The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

French Theatricals.

(Prom Galignani's Messenger.)
And must, then, we wretches hang that jurymen
may dine ? Will the directors of theatres do nothing
for that forlorn class which is forced to supply the
public with hebdomadal criticisms on new plays?
For three long weeks they have served up the
funeral-baked meats for the marriage tables of the
exhibitioners ; but though we may dress them
up with sauces rely:Bes, they are but rechauffees
after all, and our readers might justly accuse us of
impertinence were we to discourse about the Grande
Duchesse de Gerolstein, or the Biche aux Bois.
They would bid us tell them of the death of
Queen Anne, or of the disrobing of the new Opera
House, or the new taste for velocipedes, or any
other notoriety. The tailors have struck, but what
are we to do ? We must make our bricks with-
out straw ; and what stability can the Babel
have which is constructed of such materials ? See
the straits to which the Feuilletonists are reduced ;
like shipwrecked mariners, they first eat their boots
and then devour each other. The diet appears to
have given much trouble to their digestive organs,
as their "ilia" are not as " dura" as those of
Virgil's reapers, and their mutual ill-humour re-
veals but the indigestion provoked by this interne-
cine nutrition. If you should ever look into that
part of a newspaper which these playful people de •
signate in their " argot" as the Re: de Chaussee,
you will find full confirmation of this statement.
Can these returns be " doctored" which wo see
in the papers? The ." Biche au Bois" taking
7,000 fr. nightly, " Cendrillon" 8,000 fr., and the
" Grand Duchess" as much as she can cram into her
crowded, comfortless court. Are there, then,
people in this world who will sit and stew in a
stall for hours without being forced to go there ?
The theatres are the best possible conductors of
the caloric, but they are invariably full.. Full to
the topmost benches are the Cirque Napoleon and
the Cirque du Prince Imperial. Night after night
people go to see the Japanese jugglers at both
houses, who have set the world fanning away at
paper butterflies, which invariably fall to the ground
or fly up to the ceiling ; and every boy takes down
his father's sword (le sabre, le sabre, le sabre, de
mon Are), and cuts his fingers in endeavouring to
spin his top on
.the edge. Their astonishing dexus
-
terity has taken the town by storm, and makes
marvel that these juggling fiends never spoke be-
fore. We can understand that the American Impres-
sali should succeed in attracting the crowd, since,
irrespective of the immense merit of their per-
formers, their theatres are well ventilated ; you have
elbow room and air, you can breathe and move, which
you cannot accomplish at the Varietes or Vaude-
ville, or at the Lyrique, where Madlle. Schrceder
has advantageously replaced Mdme. Carvalho in
" Faust." That most musical, most melancholy
class who go to concerts and musical parties must
have been familiarised with the lady's fine voice and
her free, unconstrained use of her gifts of nature.
She has learned in the very best school, for Mdme.
Viardot never turned out an abler pupil. Madlle.
Nillson will find the Lyrique tame and dull after
her splendid triumphs in London, but Madlle.
Schrceder may give all her competitors ample time
to recruit their forces. For neither Madlle. Lucca
nor Patti on the Italian stage, nor Mdme. Carvallao
nor Mdme. Vandenheuvel Duprez on the French,
have surpassed this German lady's Marguerite.
M. Theophile Gautier is constrained to dilate
upon the unveiling of the now Opera House. With
his wonted grace and ease he drapes the new edifice
in poetical purity, though the facade oft the build-
ing is as destitute of poetry as of puriy. When
the packing case was removed, and the longin
secluded loveliness stood infest before us
ncruitdiec amnajeeexctlya,miattieolnie,ile,dA fprreemsentthdiseityaele"oHnipelcisohmed-
bpaefreql
Actaeon,
ettoreaon:,
e virginen before disrebim iag
nfrr."Te,hewfoauteld have
incapacitated
Biniocnapinacoituartedway7,ofhapcleecphianngcse
tesvueerhptaeohropeopwleentwacthioe. ol
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te.
sponr armbula goes to bed,
that we are of those vehrey
the Opera House when t
or when Indiana Dejazet commences her disrobing
on the stage ; but we confess t
want
t e v
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pn
aai
np
tp eaanrds
to wear an unconscionable qy
powder, maquillage and gaudy vestments, and the
huge chignon, the dome behind, exceeds the wildest
fantasies of fashion. Prodigal as the architect has
been of his gold and gauds, and his profuse expen-
diture of ornamentation, public opinion has out-
stripped
him in its prodigal abuse.—Another of
these directors of the public taste is reduced to a
critique on young M. Victor llugo's translation of
Shakspere. The work has just been completed,
and French literature is enriched by the addition of
Locrine," "Puritan," and "London Prodigal" to
its Shaksperian library. Were M. Ilugo to translate
all the trash which was attributed to Shakspere by
his contemporaries he would have work enough.
The most authentic of the apocryphal list is "Fair
Em," which in au old edition is described as
" newly set foorth, overscene, and corrected by W.
S." But any literary detective would find out the
fraud in a moment. It is full of words which are
not to be found in Shakspere : virent (green),
occision (slaughter), arcane (secrets), suspires
(sighs). This Locriue was printed earlier, with
" Mucedorous." the "Arraignment of Paris," the
" Birth of Merlin," " London Prodigal," " Edward
III.," 4' Thomas Lord Cromwell," "'Yorkshire Tra-
gedy," the " Mery Devil of Edmonton," " Pericles,"
" Two Noble Kinsmen," etc.—not Beaumont and
Fletcher's noble work, which is replete with such
glorious passages as these, the two noble kinsmen
are captive, an deplore that they cannot
" Exorcise like twins of honour
Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses
Like proud seas under us."
These are not in our editions of Shakspere ; why

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should M. Hugo interpolate them? Well doer; the
feuilletonist of the France exclaim, "We don't
recognise in them the Grand William," an improve-
'Denton the "Divine Williams," which he originatkl.

Mine. George Saud's Marquis de Villemer lias
been followed by her Francois lc Cliampi on the
Odeon stage. In the old province of Berri, the
peasants call their foundlings " Champis." Like
other feudal bantlings, these derive their names
from their estates—Chainpi, from the champ, where
they are found. George Sand has transferred ohe
of those enj/ints troureli to a mill, and has thrown
the spell of her restless magic over the beautiful
paysannerie. It is excellently played by lLtynald,
Paul Deshayes, and Mlle. Agar.
Cool and fresh is the air fanned by that windmill
in Berri,•but far from inviting is the element on
whose bosom the Canotiers de la Seine disport
themselves at the Folks Drarnatiquer. The revival
of this popular piece has proved a profitable specula-
tion at the season, when Asnieres awl Bougival
more especially are peopled by shoals of dripping
naiads, who are always chanting their Lurelei, even
amidst the chaste beams of the watery moon. The
Canotiers is essentially a piece a femmes in dramatic
parlance, but let not that deter you, as it does not
essentially imply that it is a piece de resistance.
Mdlle. Massue and Mdlle. Berthall as Queen Mab
and Fourchette will, as the Quarterly used to say of
Mrs. Trollope's novels, " repay perusal." The
Canotiers de la Seine are likely to become captains
au long cours.

Some fresh attraction is always starting up at the
Hippodrome. The sword swallower, the Chinese
giant, might have sufficed for a season, but balloons
are now provided a dis.cretion for intrepid aeronauts.
M. Arnault has seamed the services of the most in-
trepid of all aeronauts since the days of Dm,lalus,
Icarus, and Leotard. Azella is a lady highflyer,
who trapezes like Leotard, and performs all his sur-
prising tricks.

The Italian Opera season will commence on the
3d of September, with " Somnatnbula," and will
close on the 30th of April, 1868. There will be no
Sunday performances. We are now able to com-
plete
et
donne
nlnisetsoopfrallniio,
in-
lis.
mezzo soprani et gecontralti—
Madames engagements
saneing
Adelina Patti, Grossi, Harris, Krauss,
Tiberini, Simoni, Llanes, Rosello. Tenori : MM.
Gordoni, Tiberini, Mongini, Übaldi. Baritoni :
MM. Agnesi, Steller, Cresci, Verger. Bassi : MM.
Ciampi, Scalese, Selva, Fallar, Mercuriali. Direttori
d'Orchestra : Ist direttore, M. Skozdopole ; 2d di-
rettore, M. Portehaut ; 3d direttore, M. Accussi.
Direttore del canto : M. Alacy. Direttore dai cori :
M. Ilurand.
Let those runaway Britons and others who will go
to Mabille beware of the waiters who return base
coin in exchange for your golden louis, and expose
you to altercations with cabmen on your way home,
when you offer them the fictive sf. pieces which you
have just received. Why does not Mabille turn these
money-changers out of his Temple ? To us this is
the most melancholy of all places of public amuse-
ment. Under a thick coating of paint and powder
and maquillage the careful physiognomists may
recognise the same faces. How this makes us think
of the—

,‘ °runes oodem cogimur omnium
Versatur urna, serius, ocius
S ors exit Lira."
The total receipts from the theatres, public danc-
ing-rooms, concerts, and other places of public
amusement in Paris, amounted in July to 2,289,896 f.,
being a decrease of 131,080 f. on the previous month.

SHOR7 7 IME MOVEME
KERSNT-MEETING OF
GAS STO.

On Wednesday evening a crowded meeting of
men employed as stokers at the various London
gasworks was held at Cambridge llail,
Newman-
' street, Oxford-street, for the purpose of considering
the best mans to be adoptel to obtain a reduction
in their hours of labour. The meeting was presided
over by Mr. George Potter.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings,
stated that he had readily responded to the wish of
the men to preside on the occasion, as he had for
years past been endeavouring to obtain a reduction
of the hours of labour for those employed in his own
and other trades. iThey had fortunately so far
succeeded, but if ever there was a class of men who
had just reason to complain of long hours that class
was the gas stokers, if the character of their labour
was taken into account. He understood that they
numbered in London about 4,000. At each gas-
works there were two gangs of them employed—
one for the day, the other for the night, and each
of these laboured for l 2 hours each day, including
Sunday, making in all 84 hours per week. They,
therefore, complained that, considering the atmo-
sphere they had to work in, the duration of their
labour was too long ; and they had recently memo-
rialised the different gas companies to reduce it to
eight hours per day, or 56 hours per week, which
they could easily do by employing a third gang of
men, giving each gang eight hours to work out of
the 24. That memorial, however, the gas com-
panies refused to listen to, and the men had now been
compelled to have recourse to the only means left
them of advancing their interest, namely, to lay
their case before the public. The object, therefore,
of the present meeting was to give them an oppor-
tunity of doing so, and when the public heard the
true state of their case he believed they would re-
ceive ample support.
Mr. HOLDEN then moved a resolution to the effect
that the meeting was astonished to hear that the gas
stokers of the metropolis should be required to un-
dergo the labour of 84 hours weekly, half naked
before great fires, to make 'gas to light London ;
and that the demand made by them for a limitation
of the hours of labour was not only a reasonable re-
quest, but was absolutely necessary for the physical,
moral, social, and intellectual welfare of the men.
The gas companies were well able to afford a third
gang of men, and that would to a great extent re-
medy the evil. From a return he had procured ho
observed that the shareholders of the different Lon©
companies numbered 8,075, of whom 2,127 wore
ladies, 345 were clergymen, and 1,049 were trustees
for other parties, and all these received a dividend
of 10 per cent. per annum, with occasionally a good
round bonus to boot. That being so certainly
something could be done to better the condition of
these men; and he did not believe that those 2,127
ladies and the 345 clergymen could have the con-
science to draw such dividends if they knew the
state of torture to which these men were subjected
in snaking them for them. (Cheers.)
Mr. JAMES CONOLLY seconded the resolution, and
Mr. G. Brooks having supported it, the motion was
put and unanimously agreed to.

CIIATTERTON V. REEVES. —This was an action
by Mr. F. B. Chatterton, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre,
against the defendant, Mr. Sims Reeves, for a breach of
contract, not having, according to an agreement entered
into with the plaintiff, acted and sung in " Rob Roy" for
twelve nights, at 40 guineas each night. The case was
tried before Lori Chief Justice Bovill and a special pay
in Trinity Term, and the damages were laid at £2,000
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Joyce, and Mr. J. Ernest
Brudenel Bruce appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr
Iluddleston, Q.C., for the defendant. The result was a
verdict for the plaintiff, with a reference as to damagMes!
Yesterday the arbitrator awarded tho plaintiff, r.
Chatterton, £1,500 damages, and also the cos s of the
proceedings.
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COVENT-GARDEN
VE CONCERTS.
CON T -GARDEN THEAT RE.
EVERY EVENING at 8.
Under the sole Direction of Mr. J. RUSSELL.
Madlle. Sarolta, Madlle. Eraclio, M. J. M. Wehli, Mr. R.
Levy, Mr. Reynolds. The Courtois Union, and Band of
100 performers. conductor, Signor Bottesini.
Conductor
of the Dance Music, Herr Johann Strauss, from.
Box-office open from 10 till 5. Promenade, Is.
Doors open at half-past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Messrs.
Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Compton, Kendal, Braid,
C.ark, Weathersby, ; Mesdames Sedgwick, Buckingham
White, Fitz% illiam, Laws, Coleman, kc.
After which, TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE
FOUNDS. Mr. Buckstone.
—To conclude with PETER SMINK.
Commence at beven.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
1. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE BARONET ABROAD. Miss
Roden.
After which, at 8, THE HUNCH K
BAC, Dig sere. H.
Neville, Killington, J. Clarke, Ashley, Suart, C. H. Stei.hen-
eon, W. Eburne ; Miss Kate Terry, Misst Ellen Terry, &c.
To conclude with A SLICE OF LUCK. Mo;ms
Miss
J.
Clarke, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith
A. Seaman and Miss E. Pitt.

itOYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan.
TO-NIGHT, SIX MONTHS AGO. Mr. Clayton, Mr. II
J. Montague, Miss M. Palmer.
After which, THE GRASSHOPPER. Messrsand Emma.H.Wigan,
D. Murray, and J. Clayton ; Mesdames Ada
Webb, and Sheridan.
To conclude with BETTY MARTIN. Mr. G. Vincent
and Miss E. Farren.
Doors open at half-past Six; Commence at Seven.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS,
muLBORN.

OPEN EVERY EVENING.-BRILLIANT AND UNABATED
SUCCESS.

- --- -
THIS EVENING. ano'her Change of Programme. En-
gagement of La Petite Taglionl, the Juvenile Wonder of the
World. The •` Vanishing Clown," by the Eccentric Abbott,
received nightly with shouts of laughter and rounds of ap-
plause. The Brothers Daniels, Musical Clowns ; I. Airec's
thrilling Trapeze Act; the Wonderful Fire Hem " Zamor."
kc. ; together with SCENES IN THE ARENA by the
Matchless Troupe of Equestrians.
Commence at Eight.

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"rrinE Feats are of the Most Varied Kind, and
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May 27, 1867.

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The French and Austrian EMPERORS are the
centres of attraction to all the Continental poli-
ticians, but as yet they do not seem inclined to
afford a chance of excitement to those eager for a
change. It is po:itively stated in the news from
Salzburg that the " understanding between the two
Emperors 'is most favourable to the interests of
peace." So it may very likely be for the present,
and it is just as well that it should for many reasons.
The continental nations have suffered enough from
the horrors of war without reaping any correspond-
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