The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-02

east the eastern limit of Savoy. This book i,
largely and openly advertised and placarded and
10 coported without the slightest hindrance by in
Vulnerable agents. Foreign governments hay.
ing complained, thu Moniteur has published .
/ csonnunfque from which it appears that the
doctrines maintained and the ideas advanced in
TINS DOCK are entirely at variance with those of the
government and with the oftcn-declared policy Of
tne cnlcf OF the State. People ask why the book
was ever authorized, if it offends the government;
why Its sale Is permitted; why licenses are given
70 agents to circulate it, if its tendency 10 not with
put against the views of the government Louis
Napoleon has made Victor Hugo's book contra
band, because he did not wish to have it sold; is
singular that the same measure has not been tax en-
IN reference to this work ALSO 1t is largely read
BY the army; as for the people, they are well
known TO be utterly opposed to war. / have al
ways held the opinion that Louis Napoleon would
seek to withdraw the attention of the nation from
| themselves, and fix it upon some distant point.
Eight months ago mentioned in your columns
that some unoccupied corner of Mexico might very
probably be seized upon by France; and what we
hear of Count Boulbon's proceedings in Sonora,
| may perhaps be the realization of that sugges-
| ton. -a
The midness of the temperature is extraordina-
| ry. Phenomena of vegetation are occurring on
every side. At Lille volets and strawberry bushes
are IN flower, and the buds of certain kinds of
| trees are already prematurely developed. In La
Meurthe, plum trees in full blossom, and some,
which flower before leafng, are already covered
with leaves The vines are also uncomfortabIy
forward. New asparagus is actually for sale in
certain parts OF the south, and wheat is two inches
out OF the ground. The warm weather is also caus.
ing, as it always does in Paris, when it is unsea-
sonable, suicides almost innumerabIe. Six &C.
CURED IN one day last week. One of the victims
was physician ofrenown, and whose works upon
vaccine have received recompenses and won
medals from the Academies of Sciences and of
Medicines.
Americans are getting into difficulties in Eu-
rope passenger by the New York packet Isaac
Bell was arrested on Thursday at Havre for having
upon his person and in his trunk very large
quantity of Socialist pamphlets The Antwerp
custom house has seized on board of an American
ship twenty five boxes of fireworks, put down in
the manifest as biscuits. fl might hazard guess
on this subject, / should say that the suspicious
cases were inyoiced as containing crackers, and
that the officers translated this by soda crackers or
biscuits, instead of fire crackers or fireworks.
giant by the name of Arthur Coley has Just
died here He was u feet high, and 81 years old.
The Burial Company had to have a hearse made
expressly for this monstrous corpse.
The townof Perigeux has always been celebrated
for it's trufHes. This tubercle is produced in great
abundance and perfection in its neighborhood
But the town is now to set up for notoriety on
other grounds. A remarkable echo has been dis
covered there, repeating, as the journaI of the
locality says, eleven words, but suppose it means
eleven syllables. 1t may be something like the
echo upon the seacoast, which when asked, What
are you doing there? replied, "Digging CLANS,
STRIP
The system of hiring applauders in theatresis to
be done away with You probably are aware that
in every theatre the claqueurs, in number proper
tonate to the size Of tie house, sit in consolida-
ted body in the centre of the pit, just under the
chandelier. They are allowed to enter before the
audience, and concentrate themselves in force
They are managed and led by chef de claque,
who rehearses with the actors, and who gives the
signal for beginning and stopping When the piece
s attractive theleader dsposes of his seats at half
price; people enough are to be found who will paw
the other half in applause When spectators are
dHdent then he has to admit his men for nothing.
believe he never pays bonus. The leader is
himself employed by associated company, who
have made this their business for all the theatres in
Paris. The company goes by the name of En-
treprise de Success Dramatique 1t is needless
to say that they never do insure success when
the piece does not deserve it of itself. The cla-
queurs are great nuisance, and / heartily
rejoice that the government means to dispense
them. 1t would be useless to pass law against it.
as the police could never verify the independence
and sincerity of each applauder's motive. But it
intends to enforce the regulation that, when the
public is admitted, it finds the house perfectly
empty This will isolate the elaqueurs, and doubt
not put an end to the system. Besides, the mana.
gers would not persevere in practice displeasing
to the government. 1t originated in the Incidence
of the French audiences, who will not give them
selves the trouble to applaud. even when they ap
prove. And everybody knows that at certain mo-
ments, after certain passages applause is positively
necessary, not precisely as an encouragement, but
to fill in the gaps. and to the pauses and the
silences. By degrees, abuses stepped in; very
poor actors, finding that applause was to be had
for the hiring, would give the chef de claque FIVE
franc piece, and would at once become, apparently
a great public favorite. And then all the rest
would follow suit. 1t is now an unmitigated BORE
and thequicker the government uproots the sys
tenn, the more hearty thanks will it get from all
friends of art.
The coup d'etat is said to have largely increased
the value OF real estate. Here is case in point;
The establishment of forges and furnaces Of
Bourges were sold some days ago for 2lO 900 francs
They cost somewhat over million.
The new copper coins have not yet passed into
general circulation. Probably the army has not
been completely furnished with its decline vet
few two Sous pieces offered for sale on the bou
levards at a premium, however.
Madame Armand Berton, wife of the editor in
chief OF the Debats, died night before last She
was the brightest ornament of one of the most dis
tinguished politica literary, and artistic salons in
Paris.
am inclined to believe, from the authority upon
which learn it, that the coronation of the Emperor
will take place at Notre Dame on or about the Goth
of March. It is not improbable that the Pope will
himself oficiate. Rumor even gives him the Cha
teau of Compeigne for residence while in France.
It would seem that he might as well remain at
Rome as retire to Compeigne, but he has great
diaincnation to be honized and showed about as
Add ell Kader was 1t could not fail to be distaste.
full to the head of the church to perambulate Paris
with an interpreter and stenographer at his side,
to take down for the Monitear and the Pays all his
unconsidered observations. The shorthand writer's