Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-15

The Paris correspondent of the Boston Atlas, speaking in one of his letters of the carnival festivities at he Tuileries hs year, and their ele- gance and magnifcence, says that ,he Americans alone, who attended the Court Ba Il. spent upwards of five thousand dollars that would otherwise have remained in their purses. The writer adds:
 Some of the Americans, by the way, forgot that the great object of the King, giving is to aid Parlsan industry, and talked loudly about their having righ, as republicans, to attend them in plain citizens dress. Mir. Walsh, if l mistake not, once appropriately remarked, that while the cost Of the court dress nigh, have been adequate motive for the abslnence of some ofthese gentry 10 wear ii would not have heen humihafioa Repuh.
 lcans should not bnster any where, if they condescend to vIsit mCnarchal countries, and wish to behold peculiar speclacles, they should conform to established etiquette, of which all violation, under such cmcuIb stances, is, in fact, uncpurteous, bad breeding, squeainish folly. The number of Ameri- cans now annually presented is greater than that of any ether country people, for Minister cannot re fuse any who will conform to the usages; but were il attended with extra expense it would be auadrupled Many of them seem also to think tba our Legation here is established for The special pur- pose of presenting them at court, and the Depart ment of State would meet their wishes by attaching 10 it clerk, whose provn,e It should be to answe their null iiudinous notes and messages-order the r clothes, and act as Daia m the occasion.
 The Diplomatic corps and public funclonares paid their New ears vsil, the first of January
 
 third there WAS grand reception, for all who had ever been presented, at which quite number of American ladies were introduced for the first time The company assembled between seven and eight o'clock, the ladies standing, without distinction, around the walls of the saloons forming h, illiant frame work 10 the dense mass of gentlemen who were in the centre. At half past eight the King entered. preceded by two aid-de-camps One of these en- quired of each lady her name and wlat country she was from, and whispered it to the other. He intro duced her to the King. who usually said few words, either in French or English, with that urbanity for which he is noted, and passed on. He was followed al lew paces distant, bv the Queen, the Duchess de Nenonrs, and the Dukes de Nemours, d'Aumaie, and Monipensier, each Of whom attended and introduced m the same manner. The Queen was es. corted by brilliant train of ladies in waiting They were TWO hours m making The circuit, after which they took ih"ir stand in Ihe centre of the further room, and the gentlemen dcfled before them, each oBe giving his name, and being introduced, they passed. The company dispersed about nidnight, having see that their names had been nscr it- sd on the visiting book, in order to insure them in- yitations to the coming balls. There was similar reception the ffih, and one the 7th, for those gentlemen who had never been presented. On the last occasion, is customary, the different nations were s"parated and presented to the royal family by the members of their Legations.
 The same correspondent, noticing the arrival in Paris of troop of thirtysx dancing girls, betwee" six and ten years of age. from the bu ks o the Dam ubc, remaks-
 Yet it is sad thing to reflect, (and people do sometimes reflect here) that these pnls have heen collected from their homes, to be Jraned for the stage, like Carter's lI.ns. Few persons have any idea of the painful, Ssybus like toll of danseuse, whose repose flesh and liberty are sacrificed, like those of race -horse that she may riamph. 'I have seen He Taglioni." says one of her friends. "fall insensbe on the floor, afier receiving bong lesson from her father; she would be undressed and carried to bed by her dome sites. This the price of the agility and marvellous bounds of the evening" Ev- cry evening that Fiiz James appears in her best character she lies for baIf hour, face downward, upon two chairs, placed yard apart, whilst her femme de chanbs sits upon her back, thu, 1t may be. come supple. h is true that a siereotyped smile plays upon their lips, hut il is only to conceal the workings of heavy heart g.iilf