New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-06

IN hquor dealers WINDOW thr morning, rumsfons :
bottles whese labels bore autographed portrait OF
the Swan Of Avon, surmOunted BY the iegend,
I;ou,ry SHAKESPEARE. That 10 phase OF lame tnit
the Divine Williams" never anticipated "ouh
he thrust on him. 80
II il odd. by the way, how so many OF the rench,
VINO really know something OF the master drama
lists works persist in niaItreatng MS gooo nanle
With the Williams" sanctioned by an Acade-
uiciap. himself dramatist we are familiar but
here il new variation by Merry which surpasses
NJ Popsard's blunder. He is speaking OF the
mingled, natural and artificial charms Of Summer
evening az Ems, whence he writes descnptNely:
1.-The dream of the great Will became reality, aud
reality grew more poetic than the dream OF the
Midsummer ~ Lest my rough translation be
thought too unfathfnl, will give the original sen
tenre of NJ. Merry: "Le rere du grand bM Sc
:. E,is0i, rfeL Il la rfrtt derenat ohaqae instant
.plus poftique que Ia rtre du Midsummer" The
noffi.n that apy combination of boating and sweet
singing by q Psrisian opera singer, with the nall
artificial natural beauties of fashionable German
watering place. could bear safe comparison "lth'
not 70 say surpass, the e1uberant wealth OF cnaris
of the most delicate and richly fancifu OF all Shake
sneare;s creations. could have entered only French
mans brain. There is some radical difference OF
race that prevents your Frenchman from getting At
SbakesDeare CuriOusly enough, the translation Oh
Hanletb y Dumas and q couaborateur whose name
| have forgotten, comes nearer tho spirit OF the
original, go far as it possibly he reproduced 10
French words for French minds, than any otherver'
sion of this or of any Of Shakespeare's dramas;
And vet Dumas's Hamlet retrdnstdted, as II Is ana
must be by an English or American reader-and,
therefore, it must not be forgotten not exactly Du-
mass Hamlet-is very decidedly not our Shake
speare's Hamlet ROuvieres acting of the part,
even to an English auditor and spectator, is excep'
tionaly excellent.
The French wander equally far from the English
original 10 TRANSACTIONS much brleier than those oil
the poems of Shakespeare. Their fancy for using
certain English words, the proper signhcation OF
which they cannot comprehend, is as strong aud,
in practice, nearly as ludicrOus as our abuse OF
French. Thus there is the peculiarly English ad-
jectiye comfortable, which have read here, IN sd'
yertisements, applied to drinks and pastry. The
famous Docks Napoleon" brought the first OF
these words into great vogue, and we had conse-
ouently gentemen's furnishing shop advertising
itself as Docks de Toilets, Docks dc PaItumere,
and DocksaUe wine company. OF late years, and
auite against the national genius, the French have
been cutyating Fictitious interest in horse racing
which, like trial by jury and painting"
is proper English institution. With the foreign
institution, they have imported certain foreign words
belonging to it-spOrt, jockey, steeple-chase, turf
They sneak considerably worse than they ride, as
report of the recent bOat-race on the Seine, near
Rouen, furnishes proof where the river is spoken OF
as the nautical turf-"tut nauique." The linguistic
drolleries however, Of one Of these river rowing
matches would not be nearly so cOmcal to White
hall boatman, or EewBedfOrd whaleman, or a
Block.Island fisherman, as the material side OF the
fresbwater mariners who take part III them. In
that respect the righteousness rises to degree only
eaualed by our American limitations OF French
phrases and manIers-Over which the Parslans,
with all their quick of the ridiculous, are too
courteous to openly laugh hereby, with clumsy
Anglo-SaxOn bow, gratefully recognize their polite
ness and change the subject.
Yesterdays Moniteur contains brief note stating
that a month ago the police had in its hands as l
mentioned at the time, the proofs Of plot against
the life of the EnperOr stating from the runner that
three Italians, charged with the execution of the
pan were arrested then with daggers and reviewers
in their possession; that Government delayed acIlve
prosecution of the affair till after the elections; that
since then it has been resumed ana tnat now tne TO-
suit of the preliminary Investigations Is the Presehta
ton to the tribunals for trial of the arrested persons
and their accomplices, whose names are as follows
Tibaldi. BartolOtt Grill ALA SartO Mazznl, Ledru
Rollin. Maparenti, Campanela. The proceedings
of the trial are to be published. The result OF the
investigations now making by the proper authorizes
of the Sandman Government will also, II Is sad, %
published in full Mazzini, who, lacking nlgher
merit has at least furnished conclusive proof oi the
imperfectiOn of French and Austrian p0ice-scent oy
walking safely directly under the noses and eyes OF
the most vigant and suspicious officials, is reported
to have declared his purpose at renOunclng hence,
forth bis profession Of active consprator Ii Iul
time that he should come to this conclusion. Inc
heated fancy of the exile, constantly broOdlng over
his own and his cOuntry's wrongs, has yltlated his
Judgment as to the rational means Of rlghtDg them
With oil bis remarkable acuteDess and activity and
ingenuity Of device, he has grown imprudent The
French police obtained the first news Of the plot
from their London agents. and, through information
nIt mad fvnsn
rests here and give timely warning to the Italian
Courts. Mazzni can by wonderful bOldness and
dexterity run the gauntlet of the watchful CONT
mental police. And here let me do BIN the justice
to acknowledge that he does not as is constantly
charged against him, expose others to danger and
hold himself at safe distance; but henceorth he
cannot plot or cOnspre in London except under the
eye of the Project Of the French police.
The Emperor and Empress 60 to Havre on the
Sd of August where they will embark for Osborne
on the 4th. Then Victoria comes to France, and
goes home it is said, by the way of Brussels.
Preparations for the fete OF the 18th August
Assumption of the Virgin and Saint Napoleon all in
one-are already making in the Champs de Mars,
where workmen are constructing sham MalakOh,
which is to be defended by sham Russians, and
taken in sham fight between them and real French
soldiers.
The bones, or what the newspapers persist in
calling the ashes, of a son OF old Jerome-conse-
quently DrOtner OF our cOuntryIlan DIT. Douaparle
OF Baltimore, and Of the Prince NapOleon-who died
at Trieste, Colonel in the Wiirtemburg army, in
May, 1e47, were brought up from Italy and depOs-
tied in tomb at the Inyalides last Monday. You
will not forget that the grand tomb OF the frat En-
perOr, long ago completed under the dome Of the
Invalides has never been cOnsecrated put TO its
use as receptacle for the bones brought from st.
Helena. The present Emperor, who desires, so far
as possible, to revive for his own family the tradi
n, MS of the Bourbon dynasty, holds to the idea Of
.r.n. orting all the NapOleonc remains to the vaults