New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-24
classes has been modified since he was Minister.

Cldtteb mas Dten UlOOlHeu vince ne WAS UlDlsttI. |
The higher class of social and intellectual men,
and the great popular masses must never be lost
sight Of i. e, the old nOblesse is still in some
shape one Of the elements Of the French nation,
and the democratic element 10 grown into proper
tons that must be recognized.
We come Low to the cheerful side of this essay,
not less remarkable than the other. | regret that
] cannot give as much room 10 the Hopes as 10
the Disappobtments. No one need be told that
Guzot is not " fast man" in his hopes but as
little is be a depending wry- necked waller over
the past. He ia cautious but firm believer in
progress. The world thank God is not in the
condition of Rome on its decline. Amid the
aboubding evil and grave peril of that epoch, the
few true Romans left, liz Tacitus and Marcus
Aureus, bewailed and despised the corruption of
their time; but they dreamed of-they desired no
reformation; they saw no better political or moral
order Of things in the future; the Republic an.
cieDt Rome which was dead and could not live
again, was the only dream OF their thought; they
had memories, not deas-regrets, not hopes.
But now there is Christianity, whose vitality is
unattsntod; of serity, of apathy of mind or soul,
there is symptom; plans, pre- jects, hopes fjr the
future, the forward movement of human am-
biton, ia the marked feature Of our time.
These alone will not, indeed, advance
US. We must learn when to act, when to
wait--integeDtly, perseverlngly, submissively
10 Gods laws. Prominent among the hopes is
that of the final success of the constitutional
monarchy in France, which the writer defends
vigorously against the attacks of its enemies-re-
marking among other things that OF all the
yfoimes that have swayed France for the last six
ty Years, it has been the lOngestlved. Running
quietly under this defense. is an abusive attack
upon the Power that is as it is. Finally. with all
her trials groupings wanderings, halts retreats,
and relapses France has made her grand con-
quests and advances. And throughout Eu-
rope even in Prussia and Austria and Russia, NJ.
GuizOt growing more and more cheerful, sees
signs and proofs of progress
have dwelt so long upon this article, not more
from it's own merits sake, than because, in the
recent lash of stirring external events it is of
the prominent topics of the day with thinking men.
DO not understand, however, that it ex cites a
1.-THE Of the attention that is awarded TO young
Alexander Dumas new drama lie Dem, Monde.
As you would Judge by the title, it is cOgnste in
subject with the Dame Aux Camelias and Diana
de Lys The Demi Monde is a world more talked
Of and written Of and ! am afraid more priced
and oDged for in Paris than either of the other
better worlds, of decent society and Heaven.
The heroine of the play is neither maid
wife nor widow. She represents herself with
the third of these titles, in hopes by intrigue
TO win the right To wear the second IRON
the love madness of an honest captain, who
has spent most of his life in Africa and is sup
posed to he wonderfully ignorant of the ways of
Paris. Such parts of those ways as run through
the DenH Monde are presented in this five-act
comedy, with sufficient ingt nuity of plot and the
easy but brilliant dialogue for which Dumas is
famous, TO crowded and delighted nightly aud
fences The piece promises to be as successful as
either of its predecessors, although it is held by
nice critics TO be considerably more moral. On
the first night of the performance, the author
was roared for in style that might be ac-
cepted by BOwery enthusiasm and that
would have alarmed the timid Votaire-
the first author, by the way. that was ever called
"oui' on the French stage. Prince Napoleon. who
is said to hold higher rank in the demi-mOnde than
in the political or military world, has sent him a
pair of diamond sleeve-buttons. Alexander the
Great his fat err, babbles his delight over his sons
genius and triumph through numberless broken
columns of short sentences. Indeed, his praise is
in all the newspapers and the mouths of men.
Were the Republic still existing, ! have little
doubt that he would be elected to the Legislative
Assembly As matters stand he gets no political
honOrs such as the COrtes have lately decreed at
Madrid to a Spanish poet On the whole, the
GROWING of Quintana with golden laurel is rather
creditable pc rfOTmance TO those concerned.