Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-05-27
FRANCE.


intelligence from Europe by the Boston steam
packet, (Which we shall receive to-day and give TO
our readers tomorrow we are glad to be able to
furnish our readers the following additional extracts
from the Paris Correspondence for LITrELL's
Living Age" from which they will obtain clear
idea Of tile course Of affairs in France since curl last
quotations from the same Correspondence :
PAnis, ArRIL 10, ls4s
II is inquiry of some interest how the revolution Of
February has affected letters and the drama in Paris The
feetoas Of of the JOURNALS have been occupied with
it. and the opinion appears to can unfayoraby
citizen 1hoe, however, in the Constitutional predicts
wonderful improvement but his style and vein not
the best symptoms. Here you haveasampe "The repub-
lie will be the new Messiah that ust accomplish all the
angc prophecies Of the fathers and the martyrs popular
religion In twenty years viii be Drawer and
Intelligent, handsomer and stronger" &c The
critics admit striking deterioration Of the drama all stage
busiaess suit the athc
te except for the gratis performances the boxes are
empty. Ninety thousand persons reckoned attend The
every evenings thus the pit audiences are greatly
hinned Both primary and secondary performers mediate
emigration Some eight have applied the American
Consulo learn whether they could succeed in The United
States. On the 10Th instant, the important theatre the
AnJige Comiquesrand melo drama, music, and ballet
just the curtain should have rsen the principal director
stepped forward and with dismal aspect announced that his
choruses and fgHsS refused 10 act until he paid them the
fornghs salary due, which wholly out of his power.
Uproarhe rebellous singers and dancers took flight
The recovery Of the money paid for places sequel of
two days clalnor and negotiation.
The exhibition Of the works living French artists
open the Louvre. Jury appointed by the Government
has hitherto determined the selection among five thousand
pieces the average This year jury wereoyeraken by
the evouton they thought themselves obliged proceed
the maxms Numbered into their ear-berty, equality and
fraternity perhapsihey too much excited frightened
fordscrminaon AS many pieces the walls could receive
dispatched pee nee to Tie galleries The ostrbuon
rather uxaposion, quite confused and dsordery
On my visit felt inclined thank the revolution gro
tesiue is the display The people felt this effect that
became necessary Withdraw the ludicrous
daub lest oughes hands than. of the attendants
should redress the grievance There few excellent por-
tsiis of the large display terribly bad the small
cabinet pictures the least exceponalc the historical
legendary novelist fancy picturesque abound
well imagined aud executed hce fine landscapes-in
which, by the way the French school makes progress Not
few Of what styled the poratlandcapes Indicate
form coorng fidelity the hues Of CREATION for which il
has been the ordinary sin Of the French 10
substitute exavagan nts and masses of light and shade
which eye Of the body has behold The fantastic
srec and those of effect beay more dstemperature
e the taste than they indicate esthetic refinement La Re
deS Deur Mondes observes son the WHOLE every
teur when he leaves the LOUVRE condemns the exhibition
desab" considerable reduction take place in the
legion Of artists they longer live by Their trade The
sku threatened with starvaiion they too would
beake themselves to America, the Americans could
age them the risk Who can expect to seh pic
and exmghy stockholders Is heaped the mint be
changed for necessary. coin
Al the former gIsring in the fashionable rnamep
all the celebrities in the political sphere, have sunk under the
hoszon. The extent and depth in which, the French
speak, erenees Displaced currailed subyered,
scend all that any other than old resident in Paris could
conceive. For years had been industousy charging
and culng French acquaintance, which formed last for
literature, politics. SCIENCE and social converse the very
circle which coveted On day since the revolution would
have been possible or to assemble in tie evening eight
ten Of the hundred and fifty Of the have been
able twenty NOSE in private visits all sm,en-al
changed nearly every admitting that royalty beyond
resurrection, yet despair regarded the utury Of Fsnce,
their public life, lawful ard Fixed personal aims
At dsybreak yesterday had second universal alarm and
splendid array Of protection Between three and four A. NJ
reported that the communists the gcnericsl
for the lowest and ferce rabb had attacked several posts
OF the National Guards msrshscd strong bands and
certed the reduction Of the Hotel de vle The guard
the 6fst take the field they secured the and
bouIevard dispersed various groups Of the assaans made
prisoners and retired for their barracks
the old guard forth, which by six o'clock
upwards Of hundred thousaDS-whin hour after the
beating ofhe rgpp Muudes Of the popoIace went to the
offices Of the mayors 10 ask arms but being Of suspicious
pec, rcpeled 10 the good and ammunition
distributed at their several public rendezvous At the
banee de Ia Willie wagon seized, endcavong enter
csDdesney, with eight hundred muskcs Banqu and his
club held secret session Sunday last, which quckened
the vigilance Of the authorities You read report Of
the Journal the Union, Of sitting Of tina, club understand
how the public peace might may be disturbed fellow
who vcnurcd cry DoUn ci The republic first tram.
pied under foot and then dragged the poiccprson
Their preaching communion, escaped from being drowned in
the Seine by the n,ercession Of popular officers
horseback with drawn sabre 10 hand and proclamation
the other, and followed by hand armed the teeth fell
into the hands Of detachment Of the guard who threw
him and his suite into durance vile All the posts
bed and additions made 10 the imposing force in and about
the prefecture Of police. The commandern-chef OF the
guards and the staff parjcd every WHERE hsrsngunr the
several corps they reviewed passed them WIS., alto
gether manifestation Of good spirit encouraging for
all the respectable world but, Of dsasccd editors
excams, "a fine security, indeed, which requires that hon.
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