Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 7, 1874, Page 4

& DEJAZET. The Great French Actress. A Sketch of Her Carecr---Some Ancedotes. Paris Correspondence af the. Doaton Gazette, : Dojnzot is not dend, neither is sho in tho ‘hospital. Her fato is wores : sho s allvo, and dependont upon public charity. Al tho money ! pho han recefved (and how much that has boon you mny rackan swhen I tell you tho towest esti- monto of hor debls sots thom down at 840,000—n fortuno) duriug the oixty-flve or soventy years oho hao boen on tho atago hiow melted awey ag faat na it reachiod hor handu, 8ho was 80 oor, when tho public wont to her rollef, as to bo xo- duced to tho nocossity of sharlug tho garret, + bed, and hoard of ona of hor vld gorvants. Sho bad litorally nothing loft hor—unot evun moucy “quough to buyn t‘ant of broad. Tind hor old gorvant not taken pity on lior, sho must havo GOXE TO TIE POOR-HNOUBE. Dojazot in tho Poor-toueo! Itwonld avobeen lamaitablo 3 but Paris, all great citios, are full ;of just wuch distreusing oxamplos, ‘Thoro is, nt this hour, many n woman who onco (when hor - chaok waa Ucililunt, her form full, nud twenty eprings on Loy hoad) could not nlaep excapt in enwmbric muslin, or dino oxcept on sliver plute, but who now, even mora filthy ihan rogged, i prowls umong tho grrbage for tho fow wons '+ - which enably fiur to live—if such nu existonco miay bo dignified with that name, Thoy thought summor would laat forover, and the gold flood would continuo to fow iuto their Londw, When . they were undeceived, it was too late to bogin to ' pave for tho wet days. 'Tho wot days hiad come. i b HOW OLD 18 DEJAZET ? 1\ has long beon s debaled quostion hero, Sho v either did not know, ox protended uot Lo knov, ' hornge. Tho question has boen uettled. Hero I igher cortifleato of birth: “ Tho 15 Fructidor, An. VL (L. e.. 1 Sept., 1708), this birth wus reg: v iptered: Paulino Virginio was born day beforo réutorday (30 Aug.), a4 . m., Rua (8£.) Andro dea Arts, No. 115 divislon of thio Theatro Tran- calg, daughter of Joan Dojuzot, tnilor, &3 years ald, n nutivo of Villofranche, Rhonae-and-Loire Cotinty, and of Charlotte_Adelgonde Lo Conte, 40 yours uld, o native of Royow, Pnsdo Calais County, married in Daris, in cl-dovant Jo- soph's Purish, in 1777." As theso were rovolutionpry times, the 8t. was drop. od _from Bt. dre des Arts aoud from t, Joseph's D . This shown Mile. Do- jazet to bo 77 years and 1 month old. Sho was only 6 when sbe mado bor firet np’])enrnncn on the stapo. 'There woro then in Tariy two chil- dren's theatres s{ mean stagos whero tho parts wore filled only by children), one, Ruo de Bondy, + the other, Ruo do Thionvillg (the Itue Dauphino of ta-day). Showas cugaged first av the forner, aud subsoquently at the Intter. It Wi horo sho + mado her first great hit, At that timo n picen (which is still famions), ** Fanchon Ia Viellouso,” wos attracting all Paris to the Vaudovile Theatrs, whors Mmie. Bebmont playod tho part with great applause, Tho groat success of tho day was played at tho children's theatro, nnd eoon all Paris rang with praises of ** Milo, Vir- inie,” tho jufant prodigy who played Fanchon la Velteuse. Mmo. Belmout wont to seo her, and ¥ was so much plonsed she advised the managor of { “tho Vaudoyillo to ongogo the infant prodigy. lo did Bo, and aked Mocers. Dumersan nud Bouilly ' to write & picce for Lor. They wrote * La tiello nu Bois Dormant,"” with the part La Fee Nabofe expressly for Mlile, Virginje. Bho was then 11 years old. HER SUCCESS . ‘was vory groat. Unfortunately her health broke under tlus lifo of constaut exciterent, late . hours, hard study, long robearsals, Tho phyei- * rions sdvised her mother to accopt provineial engagemonts, that tho change of air, tho pmer stmosphere, the diminished worl, the long va- eations (in thoso days thoro was no railway, and ' weeks were spent in diligences os passcugers ) went from oue city to auother), .might. restore i i hor foxmer strength. The counsel was followed. Blo spout six mouths nt Lyons and six » mounths ot Bordeaux, and made n long J& tour in tho southom provinces. As tho P i+ infant prodigy bloomed into tho maiden, sho bocarme mord fascinatiug than over. Imngino Tojazet at 18! I auticivate time's flight jv con- {|' Juring up, at this period of her life, o girl of 18, ] Btio wae much youngor whon sho way offored an L nnfingumum at'the Gymnase Dramatique, wl " had just been built, liad just discovered the i fant prodigy, Leonline, who_was destined to be- zomo the Lrilliant Leontine Fay, eud had just rivoted Scriba to it with golden bolts. Tho manager was puzzled to turn Leontine to best account, Gifted and precocions as she wag, the most potent stago illuvion would not allow har to De tolerated in an ndult’s part. The manager of 2 3he Gymuaso recollccted the infant prodigy, Vi- Finte, who was then’ playing in the provifices, and engaged her. She wasto play mon to Leon- Aine's woman. BAISE THESE TWO GIRLS o your mind’s oye. Nead what Willis says of Leontine Fay, when he saw her, fifteen or twen- by years alter this poriod of time; you will ind it in ** Poncilings by the Way.” Iecall what you ave hoard of Dejnzet. Lhon turn to Scribo's *Marrisge Enfaotin,” and_imagino those girly fn those lesding parts. Is it not amusiug? Doosnot Bcribo juggle most adroitly with inde- ' pency, aud mevor sllow it to do moro than @it before the mpoctator, just ns some I skillful bollet-doncer whirls “on the raz- or's odge where voluptifes suggestions meet, without touching, ¥®volting ~ sensu- ality. The girls beenmo women. Leontine Foy became an accomplished actress of gentecl * comedy. Virginio Dojazot Lecamo o Vaudevilte getress, and in time hod the houor, a8 Trinl and Dugazon hud done, to give her namo to & line of Glatucters, Actrefises ure_engoged to play les Dejazet, She quitted tho Gymoase, which played only comedics, aud joined tho Theatro des Nou- veautes, where a brillisut compauy wero play- ing. Toticr, Dhilippo, Lepeinfre, _Boutle, VYoluys (who ofterwards married Loontine ay), Wwete amoug the cowpany, low thedo couslcliations scom » splendid com- pared with the companics Paris now has! Dojozet continued to grow in publio favor until the rovolution of 1830, when sho rose at oue dash still higher in populnrisy, 'Che explanation is casy. Duving the Mestoration, the very nama of Bonaparte was forbidden tho stage. Mlle, Aars had roused a storin by appearing with o noeegay of violets in her hand in a play ab tho Freuch Comedy, After the revolutiou of 1830, Napoteon wns eerved np with overy sguce. BMegsre, Gabriel and Miche! Masson doter- . wined to writo o part for ilie, Dojazot which ehould represont ¥ A8 A Youtn, + ‘Tho manager of the Nouveautes scouted tho idea. **Dejazor as Nupoloon? Where is the likeness botween themi” **Wo roprosont Nu- poleon in his youth," **In hia cradle?” “No, not in his crodlo, for Dejazet is no lenger an infaut prodigy. Wo rapresent Nupoleon as hie wras ot the Bricuno School. Dot do not judgoe our picco before wo Lave read it to you.” “They roud tho pluy to him, Ho said: “““T'ho ploco is charniug, but veally I eounot ndmit Dojazot us Napoloon, The play wonld cout 4,000 to bring it out, and reoty I sball not rivk that sum of mouey ou it, Defazotus Napoloou ! Pehaw! mon, . tho thing fs impoasiblot™ ¢ But wo will guarane t‘ea you tho cost.” ** AL, if that ig your scheme, Tl agree to your tormu." As soou as it became Public that Dejarot way poing to roprosent Nn- poleon at lricuno Hchool, then overybody wished to uee her in the wart. ‘Phoro was b riot at the theatra door tho fivst night tho pleco was played, so high did tho oxcited strugiiu tor nde mittsnce sun, 'The pleco was ndroitly written, It roproseuts Napoloen discovering, by & nort of second-mght, i brillisnt future’ carcor, and brooding over it; Ucuides, whenover ony { of uis fawillar snyings could Le «lippad a, Ctwas given; for jnstance, in the snow-balliug, ot Driewne, one of the 2adets was wounded by o anow-ball, aud fell ; ay . ne was curried ol tho btege, Napolcon suspandaed v+ tho fight, lifted his bat to tho wounded cowrade, and oxcltimed: *Honor to uulortnunto gour- sgal” Tu another scene, he ndnured tho boauty and amiabllity of bis Profossor's daugliter; hor name was Josepline. 1o suid to her: *If [ aver aarry, 1 want iy wife to bear your name,” R ‘ member, too, Nupoleon's deutli wos quite receut, 3 sud bie was more femiliar to suany persons liero than Mr. Wobster is at this timo to thousands of peaplo in Boston, Mlle. Dojazot quitted in 1832 the Nouvesutes for the Puluis ltoyil Theatre, whioh had thon just boon opened, Hor curcor here was ONY; LONO HKDIES OF TRIUMPIS, Tor strongth lav in roviving tho youtl of thoss petulant, gilddv, sprightly persous who oro eo numorous fn Trench history: Voltairo, Houry 1V., Ninon do, L'Enlos, Supblo Aruvuld, Mo, Tavart, Mile) La Chawpnole, or in depicting Haucy pessant girls, roystering - studeats, plquant grisottos, recklesu speudtbrifes, lns dinna_ ot Charlomngoe, Nuvon, | Suzanuo, Yort-Yert, duditl, = lilchotien, ' " Lotorierc, wo still ocossionally rovived. Sho bec womo stil moro popular when play-writers ( ibought of druaitizing Borangor'n ongs, Bho ! Wy, wdeod, tho boat idonl of Fretillon, Lisotto, La Marquise de Pratintalllo, These pioces ran for 200 uighta consecutively, and weie rovived {ime and agaln with unabdted sicess. fiboquisied the Palala loyal for the Variaties, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,. NOVEMBER 7, 1874--TWELVE PAGES. ani abo took all her playa with her, and IPPAn\'Nl in Coutil Barnard, Columblue, and Lo Moulin a Darolos, now plocon, Ilor trinmpha continued until gho changed her theniro, golng to tho Vaudevllle, whora sha woa uusuccessful i poco aftor plece, until sho bit upon ‘ La Douairiers do Drionne,” which woa successful, Mokers, Alexaudro Dumas, Jr., dacqned Oftone bach, Loon lalovy, aud Moilling mnde, soon aftor " Lo Donmricro” wns brought out, o rovo- Iution on the French stage. Thoy banehed tho clhinmpagna af tho glddy Vaudovillo, aud fotro~ dncmrznn Lort, Madoira, and Curacon of the modern play, tho etrent nnmlvlnl oxtravaganzn, Thove was 110 longor placa for Dojazet in Paris, SILE, TOOK TO TIK PIOVINCKS, and spont yoara strolling from placo to placa, Slin did not make much mouoy, but sl managed to live, Whon sho had satinted provincial curl- ority nhio returned to Patis, and, being unable to tind engagemonts anywhore, sho opened o thentro of hor own, a moro bandbox far up the noulovards. Bhe called it Iheatro Dejazet. - It was suceessful. Sho had the honor of bringing out Mono, Sardou thore, Ilis two firat Dlays, Lo rodo 8t Gervais” and ** Mous. Garat," woro brought ont by her, aud, it is snid, ho owes hor © great many valunbln hiuta about the Franur modo_of nmunf!ug *singo busincss,” Ie is bolloved to bave hecomo enamorad of bhor and gho of him, groat as was their disparity of ago. Those plays brought o good denl of mionoy to her. “Unfortunately, #ho had no knowledgo of business ; the tido of debt roso rapldly and carried Theatro Dejazot 1o the Court of Dankruptey. Sho wont ngain to tho provinces, aud reaped poor harvest ; still ‘twas hotter (han Daris, whero thero was no harvest at all. Thon, the war camo, and sha shured tho genernl ruin. Sho had some jowels left, veatiyzes of hnppler dayvs ; on their sale sho lived till thay, too, went : thon tho gaunt wolves drovo Lor to” immlora tho hoopitality of one of her old eoryauts, 1er friouds discovored her ditreas, and orgavized . ADENEFITFOR HER. . It was n most brilliant performanco, Lvel nctor and netress in Darin uppearcd in it “Stare” of tho firab magnitudo played the humblest parts. "Tho public were generous. Ono goutloman gave 8200 fora box. Yho most popular actresses went over tha house betwoon the nots taking up collection for their octogona- rinn sistor. The bonofit brought, i lenst, $12,~ 000, whichh n commitioo of gentjomon Lavo u- veated to gocuro g good roveuuo for the decayed fovorito, oud to keop tho principnl from hor groatest enemy—horself. Lot me, befora concluding, rolato #omo anoc- doter of tho veterun otrass: 5 While passing through & small provincial town, whoro sbo stopped for tho wight, sbo henrd thut tho favorito actrees of the strollors, who had pluged that senson in the town's the- ntro, hud that very morning eprained ler nnkh_! aud wag unublo to leave her chair. s actross’ Douefit was nnuounced to take placo the #nmo evoning, uud sho bad reckonad ou its yecoipts to pay her dobts and to provide = sufticlency for her eupport during the long summer vacation, Alle. Dojozot saw that ono of her plocos was anvounced. Shoran to the fhoatre aud offored to play tho part which the sirolling actress was sunotnced to il Nobody Luaw bor at the theatre, and the managor re- plied: *Such a thiug canpot bo thoughs of ; we should not take in ono_ceut.” Sho rojoined : #You are mistaken, Put & paper bar on your bills, writo on the bar that_llo. Dojuzet of the Palots Royal Theatro will take yonr nctross’ placo.” Six hundred dollars wero tho receipts pourod futo the stroller's hands, Ono evoning aha pluyed at the Grand Opera for somobody's Lenofit: Sho desired to poo who was in tho theatra, and, attired in tho costume of bLer part, she went to peer throngh o hiole in tho curtain. Tho curtaiug of nearly all theatres hero have iwo holes, about 4 fect 6 wckos from tho flaor, to eniible peoplo on tho stago to exnmino the nudience, aud. at tho sawe time, be themsolves unseon, While she was peeriug at tho specta~ tors, o trequenter of tho ballot corps came up and put Liy arm around ber waist, She iustant- 1y, augrily turaed o hitn, and sald, in_hor po- culiar touo (which she can make the most Inso~ lent X over henrd) : * You nro mistaken, sir, ‘1 DOX'T BLLONG HEUE.” A dramatio eritio calied Lo seo hor, to_ingratisto himeelf jalo her favor. Sheturned a deaf ear t0 all bio protostations of lovo. He at lst soid : “ But do give mo at lenat tho alms of one kiss." Bho auswered : **No, no, Ro, no, o, sir. Ihave 10y own poor.” BSho is extromely fond of the thentre, and onjoys performances as much 88 8 schaal-gicdd who visita the play for tho first time. Ouo eveung at tho Pulais Royal Thoatro she failed to appear at the proper time, and tho actors who were before tho ublic were oxtremely disconcerted. Tho publiv ogan to murinur, sud then to bies, and then to yoll, kick, aud threpten to broak. Tho actors fled bohind tho scoues. In the height of tho storm, ile. Def‘azat mado hor appearance. Tho tempest redoubled its fury, Sho walked quietly to tho footlights, emokiug a cigar (ler part re- quired it), aud looked steudily at tho audienco, anmuchns to say: * What meons this up- roar?" The storm's violonca incronsed, She ptood_ as insolently cool s ever, and {mfl‘nd tobacco smole first to the right, then o the left, as hieses wero flexcor thera or liove, ‘Ul battle lnated ton minutes, At Iukt, the publie, amused by Dejnzot’s air and per- tinaoity, laughod heartily, and then applandod hor. When silence was vestored, sho uaid, atil smoking: “May L explsinmy nopunctuality 7 ‘Thers was from nll eides of the houso erios : +“Yog! yes!" She added: '* The key of my Aressing-room was lost, A lockemith was sent for. Itis rare lockemithe aro in their nhops nt this timo of cvening, and it wae gomo timo bo- fore oile could bo found. Al this took time. Tho plece went on. My turn to appear came, but, really, I could ot come on the atage until I yas decently dressod.” ‘The public applanded and treated hor as o spoilt child the rest of the evening. X It in 9aid Mile. Dojazet attvibutea hor health and wutlagging wpirits to hor babit of taking o Tussiau buth whenover she plays, ile, Dejazel's son is an oxcollont musicion ; he once smd to his mothor: *You wing out of tune with cxqnisito acenracy.” Thie remark, maybe, truly charactorizes her talents; like Alllo. h who now enjoys groat popularity, Lo- juze: owed Lior Buceess to her accent, to TUE SOUL BHE THUEW INTO EVERVTUING ehio_did, tho soul which found chaumol to the public in_ veico, oye, pesturo, play of featurcs, On one of ber profeseional toursin tho provinces slio way engaged to ploy ix nights at Ceon. Tho mauager filed the town sud neighborhood with advertlserents which exaggorated her peculinr stylo of acting. The clorgy became alaraied, and all of thems pronched agaiost her tho Sundiy Leforo hor arrival. They declared that she was the own daugbter of the Evil One, that her chiof delight was to dmg souts down to Hudos, aud that slie uppeared on the stago stark naked. The sormons bad au_offect coutrary to thai which wog iutended, Lvery man in lown became crazy to go to keo the Evil One's own daughter who’ plaved stark naked., Every womon criod, horror! but contrived some way of getting a x\i‘ghl ut thig sho-devil. 'Ilio town waa in & bluze of oxeifoment. Whon Dujazet reached thero, u doputation of tho older aud more stuid inhabl- tauts waited on bor, and begged her not to play in Caon as ahio wos uconstomed to play in Parik, to romomber that sbo wes in the pravinces, an that a provineial audionco would not tolorate the appeazance of un actrews stark naked on the atuge. Mile. Dojazet wos at firat, for a moront, coufoundod by this addross. Blo did not know whut to makoof it. Suddenlythio truth tashed on her, and sho gravoly anewored: * llceive my heerty thanks, gentlomen, for your kind warmn- ing, Pun is Frauce, but, 83 you ray, tho provingen aro not Pare. o prove to you the value I pince on your considerats waining, I ‘prowigo you to WEAR AT LEAST A SHIRT whon I sppear on your stago.” Tho doputation rotired delighted.” Dajuzot rolled on ior sofe, wplitting her sides with loughtor, The thestro was cratnmed from top to bottom. When Dejazet appesred in tho costumo whio wore at the Palais Tisyal Theutro, thero way & murmur, aliost & ory, of diskpprobntion end dissppoiutmont, Tliro uho was, dressed up to the throat, and thoy had pald to soe an uctreas starl nakad | Bow Sko Changed Eler Mind. Tl Troy Whig ot Wucsday relatos tho follow- ing: *t Par the puss LWO yours OF 1Uro 4 youlig Frenoh shogwabor, who resides ou Sccond slreot, near Juclson, has boen keeping colapuy with @ French givl, .whoso iather ia u Loss cnr- pouter revidlug on Liest atrect uear Javkson, ‘Ilis yowngg wan proposod matrimony to the girl, but ux har' pavents abjected on account of tha youug: man haviug no mmouey, she also deckin the proposition, ‘The young muh, bacoming dise hoartened, left for Cauada to soek his foriuno, hut 0 luck did ‘wot swilo on him, after turco weekn' ubsence ho raturued to_ this city und again colled on the girl. o was mqt with 8 cold reception, but it wea u0 disuppointmens to him, Ile, however, oL wp conrnge enough to propose o see- ond tino, and o bl great nrpriva tho givl wud- aouly chsnged hor mind aud counented, The time for the nuptial ceromony wau tixed for vnio nighit last weols, At tho tinio nppoluted the groom, bridemmald, and groomsmiau wade tleir Appeir- anco, wud weva soon met by the expocted biide. The touy then sturted for (ho Freuch chmeh, whare the ceramony was to be perforied, When thoy nevived ut the elatrel tho girl refused to en- toraud bavo tho cerowony perormed. She unid slio loved ez intondod, bt as Jwr parents were oppeaed to 4110 uoion sbe would noy do an seb which wan contrary to their wishes, Tho futond- ad husband become judignant when he hoard this, and domsudod the preaonta (connl!llufi of Jowoly, ote.), whichi ko lad givon hor, The uirl comphiod'with his requost for tho jowalry, aud haudod ovor tho presonts, The party then separated and loft for thoir omos,” e i, IVAN TUE TRERRIBLI. The Wickedest Man the World Ever Naw, Preciecly at what timo tho faithful ang affec- tlonnto subjoots of Lis Mwjosty Ivan IV, Czar of all tho Russlog, conferred upon him his peb namo, ** The Terrible,” history noglects to inform un, but wo aro lett in'no uncertaimty 83 to tho ontiro appropintencrs af tho titlo, which is now insoparaply linlod with his baptismei nome. o inkerited the throne at the ngo of § yeurnwnd i oarly education was earofully nitended \:x hifs faithiful guardians, who anubbed aud scare him, In the Liopo that they mikht so far weaken Nin intelloot g8 to socurc & pormanent coutrol over hiw, and through him govern Russin ns thoy ploas They mnde n Tootstool of him nomotimes, and & football at others, and, undor their system of training, the dovelopment of thoso qualitios of mind und heart for which ho is cnlo’%mled wes remorkably rspid. Ilo wag alwnys Iven the torrifled, sud ho becamo Ivan tho terriblo bofore Lo wao old cuongh to haye playod o roasoniably good game of murbles, or 1o havo becoma tolerabiy expert in tho art of mum- Dbling the po. Indeed, it would seem thnt tho young groud Princo wan wholly insonsible to the Joys of thioso and the other oxcellent mportsin which ordinary youth delight, sud, being of sn ingoulouy turn of mind, ho - vonted others better suited to his tastes and character. Ono of (hose pastimes,— perhs tho first and simplest ove do- visod by tho youthful gonius,—consiated in tho dropying of cots, dogw, aud othor domestic ani- mals from tho top of the palace to tho pavomont balow, nud sentimental bistoriamakave conniruod thuso intercsting experiments upon the law of gravitation Into cruclty. Auother of $he young Czar's awnsemonts was to twrn half-famisbod o¢ bears 100sp upon pagsing podentricos, and it 5 tho part of charity fo supposo that b purposo in this wos Lo study;the peyctological and phiyul- fognomical phonomeps of foar. A lets proflt- e ay "l "lad. of sccomplishing tha same thing was by throwing, or, as youthful Americans phraso it, * bylug” stones at pue- Bors by, concealing himsels mcanwhile bobind o screon. 1To cultivated his skill in horsomanabi Dy widing over elderly poople, cripples, and chil- dren, 1n short, bis boyish sports were all of an original and highly interesting sort. 15]1 to thio ago of 13 lyen was under thotuto- 1ago of & council, of which tho Princo Blieky was chief, sud it was this Prince who domi- pocred over the boy and jnnde & foot-atool and o foot-ball of bis body, At thet age Ivan adcorted bis indepondence i ® vory positive and amphatia Wy, which evon the Princo Shuisky could not wigapprebond, The young OCzar was out buntieg, accompanied by Bhuisky aud other Princes and boyards, smong whom was Princo Glulsky, a xival of Hhuisky's, who Wag pxeemliud npninet that excollent gentle- oAt his suggestiou, Ivan rddyoss his guar- dian Shulsky in Jabgusgo which the latter deemed ingolont. Bhnfsky replied angerly, sl Ivan requested his dogs w remoustrato with tho le;mo, ‘which they cid by tearing him limb fror limb. Maving shus eilenced the diotation of Bhuisky, tho young Prince becamo the ward of the uo less excollont Gluisky, waa carofully taught that the only woy in which ho ocould effectu. ally, assert suthority was by punishmont. 1t was mnde elear to his “budding intel- lect, too, thaé the suortest, simpleat, sud altogother tho bost woy to get xid of ditogreos blo people, was to put them to death, and throughout is life Ivan nover forgot this lagson for n winglo momopt. Power, ho waa told, was wortlless unless it was used, and tho only way in which it could bo renlly used was by oppres- sion. Forthroo yesrs no paius wero spared to tench him this system of othics snd politics, and the yonng Princo, in his anxiety to perfoct himeelf in tho art of govorning, diligoutly prace ticed ol theso preceptu. When ho was 17 yoars of sge he was formmlly crownod Ozar, The citizens, igno- ront of the truths of political ecouomy oad the principles of governmental scienco underlying the young Cgar's aystom, becamo nlarmed and fired the city ono nlfm. When Ivan awoke ho was terrifted, being of an abnormally vervous tomperament, and the apparitivn of a warmng ronk, togother with the intinence ot Anayistia, the youog Czarina, led the Czar to abandon the shoplo sud straightforward meth- ode of goverument in which he had Leen bred, aud for thirtcon yoars, under the dictation of Alexis Adascheft snd the wonk Sylvester, Ivau devoted himself to_the commonplace employments of dovelopipg Rns- gie politieally and sociolly. Ho divmisded bin Dlimsters and pob others in their places. e reorganized tho arwy ; yoviged the codein the intereot of abstract justico ; oqualized assess- ments ; subducd the Tartars; established forts for the protection of = the frontiers; laid the fouudation for the fature great- ness of hiz Lmnplre; begau the work which wna compleied 8o graudly nndor Poter the Qreat ; introduced printivg into Ruesia; ndded greatly to her posserions : checkod the abuses f hor clorgy; brought urtists from estern Europe, andin a hundied waye mndo himself fanious by doing thoso things which historiona love to chironiclo, AMerowhile, his gevius for governing upon the Gluiskan’ system Iny donwant. It was bot dead, but slept, oud after its nap of thirteen yeary it nwoke ‘ono day, sofreshed, Anastatia, the beautifu! Queon whowe iuilueico had boen supreme_for o long & time, died. and Ivan woa freo again, Ho recalled an 'old Uishop who had haen bsnished for his erimes, and consulted him us to his tuture cowrdo. “If yonwish to bo truly r soveroigu,” said this* eminenc prolute, * never soek n eoungeller wisor thun yourself ; pover roceivo advieo frow any man. Commatd, bul nevor oboy; and you willboa torror to tue boynrds. Remem- ber that howho is pornitted to Le v udvising i certain to end by ruling bis gov " Horo was advico of & sort suited tu Ivan's tasto and edacation, and for reply be kissed the good Bishop's hand, saylug: 3y owu father could ot Liave spoken more wigely." ‘Chut the Czar nglm sincerely, hia faithfulocss in followwg tho Bishop's precopts abuidantly atteats, His Minietors snd ndvisers being manifestly wiger than he, and therefors not at all tho proper kind of people to have avout, ho ntraight- wiy bouished ihem. He thou bogau a dilgont soareh for their partisang, somo of whom tio put to death, condemming others fo iw- risonmont and torture. He noxt turucd iis uttontlon to his own housotold, which he vas resolved upon suling sbsolutely, at least, if not well, One of tho Princes mudo bimuolt disagreonblo by declining to participato frecly in the pleasures of the placo, nnd for tho saku of domestio barmony, 1van had him posiardod whilo Lo was st his prayers, Aucthier ko far ovorstepped the bonds of courtesy nad pro- priety as to romonatrate with ove ol the new favorites upon his impioper conduet, and Ivan, in order that there might be 1o bickerings aud hard feelings in his family; slew the duscour- teous Prince with Lis own huud. Ho was in tho babit of currying an fron rod about with him, and Lo bud & playful 9oy of striking bis feiends with it uvow aud then, mere- 1y for his movsowent, His ploasantyios of this and other like sorts were endlens, One duoy Trinco Doriu, & boyard, caind to pay iiia respects o b e bl 2t Bowad o s Sronml, o oording to custom, Ivou, soiziog u luife, said, * God blesy thee, 10y dear Bovis; thon Qesorvenst a proof of my favor,” and with that lo kindly ““{."‘I.‘:m ulu\)\qmuu!‘\fl m\rlulf. " Vhen Princo Kurbusly, whom he had throat- ened with doath, flod to Polaid and wrote him o lattor thonce, tolling bin protty plainly whit ke thought of Lim, the Czar pluyfally struck tho boarer of tho nussive with his iron rod, wu & preliruiuary to tho reudivg of ths letter, aud the blood flowod copiously from tho man's woundu whilo Ivan poudored tho words of his rebolllous nubject, ~ Ho then becaino con- vinced that the boyards gencrally sympathized with Kurbeky, aud to toacl them better ho png & good mmany of thom to death by torture, aud deprived many others of their estatos, Iijs alarm wos very roal, Lhowever, for ho way a phenomeuon of abjict cowardico, Ho there- foro flod toa fortilied placo ju the midst of & deuse lorest, wherd he remnined a montl, writing letters to the poople, tolllng thewm {hat he hind shdicated and_leftt)ion to tholr fute s & punishment for thelr dlsloyslty and thoir crimes, Singuiarly enouglh, s tlight teritled tho people. }o bed taughit them that he way their god as God was hin, and his Hight to Alexandrovsky seotied 1o thom w withdrawal of tho protootion of Providence itwelf, Tusinens was suppended, Lho courtn consed to uit, The peoplo woro lu un ugony of torror, large_depusation of boyards and pricuts jour- noyod to Alexandrovsy, end bewought” the uovereign to rsturn and Tesumo Lis holy fune~ tions us the head of the Church, tuat the souls of yo_wmsny milllons wight vov porish, Exaug- ing of clorgy aud vobled sl adwissian of his absoluse vight ta do us lo plouked, aud u promive that thoy would i vo way interfere with or resist authority, he roturncd to dlow. cow, Hero he surrounded himuclf with u body guasd of dosperadoe, 1,000 strong ws st and sftorwards increavod to 6,000, whogs duty 16 was o discorer ke’ Czox's wxowmlos and to aweop thom from tho facn of tho earth, As omblema of thero, thelr functions, i moins hor of thy gusrd earrled at his saddle bow a dog's hiead and o broont, Ag tho punishinent of the Czar'n enomics mcluded the conflsention of {helr proporty, ulargo part of whioh was given to tho gunrds themselves, theso weoro slways piugularly auccesstal in discovoring tho disaffac- tion of weelthy nobles, discovering it oflco~ timog Loforo the nobles thomeelves wore awaro of thelr own tronsonablo santimenta. Feeling uneafo_atill, Ivan bullt for himeelt 8 new palace, outside tho wallrof the Jrom- lin, making it an_fwprognablo_castls, Thou tinding that evon this did not Inll his slinken nerves to rost, ho proccoded to put danger ofar off by disposecssing tho 13,000 rick nobles whoso catates Iny nearest the palace, aud glving thofr property to his personal fol~ lowers, o that tho hesd which wore the crown might lio sasy in the couviction that there woio no poesiblo onomics near on the athor alda of tho imprognnblo walls which shut him in. Dut even then ho could not nleep onslly, and go ho ropaired agalu to his forest stronghold nt Alexandroveky, whero ho sur- ronndod himself with guards ond ramparts, Hero o converted the palace into o mopastery, made himsolt abbot and his rascally followers mouks, 1lo rigorously enforcod monastic obaorvances, of the soverost sort, and no doubt beoamo o 8aint, in his own estimation. o spont mont of his timo =t prayors, nllow- Ing himoolE no rocrestion excopt n dally sight of thotorture of tbe prinoners who wore confined iu the dungeons of tho fortress. Mls ganrds wore nllowed s rather larzer sharo of omuso- mont, and they wandered from sireet to stroot duriug the doy, pnolshing, with tholr hatchots, wuuch distoyal ‘peoplo na thoy onoountered. They Wworo modorate in thelr indulg- onces, however, in imitation of thoir sovorolgn, donbtless, and it is recorded to thotr credit, that, at this timo, they raroly evor killed moro than twanty poople in ono dny, whilo somotimnew the numbor was as low au five. Tut o quiet life of_this kind dould not stwa; eontent tho Cxar. Natarally, ho grow tixed of individual killings, and bogen to lowy for some more oxciting sport. When ono day a quarrel arose botwesn some of his guards and o few of the peoplo of Torjek, Ivan snw at a glanco that nll tho inlabitants af Torjek wore mutinons rebels, and of courso it becema his duty to out thom all to doath, which ho stenighoway did, Up to thin time, tho genius of Ivan seoms to Liave heen cautiounly feeling its way, and so the part of his hiatory slready wkotehod may bo re- sarded ns a mere prellmioary 10 bis real carcor. Iis oxtraordinary capacity for ruling sn Em- pirs on the principles tanght bLim by tho Prince Gluisky was mnew about to show itself in all its grestneds. A oriminnl of Nov- orod, feeliug himself agerioved by the suthori- sies of that city, whd had incurcorated him for a time, wroto a loiter offoring to placo sho :Il‘)' under Polish protection. ‘fhis letter bo signed, not with bis own name, hut with that of ths Archbishop, and, fostead of gonding it fo tho King of Poland, o . whom it was addrossed, ke secreted it In the church of ut. Bophia, Then goiog to Aloxandroveky, hetold Ivan that treason was eontemplated by the Novgorodiaus, and that the treanonable lot- tor would bo found behind the statuo of the Virgin in the church, Ivan sent & messengar to find the leiler, and upon his rotorn tho Cear began his mareh upon tho doomed city. Hap- ening $0 pass through the 'Townof Khur on is way to Novgorod, he put all its inhabitants to death, with tlie purposs, doubtlees, of training Mis troops in tho art of wholesalo massacre, beforo requiring tham_to practise it upon the pooplo of Rovgorod. Finding this systamn of drill an ngreeabls pastime, he repeatod it upon his arrivalat tho City of Twer, and then, in ordor that the other towns along his route might havo po reacon to complain of partislity, hio bestowed upon all of them n like manifesta~ tion of his impariat rogard. 1t is ot my purpoke to desczibe in deteil the elaborate and ingonious cruclty practiced in the magnacre of the Novgorodisns. 'Tho story is ulckenlnE. Ivan first heard mass, and thou be- gan the butchery, which lasted for mauy days, ‘was conductod wiih e utmost deliberation and mopt_ingenions oruelty, aud onded ia the slaughor of 50,000 peopla. Ivan hod wolected cortaln prominont citizous, to the numbor of Aoverdt hundred, whom he reserved for publie and particularly crucl ozecution at Moscow, Summoning the small and wretched remnant of the population to his presence, he besought their prayers for to continuance and pfosperity of bie reizn, and, with gracious words of fare~ well, took his deparure from the murdered city. ‘Tl oxecation in Moscow of the reserved vice tims waa a scone too horrible to bo deseribed in thoso pages, Indoed, tho balf of Iven's epormi- ties moy not e told hero at all, and oven the hiutorinns content themaclves with the barest outlinea of mouy parts of bis career. o thought limsalf in some senso s deity, and blasphemous~ 1y ngserted that hia throno was surrouxded by archangols, precisoly a8 God’s {8, Idontifyiug himsalf with the Alinighty, he claimed exem ilon from tho obsorvance of God's laws, and, dofisuco of the fundamental prinoiples of tho Greok Church, of which he was tbe lend, he marriod geven wivos. Dolioviug that he might with equal impunity insult the moral sense of other uations, he mctunlly gought to add En- giand’s Quoen, Elizabotli, to tho list of Lis Bpouaes, And e woe so far xight in bhis ecstimate of his _pover to do as ke loaged, that tho Virglo Queon, heod of tho nglisn Obureb, whilo sho wonld not her gelt become one of his wives, consentod to assist Liim, 2nd solected for his oighth consort Mary Ilustings, the deughter of tho Earl of Huntiug- ton, Hho came near bringing about » ariage botween the two, in face of the fact that the two chnrclior of whioh Ivan and she wera respoctive~ 1y head wore sgveed fn condearning polygamy ag & hejnous crime, Tor ono only of all his crimes Ivan sbowed ro- gret, it not remorse. His oldest and favorite Gon, when tho City f Pakiof was besicged by the Poles, asted that ho might bo intrusted with the command of a body of troops with which to asgist tho beleaguered placo. lven wase s0 groat o coward that Lo darcd not irust the affection and Joyalty of evon bis own favorite child, sud in o fit of mingled fear cud rsgo ho boat the youngman to death with his iron stafl, saylog: *Kobel, you are longued with tho boyards 1n o conspiracy to dothrouo me,” Remor¥e soized upon bim at onco, and his suffarings and hi fears of rotribution wero ter- rible. Tinally he detormined to absudon the throne and soelt pesto i & couvent, but tho in- fatieted Hussians entronted him not to desert thom. He died at last, in 1560, and even on his deatiz-bed ttompted ono of the woet infamous crimes of bis lifo, and wos balled only by the flight of bis victim and bis own juability to fol- Jow hor. She was o member of Lis family, belng tua wifo of his son. Did Bcheherezado herself ever imagine a atranger story thon this? And yet it i plain history, and 15 only & fragment of the truth,— Georqge Cary Eggleston in Awmerican Lomes for November. e T The Bauger of & PocketaEnite. Fram the Lostan Transeripl, A singular sccident huppencd ot Lawrence, lasn., lust week to an 11-yoar-old Aon of Alouzo Winidoy, wiieh resultd iu the loss of bis right teg. ‘Uho father had purehased o pocket-kuile for the Doy AQuring tho day,and while the lod was_ocutting a piece of thin wood, which wus resting upon 4510 tiugh of his right leg, the woou nfllit and tho blado of the knito was driven into thie et througli tho femoral astory. Physiclens stopped tho flow of blood with a tourniquet, and, after echerizing tho pationt, disscctud down tothe femoral ortery, which was elovated and s liga= ture applied just abovothoincision, All compros- slon was thien removed and the leg moved in position when voneus blood ¢ame poring out, showing thut the femoral veln wag, liko the ar- tory, badly cut, Moro physicians wero called, oud it waa decidod (hut the amputation of the leg was_the only moeans of saviug the patient's lito, and it was taken off about ona-third of the dimanco fyom the kooe 10 tho body. The paticut j8 dowg well, and his vecovery is amtioipated. iFho injury was sunflar to that reseived by the wotorious burglar Curroll Sanborn, who Woa shot through the thigh by au otcor. The eurgeon in charge of tho Honse of Correction at tho timo eallud o bis nspistauce emincut surgical talent from Poston, aud un attoinpt uade Lo lipate the artery, wlueh proved fatal to tho priconor. e Neandalous e ata Faneral. An frisk papor sayn (hat st Pursonstownon & recent Buuday evening, on tho aceasion of the funeral of an'nl2 and rospected Protestent in- Dbabitant, namwd Reads, whose remainn ioro being intorrad in tho old graveyurd of Parsous- oW seandalouy ueena touk pleco, The fu- xneral Jeft the house ubout 4 o’clock, followed (or xathor preceded) by su unusually large nwobor of people, including muny respoctablo towns- peoplo of hoth perouasions, At tho guto of tho gruvoyuard the corpro was mat by tho Rev, dlar- cus MeCnustund, who provoedsd to read tho Tiurlal service, but the opouing sontouce wae tha signal for au ontburst of yolly, fecry, and gronos, and an u few minites tio cofliis was neizod wod hnstlod 1mto tho opon grave, when thres fel- lows, wha eviden}ly wers awaiting tho sigual, connnencod throwiug in tho ciny so b to cover thevofy, Daring ths seono the Kecor an- denyored to proceed with the sesvica, but hiy voiro wan complutely drowned by the ubouts and exevintions of tho mob, wkoveulod tholy 2o by firing velloys of wtonvs ut the yawlts und cheariig for “Momo Hule,” Qhe ouly cuuse that can bo aealgned for this dlsplay is that tho decaond was through lifo n consistont Proteste ant, whilo Il brother, who diod somo twolve yenru ago, and who married n Romau Catholio, ‘was claimod by them to have diod in the faith of thoir Ohurch, ———— A GREAT FRENCH ACTOR. Erederick Lomaitre nis Robert Mne P " culres ‘row the New York Times, It wau in 1849, precisoly duringa rovolutionary opach, whoa France was quaking, that 1 saw tho Rroatest of modorn actors. Somo ono has saud, that 28 wo grow okd, no ono will_ over dauca for us a8 Tagliout did In our youth, nor any ano slog for ua ke Malibran, Youthtul experionoes nisy bo moro Imaprensive, but still, I think to-day as [ did then, thial the pinyor wiio staod closeat to sbsoluto dramatic porfaction was Fredoricl 1,0- maitre, ‘‘L'Aubergo des Adrcts"” was a 1nolo- dramn allowod in tho rovolutionary _(lme, aud in it was_that many-sided * charac~ ter of Jrobert Macatre. 'This play, write ten during the reign of Loulw Ylullppo, had fow dramatic positions, littlo real inttusic metit, belug wimply 8 frame in which robberies and nsanysinations wero set. It ocouples bub little place v tho Fronch repertory to-day, savo that it coutmined tho germ of fabert Mlacaire, and a sncond piece was mado, embodying the adventures of the prineipal characler, which waa cntitled * Robert Macatro,” 'hiy personltioa~ tion oon boosme famons, and {s 6till known in France, and all over tho world, as the type of the modorn Beapin, Tho hero, Robert Aacaire, i the great priuce of scoyudrelivm, tho opitomo of all that iy wicked nund baso, und biw foil iy Jacques Slrop, & mere potty tilehor of handkers chiofs, o Fieach Jeremy Diddler, whose puny pocl:oLvlnklngls 50 smull, so ludicrons by con- trast, that ouo pities his tritling carcer {u vice, Lemaitre I bLad scen beforo and after this apeclal performancs of ** L'Auborge des Adrots”’, {u **Don Ciesar Do Bazan,” in **Ituy Blne,” and fn *Paillasse; " with wouderful” versalility, tendor pothios, and delieate touck hie had given to each of thoso chornetors thelr distiuctive cachet, but compared with Robert Macaire, they slirank juto significanco. ‘Whon I saw Lownlitro in tho **Auborgs des Adyots," to must bavo been nlmose 60, aud was past his prime. His voico was somowhat brokox, and Lhough his mouth wes filled with falde toutls, this very defect seomed to givo him thouo glapissant tones which appuroutly belonged to Robert dMacaire. Robert Macaire 1 then barefsood scoundrol, full of wilce, tricks, and cunviug. Mo s o crafly as & fox,as crucl 84 g tigor, aud has a love of thoft only equated by the coyote, As ou sddoudum to this cotne logue of vicas, Lio s tho curious_ous, perhiapy somewbhat antitheticsl, of being s Bobadil and o Dblustering boaster. Aa Lemaitra concewved it, Robert Macaire had o certain efiloresceuce of educatios, and was given to florid words, and olucidated mew systems of morals, which ho glossed over with olaborato phrases und specious rensovings, Ho cndowed tho charactor with o cortain amount_of verbal pomp, which jarred in coutrast with tho ragged clothes of a won- begone wretch, Dalzac's Faulrain wos a mog- nificant scoundrel, with -occarional good iui- pulees. Lemsitre’s Macaire was o remorseless vagnbond, without pity or compassion. Fobert Macare woro b loup-tailed coat, toru 0 tatters, hield fast round his chest by singlo brokon button-hole. His hesd was ‘surmouutod Ly a towening hat all mashed aud battored, His nock was swathed im 8 soiled avd frayod cravat, in wiich tho sctor's hoad could bo withdiawn, like b vulture, Aud 3facaire's rubicund. benk- lilta nose toomod out from under tho eye covered with = bidious bluck pateb, whilo to tho other eye alono was left all the task of keeping up the many subtlo changes of the face. No lumaan being ever made up a8 did Fredor- ick Lemaltro, It was not the clothes which dressed the man, but the art of the actor, who, clad ju his notloy, imbued his garments with she character. If flobert dfacaire s Lomaitta drossed it, showed the form, the linoaments of & bosotted, ‘bratal, yet philosopbic nretch, the very lowest typo ‘of buman dogradstion aud eynicivm, n French Mephistophiles of tho bagne, in his Lion Ceesar Ue Hazan, simply a8 sn silalt of cloth snd tiusel, tho metamorphose was a etriking one. If Lon Cesar’s pourpoint bind alaghos in at, all foded out of shape and tua- blod ; if the neanty tantle showed preat gaps, and the embroldors was wom to the cord, tho gollant mien with ‘which the actor sported them Moda thoe torry stage iripyory supromely rle- gant. 'Tho plume of his hat, & peacock feathor !napgen\ roost in twain, might deogle in bis ayes, but the poor grandes of Spaln did not wear s feathorn 8 the nsgpie his borvowed flnory. Ifhat tawdry fenthor stuck out definitely, aud ‘beeamo an egres's plume, and if the ropier showed its blado through the gamng seabbard you felt sure it wau o truo Toledo, nnd that it Would leap forth brighfly sud flash when callod into play by ite weasor, Lomaliro was faultlosa In his otwn decorations, aud his arb us to his own porson was supreme. ‘weke one of Mewsooler’s ratauteat warks, put it under o magnitying glisy and sxpand it to a lifelike aize, and kts truthfal- nesn, to & wrinkle in the hoge, or & fold in tho dnlnblnt, would give you Lomsitra dreasod in $his role. This actor bad holpod to write Robert Macaire, 80 that, like tho Yenctian players Riccoboni tells ubout, he wau capablo of carrylng out bis por- rsonifeation of tha character to its ntmost limits, I have been told by ousblo Frouch critic thnt TLewmaito rorely played Macaire tdico aliko. fhose inane gngs o familiar to nators, with which they lasd the me they ave played & thousaud times, nntil it becomes as flat as o fre- ently rewsruied dish, liowns incapublo of. '}\m some typieal idea of Macaire of courao re- mamed._ When I aaw him io tho revolntionary period, I was iuforracd that he had imbued the charactor for that night with tha over-axpuntlse traita belitting tha times, Indifforentto the fide which was setting in, spparontly untousbod by tho contagion of Idaas, Kobert Macuire lauglied 2t the world 3 the Freach coucoived it to ba, rcoifed at it, and planned his robberies and es- saasinations nll on @ basis of tho purest cocial~ istic dostrine. o havo both in England and America of honest, painstaking, impressive, aud siugu- larly beavy actors. Wo'are pondarous fu our en- donvors to stamp mimic offects upon our hear er8, Wo work on a medim which we thinkis of toughest metal, and bring into piay heavy mecte anigm which erunches through it. _Actors sivike often too hard ; so bard, fu saet, thut the pudi- once aud the eritics at times csunot but fail to 500 tho recoil ; the recovery, 84 it were, on the part of tho actor ou himself. Of course wo aro of a different race, sud our aymprthies, if not axactly dullor, spparontly lis doeper, and_refuso $o isa to tho Burfaco ay quickly a8 with Fronch- men ond Italiang, Lomaitve’s oifects, especiully of Robiert Macaire, wero wade in an siry, o2~ mor woy. An arm weu barely outstratched, and tho twit! of & Bnger or the fiutter of & rag made the paint of the ¥poech. Such was the woudorful art of the man, that ¥omo yosrs aftorward, in 1852, wheo Lemaitro's voice was simost gono, and 'n fow indistinct, painfully-guttural tonon wora n)l he conld utter, #o effectivo was his pan- tomnme fu bis old pieces thot tho sbrence of his voico was hardly thought of. # ftobort Mucuire” oxists no longer on tho English or American stage, and porhaps it is for the beat; for, na it was interproled by Auglo- Saxon words or entiment, it was o more buf- foguary, playod mostly extravaguntly and evar bolsterously. Lemaitre’s oharactoristics were quletneua aud notsolossnosy, with tho faintost Dossible touch of cynickim. What struck ma ag Tnout wonderful in tho portraiturawaa that smat- tering of univemal acquointanceship with all thiugs fn goneral, which Rober? Alacaire, ns the great entreprennenr of tho destinios of Franco, was suppored to possoss ab his fiagors’ ends, I'he m‘:lmr wao a8 ready to entor a yonng ladies boarding-school a8 a pisno-teachicr, 80 that La might steal the spoons, 88 ho was anxlous to tuko the position of clerk with =2 bankor, so_ that he could rifle a strong-box. In W 1'Aubergo des Adrols " thore was & musical geone introduced, where Robert AMacuire plaved on the piano. What was 8 triumph of art ‘was the manuer with which Lemaitre jmprewsed tho audienco with tho uotion that ho did not know a siugle note of music, aud yot wes poy- sossad with a sufliclant stock of barofaced ime pudoneo to induce lum fo try tho koys, soma- thing liko Jean Jacques Rousseau at his fligk publio reboareal. . But Lomaitre must iavo boon % thorongh planisl to havo lmbuod his musio with tho choractotlstion of Macaire, It had ity ridicnlons pretoutiousness, with un attempt at musieal glare and vulgar eftocts. Openiug with a werlcs of sonndiuny oliords something like the turgld perlpbragosor Jufiated exordium one often hoars at the introduction of a lesturo, then cama ruusical platitudos, intersporsed with intontion- ally-played discordanced. Teohert Macaire's donth vy o fearfnl mastor- plecay b is shot ou tho stage, 1t was n horrid oud, and to thoe last gasp tho many shadings of tha chnrngter were kept up, ANl through the plecolife has been o worry joko to Jabert Ma- caire, and, 10 his dging’ agony, tho sume bowe haat, the fanfarronade, tho siraining for ofect waa visible. ~ Through the meludrans, as a by- pluy, with vurious flowrish and fmmenso dis play, tho hero refrashes himsolf with vigorous ninches of anot?, taken from flat, ronud box, This box, by come triok, whenovor it was opened nqueskod shrilly with Buch acuto round as to {m'. your teoth in edge. At hnont Lifs last gaap, ylng flat on the einge, still talklug jauutily, uneeriugly, ho tstow his funl fucls, but tho preclous bos fells from gh uBrve lees hands, The hox, elipplug, on tho stage, whools zouad the ‘dylug mon b finet in Iarge, thon In emaMor and muallor circles. Tho notor—no Rolert Macaire, for the actor was lost in Lin intmitablo avt—followed the hox with his oyes. Ho feoffs at death, aud ooly caros now for o Junt pouriblo Boureo of human enjoymont— his finnl pinch of paufl, As the box doscribes its last round, and olutters_on tho floor, Macaire's dentb-raitlo in lienrd, and with a loor on bia faco, tho roblor and murdbror dios. T.omaitro was tha (ncarnation of tho charactora o played, Tt shionld bo remombered that Taima ouce thought thut Lemaitre might have boun his succossor, but thers was o cortaln vagsbondlsm about the younger playor which nover would be imprisoned within tho Nmits of clagsical verso, Hly prentigo ax an actor wag founded on, his in- tonso meladramatie wkill, "Ihia pafernanco of Jovert Macaire mado an improssion on ma a4 & younger man, which way torrible, Bluce tnat time 1 bave lLintened, and with doltght, to French, Italian, Germsn, Tinglieh, and American nctors, but for mreab stranatl, subtilo dolineatlon,jalectrio flashion, and absolute embodiment of oharacter, I have nover secn any one who was Lemnitro's oqual. Yooso and extravagant ag was tho poriod whieh followed 1919, ¥L'Auborgo des Adrets,” with Fredericic Tomaltre, was playod but onco mntora, tho suthorllics withholding thelr sanction, 1 lad not the moral couraga (o goo it secoud time, The pieturo of tho worst seoundrol, the embodi- mont of lannan ragerldom, bin mannor and holag, and low ho looked, thought, schomod, niu drani, and mardered, wnd finutly diod, hnd been brought out so_ vividly beforo iy mifd In s fow Loww, was 80 indolibly hurnt into my braln, that the acquaintance of RNobert Macaire in tha * Auborgo dos Adrets,” nt Ieant an interpretated by Lemaitro, lasted mo ror a jifetimo. e FORMOSA, ‘fhe Island and its People. Formose lias evor been os groat an object of tersar to the snilors of tho Chino Seas ns was Seylla to the Romnna of old, Lying fu tho di- rect lina Letwoon the southorn aud northern porte of Ching, ond In tho otormiest part of that typhoon-tossed ovean, ft wonld, t- der any circumstances, piesont daugors to navigators of no ‘ordinary kiud. But udd to this that the distance betwween the fulend aud tho mabdand leavea littls or uo nea-room in cnge of storm, but serves ouly s a fuznol to enl- lect and tntounify tho force of the wind, whilo tho casl conat—outsido which euiling-vossels are compotled to pasn—is n keriea of ruggod heights, withiout o sluglo harbor of any kind, aud is ins Linbited by cavago and inbosyitablo ‘natives, and ‘wo havo & pieturo of perils scorcely to bo sur- pnssad. Duting cortain seasons of tho yoor, ~storms ariso with such rapldity und violenco, that tho oastern shoro Is strewn with the wrecks of hapless junks ond vessols whoyo erown end cargess ara left to contoud with tho fury of tho waves, and the even more houtile natives, ‘Cheto s renson to fear that tho sailors of more than one Lnglsh vessel huvo fallen victhns to the savagery Of the aborigives, who have uniformly tresied in tho samo merclless fasbion tho survivors from Chineso and Jnpaneso juoks. Constant ropresouta- tions ou the subject hove been mads by tho Mikado’s Governmont to the Court of leking, wud the murdor of ity Japauseo auilovs, who wero shipwrecked lass “year on the voutheest coast of this istaud, wab made au importaut \éoim. by tho Tmbeosy diayatohod Inet sosr to the hiness Capital. As i3 usual whon compluints e mode at Paking of the behaviar of natives tn. outlying dintricts, the Teungli-Yemun slel- tored thomsolves behind the oxcuse that tho native tribiow in Formocs wero vivtnally hegond tholr juiisdiction, sud that, therefore, though they abhorred tho deed that hod beou comumibs. tad, they were qnite uvablo to intlics Kunlshmuuc far 1t. HSomawhat to tLeir surprise, ti Goverpment repliod that, if that was so, thoy felt bound to take tho law into their own hands; oxpedition was titted out, 2ud bhos lrendy landed intho iueriminated district, Ilow tho metter will ond it i dilticult to eay ; but at pragout tha disposition sliown by s mujority of tho netive tribes, and by tho Ctanogo settlers, haa been do- cidadly favorable to ths tuvaders. Tho fact of this vxpedition being tho firat trial of tho new militwry eystem wnd weepons recontly adopted by the Japancoo hns atiracted considorable at- tentiou ta it in Furape, spd tho vesult witl be watched with curiosity. Ou this occasion we do not lutend Lo concorn ourselyes with tho prosont ‘war-lke aspees of aifaira, but cather to take ad- yantage of tho interest thus excited in Formosn ta give somo iden of 1t position, ite inbabitauts, and ite producta. Situated at u disiance of abont 20 or 90 milen from tho muinland, its highest mwonutsins cou bo eamly recognized frowm the nelghboring const of tho Proviuce of Fuh-li 1ts discovery, thera- foro, hf the Chineso must hiavo been contompa~ Tary witl tricts ohout Amoy or Foochow. Aud a0, when Chinoeo bhistarinns assert that its existenco first hocame kunwn to their ancostorain tho year 1450, thoy probably mean that at that date emigeants rained thag 1ooting on thoisl- navorrafinguished.and which from the m: and whichtix bes since doveloped uto o sysiem of constant encruchiment, by which the lovel country hos ineh Ly ineb paened from tho ownership of tho natives juto tho hauds of tho iutruders, At all ovente, whon tho Japanese, twa conturies later, nttempted to estaolini & colony in tho wsinug, they found there a Chincse pupulation suftleiontly nuterons to bo formidablo, nud who, by the hll[l&)(\ll they gava to the notives, o= riving 0l theso now bidders for tho caeded in rulplur mines and cawphor troea of TFormosa, Againgt the Dutch, who atrived off the coast in 1634, they not s enccossful; aud, for o timo, tho European invaders were ablo to hoost of ¢ volony wineh threstenad to competo with 3Macno tor tho carsving trado botweon Chinn eod the Weat. Duich pricota prosclytized the na- tives, Dutch ongiucers huilt forts and entrench- wenty, and Ditch merchavto oxchauged the prod- ucts of the ialand for tho roeichandiso of Eu- rope end of Ching. Then followed ovents of & netnee which belongs peeulialy to the Evat, It chaneod thes mear Aoy thovo lived & Chinese talior, nawed lquorn, who, bowg of au adyen- turous twin of miud, Jaunched fnto commer- cial sneculntions at Mucag, aud, fuding proft (@ tha foreign trade, visited the Dutch in Formosa, aud woxad fob on the reenit, Having io thin way acequived cousidornblo wealth, he sottied inJapan for o time, nnd thers increaged in viches to such nn oxtent that his tloct was awid to number 8,000 sail, With this forco at bis back, the quondam tailor was eeized with 2 desite for empire. Ila turned his ploughubores into, swords, aod con- vertod his- morchsnt floot Joto a pirat- ieal flotilln. For = timo he pamalyzed the trado of Southern Ching, and subse quontly—by mozns of more enbtle diplowmacy uccompanicd by a dispay of force—guined pores= Rut ho wus wiop of the Province of Fuli-kean. doatiued to fall into tho net he had set for others. At g ovil moment ho dotermined Lo visit Peldng, in the hope of gaining tho recognition of the new Tartar dyunsty for his indepondent Kingdom ; but searcely lind ho set foot in the Cupital when lie was peized and cast into prison s a rebol. His son Kolmuga, who on the forcod rotire~ meuat of Iquorn took possession of hig yoods, inberitnd o full sbaro of s father's love of predatory adventurs ; aud, having learnt by ox- perionce. the extremo dificulty of gaining n so cure footing on the maiutand, sailed for Formosa and snnounced Yiis intention of establishing & Kmgdom for himsolf on that island. The Dutels resisted Iua landing, but incifectually ; and, in 1061, they wero driven out by tho in- vador, In tho conrso of the followiug “year mn oxpedition was sout out from Holland to racover the loat eolony, but ** tho floating castles ' wore ignominiously deiestod by the juuks of the pi- rato, who died King of Formosn. His son and succesuor, howover, failed to koop what his father hud won; aud, in 1635, the jsland foll nguin nuder Chiness rule, occupylug Au sren ncarly sy large a8 that of Denmaork, Formoss 18 reckoned only ns a Prafos- ture, and 1s phaced undor the Jurisdiction of the Vieeroy of Fub-keon. The * Girent Buy,” as tho namo liawan—given by the Obiueso to the iuland from its shapo—signitios, has always beon athomnintho aido to tho vieo-ropal Govorn- mont. ‘U'hough nominally under Cligoss jurig- dintion 1rom north 1o ,south and froiw east to woat, the mountain districts aro atill held by the native tribos, who administer their own laws, and who refuse 10 ncknowledrs fealty to tho 'artar yece. ¢On tho lovel country the Chinceo omimunts hiove_cetablished thomselves; thoe deputies of tho Vicovoy hold eway, but the limits of their juriudiction aro perfeetly well under- stood, and ars clonrly deflued, for the most past, Dy sorwe natuisl boundury, such ai 8 stream or Arange of hille, Across this no Ohinawa dare ventura, unlesn ho bo provided wich a paes fram tho neighbosing native Obleftaing wod the monntainoers, having s wholesumo droad of the envronching toudeucies of tho coloniats, seldom enconrapo them io crows $he bordor, Roughly speaking, it moy bo said that tho rangeof moux- toing which raos from north to south, dividing fho lulend {uto two parts, forss tho boundary Dotwean the possessiona of the native tribos uud of the Chiucso Govormnon; the lactor Lolding sovorcignty ovor the plaine which stesteh from the mountaine westwand to the sos, und the former muintaining thelr positions in tho wild mouytain tracts which separato tho buckbone of the wlund from tha vocky horo of the onstern comat. From the days of Candidius and David Wright 1 the #evoutesnth centusy, down to the presant thne, T sorolguers Liave votuuturlly vlaited the moudtain faetnasses of the Fosmosan sborigines, 0 blikudo's ond, with thet enorgy which bus lately charactorized Japanesa mnovoments, an 1l tha tirsf gaze directed seawards oo o etear day by avy of tho early settlers in the dis- Although ey Tho inducomonts to do o are very smsll, and £ the dangor of venturing smong them {s consld erablo, -~ Of trade thoro la nmm,znu(l the junl’::{x with which they view the prossuce of forolgnory Berves Lo surround o sojourn among thom with a coneidorablo amount of risk. Who they are aud whoneo they eamo s o disputed point | but it ia plain that thero {a no aflnity of race botween thom and the Chiueso. Tholx foatures arc more prowinent, oud they ree somble much moro nenrly the Afalags than thely Tartar nm%}(‘!bm"' Himilaritica Lave alyo Loen dlseovored botweon tho dinloets spoken smong thom and thoso employad 1o the Malay Penine aula. Tho probmbility is, therefore, tiat thoy aro, oqually with tho Lolos of Dimah and the Miau-tizo of Ohina, an offshoot from the !dalny stock. At the preaont time thoy are divided inta sovoral ttibes, ench speaking a dinlect of 1y own, und each maintatning a soparato political syatem. Thoy nro almost absoluto straugers to reading and writing, aud the only manuscripta \vhlafi thoy are known to ponicys aro moma gerawling European lotiers, which are prederved by o tribo profeasing to Lo doe gcanded from tho enrly Dutch settlers on the {yland, o8 en fxrefragablo proof of the authone tielty of tho tradition, Tho roligion they prow foss talios the form of tho grossust matorialism, Moy boliovo thnt tho world I8 governed by o 2ood and an ovil aphif, erchi of whomis cone stantly striving for tho mustory ; and that bothy 1o to bo propitiated hy prasents and eacrifice. ‘tTie briesthood is monopolized by womon, swho combiue fortuno-telling with thelr sncerdotal do= tien, and who exaciso supreme power over tholr votnrier by trediug on thote Auporstitions fancies, At the same tima that they rotaln thelr hold over thoir affactiona by auconraging them in names of their gods, 10 give full vent to thefr posslous, ‘Those pricate ensog—or Jnibs, w3 they oro called—ere cons sulted 89 ovucles whon any warlilo oxpedition or uudertaling of any moznitudo I8 In contome f)lnhon, and o stil] further tokon from tho gods 8 looked for m tho movements of n.m%h'l Atdak, 1f troops mook an Avlak with a worm in ito mouth, thny go torward confldent of vioe tory; biit vhould it erogs their path, or fly from then, thoy considor it as & warning not to Lo disrogarded, and they accordiugly retmn ovory man to his dwolling. Liko tho Minu-tszo, the Formosans delight inm opotinir fonets ond merry-mnkings, and, furiog tho nine great fontivals of tho year, o)l work i #mepended, and the people, ono and all, sit down to dance and to play.~and, it must be sdded, 10 driuk, As the feusting procouds, the meetings Yecome, oapecially at tho Venus fotes, scones of tho lowess dobauchoriea: all deconcy ia latd asldo, aud the yeople, led by thefr priestosses, givo themuolyes up to avery form of sonsusl en- Joymont, I'he marringe-tiois us loosely made 041t in easily dissolved, I'ho youog swain, who, by an nuwrisien low, must hinvo arrived at tha aga of 21, having mado a choica of o laidy-love, norenndos her ; wud sho, if sha favors hiy sull allows bersoll to bo outiced by his music th his cpm;lmny. Ho thon sands corlain presnnts, varging in value sceording to tho resourcos st histommand, to the lady's parents, n day {8 fized for the weddfor, and the bappy pair—baving ponred ont libatious to heaven nod oarth—bee como men ond wifo, But, by o curious pervere sion of tha lawa of nature, from tho dayof his marringo until ho roaches the age of 40 tio hus- band is not permitted openly to cnjoy the so- cioty of hia wife. Ouly by stéslth and at night 8 he allowed to visit her, at bor fathor's houso; and daylight {3 the signal for his departure. During this or any o~ turo time, the merost quarsal, howover slight, is fiequently mado tho excuse for e divorco, and, 11 1 shonld bo proved thot the wite 18 the pro- volog causa of the dirpute, tho husband hes a right Lo vlaim from her parents tha presonts he gavo thom at his betrothal. This license of di= vorce ia freely uded, nud it often hoppens that & toan marries and divorces severa! nives in o sine gleyear, ‘Tho evils anelng from this free-ande ansy stato of things are somowhst mitigated by o tow which provides that no child before ita mother, hne reached the sgo of 37 shall ba ale lowed to live., Iu their style of dress the Formosans atrongly rosomnblo sho Malays. In all but the cold weath~ er the men wear ovly a cloth round their loins, and tho women o shorb petticont. Tho latter aro fond of decking their hair with flowers, and thoir ears with rings. Both sexea secm 0 be proof against the extromes of temporaturs, and thelr hobit of bathing in cold water all the yesr round if mude tho subject of remark and ridis cule by Ohinoso writers, That they are @ remerkably healthy peoplo is certain; and possis bly, the comploto absenco of doctors and the poplar mode of treating the sick acconnt fox the disnppoarance of any atray weakly ones from among them. If & man is il}, his aflectionate Iriouds, inatend of nttemillng at oll hazards ta sava his lite, adopt the kill-or-cure remedy of hengiog bim up by hisneck toa beem,—whick minapure, accompanied by the shock of being auddenly lel down by the run, is believed to pos~ aes3 prrtioular curative qualitics for tliose Whosre strou enongh to survive tho dose. If tho patient sbonld afo, his body is placed in the open air oo a raised sfvetcher, and is those loft to bleach in the sun until it becomes dried up and mammie ficd, when 1t is burled in the honso which had been his home when alive, From the time of Lis death until the burial, a wake lg kept u round tho body by tho_frionds with the hir moorners and tho 1loibs, Daociog, singlog, weeping, drinking, sud eating form the A)xo- grommo of whe ghastly enteriainment; snd, Iy report spesks truly, no Veuus fosst witnossed more dlsguating orgies than dothoso saturnalies, Living from band to mouth, 58 do the abor= jpines, it 16 cortainly not dus 10 their exertiora that Formona {6 known as the granary of Chiua, Tut there, an olacwhere, tho Chinedo colonisia Qispley their instinotive industry. On every avetlable pioce of laud within their bordera fioldy of rive aull sugar are carsyully cuitiveted, snd recompenso the farmers by ylelding thom cone stunt and sbundunt crops, - Theso slone, in nddition 1o such produets as jute, grusu-cloth, fibro, vico-paper, and rattens, would make the island & valusblo poxscesion; put far mawe precious, in the eyes of tho Chineso Obsoe collor of the Rxchequer, are the sulphur nud the camphor which are obiained from toy mines and the mountaine of the island, sud which aro claimed by the Govornment 08 crova monopolies. Iu the northwestern portion of the island snlphur minos ure froquently met witl, presenting disfiguring bloty in the otherwisa beautiful sconery. Mr. Swinhoo, in hiw oles on Formoss,” thus describos tho svpm:l of ono bo visited: ~ **The salphur mine,” e gaye, ** appenred at o distanco liko & cauker on the mido of tho grass-ovored hill, which wra fresh and groen overywhere excopt in tho immedicte vicinity of tho mine. = The broad sulpbiur valloy or chasm waa ovorywhere & lekiy tint of yellow and red; und out e many of its numerons recasses hot stesmgushed in jels_with great noiso and force, liko the stenm romn tho escape-pipo of u Ligh-pressure onging; in other spots smoll pools of puro sul- Ehnr wero bubbliog. At the hottom of tha arren ravine rippled a foul rivalet, carrying off the sulplurous oozings from tho ground. Within and round ubout this hollow tho eartl wndor foot crumbled and grosued, sud the alr was so saiurated with the ex- holalions of sulphur os to have been ex= tremoly noisome, ond dastrictivo to logoct lifo capeciully, of which wo uaw asuudant proof lu the numerous remaing of baotles and butterflica geattered acound.” Whou taken from the mine tha sulphur is boiled in fron boilors uutil the alato-liko minersl assumes 8 treacle-liko con~ sistoney, This 18 coustantly stirred until every Impurity io separatod from the sulphur, which s {hen indted out futo wooden tubs” shoped ke sngurJosves, In thesa it is lafl to cool, and thy coieal caka ia 7recd from the tub by the simple procese of knacking out the boctom thereof, Au tho giguntic Jawels from which tho cam~ Jhor is cbtained sie found ouly un tho moun- Pumn {n the posacasion of the aburigines, the ag- qoisition af a constavt supply it somownat dilie cult, Ouly from those tribea whioh are om friondly terms with tho Ohluego can loava be ob- Lained to cut down the trees. With such, & pres- ont given lo tho Chief gaiug, as g ralo, tho re- quirad permission, The Chiucse woodman thon mnkos & choico of the troes which eppour to ba woll suppiied with sup, aud, having folled them, 1o keapy tho best parts for ‘\_ugbor, and reserves tho romninder for thoivon boiling-pots, by meaus of which is ovolved the sublunated vapor which violds tho cswphor, In the neighburhood of inmnuy alono 800,000 1bs, of thlg valuuble com- modity ere proguced sununlly, Petroleum also adds $othe riches of the ixland, whioh, both from it natural and artidelal products, i8 well worthy 2 straggle on the part of tho Japaucso to obtain, and ou tho part of Clina to defend.~— Cornlall. Woights of Moys and Girls, Unan tha avarage, boys st birth weigh & little more und girls & Jitdle lows thon 7 pounds. For tho Arut twalve soms the two gexcs coutinua uenrly equal in weiglt, but Layond that ago the hoys nequitre & decitiod propondorsuce, Young men of 20 avesage 135 pounds, while youug women averago 110 pounds esch, Moo rouc tholr lieaylest wolgbit st about 40 yewrs of ugo, when tholr avorage wolght will Lo about 140 ponnds ; bus women slowly moresse in welght until 30 yenys of ego, wheu thow average woyght will ho 380, Taking the men wnd wowen tos other, thelr waight et full growth will then av= ornge from 108 to 160, and "woniou frow 80 to 180, 'Phe averago welght of humunity ofl over the world, takine oll ugos and conditious, worke ing men and womoo and people mthout ocvupse tlon, black wod whito, kogs, girls, and bibles is yorg noarly 100 pounds, vuicdupals weight