New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-18

recognize a dignitary Of the Church in a traveller
wrapped up in large fur-cloak told him that this
stable was reserved for some daily customers, but,
bearing that the stranger wanted only 70 wait until
the horses were harne-sed, be raised no further OBJ
lection AT this moment entered the " daily Gus
tOmers, some officers of an Austrian regiment,
who instantly showed their bad breeding by loading
the traveller with the foues abuse and one Of them
forgot himself 30 far that be gave HIM blow in the
face. The bishop quietly opened his cloak, exhio-
tied his clerical costume, and said: " Gentlemen,
a. that you may know whom you have so wantonly IN
suited, may we'll tell you that am the
Bishop Of -; / am on my way TO the Arch
" duke Albert, and will not fail TO communicate to
" to him the manner in which his officers behave"
Such occurrences are by no means uncommon, and
produce the greatest Indignation among population
which is so proyerbially quiet and -humored.
Recently, in a coffee house, at Vienna, an officer
anced that an inofensive civilian was too oug oc-
cupled with tie perusal Of a newspaper which he
wished to read himself; be drew bis sword and in
flic'ed mortal wound on his imaginary antagonist.
Add to these facts the statement If all the horrors
which have been committed in the Danubian Prnci-
palites by the Austrian sodiery, and you may form
an accurate idea of the oppression under which the
people are groanng. II such brutality is allowed
and possible in the capital of the empire, what may
happen in distant provinces where the inhabitants
are looked upon as conquered race
The opera at Vienna has lately witnessed ID
dicrOus corp fat, which has however, been obliged
10 give way before resistance. There lives
in that lively and easy city certain Mr.. s, who
has great pretensons to pety, although he Is by no
means an enemy Of worldly enjoyment As it has been
said Of the ghtminded French Abbts of the last CEN
tury the altar was his breakfast and the opera his din
Ter. This gentleman was former Consul OF Ameri-
ca, and has in that capacity iobbed strong love
for diolorsev. his hiohast nhtiOn on earth
become an Austrian Plenipo.entiary at some petty
German Court, until he might aspire to the grand
appellation of "InternunciO." The former Pdpal
legate was his intimate friend, and he was perhaps
inspired by this infallibe authority when he deter
II iDed TO save morality and religion by change IN
the dress of the corps de ballet. The pink color OF
the ine1pressibes which the ladies OF that charm
ing body usually wear, was thorn 10 bis virtuous
eyes. What would become Of society if such sean
daous imitation of feshy tint were allowed to
appear forever on the stage
Our Taleyrand en- heTbe suggested, therefore, to
the pous prince of the Church thai the fair dancers
should in future, be sentenced to an ugly green
color: il would be less handsome but, at all events,
more yirtuous The legate actually took the hint
and applied TO the Minister who, as devoted ser
want Of the clergy, like all Austrian statesmen pub
lsted the necessary decree Great was the stupeac.
ton and anger of the Viennese when they beheld
for until then the latter had enjoyed the monopoly OF
green trousers: il was as If all the t6ids OF the
ballet girls had taken bath in spinach. Vienna
NAV bear a Wholesale execution OF patriots,
Catholic cOncOrdate even a b0mbardment; but to
be deprived of fesh-cOlOred dancers is more than
man can suffer- and there arose such formidable
cry of opposition mixed with such sarcastic
laughter that The Onister, the Nuncio aud honest
Mr.. s., were obliged to yield. The eyes of the
virtuous and the pure are again offended by that
odOus pink color, unless, as their Purltanism Is
not strong enough to keep them away from the
opera, they choose to wear green spectacles. Poor
Dir. S has lost his embassy, ami said to repeat
daily, MathesOn's clegiac and mOurniul lines:
$50 yergehn des Lebens Herrlcbkeit.n,
So entfie dSs Trsumb Id alter Macht"
We are told "on good authority" that it is seri-
ously designed to abandon the "hoops and the
small bonnet, in the circles which give the tone
to English fashion. This intelligence is OF so cheer
ing character that we are inclined to doubt It's
correctness, and We seriously entreat our far
readers not TO lay their balloons" aside, If those
gigantic "dressmprOvers have crossed the At
lantic which We sincerely believe to be the fact,
since We have heard SO much OF the elegance" OF
New York ladies'. And as elegance affects now
very unelegant dimensions, America has certainly
not been deprived of the hoop affection They" say
that the bonuets will in future be very very large,
and The dresses very, very thin. Ia the present
costume IRE fair half of mankind resemble some
what 1--WE must confess it in'spite of our wonted
galantry) walking sugar-oayes; if the new i'm
provement" is carried out, the loaf will be over
turned If the change he not for the better, at
all events twill be change and that is real COM
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