The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-11

Iakres:ing Foreign Chi:.CLat

nent TO the Infringement of popular rights and
the invasidp of state sovereignty
Ia<res:ing Foreign Chi:.Chat.
A correspondent of the Charleston Is. c.
Courier, writing from Nassau, gives that pa
per chatty resume Of the news in tho late q
foreign papers received thore. The letter ii
very entertaining, and we give come extract.
from it:
just now the rage 10 the fashionable aqoad,
Of Paris appears 10 be the Bal Masque. The
masked balls at the Tuileries, both for their
number. variety, and splendor, are still the
talk OF both capitals, Paris and London. The
new aristocracy of the Empire indulge in q
constant round of gaiety and spiendor, which
throws tho tinselled glories of the stage quite
INTO the shade. The ladies try hard to Guido
each other in inventipg tho most extravaoant
cost9mes The old allegorical devices are Ieft
~ tne dusty iumber-rooms Of theatrical cos.
tunes, and one lady goes az a pack of cards.
another as half nude Bacchante. a third as a
volcano, and another as an earthquake, The
Countess De Gastiglione has appeared as q
queen OF Etruria, with arms, shoulders. and
Ieet DaIe, and the Princess Won Metternich as
black devil. The Countess Kosakoff bas an.
peared as q mirror, aud Madame de Rn.Ir
CHILD haa figured as bird of Para" . ,.s
gentlemen have been equally ..:.se - no :e
dresses, and even the fantastic III thelr
been c0apsiied - .Atornine Emperor haE
IN thu - ., change his dress three times
xourse of an evening to join in tho gam,
bols.
Dickens is busily engaged on his new novel,
the title of which has not yet transpired. He
ia living in Paris, but occasionally visits Lon
don to give public readiDgs from his works.
Spirit Ripping is being Outdoue by the clover
mechanical contrivapee of Mr.. Dircks, who
10 giving an entertainment called tho "Specsre
Drama" at the Polytechnic Institute 10 Lon
don. Two performances g day scarcely seem
70 satisfy the crowds who flock to witness it;
for natural magic, although it has shown the
world many wonders, has never before, it is
said, produced .-,Al;-e ~.~'";-, ~ "a
Dirckss apparatus solid representation Of a
human being is thrown into the centre Of a
ssage, al ia made to appear and disappear at
will without the aid of any Visible agency
While essentially solid aud real, the image ia
surrounded by faint halo Of light, just suil.
Gent to give it u supernatural character. 1t
can be cut through with sword or a Ratchet,
or walked through by a spectator without be-
ipg demolished, or it can be changed in an in-
slant for another image. The counterfeit pre-
seltment Of any person can be thrO wn on the
stage by this contrivance. Some Of the pa
pers suggest the invention TO the p!aywlights
as an Improvement Oh the supernatural drama
Bare uoG spectre or the ghost in Hamlet might
be represented with terrible effect this way.
Mentioning the theatre, reminds me to no.
tice the close of that trashy play "The Ame-
rican Cousin at the Haymarket, London, At
ter run Of four hundred nights The charac-
ter oftLord Dundreary." by Mr.. Sothern,
&the same who personsted i: originally at
Laura keena, New York; gave the play this
extraordinary popularity. Thoae who have
seen The piece lit WAS performed in Charles
ton about year before the war; will remem-
ber chat one peculN6ity Of the part Of "Lori
Dundreary" is strong occasional stutter So
long and continuously has Mr.. S0thern played
tie character that hie friends fear he will con.
tract the same defect in his own speech. Ao.
cordingly, by the advice Of physicians, he
reads aloud for an hour or two every day in
his natural voice to preserve that organ from
n miafortune 60 easily acquired 1t is said that
8othern has made 100000 ny performing
Lord Dundrsary."
The success Of tho underground street rail
roads in London has proved the development
OF lew company, which proposes to blow
letters and parcels from one end of the me-
sropolis to the other through tubes ty at,u au
4heric pressure. Your package is put in at
one end, the air exhausted from tho other
end, and through it goes like lightning The
company has been chartered under the rame
OF the pneumatic Dispatch COMPANY" and
has commenced business by laying down pipes
LetWeen one OF the district post offices and
the Northwestern Railway, through which
nail bags are cent with great rapidi,v. A
mile OF space Ia travelled by this method in
elk seconds. Ii would not be extraordinary
now If invention and enterprise went q sten
further, and showed full. grown passengers
through the country upon the same principle.
A man thus could easily beat the telegraph
particularly as 1t Ia conducted at heme now a.
<i&ya
While on the subject of science and mo.
S ma, may mention tho resignation of Sir
me- lance Engineer to the
....,su Governr ent. Sir William And the
breaeh-loading party are now rather ont OF
favor. and Mr.. Whitworth's star ia now in tue
Victor Hugo, whose Lies Mirerables' has
electrified the world, has left his retreat at
jersey TO enter again into active life. Shut
cut OF France as a socialist and disorganizer,
he has gone to Brussels to start political Pa
pei.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Telegraph complains Of the increasing free
dom in dress prevalent among the higher class
o! Paris females. lie was at the Italian opera
few nights previous to writing, and was as
tonished Vt the magnifcence and ecautiness Of
the costumes, which rivalled in th0De respects
tbs style OF the First Empire, when, to use
the expression Of Talieyrand. the drefsss
..oommsneed too late and ended too sooa."-
The Count dOrssS was once congratulated on
having the smallest Cab boy in l.oudor. he 70
piled thas he was leaving OF Ma serv,u,s hv
degrees, and now should 9oon get nd Of them an
altogether. The correspondent is reminA sI0 -
Count dOfsay's speech when he eses ~ y
gradually rocediDg robes Of tho ladies' q
payia y
The London Herald notices lat. III. =
New York snmptuousasss, which might anti,
10 termed "revels on the edge Of Luratin,
volcano" Two successive dinner parties wsr
given In Fifth Aveous TO two beer0thed lsdie
BY wealthy bachelor OF their acqusintancl
ssch party Numbering about twenty person.
and the latter one including General snd Mr.
AsClsllsN among its guests One very .,
psn.iss and sxquiaiis difference from ordinas
parties eonslsted In the novel lnsnishine
the table. II wAs oval shaped, but with ID
white cloth only sneireling IL outer rim. II
whole iatsEio! wss eooope1 out and fashione
lsfoan sxqa3aisly arranged pasterYe, iailsd VII
lasksts Of the, 4noet eostly and eumptnou
1ewsrs, sst IN wes cav dsst and moss. snd Is
mir being thus ladsu Win fragrance, whiie g