New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-21
FROM PARIS.
Nhe Suppression of she shakcspenre BAN
quet-shakespcarean Library NJ strnI-
ferd-French TraDsIations.
gron Our Own Correspondent.

PARIS. April %. 1884.
The suppression by Government Of the Shake
searian banquet At the Grand Hotel and performance
at the Porte ST. Martin has anything but tanned the
ehrewisb tongues Of Liberals Al You Like It. say theyi
Measure for Measure yours is nothing energetic
Gat Of the old revolutionary regime which changed the
calender and abolished Sundays Tor tho sake Of prev sn
Ing the celebration Of the Christian religion which
gives al tho same All is Well that Ends Well Our
Lore's Labor 10 honor great dead and great living
,,oot "a not lost With your Much Ado About Nothing
but deeuner and theatrical entertainment you havo
confessed your over weakness recognizing dangerous
elements Of political storm 10 this Tempest In Tea
pot And yet Government logical In II: suppress
give action Of this banquet and scenic performance
which untastod and unseen have been for the last three
Gays far universally partaken OF aud sppiaGded
shan If they had been gobbled and gazed a. had tEe
Banquet takea place on Saturday thsre Is hlte uouD'
Cha. vailed illusions would have been made by
Lngeni0uy prudent speaker none that ausOns would
have been discovered By ingenious auditors ~ political
matters These being suffered. holder ones would be
made any next occasion for tutoring and appieudng
shem-And OCCASION would not DO fur on These very
soon would become openly dangerous Ii was safest,
sssiest best II tie present regime be good 10 mp tho
'"rat sEeled in the rising breeze. In the bud.'
The formal prog Of the e.eEnsr carefully eXDlud
Cd politics. There TO have been about i've hundred
gHests Each would have found by the side OF iis
plate copy Of verses by Emile Dcscsmpg, author 81
singulary excellent literary translation of Macbeth,
a stage adaptation Of which had great success at the
Odeoa ten years ago aid q photograph portrait OF
'Dhakespeare, surrounded with medaiiOns Of hschyus
Dante Molere- lie chair would have been filed BY
che spt OF victor hugo-eOne say lof Otherwise eio
aucnty vacant but others probably say occupied
person by Alex. Dumas. Jules favre would have read
sLe letters and toasts sent by Hugo George Sand and
Others absent and delivered q discourse OF his OWL
Aiterwsrd al hands were 10 60 appausVe tie repre-
fsntation at the Porte ST. Martin Of versions from
Shakespeare by Pau Meurice.
This was 20 have bsen tue French etjeune ended NJ
sufficiently early hour 10 lberate TIC Numerous the
atT cal artists who would lave been present. for their
-ey enng engagements. In another room Of tie Hotel
later In the day, there 70 have been al Anglo
American dinner, with English Lord Gay for Prtsi-
dent and Minister Dayton for Vice President. Ths
not absolutely prohibited by the Police Project but
hampered BY considerations and exceptions, and
strictly ordered exclusion Of dangerous fIoncL diners
that the managers wisely gave II up.
But though solitary Paris shines by the forced aD-
ssnoe from the worldwide slakespeaTGn terccntenary
Ce she gives abundant soBf hOnOIs To his name The
Illustrated journals TEEN with rnggayn VI and about
the poet ess like BkoBesSes ANA scenes from he
works The print.sellers have brought out 10 their
Boulevard windows their whole stock OF inner eng1ny-
Dgs In the kind-ainOng these new Impression
Of the full set Of DelacTO!Is Hamlet The original i'm
press.On Of these Autographs long ago exhausted.
At the Deaco1 sale Paul Meurice bought the stones.
dxteen Ia ali tLree Of tho drawings which had not