The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-23

National Assembly the subject OF Italian affairs,
which will be found in another part OF to-day's
paper corroborate, 10 a great extent, the view
which we take of Frances non-interventlon.-
These debates seem to warrant the conclusion that
if that country had interered, attempt to over
mower, and if possible crush, her, would have been
made by the great European powers.
MORE PoIITIcAL CIIoUIsM-MoRE DIcrArIoy-
We have advered to the attempts that have been
made by the Seward clique of wing politicians in
this State, to not only control the appointments of
this State, to dictate to the present administration
what particular men shall be selected to fill the
important Offices the gift of the administration
in this region, but actually to shape their con-
duct as 10 control the present administration, the
next presidency, and place in the succession
Seward himself. The impudence and bare-faced
dictatorial front which this clique has assumed, is
disgusting and unless its insolence be checked
by the administration, great, and perhaps vita,
injury may be done before the country is aware of
it. This clique has branch in this city, and an
organ in both New York and Albany.
Now this coterie have determined, that in
order TO secure the success of their plans, Ex-
Governor Young who has been for some time
past mentioned in connection with the collector
ship of this port, must be put down, because he is
inimica to their designs, and that the place must
be filled by another candidate-one who is willing
to go for the ultimate objects which the clique
aspire to. Accordingly the clique held pri-
vate meeting at the Astor House, in this city,
on Monday evening last, at which three or
four wing members of Congress, and few
others, attended. After examining the position OF
the five wing cliques, it was determined that Ex-
Governor Young's appointment should be de-
nounced, on the ground that it would be dspleasng
to the merchants of New York to have a man from
the interior, and one with whom they were almost
entirely unacquainted, appointed to such Office;
and that some person belonging to this city, and
personally acquainted with our leading mercantile
men, should receive the appointment in preference.
After these sage conclusions were arrived at, the
editor of the organ of the Seward clique in this
city wrote an article, taking the very grounds ofhe
arguments of the preceding exening, and the next
morning that journal contained leading article, de-
precating, if not denouncing, in advance, the ap.
pointment of man to the collectorship from the
interior of the State, and urging on the admnstra-
| ton man from this district for that Office
This is plain statement of this curious affair.
It will be seen whether the administration, with
the programme of General Taylor before them,
with his letters and speeches hardly dry-it will be
seen whether such impairment dictation will be
submitted to, or tolerated, by the administration.
SHAKsrEREAN READINGS AND FASHIONABLE VuL-
GARITY-The lively, piquant and eccentric Mrs.
Fanny Kemble Butler has commenced another Sc
ries of Shaksperean readings, at the Stuyvesant
Institute, which do not seem to draw so well
as the first series. In fact, this thing is no longer
the rage. New York fashionable exctements are,
in general, provokingly evanescent. They quickly
disappear, like the pearly dew of the morning, OF
the roseate blush which mosquito bite leaves on
| the neck of beauty, or the transient fit of re.
| pentance which disturbs the conscience of pro.
| figate not yet entirely secured by the devil
| These readings, however, are beginning to pro-
| duce very happy effects. Everybody who has
| taken the trouble TO become acquainted with
New York fashionable society, knows what an
awfully stupid and insipid affairs it is These
Shaksperean readings are just the thing to infuse
new life and spirit into the dull coeres and cliques
which make up our pseudo-anstocratic circles
Nothing can exceed the piquancy and vigor which
characterize the writings of the great dramatist
His oaths, EXPLANATIONS and epthets are peculiarly
emphatic, startling and expressive. In scolding
and vituperaton, he cannot be matched. No
writer in the English language, even in the an
cient Hebrew-not to speak of the venerable Gaelic
tongue-can excel Shakespeare in the sublime vehe-
mence Of his abuse and objurgation. Then the
playfuness of his wit, the audacity of his humor,
the ingenuity of his double entend,es, His loafers,
clowns and vagabonds are the most interesting
rascals in the world and to all of them Fanny
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of their character is given with delicious
plquancy. Almost every racy epithet with
which these amusing Shaksperean wretches
interard their conversation, seems to acquire new
point and vigor in the pretty mouth of this viva
clous elocutonist. A coarse male human being
could not give one-tenth of the effect to these pas
sages which Mrs. Butler renders with SO much
truthful spirit, life, zest, and mischievous reality
The losses of the head-the Hastings of the scornfu
eyethe sharp, keen, biting, sarcastic tones of the
volce,-all give new and delightful flavor to the
text, which must be rresistibly attractive to our
fashionable danes and damsels, maids, matrons
and widows-all the dear, charming, fascinating
throng, from the well-rouged mamma, sfat, fair,
and forty,' down to the gawky girl, just returned
from school, with sharp elbows, bad French, and
an inordinate appetite for beaux.
1t will be readily perceived, then, that the abors
OF Mrs Butler will exercise most invgorating in
fuence on the tone of fashionable manners The
conversation of the aristocratic circles, now SO
dull, will become Shaksperean. Upholstery and
furniture will no longer constitute the chief attrac-
ton of the fashionable Janbowgs. Young ladies'
will no longer lisp and drawl the common places of
the hour, but startle the mustachoed boobies bv
Shaksperean bursts of sentiment and passion, a la
Fanny Kemble. Juiets will be as plenty as shad in
the season. Mammals will scold in the style of
Lady Macbeth, and do the honors of the drawing
room like Cleopatra herself. As for the clowns
and loafers, the Ludovicos and Snugs, they will be
as numerous as the smart clerks, Wall street brok-
ers and retired soap boilers whose manly grace