New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-24

wv pfuOr HIS VI huDtutF mOntI ucci.f w
eause above all, he is invariably polite with polite
Desf ofmanner)t to women Of all sorts This is itent
y NJ. Dumas's highest notion of respect for women;
ard about the hight of his ,tion OF gentlehood.
high flying woman of the dsni monde is held up
10 detestatou Gin very elegant dress, howeyer,)
not, Of course, because she is -, but because
she is heartless as the fools that futter r1und
her and makes aud lays up money out OF them Here
10 The profoundly coDdemBable point IN her eharac-
ter, that she, as well as the gentlemen who purpose
one of these days TO settle respectfully in the world,
calculates for the future. IL she would only live 10
uninterrupted, reckless debaueh, looking for
ward gaily, or, what would be iner, not looking
forward at all, to die in hospital or in the street
Why thep we men grown upto be respectable fathers
of FAMILIES, would regard her sins as venial.
At the Theatre Francas, lie Dac JOB, by Leon
Isy8, is the new piece of a season--a very in
different comedy saved and in a sort created afresh
BY the almost perfect actors who produce it the
Stage. NJ. Laya aims contrary to Nj. Dumas, 10
teach q moral lesson. The moral that he aims to
teach is that riches are to be despised as a some
thing vulgar, quite. And he rounds his moral with
a rich marriage OF his hero. L'HonaeHr ct dPArgent
of M. Ponsard. which had such an immense success
six Winters ago was full of the same cant-a high
and lofty contempt of money and money-making
through four acts, and in the fifth practical
apoheOsis of the franc, which IA quite as almghty
as the dollar. If any Of these canting playwrights
would forego their droits dautens varying from
to Is per cent on the receipts at the ueKet-cmee
we might respect them. Or if the audience would
applaud a hero who went poor 70 the eId VI 'no
| filth act, we might respect them.
Is the world at the present date more given up 10
gross materia interests than it has been any time
since that famous swap of p0ttage Tor 0rthrighl
If it be. where is the harmi But if 1t be, and II
there be harm, then, in Gods name, be against II,
and be done with this Ihyming, writing, and preach
| ing against il, at so much per bne or ACT, OF an
| mum. Free your minds of cant"
In the way of opera, the real new thing, Is the
; revival, with some impertinent pruning and other
notifications, of an old thing the Orphte OF Gluck
| at the Theatre Lyrique. The Parisans show their
| independent honest sense of the musical art by
crowding to hear it. The Pardon de Ptoermet, al
| ready old at the Opera COmique, is not nearly
| equal in merit to Meyerbeers last preceding work
| produced there. His everlasting Atrledn'e cannot
be brought out this year, either, at the Grand Up
era, where there is great new piece to take lts
| place and no great artists to perform. Wooden.
armed Roger will reappear presently, and IN any OF
| bis old roles have an immense success Tor some
time-loyers of music will be curious TO see him
| sing with wooden arm
The Halifns. too is less brilliant than last year in
| stock and stars. The outside public, a few weeks
| ago, were anticipating something unc0mmonly rom
| the announcement of a new opera by Rossinl That
4 maestro, ana TWO OF lHTtt oliklnk ucu ohu
| being considered by certain public as the
last best gift of Gods to since the invention OF
| the mariners compass, and printing, to take the
| most recent dates. II CRriose 1oeidene, the new
| opera" by ROssini, is collection OF scraps, a
postiooiO an Olio podrida, made up, with his per-
| mission, from tragic, comic, and buho operas
that he composed in bis youth that have never been
| performed out of Italy; to these were added some
other bits picked up in the portfolios OF Hauan
| Opera managers These were all tackled, patched
| and botched together and a hbretto was made for
them All this was done by one Berreton, an ex-
| impressario an old and rather seedy acquaintance
of ROssin, with the permission OF the latter. so
long ago as last year, CazadO, the manager OF TIE
Hal,ens here had been offered the piece had jumped
at it, bated by Rossins name, had then found that
he was bit, had tried to get rid of his engagement
TO perform it. had lawsuit about il (as impresaril
ale always having Observation-Disclosures and
Themis alwaJs playing into one another's hands }.
had been condemned TO have il performed. Finally,
| TO cut long story short, it was performed and
summarily damned the other night, ROssini, Cal
zadO, the performers, and in fine, everybody but
| Sqnor Berreton and the audience being indifferent
| or content
Iamartiue had meeting of his creditors at his
| estate near Macon, two weeks ago. There were
about four hundred of them. lie proposed 10 throw
I'd all lis property, although its value u said to be
considerably greater than the amount of his debts.
hOwed that in the eighteen months last past, he
Lad paid LOG, coo francs toward the extinction OF
is debts and bound himself to pay 80, 600 francs
" the end of February, which would reduce his
amount of Indebtedness from 2, ,40O,W 900 francs TO
800 COO Whas is noticeable IN tins history Is,
that bis assembled creditors, without previous con-
cert expressed their confidence in and sympathy with
him in the case and that they had reason so to do.
| Lamartiae is paying off his immense debt from the
product of his literary labors, helped out by a ra-
tional economy that he has too long neglected bis,
or his friends, appeal to the nation was failure
Pity that he or they ever made it; pity for hip,
and greater pity for the French. The national SUB,
| scription after being open year or So produced
| only about I60 600 francs; which only shows that
the French are forgetfu, not stingy. They nearly
split their throats with shouting "Vire Ldmartine
| in IS4s 6Ip 10 the 18th November last past the
subscription for the benefit of the wounded, and the
families of the killed soldiers Of the army OF Italy
amounted to 5, $50, 600 francs.
Ti.ere was talk enough in the time of il, some
wear AGO of the Black Doctor and his wonderful
cure for cancers. Sax, the Saxhornlsf got well ol
a cancer ,on his lip, or what seemed cancer,
| while the Black Doctor Nries was attending upon
him / tbiak the rlmor of his disputed fame III
those DAYS reached NewIyork and your columns.
The sad solernn fact all along, was that whether
Vries had ar lad not disca7ered in India enre foI
cancen. he was, by nature and practice, as are
GREAT r,any people in Pafis-your correspondent,
accidentally. among the nuEaber-an utter hHmbug
He was seized, the other day, on charge q mai,
practce resulting in the death of his patient And
1 to-day tks. costly furniture and his general scenic
Il effects are sold at auction. Before and whale De
II took 10 the curing of incurahe cancers, NrsSsva'
4 busy with a religious humbug.
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