New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-08

the gates WltDout gOOu ooe""O VI ""'"o =
throat cut, or making triumPhal reentry IN his
shirt"
William Crafts, the fugitive slave whom
knight and Hughes couldn't recaPture At boston,
is lecturing at Edinburgh on Slavery and his own
experiences therein. He speaks good Englisn
and produces a strong effect on his hearers
The command Of the English forces AZ Hong
Kong goes begging. Several Generals have re-
fused it.
The Duke of Newcastle has just died. aged
IS. He was an ultra Conservative and stuck TO
his principles through thick and thin.
There is a good deal of excitement in Austria
lin against land spectators and the sale Of land
in enormous tracts. Several squatters, whose
plsces have been included in these great sales
are resolved to contest the legality OF the pro-
ceedng. They say that the Law only empowers
the Governor to sell any block Of unsurveyed
land comprising 90 90 acres or more, and that the
land in dispute does not come within that dehinl'
tion.
DIR. Knoblecher, the missionary aud traveller
in Africa of whose explorations we lately gave
fpll account in The Tribune, will go to Chartoum,
in Nubia. next Summer, and from thence II the
Autumn will set out on a new expedition TO the
regions near the equator. He will establish
missionary station at the furthest possible point
IN the interior. He will be accompanied by sew
eral priests and lay brethren as well as by some
men of science. The specimens of African indus
try and natural productions which he brought
back from his last voyage he has presented to his
native town, Laibach, in Austris. Among them
are weapons, bells, bracelets OF iron and ivory
talismans. chains, &c. They are wrought with
neatpess and even taste, especially as regards
the symmetry of their forms, and prove the ex-
stence of higher capacities in the negroes Of inner
Africa than have generally been supposed to be.
long to them.
Horace Vernet has just published at Paris an
engraving of his picture called The Two Scourges
of the XIXth Century. These two scourges are
the Cholera and Socialism The picture repre-
SCENTS q public square, with scatfold and gullo
tine. The scaffold is covered with corpses, and
the French tri.color is cast like q shroud around
the body of a soldier. The Two Scourges sit in
the foreground before the scafold; the Cholera is
PLAYING triumphal air on flute made from
human bone, while Socialism, represented as q
skeleton, is reading number of Proudhon's jour
nal. lie Peuple. 1t is right that the artist who
could paint for Gar Nicholas the glories of the
Russian arms in Hungary, and the entry of the
Russians into Warsaw, should employ his pencil
against Socialism.
Mile Duprez, daughter and pupil Of the great
French tenor, made her debut at the Italian Ope
re of Paris in Lucia on the 9th ult her father ia
king the part of Edgdrd0. Her success, both as
a singer and actress was perfect,-her first air,
perche non no del ventO, carrying the house away
IN enthusiasm She employs the dramatic style
of her father to which charming and expressive
face, and graceful and digniied person, give full
effect She has large, lustrous and black eyes,
and is somewhat Jewish in her style of beauty.
She sings with great ease, apparently never ma
king an effort even in the most difficult passages.
Her upper notes are very sweet, and her lower
round and melodious The critic Of the De6ats
thinks she is brought upon the stage too early. He
also finds fault with her for coming out in an opera
of Donizettis instead of the MatrimOnio Segret0
the Nozze di Figaro, Don GiOUanni, or some other
work of that class. The public, however, was OF
a different opinion. After the last act, she was
called out three times, with her father, who, in
the finale, was all himself-the falling off of his
voice being forgotten in the force of his acting.
--Ivanoff, the tenor singer has not succeeded at
Paris, nor has Colini, the barytone. Haevy's
new opera Of the Dame de Piqae has succeeded
mainly through the wonderful singing of Madame
Ugalde-or rather her wonderful rouladeS and
passages of brarHra, and the excellence OF the
scenery and decorations. Alboni has created
f,,oye at madrid, in the Fauorita md SonnambuLa.
The latter opera pleased so much that 1t was
nlaved FIVE times in succession. The house Of
I.erov and Cbabrol have failed in the attempt to
make bankrupt of Signor Ronconi, the cele.
brated actor and singer, late tmPresar1O OF the
Theatre Italien Their claims have been reduced
bv the Tribunal of Commerce from 100000. to
81 900. ~ earlier has issued an ordinance by
which the organisation Of that extreme nuisance,
the "claque," will be materially improved, they
being deprived of the privileges they have so long
enjoyed OF entering the theatre before the public.
and appropriating to themselves the most con-
spicuous and comfortable places in the parterre
A new opera by NJ. Gounod, called Soppko, is in
the course of preparation at Paris. NJ. Gounod
is an untried man, but his friends have blown loud
anticipatory hourishes in his praise. The con.
certs of the celebrated Societe des Concerts will
shortly commence at the Conservative. The
new rival association the Philharmonique, at the
head Of which is NJ Berlioz, and the U nion Musi-
Gale, over which NJ Felicien David presides have
achieved success destirse," but have not made
money.
The business Of copying the pictures of the
Louvre, for sale in America, formerly carried on
at Paris, on large scale, by men employing
numbers of wretched daubers, has become poor
This is a sign that public taste in this country is
improving.
The Court Of st. Petersburg has forbidden
Count Demidof, the husband Of Princess Demi.
doif, whS shines at Paris as cousin OF Louis Ma.