The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-03
MR. BENEFITS LETTERS FROM EUROPE.
PARIS, March 81, 1877.
Fashion and Music-Tourists and Diplomats
HomeWard Bound.

Homeward Bound.
To-day the spring begins among the idle and
fashionable people of Paris. The opening lasts
for three days, and is duly announced in the
newspapers. This beginning, or commence
ment, or opening of the spring, consists OF a
fashionable promenade of all the gay people,
in their new costumes, between the hours OF
two and five o'clock in the afternoon, In the
avenue of Long Champs, Of the Bots de Bou-
iogne, Just outside the great trIumphal arch OF
Napoleon, at the Bayriere d'Etoi!e. This avenue
of Long Champs is only one OF the numerous
walks or promenades in the Woods OF Boulogne;
but It is one of the longest When the trees
there are covered with the foliage Of summer,
the place is delightful. 1t is the great rendezvous
of all the gay, the fashionable, the idle, the silly,
the rich, and the well-dressed in Paris. The
Champs Elysee, inside the barrier, is frequented
by some of the rich, but 1t is also thickly strewed
with people of all conditions.
The Bots de Boulogns is the Hyde Park of
Paris. There is nothing in New York exactly
TO correspond to these public places. Harlem
and Bloomingdale, though good enough for driv-
ing and horsemanship, yet have no elegant prone
nades, where people can get out in crowds and
walk. Hoboksn is peculiar and delightful, pos
sessing more natural scenery than any public
place in any Of the large cities of Europe,
with the solitary exception of Prague, in Bohc-
mia; but there is no room or convenience for
exercise on horseback in the same locality as
with the promenaders.
Paris at this period turns out its fashionable
crowds in theirs pring costumes for three days. at
Long Champs This is also the close of Lent,
and with Easter Sunday begins new season of
feasing dancing, soirees, and gaiety, which lasts
through the month of April. 1t is the last month
of the fashionable season, and the Parisians
generally crowd much gaiety into the few re-
naming weeks possible. The salons of the
ministers and ambassadors are again open. The
leading literary people, poets, and philosophers,
and even some editors, also have their evenings,
devoted to talk, wit, scandal, and eau sucre. The
bankers and high financiers, including the bro
kers (agens du change, who are great men here,
and rich too give their closing gorgeous parties,
full of fashion, beauty, expense and grandeur
Even the court of Louis Philippe and the new
noblesse follow the spirit and temper of the day,
not forgetting the old nObIesse of the last century,
who yet stick to the exploded traditions of the
age of LOUIS XIV, and despise everything mo-
dern. have received number of invitations
for Mrs. B. for the coming week but she is
already performing her prisons to the Vicegerant
of Heaven earth, to his Holiness the Pope,
the modern Antichrist, or the modern ass, &C
cording to the creed and temper of the Protest
ant believer
Thus we go in Paris. The last of the season
will be the gayest, the choicest, the best. We
may not have the questionable excuses of the
balls masqu< or of mardi gras, or of the scores of
other places of mixed amusement but we may
have finer taste, and more propriety of conduct.
After the close of the fashionable season in
Paris, commences that Of London. Neither
buds nor balls, neither potatoes nor polkas,
neither carrots nor quadrilles, come so early
in the season in London as in Paris. After
the close of the one season in Paris, many 60 to
London, to finish with the gaeties of the other
across the channel.
Already the Italian Opera has left u.s. The
house was closed n few evenings since. Grisi,
Labache, Mario, are gone to London, to begin
the season there. Jenny Lind, from Vienna, is
expected here every day, on her way to London.
Whether she will stop few days and sing in
Paris l know not; but if she do, she will
create a prodigious sensation. Jenny Lind
is now considered the sole queen of song
in Europe Grisi has had her day, and is
now passfe. Others have had their days.
Jenny Lind is the divinity, undispued, at this
time. But the closing of the Italian opera does
not close the salons of music. We have the .4ca-
demis Royal (grand opera in French,) and also
the Opera Comique. We have concerts in any
quantity, and of every quality. At the Grand
Opera there have been great internal trouble and
instruction. The consequence is that Madame
Stultz, a very excellent artist, has resigned.
Upon this event the feuiletonists or musical cri-
ties, in the newspapers, write column on column,
comparing her note of resignation to that of Ma
poleon's at the close of the hundred days. There
is no end to the fun which the newspaper critics
here make OF every event in the musical, thea
trical, or fashionable world.
We are all on the qui pire here for the arrival
of Mr.. Rush, as new Minister to the Court of
France. His appointment has been surprise
No one expected such an excavation from the
olden fields of diplomacy. But he has had expe-
rience many years ago in London, and gave that
experience to the public in very amusing book,
which broke the seals of diplomatic secresy with
out hesitation. expect that he will keep ST.
milar faithful historical record during his resi-
dence at the Court of Louis Philippe. He may
give us the "Last Days of the Reign of the
KING of the Barbados" These things do good,
because they show the littleness of diplomacy
the uselessness of such system, and the neces-
sty Of an entire revolution in that mode of in
ternational intercourse. When the United
States have really any business of Importance to
transact with another nation, they should appoint
minister Of the highest rank, with salary of
the highest rank-even as much as $4,000 for
single year. American ministers abroad cannot
meet, on an equal footing the ministers of other
nations, at less cost, without rendering them
selves and their country the laughing stock of
the world. When there is nothing but ordinary
business to transact, a consul or diplomatic
agent, with a reasonable salary, is quite suffi-
cient for all purposes.
Mr. Martin, who has filled the post Of Charge
d." Afaires since the departure of Mr.. King,
has az