Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-10-08

c FRENCH TRAGEDY. The French appear not
TO have had depth enough to produce an orig
inal tragic DRAMA The tragic material,
) whereof sentiment is as essential an element
G as passion, is meagre in them compared with
0 the Germans or English; hence the possibility
and even necessity of simpler plot and a
measured regularity Cornelle or Racine
, could not have wrought tragedy out of n
, tradition or a modern fable they require n
familiarized historical subject. The nature of
French tragedy compared with English is
happily illustrated by the Hamlet of Dncis,
which have seen played at the Theatre
Francois. The title Of the piece is Hamlet,
, Tragedie en- acts, imiee de pAnglais par
Ducts. A filter title were, Hamlet, with the
part of Hamlet left out by particular desire OF
. French taste. II is as much an imitation OF
Shakespeare as straight walks and parallel lines
of trees are an imitation of nature. Hamlet
is resolved into tender-hearted, affecionate
son. He has not been put aside, but is king.
Ophelia does anything but go mad. The
mother is overwhelmed with remorse for the
MURDER which she confesses to confident.
The heart of Hamet's misery is plucked out.
The poetry is flattened into phrases. The
bilowy sea of Shakespeare is belittled to a
smooth pond, in every part whereof you can
touch bottom. 1t is not deep enough to dive
i'm
HlNTs ABOUT BEDROOMS small size and
their lowness render them very unsalubrious;
and the case is rendered worse by close win
dows and thick curtains and hangngs, with
which the beds are often so carfully surrounded
as to prevent the possibility of the air heng re-
newed. The consequence is, that we are
breathing vitiated air during the greater part
ofthe night that is, during more than third
part ofOur lives and thus the period of repose,
which is necessary for the renovation of our
mental and bodily system is destroyed.
CLIMATE OF FLoRENcE.-'tI is much like ours
of the Middle States, except that our winter is
colder and drier An American is surprised at
this similarity on arriving in Italy; having got
his notions from English writers, who, corning
from their cloudy northern island, are en-
chanted with the sunny Temperature of an ltal-
ian winter, and oppressed by the heats of sum-
mer. The heat is greater than it is in Mary
land: and our winter is finer certainly than
that of Florence, being drier, and though cold
er at the same time SUMMER. As with us,
, the autumn, so gloomy in England, is cheer
full clear and calm, holding on till Christmas.
They have hardly more than two cold months.
Already in March the spring is awake, and soon
, drives back winter first into the highest APP
PENNIES, where he clings for n brief space,
{ and thence retreats up to the topmost Alps,
not to re-appear for nine or ten months. Nor
is that beautiful child of the light and air the
! Italian sunset more beautiful than the Ameri-
! cam"
The CHINESE DPFIouEIEs.- WARD CONF
TO PEKIN.-By the following extract from a
private letter written by w. l.. g. Smith, Esd,
Consul at Shanghai, it appears that Mr.. Ward,
the American Minister, has proceeded to Pokin.
The letter is of "a date later than any neNspa-
.:,,.,,. of a
battle between the English and Chinese, Mr..
Smith says:
g In the mean time the American Minister
and suite were aboard the Powhatten, and OH
the 26th received intelligence that ighManda-
rin specially deputed by the Emperor, was wal
ting to receive him few miles off, to escort him
to Pelin. Mr.. Ward ofcourse availed himself OF
this civility of the Chinese Government, and
on July q proceeded under an escort of Tartar
Cavalry to Pekin, where Ipresuine he now is,
: and has, ere this exchanged Publications of the
new treaty in the Imperial capital. The Rus
sian Minister has been in Pekin some days,
> and the Secretary of the Governor General Of
Siberia (Russan) also reached here on the 9th
inst, with letter to me from the Governor
General, saying that their treaty had been rat
flied. hear that the British and French
Ministers return here without exchanging rat
4 ifications.
S A BALTIMORE JuRY.-0ne day last week jury,
empanelled to try the case ofthe State against
SchaiIer, criminal case of great Importance
S returned sealed verdict of "guilty," which
: had been duly agreed upon the previous even
Y ing, as was shown by the signatures OF all the
members of the panel appended to it. The
iurv was, however, polled at the request of thu
prisoners counsel, whereupon five OF those
:, who had found the traverser guilty over
:. night, declared him ''nOt guilty. in the morn
y. ing The foreman stated that the verdict haC
: had been concluded upon without dissenting
y voice, and the change of opinion is utterly
', inexplicable. What is more remarkable, the
Judge dismissed the jury without aremark up
on its proceedings
il NATURAL CoNPAss.-1t is a well known fact
II that in the vast praires of Texas little
J. plant is always to be found which, under all
a circumstances of climate, change of weather
Il rain; frost, or sunshine, invariably turns its
!. leaves and flowers to the north. If solitary
i traveller were makeying his way across those
r trackless wids, without star to guide OF
l. compass to direct him, he finds an unerring
: monitor in an humble plant, and he follows
If its guidance-certain that it will not mislead
)f him. Church and State Gds.
u THE Tom OF HIPPocRATgs.-Th Esperdnct
:, of Athens states that near the village of Arna
- outli, not far from Pharsalia, tomb has been
! y ascertained to be that of Hippocrates, the
great physician, an inscription clearly en-
. unciating the fact. In the tomb gold ring
|, was found representing serpent, the symbol
:, !, of the medical art in antiquity, as well as q
:, small gold chain attached to thin piece of gold
! having the appearance of a band for the head
, There was also lying with these articles
. bronze bust, supposed to bethat of Hippocrate'
. himself. These objects, as we'll as the stont
:, which bears the inscription, were delivered
y up to Housn pacha, Governor of Thessaly
y who at once forwarded them to Constantine
a pie.
a EMINIscENcE.-Admiral Hope, who wa
ia repulsed at the Pei-ho, was, the N. Y. Tran
script says Captain of the British frigate Endy
70 mion, which had the engagement with TIN
it President, commanded by Decatur, at the open
lie ing of the last war with England. After loni
& and sharp engagement, it will be remembered
of the American vessel surrendered to the British
Of squadron.