The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-10

land houses. and stocks. We can understand Scager
h rcIamed-Do you wish to taste the sharpest mis-
VIM Iife-sell YOUR books.n The dii minors OF The
literary profession reduced TO the necessity OF ihuilnH
oatio1s and addresses for the workmen-1aterlng oi
head The Authorizations and passions by whch All CIV,
;I;1stion is menaced. We now reckon hundred and
1ftv almanacs with many different titles Oihcia re-
INNS show that the present number OF the pupils of the
lvceums and colleges OF Paris is-as an ayeage-1or
each seventy five less than before the revolution OF Feb
ruary. new club is Pacarded-ioT homes, ana mod
crate men; Horace Say of the celebrated writer on
political economy, is 10 preside some colonies OF the
national guards subscrib the programme;
The attention OF the scientific world is drawn 70 Inc
phenomenon OF this day-the transit OF the planet Mer-
curry over the suns disk-from eleven minutes after
eleven o'clock to the setting OF the uminary our
astronomers prepared for the best observation They
inform us that the phenomenon has occurred but SIX
times since the commencement of the century, and Will
recur after tomorrow, Thursday as many tunes more
before the year 1900 1t will be visible in Europe,
only in the transs of November, 1861 November, 1858,
and May, 1878. They compliment LeverIier on his
syery remarkable researches on the theory OF the move
ments of Mercury" Perhaps, they add, "hs paper on
this subject is the finest trophy OF the great calculator
one of the grandest achievements OF the French school
that which has most sgnay succeeded IN the application
of analysis the system of the world The observations
of to-day will, doubt not, yield additional testimony
in favor of the learned anal yss of Leverrer, already JUS
titled by the observations OF 1885, and those OF antecedeni
trans,s"
Beroz the celebrated musical composer the grand
style, gave magnificent concert last Sunday, from
to O'Clock, M IN the theatre OF the falace OF YER
saies This surasses, in dazzling and diversified orna
mentn the spendors gliding, painting, and sculpture
any other hall and stage in the world 1t was opened for
The first time to the paying public Louis xiv and his
admitted only the court and select audience
of favored nobesse under Louis Philippe, distinguish
royal ORDER it not easy to obtain tickets of ad
mission. French legislators, high funchonaries, Off
of the army and the national guard and eminent
or popular men OF letters, were usually invited with
their families The republic privileged Berlioz and
association of musicians. They sold, at high price,
tickets which included the journey to and fro in the rail-
road to Versailles. thousand bouges were added to
the eighty enormous ustres You may imagine the il
Elimination and the effect of the architectural and scenic
decorations The number OF performers, vocal and IN
suumen,a is reported four hundred and fifty Compo-
sons of Mozart, Beethoven, Guck, Weber, and Beroz
himself were goriously executed Webers grand waltz
set for the orchestra, accompanied by sixteen haps
The spectators who acquainted with the costumes
the court and nobesse in the reign of Louis AlV and The
goTgeousness Of the worshpped royalty, could on this
occasion feel the contrast which the black dresses OF the
citizens and the simple toilette Of the females on Sunday
made with historical recoections and the etiugence o
the hall Monsieur Marrast, president of the Nationa
Assembly, c-devant editor Of the National. and Mon
sieur Pagnerre one of the vice presidents cl.devan
printer and publisher OF radical tracts and encycope las
seated, TO their neabe satisfaction, in the box ant
fdueuS which the Bourbon sovereigns used TO occupy
;, APropos OF music, Scrbes new opera, Jeanne Ii
Eoe, music by Capsson was given for the frs
sime at the Grand Opera, Tuesday evening. Ac
Cordng to the most authoritative critics. the PARTITION
work Of Clapsson bears marks of extreme haste but ha
Every good things" and was, on the whole, decidedly
successful The Paris gymnasium OF military music ur
srlc and lead the regmenta bands there Is an annua
competition for prizes between the different regiments Of
The garrison the gold and silver medals excite the keen
zeal Adam, the celebrated composer, presided with
Jury of eminent composers and artists, at te'last trial o
proficiency 1t rich treat for scientific vel
the unutored. By the way the four days OF June
fifty Fegmenta musicians and their leader defended ant
maintained, alone, large barrack in the Faubourg st
Antoine, against many successive attempts OF the nsu
gents in that quarter
Gagnani has issued edition at o cents the copy,
Lord Brougham's pamphlet the Revolution of Febru
AIRY, from the fourth London The Able Lamennais has
thrown out a volume on the reorganization of Right anC
Duty-what he calls organization of society and religion
-sn anarchical utopia We have a duodecimo manua
of Rights and Duties, democratic dictionary; definitions
of political phrases and explanations of the ideas which
they should to express, by Francis Wey write
far more sensible and orthodox than the uicofogist
the Red Republic The Memoirs OF Caussdiere, EXPIRE
feet of the police and fugitive conspiraor, are il
the Paris press. He has employed literary grind
abundance of authentic matter, exceedingly curious
but his resentmen,s have, doubt not, prompted hin
TO much fiction as truth, and to false colorne
and distortion in nearly all details. The work vii
be read with avidity. | am struck anew with ih'
quantity and variety OF old revolutionary, pseudo
philosophical, and extreme democratic pamphlets ant
books which spread over the quays for sale. Wha
carefully suppressed concealed, utterly sghtet
forgotten since the year 1896, has been sought
paraded speculation, adapted TO the doctrines an,
vagaries OF the republican Copies OF Voltairt
and Rousseau's works multiplied in the way
without end special commission has been appointed
by the Minister OF the Interior to supervise the politics
and morals of the whole Paris stage.