Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
CORRESPONDENCE,
OUR PARIS LETTER.

blows or the Schleswig- -Hostain question Forrnore
than week the telegraph has been bringing Us the
most alarming dispatches, and the Rourse hos bcan
IN dreadful state of excitement and immense sum,
oil money have been lost and won. Yesterday every
tnlng was much calmer and the funds went IN a
i''ue. but there is no accounting for this sudden
confidence FOR think that it is not unlikeIy that a
general will come out ofthis suuabbe for
reasons.
MONS. BIsMARK' s REAsoyg.
n hionS or more properly Herr Won Bsmark is to
Prussia what Mons. dc Carour was TO IfaiY Ho
Is less clever than the late Italian Premier but he is
more reSc!ute-ho can now say with Wm Tell-die
esegenhet lst Gien@tg he opportunity is favorable
GGom OF never Prussia must gain the ascendaucy in
1ermany; Austria, her rival is shackIed with Vene-
va, ana Hungary has not yet done suikipg When
% peter opportunity for striking the blow present
Italy, too, is waiting mpatiently for the long
looked 1or Cn!ta. and will gladly join Prussia in
cruShlng the odlous house Of Hapsburg, which will
see itself placed between two fires Victor Emrapue
mas ZJOOCJ men ready to fy to the rescue of Venice
I'm attendant diplomatic notes are being sent bv tel
eSr@ph gay and night nobody dares say hit me II uou
dare. However, after all,
ALL DEPENDS UPON THE EMPEROR,
who as it is his wont, lies like or,nouse and sovs
nothlng 1t IS supposed by the ka,lCng ones that he
is pretty decided on going to war and that he has
made his preparations Gd noe. We shall shortly have
the camp at Chalons which is not SO ycry far 0f from
the German frontier. There have been several secret
Interviews between Mons Drouyn de I.'Huvs and the
russian and Italian Ministers. Finally, Prince Ma
poleon has been travelling backward and forward be-
tween Paris and Florence for the last month-and
this bodies 10 good
THE REASONS OF NAPOLEON H.
to! going to war numerous, and are not very diff
terent from those Of Herr Won Bismark-it is well
known that he coyets the frontiers of the Rhine
ana should he aid Prussia in annexng different small
GeTman States to her territory she will NOT he 0he
10 refuse hln the Rhenish provinces. Napoleon has
ahother reason tor going to war the French are now
beginning to get troublesome at home and he would
not be sorry to occupy them abroad with a war of
some kind. The opposition is gaining ground in the
provinces, and several cries Of Uiye L i5ey were
heard at the elections Of Pau the other day The
coming elections in the Lower Rhine, cause some
anxiety to the Goverpment as the liberal party are
didate.
THE PROJECTS OF THE EMPEROR
are, 1t is said, the following. Notwithstanding the
efforts OF ms encourage to prevent his giving way to
tne wishes OF tho nation, he is very much inclined to
listen to reasons, and place France a footing Of
liberty. II Is believed that If the Austro- PrusSian
dIlheuty IS settled, We shall have liberty within
tweiyemonth.
arc now dying out, and, with the exception of tho
Orleans family, there is nothing to fear from either
the republicans or the parlAans of the elier branch
The death OF the Queen II iare Amclie will now very
much alter the position Of the CoInte de Paris and
MS unciGS, VINO were prevented taking any steps TO
regain the lost crown by the wish of their aged pa
rent
In the meantime, the Parisians are amusing them
selves we'll they can for their maxim is Re-
gone dull care" The thentres are all pIavinV their
old pieces. Ihe FamiUC Benoitou which was tiTst
gwen Ia the beginning OF the winter, has Already
IS now called q Ia BeaOitDH: hats, bOnnets gloves
Gc. The manager of the vaudeville is tied down by
contract to perform the play of Mons Sardou as long
as the receipts amount to 1900 francs. Up to the
present time they amount every evening to more
[han 42gO trancs-very different from what used to
be taken at the doors of the theatres Forming the
contrast between the popular playwriter Of the day
puts one in mind of
AN ANECDoTE OF FORMER TINES,
When Alexandra Dumas was the most favorite
drdRdtaTGe Of the day, at the time that hean was
having such successful run, and that he use to
ceive his per centage the receipts of the evening
One evening, being informed by the directeur that
the required number of persons were wanting in the
theatre to make the amount requisite for his recev
ing MS per centage, Alexandra Dumas very cooliy
borrowed some hundred francs of the manager and
himself went out into the street and gave every
passer-by that 10shed the sum necessary for enter
ing the theatre.
VICTOR HUGO, AGAIN
Inc author Of Notre Dame, not having found
much favor with the public in his work Of Les Ira
ga1leurs de Ia Me termined give it to the pub
hc IN numbers in one Of tho penny papers; the lit
erary censor has however prohibited the publishing
or the same. Ut cllt-chat cannot tell you much
this week. as we have just emerged from the
dull season Long-champ was poor affair last
week. and the GOODNESS of the weather prevented our
Elysees.
Latest adyices from the faodiste inform us that
bonnets are no longer bonnets for the chapeau So
called Chapeau-a-l Lambaie, will be the rage this
year. 1t is about the size of laD mat such are
worked by the fairy fingers of the ladies' it Is mostly
composed Of artificial flowers, and yiolets seem to
have the preference. We're our ladies not to wear
great additions to their natural hair in the shape of
chGnos allss l7ntertutts. fear the thing called
to replace the bonnet would not be much protection
against the rain and wind, but nowadays all il for
show and little for comfort.
Our great novel writer George Sand, honored the
diDo OF the day, Madn lie Theresa with visit at the
Alcazar
ToucHY ARTIST.
Inc exposition dcs 6eac arts will be opened at the
beginning OF the following month-the Jury has as
usual much trouble IN deciding what shall be exhib
tied and what shall be rejectedthen comes who shall
have the best places One of our most celebrated
sculptors has informed the jury that if his statue Of
the emperor is not placed in u most conspicuous
position he will withdraw it.
AHAPPY PAIR,
Some unknown and wiCkedly disposed persons,
whose sole object to be to spread reports pre-
Judicial to the Imperial family, invented story to
tho effect that Mons le Due dc Mouchy, who lately
married the Princess Anna Murat, had, in fit of
Jealousy, fired pistol shot at his wife, by which she
had been seriously injured. The malicious false
hood was handed about Paris for more than a fort
night, so much that the official papers were ohFed
to gIye formal contradiction to the same The bike
and bis charming wife the other evening present
at the hrst performance Of Mozarts Don juan at the
The CONSUMPTION of wine has wonderfully in
creased N France Of late years. 1t amounted in
Paris in 1852 to 81 gallons head and in 1861 to 4O
beS1es 5iU5l hecaiires of beer reaied in the capi-
tai during the same year. Bavarian and English
beers are now much in favor with us, and Munich
Sdt0dtor and Book beers are even more demanded in
the cItes than Alsops pale ale, which has ALWAYS
been fayOrite.
a glass of ale book generally costs six cents in
the INST cafes OF the BoulevaTdS as much as eight
cents and two cents OF to the garcOn make it
come to ten cents, The price Of almost all liquors
are daily Increasing; the shipments to America from
lately.
We havo had most incessant rains for the last six
months and farmers fear that the spring sowing will
be much interftred with.
There is great activity at tho Champ de Mars,
where the great exhibition building is progressing
rapidly, however notwithstanding the hundreds of
woTkmen. there is doubt whether all will be ready
for May 1851.