The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1877, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1877.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. = CAR The Festivities in Ancient and Modern Times. MEDLEVAL MERRYMAKING. - The Carnvial in Rome, Veniee, Paris and St. Petersburg. a In view of the approaching delivery of this city over to the rnie of His Majesty the King of the Carnival the following sketch of the ancieut families from which he descends, of their history, mighty deeds, and of the honors and allegiance given them by their subjects will be found especially interest! It will be seen that His Majesty who will reign over us on Tuesday is not descended like his royal brother of Now Orleans from Old K Cole and the Goddess Terpsi- chore, but bas amoug bis ancestors the very respect: ably connected gods, Bacchus, Saturn and Lupercus. With their origin shrouded in the mists of antiquity and still redolent with the flavor of heathen mythology, the mid-winter feasts of our pagum ancestors come down to us, and the Mardi Gras festivities which close with one whirl of revelry the celebration of the carn val are but the Christian substitutes for the Bacehan- alia and Lupercalia of the Greeks and Romans Coeval with the spread of the Lavn races m pagan and Christian times throughout Europe and America these pagan festivities have gradually taken root in the heurts of the people. The heads of the primitive Uhureb, instead ot taking away these feasts trom the converted races, wise brativas having insunate feasta of the Church, and erly celebrated tn honor ave now the culmination association witi the the festivals form- of of the fes- year’s Uvities prior to entrance into the solemn season of Leat—the “carne vale,” or farewell to meat, This in- timate axsoviation of the worship of the supernatural with tangivle festivals Las in all ages been a wise ar- Tangement of the priestliood, TRE ROMAN CARNIVAL. ‘The origin of the term carnival 1s variously stated. The most probable derivation is that of carne vale, spoken of above, but some suppose the ferm to como trom carnavatiare (to swallow meat); meat in Italy be- ing most used during that season of the year, The Church in itaiy toliowing out its wise policy of com- promise with what. is knowmas ‘he world’ has aiways favored the carnival, though itself engaged ag this time in preparing for the solemn season of Lent. The magnificence of the Roman carnival reached its ght during the reign of the great Farnese Pope ul LIT, frou 1634 to 1539, The coflers of the Chureh aud the Roman State were overtlowing with the tribate of Christendom, and ber faithful subjects delivered themselves up at this, as at all times singe, with char- ucieriste enthusiasm to this great eflerveycence of hu- man vitality, ‘Ube celebravion consisted in races on the Via Lat as the Co from this us in sn wants which tok the ‘Ajora,” now Known as the Pia on the Momte Testaccio. Navona, aud they took place, as had been the custom trom orial, onthe open ground near the Porta auo, not lar from where the Protestant lies. In these days the Prizzo del tstarting point, not being m exist- ence, the horses were started from 1m front of the Arch of Dowitian, the course being as far asthe Plazza de Vevezia, On each of the eight days consecrated to the festival there were races There were races tor boys and mer of diflerent ages, tor asses, for buifalovs and tor Jews. These latter were compelled to run, and it fs said that the later custom ot running riderless rose from the Jews being allowed to furnish now Pepulo, the pre cemetery A MEDIRVAL CELEMRATION From # contemporary description we learn that the spectacles on the Monte Testaccio consisted in bull- Duiting, in Which thirty-six mountevanks, clad In sear- Jot und armed with iron-pointed poles, acted us pica- dores. In one of these matches we are mformed that thirtecn bulls were slain, Six curs, each ornamented with 4 blood red standard and contaming 4 well tatied live pig, were sent down umong the people trom the stint of the monte, aud thereupon ensued a great mbling for the possession of the cars and con- “SIX cavuliers, dressed as knights of vld, in iks and rich s of gold and sive! bestridin nile: , Were a feature of the were the Cardinal Farnese, the C the Dukes of Camerino and Flora, broth dona for r » ember were rna, the first pcond for ridden hoi The prizes were banners of guid On the concluding day a ra took plu Balls aod suppers mau nobles at the different palaces, 1 at that or the Caflarell popes, though eucoura uy of the abuses which duaily crept ito the celebration, prominent among which were the indiserimiuaic scattering of Qour, dust or earth by the maskers on the populace. These materials were dope away with and the more pleasant showers of flowers and bon buns were sub- iutuied. By this time racing of the Barberi, ag the Huerless horses were calied, beikg im jormer ¢ Barbary stveds, had uiready become a feature, ws to- tay they are the on TH PRESENT KOMAN CARNIVAL. The Carnival as it 18 now celebrated in Rome lasts ux OF say seven days, on one of which a gala driviaft, b carriages up and down the Corso takes p.ace, when irom the balcomws above and between the cerriag > Uquets aud louse flowers are showered. On this o cusion flowers alone ai lowed, but on the other brocade and of velvet. of asses and bull ator dayssinall plaster pellets, KNOWN as confellt oF corian= doli, are t munition used, and represent the comilts of sugar, iormerly common. The b nies on the palaces aud’ dwellings on the Corso are cecorated with hangings of silk. cloth or cotton, in scarlet, yellow aad purple or blue wad are filled with the brighte tue streets beneath are crowd ing, ora castle overhang the street ed Roman ladies, while 1 with a motiey gather Floats placed ou curts representations 0; ships, ned by the jeunesse hike their tair adver- keep up a fire upon the occu. the surging muiti The jadies and in the y & note-concealing bouquet finds 1s bil The rouguer ciass plontitully besprinkle each other P uot With them with the Hine masked and unmaskes ; g by those who enter into the heat of the fray, to protect the face trom the rather severe blows of the litte plaster bullets. All disguise their voices, mostly aifecting a shrill falsetto, and laughter and sbrieking cries minghng with the shouts and exe discomiture tll the 4 ab vel ot s wit coming At (this season the Roman is seep at oD riots tik & variety of Imper- re kept up with the most minute and action. Mythological charac. wnto full pia his best; his imaginat Fonwtions whic huelity as to d ters are | and represeutations of antique Stucues are of tkably well doqe, The rippling endeace of the tongue whieh lends itself 10 | many a Weaning, produced by a sight | inflection or ashghtly diferent termination, 18 now beard at its best. Among the maskers one forgets tb pd it would etal as tt ry Joy of cin that lite wa ae bubol m a glass of ving seems to brim over workday W ary, ireo ar shathpagive. tue people The TUR RAL Shortly before the hour aunounced for the reees the , As the street wide lane is Ho, Impatient held until is ready by richly A rope is atretched across the strect n by the wade lor th tor the start, uressed grooms, goals hi the Piazza dt Venezia et ts stretched across the street, ata spot known as the Kipresa det erberl, Accidents frequently ocoar to madvertent persous during vt who get kine horses, ‘These latter lo theit trappings, Which ace trickers, Which gre set of much imterested in Winning as are their owners d ked over by the t vd They suow this in every movement. ‘These races luke plice on the aiternoon of eacn day ot ibe Jestival, increasing iM interest up to tho truco on dbrove Tuesday. prize tor th winner 1s paraded through t the race by She grooms of tho Winning horses, The races were fiscontiaves in LSi4, but resumed in 1976 by the wish di the people, During the Caraival many private aud public bwils are given im Rowe, and’ tue veglio oF masked Dutls at the theatres Ybe celebrations in Vevico—which once was ri owned for its Carnival—larin, Fioronce, Mila, Na- pies and other Italian civies are similar to those beid in Rome, with the exception of the ruces of the Bar- béri and’ the sport of the woceoletts (tapers) which only take place m Rome. THe MOCCOLK ‘The latter ts @ peculiar custom much merriment. 1b commuener alter suuget, Everybody |v the ju curriuges and ou the balcon Hghied taper, and, while prowcting their own hgut, girive by the tapping ef bavukercniels aud otner mmeans to extinguish (hose of (ew neignoors, crying maxaure!’? (Kili) at cack attenipi. The scene is au ting aod amasing one, the wyrind hiyhis flashing ber abd thither, wow OUrHID. Drignuy wand then ex- Linguishedy the shouts ud Gries of the besiegers aud Denieged, with the ready Halwn wit veard on every Bid AL mnidnight a colossil Bgure, co biemationl of the caftival, 16 burned, with gr. p, winid ho ches of the populace. DOW weary eXiousted with reve The Curnival of Venice, WHIGb vuce wae so Pex th , Which gives rise to ou Mardi Gras, just 4, on tne brid i@ provided with a ir eee od, hus Bow dwindled dows tw the appearance at some few musks, Who enack mumMerics und dance pon a sage erec ed om the Miazea of San Marco, op- IVAL. | translormed them into cele- | place ou | Belore the races were given | on the Corso, which was first done in the days ot Pope The prizes awarded were flags known | sund | Posite the eptrance vs we Yoge's Palace, In Italy, Weil as in this and other countries, the caraival 1s nade ‘he means ot attracting trade to the various cities, and elt the municipahties strive as to which shail offer the most tuducements to strangers and country peyple Lo their cities and share in the celebration. TUK CARNIVAL IN GERMANY. lu Germany Shrove Tuesday 1s known as Fustnacht (last wight), and in pagau times the fair-baired bar- barians of Middle Kurope celebrated at tais season feasts known as the “Spurcalia,’ at which they ol- fered sacrilices to their God, the sun, because in this month he commences to ascend higher in the heavens. At the present day in most of the Catholic cities of Germany Stason is sigualized by celebrations of more or less splendor, with processiops, geueral mas! ing and bails. ‘The different societies, and notably the ‘Turovereins, play a prominent part. ‘hore of Vienna, Prague, Pesth, Munich, Wurgourg, Salsbarg, Augs- burg, Mayened and Cologne are the most rehowued, especially those held im the latier city. < PRANCK, In Paris the carnival season is made especially brill- | fant by the vumber of private and public bails, mauy of wich are masked, Tne balls at the Upera ure e3- pecially celebrated, as ore those at the Chatclet Theatre, On the Sunday and Mougay preceding Mardi maskers make their appearance in the streets pli all sorts of pranks or ride around in curriages chail- | ing their co-inaskers and the amused bystanders, The | day's jollification genoraily winds up at one of tre | very ‘spicy musked balls, and on Mardi Gras the prize fat ox of gras is paraded through the streets by a pro- cession of gayly dressed butchers headed by a bsud uf music, The ox has been an object of compe- tion among the butchers, and the one who bid the | highest at the auction paid very dearly for his whistie, | but be uses the fact for un advertisement through. ont the year and the meat of the animal sels ata tmey price. The ox is usally garlanded with flowers and laurel iewves and covered with rich tupesiry. A cbid, beautifully dressed, and called the roi des bouchers, who formerly rode on the prize ani- mal, now foliows in achariot, ‘The procession usually visits the embassies, hotels and the houses of prominent citizens, it being usual, upon their appearance, to sena out a contribu- tion toward delraying the expenses oi the show. In 1790 the carnival was proptbited in Fraace, and Was Lot celebrated until, upon the appoinument of Na- | poleor as First Consul, this festival was restored to | the pleasure-loving Purisians, In the principal cites of France the celebration of the exrnival is kept up with more or less euthasiwsm in some splendid ageaut whieh passes through tne streetg, and bails are given im the tneatres, The day koown Mi- | Careme or Mid-Lent is also celebrated with masking ' 1 | | { i } i | { and balls, CARNIVALS IN GENERAL, | tivities, which in ail the great cities of the empire | take place on quite s grand scaie, fhe caraival weck | 1s one given up to revelry gud mirth. aud though there are Lo puolic processions, there are brilliant pageauts and balls ut all the principal clubs, At Petersburg balls are given in the Winter Palace and on the 1c bound Neva, On the river the maskers and others dance on skates inside ot huge ballrooms erected on the frozen surface, On the river ice pyrainids are built audat uigbtin the hollow ioterior lime iights are burned, producing a beauttul effect. are at this season tn full swing and the swilt tovoggias p the ico tack, Many puo- d und unmasked, are given ghide in crowds down and u| hie and private balls, mai 1m the theatres and elsewhere at the capital, Kiev and otber principal cities, Darimg the carmiyal Week parties of maskers Visit private are entertained by the inmates, One who youches tor the party mentions his Dame or gives his card, and the whole party, it the leader Is known to the master ol the house, tre then entertained, daucing tukes place and a supper ends the revelry. Dering this season caviar and a species of pancukrs are eaten belore diu- ner. Lu the market pluces booths, Improvised tavatres: und otuet shows are erectod, und the cities ana towns are filled with the country peoply Sleighing 1s carried on with great vigor, aud’ gay parties dush alony the | snowy streets iu tue large tbree-horse frika sleighs, Od the whoie the northern carnival is kept us joyously | us in the warmer chimes. ‘The carnival season 18 celebrated with much éclat in Spain and Portugai and im South Aterican countries, notably in Chih and Brazil, In the West Indies, also, the population of the dillerent isiands, both white and black, buil with delight the upprouch of this festive season. iu no country in the world, however, at the present day ig the ournival cclebrauon more gor- geously gotten up than in the cities of New Orleans und Memphis, and visitors to the spectacles there pre- seuted cun bardiy credit that they were surpassed even by tho celebrations held 1m the days of medieval Rome, when the great wealth and pomp of the beaus oi the Church, seconued by the projuse expenditure and magnificent state maintained by the Roman nobles, ubited 1n producing a season of great splendor, NLW YORK'S CARNIVAL. The preparations for the coming carnival are being vigorously forwarded, and to-morrow evening all will be completed, The dogs bad no sooner ceased to bark at the Hippodrome than the place resounded to the merry ring ot hammers aud the bum of five tinudred busy mev making ready for the ball of the curnival, Manbat- tan Market, the home of muny of the mystic wonders | thut ure to awe New York on Tuesday night, like the Hippodrome, 12 aseene of burry and acuity. No one but himself has yet iound out who “Rex? 1s Aséur- | ances ure given, however, that His Royal Highne | will land at the government pier in timo to accompany. the day procession up Browdway. Aller leading the day pageant, Rex wil be secreted at the St Cloud Hotel upul itis time to it parade. ‘Then | be will emerge again and tually reveal himself atthe grand ball at Gumore’s Garden, ‘The indicauons are favorable for a holiday on Tuesday, and twenty-seven | firms in Maiden tive have signed an agreement Lo close their establishments, THR DAY PROCESSION, The route of tne day procession 18 as follows:— From the Bauiery up Broadway to Fourteenth street, through Fourteenti street to Fourty avenue; thence enteenth street, passing reviewing stand on teenth wo Broadway ; Ui ixtecnth, through th (oO Filth uveuue, to Forty-second sireet at 's Headquarters, THK NIGHT PROCESSION. ‘The route of tue night procession will be from Forty= secoud street and Filth avenue, through Pith avenue to Wavericy place, to Broadway, up Broadway to Fourteenth street, to Fourth avenue, thence to neve tecnth strest, to the reviewing stand to Broadway, down to Sixteenth sireet, through sixteenth street to Fitth avenue, througn Fifi avenue to Twenty-third street, to Madison avenue, through Madison avenue to Phirty> fourta street aud distuiss. ‘The bight procession will be formed as follows: — Platoons of Police. Seventy-lirst Regunent buna, lea by F. J. Eben, Heralds, Earl Grand Marshal, Kaighis of Bator, Kuighis of Solomon, Balzac, Kuighis of the Crown, Kaights, Squires, Lord Chamberiains, Lord High Sberitis Baron of the Exchequ: ft. irst Regiment Yoomaary of the Guard, Mametukes. King’s Banu Royal. Pitty Beet eaters. | | Guards, King’s Royal Standard. Guards, King’s Body Guard, Body Guard. — King’s Royal Chariot, — Body Guara, Kiug’s Bouy Guurd Royal, Torch Bearers. ‘Torch Bearers. 4 King’s Purveyor of Wines, 3 $ Brewer Royal. § & Columbus Planting ibe First Standard on ra = Ainerican Soil. r 13 America as Lt Was, 2 2 Ship. a ri] ‘The Sania Maria, # | De Soto Discoveriug the a | Miasiss'ppt. 2 « Pocahontas Rescains Captain Smith, 6 & Hendrick Hudson Eutering tae s Hudson River, a 13 Ponn Treating with vie Indians, I~ & Bosiou Tea ship, 3 2 Music, é 4 Putnam’s Call, e Washington Crossing the Delaware, In = Washington at Valley Forge, & | Capture of Major Awar g erry on Lake Erie, rj Music, ° } Battle of New Orieuns, S Soldier's Dream, ] . Music, 2 North and South, Fy 5 The Keconeitiation, 3 FA Unele San & a Astride te World & | 18 THERE TO BY A HOLIDAY? New Yous, May 12, 1877. ) Tuk Eviron or tHe Hera.o:— There is w prevailing impression that the carnival, announced for fuesday next, Is going to be a very tu. posing aud gorgeous spectacte; that it will bo an exact reproduction of similar pageants in the South ot Kurope, and that the enterprising gentlemen engaged In its preparation will spare no pains to make it a com- plete sue In common with most of your readers we have heard much of the gayety of Florence aud of Rowe daring the carnival ume, and shure the general curiosity bo wil tue spectacle om iuesday, To tne end w general poliday would ve very desirable, as vibe wise (he Working classes (lo Which We belong) would have no opportunity of secing the show. and Venture (o suggest an appeal, Lurough your odito- rial covutuns, to einployers yenerally, teeling asi that our petition will not be overlooked by a journal labor. “HOME AGAIN. Ricbmoad, from due this Thomas B. Liverpool, morning, initted when in the employ of alr. manuaiacturer, Lewis is tu ¢ ue 01 the Central Police oilice of tuis city. H Bal 1 De vecti ve Golden, LU PRECAUTIO | | limited attendance at funerals of persons who may have died of scurict fever, diphtheria, moast cough, and a disimlecion oF deceased, alluded, 4 On the Sunday beiore | the ministries, the prinetpal In Russia the carp:val 8 celebrated with many fes- | “Russian mountains” | Moscow, | dences and | We therefore rospecttully solicit the able udvocacy of the Hain, | ured which has ever professed sympathy lor those who G Among the passexgors on the steamship City of i Lewis, who was implicated with Beckwith (vow in the State Prison) for large forgerws com. 1b, the so.p Tho Board of Health has issued a circular advising @ whoop. the surroundigs of The board also advises the use oi sealed | tar! wouden of metalie colling When the expeuse can be REALMS OF THE MAY QUEENS. THE CHILDREN’S DAY IN CENTRAL PARK—MAY PARTIES AND HOW THE MAY QUEENS ARE CUOSEN, Strolimg into the Central Park yesterday a Henan representative saw a picture of delight that could not Jail to captivate the dullest imagination, or rather a series of pictures, coming and goimg like the dissolv- ing Views in a pavorama of fairyland, 1 was a day of bright suoshine aud vernal beuuty, and the budding trees and green grass and balmy air all contributed to Jend an indescribable charm to the city’s vagt plousuro ground, Evou at the gates the glad voices of the chil- dren could be heard, and at every tura and all day long the chirruping, cheer!ul sounds were lifted up in sweet, unceasing cadence. Whoever would visit the Park to enjoy it espectaily on the children’s days—as these Saturdays in May have become—imust go afoot aud follow wherever tancy leads him, It will vot be possible fur bim to go astray, for he will ind some- thing to interest aud delight him at every step, und the farther he gocs tue farther he wil] be tempted to go. Ar TH: CAROUSAL. At the gates there is litle sign of the bright scone: within the Park, but the cries of children and tbe echoes of childish prattic and play indicate the spots whence all this animation proceeds, After going a little distunce a signboard points the way ‘To the Curousal,” aud thero are the swings provided by whe Park Department, whieh ure mostly kept chained; and the pavilion of the flying borses, whieh 1s always Kept open, bvcause some enterprising contractor is allowed to charge live ccuts fur the privilege of a ride, 1.8 inanimate ponies aro woll patronized, of course, and yesterday there was a struggle for chances, Tho children seemed to enjoy this horseback exercise im- mensely, and some of them retmainod on their flory steeds trip alter trip, while overs were compelled to be sausfied with seeing, A little German girl tried bard to get a xood vantage, ground of observation, but could not please herself, although her mother assured her in a tongue which the oraimury American will not understand, ‘Dot is blenty biace.’”” Wheu the swings were set going the scramble wus territic, and although there were tome httie mishaps sometimes the interest did not seem to abate, a cracked ear or a barked shin beimg considered a good riddance by the ambitious youth who in cousequence succeeded 10 an opportunity. THY CHILDREN’S DAY, ‘The great feature of a Suiurday in the Park at all times is the children's parties, und yesterday was of all days this year emphatically the children’s day. Lo every difection tbey could be seea comimy aud going, | singly aud in pairs, by twos and turees, iu grout stra | ghug parties and in solemn procession, ‘hero Was epjuyment amung the little ones sure! | but often i was serious, sombre enjoyment, too squarely cut out by rule, apparently, and learned as a tusk to be thorouguly cujoyubie. ‘The “mice” children and the May Queens cleuriy were Jess at their case than the gamuns aud tl-bred young. sters who went where they piensed and were ploused to xo everywhere. In the lttie ciiques aud parties there was no abandon otf pleasure, this dehght being reserved for those who had not been taught thut tuey had their own or their parents’ ciguity to sustain. In ume cases & propriety so severe Might be observed among the caildren (hat it was oppressive, #utin spite of these drawbacks—which are u part, perhaps, of the vatioual temperament, a temperament that is to some extent uusuciai Lecauses cliques have re- sulted from the abseuce of classes—there was real bap- pivess tu neurly every heart m Central Park yester- day, The May parues, formal aod exclusiva as most of them were, Drougut plousure and frosh air anu re- | newed energies 10 each one of the participants, and 1 some of the children were uot us youny, apparently, as they might buve been, yet all of them were younger jor this oue children’s day. THN SUMMER HOUSE. ‘The summer house on the elevation near the marble | archway leading to the Mall was the headquarters of | | the ciaiuren’s parties, aud as many a hail a dozen Muy Queens were frequently to be seen here at oue time. ‘lo uny one of these it would have been pos: ble to ging, with old Dr, rasmus Darwin :-— For thee the frazrant xephyrs blow, Kot thee descends the sunny shower, ‘The ills in softer murmurs How, And brighter blossoms gem the bows It would be curious to know when the rehabilitation Of un old pructice came into vogue with the children of the metropolis, tor May Queens bad Jong been our of fustion; vul Whether iL was this year or lust, whether it was yesterday or weeks before, they ure now plenty as blackberrics in August. Tho girls cousen as Lbese diminutive Queens of Beauty ure generally, is must be coniessed, very pretty, and those wuo were ou ex- biviuon yesterday ranged turough all sizes and ages, | from bavyhood to muideuhood. Most of them were dressed iu white, with 4 decided teudency toward blue gushes, aud’ they ail Wore u wreath of some kiua as a head decoration, some even being arrayed in lovg white flowing Veils, Surange as it muy seem, the boys took no Interest in Luese parties, aud the Queens | of the May were compelied to geld @ court tike that | beld by the Princess Ida, of Tennyson's muagination. | Jn the gumes and pliy wt the Suunimer Louse girls alone | seemed to participate, aud the lads only put im an ap. | pearance when the lunch baskets were opened, The songs Which the children sang were not redolent of | the season celebrating May, Queen of Blossains, and asking :— { | With what pretty Phall we corm t In many eases the vir chosen was the “Red, White and Biue,” vot out ot pairiode motives so much, per. | haps, as a purpose to complimeat the Queens of the May,’ who were nearly all urrayed in these triangular colors, THE MAY QUIGNS. Hew these May Queers ure choseu or what cere- Monies are observed ut their coronation are like Lord Dundreary’s connndrams—things wlieb ne fellow cau find out, “In most cases they were the Javerite enil- drew 1 some little chque or circle by which they were imade Queen of the day, without any formal vote of aus thority, ex he general recognition of their beauty. ‘Aa the May Queens they walked at the heud of the cussions ii the cuildren’s parties in the Centra: Park or directed all the movements of the litle court about them, ‘They curried a staff or wand, which seemed to be ‘he symbol or sceptre of their brief aathority, and tins Was usually encased in fine ussue paper’ and crowned with flowers. This wand Was either vurne at the head of the procession or held up in the centre of the group which ackvowlodged the sovereignty of the tiny Queen to whom it belonged. Rivbons were fustenud «to some of = these §=wands, and hed by the children, who marched in # circle with the Queen iu the centre. Que httle girl, 80 young that she scarcely understood how to periorm her iuvctious, held her wand very nervously, which luoked so much Hike a huge sugar stick that auotber youngster, a little older than the May Queen, tested it With her nose aud tasted 1ewith her tongue, ‘In every direction during the day these wands, with their lite crowds of devotees, were (o be seen ‘moving, but tey were compelled tv keep in tho walks instead of being allowed to take to the grass, At the op of the hill, overivoking the sheep pasture, stood a littie group | envyiog the animals their better fortune in bem ac+ | corded the beauuitul Jawa aga playground. How the | youngsters must bave longed for a tumble on the tart, | una yet ina stroll of a mile or more the HeraLo man saw vnly one little girl bold enough to try her heels | in the sod even when a graycout was not anywhere | to be seen, FATHER BYRNES LE | ‘Tho last of tis highly interesting course of sectures | by the Rev. Father Byrtic, 0. 8. D., will bo delivered | this evening at Terrace Garden Theatre, Filty-ninth | Street, veur Third avenue, The subject will be “Phe | Opportuaines aud Dues of the Irish Emigrants and ) ther Cuildren fu the Uaited States’? Judging from | the iuterest displayed im (ue preceding jectures this one Will attract a lirge audience. Faiuer syrue deals Wil lis eubjects in a thoroughly practical aud ta- | structive manner Ou lust Suuduy night the oldest j Cathous privet in the Us Slates, Father Youu, | gave the audience # most interesting discourse OD his | reevilections uf the early days of the Churen in this cuuntry. This Yoncravle man, who bas beun over sixty Yeats a priest, remembers Wush{nuton and spoke with | teaching eloquence of the great days when Hverty was awakened turovghout tie jund by the xound of the | rifles at Lexington, le will atiend Father Byrne's | closing jecture to-night. DOOMSDAY IN NEWARK. JERSEY JUSTICE AS DISPENSED IN THE NEWARK CRIMINAL COURT. Yesterday was “doomsday” in the Newark Crimina | Court, aud avout two dozen persons convicted of vurious crimes Were sent to State Prisun, The fole | Jowing were the most important cases:— | Patrick McGrath, a gray aired man, for forging neighbor’s name to acucck for $45, was sentenced to one yeur's \nprisonment at bard labor, Jono R. Carpenter, bigamy, eighicen months, Judge Tit | worth spoke teeugly to the prisoner, img that it was MMuLest [rou tie large Rumber of petitions the Court bad received (ht be was respectably conuected | and bad bad tue bost of opportunities for leading au | upright and honorable tite, | “Poilip Bowman, diievael Bradigan and Bernard Me- Cormick, a bopelul trio of young burglars, were called up for senience. Bowman was convicted on four charges 01 receiving stolen goous. 11 is believed he 1+ spived bis associates to comunit crime. They did $0 In Orange and West Orunge. he was sent to State Prison for tive Bradigau Was sent to the sume piace for two Years, und McCormick, in consideration of nav. ing given the State Valuable intormation leading to the breaking up of a gang of thieves, was let off with | SIX mouths in the Peniteutiary Joseph Burbian and Gust Zexutto, Jr., who were | convicted of rouung & Young woImned aber having | drugged her, were sentence.—Zexutio to the Penitens | Vary jor six inonths aud Barvian to State Prison ior two yeaté, Barbian bau been velore the Court belore, neo his severe sentence, | Chares B Wiliams was given a month ip | County Jail ior senuing a young lady an obs envine. Charles baldwin, Wo9 Orutally assault juin K. Finaiey, the gatekeeper of Lieweliyn Park, and Why attempied to shoot a Mr. Sehueider, of South | Urunge, Was lot of with six months in the Penien- | Glitck's opera of that name, | management of Mr. Jaines W. Colter. He will play | | from among the resident musicians, including the MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, A ek Signor Operti will direct the Central Park Garden concerts this season. ‘The Aquarium hag constantly added to its collection Ul now 16 18 unequalled in this country, A promenade concert and reception at Plainfield, N.J., is apmounced for the 24th of May. Mme. Murio-Celli will give an operatic entertainment at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night. “The Princess Royal’’ hag wado @ bit atthe Grand Opera House vud will be repeated to-morrow evening. “Smike” bas steadily increased ip popularity atthe Union Square Theatre, und the lovers of Dickens heartily enjoy the admirabie performance by the com- pany. “Tne Gilded Age’? at the Park Theatro, with Mr. Johu ‘If. Raymond as Colonel Mulberry Sellera, is one of the chiet comedy attractions of the metrypolitun stage, Liszt bas been largely instrumental in the comple- tion of the Beethoven Monument ut Bonn. He pro- vided during the work from fifty to sixty thousind irancs. Heaven sparing him to earth Ole Bull will return to America next year, MMe sailed for Zurope yesterday on the steamer Britannic, aud was “seon ofl” baact- somely, “The Danicheifs” will be performed this week at the New Park Theatre, Brooklyn, and the Union Square company will produce it at the Boston Theatre on the 21st inst Av enterprising Chinaman bus openeda Conserva- tory of Music in San Francisco, wita a view to the training of Chinese youth for orchestral work in the Chinese theatres, Heiler’s Wonder season will close with the present month, Mr. Boucicault says that Heiler is one of the best light comedians on the stage, an opinion which tne public heartily indorses. Boswn seems ut last inclined to show some appre- ciation of tho talents of Mme, Essipoif. Her piano- forte recitals have been largely attended, and the critics cannot be otherwise than complimentary, Miss Anna Drasdil, of Grace Church, having ro ceived a furlongh from that religious corporation, will shortly leave for Europe to enjoy a season of recrea- tion and recover her hoalth, She wil! be absent sume jour months. Mile, Tiuens is announced by the Lonaun papers to appear this season for the first time as Armida in Cherubini’s **Medea,”? in which sho gained so much success a few years ago, 15 to be revived. Mile. Chiom!, a young English artist, recently made her début in London at the Philharmenio concerts in St. James’ Hall, und critics speak of her in the most complimentary manner, It is said that she ts uboutto visit America, Miss Root’s sixth ballad concert for the beneilt of the poor will tuko place at Chickering Hal! to-morrow evening. The success that has attended the covcerts already given by Miss Root are a sure guarantee of a crowded house on this occasion, Mr. Mapleson, the well known English manager, bas again taken pussession of Her Majesty’s Theatre, so long the only home of the Ltalian opera in London. The edifice has bowen thoroughly reconstructed and is a vast improvement m every respect on the old one, The friends of Miss Emma Thursby are understood to be organizing a testimonial concert, which ts to be given before her departure tor Europe. Prohably no better tribute to her qualities could be paid than her selection by Ole isull as one of the artists who will ac- company him on his concert tour through the Conti- nent. ‘Yhe musical season in Londoa 1s very near what is called Sts “height.” To-morrow (Monday) night Mlle, Albani appears as Elsa in ‘Lohengrin’ at the Royal Italian Opera) The English papers compliment the freshness and strength of her voice in the rendition of | the various styles of music of which she has been the representative. Mr. John McCullough will appear at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, on Friday and Saturday, under the | i Othello and Virginius, two of his best characters, and Brooklyn will have a fine dramatic entertainmout, | ‘This will probably ve Mr. MoCullough’s last appear- ance in this vicinity for some time. Mr. James H. Haviland wiil receive a benefit at the Twenty-ihird Street Opera House on Thursday. Bijou Heron, Ida Jeffries, Kate Meek, Amy Lee, and Messrs. | George Fortescue, Walton, Coleman und others will appear in ‘Meg’s Diversion,” “M. Alphonse,” “The Quiet Family,” and other plays. The -pertorm- ance wiil oceupy bath afternoon and evening. “Rosedale” will be given at Waliack’s Theatre to- morrow night, after an absence of six years {ron the stage of that theatre, It will be brought out with ef- fective scenery and a cast including nearly all the members of the company. Mr. Wallack’s Eiliot Grey | will be remembered by many as a cupital piece of act- ing, and “Rosedale”? will doubtless bea brilliant ouding to au unusually successful season. | ‘The tourth triennial festival of the Handel and Haydo Society, of Boston, will take place in the Music Hall of that eity from May 16 to May 20, The chorus will number 600 voices and the orchestra be selected i} | membors of the Mendelssohn Quintet Ciub and the Boston Philharmonic Club, The lavy soloists chosea are Mias Clura Louise Kellogg, Miss Emma. Thursby, Annio Louise Cary and Miss Mathilde Philtips. ‘Tho spring season ut Booth’s Theatre will begin on Monday evening under the management of Messrs. Rignold, Tillotson & Brown. The bill for the first Dights includes a domestic drama called ‘‘Alone,” in which Mr. George Rignold will play Colonel Challice, and ‘Black Eyed Susan,’ in which he appears in bis fumous personation of William. This bill will be re- peated on Wednesday afternoun. Miss Mane Wain- wright is to appear at this theatre at an early dato, The ludy 1s said to bo attractive und talented, Tho Jall Mall Gazette says that a general examina. tiou of the Waguor question must lead an impartial observer, apart from all consideratious as to tho merit of Waguor’s music, either ip the way of siguilicance or | of beauty, to the conclusion that so far as his operas are concerned there must be something im them, | though less than any operas are they suitable tor trans- lation, The critic remarks that they are composed on a system which excludes tho idea of music fitted to one | get of words being equally or at all appropriate to other | words, even though there should be no variation in | the ideus expressed.” é | Miss Adclatde Neiison’s engagement av the Fifth | Avenue Theatre has proved in its first week the great | success anticipated. ‘Twelfth Night’? was acted every | evening and yosterday afternoon, and her charming | personation of Viola was more notable from the tact | that it was added to her répertoire during ver recent American tour, ‘This week “Cymbeline” wil be | played, with Miss Neilson as linogen, for the brat ime in this city, and the play will be a novelty 10 nearly | allot our theatre goers. Miss Gilbert, Miss Kigh and | Messrs, Plympton, Studley, Collier, Fisher, Drew, Har. | dcavergh, Bennett, Haworth and others will appear in tho cast, A new opera, eutitied ‘Le Roi de Lahore,” or tho King of Lahore, founded on an Indian tradition re- Jated by the Compte de Beauvoir tp bis book of travely, has just been produced atthe National Academy of | Music, m Paris, The magnificence of costume and | seonery is reported to have been so lavish that the | dresses alone cost £8,000 sterling. Among the dis- | tinguished people who witnessed the first pub Hie presentation were President and Madame Mace | Manon, M. Gambetta, the Duke de Grammont, the | Emperor of Brazil, the Prince of Orange, a party of four Rothschilds, the Prime ana Foreign Ministers and | other celebrities, The composer, M. Massenet, is ouly thirty-five, aud is describod as a mun of undoubted nius, Mies Kate Claxton, the actress, has written a letter from Mingoapois, Minn., in which she complatos bit- terly of the annoyances to which she bas been sub- jected since the Brooklyn Theaire and Southern Hoicl (St. Louis) fires, Sho denies expticitiy ever having had an interview with any one in which sho predicted her denth by flames, ler speaking of the silly | superstition which induces the guests at the hotels where sue may choose to stop to provide themselves with rope ladders, and of the coarse jests at her ex- pense which sprinkle the columns of the Western pa- pers, she says:;— “Do you not think with mo that it would be acting the better partfor tne different writers to withbold their rougo jokes about my late terrivie experiences until the graves caused by those fires, aud which bold some of our best follow men and women, are a little loss green?” A much disgusted masical Chicago critic, confment- ing ou the recoot periormances of an Koglish opera ‘Ys ylayioy a mae in the oighttime and at- tempting to rob him Thomas Dougherty received five years’ State Prison, troupe in that city, says of their presentation of & of the London season being that from morning woul cusk the Grosvenor Gallery was thronged by tho dlite of rank, wealth and intellect, and this day the exhi- bition will be opened to the public at large. brilliant Pinvcotheca—is a roally superb room, im- posing alike in its general architectural distribution, ous richness of its embellishments, Above the nigh cove surmounting the cornice of tho ceiling, and which @ graceful adornment of stars, rans a frieze most gracefully and tenderly bedighted with arabesques, which might have been studied from such exy uisite models of ornamentation as ai Farnesina at Rome and in the Palazzo dol Té at Mantua, and above tho frieze is the true flat ceiling of diapered glass—a ceiling cunningly und most suc- cessiully adapted for the distribution througnoat the gallery of an abundant supply of light, adequate to satisty the weak-sighted, while it is equally appor. tioned and so softly tempered as to do justice to every picture exhibited. This ts the first and by no Means the least important feature in the gallery for which the public particular, Sir Coutts Lindsay, gallery are hung with an extremely rich fabric of crimson satin damusk, divided into compartments by fluted pil with gold. very gorgeous crimson damask hangings are somewhat | assume that it will ve ultimately polished or laid with | these gems comprise a: number of extromely tine | allowance of wali space all to himself tor the display of | of the curtain couia oarey nome one intelligent sen- tence out of that entire performance he or she must have swallowed one of two ‘books’thopera’ beforo- hand, Most people are familiar with the popular airs peculiar to ‘Trovatore,’ and when tho tenor with the unmanageable legs and several straws in bis glottis, warbles forth, “)-he Nora, [ thi-hivk b?ov thee; or the Couns, with the white spread over a Fold coat cut bias, remarks that ‘all 6 hushed save myoulight stealing,’ the young lady in the parquet Knows what 1s coming next, and tho youag inan uear the door thinks he hag heara that air somewhere bo fore, avd taps his fugt accordipgly, With these and some fow other exceptions, an English speaking nativo might just as well attend a Chinese play or a Choctaw Methodist revival 4s attempt to comprehend one word of Italian opera as rendered tast week.’ THE CHARITY GIRL.” LOTTA AND + To tue Epitor or mun Henavp:— It having gone the round of the papers that | wrote my druiwa, “The Charity Girl,” specially for Lotta, 1 beg, therefore, to deny this most emphatically. TI vad seen Lotta in one play only when | read my draina to. er, ana she expressed herself alighted with the ar- rangement of the plot, scenes and construction, and at once became the purchaser of the same. Contrary to my positive.arrangements with ber, she produced my drama in St, Louis, instead of Philadelphia, and ber refusal to play it ip the latter city und breuking her word is (as ebe writes), “That though an excellent drama and uudoubiedly good, it ig not adapted to her | style"? In kindly inserting this lotter i your widely EMMA SCHIFF, read paper you will oblige, yours truly, ENGLISH ART. THE GROSVENOR GALLERY EXHIBITION—THE PAINTER’ PARADISE. Never hava the works of modern British artists been more sumptuously instaliod or more appreciatively displayed than in tho suit of palatial saloons erected through the enterprise and Mberality of Sr Coutts Lindeay, in New Bond street, London, which, under the nume of the Grosvenor Gallery, seems destined to be. come at once one of the most fashionable and the most popular piaces of art resort im tho metropolis. ‘he collection of oil puiutings, water color drawings and sculpture brought toge.her by spocial invitations ad- dressed to the artists by ihe founder of tho institution, ana by the ready co-operation of the noblemen and gentlemen to whom many of the works exhibited now belong, was yesterday submitted to “private”? viow— the obvious outcome of such privacy,at the beginning THE DECORATIONS. The great West Gallery—the salon d'honneur of this in its altitude and its breadth, and in the bharmoni- 8 painted in pavels picked outin bright bluo and with to be found in the at large, and artists in Treason to be grateful to ‘Tho walls of the west and east have ters of the Tonic order, highly enricued Hypercriticism might object that these loo voyants; Vhat their ruvicundity of hue ‘kills’ the | carnations in Mr. Millats’ portrait, and almost aumthi- jates the dream tints in some of Mr. Whistler's *Ar- Tangements ;” that the superposition of so many brand ew gold frames on such u mass of red dazes the eye, and that a warm gray, a sage or olive green, or even a aull chocoiute or maroon background would have been more gruteinl to the lutigued optic nerve of the spec. ta or, and in the loog rua more equitable to the artisi. We hold thatere criticism op this head assuimes the finality of dogmatism tue hangings of the Grosvenor Gailery must ve lett, like Lord Bavon’s reputation, to time, We must wait and see what a few months of the ulmospnere of London will do towerd toning down these Ut present too conspicuoas tints, und we are the more justified on advising © brief suspension of ju ment 10 this respect When we reflect that dir, Eaward Burry’s maguiicent suluons in the Nauonal Gallery have already begun to “tone down’? im the brilliance of their gilding aod the vividioss of their colors, und thae toa most siguificaatextent. For the rest, uote ing can be urged on the score of over-orixbtness against the porlicres ot tapestry, patteroed with: flow ¢rs og a Subdued biue ground, Wich drupe the door- ways; and the glowing toves of the crimson wails are again “curried of,” technically spenking, by the kindred but puler hues of the coverings to tbe splendid unuque couches and fauteuils Wuich av inervals break the cootinuity of the dodo, Whether the green materi wich at present covers this plinth or dago js Mtended to be permanent or Whetuer it is in con- templation to replace it by a skirting of dark wood or marble we are unable authoritatively to decide; but 4s regards the flooring, which 18 at present in a very incnoate condivion, we may be entitled to | parquete For the rest the Grosvenor Gullery, aiter ‘@ few more finishing touches bave been applied to it, wall presont tho well cigh unique aspect of a recepta- cle tor works of art not only handsomely decorated, bat comfortably furnished, [n the Grosvenor Gallery all modern requirements tp the Way of light and space ure fully gulisued, While at the samo time so generous and so judicious has been the garnishing of tho saloons that the spectator {s often apt to forget thap be is in a modern exhibition room, aud ts apt to imagive that he {s wandering, by special pormission of the noble proprietor, in some antique patace at Madrid, at Vonice or ut Rome. THR PAINTINGS. ‘The artistic goms with which the taste and discrim- {nation of Sir Coutts Lindsay have endowed the Grus- venor Gaulery ure in all respects worthy of the costly carket in which they are eushrined. Considering that exampies hitherto unknown to the general public of the genius and capacity of such arttets a8 Miliais, gros, Whistler, Henbuth, F, Lenghton, Watts, ‘Lissot, Albert Moore, Aliua Tagéma, and especially ot Edward Burne-Jones, woo is hero to be seen ju Lis very best and most poetic moud—to suy pothing of the exquisite drawings uf Richafd Doyle and of the meritorious artistic productions of sir Coutts Lindsay bimyell upd of Lady Lindsay—it 18 obviously ho practcable toattempt within the compass ol a neces sarily brief novice any hing approaching an exhaustive exantination of a number of performances, wavy of Whicu deserve and demand detaied criticism. For ibe present, then, We must be content with an enu- Merion of the :ost salient pictures on the walls tne Grosvenor Gallery, premising (hat in toer arran; ment the admirably sensible plun has been adupted of giving ewch particular artist his own particular quan- Tum vf space Jor the unstinted display of his collective Work. Such a plan ie, We Dold, a thousand Umies pret | “erable to the “biggledy, piggledy system” adopted | at tho Royal Academy—a system upparently bor. rowed from the well known Procrusteau pro- cess or from the equally familiar method em. | ployed io packing herrings 1a a barrel, aud the Fesuit of whieh is to force paintings into close Juxtas | position whose totally aiflerent styles and manners re- | quire that they should be kept far as the poles asunder, For example, Mr. James Whistler has ‘tw | sweet litte isie of bis own’? 1u the shape of an ample | his six Inost noticeable works, ‘‘Nocturnes’”’ iu biack and gold, in blue and silver; “Arrangemonts,” in black and 1h brown, and ‘Harmonies, 1 amber and black. | These weird productions—eniginas sometimes sv oc- cult that Cidipus might be puazica to solve them— need much subdue dissection avd explanacion; but the jovers of art not yet fully mitiated into the myster es ot the Whistieriun philosophy will derive less iningied gratification from the taiouted artis’’s really ¢ and touching fuil-longth sitting portralt of Thomas Cariyle, which 18 hung apart, a8 it deserves to be, as the Lop of the staircase to tue left, and of which aa execlient view can be obtained trom the Kust Gallery. Le wa very striking eloquent presentment of the fllustrous historian, and it ts punted througioul with a refresiieg ubsence from hat eccentricity iu which Mr, Whistier seems babiiasliy,to take delight, hot pour encourager, bur pour décourager (es autres. Adjoining the compartment allotted to this Archimugo Of the icowogtaphic aoraton, or grapbiolugy of tue hidden, Mr. ©. EB. Hallé makes a very unpretending but moat satisiactory appearance in “A Lite Biue- stocking,’’ a viow of “‘Nuremverg” and a@ portrait of Mrr. Henry Evaus Gordon, Mr. Edward Poynter, R. A., amoug bis eight pictures, claims equal atten: tion and praise tor *‘Andrumeda,” and the powerfully drawn and colored sypiian Seutry.’? Mr. Wat RK. A., sizikes us us being as forcible, as learned and os little fascinating as ever when we fenew our acquaint. ance with bis magisterial work, “Love and Death,’ And when We pay our homage to the stately full length portraitot the Hon. sits, Porey Wyndba: in which ibe artist appears deliberately (o have opscured the very richest of tones of that Venetian color of which no liviug artist Knows vettor the seurets than does Mr. Watts, with # disastrous admixture of pure onion maddiness, Mr, Mills, Ry A., sonds four por- traits, that is to say four dazzling Jewels of color and modeiling:-"fhe Marchivaess ot Ormonde,” "Tio Countess Grosvenor,’ “Lady Beatrice Grosvenor,” and “Lord Ronald Gower”? “Stitch, Stiteb, Stici Which purports to be au tliustration ofthe “ong of the Shirt,” is uaturally clever-—is it not by Mr. Misini but tt is 4 mere sketch, and devs Bot couvey any defi- to the critical mind. str, Alma Tadéma’s “Sunday Morning’? 1s a remarkable an se example of one great painter dressing hi it fora momeut another andequally great "s robe. “Surday Mornng” might pass as & production of late Baron Leys. Of the real Grweo-Ruman Mr, Alma Tadéma we havea group of shining exampies in “A Mirror,’ in the admirable “Tarquiius Superbus,” in the maga'ficent *?bidias Showing We Frieze vf tho Parthenon to bis Friends,” and in the tiny but exqui. site “Bath.”? Mr, W. B, Ricbmond’s four coatribu. tions will, we hope, gmatity there who admire Mr. W. B, Richmond’s conscientious attempts to ilustrate the antique; but there are impertectly tustructed per. sons Lo Whom such & picture as “Electra a: the Tomb of Agamemnon’ will be productive less of feelings of gratilication than of pages mental suflering. Mr, Holmun Huut contributes bis well known and glorio “Aftergiow in Egypt.”’ a study of “Au Lahan Chili,” and a Syrian landscape, ‘ibe Piains of Esdravion above Nazareth,” RISING ARTISTS. Three delightful uitle specinens’ of Mr. Albi Moore’s rare gifts are manilest in **Sapphires,”” Mari- golus” and “fhe End ot the Story ;” wile Mr. F. W, Burton, Director of the National Gallery, re-exnibits his superb portrait iu water color of Mrs, Georgo Smith, The minute elaborate composition by Mr, Jonu Melhuish Strudwick, entitied Love’s Music,” will prove, we venture to think, one of the leadiug uttrac- tions of tue Grosvenor Gallery during the seaacn, The work, by wn urtist comparatively unknown to tame, 18 exceptionally repicte with fine qualities iu conception, design and execution, and must, on a future occasion, De separately aud carejully examined, The same ro- mark, but if a more exalted degree, must appty Wo tho work of Mr. Edward Buroe-Jones, who is, perhaps, for the first tine thoroughly and completely repro- sented before ihe great jury of the pub lic by seven noble workg the most promi- hept “among which are “The Begullivg of Merlin,” “Venus? Mirror”? and ue Days of Creation,” the last u wouderiul and multifold pertorm- anes, brimining over with wealth of artistic fancy. Mr, Walter Crave, an artist inexpreasibly dear to all the patrons of children’s picture books, shows that he can be ocensionally on graver labors bent 1n the deli- cat drawn und more delicately colured ‘*Renaissunce ot Vonus;’? M. Alphonse Legros breaks a very doughty Jance with Mr, Whistler by extnbiting yet another aud a curiously realistic portrait ot Mr, Carlyle, and further chullenges the respectiu! admiration of all art scholars, in four warvellously void stu executed ip two hours « beturo his pupils at the Slade schools of Uuiversiuy College, By Mr. C.D. Lese lie, A, Ro a, there is a yery sweet Greuze- like femalo head-calied ‘Palm Biossom,” and Mr, Frank Dicey sends a bigbly tuisbod pichure of “Hop Picking in Kent,” In the Bust Gallery Mr, Leighton, R, A., comes brilliantly forward with three works— “Henry Evans Gordon, Esq.,” ‘An Haan Girl” and AStuty.” Mr, Philip Morris shows his esseotiany poetical spirit in “the Keaper apd the Sowers;” si, Ferdinagd Heilbuth js at his best with bis charming pictures of Roman Cardinals and Monsignort on the Pincian, and at his worst with some poor, pale imita tions of Watteau; Mr. James Tissot now delights us with such works as “Summer” and *Portsinouth Dock- yard,” und vow Wearies us with such an allegory run madas ‘Phe Triumph of Will; Sir Franet Grant, P.R. A., exacts cheerfully paid respect for the well- known ‘Viscount Hardinge ana Stal Keturning trom the Field of Ferozesbab;’’ Mr. Jonston Forbes, Robert- gon makes a singularly successtul appearance in a grand profile bead of **The Duchess of Westminster ;’? Mr. George H. Boughtou reaps a fresh and brilliant harvest of laurels in his simple and touching jand- scape, “A Ruitling Breoze,’’ and M. Vayid Biles, a geutloman of wuom we frankly contess that we never beard belore, sends an intensely hamorous aud char- acteristicgenre picture, “A Musical Trio at a Country House, Batavia.’? We must returo very soon indecd to M. David Bies, for, unless we are mistaken, there is im him something of toe spirit of Fortuny, and not a little, even, of that of Hogarth, A PROHIBITED PICTURE. THE STARTLING TICIURE OF ERNEST FICHIO, WHICH WAS REFUSKD aT THE SALON, [From the Dally News, April 23.] M, Ernest Pichio, the French artist, who has already painted pictures of “Charles LX. Giving the Signal for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day,” aud *Bau- din Preparing to Die for the Rights of the People, De- comber 2, 1851,’? has employed his pencil upon that terrible sceue which might be,called “The Massacre of the Communists,” when thes® wretched offendera, were butchered in the trench of the greut burial placo of Paris, Pére-la-Chaise, by the fire of the mutraile leuses and volleys from the troops in May, 187). 1 could scarcely be expecied that the French govern- ment and the Director of the Beaux Arts would per. mit such a picture to be exhibited in the Paris Salon, however able it might be as awork ol art, But the picture bas ound w place {a the rooms of the London Stereoscopic Company's Gallery of Fine Arts. Ik ig a lurge canvas, measuriog more thay nine leet jong and six feet high, and (hia umple field becomes a most awiul Akeldaina, with the crowded group cf men, Women and children 1 every attitude of ugony, flerce Tege and despair in death; others, calm as martyrs, controuting tue crugl guns bluzuy beiore them, ‘The scene is one tov dreadtul to lovk upon, lor M. Vichio, with a powerlul and most truto-teiling brush and tne niost extraordinary uerve, lus pot shrunk trom paint- ingevery harror tiat hie’ nagination vould piciure, party [rom What be uctuaily saw With bis own eyos, und pardy irom a description which appeared in tue Daily News av the ume, We look trom veaps of deud to the princwal group of some tuirty or lorty ixures under too wall of the cemetery; prominent stands a diguified and refined looking person, tus gray bead uns covere., his breast bared aud on his aru the :ed cross ol the anfbulunce. He grusps the hand of a friend who sipks, but he himself 13 only wounded stightiy, A mother tails with a boy jo her arms logetacr, and anvther womay behind, hke & petroicuse, spared’ for an instant, raises her arm to her head as i against tho storm of bullets, while, sbove this group, @ red-aired imap, with a mad, turious favo, shakes Ue red scart iu Wild dellance, Further on «ong the wail the sume groups of figures, falling under ine fire of the soldiers, ure seen, Ull the eye rests upon the gloomy breadth of the’ grout emy all dark aud suinvre in the gray of morging, Turning from the Dluody work, Which the artisi, with perhups a pardona- ble sutire, calls fhe Triamph of Order,” there are certain touches of meaning Lo be fouud in the picture besides the general record of events almost too inbuinan to be believed. Among the fresh and flourishing green trees around the graves appears a crogs, and beneath tuese trees two officers in comaaud stand, one of whom fires his revolver at a poor wouaded, struggling man trying to escape, Ua teo wall, wich bas taken the name of Le Mur dea Com. munistes’’ instead of “Le Mur de Charouue,” amid the marks of the builets and the blood of the victims, are stil to be read the mocking words which were one ofthe cries of tho Cummuntsts, ‘Vive Uhumanite !”? just above the Ogure of » venerable, old, bermit-hke mau, With long white beard, who seems Lo conten plate Lhe ebb of his life bluod quite placidly. Ifartisto help the remembrance of i cruel sco then M. Pichio has indeed done his tusk well, He bas thrown himself into what might be called tue crudiey ol the paietto and tue studio with unflinchiag courage, aud painted all (0 borrors with an inteusty wod reality periectly awaziug apd terrible to behoidy ‘The difficulties 1u a Work of this nature are so immeuse that few painters ever dato to encounter them, and even battle pieces, Which must be painted lor giory’s suke, caunot be painted as they are—they must bo madé agreeable as pictures, and the horrors must be left out us much as possible. Yoo often these pi are made absurd wod untrue by this artist make things pleasant and show off heroes in bocomtug and gracetul atiitudes. But there is no ailing of tuis sort in M. Pienio’s work; be nevor loses the tragic intensity of his purpose, aud be bolas tbe spectator with such a spell of hogfor at the ghastiy sight that the real sevne comes up iu the imagination ta all ita awlulness. THE HOFFMAN CASE REVIVED, ‘The action brought by Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Ca to recover from George Hoffman the sum of about $3,300, alleged to have been advanced with the Jatter’s consent to bis son, George J. Hotfman, since deceased, and who was in Europe at the timo, was brought up again before Judge Dykiman, at White Plains, yester- day. The deceased, it wili be recollected, became in- jatuated with the datseuse Bontwnti, whom he fol- lowed to Europe and fibaliy married. ‘he case, wich originality involved @ matter of £585, was tried in Brooklyn and decided in favor of th plainafis, This decision was subsequently confifmed by the Genoral lerm—Judge Dykinan writing the opinion—and 1s now pending in the Court of Appeals Argument 18 now made for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidevee in the form of jotvers written by a member of tue firm of Jay Cooke & C to George J. Hoffman, and lately delivered to the d feudant by tue Widow of the deceased; and algo other Jetters written by the firm to the defendant, recontly found by the widow. Odle Close appeared for the de- fondant, and General Thomas H. Hubbard for the plains ule Judge Dykman took the papers and reserved bis decision, THE WAR AMBULANCE CORPS. To THe Epiton ov THR HERALD ‘The formation of un ‘ambulance corps’? to servo in the present Kusso-Turkish war has beon proposed through the coltmus of the HeRaLp by “Medicus.” AS such a step would likely mevt general approbation among the medical profession of this country, farther intormation as to the proposed plan would be appre: ciated by the undersigned and, | am sure, many others likely to take « personal interest im tbe matter. Will the gentleman kindly give turough your mediam bis proposed pian for such outlit, and oblige, very traly, Koy SCALPEL. To tae Evtror ov tHe Henaw Would the projector ot the proposed ambulance corps, Whose letter appeared in your Monday's issue, and signed “Medicus,”’ inform the masses through your columns it anything bas been done toward the organizing of said corps’ Yours, &o, ARISTOTLE, GENERAL QUESADA, General Don Ratael Quesada, of the liberating army; of Cuba, is staying fora short time im this city with) his sister, Mrs, Carlos Manuel Cospedes, the widow of| the deceased President of treo Guba. General Quesada Wag instrumental in saving the life of Seftor Prado, son Ol the Prosident of Peru, who was jately 1m dan-| ger of being captured off the coast of Nicaragua by Spanish cruiser. Prado isin the naval service of th translated *‘Trovatore;’’— "If any one who sat in front nite Impression of anything except natural cleverne: L Cuban Republic.