New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-06

., .rh;oo.s M oourse he oyerlooks with character
istc modesty the fact that Ponsard and Dumas, p.'
and Barriere TO mention no Others have ALREADY deait
in actuaies with all his fidelity and none OF ais cruuity
of form There have been few dramas more successiui
with the public. and also with literary critics than
JH,ua,ur ., argent or La Bours. So far realistic
octuaty. human naturaness OF even moral, for that
matter LIE Deni Monde that is up for tonight at the
Gymnase. can easily take comparison WIN
the Deu1 Soeurs 1t has taken hund'
red times over its receipts at tue
box Office. But the sexagenarian. excessively NIL
liant newspaper editor viii have it that he is the proo-
reformer the quite revolutionary regenerator OF the
stage and of the public He will make OF the theater
succedaneum Of the half gagged press and half silenced
popular tribune and forbidden public meeting
Whereon to present and in short, discuss questions
of the day." Instead Of going to the theater for an
evenings amusement that passes with the using peo'
pie are TO listen and the actors as they read the
ablest articles Of pubicSts. carrying away opinions
and views themes that occupy their thoughts and
touch their interests Of the following day.
! The purpose is high one. Whether practicable
or for the sake of dramatic areven desirable for
fufllment another question. That NJ de Girardins
process is not practicable much desired is plain
enough though his crude effort may lead, through
the discussion II is provoking to better ones by
better The essential points good and bad In the
piece they stil nightly performing at the Vaudeville
are these There sisters Ceeie and Valentines
the first is model wife, chained 10 old, misery
brute of o conventional gentleman. She is a truly
beautiful healthy characteris saint because she does
not pose for sanctity-yails suffering with duty-ee
Yates duty by dignity-does not receive ct the closing
act any common place stage reward for her virtue,
which, all the you feel does pay itself with some
scant instalments here, and mistaken credit
for the lest hereafter. Valentine has a young.
charming uxOrious husband and leaves him
for a young charming lover perfect con.
ventonal gentleman and duke 10 booD Telegram
arrives informing wife that husband is coming. Wife
proposes lover to eope lover objects from prudential
reasons; wife sweeps down the reasons with food
of passions lover yields and goes with wife and baggage
to take The rail for Switzerland and guilty honeymoon,
ending in total eclipse of happiness both parties miss
the train; husband arrives with pistols; offers TO
Duke; Duke refuses to fight wont kill the he has
wronged prefers to be shot like an honorable gentle
man. husband equally honorable oil fight, will have
Duke fght argues the question. and finally spts in
Dukes face gentlemany EkiA4a ratio 10 persuade
Duke do his gentlemanly endeavor kill him. the
gentlemarly expectorant. finale-two pistols 20 off
fatally to lover and husband Of whom is suicide
the other assassnated; Valentine Of course O widow
and so punished.
The moral Of the play in our English sense Of the
word is not better than the average Of stage
painted morals. In the Of the author, and in
proper sense let US admit II is good at worst
the for being real one such the world
Is always showing us and surely sounder in art and
ethics than distribution Of improbable rewards and
punishments under Bengal lights at the end Of fifth
act NJ. de Girardns manner Of arriving at IT, though
considerably modified from his first proposed way. is
and repusive; while his percentages instead Of
acting up especially TO the denouement reach ii by
narrative talk
Meantime the Emperor Of the French, proving again
TO the world his confidence In the wen biased sody Of
his throne, has been pleasure touring in Switzerland
He has visited, with the Empress the chateau Of Areu
enberg where he was brough. up a boy by his Queen
mother Hortensc in the Canton Of ThuTgsn. Of which
he was a citizen, and then takes the ordinary tourists
run over the Bermese overland by the beautiful Lake
Luzerne, the Rigi and Berne. He should be back in
Fontaineblean to.day-presenty to leave there for
Biarritz-his Government machine all the while running
safely and smoothly apparently. that Of any we'll
constituted country And there other signs of his
firm seatedness in this his fourteenth year OF throne
session. auspcous Of final settlement Of his dynastic
regime poor Louis Philippe could boust o.four years
before his lgnOmiDlOus ial
The annual sessions Of the Department. Councils
Assemblies with little more than advisatory functions
somewhat analogous to those Of grand ures except
that they address their expression OF opinion TO he
Government ard not 10 a legal conrt-have been opened
this week without those inaugural diso0urses on polt
cal questions by their Government. named Presidents
which have hitherto been a special feature Of these
bodies Even the Duke de Persgny who for many past
years has walked the interest Of the pensye public with
clever essay, printed TO their address on Napoeon,
pronounced before the Councillors Of his Department
assembled at ST. Etenne, is silent this year. and osten.
tatiously reported i'll at his house in Paris
Again The other week there was q special elect ion
in the Department Of Asne, TO return member TO the
Legislative body in place of the Government candi
date now on deaths leave Of absence. who chosen
in 1863 by majority; now. the opposition
or say Independent candidate runs In the Govern
ments favorite by more than 5000 majority What Is
to be noted here s not merely the triumph Of the liberal
member but the absence Of that excessive pressure
which Government lately as three years ago applied
in all similar elections. 1t is really getting TO look Gn
the light Of the recent municipal elections and
OF some others for the Legislature Ike this OF the
Aisne and Of various ministerial circulars and acts,
and missions Of action as though the of Govern.
ment candidates were passing away and what is more
though Government itself were willing to let IL pass
Partially, and only partially, per CONTRA it is to be
noted that Walewski, the Government candidate in
the Department Of the Landes. was elected without
opposition the other day. Beside that he Is personally
popular, and is liberal Napoeenist there was some