The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17
WASHINGTON, D. G..
LIFE IN P RIS.
Pans, August 80, 1857.

Tie Condemnation OF the IhTee ItGtt0nS Gc-
cused Of HaUing Formed Conspiracy
against the Life Of The EDlperOr-S. Napo-
leon's Day-A SOiree Musicale at Mr.. Dick
Hills. of Ne1o Orleans The Dissatisfac.
tion Expressed at tie Last Distribution Of
Prizes at the " COnserratoire de MuSique -
Death Of Eugene Sue, Author of" Les Mys
teres de Paris" 6c.-The EDaperOr'S Visit TO
Osborne CastIe-7he King of Prussia in a
Fit Of Passion-The Departure of Alexander
Of Russia from Potsdam.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
Mention was made in my last of conspirs-
CT against the life of the Emperor of the
French. The three Italisns accused have been
brought to trial, aud the Attorney General did
his very best to implicate Mazzini and Ledru
Rollin but neither were the evidences nor his
eloquent harsngue strong enough to convince
either the jury or the public that there was
foundation enough upon which to build the &C
cusation of a conspiracy between the prisoners
and the exiles The general belief is, that the
whole affair was gotten up by the police, at the
instigation of some higher authority, for the
purpose of inducing the English Government
to expel both Ledru Rollin and Mazzini from
the island of Great Britain. The prisoners
were unquestionably bribed, and they played
their parts we'll enough to enable the jury to
return a verdict of guilty, condemning Tibaldi
to be transported, Grill and Bartholletti to be
imprisoned for fifteen years. The three, con-
spirators will no doubt be sent to some foreign
country, with pockets we'll lined; and the po-
lice will have to resort to some other article to
get up an excitement in the desirable quarter.
The Inauguration of the new galleries of the
Louvre will take place on the I4th, the day be-
fore the fSe Napoleon. That beautiful build
ing was commenced in July, 1852, and finished
last month.
ST. Napoleon's Day, the patron day of the
Bonapartes will be celebrated on the 10Th.
The programme has already appeared in the
official papers. Minute guns will announce
the commencement of the festivities to the Pa
risisns. After high mass and the distribution
of aims at Notre Dame, the theatres will be
gratuitously opened to the public. On the
Champ de Mars, grand military pantomime
performance will be given, representing some
of the principal events in the late war with the
Kabylies; juggleries, mountebsAks, and many
other popular amusenents, will keep the crowd
interested till six o'clock, P. NJ, when con-
cert of $50 performers, both vocal and instru-
mental, will take place at the garden of the
Tuilleries, which will be brilliantly illuminated
with colored lamps, as well as the L" Place de Ia
Concorde," and the great avenue of the
"Champs Elysees up to the extreme end OF
the " Round Point" The Hotel de Vile"
and many oher public buildings and places
will be made equally attractive. Finally, at
nine O'Clock, fireworks are to come off on an
elevated place, opposite the Champs de Mars, "
where Napoleon the First intended to build a
Palace fer his son, the King of Rome. 1t will
afford a beautiful view of a spectacle unequal
led in splendor and artistic taste in any coun-
try | have yet had the good fortune to visit.
Mr.. James Dick Hill, countryman of ours
now sojourning in Paris, gave grand soiree
musicale on Monday, tie Sd of August. Dis
appreciation was the first feeling expressed by
those favored with invitations, forgetting that
Mr.. Hill halls from New Orleans, where the
thermometer is often near the boiling point
and where the weather of which we omplain
so much here would be considered compare
lively cool. But the lovers of music feel great
ly obliged to him for the opportunity offered
them to hear the best artists of this country, as
we'll as some of those distinguished at home
who gave great pleasure. Mrs. Wilhorst, Of
New York, delighted all present with her
charming little person, enthusiastic method OF
singing, and most agreeable voice; / have
learned, wi b satisfaction, that there is great
hope Of her being engaged for the coming win
ter at the Italian opera. Madame Borghi
Mamo, whose powers are too well known to be
commented upon, Gang the "Brindisi." Mad
anne FrezZohn, who is now on her way to New
Il. III. IL.
seurs and amateurs of music to be the most fir
ished vocalist of her day, sang Romance de
il Guiramento," with her usual success. The
distinguished musician, violoncello performer
and vocalist, Labocetta, who is also engaged
at the Italian opera at New York, gave un
bounded pleasure, with his sweet and graceful
voice. in Chsuson Napolitaine." The con.
cert was a-rang d by Monsieur Bllema one OF
the most successful Italian professors of vocal
music In Paris.
The coucourse of the distribution of prizes al
the Conservstoire de Musique" closed this
year with strong expressions of indignation
Monsieur Auber, the well-known composer OF
La Muesse de Porsici," and director of the
Imperial Conservative de Musique, although
at the respectable and sober age of seventy two
seems still to be too strongly influenced by the
pupils OF the fair sex to do justice. But his predi
lection for that class of artists was never before
so manifest as this year, when the prizes were
mostly given to the friends of certain young
artists who had won the scared heart of the old
composer.
All passed eff quietly, however, until the
prizes allotted to the performers on the violin
were announced. The first was given to g boy
eleven years of age-a prodigy so far SURPRISING
anything ever before heard on the violin, that
1t was thought an extraordinary prize would
not be 2 sufficient reward for the infant Pagan.
lDi. The second prize was given to Miss
Hummler, causing some expressions of aston
lshment and dissatisfaction from the violin per-
formers of the Conservative and of the grand
opera; but when the third prize was awarded
to another of the young ladies, the audience
burst into a general expression of disgust
kissing was heard on ali sides, and continued
until the police interfered and closed the cere
mony
=. The ability of the fair sex is too well estab
lshed to be contested; but must acknowledge
that the error committed in awarding the I'd
8nd Sd prizes to ladies, for their performance
on an instrument strictly the prerogative OF
men, is too palpable to be uoubted-besides
It's oelng an unbecoming and graceless instru.
meht IN the hands of women, and requires
more muscular strength to draw out its finest
ZONES IN an allegro than they are possessed of
had any influence at the Conseryatoire." il
would certainly be exercised to exclude that
instrument for women, and confne them en-.
urely to the harp and piano-two of the finest
instruments, and best suited to their sex and
attire. ~ "-O
The competitors for vocal music were nm.
merous, and those to whom the prizes were
allotted were neither remarkable for school or
voice. The classes, as usual, were composed
nf \.