New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-08

not stand in need Of gorgeous storm tossed sh.p
and Oh the other requsises Of ballet to eurapturc
an audience.
A new farce BY Robert Bel, 1.-THE Fir. and
Second Floor, brought out at the Haymarket is
an unequivocal success.
One Of tie best concerto Of the season has been
given by tho German pianist Wilhelm Kuhe. Cara
NoveAo, Hertha Westerstrand, Mad. Bassano, Sims
Reeves, Richards, Lablsche, Dechmann, Patti
and others contributed TO the success. A young
Frenchman, Jules Lefort, sang several French ro-
mances in the most pleasing style, and two songs
without words by Mendelssohn, executed by Herr
Kuhe himself, bore witness TO his mastery execI.
ton.
What said in former letter Of tho Russian
pianist Rublnstein, is now confirmed by several
critics, especially by the London correspondent of
lie Nerd. This great artist is less musician than
soul, which makes itself understood and commune
Gates with other souls by oil kinds Of music, even BY
simple accords In hearing him one understands
the meaning of PetrsrchOs words ..........
Con lie snocchA leila ments inchive.
. - "Fal down upon the knees Of thy soi-")
Verdi, who lives now at Milan, has pledged him.
self to furnish, in 1853, an opera for the Impxlal
This is much money for performance which Dry
den described a well as if be had heard one Of Yer
dis operas: ...,.e-.I.
:" Sharp violins proclaim
Their jealous psnss and desperation,
-rr Depths Of pain and hight Of passion
For the fair dsdainfal dame."
However abrupt the transition may be, we must
proceed frsm Verdi to "Spirnalism." Az far
back az the month Of January or February, allud-
ed to psper on spiritual literature" written for
The Westminster Recier. The article has been in
type ever since, because Mr. j. Chapman cannot
make his mind up to publish it. On the other hand,
/ hear that Mr.. Robert Chambers lie collecting
whatever appears on the subject and many talk Of
him as q convert to the "spirits." You see that
even the leaders of radical literature in England
have not yet come to decision in the matter. la
France, a morbid craving for spiritual ir-
tercOurse' begins TO be prevalent. An Arch
bishop of the Roman Catholic Church lately
evoked, as newspaper reports, in turn
ing table, the split Of deceased Chinese
missionary, martyr with whom he had been iot.
mately acquainted. The reporter adds, that the
holy prelate became so frightened by the answers
which he received, that he made the sign of the
cross and exclaimed, "If thou art the evil one, /
command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to
"break asunder at my feet" And, says my au-
thority, the table went straight on toward the
bishop and t,Imbled down, breaking its leg. Mr..
Hume Tor Home, as Partisan journalists spell his
name) has already declared that the spirits pro.
claim the Catholic Church as the only true and
holy one He, himself is in close relation with the
Reverend Father Ravignan, the eloquent Jesuit,
though the latter objects II what he calls his con-
nection with internal spirits Are turning tables
destined to take the place of weeping pictures
Come bright Improvement on the car Of Time,
And rule the spacious world from CLINE to cline"