The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-15
Great Revival OF Fashionable Movements
Regeneration of the Aristocracy I'm New

York.
Among the number of revivals and manitesta-
lions which have recently taken place in this lat-
tude, there is none which has created such scnsa
ton among certain circles, in the upper regions
of Broadway, and round about the fashionable
squares, the extraordinary movement which lis
now taking place in fashionable society, and which
will end in the reconstruction from its original ee-
ments, of order of aristocracy for this mighty
Probably one Of the principal reasons which set
in motion the brilliant elements of society may be
traced to the great speculations and the immense
fortunes which have been recently made in Wall
street, in the buying and selling ofstocks not worth
a pin, but extremely valuable in making poor men
seem rich, and in creating credit where no credit
should be given 1t is calculated that thirty or forty
persons, without cent in their pockets when they
went into the street about year ago, and who had
no order of nobility about them unless il was We
nerable certificate from the Bankruptcy Court-it
is calculated, say, that forty fifty Of these per-
sons have made immense fortunes, and that money
is beginning to circulate with free unbounded
hand, as formerly and that, of course, the fashion
able world is beginning to receive an impulse,
which it always does, when things are prosperous
down town.
During the last few weeks these movements have
made their appearance, and they are beginning to
widen very much. The fashionable milliners and
dressmakers, the pastry-cooks and confectoners-
all those who sell music, and lights, and second
hand plate, and all sorts of gaudy ornaments. are
as busy at this moment it is possible to imagine.
Probably three or four of these brilliant soir<cs, at
which new set of fashionable society, new
brand of the elite of the city, have made their APP
pearance, have been held in the various fashion
able squares or places round about town. Our
ariels and heavenly reporters have been upon the
wing, and they have collected abundance of beau
tful materials, respondent with beauty and ele-
gance, which it will take some time to work up
and throw into such shape as to make it pleasant
and agreeable to the public
To this new state of fashionable society there is
probably parallel upon the face of the earth. In
other countries, TO pay debts is a principle OF mo-
raty and principle of the social system, which
never can be overlooked or overcome But in this
happy city, and under the auspices of the brilliant
leaders of society, both Intellectual and physical,
present greater variety of original materials in the
construction of our fashionable society, than 1.-THE
rest of the world put together. We have saints and
sinners, honest men and swindlers, those who have
paid their debts and those who never pay cent,
those who never have been in a court at all, and
those who have passed through the Bankruptcy
Court as often they possibly could-allfor and
combined together in creating this new element of
society, which is going to rradiate the social and
fashionable history of New York for the next few
years. Men and women, who have spent the earn
ings of others' in visiting London and Paris, are
now taking the lead in many of our fashionable
circles, and bringing forth the stores of elegance
wit, and refinement which cost them nothing but
merely to take the benefit of the act and to pass
through, unscathed, the District Court of the Uni
ted States. A defaulter to an insurance company,
defaulteI to the government, defaulter to any
public institution of any kind, is now considered
wina acie evidence of responsibility, and will no
doubt take rank in this new circle of society which
Is creating round about the fashionable squares of
the city.
This much will do to-day, commencement
of the fashionable season. But we shall proceed
at our leisure, and describe one of those brilliant
sorScs in which all these extraordinary characters
mingle as the spirits do in Macbetli-where we
shall find clergymen and philosophers nfidels and
swindlers, regulators and honest men, bank de-
fauters and government defauters, fnanciers with.
out cent in their pockets, and financiers who
have robbed and pundered the country out Of
millions, all mingled most beautifully, most logi
cally and most lovingly together.
THE ITALIAN OpERA-We have already alluded
to the increasing desire for the Italian opera. No
thing is talked of in the fashionable cir les, Blu
'sWhen does it commence?' 'sWho are to be enga.
ged?' "Does Palmo or the Park intend to make the
lI,,b, Jol,r l,c,l
opera?' Such are few of the questions eagerly
asked by those who have caught up the enthusiasm
of The present excitement.
On this subject we have thrown out few ideas
and as far as it was in power, we have given
all the information we could gather. Our article
on the subject of the existence of the rival digue
has called forth the following note from De Beg
mis-, the principal opera ma nage1n this country -
DECEMBER IL, ls43
Twas not aware any clique that exists for my advan.
tage in the election OF manager for the Italian Opera
Palmo's unfinished theatre. However, that an
aware OF such clique take this opportunity Of informing
tne principal members not to give themselves the least
nothing the honos Of the dictatorship of Palmo Italian
Opera. Your obdf.
DE BEGINS
Here we already perceive the existence of a strong
1eellnS, ana much ulinculty arising, even before
there is room for conjecture TO the probable
course TO be pursued in the bringing out of the
opera. If Palmo or the Park intend to give us the
opera, it can be presented let them bring toge-
Their and combine the musical talent which theyhave
just now within their reach. Let them secure the
services of CASTELAR,, Sutton, Borghese, Damoreau.
De Regnis, Antognini, the Seguins, within Italian
Company now at Baltimore, and pay them as they
play. But above all, let there be manager who
shall have the sole control. Let him be despot
in his management, for however beautiful the prin.
cipes of Repubcanism may work in our political
hemisphere, they are totally unfit for the govern
ment of an opera corps of such discordant materi-
ais as we have. In fact he must be an especial mes
senger, sent down from heaven, with soul capa-
BILE of harmonizing the spirits of the turbulent and
caprlclous. and uniting in band of angelic sweet