The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-15

after a severe lecture from the sub project
For more than twenty years, says the Consiitu.
sionnss, the Academy Of Sciences not only ooened
its doors to the public the day of its weekly
sittings, but also communicated to the geutlemen
OF the press the memoirs and papers read or pre-
sented at the stings or transmitted by it's CORE.
spondents. These liberal measures of the academy
have now been changed, and notice has been given
to the editors of journals that henceforward the
secretary's Office will be closed to them. Fortu.
natsly the obscurity which the learned society ap
pears very anxious to throw around itself will not
be complete, as the sittings will continue to be
public. The very honorable academcians who
have favored this exclusion will, without doubt
before long regret a decision more opposed to the
interest OF their renown than 10 that of scientific
reports. They appear at this moment to desire
silence; but Swans, no more than any other public
body, cannot dispense with the publicity which
newspapers alone can give them.
man employed upon the Strasburg railway
was seized few days ago with mental derange-
ment. He went home and took dose of arsenic.
He swallowed too much, and threw the whole up
again. He lighted pan of charcoal, and threw
himself on the ground. The current of air passing
from two doors along the floor, prevented suffoca
ton from ensuing He then stabbed himself three
times in the throat with pair of scissors, and
finally jumped out of hve-story window. This
time he succeeded. Such perseverance, deserved
success. Il
The brother of the King of Sardinia is here on a
visit TO Louis Napoleon. His title is the Duke of
Genoa; but, for some reason or other, he preends
to be travelling incognito, under the pseudonym
Of the Count of Goone. What pleasure or profit
ne finds in this assumption | cannot tell, for he
rides in carriages drawn by four horses; he
cepts all the civilities usually offered to blood
royal, and shuns manner of publicity. / al
ways supposed that the object of travelling incog
was to avoid recognition, to escape attention,
and to pursue ones ends unbeknown to the world
in general. This hardly be the purpose of our
kingly visitor. The papers speak of him as the
Due de Genes, (Compte de Goone,) or the Compile
dc Goone, (Duc de Genes) that people have
become puzzled between the two names that
they hardly know which is the real and which the
assumed. He has done his duty guest, how.
ever; he has admired the precision of the man9u-
vres at Vincennes; he has expressed high sense
of the perfection of the drill at Saory; be has con-
templated, with becoming emotion, the veteran
remnants of the imperial army at the Invalides;
and has been struck with the process of baking
porcelain at Sevres In fact, he has been delighted
with every thing; and has been made to chant the
praises of France, az the Lor- Mayor did two
years ago, and ADD ell Kaker last autumn He has
been made to approve of the coup d'stat in the
Patrts, bless the courageous initiative of the EN-.
peror in the Pays, hope for prolongation of
Louis Napoleon's rule in the ConstitutionneI, and
trust that the French appreciate their happiness
in the Monite,g
NJ. de Grandville, former member of the Con-
stituent and Legislative Assemblies, and who was
year ago elected councillor of his department,
refused to take the oath of allegiance to the EN-
peror, and was consequently declared to have re-
signed; he died a few days afterwards The i'm
perial papers put these two facts in iuxtapostion
80 as to induce the belief that his death was the
natural and very proper consequence of his disey-
atty. They seem to say: That's what you get by
refusing the oath-a special Providence steps in
and cuts you off. You won't swear obedience 10
the constitution, and, a matter of course, you
| die Immediately after. You decline engaging
yourself to protect and sustain the Emperor, and
just as you might expect poetic justice does your
business for you. Let this be a warning to other
people that hesitate about taking the oath If YOU
had done your duty a and Frenchman,
you would be living respected and happy; but you
did not, and you are underground, very unhand-
some corpse. hope you pleased with your
| situation, and think you have bettered Yourself
| "A service of mounted courisrs has Just been or
ganzed at the Tuileries for the conveyance of de.
| spatches to and from the Emperor while at Saint
| Cloud Ihey VIII wear a short, round, green
jacket, red waistcoat with gold lace, round hat
| with cockade, tight white leather breeches, and
| high boots telegraph already exists between
| the two palaces. You have probably heard of the
| line of wires that has recently been established
| between the Covent Garden Opera House in Lon.
| don and the House of Commons This is in imi-
tation of an innovation introduced some wears 400
| by Mr.. Lumley, who expresses from her
Afajesty's Theatre to the Parliament Houses, to
convey intelligence of all important affairs TO the
arstocratc hG6ttues in their orchestra stalls and
sometimes to summon an unwilling legist from
| the melodous strains of Sontag or G risi TO the
| stern duty of voting for his party and thereby
| serving his country.
The Grand Opera is to be closed for two
months. 1t reopens with the revival of Semir a.
! mide, for Madame Bosio. Mr.. Sands an Ameri-
can, believe, is executing his antipodal feat to
| frightened audiences at the Gate. He walks as
you know, upon the ceiling, his head downwards.
comedie vaudeville entitled Les Files de MAJ
brs has been produced since my last and cannot
doubt that the echoes of its success have already
reyerberated on your shores. 1t is played at the
theatre where La Dame Camilla, was brought
out, and ia the antidute or counterpart of that i'm
moral and dangerous piece. You know that in
that play the heroine lorette who died for
love and to secure the happiness of her Adolphe;
this was ma king altogether too much of the ex-
ception, for though the play founded on fact,
probably only one fact Of the kind ever occurred
| aimee the lOrette invented. 1t became neces.
sary to snatch the halo from the brow of the fral
ladies of the Rue Breda, and to bring them down
several pegs from the false position in which the
Damf aur Camelias had established them This
has been done most conclusively in the new drama
The name itself shows that the lorette is to have
justics done her; Lea Files de Marbre the women
of stone; the women without heart, without soul,
without feeling, without one spark of genuine en-
noblins sentiment. Mile Marco Geo spelled in the
bills, but pronounced Margot on the STACEY is the
cold, elegant, passionless, rcmorseess creature
whom the authors have made the type of her class
The whole story may be told in few words:
She makes the acquaintance of young sculptor;
and, upon learning that be is ambitious, she deter
mines that he shall forget his ambition for love of
| her; upon learning that he support his mother,
she means that he shall abandon his mother and
spend his Accommodations in lace and jewels for her;