New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-04

| 1t Is french sentiment In the case that makes the
gift polite
been out, with all the world in these days. to skate
| and slide on the artificial lakes in the Bots dc
Bouloge. l.. N. b. is not fine skater by reason
of shortness of his legs but stands firm ON his pins,
skates well on the whole, and, above all, safely.
Empress gets pushed about by him and others In
chair sled. Tom, Dick, and Harry, Counts and
Countesses; bourgeois and proletaires, skating.
sliding, and gaping freely about them. OF the fe-
male performers on the ice, blonde and fair Russian
Countess de Morny, whose philo-Russia alliance
husband, the Count, il NOT to be made Minister Of
Foreign AHairs was the gracefulest last Tuesday.
1t is bad wind that blows nobody good The
more rain and snow and inelemsncy IT blows to tho
rest of the world, the mere it fls the prosperous
sails and purses of theater managers There has
never been such harvest time for them as the
sbort-cropped year last past.
The receipts of Paris theaters, concerts, balls,
etc., IN 1859, amounted in round numbers to
ii, 600 francs; in 1860 they amounted to nearly
"a 600 900 francs. The reseipts for the last month
of December were 1868, T33 francs; of which,
49, 3I9 francs from places os amusement other than
theaters. The receipts of the Tbeater Porte st.
Martin in 1860 were ,220, 00e francs; while in ordi
nary years they have not amounted to more than
seven or eight hundred Thousand francs. For months
past, now, and Dating exceptionally fine Winter
weather. probably yet for a month or two to come,
the filling attraction at that h0use has been, s, and
will be lie Pied de Monton, poor drama but .
charming spectacle. In the course of the year,
there were brought out upon the different theaters
of Paris, of new comedies, tragedies, melOdramas,
aud farces 169; Of new opesss, grand, serious,
comic. and buresque, Sc.
OF the new pieces Of 1861, the one as yet most
deserving mention is Les Efromtes, fye-act COM
edy. by Emile Augier, now performing at the Thea
ter Francais, comedy of manners. IL is faulty in
l,f tbac md laeEa afia in
terest. 1t is the result of close observation of the
manners of the time, which are indeed exaggerated
by their type representatives on the stage. LISA
drnmatzed realistic novel Of the school Of Balxac,
sparkling with wit, however, such as he neEar at
tained to or aimed at For the if is little better than
nonsense rest to attempt notice of il in paragraph.
Americans here q mean our ex-compatriots OF
the late United States, our ex-uncOmmon ceuntry)
are wOful company. While to this one, tbs some
lime broad spread eagle has shrunk to the propor-
tons OF rain-dripped barn-dOOr fowl, its brilliant
tail feathers all dOwHcast, and the once bOastfuy
defiant coxcomb all adroop, TO this other the national
bird is iercely dismembered and torn to Filters
South and North Selling each fragmentary drum
stick and beating loud war alarms, the wish-bOns
become a bone Of contention aud no merry thought.
To escape from their saddening association, / be-
took myself last night to Les FemRes FOrtes at the
Vaudeville of YictOrier SardOn. This is a rafting
comedy that approaches to farce, full OF movement,
with u great deal of wit no end of fun, and no
malice. The author, who is the most promising OF
young Partisan comic payrights, aims his merry
satire against strong-mnded women in general, ard
against American strong minded women, men and
manners (as he understands them) in particular.
What N. SardOn first aimed ut in this piece was
to set the house in and then lead it almost 10
grateful tears; and he has reached his aim. Next.
be would satrize all strOng-minded women and de-
fend French education OF girls against what he
cOnceiyes TO beg the American education OF girls,
and contrast American manners and customs Gas
he understands them) with French manners and
customs to the immense disadvantage of the former.
What, perhaps, he did not purpose but what ne has
DONE is to admirably set forth, by caricaure, in the
person OF Mons. Quentin an Americanzed French
man, the Righteousness OF man who tries to throw
off his own nationality and put on that of foreign
reople. Excepting some Americans straniDg to
Frenchify themselves, ] have never seen any one
more laughably absurd than this NJ. Quentin with
his Amercomania. Hear his enthusiastic laudaton
of the New-York Hotels, from which he has just
returned 70 bis benighted, back-handed native
France:
90 ou push a button and speaking-Iipe cries out
at the other end Of the hotel, Mr.. Laehapee wants
boot,jack And the booijack springs up from the
floor Or Mr.. Lachapelle wants to be brushed.
Presto little broom descends from the ceiling, and
gently brushes you from head to foot. Do you want
bath Turn that KEY there Your bed changes to q
bathing tub 10 TIE eOunQs OF eWeet music. Stfike
here and your lamp il put out Knock there and your
fire is lighted Pull this bell rope aud you have your
Newspaper! Push that piston and up comes your
soup Press this spring. and your yesterdays shirt
is wtlsked up the chimney to return washed ana
ironed over the door,
To an American spectator at the Vaudeville, no
personagcs are more amusing than his two broadly
caricatured fellOw-countymen, Miss Deborah aud
Jonathan. He need be very thin-skinned indeed to
take Oflense in the case, seeing that all the other
persOuages, who are French, are equally amusing
and ridiculous. | must make an exception in favor
of AiademOiselle Clarie very sweet, sensible per-
son, Mr.. SardOn's type of French young lady.
His type of an American young man is J0iathan.
an ill-mannered brutal, shrewd rum-drinking,
loud-swearing chair-whittlirg pipe-smoking, heart
less fellow wbO at the close of the third oct, turns
out a whole, generous, warm-sOued man, and mar
ries the iGcstimablc Nile. Claire.
ApropOs of Americans there is plenty of talk
here growing out of the Jerome Bonaparte will
ease Our Baltimore Bonaparte claims his right Of
inheritance in the late JerOme's estate as his law
fully begotten heir. True that Napoleon j. broke
the marriage of his brother Jerome with Miss
equally true that the Pope utterly re-
fused to break it, recognize that marriage sacra
ment rs broken Our Baltimore Jerome has en-
gagged on his side NJ. Berger, the famous legitmist
lawyer, one of the brightest ornaments Of the
French bar, the same who, twenty years ago, de-
feated the present Emperor when he was on trial for
his life before the Chamber of Peers after the BOu-
logne affair. 1t is said that the case will come on
for trial next week. and it is also said that (Bati-
mOreans having rejected all propositions for quash-
ing the scandal-such as offers Of French noble Ii
ties, etc, the Emperor will not, in any way inter-
fere with the regular course Of the law in the case
Whence some innOcents conclude that the Bati-
MORGAN Bonapartes will gain their cause The
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