The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1871, Page 4

THE OATH OF the Pig Roky PRAN-E. Tow the Elections Were Carricd Oat and the Numbers Who Voted. REPUBLICANS BY DIVINE BICuT. The Ceremony of the Installation of tho Commune. een { | THE SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE, | The Scum of tho Streets Con- trolling the Capital. | 1798s. The Communal DisorJers Throughout | Franco. Paris, March 28, 1871. The elections of lest Sunday form snother striking Mastration of the mode In which, when a particular purpose is to be served, thoy manage such matters in Paria. Fraudulent, Wegal, deceptive, and m gome few imsiances stained by violence, they represent only the victory of am active, en- ergetic minority. Nothing could be more tn- Judicious than the determination of seven out Of the twenty mayors, supporied by a majority of their deputies, to concede, so Jate as baturday morn- Ang last. the polnt upon which the insurrectionary authorities insisted, because at that late hour there ‘Was no time for organizatiop among the friends of order, or even for agreement in the cholce of candi aates, The decision was then taken for them that the mayors and adjoints of each arrondissement should be nommated members of the Central Munt- cipality. Up to that time there had been much steadi- ess Of purpose and agresment among the friends of order; put then vacillation and indeotsion became @pparent, Some of the most infuential journals held out rigidly on the ground of legality, but waverers bogan to discuss whether the Central Com- ; Mitiee might not be “‘holst by their own petard,”’ | ‘and to argue that an acceptance of the ballot would | deprive them of even the semblance of a triumph. H Apart from the danger of taking up @ position on | Mllegal ground, except where the certainty of suc- | cess nsures Indemnity, the weak brethren on this | Pocasion seemed to have overlooked the obvious fact that a large majority of the electors would decline to vote, and that they would thus be inevitably lett in the position of a feeble minority contending ‘vainly against the disciplined audacity of the friends ef disorder. A THE NUMBER OF VOTES CasT. ‘These inevitable conditious of inferiority devel- ped themselves unequivocally in the election; but Mtougnt to strengthen the hands of the party of | order to find that, out of 180,000 electors who | voted, the Central Committee only pretend to claim | 410,000. This number, we know, has been consid- | brably swollen by fraud; but it even then only rep- resents one-fifth of the registered voters of the capl- | tal, deducting the rural communes. Under the Blectoral law of 1848, which makes a return valla in which only one-eighth of the constituency have reg- Astered their votes, se eral members of the Central Commitree claim to have been duly elected, though Jew votes were given to them, | THE LEADING AGITATORS. The most notable instances of this, are, first, the arch asitator Assy, who, though sixtieth on the list at the ger | election in February last, now claims arst place in the Eleventh arrondissement, and, secoudly, M. Variiu—a gentleman of the same genius—who io February did not receive half the qualifymg number | Df votes, but who now Is said tw be returned 1n two different arrondissements. It is monstrous to suppose $hat this claim of one-fifth of the electors of Parla to rule France and impose upon a population of | #0,00),000 a vocial and political change of such an astounding character can be long tolerated, A more flagrant insiance of the violation of the prin- cipie of universal suttrage and of the law of majori- Zies it would be hard even to conceive. Your read- | | ®rs must not suppose that these men, who have been aptly termed tie “republicans by divine night,” are (he sole upholders of a principle of government us have been demonsirating for now wt mewily a cent >be not oniy practicable but so Superior (o the effete systems o1 tue Oid World that Sooner or !ater it must prevail. | A THE FLIMNDS OF DISORDER | a smal}. section or sect of the bona gide reptiblicans o1 tts unhappy country, aud they Bre rapidiy preparitig the ‘vay for what I cannot but fear must proved fatal and sanga'nary struggle be- mselyes and the majority, whom they are | gradoaily goading into desperation. i TRE NEW COM? ! Out of ninety-one members of the new Commune ' only seventeen are men of even moderate views; Dat even tits feeble minority appears to cause an uneasy feeling among tie secret loaders of this movement, wNo are excessively jealous of anything | Iikely to impose an ovstacie to the execution of their purposes. To all the decrees of the Ventral Commit. , We thirty-seven names bave been appended, but it 1s pretty well known that the moving spirits area councll of six, of whom ae is the acknowledged leader, and associated wiih him are MM. Feltx Pyat, Deleseiuze, Assy, Flourens and Vormorel. Thts coun- cil retains power exclusively mn its own hands, and fuily latends to continue to exercise control aod make tts authority felt through the newly elected Communal Council, Indeed, one of their facts after the meeting of the new body will be to undeceive any innocent gentleman Who conceives That be is a free agent and to convince him that his fonction !8 simply to become a simple instrument iu the hands of meu whose views and ideas ure | dissolution the Central mance of the secret enocent title of “Sub-Committee” | wad the energetic six have given a taste of their | quality aiready by voting the formation for fieid ervice of twenty-tive battalions of infantry, twenty atteries of artillery and iifteen batteries of mitrall- leuses. coune!! under DISSENSIONS, Remembering the result which 13 proverbially Bali 10 arrive Wheu thieves fail out, it is satisfactory + record theexistence of weil-founded ramors in regard lo dissenstons in the Sub-Committee, which | Bre said to have goue the length of tureata of per- Bona! v.olence, In the wider circle of the now de- fuuct Central Committee there are also indications | of aspiil, in which the practical qualities of M. Deleseiuze aye likely to be brought into opposition | to the purely communistio views of Messrs. Felix Pyatt and Biauqui. THE NATIONAL GUARD. As I write I learn that the Sab-Committee have fust decreed that every National Guarn who does not foun in a writen adhesion to the Revolutionary Com- une shail forfelt his pay aud arms. ARISTOCRATIO COMMUNISTS. This evening the members of the Commune met, Wo the nusuber of fifty, in the Hotel de Ville, but separated without transacting any business tn con- jaence of the violence of sOme Of the propositions i before them; not, however, belore a banquet i been served to them by the lacqueys in State ' veries, on the splendid service of piate aratsd to the establishment, Pernapslamn wrong In 4 Ang that no business was transacted, because 1 un- Gerstand that unanimous resolution was passed to the effect that the National Guard and the Central ommitie had deserved well of the country and of the repuolic. It is gaid that Delescioze has given notice ‘of his intention to resign his position as a member j ofthe Commune because he considers tt Incompati- ble with being a member of the National Assembly. aay, outing eisction, ‘the re re On Sun nring election, the guns we - ord fromthe embrasures of the barricades; but have since been sepigoed loaded and scieatifl- ty Inid, 80 a8 to sweep the dtreets which they are Snvended to command. There has not been, how. ver, guite such a display of troops on the Place de | Hotel de Ville, which on Sunday formed a lake of ; The pentane feel that they ve DOW No! 6 friends of order yng the troops of the National Pps gd or ‘onets. Prassians warch upon P: fen of bust- aa, even those who were at first induced to pprove the turn affairs had taken, are now begin: to awake to the diMculties of the position, and > fament the iw eg indefinite stagnation ‘hich 1s opening before them. penne PInsT REVIEW. General Bergeret held a review to-day on the Vendome of the troops under his oe eta first displyy of the kind since the unfortunat eclaration of war agatust Prussia, twoP. M., a under the Geveral’s window struck up ‘Sisea Gonna ears a fheSRuh dela lx, toa up pono near a sink of Nape- boat eit Seg eof Wepch tel % Whea all bad heed wo up Goueral ott Ja tug goatee abd ‘odarossoa weam af cou: | Bergeret took up a | panied by the voices o! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. APRIL 15: eiderable length. He said that saccess had at last crowned the efforts of honest republicans, and that France was now free, They bad taught ite civie lized world that Uke reat strength of a government noLIN an army, but in the people tucmseives, mated aad led m the pata of progress by tue at principle of Uberty. the futare there would be nO armies bat the people, who would themselves submit to the necossary trainlag and dusctplice to insure the retention of the blessiug they had achieved, France, governed for aad deleuded by the people, would soon resume vhat position in the world which nad vecn for the time forfeited by the igeorance and imeapacity of a set vi mpecties who had presumed to think theisslves capable of verning ber better than she could govera herself, France would attain a higher plich of pro- gross aud prosperity than had ever yet been at- tamed, Wituout armies and without war, through the simple force of moral principles and moral greatness. At tnis point of his harangue General color fag which was flutverin, beside him and said he intended to have replaced 1 by the drapeau rouge, which, he remarked, was not as its color might 81 the symbol of anarchy and confusion, but the lag of the people of France then and of every other nation in tho future, He had sent for ared iiag, he sald but his messenger had not coturned; could one of | the battalions spare him a bDannerol to replace the tricolor that had waved trom bis window? The | color bearer of the One Hundred and Ninety-ffth battalion here canie forward, amid vociferous cheer- ing, and respectiully offered the flag of bis regiment. The General eageriy accepted the proiercd gift aod amid a fresh outburst of vives an bravos the tricolor was replaced by the red flag. General Bergeret concluded by saying that | | now the republican victory was complete, and that | all tts friends and supporters had to do was to | Wavchful and prepare: be to defeat the intrigues of the reactionists. Tney might resume the navwiral gayety of the Gaiite heart, but they must not forget the oi Gallo virtues of sobriety and temperance. Waving iis képi in the air he then shouted, with a vigor creditable to his tangs, “Vive la Commune! Vive la République Dimocratique et Sociale!” ring appeal tha response was a thunder of applause Bpeedily supplemented by all tue pandsin the place strixing up the ‘‘Marseillaise.” As the strains of this noble anthem of liberty sweiled over the square the oheeriag subsided, and a National Guard mounting @ gun deciaimed rather than sang, with amazing Vigor and effect, and in strict time with the music, the famous words which stirred vhe soul of France to ita depths at the end of the eighteentia century. THE BFFRCT Was grand and thril.tag and as the thirty or five and thirty thousand men took up the refrain the volume of sound was imuiense. Men in the ranks shed Wars and grasped eacb other’s hands. and it was some time after the musio had ceased velore they could be steauio:l by thetr officers. Isut at last the Orat battalion flied of through the Rue Castighons, | aud tnea all iu succession marched past the General, shouung again for the republic and the Commune, and sougat their quarters and posts. Tae review was intended a3 a great moral demon- stration, to act on both friends and foes, aut ave no doubt it produced the required effect. There was ® fair proportion of mea among tuose on the ground, of guod fighting age, and, what is more, of the ma- terial which every military @aa knows at a glance can be relied on to fight. I have nad some experi- euce of war and warriors, and I am forced to the | conclusion, after seeing this large sample of the bulk, that If these men are attacked beuind their barricades there will be a big butcuer’s bill pefore they are vanquished; but I do not believe they have homogenetiy enough to make it safe to march on Ver- Rallies, and, what i3 more, I think those wao have the supreme direction here ara quite alive to Sho risk such an atjempt would invoive. RUMORS» Paris 13 said to be swarming with Bonapartist agents working the oracle ior the retura of tue exile oO! Ohise}hur-t; but I can scarcely believe that M. | Pietri, the Prefect of Police under the empire, has 50 little regard for the remnant of life tat may be vouchsafed to him as to be here, Tha Hlzcleur Libre, however, aunounces his presence. ‘The old gentieman wiil do well to disguise himself, for the Indlnisesinal division to which he would be sub- Jected If caught wouid be what David Crockett used to call a caution. The Installation of ¢ Ceremonies—ihe iiotel de Ville Eristling with Bayonets—Yermation of the I quisi- Rulo to Paris. Paris, March 29, 1871, Yesterday the Reds reeled with patriotic intoxt- cation, While writing I was disturbed by the roar ol “those bright cannon which, you know, ours, because we paid for them,’’ I had only time to give 10 my last letter a few basty lines in refer- ence to the eventful day which will forever be cele- brated in history for having again instailed a Com- mune in Paris, The Reds nave discovered another source of satisfaction im the fact that there have , the emblem of biood or | ment, of To this stur- | 187L—TRIPLE amusement the enjoyment of whiek would not bo denied by the sane to the most hopeless lunatics. Judeed, I should pave serious thought of nominanag Inysgif to agrade winch, with the consciousuess of bem utterly jenorant of ail duhes connected with my new Occupation, Would afford a new sensation; but, uaforvunateiy, THE CREAX OF THR GUILLOTINE 43 heard in the distance, Not that one of those do capitators has as yet been erected, but who can tell how soon or by whom—the government or the Oommune—it may be? Poxsstoly bearera of tho Re flag may first pull the bolt of the dreaded knife, esterday I referred to that which, having a) Aad in the oficial organ of the Commune, ui: con- sitered as the oficial death warrant of the Duo @Aumale. That the reign of terror has commenced the placards in the Boulevard Clichy, of which tho | ome 1s a copy, forvibly reminds us:—The dele- gate of tne Central Committee charged wit the ad- Ministration of the Eighteenth arrondissement | (oneness) informs the fet that four commis. ‘ garles (Schneider, Buriot, Dioncourt and Lemousu) , are appointed to recelve denunciations against |.citizens suspected of complicity with the rr olgeoe| Just uel-apens and treason, which miscarried on the Buttes Montmartre.” The -errible | abuses to which this will lead are dreadiul to con- template; the appointment ofsuch A OHAMBBB O¥ INQUISITION 1s the first step of the scaffold. A scoundrel who desires revenge has put to denounce the object of his hatred to secure it, or should he wish to extort money he need but threaten to hand his victim over to the tender mercies of Messrs. Schneider, Burlot & Company. M. Valigranne, conemandant of the Hotel de Ville, now a prisoner in whe gonccrgerle, is said to have been denounced to the Central Com- Inittee by the husband of @ vivandiere because that republican daughter of Eve had insvalled herself in great disgust of its commandant. Nobody ts safe | Not only from the terrors of ths inquisition, but also | from violent defamatory attacks in tae public jour- nais. Those in iavor of tae government rake up everything in thelr power against the leading lights of tlie Central Committee, wuile the opposition press dive into the archives of the police to discover flaws | in the viriuous antecedents o: the editors of the are | government orgaas. Every Freacnman ts supposed eo pave dossier iu Feance, If he has never hud any w | THE POLICE nothing can be discovere: to his discredit through Official sources; ou the other hand, any peccadilioes of waich in early life he may have beea guilty are registered against lim and ave liable to be brougut | to bLgut when he least expects tt. The Journal la | Nouvelle République gives an extract trom the dos- sier 94,831 concerning the director of a journal who isthe brother of one of the Ministers, As the ex- tract i3 anything but complimentary to the gentic- ian 1a question the reds are in evsiacles. DESERTERS. Rats are said to leave a sinking ship, Although the Comune bas been prociatmed but twenty-four hours iis members are already onthe wiag. M. Tirard resigns on account of aN discovered that the wnis».on contided to him on Sunday last, whica be had believed to be exviusively manicipal, iniringes ov the domain of politics, Messieurs Desmavesi, ‘Terry and Nast, of the Ninth arroadwsemeut, aad M. Cheron, of the Second, aud even M. Deiesciuze retire, ‘Lhe three former thank the electors for their sympathy, but declare to them at the same time tiat they do not think themselves !eapable of falfiling functions of neltier the terms are defined nor the independence x vad has called down ou uts juckiess he especial vengeance of the Comunitee. On di, that un accusaiton is already decreed aguinst him, itis not surprising that tho members of che Commie should not be anxious to accept the respeusiviiliy of tne Committee, There is | A TERRIBLE BILL T) PAY for the amusements of the past week. Movoy and blood have been expended wich will have to be ac- counted for. ‘The members of the Commitee haye exercised more absolute power than the ex-Smperor, altuough supported by M. Pietri and his myrmidons, | Would have dared to atmpt Mobocracy is a hard } master. It 18 since the Lith inst. “re ,uisitioned,” shot and imprisoned regardless of the consequences; ; its weil paid guards have luxuriated ag ay | aasi, © j and charewerie, The Central Committee hoped | by the vote of Sunday last to transfer their i the imemhers ob fhe Commune, many ef », decline accept it, The reds | ‘aris a heavy sum during the past few | davs, say three millions, which ts thus catgut Led: — 1,020,000 francs taken from the Bank ot | 800,009 Jor military stores delivered, 600,000for those | Ordered, 400,000 receipts given for various articles | requisitioned. — It ts positively declared that 9 0,000 francs are required daily for the pay of the National Guards and the employs in the Hotel de Ville and dlirerent Ministries, It 1s not, then, surprising that chiefs of the present insurrection shoulda have discovered the necessity of attempting to strike a decisive blow, While there was a shot remaining in the locker they could aord to watt for the gov- ernmeiit to attack; now that the Quart @Heure de , Havelais has arrived tae ery 1s ralsed, A Versailles! @ Versaiies ) Wil the result be similar to that ‘ which followed the shouts ‘4 Bertin! d& Berlin!” 13 @ question which the next .ew days will probably | been elected ninety-two municipal counctilors, a | determine. number identical with that of the memorable year | ‘92, Crowds collected yesterday at an carlyhour | THe Inefficiency of the Verssilles Govern. in the neighborhood of the Piace de l’Liotel de Ville, which was bristling with bayonets, cannon and , barricades, If it had been announced earlier that THE CEREMONY OF INSTALLATION was to take place the whole of Paris would have been there. In the hurry of decoration the poor tricolor fag had been forgotten, but the place was | The next day was a fearful day here, and the 18th | building, situated in the Rue Horace Veinet, may plentifully supplied with @rapeanc rouges, Henry IV. was dethroned, the statue was veiled with red drapery, and then was the bust of the republic sur- rounded wita interminable red flags. Even chairs for une Committee were covered with rea veivet, Assy’s throne was larger and more elevated, first battalions of the National Guard arrived at one o'clock, and succeeded each other with rapidity, As they came fromalt quarters without any ap- parent regularity tae confusion and uproar which ensued were indescribable. Drums bea‘, oficers suouted and their men screamed with frenzy “Vive la République!’ “Vive la Commune!” As instead of thirty they consider it necessary to emit twenty sous per day more patriotic noise, Every good, honest fellow gives full measure. blocked, and thousands were forced to remain in the adjacent streets. The Committee, pre- | ceded by their president, descended the steps of the Hotel de Ville at four o'clock, and majestically mounted the platform which had been erected, The cannon thundered, throats screeched themselves hoarse and forage caps were waved aloft, during which the citoyen Asst is sup- posed to have made an exceedingly interesting speech, the words of which, however, were totally Inandible, He gesticulated; everybody applauded, and that was enough to satisiy the one hundred thousand citizen soldiers that the Commune was firmly established on a basis that neither monarchi- cal treachery nor imperial intrigue could under- mime. The hames or the elected were prociaimed, the vote of each arrondissement greeted with ap- lause; the bands banged through the ‘¢farseil- aise’ with terrige force, time that the hyma of '92 has been played in public since the army left Paris last July for the war, when j the bands of every regiment performed it, accom- the crowds which joined in chorus as they marched with the woops to the station, After Assi’s speech followed those of other | celebrities, and the regiments marched off the ground amidst envhuslastic cries of Commune 1"? “Vive la République 1” KEEPING UP THE BXCITEMENT. Drumming and bugling recommenced this morn- ing at an early hour. The announcement of the Commune yesterday has evidently given renewed “Vie la ' impulse to Parisian taste for playing at soldiers, Ths Communists are attacked with scarlet fever; red fags have been hoisted at the Tuileries, the Elysces, the Ministry of Interior, on every building where an excuse exists for the display; on the column in the Place Vendéme, amid the acclam: tions of @ heterogeneous crowd and most violentl; red speeches, We have all gone stark, staring mad, We have succeeded in opiaining the new toy—the Commune—for which we have 60 loudly clamored, - mee pa Uhat we now desire somet more. reat Versailles, and witain @ few days we shall start, with the intention of returning heavily laden, for we intend to bring M. Thiers and the National As- sembly bodily into Paris, as hostages to secure (he proper behavior of the provinces, Who can with- stan THE INVINCIBLE ARMY OF THE COMMUNE, now that three generals have been appointed to command ity One of them isa printer, another was @ shirtmaker, and the third is an honor to some trade equally anltkely to produce a great Napoleon. The services of the troops, li is Dea go may be sooner required than was expected. Already have sp between the outposts, and Reperat Derot has destroyed the bridge of boa’ ye at the Conimuniste will surrender with. gie is not probable; in fact, their deter- | shots been exchi | Out a sti mination to oppose 4 Vigorous resistance to the Ver- sallles government should it attack, to take the initiative should it not do 80, becomes stronger in rae to the impunity they have enjoyed. The arisian forces will be well supplied with generals, 80 far a8 number is concerned, whatever the quall- fications may be. Those desirous of the honor simply require courage to nominate themselves to fhe office. Yesterday Major Gustave Flourens, Whose resplendent boots still live in the memory o those who witnessed (heir prancings on the table of thé Hotel de Ville on the 3ist of October, when their owner and his merry men for several hours held General Trochu and his colleagues prisoners, taa dubbed himself a general. MORE PROCLAMATIONS, Yesterday the walls of Belleville were decorated with placards announciug the revocation of oificers, pon-commissioned oifc%rs, payeurs otvils, nomi- nated by the Inteudane?, who wiil bo replaced by a aymaster clected by battalions. The poster was igned, “The General 4 ttre provisote of the Twen- tleth Legion, Gustave Floarens, member of the Oom- mune of Paris.” Now if there are twenty legions the remainder have the same right to possess Pe as the Twentieth. The rames of General Fou wi This 18 nearly the first | we are making preparation for a march on | | mentTbe Kusiliade in the Piece Vexdome— Death of n Yeung America. | The following private letter was received by a ! gentieman of this city trom an American resident of Paris:— Paris, March 20, 1871. My last letter to you was seat off on the 17th inst. | of March will not soon be forgotten. On that day } the insurgents, attacked by tne government, were successful in repeliing the attack, and have estab- ! lished themselves, to all appearance, firmly tn the | government of the city, They have possession also of all the palaces and government oifices here, Tut- | leries and ail, though I suppose that when the gov The | ernment recozuizes them (if it does) these latter will | be given up. Indecd, I do not see bow they could | | buildings. It seems that the State officers all ran ; away, as though their lives depended upon their making good time in getting to Versailles. | ‘dhe present government o/ Paris is, no doubt, weak and ineficieni. Not one oi the most respectable journals of Paris hoids any other opinion about it. So far as they make any sign they do not seem to ‘ ‘4 ) Care any more for Paris than if it was situated in | tue Guards are now to receive fifty sous per day | the western wilds of America, Tuey have not, as | raised so much as their Uttle flager to help the | Of all the | | yet, | gity or to show that they care tor it. | members of the Assembly not one, except Louis As for the | Blanc and bis colleagues of the Left, has raised bis | approaches to the place they became completely | voice in favor of any legislation for this noble city; | and now, for more than ten days, we have been suf- | fering from the horrors of civil war, The city is full of barrica:les, some three hundred or more, the great- er part of them in the noriheast and southeast parts of the city, though there are a good many | about the Hotel de Ville, THE BARRICADES, The Place de Gréve, in front of the Hotel de Ville, is barricaded at every street, and east ot the barri- , Cades are mounted with cannon and mitrailieuses, so | that they cansweep the Rue de Rivoli from one end to tne other. People are freely admitted inside, and | Iwentin there @ few days since. It 1s feariul to see this fine city given upto the horrors of civil war. The Piace Vendome is a perfect arsenal. | two outlets, the Rue de la Palx running right | through it, “But both these outlets are strongly bar- Ticaded with square paving blocks of stone and each ts pierced for three cannon, three pointing up to the Boulevards and threo others to the Rue de | Rivoll, Several battalions are lodged inside the | Place Venddme, the inhabitants having moved out. The fusiliade upon the procession last week was fear- | ful Several wore killed—it is not yet known how | many, A YOUNG AMERICAN SHOT, One of them was a young man of the name of | Hanna, from.St. Louis; @ pt many were wounded, [heard the crack of the ctiassepota and ran to the top of our etreet as soon as I could get there. No one dared to do more than look with one eye round the corner for fear of being iit. One of the balls wok of a goud piece of the cornice of tie second story of the Hotel Splendide, and another struck the fron shutter of Dasatay’s | tailor shop op the Boulevard, and went through 1 Tae Hotel Athenée, the Grand Hotel, the Hotel Scribe, and around the Place de Nouveile Afric and | pean were occupied by tbe National Guard jor | Several days, but last Saturday night they were dis- | Missed, the hotels are again free for business; but, unfortunately, no business comes for them, Not less than 160,000 Parisians have fled the city, and of the 290,000 strangers usually here there are prova- bly at the present time not more than 500, if s0 many. Of Americans I do not believe there are fifty, though two weeks ago they were returning fast; bub they soon fled again fur the most part. There ta one American gentleman whom | meet occasion- ally at Bowles’, and the reading room there Jook: ; dismal enough. The young American who was kilied in the ug de la Paix was carried in there and Kept till some of bis friends arrived to take his body away. Large bodies of troops are arriving at Ver- gall $f constantly, Fi) some think the government As ari for & descent on Paris to upset the new overnment of the Commune whicn 18 established | bere. At present ail looks dark enough here. All of the shopa in the Rue dela Paix are closed, and all over the town in every street there are, more or lesa, shops closed till more settled times, You would naturally think, under the circumstances, that most kinds of merchandise, except provisions, would be offered cheap. Not so. Not @ thing, except stocks, can be bought jus less than im the best of times. I’ve tried Silk that was twel' francs a fast year is the same price now, at 60 on through tle whole category. It is all or porhing here. With @ third of the tenements in ‘aris empty proprictors demand the same rents as at year. Did you ever hear of such stupidity? ‘nat is not the American way of doing business. The Proclamation of the Central Committee Previous to Retirement. The following Is the full text of the proclamation, published in Paris on the 30th ult., and Issued by the Central Committee on relinquishing their fuuc- tions:— OrTitEM6—To-day we bave been permitted to assint at the grandest popular spectacle which ww met our eyes, which has ever moved our hoarts. rected and ap. plauded her rovolution. Paris oj id white leaf history, and Inscribed her mame on Two hun- dred thousand freemen have come forward to assert their ped and big ot oe pew he peal ‘am " Bd roar of cannon. spies who prowl sboxt our wails report to their Tensters what ‘volces ineue forth from the breast of an entire populatlon how they All the whole city, an er wi joa wi feats into o Foe nd aive Lv) ns falta hoa of thi Eitiny tof? Saooky! eng Soa fate oil aes “Orrinane ‘Wo revlage in vour bands (he works rou 00g: | the small Dlue drawing room at the City Hall, to the | which | j rance, | tion—Vhe Guilllstine Next—Che Coat of iied | 690,000 from tue money chests of diferent railways, | do jess than take posession of the government | Tt has but | fided tous. At the Inat moment of our ephemeral power, be- foro wo definitely resume our places im tro National Guard from enta called aa torch, we wish to retura you our th ied In our task by your admirable patriotism an ur wisdom we hare, without violence, but witl Weakness, reco mplished the conditions of our task, fin our mareh by the loyalt suming government, we Jeauing on you, to prepare. @ radical revolution with! days. Our actions &re known to you and it is with th » of having mplished our dusy that we q ut Fettered & id 4 if pinion we wish to say that any ave established your power principally, oy your generosity. feels the necessity of reyeneraton—ot elect of to-day, They wilkoot 3 fac! iis labors by devoting yoursol ‘the rete ur judgment. But before been done throu a. aim @loud that San al cabanas and lawful If you have brought forward olaims an: ra8nds, yu have never retaliated, “France, gulity of wen A years’ Weaken ranoy ond nce by means of calm Wore your livertios witt be enoruedioally desendod depends upon yourselves, and bears its own rew: therefore, round your Commune bg’ confidence ven necessary reforms, | Brethren, amon, ‘ourselves, guided bj ur brethren, | maroh firmly and bre iy on the Seat the future. ve erample to others by showing thein the valu of ib | youwil ausurediy arrive at the intended goal—the universal [ere follow the sigaatures, Tho First Proclamation of the Com o— The Members et tho Versailles Government Stigmatized as Crimiuals—What the Com- 0 is Going to Do. The Journal Ofictel of the Commune of March 30 has the following proclamation:— CITIz8N6—The Central Committee has deposited its pow- era into the hands o. the Commune. The vote of March 26 } bas sanctioned the victorious revolution. A oowardiy and aggressive Power has acized you by the throat. You bave in | Your legitimate defence driven ous of your olty that govern- ment which wanted to dishonor you by forcing upon you some kin, To-day these criminals, whom you did not even desire to punish, abuse your gencrosity to organize at the ey, gates of your city a hotbed of monarohical conspiration, ‘They pro- voke civil . They set to work all their cor: tools; | accept the responsibility of these demon's deeds; they hay even dared to zo begging to the toreizner, asking his support, eae exocrable plots to the judgment of France and of the whoie world, , you are about to inaugurate institutions that will defy ali their crtminal attempts, You are masters of your destiny, “bifengtheneil by your support the representatives whom ‘you have nominated will revair the disas. | | tere caiked by the “de‘imet power, Industry and | commerce, which are now paralyzed, will receive a vigorous impulse, The public service will bo re-eatab- lished and simplifed, The National Guard, henceforth the only armed force of the city, is to be reorganized without | delay. ‘Those will be our iret ucts, The olected representa | tives only ask tho confdence of tho people in order to {nsure } the triumph of the republic. As far og they are con cerned they will do their duty, THE COMMUN OF PARIS. Decrees of tho Commane. Fir-t--Conacription is abolished. Seomud-—No other armed force than the National Guard can be created or {troduced into Part Viird—AN citizens not minor tlonal Guard, The employés of the publio service will hencefor- Ward consider a3 nail and void all orders and com- Taunica‘ioas coming from the government of Versatiies or its adherents, Every employé or functionary who witl not conform to this decree is to be iminediately dismissed. are members of the Na- | kho Organization of the Communal Com. | mitices. | The Commune has appointed an Executive Com- mittee of seven members, and has atvided itself into nine sectloas—Finance, War, Justice, Public Safety, Subaisteuce, Education, Labor and Ex- change, Moreign Department, finally Municipal Ad- mintstrattioa and Pablie Service. ‘The following is the orgauization of tae committ Exgoutice Oommittee—Citizens Eudes, Bridon, Vaillant, Du- val, Lefrancais, Fellx Prat, Bergeret. Hinsnce OrnmmitteeCitizens Victor Clement, Farlin, Tourde Bosiay, Rez ey Committso—Citizens Pindy, Eudes, Bergeret, Du- val, Chardon, Flourens, Ranvier. Julictal Comm tee—Oltizons Ranc, Protot, Leo Meillet, Vermore}, Ledrolt, Bablok. Rdal,. Bipsae: week of Puric 8 fety—Cityzens 01 aul Ber! ‘Oudet, Chalain, Girardin. i yaaa iga Way: and Me tny—Citizens Parizel, aii | Committee | Oatyn, Clex |. Coyne | eens Fi son, Puget, E { Ned of F’ { Dereure, Chamapy, Emile Glemeut, Fortune, Heary, Binyfictiures and. 'Crude--Cil- isz, Dupont, Avrail, Loiseau, Tin- Comat nc—Citizens Delescluze, Rano, Paschal, Grouset d, Ch. Girardin, of Public Sernice—Citizens Ostyn, Billoray, Clem- Mardelet, Mortier, Rastoul. i Commiec— Citizens Jules Valles, Doctour Gou- pi Lefuvre, Urbain, Albert Leroy, Vendure, Derauy, Loc- yar Robinet, VERSAILLES, a Be ie thyase ‘Parent, Arthur Arnould, Ant. Ar: | Tho Oath of 1789-Resolves of the Reaublicans | of 1871—A Beminiscencs of Bygoxe | Bay.-M. Thiers Susp:ced—“onfi- dence in Him Desiining, Oi hohe SEAS VERSAILLES, March 29, 1871. | ; M. Emmanuel Arago, it is asserted, reminded | some of lls culleagues the other day of the oath taken by the Nauoual Assembly in 1789. It will be recollected that the Assembly held their aeltbera- | | tions at that period at Versailles, in the Salle du Jeu ae Paume (game of fives). In the interior of tnat still be seen the following tascription; — THE OATH OF 1789. The representatives of the cities of France, con- stituted ito a National Assembly, resolved, June 17, 1739, and took on the 20th day of the same month the following oath:— We swear never to separate, and to assemble | everywhere, when circumstances require 1s, until the constitution be fixed on a solid basis. Lower down we read:— | ney had sworn It, and they accomplished their | oath. } ; ‘The reference made by M. Arago 13 momentous | and full of meaning. We are told that the members | of the left assembled in secret conciave and re- | newed the oath, promising each other to sustala the | republic, come what may. | A RBOOLLECTION OF THE PAST, | Those familar with the history of France are aware | that the signal for the outbreak of the revolution at the end of the last century was given at the very Opera Rouse where the National Assembly of the present day is deliberating. While the representa- tives of the people were debating tne officers of the , King’s (Louis XVI.) body guard were to celebrate a banquet, which, we are told, was spread on the stage of the Upera, probably on the very spot where | M. Grévy ta now presiding over the debates of his | colleagues. M. Tmers in his “History of the Revo- ; lution” graphically refers to the occurrence of tnat day—the 2d of October, 1739. The guests, he says, | “drank the health of tae royal family, but refused or forgot the toast of the nation.’’ With what singular | emotions must the writer of the foregoing lines ; Mouns the steps of the tribune! When tne little | eld man two days ago in mis peculiar manner ; in @ shrill voice shrieked out the words “I |} swear before God that you shall not be cheated” | _ 2 thought he intended to “toast the nation.” large numoer of members of the leit think other. wise. M. Tilers made allusions to the monarchists, | which they hold to be hypocritical, ‘But iet him beware,” said one of them; “I shall be foremost in the ranks of those who will chastise the traitor.’’ These words were uttered by a gentleman holding a prominent position among the deputies, a man of ‘wealth and influence, a man old enough to be father. As for myself, | cannot imagine that M. Thiers, @ man who knows so well the history of his own country, should prove a traitor to the republic. The reply to this objection is that M. Tilers obsti- nately refuses to listen to the counsels of the old | republicans; that he persistently holds them at a respecttal distance, and that he surrounds himself only with members of aristocratic pro- clivities. I was enabled to assure the gentieman that be was laboring under a wrong impression. Long before this Assembly met at Bordeaux I had ample opportunities to watch the movements of those belonging to the party alluded to, and I added that J could iT witness to the fact that so far from bet surrounded by aristocrats the contrary ‘was probably nearer the truth. I had observed that a pore round lot, who immediately after, and even prior, to the armistice had been basking in the sun- shine around the residence of M. Thters, had gra- red, and that those very men 1ound dually disappeat themselves at this juncture wi ifully exposed to the cold. My friend, the Deputy above mentioned, smiled incredulously at this assertion. Tne opinion he held was to the effect that M, Thiers always had Tully & any over Dis last apcech although Ne calfea going over his although he cal God to witness that he did not intend to cheat, he studiously avoided to make any promise as to his adherence to republican institutions. He satd our— the Executive’s—mission 1s to restore France to a of health, to procure convalesence; but, he led. itis left to your decision what the future state of things isto be. Now, what can that decision be turned to otherwise than toward a monarchy? LOOK AT THE MBN COMPOSING OUR ASSEMBLY, my friend continued, and you find that we have up- ‘wards of a hundred carrying tities of noblilty, and an grorerastming majority representing the aristo- io element of the country will facilitate the de- Thiers, and ual: @ are drift: ors to restore order, but that he employs the wrong means toward achieving thi ject; hence the; lea eves wa ‘S41 chief of the exe - of policy; thal quuivep ower, Re ‘rik vel yau obly what he will not 4 nad rotases to give formation a3 to what he redily will do. AUS OF ALL THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS aro now permanently installed atthe chatcau. In the main bullding, in what 18 termed tho Vour de Marbre ¢ Minister of Interior has been quartered, While the officera of the public works, commerce, Justice ang er departments have found accom- modation the wi ng selene the Cour yale, @ Bureau of ae ater of War and those of the have been installed tn the large building on i} re lort of the Cour dee Saraes, opposite the equestrian statue of Louls XIV, M. Thiers has pos- aeasion Of the holding the ne | attitude, The Central Commities in pubi | alééal journal says, people may be A | t SHEET. ': lately ocoupted by the Prasstan chisf, who has earaed for himself the cognomen of Wiltam the Sanguinary, While the gating have baptized M. Thiers a8 “Dodolph the First’—a familiar substi- tution for Adolphus. A New Convention Between DM. Thiers aud Priace Bismarck--Tho Strength of the Army of Paris Raised to 80,000. Men. The Gaxlots of March 80 gives the following a8 the latest news from Veraallles:— ‘The President of the Exeoutive has afluded in the Assem- bly to a convention, signed on March 38 in Rouen, by Gene- ‘nie, in the nume of the vonfederation, a rer sper r, In the name of the French govern- ment, +] ferms of this convention have not aby age Hlahed. “Ita prinalpal bale ig the repeat of article thres) of the treaty of to 40,000 Pp ‘men, ‘he 7 ee ve tive ren emonives in communication with thé presenta- ‘con. of Pi yu of benoel< os, hasaberlag in all ‘ogity. thousand mon‘ to communieat by felograph with M. de, ia. Article three. therefore, been modi-, amarok fnsisted that detivite time should be for the suppression of the revolt, The Chief of the Exe- howe rae, this Broessition, declaring him- opportunity, to end these terrible differences in thie on of M. de, Bismarck to foterfere in our interior relations, ‘duty of the chief of the government to rep: hen M. Thiers was interpellated as to whether the V1 sians have advanced on Paris, he replied that the advan guard of the German corps, which has made a forward move- Buea had not the mission to occupy the capital or to pacify it by force. Louls Blanc on the State of France. M. Louis Blanc, in a private letter dated Versailles, March 22, which is published tn the Limoges jour- nal, says:—The situation here, as you know, Is ter- rible, Between the provinces and Paris—tne pro- vinces, as represented by the majority of the Assom- bly, and insurrectionary Paris—there is a gulf, How will tt be filled up? Pity me and those of our friends who, like me, see the safety of France only in a Policy of moderation, the triumph of which seems, Blas, to become day by day eas probable.” ROUEN. Gencral Fabrice’s Explanation—Tho German Attitude Koward the Reds of Pavis. The Mints:er of Foreign Aifaira at Versailles has just received the following ietter:-~ Roven, March 26, 1871, M. Lr MINTeTT +4 military communication lntoly sent by the Cl tat of the ‘Third German army to the temporary commandant in Paris haa given rise to certain commentaries, People have thouzht fit to look upon that notiication as an encouragement toward the movewent in Paris. In order to remove any suspicion of the Kind {t will be suficiens to return to the authentic text of the German letter written by General Schiotiheim. ‘This letter states that outside certain eventualities, which it was neces- wary to fix, in view of the unknown power whose arrange- ments Lad not come to the kuowile:ze of the German authori- ties, the German troops wouid mamtain a peaceful (/riediich) shiny vl oti fioa~ ine expression “peaceful ‘ccephy So, FABRICE. {ion thought it desirable to chau, attitude" into “friendly attitude’ MARSEILUGS. The Revolution in the South of France—Tho Commune Declared in Marseilles=How it Was Dene. {Marseilies correspondence of the London Dally News. The Commune was really declared from the bal- cony of the Hotel de Ville by a young, and it is said briefiess barrister. The red flag was hoisted, and still waves; a Departmental and Provisional Com- mission is installed, with a view of co-operating with Paris, although what is to be done and why a change was made seems hardiy known in the city itself. My natural inquiry was why the National Guards, when they found out what had taken place, did not meet and act with vigor, The reply was they had no orders, elther from the Prefect or from Paris. ‘This is the effect of over centralization. On the 25th of March we saw several pieves of cannon dragged pest the hotel on their way to the Prefecture, boys aving taken the place of horses, and two soldiers of the line sitting quicty on the box. As I write, the news 18 that an understanding has been arrived at. The Municipal Council and Na- (onal Guard wiit act togeiner, and they have pod- session of the Hotel de Ville; but all is so uncertal Icannot vouch for the fact. { believe, however, thi absura farce of the Communisis must end here in some perme ie he all this, everything nom on a3 uaual, excepung the Cues ¥ ps. No wpeontation éa $3 ee P ada wilt ponds tions, but at the cafés and the clubs they smoké and pee as Tabs, were March, 1870, and not 1871. A large Nulhber of Garibaldians are in town, people say 1,600, some of whom Went off to Italy, but re- turned a few days ago. We are told they are paid by the Bonapartist agents. On that point, however, sats easy 1 of the Jate em- their minds. If aay agent, or irien pire, was entrusted with monéy to distrivule he Would put it in his pocket and keep it. TOULOUSE. Tho Disorders in Toulouse—Prociamation of the Prefet Count Keratry. In consequence of the disorders which have broken out in Toulouse Count Kératry, Prefet of the Haute Garonne, has issued the following proclamation:— INHADITANTS OF THR HAUTE GARONNE—I come among ou in the name of the government of Versailles, the oni logal one, because it alone represents the national will. France has suffered cruel reverses, and in order to heal her wounds she needs that unchangeable concord which insures peuce, keeps tp the morals of the population, augments pros- perity, and, most of all, tho respect of the law, which alone strengt the social equilibrium. Some individua'’s have, by odious mean: attempted to fn- flame civil war and to bring back the evils of invasion. The good sense of the public, sustained by the constitutional power, is about to do a work of justice. The republic is a fluaranieo for the rights which are dear to ua; but {t also imposes upon us great dutics. Let us remember that even the momentary forgetfulness of our duty has often led to the loss of those same rights. To spare the repubiic and the de- partment the gad repetition of those scenes of cisorder by which Paris bas been dishonored is the grand object to which I have aspired since my appointment; and with your aid I am contident of ‘mcoompiisning this object, y programme 4s pubile order, respect of all rights without regard to parties or individuals, absolute obedience of national government under the devise of the fag which I u furl ween yon and wiil uphold at all hazards. All the in. habitants of Haute-Garonno ought to tind shelter under its protecting fold, which covers their interests as woll as their | Persons wi liberties. To-day, more than at any other epoch 01 Repwhlique / signifies history, the cry of “Vive Ja ‘al DOUNT E. DE KERATRY, 9 #V pele Frunes ToULOUsF, March 27, 1871, NAPOLEON. The German Mittary System. An anonymous pamphlet attributed to the Emperor Napoleon has just been published at Wihelmsnéhe. It ears the title, “Note sur l’Organisation Militaire de la Confedération de \’Allemagne du Nord, Janvier, 1871,” and contains an accurate account of the military institutions of Germany. In addition 0 this there are a few prefatory remarks, explain- ing the superiority of the Prussian system and re- commending certain improvements on the same Pattern to be made in France. ‘The following is the introduction to this remarkable brochure:— Misfortune {s a stern but able mistress, She frequently teaches us a lesson which, owing to the foree of habit aud the usual short-sightedness of man, 1s neglected in days of easy prosperity. Only when fatal experience has opened our eyes are wo willing to ligtea to the voice of reason and to noti the progress made by_nefel Before the unfortunal campaign ot 1870, the French stighted the opinion of tho who thought that’ our military strength was inadequate maiotain our political position. Peoplo in Frange were in ag the advantages of the Prassiah organi- 1h consiats in universal conseripuon, a numerous able rererve, and the custom of forming corp: d° rding to the territorial division of the State. Be- © campaign the French Artillery Committce Imit that the Prussian cannon were superior to our own, and more eifective than CF we to op. pose to them. The Engineer Committee asserted that we could not have too many fortresses, and hose we Dossessed were quite competent to resiat the attack of modern artillery. ‘The same commityee objected to the pro} to raze one-half our fortresses and to rebuild the remit 13 on the system which has made Antwerp one of tt ronges t laces in the world. Itrequired the melancholy events we ave witnessed to induce an emfnent oor » Gene ral Coffinieres, to declare before a council of war that, with- out the agsiatance of the entire of Marshal Bazaine, Mets could not resist a fortnight’s siege. in, before the instructive campaign of 1310 our military administrative authorities would not ei:tertain the idea of srding coun. try into military districts and providing each with the gre required for taking tho field. In view of these fects it is @ matter of the greatest moment to inquire into the deficiencies of our organization, ee ae where improvements may be introduced. The best means o| pointing out our shortcomings is to explain the Prussian fuptem, whicn ts sixty years old, and has been continual Iniproving. To do this is the object of the present 1m A sensivie government ought to aim at baving an few so) & diers as possible under arms in. time of ‘and increas ing them to the maximum in time of war, To fuili these two desidevata tt 1s necessary to levy bie number, but to keep thom under arme only as long as re- quired lo it them for thelr tuek. This loade Inevitably to iniversal conscription, for altl to save money, buts for none fe ney, - portion of the able-bodied may be year, it is only. Just that ail shouid be ae ol ould defend the country in the hour 6 principle universal ption—a principle which satistics the demand of the human beart for omer, Tbe poor man, seeii thas the rich ts sub- ject the same law with himself, willingly Bubmits to what he might wine ider a is improved oy vere dispensation, The movuce of tl ll classes of society being represented im it; and onor and wm hoe being thus incuicated In a large part o| fol hat the manly educati the nation, ft follows ly Won must exercise considerable influence upon the destiny of the country. The Prussian army is ool in which every able- bodied man learns the profession of war and acquires the habit of doing bis a ‘be young man cal in as @ fe cruit ts not only fnatri in the detatis of military drill, but 10 learns to Appreciate the duty of fidelity to a a n- Dp the righta of ti vy ects een ol | thie Buch “an army ‘te ike tua, Ast Diaoeg erent basis to that we bare devotion to the country, An army consietin; the the nation, Instead of mercenaries, and based in th oor of authoriiy, which ie by no means 0 ry io! which the garrison of Paris is limited | resent ineere uire a modidcation, and for bot greed Mial of Fidanoe aud the Chief of Staff — th jer le yet hoped to | the on of this prin-tple there hor military Teak, nor social order. Montesquieu when be gaia that though institutions are ishet by mag man & wently ia formed by those very~i There are few more interesting investigations than those which have tor thefr object to aacertaia the Influence of wise Jaws ‘aithfully carried out upon the progress of nations, and the best meaus of couducting such an tayulry is by studylag the laws which Lave inwie a small people great. | With a view to adapt the Prossian system to France the Kuiperor then makes the following pre- , Posttions:— oS 1, Franos to be divided into fourt furnish w cpr termes to Ue exclusively recruited frou provines. 2, Consoription to be made universal, subject tigaa admitied in Pravola, of deal fp the done from the twen! to the twenty-fourth year; service in bey sy =f twenty-fourth to the twenty-elghth year i srenty sigbit ‘to the thirty- ‘year. 4. Educated mea to be admitted as volunteers to serve one year oa'y in the line, ‘he active service in the ie reserve from service tn the tia from the t rd ‘These volunteers to be elizible as oMcers in the mil as ations, a after ng the nec examin: le i see canton sus pemlcetey by peracnel sane model (which 1. The establishment of a military school on the inodel of the Berlin Military Acad 8. Above all, we ought unceasing activity, and uthority prevailing in th to noquire the strict diso the sense of duty and weapeet for e German army. Our sensed thore qualities, and we have inherited them. Reve momentarily diss} the vortex of so many ppeared in revolutions, the present misfortunes, with their invigorating intiuenoe, will oause them to revive. The system laid down by the Emperor ts simply a copy of the well known Prussian organization. Whether the French will submit to its hardships re- mains to be seen. In Prussia it required the severe experience ofthree warlike centuries and the in- bred sobriety o: the race to render it acceptable. WUsic AND THE DRAMA. At Home. A short season of Italian opera will be given at the Academy, commencing May 1. The principal artists are Miss Kellogg, Mme. ‘states, Mme, Fon- tanesil, Mme. Laura Him@la, Villani, Caroselll, Or- landim, Reyna and Susini. Tho season constste of ten nights and the opening opera will be ‘Poltuto,’? The annual Orpheonist Springtide festival takes lace at the Academy of Music on the 25th inst. ir. Jerome Hopkins, the director, has been long known for. his incessant exertions in behaif of the Orpheon schools and his indomitable perseverance in placing such a deserving institution in the posl- tion to which it 19 entitled. The preparations for the coming festival are on a grand scale, and a capl tal musica) treat may be anticipated. In the Country. Little Nell opens at the Park theatre, Brooklyn, May 14. Dody Bidwell has given up her proposed trip to California. Marion Mordaunt, the inflexible, is at the Globe theatre, Boston. The Lingard Combination open in Titusville, Pa., for one week, on May 8 The Tony Demer Pantomime Troupe play at Wood's Museun ihis summer. John Stetson, of the Howard Athonsum, Boston, arrived in this city on the 12th inst, Emma Ross, the clever danseuse, appears at the Gtobe theatre, Brooklyn, next week. John Brougham opens a four weeks! engagement at the Globe theatre, Boston, on June 12. Cotton and Archer and the Benzeloy Brothers have been engaged for Dr. James L, Thayer's show. Bob Butler, pantomimist, has been engaged for the Globe theatre, this city, and will open om Aprit 24, Isadora Cameron will Lindale § BIN, at Niblo' Garden this summer during the F. 8. Chanfrau en- gagement. Uliver Doud Byron produces his drama of ‘Across the Continent” at We Glove theatre, Boston, opening there om July 3. Robert Strathers and Jenny Gourlay will shortly leave for Europe for the purpose of playing in the provinces and in London. Little Vic, a.very talented little protean child actress, opens at the Globe theatre, this city; also Signor Gaston, the fire eater. The Imperial Japanese troupe were to have left Liverpool on the steamer France about April 19 and may be expected here about May 2. Ella Wesner continues at the Globe theatre, this clty, She has had offers trom another manager in Unis city, which she quickly refused. E, T. Stetson with his drama of “Neck and Neck” made quite a sensation in Pittsburg tho past woek. This week be 18 io St. Louis and next week in Buffalo. at ‘tony Pastor goes on the road this summer for @ travel! ie {pur ‘with a first class variety company. ‘Thas Re rat fais Toff lias himself been travel ling fa Bix $6its, and he will positively appear each town as advertised. “ 1g wee ELBA John P, Smith plays the LeMngwell Combination” at Springfeld, Mass., onthe 14th anu 15th mar 1d, Providence, R. 1., four nights, commencing on th 1oth; Worcester, Mass., 2ist and 22d; Springflel 24th Hartford, Conn,, ‘26th and 20th; New Havon, 27th'and 28th; ‘Newark, N. J., 20th and May 1, aud Bridgeport, Conn., 2d ana 3d. 1 Dr. James L. Thayer is organizing 4 firat class show through Colonel T. Allston Brown, tor @ sum- mers traveling tour, opening in Jersey City on May 1, for along season. The Doctor will viait all the principal cities near New York and then travel West, He willgive his entertamment under canvas, and everything will be new and of the most elaborate description. Fanny Herring arrived fo this city on the 12th inst., after a seven months’ tour through the Now England towns, where she has beena great favorite, with the Boston Comedy Company. She goos to Montreal for next week With the same company. She plays with a dramatic company at Tony Pastor Opera House for the summer, opening June 12, aad producing sensational dramas, Across the Sea. Mane. Artot las been singing in “Barbiére” at the Hague, Hermann, a classical violinist of great ability im Frankiort, goes to London this season, Signor Jaell goes to London from Trieste, In May, for the Musical Union aud the New Philharmonic Society's concerts, “Lohengrin” and “Tho Africaine” have been given in Berlin, In the latter opera Mile. Lucca. sang with great success, Rubinstein has given two grand concerts in St, Petersburg, with fabulous receipts. He has refused to go to London this season, Mr. Ella has been invited to a musical professor- ship at the London Institution, and to give twelve educational lectures next winter. . Letters from St, Petersburg speak in raptures of Bome lady pianists, educated at tue Conservatoire— amateurs quite equal to many of the estabiished pro- fessors in London and Paris, The present unhappy state of affairs in Paris hae occasioned a second exodus of artists, in the great est distress. ‘The best of the Parisian musicians, refugees in London, are now well employed. Sivort remains in London for the season, and is engaged at the Musical Union, with Lasserre, the violoncellist, from Paris, and Waefental, a viola per- former of remarkable talent, also from Paris, We are glad to know that there is a determination on the part of English musical directors to resist the focreasing demands of toreign artists for Ces= sive terms, 80 ruinous to all our éntérepreneurs. At Presburg a musical drama, by Herr Richard Hagen, entitied “Der Brdutigam in Erwartung,’? has been very successful; the music is, accordi to Scaaor ts Zeitung, melodious, fresh original, Sir M, Costa has organized a fine orchestra for her Majesty’s Opera, including a number of musical refugees of first rate ability in every department. There 18 every prospects of something like a good ensemble under his baton. M. Raphael Félix was neither killed nor wounded at the massacre of whe place Vendome, as has been announced in the ae He opened the London Lyceum‘on the 13th April with tue artists of the Vaudeville Theatre of Paris. Mile. Déjazet 1s about to leave London for Brus- seis to full an engagement made some time but other artists of talent and repute have been en- faced for Charing,Oroas, and the French playa will continued with’ fresh attractions aud @ new re- pert It is now definitely arranged that a Shakspeare celebration shall take bce at Stratford on-Avon, on Monday, April 24, and probably be extended over the follo pA ‘The details are not as yet com- pleted, but the leading feature on the Monday will consist of a grand banquet at the town hall. At tho opening ceremony of the Royal Albert Hall on March 20 the principal singers were Mme. Lem- Miens-Sherrington, Mme. Patey, Mr, Vernon Rigby and Mr. Santiey, The arrangements for the or- chestra and cho! were made by the red Har- Lt Society, under the direction of Sir Michael ost The Rivista Zuropea announces the great success of a new comedy in five acts, ‘ll Denaro,” recently yecortes in Naples. The guthor, the Princess of uperauo, is, it 19 sald, a utante as a dramatic writer, and what is most extraordinary makes her début at the yenerable age of elghty-two. Herein is hope for Dr. Vellere. Mr. James Fernandez, of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool, was specially engaged by Messra, Web- ater and Chatte! for the part of Claude Frollo, in Mr. Halliday’a new piece at the Adelphi, on Ki jonday, which 1s fo be called the “Little Gyp a Furtado is Esmeralda; Mr. T. 0, King, the tragedian, Quasimodo, the dwarf, Victoria 18 nowise bohind in musical culture, rogramme of the Melbourne Philharmonic A ote in whioh we notice as the chief aearee. before us, Mendelssoba's “Reform: Symphony” and sir Julius Benedict’s cantata of “Baint Ceoila,” The Apread of the maéstro’s influence to thé enda of the: rth comes appositely ai the momont when ne has | deservedly earned a compliment at home, We regret to announce the death, at Brass the Icarned musioal erie, é and M. Fetus, at the age of seven recently written the veno; ne proleasor oj the consequences of ne late war, ae to give \ asylu hot fewer ten of his family. Nevertheless," ron, 1 am steadily at w ork with my and >aye fust terminal we