The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-23 00:00:00

A RUSSIAN PRINT-SHOP.

At the Admiralty corner of the Nerakoi I make
my first cordial salutation to the fine aria in Hassle. This
long range of plate-glen windows appertains to an Inge-
nious Italian, Signor Desiaro, whose handsome print-shop,
with the elaborate Rossi= inscription on the frontage, has
no doubt often pleased and pon!ed you on the Boulevard
des Capacities in Paris; and who bar sntcarsal fine arts'
establishments in Moscow, in Wiling', and I believe also is
Odessa, se well es this one in St. Petersburg. Huhu° fe
the Russian Ackermann's. For the newest portrait of the
Cesar, for the latest iiihogrephs of the imperial family, for
the last engraving after Sir Edwin Landseer, the Isot pay-
sage by Ferogio, the last caricature foot political, be It well
nadentood, bat of a Loretta or &Couleur tendency) of
OSTIZOI or Gustily de Beaumont, you mast go to Da.
siaro's. His windows, too, display the same curious ther-
mometer of celebrity as those of oar printeellen. A great
man is disgraced, end sinks into oblivion. One day he dies,
and then people suddenly remember him (foe about two
days), as he wee, before he wein't. Presto! his portrait
appears in Deathro*s window. Half-a down oopies of We
portrait are sold daring his two days' resuscitation ; and
then be is relegated to the portfolio again, and clamber, till
his son wins a battle, or runs away with somebody sloe's
wile, or is made a minister, or is seat to Siberia, or does
mouthing for people to remember and tilt about (for about
two days more), what Monsieur his fa"ier was. When,
fillies the son's portrait, the estate Darien gives the re-
@peened progenitor another airily in the print-shop window,
arid so on tiU we ripe and rot, all of us. And thereby hangs
a tale. Is this only Russian ? Is it not so the whole world
over? There was • thermometer of this wit is •
print-thop at the corner of Oreat and Little Queen-streets,
Liacoln's•lnn Fields, Loudon, which I used to pus ivory
morning ; and the fresh portraits in the window were as
good as the news of the day to me. The thermometer in
Hagues is more apparent, more significant, and more Oa
gaudy unsalted ; forthis is a country where the news of
the day is scarce; where, in en intolerable quantity of
matte paper, there is about a copeck's worth of news; and
when the real, stirring, daily intelligence is muttered in
dark entries, and whispered behind hands in boudoirs, and
glued from lip to ear over tumblers of tee, and scribbled on
blank leaves of pocket books passed hastily from hand to
Iband, and then the blank leaves, converted Instantly into
pipe lights. As a general rule yea can lied oat much easier
wine is most talked about by consulting Signor Dasiuo's
window, in preference to the Journal do St. Petershourg.—
DicAass's" Household Words."

A curious theatrical law suit hes jest occurred at
Boulogne. An actor, named Millet, who had given thirty
tickets to different persons to go to the theatre, upon condi-
tion that they were to hies another actor named d'ller-
stilly, has been era in a veediet of iOOfr. damages and
sorts, for Waring the reputation of the latter. The de-
feadant 1,, moreover, on the ground that " it is important
to tke plaintiff that the public should know that the biters
with which he was assailed on ince 22 last were provoked
by a cause foreign to the appreciation by the public of Me
merits as an actor." ordered to pay for the insertion of •
copy of the judguect in three local journal,.
The Paris School of Medicine is greatly annoyed
jest now by a determination on the part of one its gravest
professors to slake a debut at the Opera ea a tecor !
Mdfles. Madeleine Brohan and Julie Therie made
their first appearance at the Michel Theatre, ih. Petersburg,
on the 12th.
It appears that the late accident to Mdlle. Cerito,
at a Moscow theatre, was occasioned by the obstinate im-
meva►ility of a trap-door epos which she was to suddenly
oink to depths below. The Kane was intended to be one of
moral wreck (theatrical) cud confusion, and the safer-
Waste &mamas was compelled to Tannin standing for some
minutes is t►e midst of the falling material.

An ex-deputy of the parliament of Turin, M.
Peeve, died lately at his country house. near Monthlies-
He was a remarkably tel man, and the house and for
catholic; burials Doing too short to contain Mc *cite, another,
whish was longer, was borrowed from the protestant,. But
whipsaw priests saw the heretical vehicle drawing nigh,
they rofseed to allow it to enter the church, end declined to
paean the fanaral service over the body of the good
esthetic; which laid therein.

The dress of the gentlemen et Compiegne is a
frock coat in the morning, and a drew coat and white neck-
cloth in the titanium. Thoth who take part in the toadish
wear a grows sloth coat in the mouths', and one of green
velvet in the ovesiog, with silk stockings eomicg over the
knee, Ws the time of Louis XI V. The ladies also haw
two different official toilettes sack day, and, as a rootlet of
mane. &over appear twice its the same drew. At Coun-
cils's*, sack `ant has only one room; et Yontsiaableas,
where there is more other, seek apartment will have
aglow. Zech lady Is permitted to keep a femene-dockambre
with her ; all the other servants are placed together. This
gusts who go so horseback bring their own hones with
them. The Emperor and Empress referee to themselves.
between the reception of tack 'sties of visitors, a day on
two of piney and rapose.