New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-03

Poor Peoples q ildren-Uld Drury
ipLondop-ssd Wells-EDglish
and French Acting eompared-M lie
RseheI-Frepch Trsgedy-Rose Che.
py-Dumas-Guizo Presents.
zion AZ Court of the young Duchess
Bail at the Tuilleries-Ameri can
sxdPrench -Leverrier- The
sorbonne-Arago-C Celebrated Lee.
ers-Discussions on Suicide and
the Crusades- Remusst-The Acsd.
euy-Ls Mennsis- Beranger-Re.
fections.
PARIs
3. When wrote last could not finish with Lon
don, and there remain yet two or three things
wish TO speak of before passing to my impressons
OF this wonderful Paris.
j visited the model.prison at Pentonville; but
though In some respects an improvement upon
others l have seen--though there was the appear
snee Of great neatness aud order in the arrange
ments OF life-kindness and good judgment in the
discipline Of the prisoners-yet there was also ON
air of bleak forornness about the place, and it fell
lar short Of what my mind demands Of such abodes
considered as Redemption schools But as the sub
ject Of prisons Is now engaging the attention Of
many Of the wisest and best and the tendency is
in what seems to me the true direction need not
trouble myself to make crude and hasty sugges-
tons it is subject to which persons who would
be of use should give the earnest devotion of calm
and leisurely thought.
The ssme day went to see an establishment
which gave me unmixed pleasure il is bathing
establishment put at a very low rate to enable the
poor to avoid one of the worst mseries Of their lot
and which yet promises 10 pay. Joined with this
l1;el., e., sbe
poor can go and hire for almost nothing good tubs
water ready heated, the use of an apparatus for
rinsing drying and ironing. oil so admirably ar
ranged that poor woman can in three hours get
through an amount Of washing and ironing thet
would under ordinary circumstances, occupy three
or four days, Especially the drying closets con-
templated with great satisfaction, and hope to see
in our own country the same arrangements through
out the cities and even in the towns and villages
Hanging out the clothes is n great exposure for
women, even when they have good place Tor It,
but when as is common in cities, they must dry
them in the house how much they suffer In New
York know those poor women who take m wash
ing endure great deal Of trouble and toll from this
cause have suffered myself from being obliged
70 send back what had cost them so much toll, be
cause it had been, perhaps inevitably soied in the
drying or ironing or filed with the smell OF their
miscellaneous cooking, In London 1t is much worse
An eminent physician told me he knew OF two
children whom he considered to have died because
their mother having but one room 10 hive in. was
obliged 10 wash and dry clothes close their bed
when they were III. The poor people in London
naturally do without washing all they cam and be-
meath that perpetual tall of SCOT the result may be
guessed All but the very poor in England put out
their washing and this custom ought TO be universal
in civilized countries. it be done much better
and quicker by few regular laundresses than by
many families, and the washing day is so maig
nsnt foe to the peace and JOY OF households thatit
ought 10 be etfaced from the calendar. Bat as
long as we are 30 miserable as 10 have any very
poor people in this world eg cannot put out their
washing, because they cannot earn enough money
to pay for it, and, preliminary to something better
washing e.tab shments like this OF London are de.
nrabe.
One arrangement that they have here in Paris
Will be a good one, even when we cease to have
any very poor people, and, please Heaven also to
l have any very rich. These are the Cssehes-
\ houses where poor women leave their children to
be nursed during the day while they are at work.
Ihave not yet been TO see one OF these, and must
| postpone speaking Of them more fully to another
letter
l must mention that the superintendent OF the
l washing establishment observed with Legitimate
l triumph, that it had been built without giving
angle dinner or printing single puh-an extraor'
binary thing, indeed for England
| To turn to something little gayer--the embrod'
cry on this tattered coat Of civilized lte--l went
INTO only two theatres, Old Drury-once the scene
| agrsat sories, now of execrabe music and more
| sxeefsble acting. II anything can be invented
more sxcrueiating than an English Opera, such as
was the fashion at the time was in London am
sure no sin Of mine deserves the punishment Of
tearingit
Atssdless Wells saw play which had much
admired In reading it but found still better in actual
representation; indeed, it seems to me there can
eeno better acting play this is The Patricians
Daughter BY J. w. Marston The movement is
rapid yet clear and tree the dialogue natural dgni-
ned aud howing-the characters marked with few
but distinct strokes. Where the tone of discourse
nses with manly sentiment or passion, the audience
spplauded with bursts of generous feeling that
gave me great pleasure for this play is one that in
"'s~ sNotuinSt Lhths INC hco -" 49, H"o
and tbs uil Of an experience which is inevitable
sman OF talent there and is hsrbinger OF the day
when the Modest commoner shall be the only noble
possible In England
But how different all this acting to what find IN
France Here the theatre is living you see some
thing really good. and good throughout Not one
touch Of that stage strut and gar bombast Of tone
which the English actor fancies indispensable to
scenic Illusion is tolerated here For the first time
an my life saw something represented in a style
uniformly good and should have found sufficient
proof had needed any, tina. all men viii prefer
what Is good to what IS bad If only fair opportu-
nifty Tor choice be allowed. When came here, my
first thought was to go and see Msdemosele Rs
eheL was sure that in her should find true
genius, absolutely the diamond, and 50 il proved
went to see her seven or eight tirnes always in
parts that required great force o soul and purity Of
taste even 10 conceive them, and only Spss had