of an police j c � a took us up four flights of st rs to i that we might have a d of the whole theatre this row bears no resemblance to our galleries or to those of the english theatres the box we entered was one of several called de so they are fitted up as s for clubs of gentlemen with � tables and and are veil lifted the of the from is or would b magnificent when they hare an a a daylight illumination ordinarily the blaze of is for the stage the audience is in comparative obscurity and consequently la b perhaps twice as large as the opera house in london its effect is by no means so brilliant as that where the light is and reflected by richly dressed people here we could only imperfectly now a matron s cap and then a young lady s as they peeped from behind the curtains of th boxes the rows of boxes are with mile bordered with crimson the box is the it the second and third rows and is as lai e as a small drawing room and is of coarse fitted up with and has a gilded crown suspended over it the theatre is the great of society the ladies receive in their boxes instead of at home and being constructed with reference to this custom they are deep and narrow not more than two can occupy a front seat between the seats in the pit and the front boxes there is a wide left for the gentlemen to the music is a secondary object holding e same place it does in a drawing room a air or a favourite attention for a few moments but as far as i have observed even the italian is not the common in b j of the bound of his own voice to s to be not to heavenly b was the in which when in the street i have to it being rather a phenomenon to see young ladies walking about as our girls do but the gaze of men lounging before our box and planting their for the ace of two or compared with the with i our women at home are treated rather strongly dr in the two after having heard la c the here was no great affair the can no longer afford to pay th best the presence of art and the result of study are striking in the stage management the opera all its is the study of this nation bs ns are the study of england and the states during the which by the way is ed between the acts of the opera much to the of its effect there was a corps of between and girls on the stage at the same moment not varying in height children are for the at a school uie for the and for besides this should be a fearful question to who must answer it it would i should cure people s mud for opera to witness the e of these poor young i felt sorry for our dear girls and for myself that ve were present at such i cannot call it ty a more name there were persons on stage at one time belonging to the army the emperor pays a sum to sa the opera at la considering it an e instrument for the political pulse ef italy no wonder that must be employed to sing e to those who have a master s pointed at th homes among other which the emperor has that the love of that divine and essence is at work in the hearts of the is the fact that no italian lady an officer in her box with it matters not what rank he holds if tes him she is put into by her countrymen is there not hope of a people who while their chains are dare thus openly to disdain their masters � it ii we m no of italy aa it is by overpowered bj ths ot bet force and is still into but we of a � how that the of their a to in the twelfth when � their from them their and off their soldiers we are feeble forsaken and they said be i bo it does not to to hut to our country we oar left in our arms and the yet boiling d d l g g i thk two the c have beat to see us and eagerness to s letter the elder c is of th� aa office that has fallen its al to a mere but mil as its gift is a proof of favour its incumbent will probably be of the friends of the bat apart from this � e hare reason to expect the have no fellowship with the and into that we the habits and modes of in the two are ao different that there can be but little pleasure social intercourse the english gentleman in his italian acquaintance to his home he comes here and is offered the italian s he is and cold and intercourse ends after the gentlemen left ra r a� k o had been talking with c � i how him very much he is not only tiiat rice does not grow in new england that the does not empty into the atlantic but ha as with the of our country as if he had there the count is a a world and the most delicate made oi t id md b� wa will wait not till tho hope of conquering i� � that bat till of n � t � is the greatest of all s tbe of the in the and the ob places in a one of the little used believe the display of and to crown all we had the of count c s escort the which you know is the great 