New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-14

/ am told that Mr.. O'sullivan has written ]
pamphlet on the Papal Territory question. from !
"An American Catholic DIPLOMACY point q
'' view" which agrees web enough with Napoleon's
point of view. 2,T q
Mr.. Rarey is reducing the most demonstxatiyssv
vicious French horses to mildest mansuetude M &
the Napoleon Circus. He has given two or t6res
dsy performances there lately, before large assem-
blies. He appears there tonight and to-morrm.
night as grand additional attraction to tie e,m.
nastic maryels Of LeOtard. Leotard is really
wonderful fellow; he starts from one side Of tAe
large circus holding on to trapeze (trapeze IL ear.
Gus Greek for what we boys used to call swing
n round stick the size Of a hoe-hande being n
place of the stting-board), and at one grand wave
surges through the air half way acress the arena:
there, at the hight Of thirty or forty feet from ths
ground turns somersault or two, lets 70 trspez4.
takes a fresh start on nothing, makes q yoIteface.
intermediates another somersault or two, cstches
hold of another trapeze swinging loose in the neigh
boring air, and sweeps on to his landing place on
the side of the house opposite bis starting place,
whips about, faces and bows 70 the audience, who
ihereup0n applaud as though he were the concen-
trated army of Italy come down the Boulevards.
On the Boulevard des Italiens is a remarkable
collection of paintings of contemporary French art.
ists. Hardly one of them is so low as pretty, Or
pretty good, unless you except the Meissones, Of
which there are half q dozen OF the artists best;
for is MeissOners micrOscopically best product
Of ingenuity rather than art, extremely curious,
not beautiful The collection is peculiarly rich in
the works of the coorists, Decamps, DelacroiI,
Daz, Jules Duprez, Couture, and Others. Mono
of them are inferior; some of them-more than
fifty of the two bundred-are veritable ehgs
dqurrss Any description could give Of them
would be neither more interesting nor more photo
graphic than the effort just made to transfer Mon
sieur Leotard to paper. Indeed, word copies Of
paintings even by the ablest hands, are apt to fall
into unsatisfactory Aufiiness and mere GORE
giosity of Corregio." But there are some clrcum-
stances of this admirable exhibition that can be
told in words and it is for them that spoke OF it
at all. The exhibition is made up of contributions
from the collections of few amateurs. In recon-
pense for this temporary contribution Of their treas
ures they receive the satisfaction of contributing
permanently and largely to the funds OF an artists
benevolent society, for whose benefit the entrance
fee is paid The entrance fee is one franc, so that
for dollar one can make FIVE visits to the gallery,
the number requisite to fairly see its contents.
The gallery is provided with comfortable seats 30
that being tired of walking, one may here feast his
eyes, rest bis body escape from the RAM wait for
a friend, pass probably the interval between any
time and dinner and draw other profits still for one
france Now, what prevents you from having
something like this in New-Yorkf Some good
charity fund handsomely increased, and the con-
tributors receiving back more than their moneys
worth