New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-04

SblbaA VIII eau the htpuoHcAhs ana nsoIcas an
ever the word parsaDs Of the ssIows and the gull
ktne.
The London season promises vel, now that the
elections are over. We shall enjoy two Italian
Operas both opening on the 18th Mr. Lumley re-
Zee on the Piceolomini the Albon new PrlDA
Donna assoistd, Maria Spezia, and Miss Ansiola
ertolsn, who has, al all events, sweet and suecu
lint name. The male singers almost all OF mem
unknown, and, Ia Tagoni, Bosehet and Rcsat, eA-
eepted, the same may be said Of the dancers nie -
iPecchico, who will make her debutin 'EsnerSoa
u preceded by the high fame which she w" ~
Vrnna. Mr. eye has in his favor, the nien , 80
ing names of Grisi, Bosio, Tsghahco' oia aL
Mario Gardoni, Ronconi, Lablscbe' formss' . ,S
INTO Ia Plunkett, etc. Miss Victoria Daiie, .ne
daughter Of the Irish maestro, viii MAKE hyi Iist
debut on the lyric stage. In fact II TWO Nalau
theatres cannot both prove prosperous lof 'nc nhld
sers, the public Will have the best Operas executed
by the first artists. Besides, Madame hlstofi, WHO
has again met her crowd OF admirers at rsris, VIII
appear at the Lyceum, in the month OF June, III
.eyera, new characters, as in Mferi's Ottawa,
Translation of Macbeth; Months "CalO Graccho,
a translation Of "Phedre, etc London VIII DC oe-
kghted. e.:.,
Partisan society is much agitated by hhanciai
scandals and literary solcmnities. One day, q.
meeting of duped shareholders, the directors
Messy, Psr,ire Senator Heckeren and other Bona
psrtists, are plainly called shaPers as II lney were
projectors of ROYAL British Bank " you VIII de-
your us cries poor deceived wretch 10 the famous
Issac Pere;re. No" replies the Jewish banker
INV religion forbids it." But IN spite OF TINS am
bieous Joke, the smart capitalist found his honor ~
sounded. and challenged clever barrister who had
constituted himself the principal accuser. His Sec
ends received, however, nothing but the acute an
sger: i" Usually, hgbwayman asks either for
ones Life or purse; but NJ. Pereire demands both:
be shall have neither" The next day the public
hear that the famous diamonds Of which Count
Morpy, the Emperors hall -trother has made pres
ent to his fair Countess, the Russian princess, be-
long TO Madame de Lehon, the ex-Belglan embassa-
dress, who lived for so long time on Intimate
terms with the Count, and whose son has recently
been BY the grace of Louis NapoleOn's universal
suffrage, elected member OF the Legislative body.
Madame Lehon, who is accustomed to speculate
with everything, asked her protector who, before
the coup ft,at had rather been her protege, to sell
her diamonds at handsome profit, 10 the youthful
Car of Russia; abe wanted something ike $50, 600.
Count de Morny, like a true adherent OF the lmpe-
rial policy Of never keeping your word, and being
now, moreover in the country IN which the Men
chikofs and Potemkns have established rs maxim
of government, always to take and never to restore
kept these precious stones for his own use, and en-
ployed them with success in his matrimonial specu-
tatiOn. Seventeen centuries ago old Juvenal put
this question:
"wbs; pistters infsmy II the money is safeF
DflDx Ol opHLou, iNHNh AuA"ooou
dor at the Court of st. Petersburg adorned his
charming bride with his former mistress jewels,
and forgot TO pay for them. But Madame Lehon
has had recourse TO that power which the renegade
Fould has 80 Justly described as the second Prov
dence (of ockjobbers and prostitutes y, and Napo.
leon ILL.,, who generously employs the money OF
France in paving the debts of his fayorites, has
promised reimbursement AS detail of manners,
may as well add that the diamonds, which the In
triguing Countess valued at $50 600, are scarcely
worth half the sum. And these are the men aud
women who constitute what the partsans of the
second empire call thigh society" However IN
credible these particulars may appear, | can say,
with the old Roman de Ia Rose
je nmogHe ct ceytite
QHe tout &C suejai rteiH
E1JfRe ct pure rtrih
A soothing application in these days Of reck
lessness and money-inaking, We have had two
sneeebea and an election at the French Academy.
Under the first empire, an honorable academclan
once remarked that Racine had taken his seat De-
tween statesman and bishop; the same particu-
L,rity il still to be observed but i'll the nineteenth
century Racine has given place to M. Brif-
fault, and Colbert 10 M. de talloux. The
latter has. it is true, written biography
of Louis xvi, and life of Pope fIus
w.. but as nobody ever reads these volumes he
WAS not chosen for his literary neuts Mo- the
Academy received the politician, the Legltmlst who,
in order 10 favor the Catholic clergy, mad acted
under Louis Napoeons Presidency AZ Minister oil
Public Instruction; it crowned the representative oil
the people who by proposing Oh sudden, the DISCO
hilton of the national workshops, In june, lS4S, fur-
nshed the combatants for that terrible insurreeuoD
which was fostered by the ROyalists, and became,
ss Lamennais complained, the funeral OF the
French Republic. That same voice, which has just
sung in such mild terms the praises VI Count Mole,
in the Palace Mszarn only nine years ago thun'
dered a most fatal philippe against the people, at
the very moment when the demon OF civil war was
spreading its dark wings over the country. ANA
vet In speaking Of that revolution of lo4S which he
rendered bloody on which he has spilled the black
Get venom Of calumny, and which he calls even now
a'catastrophe, NJ dc Fslloux is obliged to praise
circumstance which, he says, Will be slgnslzed IN
history namely that "opinions and persons re-
"maiBed free" The same viii never be asserted OF
The second empire; NJ. de Falloux and his monarch
Zeal friends have conducted Themselves in such an
ungrateftil and uupatriotc manner that the French
Republicans have been led to ask themselves II they
were right in le4s in leaving opinions and persons
free IL the contrary should happen at the next
rising, 10 whom may il be attributed
As might be expected, all the legitmist dowager
ladies' of the Fabourg Saint Germain assisted at the
sitting al which their deserving friend was inscribed
In the number Of the immortals. There was won
derfui collection Of new bonuete and old faces.
Many duchess entered the Institute for the first
fine on that occasion and looked perfectly amazed
60 find herself in such learned company; indeed,
II YOU had asked her what she admired most, she
would have answered, Ike the Venetian Doge at the
Court of Louis XIV: Z" Ii is 10 see myself here
Ofthe speeches which were delivered IT will De
most charitable TO say as little as possible. d.
Faloux had 10 pronounce an encomium OF bus prede-
eeesor NJ. Mole; who although he had written IN
his youth OF rather boyhoOd volume of essays, was