Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-07
CORRESPONDENCE.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

lSpecaat to the baltimore DAILY ConlmercialI
PARIS, March q, 1866.
The whole political interest of the week has been
concentrated in the
GREAT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES
on interior liberties, which terminated the discus
sion OF the address of the legislative body. Our
most celebrated radical orators spoke each in their
turn urging the Government to accord to the coun-
try liberty in every shapeliberty of the press cleo
toral liberty and the right of meeting The liberal
measures recommended by Mons. Jules Favre are.
however, Of too radical kind to please the Govern
ment Whlch does not think that the country is ripe
enough for such sudden transition The Theirs
party, or forty members, who. though not mimi
cal to the Imperial dynasty very desrous of
ing TIE country enjoy more liberty. Mons. Rouher,
the Minister of State, after having listened to the
debates with much attention, and refuted the
attacks of the opposition. He said that it was the
sincere desire OF the Emperor to grant every liberty
to the people. but he was of opinion that any foo
sudden transition would perhaps do more harm than
good. His opinion is the progress of the empire
must be slow, but sure
The result Of the debates on tho address shows us
that there Is every possibility of junction between
the tiers part and tho extreme gauche or ultra lib
eras-the former will be materially useful in helping
the opposition to combat the poSsunsts of the
We seem to be wholly absorbed by the liberal
movement in France and foreign matters attract but
little attention The report now current of the prob
WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA
leave us cold and indifferent kilograms from Ger
the military departments of Austria and Prussia and
that the entente coriale between the rival Teutonc
powers is almost dead letter.
There is feeling of mai ai8e everywhere and as
tne FarlSlans are now deprived of political liberty
they give vent to their i'll humor by annoying our
dramatic writers and artistes. The other evening
there was
TUMULTUoUs SCENE AT THE OPERA,
havmg bae cnTIe f was no laret
Eleazer in Halwys opera of the "Jevess" a bill was
posted up round about the opera house-that Mons,
10 for pNtrtI Iva
audience accepted the ULacaat with very ilI-grace
and several times disturbed the performance so much
and turn out the This interference Of the
struck up-a hymn what has often been the precur-
sor of a revolution with usf.
However, thank goodness the row soon calmed
down. few days later we had another similar
MANIFESTATION OF THE PARTISAN STUDENTS
at the irst performance OF new play by Monsieur
Emile Augur at the "0deoa." 1t was known that
the Emperor, the Empress and the Court were to be
present. our students seized the opportunity to let
His Majesty know, what they thought Of the decree
condemning the beautiful gardens of the Luxen-
bourg to be sacrificed. AS soon as Napoleon III [.
appeared, accompanied by body of Cent gardes, an
presence of the head of the state in the theatre of
the "Ode0n" (ealled the second theatre Francais)
prevented any disturbance taking place within the
walls of the building but the unruly youths mostly
medical students who had been unable to obtain ad
mission. stood outside Willing away the time until
the sortie OF the Imperial pair singing the most vul
gar ana obscene songs of 1heresa's repertoire
Their Majestles left the theatre some t. before
the new piece. entitled the ContdgeOn. was o and
returned home seemingly little affected by the popu-
lar agitation which had taken place that evening
LA CoNTAGEON,
of which we had previously heard great things turns
out to be but, what we call here, dent success. The
play has much analogy with Ia JuaiiLLe Benoitor
which has now attained its 10th performance. As
the object Of tho author is to hold up to contempt the
manners Of those ladies moving in higher circles who
strive to initiate the ways OF certain class of females
whose names are offensive to ears polite, we can
not be too thankful to such men MesSrs Augur and
Sardon for scourging with unsparng hand the i'm
moral and frivolous tendencies of modern Paris
society, where simplicity and bon Q0m are at dis
count 1t is, indeed, high time that something should
be done to laugh down the mania of apng the ton of
the deni-Dtonde, for which we have no maine in Eng
llsh. For the edicatiOn of your readers must tell
them that the dem. monde IS class Of society
posed Of members of the fair sex whom you would
not wish to mix with, either your wife or daughter
II you belong to respectable circles
THE MASS ABBE LIFT
which has been so long announced, was a few DAYS
ago sung athe church of St. Eustache near the Hal
les Cerdes, (marhet place.. Had the great pianiss
music been performed anywhere else than i'll Sa-
cred editce, there not the slightest doubt but that
there would have been some demonstration of noisy
character.
Everything passed off in quiet manner The
amount produced by the sale of tickets was very
siderable. lit is said 2OOO0 francs which will be de-
voted to charitable purpose. LIFTS mass is very
much found fault with hy musical critics. who say
there is nothing sacred about it, and that it puts us
too much in mind of the music of the future invented
by the well known Wagner, the composer of Tam
hdlser which met with such rough treatment at the
Acaaemic Lmperd ale de Maseqe, some few years ago.
However, notwithstanding the great opposition the
so-cai!ed Zgthus mus'k has met with on the part of
the bind admirers OF the classical school, there is no
doubt but that many are now beginning to examine
the music Of the composer of the Flying Dldchntan,
IanahaHser LohenQ9a, IN which there are norcedmc
worthy of Hayden, Mozart and Handel. A day will
come when the music of the future will become
popular.
We have had one or two sensation pieces at the
Porte st. Martin and the ABlbi0u, the play of AleXan-
dre Dumas ather) at the latter decided failure
and was hssed from beginning to end.
A thorough regeneration is becoming necessary
our stage. What the theatres now give us is stale
fiat and improbable, and fails to attract audiences
little more morality would do no harm either. We
know not if dare ask for decency the public is SO
accustomed to undress performances