The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-14
Letters from Europe.
BY A NEW YORK LADY.

/ IARlS, jan I6p ieo-.
Going 10 Grnoa-Opaa Singers IN Paris The Ne,o
and Terrible Gop1nment-Napoleon the Sariow Of
| France.
have only time to write few hasty lines, as
am thinking, perhaps, Of going to Genoa in few
Gays, for the sake Of q good climate.
Mace my arrival in Paris, have attended the
opera and the theatres and though the truth Of my
remarks may give offence in some quarters, cannot
be driven to utter sentiments which do not feel or
to deal out batteries where they are not deserved
AS to Madame Barbicri Mini, Whatever private
opinion may DO, public opinion is on my side, to.
gether with that Of the best critics and Judges. In
proof of this need only refer to the columns Of the
Journal des Debats, and other journals. 1t is aston
ishng that there no singers now in Paris with
the exception Of Tedesco, at the French opera) who
are at all equal to those you have in the U United
States. AlboAi has gone to Ma drid, and only Te
desco is here forming, indeed, brilliant exception
to my criticism.
1t is matter of perfect indifference to me whether
my opinions agree or differ with those of other per-
sons. l express o FREQ and unbiased judgment,
and am sure that ia the present case, as to my
view of the talent of Madame Mini, time and oppor-
tunty will confirm what have written.
cannot even 60 SO far as to join the name o.
Crevelli with that Of Tedesce, as an exception to
my general remark. She is, to my view, mere
imitator Of Jenny Lind; and great as her talents
are they will not bear mparison with those of the
great original whom she follows ut a humble dis
tarce She performed tho other night in "Nebuchad-
nezzar,'' and, as | have been informed on all
hands, it was q perfect failure. Some Of the 6rst
judges in any country expressed this opinion to me-
Her Norma in other respects was good, except
Cssta Diva;' here she completely broke down,
and all the world pronounced it to be failure
Her voice is very like that Of Jenny Lind, but
without her exquisite decacy and force; and, like
Jenny Lind, she only succeeds in soma particular
pieces and occasional parts; in her acting out her
part generally in the OPERA she falls for short Of tho
Swedish Nightingale. Without question she pos
sesses talent, but it is doing hor an injustice and an
unkindness to overrate it.
AS to politics, all is outwardy tranquil here; tho
French appear delighted with the state Of things
and with their new constitutions they call Louis Ma
poleon "the Saviour Of France" More, however,
is known Of what is going in secret here, in Eng
land than in France, as the press throughout the
country is merely an echo Of tho mind Of the 60
vernment. great fcte is in preparation, to be
given by the government in honor of the new con.
stitution it is intended to be brilliant affair." and
to last eight days. | expect to be gone by the
time, for sick Of fetes, and have no inclination
to see them.
Arrests still 60 on, but they arc no longer made
public; and it is said, also, that nocturnal siades
Of political offenders take place by the score at q
time. This is all done without trial Of any kind,
because the state Of siege signifies the absence Of
Judge, jury or law. The solitary decree Of tho
Prince President is now al the Law. and rides over
al other laws. Everybody is frightened and cowed;
absolute terror has taken possession Of all CLASSES
herce many speak in affected rapture Of the "Sa-
yiour Of Franco" for fear Of being suspected, and
Of disappearing suddenly from all who know them
tome dark night, end finding themselves rolling
en- the straw in some dismal underground prison.
Yet Paris Is as gay as ever. WHO csras for Others
while he himself Ia safe Not Frenchman, nor
hardly FreEchwoman
hope this viii no; share the fate Of my other
letters; hope Kossu.h ia not delivering his two
bundled and twentieth speech, to crowd ont me
AMI everything elsc altogether lie Is 9 hum-snd
il seems 10 me he has made some papers his drum.
III. A h