The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-14

Not liit Of the native feeling displayed at
the secett elections nay b. fairly ascriicd 10
TIE dcvelopeIa.nt n simiiAr inquiries among
ourselves The end ~ ". souls's affair must
he seea before We can tel hos mach our imbe-
CHE administration all cost n.
TIM oFEsA.--An advertisement in another
colOron annsupees the re-openiny, this evening,
n the Academy of Muse, ubdsr anew arrange
msrt Madame Gnsi ADD Sgncr Mario are 10
appear. = W un6erstArd n. for the benefit Of
the st,okhoiasrs of the Academy, who become
impFsssrio- o. the opera as well a. owners Of
the opera house. The judicioo.pess Of this ar
rangemsnt viii NJ once suggest itself 10 every
mid. Il l., we presume, no longer a secret TO
any one thai the season which closed few
night since With s. mir amide' was in most
respects a complete failure. And that had
SpDor Mario escaped the maiady which has
afflicted bin, some less respectable termination
Of the performances would 10 all probability
have &C surred shortly afterwards. Ga the causes
OF that failure 10 u NJ present needless 10 enlarge
They were not unknown at the time; nor were
warnings wanting 10 guard The manager against
The consequences Of the errors that were being
maze. With the past We have now no further
eolcern than wha, regard for the reputation
of New York society and the fame Of the noble
sr.ists now among us may seem TO involve.
1t is certainly due TO ourselves that the i'm
preston shoulo not go abroad that artists OF such
uLdoubted genius as Madame Grisi and Signor
Mario came here and we're not appreciated. Fit
were 20, the musical taste Of New York would
at once be set down all over the civilized world
as beneath notice. Every cultivated man, every
woman of the world from st. Petersburg to
Madrid knows how great Grsi IL, and how un-
rivaled is the voice Of Mario To talk Of OBJ
jects being discovered here which eluded the
notice Of the first critics Of Europe, would
simply provoke smile. II is right, therefore,
that it should he known that both these
eminent artists have been appreciated in
New York and that there is but one OPT
MON with regard to their unrivalled merit,
and the delightful pleasure they impart to an
audience. The failure of the operas a
speculation-was in spite Of them. Had there
been no dealing in claptrap and humbug before
their performances began had the prices Of
admission been more reasonable and better
suited to the times; had the management been
prepared with music, SO as not to be reduced to
play one very hacknied opera, in which Mario
appeared d cOntye-c0uy-" Norma mine times,
two others" Puritani " and Sonnambula -
which contained no parts adapted TO Madame
Grisi, FIVE or six, and fourth, Lucrezia, +"
which, with the exception of the parts of Luz
crezia herself and Orsini, we had seen better
played before, about as often in fine, had the
impresario displayed as much Judgment as any
Of his predecessors, he would undoubtedly have
reaped handsome harvest. Scores of people
have not heard Grisi because, whenever they
had arranged to go, they found she was playing
Norma, which they had heard dozens Of times
before; others have been once, and seeing her
in part SO utterly unsuited to her as Amina
have never cared to return
These mistakes are the more to be regretted
as they work a visible injustice to the great
artists themselves. Both have reached the
close of long aud unprecedentedly successful
career. Covered with fame, laden with honors,
and hearing away the best wishes ana warmest
regard of thees whose delight they have been
for nearly twenty years, Madame Grisi and
her husband did not deserve that the unblem-
ished reputation they have hitherto enjoyed
should be furnished by even the suspicion of
failure in the United States. 1t was, one would
imagine, the duty Of their manager to be as
jealous of their fame as he was anxious for his
own pecuniary success; and in effecting & I
rangements by which he might hope to secure
the latter, to see to it that the former-which
was of far more importance-was not raehly
placed in jeopardy. This has not been done
and it only now rests for us to hope that under
better auspices and more judicious direction,
an opportunity may yet be afforded them to
efface from our recollection and that of the
world, all traces Of the season that has closed.
CONVICTION OF CHARLES A. PEvEREII.Y FOR
ARsoN.-The trial of Charles A. Peverelly, for
the crime Of arson, which has excited so much
interest from the previously respectable position
occupied by the prisoner, terminated yesterday
in his conviction, after patient and impartial