The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1876, Page 5

i lbs ‘ . ~ , PARISIAN FUMES. Looking at the Eastern Drama Between Cigarette Puffs, MIDHAT’S. COUP DE THEATRE. A Sign That France’s Future Still Is Safe. Stage Jottings—Tamburini's Obsequies— Another Tenor Fails. ae ali COLONY AMUSEMENTS—THE lacie FASHIONS. [BY caBLE TO THE HERALD. ] HERALD BUREAL, NO. 61 AVENUE DE L'OPERA,) Panis, 6. ) ‘We feel in Paris just now hike the people at a } \ theatre who lave sat out two or three dull acts of @ Rew picce and are privately informed that after ail we are going to witness an exciting “situa- tion,” to be followed by the brightest kind of dia- logue and leadingup to a climax of sublime inter- | est. The piece in progress is “Le Propbete Egorgé,” and the coming act is the confereuce of Christian physicians whose ironical comments ou the amount of live blood remaining in Istam are to be uttered to a sinister accompaniment of sharpen: | ing knives, This ‘s new, and is expected to tickle _ ‘the morbid tastes of those exquisite Parisians who took buta faimt interest in the realistic contortions of Mile. Croizeite as she died of poison in “Le Bphinxe” with a green-yellow light upon her face. Here is a people four centuries in Europe with | homes and familics and rooitrees beneath which thirteen turbaned gencrations have sat cross- legged waitiag now for the word which may come aby aay out of the northern snows, bidding them to answer for their existence im Europe at the edge ~ pf the sword, With millicns of this fierce Mosiem race to fiji in the background, their naked sciml- tars glittering upon their knees, no wonder that Paris Is gratified at the prospective scene. Every one expects this, but only a few have been whispered of the counter stroke—a true coup de thédtre— | which the Grand Vizier Midhat Pacha mtends to Introduce into the play. When everything 18 ready for the consulting Christian physicians, and two hours before they sit down in plenary conference, Midbat will proclaim, like an Oriental Cagliostro, | that he has given the moribund Ottoman Empire a | new constitution, and with the aid of a galvanic battery hidden under the patient’s bed, the Sick Man is expected to go through a series of convul- sive movements which may be a little angular, but are anticipated to be quite itelike. Meantime Mid- hat talks defiantly. Such ure the hints we get | @€ring the present en(r’ acte of the incidents in the bext act of the Eastern drama. TUE TURKIS:. REFORMS. Midhat, in the new constitution, cerfainly takes Mie ground from under the complaining friends of the Christian subjects of the Porte, unless the lntter, notatiy Russia, thmks that the Turk “pro. | tests too much.” In any case it will be ex, | tremely dificult for the Porte to keep its word. The new constitution abolishes the post of Grand | Vizier anc establishes representative paniamentary institutions, with ministerial responsibility. It grants perfect equality to all the Sultan's subjects, with entire toleration to all religions, It embraces radical judicial and financial reforms, mixed tri- bunals being a marked feature of the former. It provides for a consolidation of the national debt | and promises an immediate payment of the long suspended interest. This is a programme which may well take away the breath of the plenipoten- tiaries; but the grim doctors will go on with their diagnosis and prognosis all the same, and war will | depend on the will of Russia just as before. NOT FOR BELGIUM. The scheme of the compromisers on the question of Bulgariam occupation. by which the soldiers of the interested Powers—Russia, Austria and Eng- Jand—were 40 be kept off Turkish soil, whiie Bel- gian uniforms were to keep militant Christianity | before the eyes of the stiffnecke) Mohammedans, has received a quietus in Belgium's definitive re- fusal to have anything to do with it. Belgium thinks that, having long been the battle ground of Europe, she would only undergo another disagreeable expe- rience in providing uniformed shuttlecocks to be played in Bulgaria between the battledoors of Rus- | bia and Turkey. A CRITICAL MOMENT TO QUARREL. Intelligence drifts in through chinks here like fine is a coolness be- ( - show on acokl wind that there tween the Cabinets of Berlin and St. Petersburg. If it is not futended to throw dust in the eyes of Europe, there is more possibility of peace behing this story than ali the reforms Midhat couid devise or all the bluster England covld make. NOME POLITICS. The conflict between the Senate and Assembly on the question of the budget causes some anxiety here, but Mine. Jules Simon has been received at the palace of the Elysées, and the country 1s sate. THRATNICALS DULL. ‘The theatrical world here is “fat, stale and un- profitabie.” ‘The only theatres doing well are the Frangais and the Pulais Royal. The other twenty- Give establishments are iosing money. From ail sides comes the ery that it is the worst theatrical winter season known to Paris in fifteen years. STAGE JOTTINGS. ‘The only dramatic novelty of the week has been the production of a dreadfully immoral comedy at the Vaudeville. It is entitled “Le Passé,” and is written by a woman, } ‘The tenor, Piazza, made his début at the Italiens | this week, but failed ingloriousiy. TAMBURIN. ‘The obsequies of the ouce great singer Tambu- rini took place at the Church of the Madeleine to- | day. Me died atthe ripe old age of seventy-six, after twenty years of retirement, much of which he | spent at Sevres, The wemory ofa voice that held | sway in the good old times of Grisi, Persiani and Viardot, and of Rubini and Lablache, attracted many to the services who look buck operatically to thirty odd years ago and sigh over our present bs <* iNTOCRATIC IMMORALITY. ‘The trial of the Count de Germiny, charged with i gborribly jmmeral crime, commenced to-cay with | ciesed doors. TIVE COLONY'S AMUSEMENTR Tre Amorican colony is devoting itself this winter . toscok mid und preity amusements as clerical wa I | of the charges brought against him before the Highth | sarily be thrown out of ewployment, | establishing opera upon a secure and permauent basis. | turns out that it bas affixed tothe usual subsidy tho by way of counterbaiance, opened its doors to | Americans. VASHIONS. The new Russian paietot for ladies is of a white, shaggy cloth, trimmed with sable fur, it is called “Je paletot ours.” Our wags im passing it say they would not object to hug from that kind of bear. SHARK SKIN. Articles that were formeriy made of Morocco leather are now made of shark skin, and husbands { are reminded of that voractous fish itself, whea their wives exhibit gaping and empty purses made of its skin, There is a French epithet which is likely to render articles made irom the shark (requin) vather unpopular with those ladies who do not carry the passport of youth upon their face. ‘The expression is ‘vieille requinquce” —cescribing age skipping avout in the frippery.of youth, CINDERELLA TRIDMINGS. ' Everything in female attire 1s worn with frayed edges, making It diMecult to distinguish ragyed dresses from whole ones. H THE HERLING AxT, Movable heeis have been invented for ladies’ shoes, so that a belle may, at will, proportion her | height to that of the genticman who hapyens to be | her beau. be | PARIS code 1 THE DECISION IN THE LATE LIBEL SUIT AGAINST | THE FIGARO—THE EASTERN QUESTION—-REa- | SONS WHY OPERA IS NOT A PRRMANENT SUC- CESS IN AMERICA—THEATRES, GOOKS AND PICTURES, ' Panis, Dec. 1, 1876. The acquittal of M. de Saint Gemert. ci the Figaro, Chamber of the Tribunal of the setae, constitutes the leading event of the week. 1 is clasmed by the Bous- | partist organs as a triumph, though how an ecquittal | on purely technical gronudy can be regurded in that Hight it is dificult for impartial observers to under- stand. ‘Tbe Court simply decided that an attack, or 1 a libel as it should properly be called, on certain specified embers of the Senate and of the army does not constitute av attack upom ether as a cou- stituted body, and that asthe parties ibelied have preferred no complaint there was, im reality, uo case beiore the Court, This judgment 13 gousenant with sound law as weil as common sense, und ft is to be re- gurded as a triumph for the liberty of the press | ratber than us a party victory, The trial was chiefly interesting irom the fact that, al- though he had securea the services of ono of the ablost’ advocates at the Frencl bar, M. de Saint Genert thought proper to make a speech in his own deferce. So far as the yppiause of a court crowdea with the adberents of bis opinions was con- cerned, bis speech was unqaostionably a success, but a disinterested observer, on reading it over in the columus of his journal next day, could pot tail to be struck with the fact that, asin tho case of M. Paul do Cassuguac, the trial was sought to be mado the medium of a party demonstration at the expense of legal de- | corum and propriety. As to the provocations offered | to the republican Senators and soldiers jibelied to in- stitute prosecutions inaividually, 1 need not say that they will prove utterly futile, They are tov pradent to afford the faction trom whom these attacks cmanuto u chance of proving that it has stili somo vitality lett 1n it, a fact which, from iis continual defeats, peoplo are beginning to doubt. As regards THE EASTERN QUESTION, very little hopes ure entertuined ere that the Confer- ence will succeed in doing more than to strip the pretences of the Powers meet concerned of their fulso | coloring and expose to the world the true motives of ther action, ‘That war will break out early in the | spring, if oot sooner, is the tixed opinion of all persona here who are competent (o form a judgment upon the matier, and cousequently all those whose interests are likely to be affected by it are preparing for this result. T need not tell you that the o eto which these anticipations give rise is producing the most mischievous consequences, The large manulacturing lirms are slacking their operations, und the winter, which always brings with it great bardship and sufler- ing ior the poor, promises to be au unusually trying ope to & large class of work people who will neces. The theatres, which had been doing sv well at the commencement of tbe season, are, with Lwo or three exceptions, all los- ing money; and, curious to say, uoue are more aflected than the operas, which are supposed to be almost exclusively supported by the rich, WHY OPKKA DOES NOT SUCCKKD IN AMERICA, In this connection Jet me call your attention toa movement which in time promises to offer a soiution to the difllculty which you experience 1n New York of In consequence of the failure which has attended tne effurts of all the European impresarii to equalize their budgets at the end of the year, it has been determined, | by a general reduction of the prices of admisgion, to endeayor to popularize the amusoment, and so to ren- | dor it independent of any ove particular class. Tho | Imperial Opera House in Vienna has taken the lead in this movement Ly diminishing the rate of subscription nearly one-third, including the Patti nights. It was rumored that the Russian government had relused to continue the subveution to the Italian opera; but it | condition that a considerable reduction shall be made in tbe salaries of the arista, 1 hear that it is intended te introduce the question of this re- | torm in the French Chambers aud that atormal mo- tion will be mgde not only to reduce the amount of tne | subvention granted to the Frenen Opera, but also to make ita condition of its being granted at ail inata tised scaie os sularies ehall be udupted, Which sbali admis of the raves of admission being lowered. 1 need nut point Out to you the important influence which these changes Will eXereise Upon operatic prospects in New York, ‘Vhe 4 ditticulky wineb operauc bib ad Wu eocuunter tnere uros: aguut salaries paid tourtists by tue it Was unpossivie for an Ame! unaided by a lirge subventivg, to compete with them: and, consequently, to vive the public tirst class slogera, | As the educated uudiences ut your Bastern cities will | pport none but ari lass, Lue opera had be- a esibiity with you. Toe general red e ealuries On this side Will Laturally render artists less exorbitant im their de- tmauds, aud thus there will bo a better chance of your securing Luc requisite talent for your lyrical esiablish- | meats, impresario, “ROBERT LE DIABLE.” “Robert le Dinbie’’ io be produced next wee! the Graud Opera, with stile, Krauss and Mne Vuiho as the prime doone. The mise en scene is said to be Lhe Most magniicens ever presented ou the oper- wLic stage, LUL We are so accustomed Lo preliminary an- | nouLcements of this Kind that we accept the siate. ment with “« certain reserve,” as the French say, ‘due Theatre Lyrique continues to draw immense audi cuces, the ‘average receipts being 11,000f, a tigi. In order so procure a box, or even a ‘sea’, one has to apply Uiree weeks beloreuund, It is said Ubatg at the duu ne the Frere publisbing season 1 With the exception Hustrated books for , te tne studios 1 rtists are busily at ‘&% for tho Salon Among ihe pictures exhibited at the Phila. delphia Exmibitien waa eve, @ work of romarkab’ merit, which obtained for the artist. a young Baitimore surly amedatand the warwest eulogiums trom tho press, ‘The swe artiet, Miss Clementine Tompkins, the finisning touches to another picture Which eaves tar behind everything taat rhe bad previously attempted, [tts 4 picture of aa italien gurl unravetting x ekein of thread, apd in the we fhe ple subject #he exhibits « pro- digious strength of drawing and color for so young an ars. I shyil be muck surprised If it docs not obtarm a | reach medal DR. SCHLINMANN'S i DISCOVERIES, Loox, Dee. 7, 1876 The Le:pzig correspondent of the London Times, Writing under date of December 4, gives the Jollowing narticulars about Or, Seiliemanu:— Dr, Schliemann is so busy iu cleariag the tombs on the Acropolis of Slycenw, and in carefully arranging the treasures which he bas brought to hight, that he bas no time at present to wriie a full account of his “Lt wonld require wore than a week,” to prepare even & superdcial Loxoription casures liera coliected.”? It is perhaps Bot nerally Kuown that the ©: ‘anions of Mycena are But the sole expense of Dr, Seliiemann; erything that is found by nim goes to the rpment, to ve deposited iu a national museum of ancient art at Athens, chlienann bas been accempanied daving tie progress of bis reco excavations by Mrs, Schiiemanu and some Greek scholars, lit a letter dared November 19 Dr, Schliemann writes:— “In adepth of 73g métres (23 feet) 1 yesterday brought to light three more enormous tombs, all cut | in the rock, which will have to ve empticd this Week. How great tbe veneration of the people of Mycenw was sor all these sepuictires cannot be better shown than by the unciert tombstones which | found 3 tees to 6 leet beiow those of which | wrote to you before, Whon the primitive tombstones had tor ages been hidden by she accumn!ations of rubbish their site was, povertheless, xo accurately remembered by tradition that the new Ricuuments (which are probably of the tuirteenth century fC.) were ereciod exactly on the seme spot Ali the pottery found within 2 métres (6+; feet) those rock cul tombs is inade by hand, lostrons black inside and out, or ight green or red, with rude black or dark rod ornamentation of ctrcies und spiral lines.” “Myckn.4, Nov. 2], 1876. “1 beg leave to sead you a drawing of a gold eup and a gold diadeim, as well a8 of a bronze lance tound to- day inthe tomb marked by the bas-reliet of the two serpents. In, on and about these tombs a vew world of splendid hand-made pottery comes to light, and a vast number of obsidian knives, 1 am just going to open a xepulchre of enormous proportions. Ata cer- tain height ubuve it there stands a cyelopoan artificial altar. iexpect to Gnd treasures beveath it” “Mycen, Nov, 24. “There are now in all tombs. In the sivaliest of them I jound yesterday the bones of a tnav aud a Woman, covered by at least & kilogrammes of orna- menis of pure gold, with the most woudertul archaic ed ornaments, uu the smallest jeaf is vov- th thein, to-day f emptied the tomb and still gathered there more than 6-10ths of a kilogramme of beautiluly ornamented goid leaves; also mauy ear- rings aod ornaments representing an altar with two virds. One earring ri sents Hercules slaying the = how, There were found two ep tres with wondertully chiselled crystal E y large gold und bronze vessels, 1 had id the second ;omb when J found & beau- tfully ornamented xold cup and four large brovze ves- rely. This tomb 1s the largest, and will probably yield much mere treasore. “+L huve now the firmest conviction that these are (ho which, as Pausanms writer, veloug, accord- ing to the accredited tradition, to Arteus, Agamemnon, Cassandra, Eurymedon, &e. But how different is the civilization which this treasure reveals from thi Troy! 1 write in the midst of the greatest turmoi! HOUSEHOLD ART An instructive and interesting lecture was delivered last evening in Cooper Union by Mr. W. H. Goodyear; subject, ‘*Housebold Art.’? Mr. Goodyear opened his discourse by giving tashion its proper claim. Its power was not, he said, to be despised. The subject of household art was becoming fashionable, but it was not } and many: The Modern Babylon Laboring Dis- mally Toward Christmas. HEAVY WAR CLOUDS OVERHEAD. The ~-Pantomige Preparations—Old | Faces, New Dresses. a Artistic, Dramatic and Musical Gossip— Irving's Richard, THE SPORTING —— WORLD. The Large Turf Winners of 18735 —Walking— | Rifle Shooting-—Football. —---- -——-— BOOKS AND AUTHORS. AMONG (By caBLe TO THE HERALD.) | LONDON, Dee. 23, 187" The holiday season in London has opened with a severe storm. There has beena heavy snow storm in the Orkneys, there are foods in Yorkstire and gales along the surrounding cousts. Notwithstanding the holiday preparations the streets of London present a dis- ma! appearance from ‘the snow and slush. There wil be three consecutive holidays this year, and Loudon wil, probably, during that period, exhibit outwardiy all varieties of the dull, the dismal, the ‘ead and the drowned. FEAKS OF A WAK IN THK East, Unusual preparations are’ beimg made for Christ- mas, but all circles—-theatrical, literary, social and artistic—are apprehensive that the New Year will bring war. Alirming telegrams are coming from Constantinople indicating that the Turkish govern- ment wil absolutely rejuse to allow European tn- tervention tn the internal amuirs of the Empire. ‘The proposition to tnterfere the Porte regards as a menace to its sovereignty. ANXIETY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Lord Beaconsfield and Earl Derby will remain in London during the holidays, aud the Queen, con- trary to Her Mayesty’s usual custom, stays this Christmas at Windsor. The newspapers report that Lord Beaconstleld has frequent interviews with the Queen, ‘This is regurded as an indication of the : ‘The crops have been seriously injured, a very pleasant refiectioa that it hud to become so. It was bis purpose our to add to the weight of ridicule which the maguzihe articles so abundantly supplied upon the bad taste which was so often apparent in tho interior garnishing of brown stone fronts. He proposod rather to explain by illus tration three principles of tuste on which those crit!. cisms found themselves, The lecturer then proceeded to lilustrate by lantern views the defects and perfection of architecture and ornament, The first view represented a parlor, simply, but the fact that tho room was uncarpeted, save for a large | rug. This was salutary. Stationary carpets bad been pronounced by authentic physicians as a pest house, A rug could be cleansed by trequént shakings, and \he convenience of moving it Irom one room to another was «apparent. For the samo reasons the speaker regarded curtains as preferabio vo lambrequins, In contrast to a modern side- board, whereby the uge of colored varnishes the wood wod graining of the wood became au ornament, the lecturer exbibited an ancient sidebourd, and, in’ his estimation, a much more perfect specimen of the same article, where the decoration regulated the construc. tion, Arbitrary iiney, io all torms of architecture, were objectionable, By cuntrast, # combination of simplicity and adherence to nature were preferable, For iwstance, the legs of most of the modern chairs did not evotribnte either to the beauty or strength of the chair, The use of the window pedi- ment, formerly so common in architecturo, he was happy to say, was going vut of use. [t wus an objec- towable phase of our interior vrpamenting, and was ircquently secn on hat cases, pier glasses, kc. To illusirate los = assertion «that = straight = shines in furniture were unnecessary, Mr. Goodyear exhibited a view of @ cabinet organ from Vienna in tho sixteenth contury. Lt was notices able that the carving, instead of obscuring the lines, emphasized them. To show the absurdity and decided wont of harmony iu some forms of structure the Jecturer exhibited a chandelier upbeld by a child. The child Was supporting a Weight it could not bear, A cerium adbereuce to nature was necossary, The carvings ef tho mediwval ages were sin. | ply carvings of common sense; but our copies of antique patterns were bad. In speaking of glues, the lecturer said the only glaze Otto be oought (it the servants would not orewk it) was the Vene- tan glags, It was unique in form, tastelul in design and, in the end, cheaper, Its durability and bea recommended 1 d, while it pleased the eye, tho pocket did not suffer. To use articles of domestic economy that were beautiiul iu themseives gave new pleasures to the comforts of the house and the tabic, FUNERAL OF ‘COLONEL BAGLEY. This forenoon the remains of Colonel Bugtey will be | conveyed trom his late residence, No, 32 Pike street, toSt. Teresa’s church, Where a requiem mass will be celebrated at balf-past ten o’clock. The funeral pro- cession will bo swelled by various societies ana orgun- faations with which deccased wax connected. They willform in the jollowmy oraer:—=rxty-ninth regi- ment N.Y.N.5.G., Colonel Cavanagh; | Sixty-ninth Veteran corps, Colonel Coonan; Veteran Assuciation, J. MeDonough, President; Sachems Tammany society; Geveral Committee, Fourth district; otticers and ex- olticers First division Nationa! Guard; Rx-Aldermen city, 1859, ‘61; Common Council; Columbian Su- crely ot fhe remains will be interred in Calvary Cemetery. The apecial meeting of the Tammany Society was held lost wight in the Wigwam at Fourteenth street, during the course of which resoldtions were adupied etting (he death of the late Colonel James Bay jor a long time a member of the Order, They also resoived to attend lis junerai in a body. ‘THE TAMMANY LEADER. ‘The local statesmen at the City Hall were yesterday | busily engaged in speculating as to Mr, Kelly's probable retirement from (be active control of Tam- many Hall, Sensational ramors have been im circu- tation relative to the subject for weeks past, Mr, the composer Las already netted 200,000L by uls Work, Wuicu 1s auLoUnced to be produced at nearly ail the great lyrical establishments on the Continent as Well us in Loudon. I regret vw say that the Itaiiens is not doing as welt as Was anticipated, The expenses are out os all pro- | portion to the receipts Simeo Nicolino bas been eu- caged the houses bave improved, but they are uch asthe weil Wishers of the estab desire, Itisexpecied that the 4 Sunday perturmunces will hep them maveri Letier prospect 18 Luat aftoracd by the engagement A:bani tor January and February, but lam atraia uy the results of (nis season's campaign will not encour- age M. kecudi repeat his experiment. The Italian iroupe, which bus been organized tor | Havana and whieh includes Volpini and Urban af the | prime donne, will eave frou bere next month. NILSSON'S SUCCESS IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. ‘The Nusson tour in Belgium and Holland hus beea greut artistic Success, Mme, Nilsson returns to Paris ob Sugday wextior 4 jew nights, and will then pro- eced to Vienue, She bas signed a iresh engagement witu Ulimant forthe wonths of March and Apri. The Faure tour in the south of France, under Jarrett’s tmapagement, bas diss been vory suecessial, although ithus been several umes imterrupted by Faure'« ill- ners, Gye bas gone to Viewua to conclude an engage- meut with Mme, Materoa for Covent Garden, she will make @ tour ow the Continent next winter with Uli mann. Curpi has rescinded his engagement at tho Salle Ventacour, Where Le was wot much appreciated. Muurel is singing at the Cairo Opera House, at a suary of 16,0001, a mouth, Altbough the American officers in tie Kacutve’s service are starving, trom the non-receipt of What ia due to |, his Highness con. tinues to pay the fiddlers, Dr. Bulow has enurely recovered bis health, and is as iresb aud as full of professional ardor as ¢ From italy we hear of no operatic novel yet, ved tor the coming anecen way 16 auttcy season, ‘ibe apprebeusions which exist | Kelly ts chairman of the Committee on Organization, aud Lis retirement can simp.y mean @ Vacation of this om Altorward, although « successor may be eicevd, be Wil mavage the Tammany orgunization with the game activity whica has dutinguished bin past He wili remain a member of the Geu- ommittee from the Twenty-tirst ward. OFPICE-HOLDERS ALARMED. The new Common Coune | of Newark will be over+ whelmingly republican, The mejority members bave | already beid several caucuses with a View to agreeing tastelully furnished. The lecturer culled attention to ! ! plimenutary to America. anxiety of the government test any sudden contin- | gency should arise at Constantinople. SERIOUS DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, Public feeling ruus high here on the Eastern ques- | uon, one party being strongly pro-Russian and the other as stoutly taking sides with the Turks. Diter- ences are also reported to have broken out between Lord Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury re- garding England's policy toward Turkey. INCREASE OF SMALLPOX. The health of the metropolis is satisfactory except in the case of smallpox. Seventy-five deaths have » occurred this week, which is the lughest number H reported for one week. Within the last seven weeks the number of deaths from this disease has been steadily on the increase. Six convalescent pavilions have been erected at Fulham and seven at Deptford. INVESTIGATING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. Much anxiety hus been occasioned among the | medical authorities by the government offering £2,000 sterling to the Royal Society for an investiga- tion into the causes and cure of contagious diseases, The homcopathists propose their school of medi- cine as the only remedy. VHE TICHBORNE EXCITEMENT REVIVING. The Tichborne excitement is reviving in conse- quence of the discovery of some alleged fresh evi- dence. Mr, Onslow interviewed the claimant in person yesterday and reports him as being down- hearted and il! and feeling very much exasperated at the unusual restrictions to which he ia subjected. Dr. Kenealy has made a speech, in which he said that besore the authorities would release Tichborne they would poison him. PURSUING THE SPIRITUALISTS, The Treasury hus undertaken the prosecution of the Spiritualists. A FRESH SPELL ‘The London School Board has proposed a radical ; change in the present system of spelling, and there 18 a warm discussion going on as to whether the | adoption of the phonetic system would be a reform, ANCIENT AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, An international congress has been summoned to mee: in Luxembourg next September to consider ancient American ethnology. ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPEDITION PROPOSED. The report of the Geographical Society asks for another expedition to be sent to the Arctic regions, RELIGIOUS TOPICS. The sensation in ecclesiastical circles ts the Vicar of Louth’s detlunce of the mandate of the courts or- dering him to cease his ritualistic practices. He is a High Churchman, and continues to imitate the Roman service. Anew Chureh of England bishopric is proposed for Liverpool, with an endowment of $300,000, 1 TUE CENTENNIAL ABROAD, Professor Archer, the British Centennial Commis- | sioner, has delivered an address upon the Exhibi- | tion, which contained several passages highly com. YANKEE NOTIONS FOR BRITISH BOYS. A feature of the holiday season is the appearance of American toys in the shops, to which the young upon city officers and other matters, Thero is con Giderable pressure to keep in, and an equal, if not greater, pressure to throw out some o! tho present city officials, The mayurity of the Aldermen bave agreed upon one thing—the Fedaction of salaries ten per cent, This will fall hurdest on the poorest paid—the policemen aud firemen, and tueee have begun to pro- test, A BRUTAL OFFICER. Andrew McDowal, of Washington sirect, a boy about cighteen years of age, was yestetday acting tn a somewhat disurderly manver in Weat streets, aud Otticer Moore, of the Fitth precinet, arrested hit, McDowal resisted the officer end ultempied to kick bim, when the Intter struck bis prisoner # terriulc blow with wis club across the temple, fering bim tw the earth imsenviple. In court McDowa’s face presented a frightiul appearance. large ew 4 awelling over one of his heavy welt and bulging of flesh on the The i; | was brought to court in custody “Tt the officer who cu! that mao Judge, “i'd lock him P, was here,’’ e must bea brute, McDowal, vou are discharasd, | | | | Briton turns for delight daving the Christmas festivities. WESTON AND O'LEARY. Things sporting are dull. Weston is walking at a hall in Islington and bas aroused some dissatis- jaction among his vackers, O'Leary, who has re- cently been victorions in the Black Country, chal- lenges Weston for $2,500. The newspapers are divided jn their opiaions upon the merits of Weston, 4 RIVLE MATTERS. ‘The National Rife Association has resolved upon a change in the mid-range targets. Hereafter the bulls-eye will be increased two inches in the diam- ever. or to twenty-four inches for the 500 and 600 yards range, and will be decreased for the shorter range. ‘Football is the favorive game bere for the holidagn, | cluding she performances of the Carrels, who are the Rugby rules. 4 TURF WINNERS, 187. The cutalogue of winning owners during the racing season of 1876 has been published. The four highest are:-- Count Lagrange Lord Dupptin Lord Rosebery Lord Falmouth..... ++ $0,000 ‘The Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of Marting- ton appear aumoug the smail winners, THE CF TMAS THEATRES, Almost all the theatres ure busy preparing we novelties with which, according to old custom, they delight the young and old at Cockneydom on boxing night, the night after Christmas. At Drary Lane wil be produced “The Forty Thieves,” with the Vokes Family; at Co t “Robinson Crusoe,’ with spectacular splendor; at the Adelphi, “Goody Two Shoes;” at the Pavilion, “Gulliver's Travels;” at the Grecian, “The Devil at same,” the same subject as at Old Drury; at Sanger’s, Garden, the Standard, “Gulliver and Crusoe,” one scene de- picting the winter quarters of the Arctic Expe- «dition and the Paleoerystic Sea; at the Surrey, “duck and Jill; at the Crystal Palace, “Sindbad;" at (shy? ‘This lst shows how painfuily young Eng- land needs a new tolkiore for her pantomimes, the subjects, with one or two exceptions, having been Passed around from theatre to theatre at Yuletide | for scores of years. COE VS. SOTHERN, The courts have given a new triai in the Coe case to Mr, Sothern, the verdict being contrary to the evidence. MRS. ROUSBY. Mrs. Rousby is still suffering from the injury to her face sustained in lier fall from a horse. REUWABILITATING RICHARD Lil, Henry Irving is performing Macbeth, He contem- plates giving Richard IL, with the original text de- lineating the high comedy side of Richard's char- acter, The critics are opening the question whether Gloster was as bad as he is painted Mr. Irving will probably present a sentimental, regenerated Richard. SHAUGHRAUN, A new actor is performing the character of Conn the Shaughraan at the Ade!phi. who rst played it atter the decision declaring its piracy from Boucicault to be no robbery was said to have spoken his lines tn a combination of the high Datch, broad Scotch and Yorkshire accents. MUSIC. The music of the new oratorio “Mount Moriah,’’ belng the story of “Abraham's Sacrifice,” is indif- ferent. At a special concert Beethoven's 106th birthday the Prometheus choral symphony was given, THE WROOKLYN FIRE LESSON, The Lord Chambertain has issued a circular to theatrical managers, admonishing them to take heed of the terrible lesson of the Brooklyn tire, and directing a number of reforms. ART DISCOVERIES. Two origtnal pictures, one of Mary Stuart, Queen | of Scots, and the other of Mary Tudor, Queen of England, have been discovered and added to the National Portrait Gallery. MILLAIS, Millais, the artist. is paluting a portrait of Carlyle, NEW BOOKS. Literary novelties are almost exclusively con- fined to Christmas books, fairy tales, nursery bal lads and goblin stories, and among them there ts nothing specially mentorious. Swinburne the poet attacks Carlyle in a pam- phiet on the Eastern Question. Tennyson's new drama, “Harold,” 1s generally cousidered superior to his ** Queen Mary.” The “Life of the Prince Consort,’ by Theodore Martin, will be dnished in March. Ex-Chancellor Lowe announces an article on “Reform and Public Houses.” Rénan’s fifth and concluding volume of ‘The Origin of Christianity” is announced. Anew series of original letters by Goethe has been discovered. New novela are announced by Mrs. Oliphant in Macmitian'’s Magazine, by William Black in the Examiner, and by Justin McCarthy In the Gentle- man's Magazine. Mr. Black's novel will give im- pressions of American life and scenery formed in his late autumn tour, Buchanan's “Shadow nounced successful, A JOUBNALIST IN PARLIAMENT. Leonard Courtenay, a prominent editor of the London Times, has been elected to Parliament from Liskeard as @ liberal. Sword” has been pro- AMUSEMENTS. NEW BROADWAY THEATRE. A new theatre—ihe old Wood’s Museum, by the way—was opened last night by Mr. Banvard with o “peantifur emotional drama, entitled ‘Corrinnia,”’ Miss May Hart played the title ré/eand Mr Studley undertook the beavy part of a gentleman named San Marco, The play was not a success, Mr. Banvard should change it at the earliest opportunity. The play is one of those extrrardinary pictures of the French Revolution that represents more of the burlesque than the tragedy. Everybody, laughed beartily last nighi, ond yet the play was fa ten to be tragic in charuc- ter. It was a very ridiculous opening of a new thea- tre. Criticism would bo at jault in an attempt to ana- lyze such # pieco as ‘Currinnia.” MUBIOAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Collondor’s Georgia Minstrels play in Chicago this week, i The Aquarium ts a pleasant piace in which te spend a Christmas holiday, All the variety theatres announce afternoon per- formances on Monday. Miss Emma Abbott will begin @ concert season at Chickering Hall on January 8 The Democratic Club of tho Thirteenth ward sere- naded Mr, Joseph H. Tookor the other night. ‘The new American Museum, lately opened im tho Bowery, hus already taet with decided success, ‘A Wagner musoum bas been established at Vienna, probably for the purpose of exhibiting decayed voices. A lively programme is offered by the San Franciso Minstrels for the week, including a matinée on Curiat- | mae, Mr. Carleton’s “Flying Dutchman’ and Miss Kel- logg’s “Senta” are the greatest successes of the season in Chicago. Mr, Jules G. Luimbard, one of the best bass singers jn America, bas a benetlt concertat Chickering Hail on Thursday next. George Riguold will returo to Now York in Februaryy and will play the heroin Mr. Rowe's now comedy, “Fifth Avenue,’’ at Booths Theatro, Kelly & Leon’s minat olfer a capital entertain- ment this week, including “Araminta’s Wedding” tor the frat time, A matinde on Monday, Albert Weber's concert company, at the head of which is Diss Julia Rive, the pianist, met with remark* able success on their New England tow ‘The Black Crook,” with is gorge beautiful ballet, will ve played at the Grand Opera House to-morrow afernoo jd every night The Olympic Theatre oilers w new bill this woek, in- “Open | the Aquarium, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | The individual ; 1n commemoration of | am “Forbidden Fruit,” with Mr. Lewis Morrison's com- pany, las made a hitin the Pennsylvania towns, ond Mr. Morrison ss bighly praised for his personation of Caco Dove. “Pique” will be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Builalo Academy on Christmag | afternoon aud evening by the Filth Avenue Theatre companies, The dret public rehearsal for the third concert of the w York Philharmonic Society takes pince next Friday at the Academy of Music, under the direction of Dr, Damrosen. Edwin Booth will present “Richard 1117) at the Lye ceum Theatre to-morrow night, 4 character in whieb he is celebrated. On Saturday afternoon be will set “Ruy Blas’! for the lirst time in years, “Miss Multon’’ will continue the attraction at the Union Square Theatre until turther wotice, and dew serves its brilliant success, On Christina afternvow ‘Led Astray”? will be played with a powerlul cast. Barney Wiliams torough all nis hfe lived with mother, and the affection between them was very be: 1. Her death speedily followed his, and they how rest togetber in (ue same enclosure Iu Greenwood Cemetery, ‘The Puiladelphia Journals do not agree in their opine ions of Mrs. Eleanor Ames’ new play, ‘Flirtation,’ brought out at the Chestuut Street Theatre laat week, but the ge: J opinion 1s favorable, Miss Plover wat very successful us the heroine. ihe Third Avenue Theatre, under the new title of the Washington Theatre, will be opened to-morrow afternoon by Mr, George Wood, with a full variety” | company, for a season of two weeks, Is will then be” closed tor remodelling until January 22, arden willbe reopened for the season om aflernoon, by the Kiralfy Brothers, whe will present their pew Parisian spectacle, ‘‘Agzurine; | or, A Voyage tothe Earth,"? Tho ballet will Include” Miles, De Kosa, Latournier and Gangani, Mr. Maurice Strakoscl 1s progressing favorably with his new Opera House. Within « few days a prospects will be issued, Mr. Strakosch has gained the com@- dence of some of the wost important capitallets tm this city. Mr, Arthur Gilinan is preparing a plan of the new Opera House, “The American’? will be performed every evening | this week and on Chrisimas afternoon at the Fifth’ Avenue Theatre. Mr. Daly, im accordance with a gen era} desire, will soon arrange a series of matinées o@ Wednesdays. The scenery of this theatre bus beep made fireproof, aud the sky borders are to be painted — on zine. “Dan’l Druce,” Mr. Gilbert's new drama, will be produced for the first time in America at Booth's is ‘Theatre to-morrow alternoon, It was originally brought |” | ont at tho Haymarket, London, September 11, 1876, 7 9” and there achieved success, Mr. Lawrence Barrets og will play the hero, originally acted by Herman Vesta, . 5 The ry 1s new. Mr. Helier bas arranged a new programme for the Christmas holidays, including original wonders of — legerdemain, new wusic by the goblin drummers and himself, the second sight of Miss Heller, with tt en sealed packet mystery, and (or tho frst time here the | — drama of “Mr, Punch,” who will be almost as populat as Santa Claus, to whom he is really related. The Park is the only theatre in New York at which Charles Dickens’ characters will be presented during Christwas week, yet Dickens bas done more to make” Christmas what itis now than any autbor of our century, even Washington Irving not excepted, Lotta will play Little Nell and the Marchioness every evening, and a variety programme 1s annouuced for Monday after — noon, d Polo and racing will remain the attractions at Gil. more’s Garden this week, and to-morrow afternoon there will bea special performance. There ia scone iMustrating frouticr life in preparation, ty whieb Me) Noll Mowry will show tho maunor in which be won thé, Ten Thousand Dotlar Stake in California when, mognt~ ing and dismounting while tis ponies were at full spocd, be rode 301 miles in 14h. 1m, ae +The Shaugoraun” 1s weil suited to the Christmag — season, 11 1 so full of merriment and good humor. Me, % Boucicault’s kindly genius inspires Conn with touches ~ of pathos even in his most trrepressible humor, and” the entire performance cannot but add a pleasure’ to the Christmas week, On Monday an extra per. | formance will ve given, “The Shaugbraua” wi b | cithdrawn from Wallack’s next month, whea bidden Frum’? will be’ revived. This wilt be ‘i by “all For Her,” fn which Sfr, Wallack bas appeared: with great success in Boston, i Two coach loads of beauty and mirth, done up te ‘gmail parcels iu the shape of little girls, left the Gilaey” House yesterday afternoon in oharge of Mrs, Dion © Boucicault, The precious freight was equally le between two proscenium boxes at Waliack’s, and 4 little ones epent the afternoon in fond antielpation of seving Tatters. Like the canary bird in the photo | grapher's box, Tatters did not appear, Dat leer entoyed themselves nevertheless, and applauded Conn, Amoug the party were the little ies Feetec, Lulu, Mignon, Nattie, Madge and Vernon, a four-ye old gallant, the ouly male protecter of the tor party. Mrs. Boucicault bas promised to bring to the hotel, and the young critice are inclined to Jook the omssion in the play. , Mr, Pernabo, an eminent Boston pianist, thus speaks” of Esaipoit ;— i: What a eurprise for ugall! Such o many quahties, each one ol which would make an ¢ dinary mortal grateful forever. Did uny one ever te- | fore hear a piano sing us it did ou saturday, partion- > larly in the “Curueval,” where Choptn’s musi¢ is a¢ admirably portrayed? It was impossible to the tears, that his ime cerunnly came a long tance than ‘The heart of hearts was unl and applause was ol ive, Lovingly rendered this portion of the work, not tess beautiful. was tt 4 see a (rue rendering, periect technique and a gtorl physique, the latter on important item whet herves are expected to endure such a great it a wonder tbat such a galaxy of qualities produce the marvellous piano playing to we have recently listened’ It seemed to me priate to rie (rom our seats in honor of the ance, This leads me to ask you where th ere—the persons who pride themsulves culture, and Ww! ry (0 pronounced success. Essipof returos to us in the Masic Hall, or Horticuitural Hall, will not empty seat during ber recitals, and that then muster audsences sufficteatly warm | an ovation to an artist Who came to Us unheralded as did Mme. Eesipoil, | | | | i | But a THE NEW YORK-BROOKLYN COMMITTEE. The New York-Brooklyn Relief Committee, eansfied that a suMerent sum bas been secured re | the various contributions of ube public, bas cease td wer collections, and submit the following the Treasurer :— Amount previously acknowledged. Richard Iselia & Co. Faovri & Chauncey | Scherer & Bouu Peter Moiler, ‘Total, as per Treasurer's report, r. Contributions from naa 11 to23,, Dr. Books, messengers, Paia Brooklyn canvaseset Paid New York collecto! Reding. Paid Mary Kerrigan, who iost her son Paid Mrs. John Brovsnan,..... . Balanced by check to order of Daniet Chaun- eey, treasurer Brooklyn Ciuzens’ Relief Ate — BOCIBNOD. .cecres sever scoeseven eee Total. aoe The committee have xdjourned sine dee, jy ‘The sale of ickets by the New York police! Brookiyn Reliel Fund brought $11,779, The receipts at Mayor Schrocuer's ollice, Bt | in ald of the Brooklya Theatre fre $18,980 75, The anvual election for officers of Fortitude No. 19, FP. and A. M., being the seventy-ei 4 meeting of the lodge, resaited im the chores of 4 lowing officers; —Thomas A. Craig, M. 5 Treasurer; J, AO, Stovthol, Secrewry 8. W.; T. D. Leavens, J. Witham Biddle, J. D.; Jobo Riley, Tiler; George J. Haruy, 1 8. M. of G, A. W. Pendleton, J. Gien Cove Lodge No. Mg has elected the following 0 A. Wright, Mo; R.A. Perking, 3 W.; 3. . W.; 7. 8. Brod ecretary. y A GOUD SHOWING, ‘The receipts {rom persounland roal ts k amounted to $100,643 oad as 2 Sad om Rnirey