The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-26


next winter Madame Ugalde, for some years
the bright particular star of the Opera Comique,
has been engaged at the very fimsy and farcical
theatre Of the Varieties. 1t is to be presumed that
her voice is impaired and that she no longer feels
able to keep herself up to the exertion required of
her at the Sale Favast A German paper gives
the following account of show good singer may
be spoiled" Roger concluded a series of per-
formances at Breslau by La Dame Blanche. At
the fall of the curtain he was recalled five times,
and the stage was showered with bouquets and
poetry. When he left the theatre crowd sur
rounded him and welcomed him with WHAT'S and
hurrahs, and other uproarious demonstrations.
The band of the first regiment of cuirassiers es-
corted his carriage to his hotel, where the band of
the tenth regiment Of infantry drawn up.
Within the building were the friends and admirers
of the tenor, assembled to take leave of him. The
chorus of the theatre sang alternately with the
military music of the bands The paper thinks
that this would be enough to turn the head of the
profoundest of philosophers, and that nobody
ought to wonder at the ecccntricities sometimes
exhibited by artistes
| Moere's Don Juan has been revived at the
Coincide Francaise, and portions of Mozarts Don
Giovanni adapted to it. do not find il an
| improvement; for music in play, as an under
ground accompaniment, sort of rustic or rumble
or rattle, while the actors speaking, is to me
nothing less than intrusive.
The little theatre of the Delapseuens Comiques
has produced comic review of the half year,
written under peculiar circumstances. The thea
tire had failed the manager had retired the actors
were doing the best they could on the social prn-
| cin1a NJ henu ouuol and n hainr N.
tains at the same time. This was poor business and
they hardly paid their expenses. The Society Of
Dramatic Authors came to their relief Twenty
five of them dubbed together, and each one fur
nished a scene. The whole was melted down in
to homogeneous mass by two authors who had
held themselves in reserve. The success was COM
plete and the solutions of continuity not too start
ling. 1t took five minutes to announce the names
of the writers at the conclusion of the play.
Under the Port Neuf the current of the Seine
is rapid, and as the bed of the river is narrow at
this point large quantity Of the water passes in
a small compass. Owing to the difficulties of this
strait the navigators call it the Archie du Diable
paper speaking oft the other day, said that the
flow of the water resembled that of some of the
larger American rivers Probably the rapids of the
Ohio! or the torrental majestic glide of the Mis-
sssippi! A skilful pilot has been appointed to the
station by the Project of the Seine, though we
would think that Project of the Seine ought to
be able to pilot RATS and fat-boats through the
Devil S, pass, himself 1t will not do to speak
| lightly of this place, however, for though the
river is not six rods wide there, yet it is sometimes
violent, destructive and subversive. A raft COM
posed of uncut fire-wood-the tall stems of trees
being interlaced and roughly fastened together
undertook to force the passage day or two ago
without pilot. The result was much the same
as if fleet should try to worry through the OAR
danelles without firman from the Porte. 1t was
dashed against the bridge, split into river
full of fragments, and the six men that were it
were dropped hither and thither in the stream,
The men were rescued, but the splntered raft
kept on with the current 1t has doubtless ar
rived at Havre by this time, and probably per-
plexes the navigators there severely, by continu-
ally getting in their way.
The American panorama of an overland journey
| from st. Louis to San Francisco, and return
home by the lsthmus and the Prometheus, is sue
ceeding hatteringly at the Sale Barthelemy. 1t
takes three hours to unrol; and, during the sim
gingly hot evenings that we are having Just now,
this is discouraging circumstance. When its
attraction begins to diminish a vaudeville written
for the circumstance, and in some way connected
with the scenes exhibited in the panorama, will
be played in connexion with it. There will be
but two characters in it. The author, presume,
is not acquainted with any of the episodes Of the
overland emigration, or he might introduce with
propriety the wheelbarrow- That determined
pedestrian, who did the whole distance on foot,
would have reason to be surprised at seeing him
self on stage.
We have just had extraordinary trial here,
which merits more than passing mention. The
Tribunal of Correctional Police has been occupied
with the case of person calling himself Prince
de Gonzague, Duke de Mantua, for swindling,
illegally wearing decorations, and remaining in
France, though foreigner, after an order had
been given for his expulsion. Amongst the titles
he gave himself were these: Alexander Andrew
Prince of Gonzague and Castiglone, sovereign
and legitimate Duke Of Mantua, Guastalla, Poz-
zoli, and Solferino, Marquis of Luzzara, Count of
Alessanao de Murzynowski, Baron of Nemtadt,
Grand Master Of the Order of the Redemption. of
the Order of the Immaculate Conception, of the
Order of Devotedness, of the Feminine Order of
Maria Elisa Of Mantua, of the Order Of the Four
Emperors, of the Order the Lion of Holstein, and
of the Feminine Order of Saint Elizabeth of the
Visitation. He also, at times, represented him.
self as a General Of Cavalry, an officer of the
Legion of Honor, knight of the Order of Stanis-
las and st. Anne of Russia of the military Order
of Poland, and of the Order of Stanisas of Salm-
Kirburg.
He is of military appearance, and wears LARGE