The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1869, Page 8

8 EUROPE. The “International World” of Paris— Its American Interests and American Representation. Catholic Church Councils and the Coming “Council of the Vat ean.” By steamship at this port we have the following special correspondence and mail advices in detail of our cabie telegrams from Europe dated to the 19th of Novembe: In London, on the 16th of November, there was @ sitting in the Bankruptcy Court for proot of debts and choice of trade assignees under the bankruptcy of Eugene Caire, of Rose Cottage, Kingsroad, Chelsea, and described “as of various provincial sowns, vocalist and operatic manager.” The debts were under £300. Mr. John Morton, described as of the Alhambra Music Hail, Chatham, Kent, “music hall proprietor and beer and wine retatler,”’ came up by adjournment trom the 12th of August on the question of order of discharge. The debts were about £670. After a brief discussion it appeared that the bankrapt was still in default with nis accounts, ana the court adjourned his examination atne die, witn protection from arrest for two months. It is reported from Compiegne that the Prince Bnperial of trance has smoked his first cigar, on November 16, and that his “papa gave it to him.” ‘The Emperor Napoleon sent a diamond snuifbox to Dr. Ricord, together with an autograph letter, ‘whanking him for his attention to his Majesty during his recent iliness. The manifesto of the French “Left'—already pub- lished in the HERALD—has been well received by the Paris press, even by the semi-official organs. The Soir, the Patrie, the Moniteur and the Public speak favorably of tt, and even the republican organ, the Reforme, accords it a qualified praise. The Patrie considers that the document throws a new light on the state of affairs. “It must, however, be admuit- ted,” it says, “that it is asign of a very confused situation when we find ourselves compelled to regis- ver Ube manilesto of the Left as a relatively mode- Fate document.” In the Debais, Temps, Siecle and Avenir National the manifesto receives high praise. The Temps says that ‘the reforms claimed by the Let are practical and necessary.”’ A correspondent at St. Petersburg says:— ‘The Jews here have at length, alter much negotia- tion with the government, obtained permission to erect asynagogue. This will be the first buliding of the kind that has ever existed in Russia, Hitherto the Jews have legally had no right to reside in the empire, and were consequently obliged to account for their presence under various pretexts, for tne admission of which by the authorities they had to pay large sums, and they were not allowed to build any permanent house of prayer. A committee, con- sisting of the wealthiest Jews of St. Peterspurg, has mow been formed to collect funds for the new build- ing, which is to be got up on @ scale of maguiil- cence, Monsignor Hassoun, the Armenian Catholic patri- arch, left Constantinople with ten btshops on the 18th of November for Rome, to take part in the Ecu- menical Council. The Italian Correspondence, of Florence, has tue Jollowing:— ‘The re. ablishment of the King’s health and the birth of his grandson are two happy events for the royal family ung tor italy. ‘The numerous addresses from the municipalities and other constituted bodies show how Gear the monareh’s life 1s to the people. FRANCE, Phe “International World”—Forcigners and Parisians—Americans in Paris—How and Where they Live-The Liberte on “Fast”? Americans—The Grand HoteimAn American Clab—American Bankers—Minister Wash- burne on Fish and Rochefort. PARIS, Nov. 13, 1869. “The international world” reigns at Paris. In wealth, big position and talent it surpasses the mative element. As for the Parisians they have weir kingdom, too, but the tendencies of the modern age are rapidly undermining it, ag it is based only on Ariyolities and gayetles no longer in season except for minors. The latest fashions, purple and fine hunen, the finest residences and equipages, tue best of the market, operas, balls and grand /é(es are ail for the foreigners, the natives taking their share in Jaughver, merriment and witticisms. The former Rave a capital of hard cash; the latter enjoy a capital of bon mots, which, at the rate things are now guing, wiil 600n no longer be bankable, So stands the ledger. Of course that portion of the native population which recetves tne dollars and cents brought here by foreigners never once dreams Of attempting to rule the roast; no, they are content with being well paid underlings. Ido not mean to way that there are no Parisians making a big turn- out in the capital, or in the enjoymens of riches; but it is their own fault that they do not mand a more advantageous comparison with the outside barbarians flocking here from every nation and corner of the globe and forming the said “inter- mauonal world,” The barbarian works day and night in Kamtschatka or Sitka, wherever he nay be, until be collects a good-sized bag of gold; then he says unto himself, “Let us go tw Paris.” To Paris he comes, alone or with all bis family and his “wife’s relations,” and here the money isspent. The bag of gold astonishes alieyes, On the other hand, a great many of we Parisians—those who are aot paid by foreign gold— Still follow an old custom in use here of idling away thelr days without work of any kind. They parade the boulevards, throwing puns or peais of laughter at each other during the day, and at night frequent the theatres, to be amused by or to amuse ‘the gal- Jery.”” In this way their revenues, far from increas- ing, have dwindied or are dwindling so rapidly that it 48 no longer their privilege to take rank side by side with the Americans, English, Germans and Russians congregated here in such respectable numbers as to form each a colony for the mother country. Now and then, however, the natives so eclipsed have an occasion afforded them to takee little revenge. Last month, On account of a certain demonstration threatened by them on or about the 26th of October, Wt is estimated on ali sides that they frightened 20,000 ‘‘internationalers’’ outside of the city walls, scattering them in every direction, A good many of these, from fear of other like manifestations, are atill kept away, and assert that they will remain absent all the winter. Now, the estimation has also been agreed to on all sides that these 20,000 persona of the foreign floating population yield to the inhabi- tants of Paris a revenue of 69,000,000 francs per month; 80, taking them only into calculation, every Gay of their absence costs the city 2,000,000 francs, This state of things, in a great measnre due to the uproar of citizen Rochefort and tne republican oppo: sition, is not or cannot be satisfactory to the city and in fact Paris is grumbling about the winter prospects. Undoubtedly the largest of the foreign colonies Nesting here is the American. Americans never cease from coming; they go and come, come and go, all the year round. They are the great travellers of the day. Yet the colony of them resident here is always kept au complet; and I have just been in- formed at the offices of the American bankers that this winter the American world would be fuller and gayer than ever. Another item, which some- What consoles the hearts of the unfortunate trades People, now so cast aown, is the fact that the Ameri- cane ib Paris are first class spendturifts, lavishing money on anything and everyphing that comes in their path. Reliable persons estimate that there is an average American population of 10,000 in the city throughout the year, which throws Into Parisian coffers ® round hundred million of dollars, The American {fomilies jive here in the costly style of the aristocracy that they see in vogue—a etyle, by the Way, which they not unfre- quently raise upon or increase. Indeed, the aristo- crate say openly that Americans have spolied things by painting the lily a littie more gorgeously ‘than necessary or natural. The market prices are gent up beyond their due limits, Not oniy ie this complaint to be heard, but the other day no less a Paper than the Lipert/, generally favorable to America and Americans, asserted that Americans by them extravagant, fast aud reckless jiving in Paria, far away from the restratnts of home influences, were the first to create the order of cocodettes in high society. The journal of M. de Girardin intended the assertion to be complimentary. American residents are to be found im all the most The Coamps fashionable quarters of the city. Elys¢es and the avenues m its neighbor- hood, the new Boulevards Haussmann, Malesherbes, subject with a venerable English Catholic priest, who 18 very much against the doctrine of the Infalli- bility of the Pope, 1ooking upon it as both anti-Scrip- tural, anu-Catbolte and utterly at variance with the traditions of “the fathers” of the Church. He hopes and trusts most fervently that it will not be declared ‘as of faith by the Ecumenical Council. He told me that a large body of the German bishops are opposed to if, and that the Bishop of Mayence has declared that, as far ne is concerned, tne Counct! shall last twenty years before he will allow it to He pe- &o., are their favorite resorts, A great | jieves, does this priest, that if the doctrine or dogma many also reside im boarding houses and | was promulgated it would be found not only to work private families, where they enjoy some of tho pleasures of homelike society and are enabled to Of course the transient travel- ling colony register at the hotels, At te Grand learn the language. Hotel, the Louvre, Meurice, Bristol, Westminster, on the first class order, Americans are always to be found, Besides these there are fifty other respect- able hotels were they “put up.” that mfinite number of “gargottes’? for man and beast, where no American would think of going.) The Grand Hotel is the centre of the United States of America in Paris, the general point of rendezvous for all our countrymen in the city—it is almost an “American club.” In visiting the establishment the other day, and while procuring a few details from “the oifice,” the jaunty litte Frenchman who officiates in the corps oi clerks (oy the Way, not such grim and awful personages as taose on your side) 1n- tormed me that it deserved that title. CLERK—All the Americans come here, The peo- ple who go to the Louvre are travellers through necessity; it 18 true the Louvre is a first class hotel; that and this are the two first, Over one-third of our boarders are always of American nationality. ‘To the Graud Hotel come all the wealthy travellers— voyageurs de luxe. We always bave 200 Americans on hand, Wlater or summer; our departing cugtom- ers are daily replaced by new arrivals. Every steamer that leaves is compensated by the arrival of one from New York, The Pereire arrived yester- day at Brest with 197 passengers. To-night we will have two-thirds, or, at least, half of them in our rooms. GO across the courtway over to the café and you will find where out of a lot of thirty twenty- eight Americans. Half of our fable @hdte guests are at this moment Americans. There are few Russian wavellers now. We uaye at present only one family of that nation, Most of our guests are Americans and Engiish, the latter being renewed very often aller & night or two ol stoppage. ‘The voyageurs de (wee oF all other nationalities form say one-third of our guests. All the employés can speak Engiish, and the Americans finding Engiish spoken on all sides prefer pot to speak French, They can speak it, however, Leaving Mr. Clerk I went over to the café, and sure enough the first words that struck my ears told me that Americans were about. The following is a stenograpnic report of the same:—“He made $25,000 * * they failed * * Tread the HERALD * #7 Smoking, newspaper reading, billiards and tne language of Yes going on in the café, Outside, sitting on the peristyle of the hotel, were ladies taking their after breaklast chat with the young gentie- men, and roliing in and out of the vast glass-roofed courtyard, liveried equipages, modest jacres with red Lumbers and hotel ommibuses, Going to the Hotel du Louvre I found the scene far less animated, | aiso met with asurprise. In answer tomy inquiries for information the clerk sald that he had on hand not more than fifty Americans, most of his customers being English, He also said that most of the Americans arriving in Paris go lo the Grand Hotel, This was a shop-over- the-way piece of liverality for which | was unpre, ared. ‘Two or three little American papers are published here weekly as organs of the colony, and there are five American banking houses for the accommoda- tion of the transient and resident members of the colony, viz.:—Muaroe & Co., Bowles Brothers & Co., Drexel, Harjes & Co.; Tucker & Co.; Lherpetie, Kane & Co, ‘The legation is now at No. 95 Rue de Chaillot, Mr. Washburne 1s at present a guest at Compiegne, having been regularly mvited, by order of the Em- peror, among the first series of visitors, The day betore his departure for the imperial residence I nad occasion to see Our Minister at his oflice, when he lauguingly remarked, in regard to the rumor started at Wasiington tat ne had requested additional funds for the contingent expenSes of the legation, “The wext ume they occupy themselves about me they might get up a bigger lie than that!” In regard tothe Cuban business he said he thought every- thing would ura out all right, as he re- garded Mr, Fish to be an able and wise statesiaan. Tis wife has been an invalid ever since her arrival m Paris last September. In regard to ars poliucs he is of the opimion taat citizen Koche- fort is fast running (a rc publique into the ground. Mr. Wastiburne resides with his family in a very foe hotel, of the avenue del’ Imperatrice; and he bas Just had his office quarters snagly fixed up for the fastens season. He reports that bis health has um- proved. General Johu Meredith Read has the Consulate under lis charge, at No. 55 rue du Cardinal Fesch, the words ‘Consuiat General des Etats Unis @amerique,” with the national arms, being well displayed on the railing of the street balcony. Just next door is & modest looking little shop, with the Tollowing sign on the door:—‘‘Magazin de Tiffany, Reed & Cle.” Mr. Reed, who travels between the two cities im the transaction of business, 1s now in your city with his famuy. He is expected back here at the end of this month, Traupmann, the Murderer, Phrenologists. [From the Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 18.) It may interest the disciples of Gall and Spurz- heim to leara that Traupmann, the assassin a al snode 1a Paris has been subjected to the scrutuny of M. Berger, a French professor of phrenology. ‘The results of his investigations are at least startling, and to tle uninitiated might appear contradictory. ‘Lae most highly developed organ of Traupmann’s head Is the love of children, With the memory of his recent exploits fresh in one’s mind tais an- nent is calculated to take one by surprise, ie learned professor explains that an abnormal opment of the bumps of combativeness, secre- ness and acquisitiveness enapdles an otberwise benevo.ent person to overcome his philanthropic tendencies, ‘be well-known M. Desbarolies has also been admitted to examine the hands of the Pantin murderer, but his report is less favorable. In the lines of the palin he reads the sign of many evil pas- sions, and traces a general resemblance between his fingers and those of the notorious Dumoliard, who wus executed afew years ago for having murdered sixteen giris In seven years. Examined by ENGLAND. The Catholic arch Councils—Our Special History of the Eighteen Papal Assemblages— The “Leading” London Press and Its Opinion—Hierarchical Travel Through the City—The Infallibility Question, LONDON, Novy. 15, 1869, In my last letter I finished, as you may remem- ber, the slight history sketch of the eighteen gene- ral councils which have been held In the Uatholic Church, commencing with the first Council of Nice, which began its sittings in the year A. D. 325, and A. D. 1545. ter entirely of the future. upon all matters of faith. icans take one rale, of London or any other British press 18 treating the subject of the General war. matter to have the railing of their own affairs, 80 often predetermined that measures would Now, here in London we see a great many persons passing through this great ‘Babylon of bricks’ on their way to various parts of the world, ana among others not @ few Catholics from the Rast as well as the West have been, during the last month or two, Having taken the subject iM hand, and being anxions to master it throughout, | have made it my business to priest or layman I have come passengers to Rome by way of London, question every shop, across on the subject. Among many men there ar of course, many opinion, but the final resuit of the one heral Council does decide whole inquiry ia Gnifo almost to a letter. 4 Ali say that if the favor of the mfallibllity of the Pope, when ing officially on matters of fgith, they and the Fhe Charch wil be bound, and they will receive the defl- nition a8 a 4 Nyt twentj-t9ur hours ago I Was speaking on the (Not to speak of ending with the Council of Trent, which began in ‘This brings me down to the prospects of the Council about to be held in Rome, of which nothing can be Known positively respecting its workings or decisions, inasmuch as itis yet a mat- But still I believe that what will be brought before the assembly is in some Tespects preity correctly surmised at, in any case as regards one topic of interest among Catholics, and that I# the question of the personal infallibility of the Pope when speaking what we should term om- cially, or, as the Catholic Church call it, ex cathedera, and that 18 never to believe a single word of what they read either in the Times English papers. The Council exactly a8 it treated that of the American It wili not allow those most concerned tn the For instance, the London 7imes of this morning has a leader on the subject which ts as utterly false in its be taken or that battles would be fought, condemning them beforehand, very much to its own satisfac- badly, but that the Pope himself would have to de- fine, of his own office, many hundreds of questions that might be submitted to him, and that his author- ity Would, in consequence, be infinitely lessened In the eyes of the Catholic and the non-Catholic world. In & Word, nothing could be stronger than the way this clergyman spoke on the subject, and his hopes that it Would not be passed were expressed in warm and most urgent words. But hen I asked him the question, “What will you do it it 13 passed, and if the present idea or opinion becomes 8 matter of faith, as so deflned by the Vouncil? His answer was, ‘in that case, I shall accept it. A general Council of the Church cannot err; and therefore what it decrees we must ail accept, or we cease tO be Catholics.” On the other hand, I have seen a great many Catho- lies who wish that the Infallibillty of the Pope should be declared a matter of faith. They urge that if the episcopate, the clergy and the people are, with very few exceptions, unanimous in receiving with sub- mission and assent the acis or decisions of the Pope there can be no risk of promulgating the doctrine as one of faith, he Pope, as they urge, is the head of the Church; and when he speaks 16 1s in the name of that Church which they all consider infgllible. Therefore, as they declare, the mouthpiece of the Church ought to be considered as infallible as the body for which he speaks, Erroneous or doubtful opinions, they argue, give rise to complications; but once de clare @ doctrine to be true, and ali doubt and absurdity is exciuded from the ques{gn. The only hope, so they say, of reuniting the Eastern with the Western Church is to be found in the explicit deciaration that the Pope, when speaking as chief pastor of the Church, is infalliole, for as now some declare him to be only infallible when speaking in the words of whata General Council has promul- gated, aud others assert lim to be infallible when- ever he speaks ex cathedra; that the diference of opinion, where there should only be one doctrine, causes the Orientals, to say nothing of the Protest- aunts, to hold more aloof from Catholics, On this pot Archoishop Manning 1s very decided and strong on the pastoral, to which I have before alluded, “Tne retura of Protestants,” he writes, “to the Church is more retarded now by the appar. ent contradiction among Catholics on the subject of intallibility than it couid be by the definition of the lnfalltbility of the Pope. ‘they now reject the infal- hbility of the Churci altogether, because they be- lieve we are divided, and therefore in doubt about it. What we seem to doubt they are encouraged to deny. Weseem to be im doubt, because we are di- vided; not about the imfaliibility of the Church, but about the infallibility of its head, They (Protestants) believe this answer to be a subterfuge. So long a8 the infallibility of the Pope ts not authoritauvely aeclared they cover themselves under the shelter of those Catholics who deny It.” And in another part of the same pastoral letter I read:—‘“Where this Church has spoken tts faithful are not open to seduction. While the Church is silent the spirits of error are clamorous and plausi- ble. Adeflaition would silence all voices but the voice of the Church.” * From these extracts you will perceive at once how strong Archbishop Manning 18 upon this question, and how strongly he fights that the doctrine of the infaliipility shuuld be deciared to be an article of faith. And yet even he—as he told a friend of mine not long ago—would, in the event of adecision being arrived at that was adverse to his views bow in Shedieuce to the General Council and the decision ereof. And now we come to the two questions—that 1s, an Ecumenical or General Council? and will the Coun- cil of the Vatican prove itself to be one—that ts to Say, will it have those special peculiarities about it which in the eyes of Catholics constitute a General Council? A French anthor, from whose works I quoted in a previous letter, the Abbé Jaugey, thus defines what is Meant by a General Council:—“It 1s,” he says, “an assembiy of bishops, of ail bishops belonging to the Church, convoked together by the Pope, as head bishop of that Church, Who alone has the right or the power to call the episcopate together.” ROME. The Hierarchical Assemblage for the Council American Prelates in the Holy City—French Finance—King Victor Emanuels Casc— Church History. ROME, Nov. 10, 1869, American bishops are now flocking into Rome in considerable numbers for the approaching Council. Since my ijast letter the following arrivals from your side of the Atlantic have to be registered— Monsignors Macfarland, Bishop of Hartford, Conn.; Henry, Bishop of Milwaukee, Wis.; Quinlan, Bishop of Mobile, Ala, The ecclesiastical element is de- cidedly developing its importance among the popu- lation of the Eternal City, but the expected crush of lay visitors has not yet commencea, and of ‘distinguished foreigners’ we havo only the Queen of Wurtemberg to boast of hitherto, Her Majesty had an audience of the Pope on Mon- day morning. But we are assured that Rome 1s to overflow with all sorts of celebrities in the course of the winter, and the last number of the Corre- spondance de Rome contains the following announce- mnent on this subject: —"Great personages from vari- ous parts of Europe have ordered apartments to be engaged forthe m, and visits from several sovereigns are spoken of in the course of the winter and spring. A letter written by a missionary informs us that several Indian princes, accompanied by rich lords, propose visiting Rome, There is no point of the globe which the Council does not agitate in oppo- site senses. Everywhere men deciare themselves enemies to it—everywhere men are lufiuenced wita holy love towards tais Caureh.”? ‘The Frenca Ambassador Las returned to Rome, ac- companied by the French Commissary, M. Sieureux, charged with regulating the outstanding fhancial differences between the Papal and Italian govern- meats, ‘the latter gentleman has aiready com- menced his conferences on this subjett with the Italian Commissary, Signor Moncardi. The Austrian Ambassador, Count Trautmansdorff, has also returned to his post and wiil present nis credentials officially to the Pope and hoid nis first state evening reception at the Palazza de Venezia towards the end of this month. ‘The Peruvian Minister, Baron Sigmond, has been recalled by his government and transferred to tne Hague, in consequence, it is said, of a request of the Papal government, Who considered the Baron too zealous a propagator of Prince Hoheniohe’s princi les. He will be succeeded here by Count ‘auf- irchen, hitherto Bavarian Minister at St. Peters- urg. ‘The King of Italy’s dangerous iliness has excited Various conflicting sentiments here as well asin his own dominion, and pious people have been deploring the fact of bis Majesty’s possibly dying out of the pale of the Church, bis annexation of ner dominions hav- ing brought himppso facto under the heaviest ecclesi- astical censures, Aud even excommunication. But we know that le confessed on the 7th instant, and received the holy sacrament, which he could not have done without absolution having been conferred upon him, 60 that it 13 to be inferred that the Pope especially authorized his Majeaty’s chaplain, the Abbé Stellardi, to exercise that act of indulgence, probably sub conditione reincidenti@, that is to say, \nat if @ person laboring under ecclesiastical censure should recover, instead of dying, after receiving the eucharist, the absolution conterred 18 null aud void, fa he returns into his state of excommunication as ore. The Pope went in gala train to the Church of San And first let _us observe that in ali matters | Cario, according to annuai custom, on the 4th inat., respecting Rome, Roman matters, the Council | it being the festival of that saint. The Queen of at Rome, and all kindred subjects, let Amer. | Wurtemberg was present at the ceremony, and it was currently reported, and indeed announced by the Correspondance de Rome, that a very excommu- nicated person indeed, no other than the annexing General, Enrico Ciaidini, Was among the spectators In plain clothes—he being on his way through Rome at the tme—it being considered rather trop fort for this uncompromising Officer, the conqueror at Castel Fidardo, to be gazing quietiy at the despotied Pon- tf. Another Roman journa, tie Osservatere Ro- mano, declares itself authorized to contradict the report of his presence in the church. fhe officers of the Zouaves gave @ grand banquet on the Jd inst, at the barracks of San Silvester, to I Premises ag it is illogical in ite inferences on the | celeprate the second anniversary of the battle of subject of the General Councw. The writer first | Mentana. The Minister of War, enone omcers | atvempts to prove that wi Q ¥ of the Pope's army and several bishops from those the boon, Prove Mat what he is pleased to call | countries which have #eNt most volunteers to the te bishops of the Latin race will outnumber the | corps of Zouaves, were among tue guests, Monsignor German or Teutonic element, and that therefore | Bourget, of Montreal, representing Canada. Coiouei whatever Rome and . de Charrette made an eloquent speech after dinner, Daron ne 2034 the Papal court have already | gig the healths of his Holiness, lis army, the ish: ided upon with respect to the personal ipfalll- | ops and the Catholic committees were rapturously bility of the Pope will be agreed apon at once, Oe cuaaians:¥ 1 even without * 4 ne Cardinal Vicar, Pertrizi, ba8 authorized the aye Hout discusston. Of course his obec’ | commencement of omciai proceedings for approving is to condemn the action of the General Council be- the worship of the two Popes, Kugeniua IL1., of Pisa, fore that Council shall have even commenced to Daten e 1146, and Urban Mg of the Gevandeen, in work, just as in Ame Trance, clected tn , held ab immemorabtle in 4 herican questions the same paper | oqo) of sanclity, The general congregation will meet on the 2 Novernber to discuss the heroic vir- tues of the venerable Juvenai Aucina, an intimate friend of St. Francis of Sale: STATISTICS OF THR TRADE WITH CAINA,—Accord- ing to a report by Dr. Von Scherzer, of Vienna, 14,076 Vessels, with a burden of 6,413,500 tons, wero engaged in the Chinese trade In 186%, Of these, 7,106 ships and 3,882,000 tons belonged to Great Brit- ain and 1,772 and 267,000 to Germany, In 1867, 2,282 German ships with 611,800 tons were engaged in the trade, but the ie ee of steam vessels sailing under the North American flag has reduced their bumber, The merchant feet of the United States in the Uhinese waters amounted to 2,926 and 1,673,000 in 1867, and had increased to 3,623 and 2,267,000 in 1868, Dr. Von Scherzer estimates the vaiue of the entire Chinese trade, exclusive of Hong Ko) t 421,000,000 Austrian floriné—viz., 214,000,000 forins imports and 207,000,000 exports. Nearly arty per cent of this is in the hands of Great Britain—t, ¢,, 74,000,000 of the import and 127,000,000 of the export trade, in all 201,000, oh ‘ins—whjle the Kuropean Continent is oar re} nied by 000 of im} and 14,900,000 zpohe NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. English opera, under the experienced manage- ment of Mrs, Richings-Bernard, 1s Nourishing hand- somely at the Grand Opera House, The attendance during the past week was extremely large, aud it 1s more than probable that the present week will witness a decided augmentation in the number of those who can appreciate English opera when well rendered. ‘Tne Bohemian Girl” will be given this evening, with ite original cast, and will be fol- lowed later in the week by the “Huguenots,” which opera has never before been sung in English in this country. k ‘The leading dramatic feature of the week will be the reappearance this evening of Mr. James H. Hackett before his old friends, the New York public, at Booth’s theatre, in his renowned Shakspearian character of Sir John Falstai. It is several years since Mr. Hackett favored our citizens with @ glimpse of the jolly knight, and as his present en- gagement here is necessarily short the opportunity to see him in a round of his great and popular im- personations will doubtless be taken advantage of by the lovers of the legitimate. During the present week Mr, Hackett will appear as Falstaff, in the his- torical play of “Henry IV.,’? and will be supported by Mr. D. W. Waller as Hotspur, Mr. Theodore Hamilton a3 Prince Hal and Miss Fanny Morant as Dame Quickly, ‘rhe Union Leagne theatre will be aglow with fashion and beauty to-morrow evening, the occa- sion bemg the reappearance, after four years’ absence, of Miss Ida Jerome. An excellent pro- gramme, consisting of comedy and farce, has been arranged, and the entertainment promises to be one of rare enjoyment. Miss Jerome will sustain the rdle of Alice Devereaux, in John Brougham’s comedy of ‘Flies in the Web,” which will be followed by the farce of “More Blun- ders than One.” Mr. Lester Wallack is still at home in the comedy of Home,” which continues to attract large audi- ences to the handsome theatre which bears his name. He alsd appears nightly in “A Regular Fix,”” and 1s ably seconded in his efforts to please the pub- lic by the full strength of his excellent company. The enjoyable comedy of ‘The Wonder’ is under- lined at this nouse and will be produced at an early day. Another week of novelty and variety is an- nounced at the Fifth Avenue theatre. This evening we are to have ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts;’’ to- morrow night “London Assurance’’ will be given; on Saturday evening ‘‘Everybody’s Friend” will hold forth, with the comedy of ‘Daddy Gray” filling up the interval from Wednesday to Friday evening. This last named play has never before, we believe, been produced in this country, although it achieved quite a brilliant success some years ago in London. Lotta this evening enters upon the ifth week of her successful engagement at Niblo’s Garaen, where she continues to attract and delight large audiences. ‘The military drama of “Fire-Fiy” ja sull upon the bills, and wiil probably prove sufficiently attractive to crowd the house during the remainder of the sprightly Lotta’s stay in this city. The piece is Shee ys mounted and the acting all that could be jesired. ‘The realistic drama of “‘London”’ is doing’a liberal business at the French theatre, where its scenic beauties and us dramatic interest command ready appreciation, A number of important changes will this week be made inthe text and business of the drama, which will infuse into 1 a more active spirit of humor ana a strong clement of fun, A troupe of Italian street minstrels, a German band, an btnto- plan troupe and a ‘Punch and Judy” show have veen specially engaged to illustrate some of tne huinors and incidents of street life 1a London, Yankee Robinson makes lis bow this evening at the Olympic theatre as Darius Dutton in the Down East comedy of that name, whicn picce will be fol- lowed by the roaring farce of “A bullin @ China Shop.” Mr. Robinson is a genuine comedian of the New England stripe, and is brimiul of drollery, which, avove all olber things on eartu, is just the thing most relished by the (astidious Olympians. “Under the Gas Light’? is underlined at this theatre and will be produced next week. At Wood’s Museum a new fantastical spectacular buriesque, entitled “‘Kenilworta,” will be sub- mitted this evening for the approbation of the patrons of this establishment. ‘ins burlesque 13 atter Scott’s novel of the same name, but suck a long way ater it that all resemblance vo it is said to ve lost. However, between the burlesque and the menagerie, Wood’s Museum 1s certain to be crowded throaghous the week. ‘The lovers of the perilous will be regaled at the ‘Tammany Wigwam ior another week by the Hanlon Brotners in their great act upon the trapeze. ‘This is “positively the last week’? of these daring gym- nasts at tis house. Next week we ure to have Miss Fanny Herring as “Bad Dickey,’? which, in contradistinction to its name, is credited with being something reaily good, Tne Bowery theatre presents to-night a new magl- cal spectacular meiodrama entitied ‘Faustus,” which will undoubtedly prove an attraction to the sensation lovers of the east side. Between the acis the Torries Brothers, gymnasts, appear, and the per- formance will terminate with a “roaring farce.’? ‘Tony Pastor still maintaias his hold on the aifec- tions of the Bowery boys, and by constant novelty— und that of the best kKind—continually crowds his house, week in and week out. Neise Seymour has proved @ great acquisition, and in his comic acts with Frank Kerns elicits the heartiest Kind of ap- plause. ‘The proiitic Poole presents a new piece to- night, entitled the Bouquet Girl.’’ the Theatre Comique 18 an evidence of what en- terprising management wi’l effect for the success of a@theatre. Since Mr. Batler assumed charge of this tucatre the fortunes of the establishment have been uniformly prosperous, The secret of this success seems to be that he 1s constantly presenting a streain of novelties to his patrons which acts like @ mag- net to attract their attendance, and thus, by giving a first class entertainment, he receives in return a large share of the public’s patronage. Aithough Dan Bryant is continually singing “Shoo, Fly | Don’t Bodder Me” to the crowded au- dienuces Which nightiy assemble in his hail in Four- teenth street, the people still rush there like fies around a lump of sugar, and he is compeiled to hang out the cara of ‘standing Room Only” every evening. ‘The San Francisco Minstrels find but little change necessary to their last week’s programme, for no matter how often any one visits their estabiisnment the comicalities of Birch, Bernard and Backus are 80 irresistibly funny that 1t does not require novelt; very oftento attract their patrons, who nighuy an the hall to repletion. ‘The Waverley theatre reopens again to.night, this being the fiith or sixth reopening since July. The auraction to-night consists of a new minstrel com- any, tue principais of which are well known to the New York public—Allen, Pettingill, Deiehranty & Hengler is the title of the organization, and they hope by giving an amusing entertainment to meet with success and to change for the better the hitper- to deciluing reputation of ola Hope Chapel. ‘The New York Circus, although it announces no novelty for whe preseat week, nevertheless presents its patrons with & varied programme of equestrian and acrobatic feats which wilt doubtless prove ac- ceptable to the lovers of the sports of tue “sawdust arena.” The Russian vocalists, under the management of Mr. Agrenei? Slaviansky, will appear this evening at Stemway Hall, with an ample programme of na- tional songs aud instrumental music, which wiil be heightened by the gorgeous costumes worn by the performers. The New York Harmonic Society will perform the oratorio of “Judas Maccabeus” to-morrow even- ing at Stemmway Hall. Miss Bateman on next Friday and Saturday even- ings will favor the Brookiynites with her great im- personation of Mary Warner at tue Brooklyn Academy of Music, Miss Lucille Western commences a short engage- mentatthe Park theatre, Brooklyn, this evening, Appearing in her famous dual character of Mme. Vine and Lady Isabel in the sensational play of “East Lynne,” Hooley’s Minstrels, Brookiyn, are out with a new Programme this week, which mecludes some rare morsels in the way of songs, jokes, jigs and eccen- tric Ethiopian sketches, English Theatricals and a General Theatrical Review—Gossip of the Stage and Behind tie Scenes—What te in F er with the Public and What is Promised—The Opera. LONDON, Nov. 16, 1869, “Tele est Vinjustice des hommes, Tw ils punissent, comme un crime Venvie de leur plaire quand cetie envie n'a pas reussi.” Never and nowhere was the truth of tis saying made more apparent than on Saturday at the Lyceum theatre, whem ana where an English version of M. Emile Augier’s famous comedy called “Paui Forestier? was producea under the tie of ‘Forbidden Fruit,’ and puta crowdea audicnce Into the dumps. Stolen kisses, they say, are sweet, and the Navor of forbidden fruit is sup- posed to reside mainly in the interdiction; but this play is not likely to tempt the public to violate any law of abstention, Forbidden the truit 1s; forbidden let it be, On the first night of representation every- body looked miserable and malignant, a3 though they couid have found it in their hearts to wreak bodily vengeance upon the arthor if he had but fallen into their mands Nor is it to be wondered at; for with much experience of bad plays I never saw & worse. The fault is in the ‘wauslator, even as the fault of a bad dinner often- times dwells with the cook. The French piece, writ ten in majestio verse, Which sounded most melodi- ously upon the stage of the Theatre Francals, has been transformed inte the thinnest, coarsest, most Inelegant prose, and in order to adjust the plece to our national sense of decorum (nowhere 80 visible as at the play) the plot has peen changed 1n & man- ner not only destructive of dramatic interest, but subversive of commongsense, Never was there such a kettle of ish, An adulterous intercourse—that is the Anglo-Saxon of it—between Forestier, 3 young painter, and Lea, a married woman living apart from her husband, and her character is the very backbone of M. Augier’s comedy. In the English draina this wicked liaison 1s toned down to an inno- cent courtship, both parties being unmarried at the opening of the play—the artist a bachelor and the lady a widow. This change, nowever commendabie in point of morality, is the utter ruin of the play; for the translator not having the skill to remould the subsequent scenes and situations of the drama 80 as to adapt them to the prodigious alteration in the moral attitude of the chief person- ages, nothing can be more motiveless and inconsistent than the whole tone and tenor of the piece. The cause 1s eradicated, but the effect re- mains. The tree is torn up by the root, but the foliage goes on blooming in rank luxuriance. The woman who has been regenerated Irom a faithiess wite into @ chaste Widow goes on talking and acting as if she retained her former character. She1s madly in love with the artist after he is married to another woman, and though she would have us believe that she is pure as unsunned snow, she keeps tearing her hair and wringing her bands as though she were ho better than she should be. She would pass sor Lucretia, yet she behaves iike a conscieuce-stricken Lais. Altogether the play is simply nonsensical, aud though there was po storm of howls and hisses at the close the sulky silence of the audience was ommousiy significant of the doom of the drama, in- tUmating as plainly as in the language of Launcelot vo Jessica, “Be of good cheer; for yerily I believe thou art damned.” No one has poases by the piece except Mr. C. Coghlan, who by his excellent acting raises ap Insignilicant character to importance. Mr. Allerton, the present lessee of the Lyceum, to Whom belougs the responsibility of having brought out his ponderous play, atiempts to impersonate the sentimental painter, but only succeeds in proving that, however learned upon other points, he Knows nothing about acting. He is a stage-struck aristo- crat—tne son of a lady of title, Allerton is ouly a nom de guerre. His wanners are easy and gentle- man-like, aud you may see at a glance that he has been accustomed to good society; but of histrionic talent he has not a parucie, or if he has he keeps it to himself, Hig faita in himself, however, 1s un- bounded, Last season he took we Princess’ theatre, and every night for six mortal weeks demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of the town that he could not play Hamiet, Nothing daunted, he has now taken the Lyceum; but he will purchase his whistle at rather too dear @ price, for the cost of keeping up such an establishment must be enormous. ue cannot but wish that his entuusiasm had vaken a direction more profitable both so himself ana the pubic. Mr. Allerton is not the only person upon the London stage who is con- nected with the titled orders. Mrs, Fitz Henry, as she is known in the profession, is Lady Smith, the widow of @ military knight; and Lady Don, now playing in the provinces, 1s relict of Sir Wiliam Don, an eccentric baronet of gigantic stature, who commenced life as an oficer of dragoons and ended it as the tallest, aud by no means the least amusing, of low comedians, His greatest character was pro- bably Toodes, which Mr. J. 8. Clarke is now per- Tormine with such signal success at the Strand eatre. Of a verity our nobles have come to win peace. We Britishers, whose greatest glory is that our in- violate island of the brave and iree gave birth to Wiliam Shakspeare, are now unable to boast of one dramatist woriuny ol the name, Night after night is made hideous by the production of some wretched Play, so spiritless in Its diabogue, so inartistic in its plot, 80 outrageous in Its portraiture of character, that @ man could not wish his worst enemy worse luck than to sit it out. Speaking the other day upon the subject of ‘intel- lectual Corruptien,” one of the Saturday reviewers had a fling at “iormosa,” still in course of representation at Drury Lane, aud thus delivered his indignant soul:—"*We wonder how auy man can see ‘Formosa’ without blushing for very shame, not merely that he is present to listen to such baluer- dash, but that such balderdash should have been composed by a fellow man and could attract an au- dience of his fellow men.” Pretty ‘how that, and rich in virtuous vehemence. Nevertheless, the au- thor of ‘Formosa’? 18, beyond all comparison, tne best of our playwriters, Let their faults be what they may, there 1s, at all events, some dash and ‘“‘go”” in u18 plays, and when he thinks it worth his walle to do so Mx, Bouctcault can put brilliant and vigor- ous language into the mouths of his dramatic per- sonages; but what shall w@ say of plays such as that brought out the other nignt at Charing Cross theatre under the title of “Won at Last”? The force of twaddle could no further go. Wiata story to butid aplay upon! “Gracious goodness! goodness gra- cious !? as Mr. Buckstone 18 wont to gay, what a story! A young man falis in love ties @ young woman—as many young men have done ere now and will again if young wo- men will only mind what they are about—and after a long courtship, undiversilied by one solitary incident of imterest and unenlivened by one sviltary remark worth listening to, they win one anotuer ut last and get married. ‘There's the whole story. “Youd ce qwiy « dans le beurre!” as the French say. Itremjnds one of the eventful history famea im nursery lore:— ‘There was a little cobbler, And he had a nite aw! ‘And he stuck it in ‘And that is ail. There 18 not @ character in the piece respecting whom the audience are not in precisely the same state of enlightenment as the old lady in the ‘Ke- guinage” in Belgium was respecting Sebastopol, When that dear old soul heard that Sebastopol was taken she inquired, “Who 18 Sebastopol? And what did they take him fort And what do they mean to do with him?” We just know a8 much about the personages of Mr. Wybert Keeves’ play, and care as much, The critics are quite at sea about tie drama, which must have been haunting Mr. Reeves’ fancy while he was engaged in the composition of this trumpery work, some maintaining that he had 1n view Mr. Thomas Taylor’s drama ot “still Water Runs Deep,” and others declaring that he was think- ing all the while of Mr. Whyte Melyilie’s story, “The Brookes of Briddlemon.” ‘The beauty of it 13 that it does not matter a briar blossom which of these con- jectures is true, or whether either is so, ‘The piay, however or'ginatea, is worthless. ‘there must be iuctal more attractive upon the stage of Charing Cross theatre if Miss Fowler, the manageress, would draw money to her treasury. A new burlesque, caiied “Ino,” now being played atthe Strand theatre, deserves notice, chiefly for the fact that it does not come irom the pens of any of the small band of writers who, for no other appar- ent reason than that their names all begin wito the letter B, are permitted the monopoly of writing bur- lesques for the London theatres. It 18 pleasant to find that ‘the little busy B’s,” ag they are called, are not to have it ail their own way, but that there is at last some chance for the other letters of the alphabet. Mr. Bb. J. Spedding, the author of the present extravaganza, has chose for his theme the story of the famous daughter of Cadmus and Hermoine who became thie second wile of the Theban King Athamas, and who was ultimately transformed by Neptune into a sea goddess, Mr. Spedding has of course turned this veracious story “the seawy side out,’ even as love turned Rodrigo, copiously interpersing the narrative as he goes along with puns which sound the lowest ° depths of verbal turpitude; but the day for such conceits 18 gone. The highest compliment that can be paid to a pun Is to hoot or groan at it, and those tributes used to be patd to Mr. Planché and the early Masters of the art of burlesque punning, out the public has had @ surfeit of their attempts to patter with them, and the most execravie puns that ever sinned agaist sound and Sense now pass without the distinction of ® reprvuef. For the rest, Mr. Spedding’s fun is none of the raciest, nor is his wit either affluent or refined, but there are in his burlesque some laugh- able “topic songs,” some grotesque breakdowns and one or two passable parodies, and as the piece is well danced, richly costumed and picturesquely Illustrated, it gives entire satisfaction to the fudience, whoacem to think it very excellent fooling. Mr. Thorne, whose strange professional fate It 18 always to appear in petticoats, cuts a ridiculous figure as the domincering Queen of Thebes; Mr. David James, the vest of the Strand comedians, Plays the hen-pecked King with lugubrious humor}; little Miss Newton dances ana acta charmingly in the character of Jason, and Mr. Turner turns to comic account the amlable peculiarities of the assassin Dionerges. The Koyal Italian Opera has opened for a short winter season of operatic performances. The iret opera of the season was vonizetti’s ever popular “Lucia di Lammermoor,” with Mile, iima da Murska 98 Lucia, and Signor Mongini as Edgardo. There was a considerable audience ana they were very liberal of their applause on the first night, but the performances were not very good nor is the compaay of speeial excellence. “Fidelio,” “Il Fiauto Magico,” “Don Giovani,” jamie and “Les Huguenots” are in the programme of the season ; but what will come of it remains to be seen. It were rash to eae upon the issue of 80 novel an enter- prise. St may be that Itailan singers may be more welcome to Londoners in the month of November than were poets reciting in the month of August to the Komans in the days of Juvenal; but the possible effect of the London climate, or rather climates—for we have haif s dozen of them— upon Itallan throats, at this time of the year, is an atmospheric mystery not easy to be solved.’ +Last Wednesday, when the Lord Mayor was making an exhibition of himselt through the streets, to tue miinite Gellgat of the citizens who gazed with rap- ture upon him and his trumpery, tin-pot show, tho air Was a8 moist as seaweed, and you might have cut. the fog with @ knife and put pieces in your pocket. To-day the east and north winds lord it over us with alternate tyranny, and it 1s as “cold aw oharity.”” These charming amenities of weather are Not likely to prove very beneficial to lyric artists, Whether we Or leave it alone, certain it is that “Minores quam muscw sunus!—we are more frail than flies, aa the old gentieman in Petrontus Arbiter Tmoournfuily remarks, and the bills of mortality run up fengrully aa the goes down. Covéht Garden 14 not the only temple of music now open. A pretty little theatre has beon con- structed at the Crystal Palace, and is occupied b; Mr. Perren’s opera troupe for the Uh stab It shoul be @ great addition to the at- “ander entirely new man- Amivd, lay of Cremorne, Autiey’s haa reopened agement,” aud ME. KT, our English Barnum, Jong interval, to be at the head of adaim. tHe has. revi) nippo-dramatic spectacie of tay being now imperso! a Mile, Lillian, who, like the ill-fated Adah Men! rides up and down terrific precipices and tremendous cémbats. With characteristic expert- ness in treating as ‘fish’? everytning that comes his net, Mr, Smith uulizes the byron-Stow contro- fang on invites every one Who has at heart the fair 7 the Bet to come and see bis wonderful pray duction styled “Mazeppa.’? a At Drury Lane “Formosa” continues to be played to @ full pit and crowded eine but the more aristocratic departments of the house are but attended, The play wilino doubt run till Christmas, when it will iake re tor the new panto- mime, always a special feature of interest at Yuletme in’ this establishment. To Mr, Blanchard, one of the most accomplished of journalists, a graceful and spirited writer. and one of the most genial of men the duty of constructing this holiday piece has been ned for many years ast, and he acquits himself of the task in a style ‘hat makes him the darling of the children. The theme of his next pantomime will be the dear old fairy taleof ‘Beauty and the Beast.” Mr. Planché converted the story into a brilliant burlesque some years ago, treating it with all his characterl- stile brightness of humor and elegance of fancy. One stanzas of his liveiy verse lives in my memory. It ig thatin which the Beast acpiores Beauty not W reject hum on account of his looks:— I know I look a Beast, my dear; But still my hopes are high, There's many a girl has loved, my dear, A greater Seast than I, Which is hike enough. At the Princess’ the murder is out atlast, There hag Deen the devil to pay, and no pitch hot, as the fine old classic phrase has it, \In less Attic language, the manager is bankrupt, and the play is per- jormed nightly in the presence of that august ofi- Chal, the Sheriff of Middiesex, or bis deputy. Mr. George Vining has filed his own petition of insole veucy, setting down his debts at about £5,000, His failure is greatly to be regretted, for though not an actor of any great note he was an enterprising man- ager and deserved well of the play-going public. He was understood to have made a lot of money a few years ago by Mr. Boucicault’s melodrama of ‘The Streets of London,” but his later pieces were rarely successiul, He lost immensely by “Acis and Galatea,” and “Escaped from Portland” proved an utter Nasco, The spectacular burlesque of ‘Columbus’? has been revived for a few niguts at the Gaiety, previous to removing the dresses aud sceuery irst to Liver- pool and then to New York, Messrs. Taylor aud Duvourg’s drama, ‘New Men and Old Acres,” has proved exceedingly attractive at the Haymarkei, and deservedly so, for it is a really good play of its class, and were the captious critic mentioned in tue ‘ale of a Tub,” who, while admitting that Homer was a man of some ability, reproached him, nevertheless, for his gross ignorance of the doctrine and discipiine of the Church of Eng- land, would be puzzled to find a serious fault in this leasant little comedy. Mr. Chippendale, one of the est Of Our stock comedians, and, as it appears, an American by birth, is provided in this plece with @ character well suited for his powers, and he plays it ‘to perfection. [t Bays little for the taste of the timesthat Gold- smith’s admirable comedy, “She Sioops to Con- quer,’ though played eifectively in one of the pret West and most comfortable theatres in Europe, does not draw good houses at St. James’. If Tony Lump- kin were represented as lying across the railsof the Underground Railway at tuut time the train 18 ap- proaching, or if Miss Hardcastie were to leap from the roof of a@ burning house into the sea, Mrs. Joan Wood would probably find her beautiful theatre bev ter attended. ‘The Adeiphi continues the run of Messrs. Bouci- cault and Byron’s drama “Lost at Sea,’’ but the attendance 1s not so numerous as It might be. The Queen’s siili flourishes with the drama of “The Turn of the Tide.” The Globe is doing well, with Mr. H. J. Byron’s new play, ‘Not Such a Fool As He Looks,” in which the author impersonates the hero, ‘Ihe Prince of Wales still prospers with Mr. Robertson’s comedy of “school,” which, though 80 long on the boards, looks nothing the worse tue wear, At the Holborn Edwara Moore’s doleful tragedy of “The Gamester,” with Mr. Larry Sullivan and Mra. Hermann Veyin in the chief characters, has drawn pretty well for the last few weeks, making the audience as miserabie as need be; but the mal play ts to be withdrawn to-night in favor “The Lady of Lyons,” a drama which, though every- body has it oif by heart, ts still es safe @ card 08 @ manager not having any novelty to produce can piay. Mr. William Brough is busy upon a new burlesque for the Royaity. Madame Celeste has been playing with some suc- cess in “The Woman in Red,” at the Surrey. Blondin 1s at the Agricultural Hall, where ne rides along @ tight rope ou a velocipede at a stupendous height, Sometimes he varies wis performance by discarding the velocipede and walking along the rope with his head ina bag and @ gentleman upon his shoulders, ‘‘piggy back,” as the children say. A few nights ago a iearful accident seemed inevitable, but Blondin showed marvellous pluck and nerve and passed triumphantly throug an awiul ordeal. ‘The affair escaped the notice of the London journals, but a local newspaper describes a scene which must indeed have made “tie boidest bold his breath for a while.? The description is well worth reading, thus:— ‘There was a large audience, who welcomed the hero of Ni agara with great warinth, and loudly applauded his various performances. After he had crossed in the sack, stood on a chair, and had done some of his minor feats, 1 was found that the rope, which is # new one, had siackened #0 conside- rably that ft would be necessary to tighten it in order to allow of his performing his new and extraordinary feat of crossing iton a “bicycle, and he was therefore compelled to appeal to the audience for time to tighten the rope. Half an hour was asked for and cheerfully granted, some of the vele~ clpede races being run in the interim; but after the ‘guy’ ropes had been loosened and the rope tightened up, some difficulty was found in refixing the pote to which the“ Ravan “dragged the forcibly ‘ott of the ground. avin: Uuite three-quarters uf an hour elapsed before this was gad then Biondin appeared again, and starting from the west endof tho building, carried his assistant over on bis from the lowering of some ballast ¢ across the il st F back, It was evident, trom the lower on the * ” poles, that during Ld Towa sickened w great deal, but Biondi eltuer “did. not, Ob- serve this or did not thing it important, for after @ short tn- terval, during which he changed his dress, he appeared on hia bycicle and, amid the cheers of the spectators, started on what seemed an awfully perilous journey. He had not gone far when {t became apparent trom the decline of the rope that {t hind slackened very much, and peopie who understood the nature of bycicies and the impossibility of propelling it up hill an to speculate on ihe probabilities of his getting: up the incline he must inevitably meet at the other end of the rope, but Blondin looked extremely cool and confident and no fears for his safety seemed to be entertaiued till after stop- ing cleverly about midway, he began to traverse the ineline. Ftfen'bocame apparent, from the gradual slacking in bie speed, that he was doing some hard work, and murmurs an to rise from the andi When about twenty yaras rom the landing stage he came to a dead stop and appoared ncing hitnself cautiously with the great pole he carried, hen made another elfort and got & few yarde further, when he sto} in. Itthen became very appa- Pent tat he could ‘not get, further, as, although to the r of disturbing his equilibrium, be tried to jerk the ‘ine forward, It refused to move. that then ensued was most exciting. People left th with frightened faces, made for the doors, and the ‘gen mass of tho people at the east end of the building made a rush to the west end, hundreds jumping into the arena. ‘When the rush and noise had subsided, « marvellous stiliness succeeded. The crowds on the floor beneath the rope, and im the galleries nearest the spot, seemed to be hushed in expectation of something unpleasant, gazing, some with horror stricken faces on the performer, who sat motienless asastatue on the rope, about six yards from the landi place, whilo his assistant leant over the dapper to be speaking to him, but looked helpless in ti gency. Ktler the delay of two or three minives, which ed an ho assistant, evidently by Bloudin's directions, procured d this he threw out cautiously. It fell dn the pers ormers shoulders, and he, with some dificuly, sustained the pole with one hand, while, with the other, he tied the roy round hia waist, ‘The assistant then gently pulled him ine Every move of the wheels waa watched by the audience im silent terror till the machine ran on tothe landwg # when the suppressed excitement culminated in one shout of joy, succeeded by the wildest demonstrations. Cheer after cheer ran through the building, while, Blondiay who did not seem at all disconcerted, bowed his acknowledge- ments. stage With the joy with which we hall the escape of a brave man from terrific (tay must be mingled a feel- ing of paged regret that conten at composure, which in another age would have D suifictent ta raige & man to the eee Tank of heroism, should in these sensational days be employed in irivolous and unmeaning achievements, which do no either to the man wno performs them or to the world at large. Biondin is Indeed to be pitied. He had made a fortnue by his marvellous feats, but he risked it in @ commercial speculation and lost it all, and now, poor fellow, he is compelied w return to a pursuit which becomes more dangerous with ins creasing years. Meantime the morbid curiosity of the public grows more exacting, and feats which are applauded as wonderful to-day will be deemed tam@ and uninteresting to-morrow. So true is the aay’ of a French moraiist, “Ill betide the man who on attempts to astonish the world, for the world not be astonished twice.’ An American item of theatrical news will come tm last, if it be not the least in interest. Harry 1 in London looking out for attracuons for Niblo’a for the coming season. By the way, Paimer was a& Drury Lane the other nighs to see “Formosa”? as it i# done in London and he expressed himself well satis fled with the manner in which the piece was put upon the stage; equal In some respects to the way it was done in New York. “But you must expect 1d Harry, ingeniously, Lane really Niblo’s of London.’ ceeded in making an engagement with that popular and fashionable artist will Niblo’s immediately after Christmas Day. Ho f course, be, in theatrical parlance, an tating ve seen Fech' ard” in New York, for not to hay heot, Pater ts for ob an offense against society and after otter great achievements, but they are, vious reagons, at present, ‘under the rose. A ED ON HI BripaL Tour.—Onr seacers wil remember that ae. so ER pats lished in this paper an accou! highly Tasnionauie wedding which took place on the Ky. The happy people vious at Maysvill $i ere united ander ‘such icyou omens were Mr. Nathan P. Cochran and Miss Kate Wallingford. “Jenkins” was extremely felicitous upon this occa- mon, and his details of the affair were doubtless read with great interest. We Can imagine the envy which was created among expectant females by the details of the maguificent and superbly incomparas ble and gorgeousiy resplendent bridal troussear, which alone cost $10,000, But all human happiness ds evanescent, and now comes a sad mishap, which must have added a nauseating drop of bitterness to that envied bride’s cup of happiness. We are told that only @ few days ago this joyous couple, who were united, as it were, standing individually at the two ends of & rainbow, started upon a pleasure trip to New Orleans. On the way down their stateroom was brokem into by sume expert thieves, and m! entire collection of jewels, valued ‘at 91,000, stolen therefrom.—Cincinnatt Hnquirer, i ru Now, 3,