The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
Afthe OPERA

A gossiping London letter TO the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, thus describes the scene
at the opera in that city:
The house was grand sight when the
hour of performance arrived. The long
rows of boxes were now filed with bril-
liant costumes and toilets, stars and orders,
and the elite of England we're thus gather
ed together It dszzled one who has been
accustomed to republican simplicity to see
so much splendOr- to see presumptiOus
rank thus glsringly contrasting itself with
the poorer classes who crowded the gaAer-
les above them.
The faces of many of the nobility, which
were familiar to me, appeared in that brill
liant throng. There was the rich and
purpled- faced Earl of Dudley, one of the
richest of men, dirting with Adelins Patti
in her box, while her sister Carlotts, sp-
parently annoyed at so public sn attention,
/ iesned over the box and gszed at the su-
dienee beneath. There saw the
kniehtly Earl of Cardigan snd
his Countess, sitting bolt upright
speechless, Indifferent, entirely viii
ling 10 be stared st and admired. Sir Bull
weF Lytton occupied another box; indeed,
it would be wearisome to recount all the
we'll known personages who were to be
seen there. Just before the curtain rose
there was quite 8 hustle in the audience
which I discovered 20 be caused by the en-
trance Of ths Prince and Princess OF Wales
| and others of Victoria's family, into the
roysl box. Luckily l sat where these per-
sonsges were plainly visible, and Lsporel-
I'D concluded his rollieEir'e' --,' -e,r.a''in .
10 L I pOulu vI.nd-av n.-... -.
song belO- 'ntatfves q 10 rovsf,, lsy attention
from the repres, with ~
wa9 p;nai mucn sIsIo Sis, snd 10y tsee
OF tue Prlncess AlexsnC ~soriI9 Plquahcy
Of manner which seemed CT. Spletely 10 fo;:.
get that she was the object at whom an
eyes were simed. Very little like a Prin.
cess did she come jsuntily into the boz
and, with girlish motion, took her plses
beside the Prince, who, by the vsy. wss
quite proper and roysl in his bearing before
Jne people. Ihe TrIncess mas shorI, neat
figure; bright, sparkling, hszsl eve and
thick brown hair, and one does net won5eT
that she is impatient at the rest,siDt
which the punetiliOus Queen is disposed 10
put upon her. She was dressed in a ,Isi1
Dlsek sllK with bracelets and rings, and q
small jeweled band upon her forehead
DAo a AAASe1o AAAA VI OhmDflQQ6, WIN
was OF the party, was enormously stoDt
fair and young looking, and, as nearly ali
stout people have, she had seheerfuL Sood-
nat1red countensnce which YOU cannot
help liking. It is said that a MARRIAGE
was once proposed between the Princess
Mary and Victor Emanuel. A biobIv
hattering portrait of her, conceaiipS
her immensity Of form, was sent 10 ne
King, who was very much charmed
with if, and thought seriously of HAVING the
original; but when be came to see her in
person he was struck sghast. With a
cosrseness and wit peculiar to the blunt
PiedmOntese, he exclaimed: GMarrv dat
wemsn2 She is big enough 70 sit on de
seven heels of RomeP' Tie Prinessses
Helena and Louiss, sisters of the Prince of
Wales, were there also-two modest good
looking, domestic girls yet in their teens.
Several noblemen attended the party IS
escort.