Daci Metellus Cimber. Trebonius. Portla, wifa (o Brutus. Calphiirnia, wife to Casar, . Luctua. . . Mary Myers Senaérs, lilzeas, guards, affendants, ote, by Aux- es. HOOLEY'S OPERA-TIOTSE, The week just passed a3 Hooloy's Opera-Fionso baa beon tho most prosperous porial iy tho ca- roer of that theatre. Beginning with Tucadsy Dight, the first performance of * Peril,” the at- teadance hsa been uniformly large, while on ono or £o occasions it was fonnd necessary to place csmp-stools in the misles in_order to wmp- ply peoplo with seats. It should not Gocnr sgain. This _practice i8 in vio. Iation of the city ordinance Tecently passed by the Gommon Council—s_fact which Was un- doubtedly overlooked by Ar. Hooloy, who will Dot permit its recurrence, it is to be presumed, Dow that his attention has been callod to the matter. Daring the continusnce of » powerful attraction liko that of ® pgril,” it becomes the duty of themavagement to givo motico when all the soats are sold, sud to allow people their choice between standing-room only, or no admittance. W ate assured that this ‘policy will be pursaed at Hooley's hereafter, and that no moro camp-stools will be used. ‘The largo patronage which Lua beon callod ot by the mortarh produstiou v 4ie PIOCO 0S8 HoCH- B e e continuance of * Peril” this weok. Tho performence now progressos with abeoluto mootless, and 18, as wa have said, character- $red by degreo of perfection seldom attaived in Haatrical roprosontations. Miss Glover has been frowing stexdily in favor sinco hor firat appoat- Eoe, The horsoness with which sho was af- focted enrly in the weok bas almost wholly dis- appoared, _enabling her to use her voico e much better effect than was possiblo ab Hret. "On Tridsy evening she ventured upona ballad, which was rendered tastofully s to Drothiod, and with suggestions of & guality of tone which must be very plessing whon at its 108 " Having slrasdy roviewed at_somo length the performance of “ Peril,” wo meed ssy mo ors excepting to advise peoplo to see this, one N ibe bost scted and most handsomely monnted picces ever produced on any stago. {558 nuderstood that Mr. Campbell, the suthor of WPeril” is engsged in yriting another S odorn drams, to bo entitled ©Risks,” which o e brought out st Hooloy's during tbe season. ACADENY OF rUSIO. The Lydis Thompson Burlesque Troupe ro- tarn o the Academy thia weok, after s prosper- and extended tour through tho Bonthern States, whoro their o ces wero invariably Baceasstal. Tt will be rememberod that their Taat engagement in Chicago was sigoalized by & o econmion of crowded houses. Hliss Thompeon T her talented company sre now the only or- anization of the kind before tho public—tha B iy ono that Lns lived down the prejudice O b had arisen with reference to the bur- Jesqao ordor of entertsinment. That they have theedod whero o many have failed is, pre- Samptively, circumstance strongly in their fovor: but vastly more to_thoir credit aro tho Tons which thay have relied upon to achieve their prescnt assured succoss—viz.: 8 careful tad consistent avoidance of the nsual tendency o¢ barlesquo porformers_fo dogenerate into Orore indalicacy and valgarity. Asa substitute Tor the Inugh which follows & cosrse allusion or o improper suggestion, thoy havo beon com- oiled to cultisato snd rely opon legitimate Bamor and vivacity, and they are entitled to the Dradit of accomplishing the rosult. The troupe e ludos two sprightly snd talented actressos in ifes Thompaon and Miss Wetheruby, two sc- Misgos Dubois snd Zer- droll comedians in complished kinger in Dini, and fwo. infmitably Yokott and Edouin, with enongh of suxiliary Teaources to make ups_light, plossing, brilliant T ertainmont. For tho rat three nights of ek + Honilworth " will be given, and also b Wednesday matineo; Thuraday eyening, ¥ Sobin Hood ;" Friday evening, “ Ble Beard ; Satarday afternoon and evening, ‘s Lurline-" . o anday, March 24, r. Frank Msyo begins o toman at the Acadomy, sppearing in nis now and_eminently succesel! 3, “Davy Crockatt. K airick's Day is to bo celobrated st the Academy by » complimentary benefit to Ar. A axicin, the Assistant Tressurer, in whoso obalt Miss Jénnie Quigley, Mies Minnio I D ames A. Herne, M. Billy Homer, Mr. . B- o &, B. Ewing, and the entire Academy (o gg;’my ‘hayo yolntcered. Tho favorito Irish Goaeia, Bobert, Emmet,” will bo_ given with . E. Hoyt's 3 cast; o be followed by Mr. ;Tx:fo%nm | eitation, * Pankin DPize,” snd, in conclusion, ‘*Handy Andy,” with Mr. Herno in the title-xole. " OPERA I 0USE. o seomed, last weck, to have discovered { timo what a roally elegant minstrel 1 ipany wo havo among us, for tlio attondanco OO frers’ Opera-House hed been more uniformiy Haenor than during any week siuce tho opening: Ap aaditoriam wmffla“]x filled esch night wit a fine cloae of people, and & performanco of sur- assing oxcellonco, bas beon ‘the mntually satis- actory condition. of things. This week should ba no exception, judging Trom the programme, iich embraces, in the first part, ba! by Sur- ridge, "and Kayne, and comic contri- Pations * by Artington sad Cotton, ending with tho “ Medloy Chorua while in the T @ part is Mester Clarence Burton in his pleasing specialties; & ‘vocal quartetts Kayne Chic for the e by Tyrell, “The ‘Three and Cotton ; ir ‘unepproachable gongs and dances; 4 That Fishing-Line,” by Sfetable, Cotton, and Clarence Burton ; and, for B set week, the rich burlesque, o Hamlet, 4B 106 of Bridgeport.” A bonefit forMs. Myers, P acager, is underlined for Monday evening, the 24th inst. His old-time: frionds will please take notice. ¥ = '8 AMPHITHEATREE. Wilder & Co.'s National Circus remains an- other week at Nixon's Amphitheatre. We are ot aavised as to tho details of the programme, Potther than tbat it will incinde the sppearance, at esch performance, together with the ‘Wednes- dny and Saturday mstinecs, of James Robinson, th greatost of all baroback riders, and his tal- onted children; Frank Pastor, the most grace- fnl and picturesquo of pad-riders; Shafieo and Whituey, in their actislic trapezo act ; tho Stokea Indies, the Laiscellos, &e. ARS. L. W. FOSS IN THE STAR COURSE. In consequence of the Thomas-Rubinstein Concerts, ou Mondsy sud Tuosday evoninge, 3Trs, Foss' readings, announced for those dater, axe. postponed uptil Thuredey and Saturday Dights, on which accasions sho will appest Intho South and West Side Siar Course re- spectively. s, Foss will make her debut in the West in the Star Conrse, and, although but Tittlo known horo, ber fame in the East warrants tho statement that she is a reader of Temarkabls dramatic power. A womano of fine presence, with ® rich, powerfal voico capable of expressivg every eliado of fecling and emotion, sko has re- ceived the wermest commondations from Boston critics, in which city ehe is a great favorite. On the oceasion of her departura on Ler Western tour, her farowell appearanco partaok of tho character of an ovation, snd the Boston Journal usod tho most oxeggertod torms o expross its admination of ber histrionic power. Her & pearanco Lero will nndoubtedlly be greoted wit & Star Courso audience, which always is ouo most flattering to the “Star” as wolles en- couraging to tho managers. GENEUAL GOSSIP. p!g'nm'fib' ‘sunounces that he has written his last Miss Nellson acted last week in 8t Louis with great snccess. Joseph Jefferson played “Rip Van ‘Winkle ” in Brooklyn last week. ] “Xotta " ia on her way to fill an engagement at Mel- Dbourne, Australia. > ki Yictorien Ssrdou’s dramatio works have brought ‘him over 500,000 francs. The French adaptation of -Boucicsul’s “Loog Strike * has proved » failure in Paris. Charles Wyndham s acting at the §t. Jumes The- atre, London. Whero's Steiner acting 2 Pittsburgh mansgers refuse front seats in the the- atres to Iadies who do up their bair a I mode. 1t §s announced that Fochter's now theatre will pos- itively open on the 24th inst., with * 3fonto Cristo.” pouclcanlt and wito bogia an enggement ot Dooth'a 0 to-morrow ovening, appearin ’s mew bl A * A yonng Bostouian, oply 20 vears of age, ias writ- {en pinetcen dremas, They are all in his trunk yet, ‘however, and are likely to retnain there. Charlotte Caslupan is to give a seriea of readings in Stelnway Hall, New Yorx, this week. Sho will soon g0 abrosd for Her health, ‘Boncleault’s spectacular drams, * Babil and Bijoa,” bad en unprofitablo un at Covent Garden Theatre, London. The loss cmounted to £34,000. The London Morning Advertiser was sued for libcl by Charles Reade, and had to pay §1,000 for calling his play, *Shilly-ahally,” coarse, unsavary, and indecent. An enthusiastic dramstio ctitic 5373 of a popular sctress, that * when she razt out to meet hier \dver eneo carrled the ‘whole of tho audience with her.” Quitean anaful Alessnder Dumas and George Ssnd havo jointly written a trsgedy, entitled * Urutus,” which Victor Trgo asys is superior to uy tragedy ever written in modern times. D, Harkins Jiss been secured by Augustin Daly for the noxt season. Mr. Harking Is to”have & mew play writton for him by Sardou, which will be produced by M, Daly during that time. An fnventory taken of the'late Edwin Forrest's sonal estato shows that he had property vaimed ot $320,385 3 over $100,000 in ecurities on deposit, stocks, e c.j Jowelry, $4011; paintings, $47,000; snd 7,357 On the occasion of their recent joint benefit in New Orleans, Beckett and Edouin, of ihe Lydia Thompson troupe, wero the recipients of two bouquels containing 950 excl:, while the former received a bottls containing 2 gallon and » half of champagne, snd the latter = ‘bezutiful diamond ring and a walking-caue. 31, Psul Fevel has, in s recent lecture, made s sliarp onslaught on modern plays. He sttacked, in particu- Tar, 3T, Alexandre Durzas the younger, whiose {mmenso talent b acknowledged, but who has done more, he sid, to lower the moral sense in France than any 3utbor living, M. Dumas wsa present, and seem ‘much amused. The London Orchestra sass the Paria Figaro 1s much exercised about thie lossof & Shaksporean MS,, informe ing s, on tho uthority of “an Aericanfriend, St the only manuscript extant written by Shakspears ‘himself perished at * tho fire of tho Celeneated. tage Qisz, Forrest, at Philadelphis, on the 25th of last Janu- B, R i siways tiaglaed that the only suto: grapha by the “divine ‘William” were those attached bo his will, & mortgage doed, and n _copy of Florio's tranalation of “ Montaigno™ 'in tho British Museum. Tho 1ast AS, was, the Figaro adds, estimated at 80,000 a very modest Bgure, supposing—which is suppoing great deal—that it as geauine. The animals have begun to break lIoose. The follow- ing incldent recently occurred at Gicard, Pa., whers & show 18 wintering: - The eeper of the elephsnt Em-~ ‘Drees turned her into the yard, together with w0 cam- o1, to takie 8 little frosh air and recreation. It secms, Tiowevor, that there is & spirit of enmity existing be- uween tho camels and the elephant, the Jatter, Deleg otranycly s ALOFaL s Shties, Noeooner badthe animals crossed the thres- Told of thetr pen, and #niffed the fresh air, than & mis- chievous disposition took possession of them. Ono $ook after tho majeatic Emprees, who ingloriously fl 204 tore up and brokeoff seversl {ruit trecs, an gained an sdjoininglarge by demolishing a rail fencess Fhoughiat were o apider web. Herspoed being equal to et of (ho fleatest horse, sho was able to preserve & safe distance between herself and her pursuer. The other camel chose a boy name_Ely, who happened to Peon (s grounds, os the object of its chase. Tho boy ta sald 1o have made the liveliest timo ever made by'n boy of his age. Had he been overtaken by ihe animal, serious injury, if not worse, would bhave beea $iis fate. Fortunately, the kecper and_assiatants were et by, who prompiy cliecked the wicked sports of ‘the caisels, Camels are scredited with a mild and meek disposition, but this pair seems to be 8n excep tion to the general rule. - MusIC. The great events of the prosent waek, and, indood, the grestest evont of our musical season, will bo the thres concerts to be given by the Thomas-Rubinstoin combination. The firet will o given on Monday evoning at the Michigan Avenuo Baptist Chuzch, with the following pro- amme : 1. Overture, Leonore, No. 3. Beethoven ‘Thep, Thomas’ 2. Concerto, No. 4, D Minoi Rabinstein 7. Antan Rubins 5 s, Concetts, for vioiin (Firut Movement). endelsscha “¥r., Henri Wieniawski and Orches'ra, 4, Symphonic Poom, “Les Preludes” (by request) 6. Fantasie, for violin, “Qtello” .. Mr. Henri Wienfawski. 7. Overture, “Der Freyachutz ’. Theo. Thomas® Orchestra. The second will be given at the Union Park Congrogntional Church on Tuesdsy eveniug, Tipos whicl occasion the following superd Pro- gramme will be presented : 1. Overture—* The Water Carrier”. Theo. Thomas® Orchestra. No, 5, E flat.. o nton Rubinstein and Orchestra. 3. Second Part from the dramatic symplions, “Romoo et Juliette”—a. Romeo, . Tristesse, ¢, Concert ot Bal. d. Gran: Fete Chez Capulet. .. Theo. Thomas® Orchestra. 4 Conceitla, for violln, No. Henri Wieniaweki and Orcheatra. 5. Carnisal Sibirosasa ‘3. Anton Rubinstein. 6, Huldigunges Marach. Schumann Theo, Thomas' Oréhesira. The West Sidors ars to be congratulated upon. the excellence of the programme which been sssigned them, in Teturn for which they Soght o give the grest pianist and great orchies g an overflowing houso. The programme for e third concert, which will bo given at Aiken's Hheatro on Wedaesday attornoon, has not yet eon announced. In this connection, we would Paggest to Alr. Thomas that he resign hia baton P fow minntes to Rubinstein, and let the oiex condnct his Ocean Symphony. 1t womd o & noyelty which would attract crowda of f Mo, | Those who bave not yet procured o geats should act at oncs or they may loae Ao opportunity which they will forever regrel. fnch & combination as this is not an every-dsy lovers THE APOLLO CLUB will give ita third rece; tion toits associate mem- Hersionly on the 8th of April, at Standard Hall e medistoly after Lont. The programmo wi be made up mainly of music appropriate to the Josfal spring season, including many noveities {0 masio which have never before been produced Bere. Miss Fanoy Root, 60 well known in mus- jeal circles, will be the soprano of the evening. After the concert it is the intention to have & small orchestra for ensde or dance pur- Toses, and to dsvote somo_time to social enfoy nent. The details of the concerts will be given hereafter. ¥ LUCCA- ! ‘A private letter reccived from Mme, Tacch 12 {his city snnounces thut shie will be Lero again Eomo tise during the latter part of April- ADIEE. AMlle, Aimee and her troupe of opers bouffers are amonncad for theis second sesson st Adk~ o Thestre, commenciog March 24, The xo- ertoire for the seadon will be 23 follows : Mon- Taeeday, Les Cent Vier- mfineug. “La Grande “ Lon 51} ds ;" Thurs: ced) ; Fridsy, Er, jgands ; - day, (not anzona! #La Bello Hel- un{,’plfineflk O Bonalii ; Saturdsy matinee, (ngt announced); evening, «’ Orphee sux Enfers. THE Dr. George ¥. « The Hermekora” will be givenon the 20th inst. at the University Place Baptist Church, under the auspices of the composer hir- self, with s largosad well-trained choras ani competent_ soloists. Tho announcemant will Tndoubtedly il the church to_overflowing WiC the admirers of Mery, Anna, William, Snipkine. A the smiall army of rakers, mowers. sd spreaders. . 1t is many years siuco ihie cantats has been given bere, and for this reason it will andoubtedly Graw lazge crowd who have nover seen it before. CHOIR CONCERTS. Tho choir of §t. Mary's Church, in this city, comprising M. McCuire (sg&mo), liss Libbie Farrel (alto), Mr. Edwad Sehultze (tenor), snd M. Frank Bowen (basso), will commenco & con~ cert tour through the provinces immedistely after Lent, under the auspices of JMr. Frack G- Rohnor, the orgauist. The first concert, it is ex- pected, will bo given at Greon Bay, Wis. Shoir i also nnder ongagement to ing in the ca- thedrals of Baltimore and Philsdelphis. We trust the choir will not meet the fate of the par- ties who weng out to gather wool and came Dack shorn. TIE GEBMANTA CONCEBT- Tho programme for this afternoon's Germania concart at Vorwarts Turner Hall is as follows : 3. Walt 4. Grand Potpourri— bachiana 5. Solo for Finto—“Air and Variations.” Jir. Holm. 6. Solo for "Cello—*'Alr do Ballét ™..........Ofenbach 7. Guckoo Polka. . Mr. Duprez. 8. Overture—* Tho Fairy Lake 7..... ... Auber .9, Potpourri—* Daughter of the Regiment "..Donizett! 10, Artist Quadsillo. Strouss ORYNEUS CONCERT. The programme for the Orphous_concert, to be given this afternoon at Orpheus Hall, corner of Lake and Peoria streets, is as follows: PuBT I 1, March, “The Color-Guard ™. 2 Orertule, *Issbella ™, 3. Waltz, # Sow Vieons ”. % PABT I 4. pafisd.... 5. Polks, % Caprice,” solo for cornet. ir. Coll a 6. Potpourr, * Tho Dovil is Loveo™... PanT 11 Gunal Supps 7. grertn 8. PD!X)OH%, 9. Quadrillo, TURNER HALL. The programme for the Turner Hall concert this afteraoon is 24 follows : 1. Army Mareh. a7 Qverture to ¢ Mignon ™. 3, Waltz, “ Lesider of tho 4 Poutpourri Militaire 6. olo for cornet. 6. Overtura to * Tanohauscr ™ 7. Pole-melo potpourri WAGNERIASA. Mr. Gye is negotiating with the celebrated conductor, Signor Mariani, for‘the purposo of iving porformances of Wagner's opers. ! Lo- angrin,” at Covent Garden, with tho completa tronpe of the opera-honse at Bologaz. Horr Richard Wagner will visit London in April, snd will bo immediately followed by Hans Von Bulow. Among tho attractions of the Lon- don season tho music of the fufure may ot prove the Jeast. N Nrr, Walter Bache is forming a choir to give performances_of Wagner's and Liszls vocal music in London. G The Lombardia states that M. Wagnor is ex- pected at Milan, st the end of the month, to su- Derintond tho réhearsals of tho !¢ Lohengrin.” "Herr Wognor's “Taunhauser " was sanounced for the 20t% ot the Bruesels Theatre do la Moo~ naic. MUSICAL NOTES. Joschim, the violinist, is in London. Ammgwfflphyln]}ol:vnmllwuk. ‘Habelmann is giving German opera in 5t, Louis. Lucea bus taken out her prelimivary naturalization papers. Meyerbeer's #Dinorah™ has been transliated inta Spanizh. Adelaide Phillipps will shortly start onan extended professional tour v:mngh the West. A new opera entitled ! Jesus Christ,” by & Neapoli- tan composer, has been. interdicted. Miss Minnie Hanck has Just becn engaged for t¥o years at the new Opera Comique of Viena. ‘Beethoven's great-nephew hll, it is stated, embraced the profession of & journalist, ‘The Signals eays that the family is in a state of destitution. fisx Catharine Miles, a New York Iady, hss teen singing in Italisn opers in various cities of ltaly s ‘winter with good success. The new opers by Signor 3archettl, % Rom=o de Gla- letta,” haa boen performed with success at the Pege- wip} Theatzo st Genos: oo spars; Lo Veive do al, abar,” will be ‘produced at the ‘Varieties, in Paris, atter the run of 3L Offenbach’s ** ‘Braconniers.” Offenbach will commenco heatrical mapagement at the Gaite in April next, ‘and he i3 said to bave wigned ‘an sgreemcnt with Victor Hugo for the ‘exclusive yer- formance of * Marie Tudor 7 = The opera. season at Covent_Garden is reported to open on the st of April ; st Drury Lane, 3 (vlfl'.ughl T O \1lle, Albani il open tho séason i tho foruies, and Mlle. Titicus at the latler, . The ‘one-thousandth nprfimhflan of Adaloh A . weil inown opeza, ** Le Chalet,” wnsoclioracd Tecently at the Opera Comique. It 1 familier iu thiz ‘country under the title of * The Siries Cottage.” ‘Rameau, the French composer, once bossted tiat Ly could put the Gasette de lHollade into musit. A Vienneso kapelmeister has gone atill furtier, b composed airs to a mediey of advertisements cut & German paper. 2 AL Capoul threw up is engagement at Lyons, bee cause of the coldness of his reception, sud resurn: l ta ants for a few days before goiug to_Venice 2ud 31un rith M. Strakosch, His return to this country seea:s to be unseli i Aiss Eellogg has recetved a cable dispateh from dten Iesom, the mapager of Hor Majesty’s Opers, ofieriag er a_liberal ‘engngemsent for the summer Draury Lane, She ‘Wil sppear thera towards the ead ihe season. o Andame Nilsson’s singiog in *Otello,” at St. Pelers- ‘rurgh, bas produced its usual extravagant eedt. - S0 was recalled thirty times during the evenl 1 - ved scveral presentd, among olhars 3 I tez service, valued at 4,600 roubies. - All hopes of reopening the Ttalisn Opers-Houes in Pacis thia season aroat an end, o3, {2 COLSHACELE ot B rous conditions Imposed b ths progzie-ors of 1he Balle Ventadour, M. Tefort, who wus 10 Lavo beea the new imp i0, een unable to comply Wik the terms upon which the Government was wiliieg to grant o subsidy. atizg from cent and demons can be x A o e mnch difliculty in settling upen the costumes '3 {00 sl duo, thre soprano Lnstating upon dreestu e ith o yellow satin train and d:amond necklzcs, B wtcnor wants to wear 3 purple velvet cloak and a rapler 23 Adsm.. ‘Mme, Trebell-Bettin was recently engaged st the ‘Pagiiano Thestre, in Florence, greatly fo e 1naos: P rival managor, Tho latier, to avenge bin- self, bought up every availslls seat on the first migk: 1 on 3me. Trebelli’s entrance a8 J<onerd, B o¥ita,” abie waa saluted with a storm of b T e Tho mext day she tarew up her eagsgement and wrote to tho papers. i The celebrated music-publisher, Ricord), of Milaz, has opened & subscription {0 Jesd to the publication cf b b of plates Ulustrative of the costumes to te oA in the operas of the current Tepertony, £nd fo- Temied io be the stwadard work of the Kind.' The et surdity of most of the dresscs worn during sporsdis e of Talisn opera renders the attempt decidedly commendable, imen says of the Lucca seazon which ‘With 1he close of the ext week will Ttalian opera at the Acad- O N fonight Mignon ™ will be given fct 05 Weduesday evening . Der Frel- A sty will ba offesed, and there is toms probability “ Rigoletts -an Fri- “This Lenten nesnon has been fairly ramu- talisn Tho Reformed Dotch congregation n Kingston, ¥, rino has 7., has had trouble Witk its choir. The 8P up to O, or Siposed, and to give eeiections [rom the + Stabat LAYMARERS. Root's. favorits cantats of e s henever sbo saw At. Thefault-fiadermight Detter try congregational alnging. talian Opers season in St Potersburz hia 253 Madatmo Adelina Patti has gozs to Vieonz « Bompam ‘an “Fanaty of 3. Gonnod. ~The other cbiel singers wili e A farchesio (contralto), Sigaort Nicolnt and e tanore), Sigmort Graziaul and Vidsl (baesi). S ining 'to London in 3a3, Madame Taiti w1 B ow niguta in Brussels, whete Madama Missou- e L TRaq AL Faure will also appear. Althongh the State of Ecusdor doss not aebin, 3 professes to ho under special moral and i fous ce. The civilization of the Weit fa §ected to rigorons censure, lext it should afe: Soneaty of tho citizens, Unmindfal of the pioas /= Aoneies of the inbabitants, » French lyrical bas been shocking rather than of Guayaquil. At length b aing o % Grande Duchesse.” ~When, during (he sce {he impersonator of the Leroine slicws here: {58 mith Pritz, and caresses his hair by prering fingers hrough it, the Alcalde of the eity, Whn ..t theve to sy the performarce, -aroee frem Lid sast and tol must ‘the astonished Frenchmen that ta must go oo further, e beizg lpmlisg to tis ok s 7 of the pitblic of Gueyaquil. This B mwesan ame, fo 2a URfimely e, Panmy the“company got “more latitude 3ad