The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-13

the packet-ship Irene left with the largest cargo
sent out this year. 1t consisted of 5S7 bales of
goods and 4, 6Sl cases of champagne. Louis Ma
poleon has decided against the United States and
in favor of Portugal in the General Armstrong
affair. Whoever supposed he would decide other
wise?
It 10 said that sort Of school for pages and
equerries is to be established at Versailles under
the patronage of the Emperor. The object is this
When Louis Napoleon desires to obtain the adhe-
sion of some refractory Legitimist, and all other
means fail, an admission to this school for one of
his younger will be offered as last and de-
cisive resource. Entry there will be purposely
rendered extremely difficult, and the Emperor
will use it solely as means of advancing his pri-
vate ends.
Hydrophob;a is actually raging in certain de-
partments as in the heat of summer and the most
rigorous measures have been prescribed against
unmuzzled dogs.
You have probably heard in the interval since
my last OF the suggested and perhaps intended re-
storation OF gambling in Paris by the government
From what hear, am inclined to think that the
measure will be taken. That it has been seriously
under discussion everybody knows. The motive
is to draw foreigners of wealth to Paris, and to
give the city throughout the long winter season
that life and animation that prevail at Baden and
I11ulOurS curing the summer fuODu15 IdrlS uds
lost much of gaiety under Louis Napoleon; and the
difference between this capital now and in the lat
years of Louis Phiiippes reign is very striking
Another reason is urged, that the monopoly would
produce to the municipal treasury very respecta.
bic sum. But il is impossible that the city coun-
Gil, which votes away millions so lightly, would
take SO important step for the sake of recovering
a few hundred thousand. The relicensing of gam
bling houses would be the most ubiquitous thing
done since that massacre on the Boulevard. Ru-
NOR goes 80 far TO say that the immortal DR.. :
Veron, exeditor of the Coniitutioanel is to be the
farmer or monopolist Of the privilege. DR.. Veron,
you know, was dreadfuily anxious to be made
Senator, and his failure has procured him the title
OF the Great Disappointed. But Senator head
gambling man, it little matters which, as times
90 in France, the one is fully as digni6ed and re.
spectacle official as the other
Granier de Cassagnac, who has of late confined
himself to the Pays, made his rentree the other day
In the columns of the Constitutionnei He chose
for his subject the attempts of the Legitimists to
make out a great Gaze of abstention, and to show
that the whole party maintains attitude of re
serve and retirement. He collected table of
what ne called facts and figures, from which it ap-
peared that the whole number of Legitimist re-
signations of departmental Offices, in consequence
Of the empire, was eighty three! Thought this at
the time rather extraordinary statement, and
have been waiting for back thrust. 1t has come
from the Esperanee du Peupe, of Nantes. That
journal states that the number of designations of
Legitmists in the department of the Loire Inferi-
ence alone is more than double the number given
by M. Granier for the whole of France-or It's! 1t
not only gives the number, but the names. Tha; is
just about the average value of the facts furnished
by the government organs. 10y
II is of the privileges of the Theatre Franc
the principal theatre in Paris and undoubtedly the
most perfect dramatic establishment in the world
that II may take from any of the other theatres in
Paris any artist whose services it DESIRES in spite
OF whatever engagements may bind him to his own
manager. This is considered injustice to the
actor, it is OF course the height of his ambition
to reach the stage where Rachel play. 1t is an
injustice to the other managers; but the imperial
theatre must have special immunities. II
has enjoyed this privilege for a century or more.
1t has not lately used its advantages, however.
The company of the Gymnase, the best of the
lesser theatres, is usually the field in which M.
Houssaye makes his piratical excursions Bres-
SAINT, by all odds the best comedian in France, has
boon several times threatened with seizure; and
Madame Rose Cheri would have been captured
long ago had she not been the wife of the anager
Of the Gymnase. Some weeks ago the Minister
OF the Interior granted TO the Gymnase the right
to perform comedies in verse. This is an infringe.
ment upon the patent of the Franeais. dread
full revenge was anticipated. Letters of marque
and reprisal it already possessed by virtue Of its
charter. 1t sailed forth to conquest, encountered
the Gymnase, and bore off the favortc of the crew.
Il laid violent hands upon M Lafontaine, one of
the most impressive and admired jeunes prem iers
shat the modern stage boasts. His engagement at
the Gymnase had yet eighteen months to run. He
,.r,I .
counted among Les conediens oratnaires de ga Mn-
jesH y Emperor.
Marco Spada, the last opera of Scribe and Auber
has obtained one of those successes which last a
composer all his life. The music is said to be equal
to that OF Massanielo; and an very sure that nj.
Auber never himself hoped or expected to produce
another chef d'euure like that. The name of the
piece at once suggests that the hero ia brigand;
and as M Scribe's librettos resemble each other
considerably, critic said beforehand that, instead
Of being called Marco Spada, it ought to be en-
titled Fra DominD, Les Dia,nans de Ia Serene.
This jsu d'esprit has had nearly much success
the opera, intimating that the plot would be
sort of rehash of Fra Diuoo!o, LIE Domino NOR,
Les Diamans de la Ci..roune, and Lo Serene. The
opera will all winter and perhaps through
next summer, and will then pass into the reposi,
tory of plays that live after their first fresh
ness isoyer. The number of plays and operas pro-
duced in year that ever revived and per-
formed again, when once withdrawn, is extremely
small-not over ten out of three hundred.
Some of the statistics of public carriages in Paris
are curious. The number of rides sscourses made
In a month varies from 200 to half million.
The drivers bring to the offices something like six
hundred forgotten articles in a month. Four hum
dred out of the six umbrellas and it is said
that not one quarter of them ever called for,
though the losers must be aware that visit to the
central offices and Identification of their prop.
erty will enable them to it. The first ap-
plication made to the municipality for permission
to establish a line of omnibuses within the wall
was in 1919. 1t was rejected; and again in '24
and 20. In 1925 application was granted.
Every public vehicle is numbered. The cabrioets,
or two wheeled and two seated vehicles 1.-THE driver
occupying one seat,1 are numbered from to 1888.
The four wheeled twenty FIVE cent. vehicles are
numbered from 734 to | $40. The numbers from
CAT to 1898 belong to vehicles sacred to the
suburbs. The forty-cent carriages begin at 2,2Ol
and end at 1899 Private carriages also num-