New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-01


Marshal Neil are gone 10 eonstantinoPle, 30 we
are told, each with carving knife in hand. Bosnia
and the Herzegine are barely this side OF open IN
surrecton AL this closely connects with Hungary,
through tho excited spirit Of independence and re-
.sstance in the border suzerainties. Austria
morally protects the rotten Turkish integrity And
bere in this European tangle, bitches in the recent
Warsaw street hatchery. Out of that, provoked
"a IL well may have been, by Austrian subordinate
agents. Austria hoped for accession to Der broken
strength from Russian fear Of insurection. The
Warsaw affair has excited great interest here,
where the Polish nationality is sort of traditional
French specially Of interest-France having talked
and pretended mOrein its defense than any other
nation for the past half century, though doing as
little as the other lockers on OF its violation.
Rumor runs that L. N. b. wrote to Gar auto
graphically advising him to grant concessions to the
Polish desire of rational recognition. Ruinor Ia
not improbable, though very positively denied.
What is nearly certain is that Gar Will give to tie
Poles great many fine words, that WILDE found TO
butter very few parsnips. He may grant some forma
Of concession to Polish Nationality, but viii be sure
10 retain as long as he can, all the substance OF
Russian tyrannic prepOnderance over II. foiand,
left TO herself cannot resist such preponderance III
is very notable and much Noted here, that her be-
raj leaders seem fully aware, and with wisdom
initiated from the Hungarian liberals wisely limit
themselves 10 pdtslNc
Now. if the Hungarian passive resistance become
active1 question for whose answer the European
public, comparatively quoted three weeks ago, is
growing again Of late days,aarmedly anxious. Odd,
on the whole cheerfuly odd, that the " Powers"
and the responsibilities who whim that they
hold the scales Of the ever quivering balance
" of power in Europe" must all turn their eyes,
skinned 70 the widest, toward that little Hungary,
on the decision Of whose uncerthcated leaders de-
ponds the question Of European peace or war
Looking 10 the future cutting up Of the dead
Turkey the Italian Government preserves for its
king bis old hereditary title of King Of Cypress"
That is worth noting The Mediterranean gets less
and less to be French lake" Italy now occu-
pies such position there amid the rival interests Of
France, England and Russia, that all these three
powers, TO attain their own ends must become rlva
bidders for her alliance--will consequently rival
with each other in Offering her their aid to sustain
herself against Austria and the Pope. Note this:
Italy has already got in position to become soon the
balancing power IN Europe III france care desert
her, she throws herself into the arms Of England
if England deserts her, then into the arms OF
and Russia, or Rus.ia--which pleasant completely
of advantage Cavour knows, and Napoleon knows,
and Alexander knows, and Lord John knows and
poor old Poppy don't know.
To change the subject. All the world in Paris,
excepting the one million SIX hundred thousand OF
its inhabitants who are not aware of the existence
of Meinherr Wagner, have for the last six months
been greatly exercised about the production of that
composers opera, the Tannhauser, at the Grand
Opera 1t has been in rehearsal ever since last Au-
tumn; was first played hight before last and is to be
performed for the second time this evening.
am but the humble chroDicler of the externnls
of this TannhGuser. Its story, the old German
legend prettily and POLITICALLY resumed By Heine,
must already be familiar to most OF your readers.
Introduced into it is the famous contest OF the
Minnesingers, as that art-tOurnament did histori-
cay befal. centuries ago, in the grand hall of the
old Castle Of the Wartburg, by Eisenach, where
yet centuries later, Luther watched and wished.
and wrote his muscular translation of Hebrew Holy
Writ into live German. The mise en- scene il TO the
last decree artistic. There are landscapes and
tablenux, mixed of living fgurantes, and gothic
architecture, and mddle-nge costume, posed,
painted and dressed with incest regard to histOr-
cal accuracy and picturesQe effect so as to enchant
and instruct the spectators, whether they be
artistic on-lookers or archaeological students.
You must understand that great war is going on
here ia Paris about the merits of the Trans-Rhenan
composers music. The Minnesiuger contest in
the Wartburg was o joke to it. Wagner is
an innoyator. The French are az Tocqueville said,
the most revolutionary and the most yontiniere Of
any people in the world. In nothing are they more
tied to routoe than in art in art they nowhere
more youtinsrs than in musical art. just because
of their peculiarly fine sense OF FORM are they slow,
Obstinately slow, in accepting new fOnns-whether
in music, literature, or even plastic art. by the
way, the French ore not musical people. The
only national representative opera in Paris IL the
Opera Comigne, NOT the Italian. This il to be
borne in mind. The French are not musical for
music's sake, but dramatic. Meantime they have
come to accept certain grand operas for fashions or
acquired tastes sake, These are either Italian
OPENS, done at the Hatns or others set out at the
Grand Opera. Now no opera is set out
at the Grand Opera without ballet and1a
magnificent mise en- scene. Fashionable folks
are od 10 the hue Lepelletier by their eyes rather
than by their ears. Wagner, being nothing but
musician declared that he would have no ballet in
his opera. He went further, and declared that be
would have no elGQus the hired gang OF appauderS
attached to all Partisan theatersl; he went yet be-
yOnd that extravaganza and insisted that he should
be the leader of the orchestra on the first repre-
sentaton Of his opera. 1t would take ut least four
pages of note paper, column Of THE TRIBUNE, TO
exphcate, with ineligible clearness, the complex
srar of interests passions jealOusies, tea-potlsc
tempests etc, that all these Wagerisns gave rise
to in the dieante Partisan circles. Add to all their
force {. force of national vanities and ealousies
the radical difficulty of Frenchman's recognizing
as a merit any merit to him hitherto unknown. An
opera defiant of ROsSini and Meyerbeer; an opera
without a ballet; an opera trans Rhenar and not
trauS-AlPne
Then there came in so many interruptions, grow
ing out of Wnguers quarrel with the director. with
the orchestra leader, with previous engagements OF
the Emperor, who must be present the first night
that all ears of the little musical world We're up
pricked to the highest point of intensity any time
these past three weeks And speaking Of the En-
peror, reminds Inc to tell the legend expicative of
how the transRhenan had tbeluck TO be represented
upon a Partisan stage Months and months ago,
there was private party at the Tuileries--One OF
those semi-priyate social parties entrance to which