New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-23

clcakine of bare necessity with charitable
mantle. The naked facts OF the case are thf<es
The cost OF the new opera house will Htgly
antrim the estimates. OF the twenty ltwo NIL
lion .s,inated francs--ten pillioXs for the
ground and twelve millions pr the hsuse--more
than nineteen millions VIII have been spent by
the end of this year at the present date of pro-
gress; that is, all the Appropriations ofthe national
budget would be exhausted, ard the work
would be far more than three millions behind
its completion. by the first of next January.
The Opera is built at State expense. The Hotel
Dieu, of WHICH the first stone is yet to be laid
is to be tgilt at heexpense of the city. To trans
fer psft Of the army of workmen employed on
the Pleasure House, Of the higher classes, to
tabor upon the poor FOLKS hosp;tal--to prevent
ds1 gerous discomfort of unemployed wori'men,
erd to fatter the whole working class BY. re-
cognizng-symbolizng in stone and mortar
the equality Of it's low life and death wants
with the wants of amusement Of the upper and
dress circles--now, really, your Majesty, there
is something Of practical advantage n snch al
arrangement. The which is visible TO his Ma
jesty's ouick-sighted subjects from other than
the purely moral point Of view. doubt 'ha'
they are less pleased on that account with the
arrangement. The farer minded OF them see
that it is not only economically thrifty, ana
politically shrcwd, but that it ia really good
There ia bit of sentiment and touch Of esprit
even in the combination" which, despite a
good deal Of witty, adverse criticism, rather
suits Partisan taste and opinion.
The new Opera house when completed, will
cost the State about Is million francs-more
than all the primary Schools Of all France lone
third of whose adult males this day cannot read
or sign their names, Geo, 900 of whose girls and
BOYS do not go TO school at ALI cost the State
in any one year. But it viii be the perfectest
theatre in every respect but external Arehitec-
tire. In the world. A commission of very first
class men in science and art, has just been in
stituted By Government, whose function it is to
study all questions relating to the rise, beauties,
safety and comfort of the house in all its parts
and purposes, and of the arriving, seeing,
hearing and departing public--to find and devise
practical applications Of the solutions to their
questions
At the old Opera in the Rue Lepelletier there
has been little emeute, struggle, reyolu-
ton in which the manager has triumphed, and
crinoline has been suppressed. In higher cir
clee if We are TO accept as veridio tho record Of
Viennese paper, those lower ones of female
fashion are to be banished 10 tue outer limbo
of condemned costumes, there 10 remain along
with the hoops and ronugaliHs of Gesrge the
Thirds and Hogsrth's Sec e. g., the picture in
Taste in High Life, and even great English and
French grandmother's time, awaiting their sure
resurrection in the next century, or wheneyel
the fated cycle Of Modish changes brings about
their turn again.
For any reader Of Paris newspapers, or the
Paris correspondence of any foreign journal, tc
pass from the Glande Opera to Meyerbeer is nC
trsnsition-Only continuation. l. Afrieaine, ali
as Vasco de Cana, the Paris correspondent
{ faithfulest, fertilest theme Of paragraphs AM
time these ten years, was bodily brought from
Berlin to the Director Of the Opera last Wednes
day week-the very partition complete in every
musical note and enriched with notes literary
by the hands Of the great composer, that antci'
pate and furnish variations for avoiding or over
coming all possible difficulties in the execution
and putting on the stage of what the Master
seems to have considered his masterpiece. Kos-
sini's homage TO his German brother i'll genius,
! improvised, it is said, under the inspiration OF
profound respect and emotion, as Meyerbeer's
funeral procession passed under his windows, is
coon to be published.
Among the honors paid to Meyerbeer dead,
not the slightest is, a very lively performance
now in preparation at Vienna. The story goes
at least, that it will be parody in advance on
the Atricaxie. The scene is virgin forest in
America, where l. Africanie has sought refuge
from the pursuit Of Opera Managers and Must
cal publishers but where, hardly having time
TO bewail in an adagio her long course Of impriS-
onment in the portfolio Of the author Of her
days, she is fallen upon by an armed band OF
managers and publishers,-etc., etc.
I mentioned at the time Of it-some six
months or so agO-an Imperial decree granting
liberty TO the theaters." which was TO take Of
feet on the first of the then following, now last
past, first July. This liberty of the theaters-
defined, qualified, and restrained by the sixty
articles of a volumnous ordinance Of police pub
lished in the last days Of June-amounts briefly
to this any dramatic production can hereafter
he performed at any theater. That is, theatres
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