The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

SINGULAR ACTION FOR LIBEL.
(nom 0171 OWN comarorwarr.)

PARIS. FRIDAY Evernis.
K Bagier, manager of the Italian Opera, figured
yesterday as plaintiff in an action for libel against
M. bendier, the editor of the Prance Musicale.
M. Nicole!, counsel for M. Bagier, said his
client had to complain of a series of hos-
tile articles which went beyond the
bounds of fair criticism, and were of a

nature to discredit him in public estima-
tion. According to M. Escuclier, nothing was good
at the Italian theatre—the company, the costumes,
the scenery, were all detestable. In the number
of the defendant's paper of Oct. 13 he ran down M.
Bagier's prima donna, the celebrated Mdlle. Patti,
saying that her talent was ridiculously over-rated
and that she was totally unfit for great parts. He
regretted the absence this season of Praachini, the
" king of tenon," of Graziani, Delle Sedie and
Zucchini, and of Mesdames Battu, Penco, Vitali, and
Borghi Mateo. Why were they not here? he asked.
Wily, because Mille. Patti's enormous salary ab-
sorbed all the resources of the establishment.
Agiin on Oct. 20 there was an ill-natured notice of
Mdlle. Patti's performance of the part of Traviata,

vesting sneeringly of the little tulle of her voice
and compering them to the mechanical effects of •
mwriml anuff-box. On November 10 he said
fsh while the reosipta of the

OPara, °Pere A Paris letter in the Examiner says :—" As for Theatre . .
sneak, it is becoming me et the necessities of life. sot IC en°Y"que were Improving'
no Paris but an over Flamm people are dividing theme of the Italian Theatre, even on nights
Imo amass of opinion ; entamiesie at °nick and °retry, whim IA Patti sang, had fallen off fully one
of quatueze, of the ancient lassie at Thedelosp's eonserteo hall' since the does of the Exhibition. On
end of the eh' et the Atme•Pbede Lobster the November 24, he wrote that if any doubts had
femme quadrille of the CFA Ore.& There are fenatios of , before existed as to the decadence and prnai.
Yowl, of lesetsi, sad either, of 'Ay I Ohlqufts ' and the
mate death of the Italian Opera, the die-
' Chanson de Fertente,' and woe of the harrowing
bawl. mama by ppm win r pm. graceful way is which I Puritani had been
saps based He bet-sassed mealier farm et musts is for , brought out mad put an end to them. He
tie seetest the ewe 'Mai /IMMO/ weed about ; we all I thought it high time that the Corps Logi:data
here heard sang • hundred times the rime steurnfal okay &cold step the annual subvention of 100,00010,
of mom perfect meters whit hoed sad SfraithiwaY &le& grahted to this thesis* if it were not to be better
Villamer4 has already attashed this sett of literature is resaaged. After this action was
cosinumosa,
the admirable earklt etere of white Its pablidied the
ether day : and on December 22, M. Factulier agpavated
They beet : his libels by citing from the Musical Gass& el
H MO IMO Sian ; Allan an article, very probably furnished to that
as lair yr Ws
we yes es sal Me 'daft ried the We mid jotunal by himself, pretending to explain the
*my mew
tow could read, write, sad adedlis itto wow ow was" why no new Italian Verse war* now
aelViideir; brought out in Paris. This antis& mid that Y.
wield bat set they wee Batter .had brought the theatre to the lowest state
to no& what a amens he swap Gad wires Anise of degrwiation, that with the eastelitiou of his Dim
he would reader to society in Dldlle. Patti, all his arNsiss wwe elwedeebie, his

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day afternoon hes not continued, except on our raid coast:
readings are lower In the west and southwest of Ibe"
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The Figaro-Pet:gramme has the subjoined
frightful misfortune ham just befallen Madame Cailotte
Patti in the comet of her tour in the moth—kw husband
IL Soola, has gone mad. The Ullmann coacerts at Mee
melee have in ceemsymmee been temporarily 'Wen"
It amen that the Miser of IL hook died in a luttatie
sae= at Milan ; the ems bed formerly been • tenor, and
was a widower when be netwried Mlle. Catlett' Patti."
Tim BISHOP or Wtroszerni. —A bulletin issued
=V•jr,ifetesterigam% imaka stesedset ettps,
win idskt. isebelesißltbsibs his
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tants of Farnham by Use &Adelman el Surrey, rector_
end eximeleaopeireelseed by mew of pealers:—"
env Wropwenimatinees to be in &are the spa
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'arm 6, lerri:lacirt amber of proem attended the
marines yulieday.