New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-26
Frnuce-Poiitics-Fine Arts, Sc.
Paris Correspondence OF Tue Tribune.


PARIS, Thursday, June 9, 1850.
Nothing new this week, even 10 Pars-nothng
but some newly gil. editions Of old scsndal-racy
little stories Of Lsmartine's ludcroas vanity, and
apropos of the demand Of Prince Louis for million
more francs per Misunderstanding scandals OF Mrs.
Howard's losing 10000 pounds sterling at single
evenings play. Mrs Howard, you know, 10 the
Princess Louis.
do not speak with single person who does not
anticipate immense and alarming troubles within
two years. The Government ia perfectly reckless.
The majority journals do not hesitate to cal the
President Prince Louis and to announce appoint
ments by the titles Of the appointed II this were
simply bad taste, it woald be contemplate. But
il is at once defiance and a seduction. def
ance to those who feel that a titled aristocracyis
eally extinct in France and a seduction TO those
who shadder at shadows.
The Government is making the same mistake
upon which Louis Philippe was lost II regards
its parliamentary majority as the keynote OF real
populsr feeling. As maxim of universal suffrage,
that is true enough. But the France which naned
this Assembly was in q very abnormal condition.
and the maxims ordinarily jast are deceptsesrd
dangerous in an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. should
matter Of .cqr~ps more dangerous than iniexioie
princiPlesi
The excessive heat of tho weather, however,
has suffocated all life bu. that Of the street. Oh
course, hot as it is one cannot escape seeing Al
boni in the Prophetic. That and Rachels new
character Of Thisbe in Victor Hugo's Angelo"
are the fAirest features Of the moment
IL is in vain that a man thinks TO do nothing in
Paris He has not been here long before Scribe
and Meyerbeer, Halevy Auber and the thousand
and one dfamatists-alas of no Arabian g. niusi
are in open conspiracy against the peace Of bis
enemies
"Psha-Dobody goes anywhere this hot wealth
err Yet, let Alboni appear in the Prophetic, and
he could as well be at the Pyramids and not explore
them, although he knows too we'll that darkness
and dust and despair, not to mention rhcd pockets
and stunned will be bis portion, as be In Paris
and refrain from the Opera, although he knows
that Alboni has spark Of dramatic power, aud
that Fides is especially dramatic
When / wrote you last week. trusted my
critic against my own convictions. How coald Mr..
Smith, who is stupid in Hamlet, be sublime In
Lear7 And AboD, Of the miraculous voice, lead
er in her natural Italian music, how was she to be
golden Ia tDese uustefcs fcBiOhs "
Teutonic eyerbeeri
Spite Of the only tribunal Of taste in the world,
it is faure-grest 50 could be. IL is failure 50
immense-speskirg operatically and Dramatically
that il escapes the eageness Of the critics, az
heavy blow would stun them into unconsciousness
Of pain
IL 10 ludicrous 10 watch Alboni during this Opera
Her fat fair face never changes la what should
be paroxy sms Of passior-in mournful masings-in
the soemBity Of the cathedral and the crash Of the
falling palace-whether planning her own woes or
adjurIng her son 10 repentsnce-g 10 ever oar fat
far Alboni, loafpg up and down the scale, and
through all tOrtuous acies OF variation with per.
feet precision and ease-croshlng her pleasant
eyes very little when she gets 40 very high and
thea regarding the audience with the sane placid
nonchslsnce that sbe regards the Prophetic. who il
raging and roaring about her, lion about hippo.
potsmus.
No ofFense. There is q very placid, fat hippopot-
anus jus, imported into Eoglsnd. A great De. be
was in Cairo he was the vogue every body went
to see him and admire him. He was an anexcep-
tioDsble hippopotanus. and he had the snse never
to play the roy al lion. know bat one place where
he would have succeeded 10 that role sThe onlv
tribunal Of tsste in the world" would have pro-
rounced hIm perfect lioD-ony 10 another way.
As contralto voice. Alboni was probably never
approached In the world. Its character and CON-
pass and cultivation are perfect; not the babbine
Of cool wood waters 10 81 eeter In summer than the
mellow modolations Of that voice. IL makes no
dinerence " hat she does, % long a. her voice II
heard; that 10 always Q delight Bat IL IL voice
tnai, unsupported by genius, belongs, Of course, 70
melody and not to dramatic music. TnereGro,
while Alboni fails utterly FiIes-is like an ice
statue on a field Of snow-her voice 10 a welcome
end wonderful as ever.
TIE mistake Ia In choosing a Da n vhich CON-