The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN THI&A.TRICALS.

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GYIUNASE —Tlio process by which an obtuse, self-
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=1,4 and nonderons Leis of a Garm.su schoolmaster,
lit,re ?lir: ascends the ladder of tortune formthe
sulijicz of ;is, I:4,at novelty ;awe, Les Ecacions du L'lari.
IT 01.e3t rli:;3l2l:flan giantlais liveithod by insiiiling
knowledge into the beaus or some dce,an ur•
chins, in a village near the chief town of
some little German priac;pality, by means of the
consecrated birch. This occupation is, 11oz-ever, anything.
but relished by the worthy peilagogue, who inveighs -bit-
terly ogainst Dame Fortune for not having placed him in
some eminent pelition where his talents might have found
a more congenial employment. But M. Plissmarn has just
t:;.!:en unto himself a wife, and by the influence of her briht
eyes, he suddenly finds hinasel raised, Cu his great stir-
prise, to the post of secretary to a foreign mission, at the
head of which is a certain gsll4nt Count. A couple ot hours
have net elapsed when the Prime Minister accidentally
' meets the new Attache and the fair Madame Plissmann,
and he is immediately transferred to the more responsible
office of secretary to his Excellency ; but the Premier is not
destined to avail himself of the ex-3choolmasters's services
for -any lengthened period, for the King himself has •
caught sight of his pretty wile, and the Monarch is im-
mediately struck with the urgent necessity of a confi-
dential attache to the Royal person, and nominates the
husband to that employment. But alae,! for poor Plies-
mann's ambitious dreams! his sxsa is luckily, or
unluckily for him, quite a Penelope, and resolutely
rejecting every naughty overture, is the cause of
his descending his echelons. even more rapidly than ho
had ascended. In fine, ha finds himself degraded to the
place of gate-keeper at the Palace, and retires to his
lodge to reflect over the vicissitudes of public life, and
the want of discernment of Princes; for his extraordinary
promotion, with truly marital blindness, he does not for
one instant attribute to its real motive. The piece is well
acted by Idlle. Luther, and Messrs. Geoffrey, Armand,
and Lesneur.

I VAUDEVILLE.—GaIaf cea, Acis, Polyphemus, and other
favourites of the Sicelides Mance, have been introduced to
the unclassical precincts of the Place de la Bourse, by M.
Clairville, who has not hesitated to lay sacrilegious
hands on the divinities of the sea, and transmogrified a
mythological legend of Oeid and Theocritus into a
.‘ vaudeville it grand spectacle," called Les Cycfopes et
es Nereides. '.The subject of this affair is simply the well
known fable of Adis and Galatce3; and exhibits the
nymphs of the Vaudeville in the agreeable neglige, in
which the Nereides, according to M. Clairville, peram-
bulated the grottos on the shores of Sicily; let us add,
not to shock the reader, that the costume is not quite so
primitive as that of the .fifty daughters of Ne-
reus and Doris, which merely consisted of their
long flowing hair and a garlaud of flowers, med.
Marthe is a charming representative of Gahucea.
and the winning Mdlle. Cice the Acli. Msteed of
crushing the lovers beneath a rock polyphemus per-
suade; Acis to pluck a certain flower, with the existence
of which the. life of his mistress is intimately conneetee,
the shepherd listens to the perfidious suggestion.
and Galatce3 expires in his arms, when Cupid, a
favourite divinity with caudevilists, intervenes, and
restores her to her lover, en event duly celebrated by
part in Le
a pretty ballet, upon which the curtain falls. The piece
was favourably received, and to the admirers of "beauty
unadorned" is certainly attractive,
This gentleman, whose perform-
M. Gueyniard has appeered in Roger's
Juif Errant, and was quite a eatisfactory represeeta.
returned after singing only
Theatre the Ecglish pap
live of the character.
atce at Covent-garden
de-
scribed as so triumphant,
but for the artistes. say
hratwice in London. All admit he sang ;gen....some Y
Lon
ri
bw: I i—
favourite
for tbhneffpaublic.
Crispin° e la Comare has been
favourably received at Ferrara with Male, Giovanalli,
and MLL'Zucchini, Sanzoni, end Meer:el.
A; the Nazionale at Turin, Lucrezia Borgia has been
given with Mme. Cuzzani, who, as the Bergin, appears
le have made a hit. A Mme. Schieroni as the Orsino,
aed MM. Mireglia and Walter, are also spoken of in
terms of commendat:on. At the Sutera, a eldlle. Cosa
i 5 siti to have appeared with success in Ricci's Esoosti.
i, A new otters, 11 Nuevo Nose, line met Kith a fiasco at
.., port(); the name of the composer is not given.
At tre cis, Consolinee Finla Pazzu has been favour-
ably received; Madame Ficrio and M. Carisio takingtne principal parts.
twratie couLtriessTfn
tee O
sPEcTs IN A3TERICA,—Our friends,
eil timer.. Pao
the Americans,
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brought befell.) the r,nlb4i.iii,a.c,illiamteueseeem of New Bills have been
of institutions
forld WO:
.raakingeste to overtake the aris-
h
ld in the establishment
York, Massa.
ehusetes, and Peense
of whose eparations are rtotePucti"
grand opers eempaey to'l" for the incorporation of a
—the first three
magnificent opera-het:ices elb?....the building of three
1ea...4,4p1u5, which are to oatroeet York, Boston, and
and our. own opeite-hauses in en!o lieele, ain Caries,
the excitement i 3 aiceeey at fev,ilt-td splendour. Teat
the clivited
from the leading article of the jeer:ati 'I'M
(loath_ jeuouneeig the
entered th
elis1.111: operaticthe Cossacks and the
democrats of the United Stites
e that is to give us our
BritAi:hertC-
couf
afro, withatvee fairly
and
we boliev, that I:
lit
i pep
intervention
eh
world i i :11 1 3:l:7::iht iitnYr.:
°rat of all the Bass.i.astrel the great Enfoishh
.--. on
iour t
hsiisd e,
as Wevi will
have
sovereige..peop.e.of Now York, Bug.
else. This is the only
aredte in. Russian polio;
which the American people
1, determined to take part
with their hands in their
inclucting_mttors from the 'whole
into
n. ,
aTnlidergilicarsido
Philadelphia,
i ft,
Union, have resolved Rasta and the
of
pockets, that the Emperor
for ever monopolise the great
the Old World shall not
at last,
ropriate to therisselves for
treats of Europe—shall not aPP . • •
ff Otl3 Grist or the
ever the beeuteotis Sontag, the l'i°rl
of Jen);
Y6llthful Wagaer. Vera have had a taste;. . ,
if Lind
Catherine nay- • I and Ole Bull; and ' our appetite grows
by what it f. dg out 'S‘e eat the three Grand Opera
Houses a eia,,,,„ York Boston, end Philadelphia rise up
rnajeatica4y t e 1 .
Europe out of the ' and 'e as eve did the
eat mart of music
Mexicans out of
The journal whenet
0 eeaven let us best the despots of
liegaJ'eo .t. (!)"
deriveWe can do
,I
a ie!is as that
the Astor-place Opera-
w.eho the aoov
classification of seats, end uura has
assumed by the holders of stall consequent airs of
,_ti. _
Tata stems droll, yet
droner is the following note of 9. failed, owing. to the
thusiasm" in hdialf of Melte. Zeyaration for an " en-
'Li--who has reached
the States, in company with si
gcu'd Revere and San-
giovanni :

" She dopsi not intend to sing at Present, but to tales
aho e, and ley off' for two three or reonti" ff. the
.I
purpose of swing the curious.sig,hts of tt,•
13 great noun-
try. She intends to visit.l,Tiagara Pall:3, to climb the
th% White Mountains, and to r4aible ' like a viild roe
over all the fine scenery and m gnifieent v3lley3 worth
„,!ng &Atka the ,nmea-er. In the fall she will 0,,n
the cam
Stat2s."Puigu, and enter upon a brilliant career in tEe

Aladarna Seatez, i 3 exreetri in .11.ca:--rie3 early in
litltatln: We shall be 5,,n3 ewhat cariut:3 ta sea what,
lino of Laterest and sTrnpetby will be gated out fir Ear
by tho;t3 who have likLned the poailorcus Alboni " a
roe."—Gaiignani.

CONVERsIONs.—Ou Sunday, eleven converts from
Bane renounced the errors of"Popety
at St. Paul':, Ber-
mondsey.