The New York herald., 1867-04-17

Z POl1tic1GuS, tGetOIms ~ H00t0U0s Eu00 w 00tner,
Theatres and Court Fashions.
as e LONDON, March s. 1851.
During the past week everything has consprcd TO pu,
tho good citizens Of this great metropolis Into the best
humors The roform bill has passed the second read ng
without opposition; Dsraeli has made one Of his bril-
Hant saucy Peetc speeches, which hits friends and
foes alike and causes general chuckiey Bright
gently as sucking dove aud wants ga settlement be-
fore he goes and dcs; best OF ALL tho London Times
which has recently boon remarkably accurate In Its Per-
Iiamcnary predictions declares that good reform
bill will be adopted and that the country Is saved To
these reasuriag circumstances the eie or the weather
has added hts endorsement By giving such bright and
beautiful days that II has become positive pleasure TO
live. The parks groom with Foliage; tho botanical
gardens display Ans variety OF flowers and Rotten
IL crowded al last. So is Regent street.
"rhe season" has been fairly inauglrated. Some
people laugh at tho idea OF "nobody being in town.
and declare that the fashiona5ics who only show here
during he season" missed in throngct orough
fares Never there greater mistake Tho streets
Of London In March very different from the
Of london In January. They transformed, as II
you were wishing another city with similar buildings,
but quito diverse population. You SEQ at once tina,
there many people here you cannot but notice
the immense increase in the number OF private equnages
every part OF the city Indoors the chanso is not les
evident society Is quito another thing Balls routs
dinners, follow each other in bewdering succession
Long lists Of titled guests dazzle you in the papers Yoa
moot everybody at place other Tho air Is ful
OF gossip You feci that 'thc season. London no,
a mere name 1t is as real an institution as tho Sab
bath, and much more rigidly observed.
~ LONDON.
Tho regulation routine Of life in London during "the
season. consists OF series OF dress parades or course
this routine s only for those persons who fortunate
enough to be abo to iye and VINO not condemned TO
simply exist Rise in the morning at tea breakfast at
csyen read the papers, write noes and dress;
enade ride drive in the Park thcn luncheon from
three TO hvo O'Clock calls made received from
Ave to seven carly concerts lectures billiards; at
o'clock comes the great event or the day. the
famous English dinner after dinner the theatres balls
and the concerts until twelve; then supper-everybodv
eats supper in London-and finally, at one OF the small
hours the day closed by wha. may chartably cal
the virtuous couch The gentlemen required to
changc their costumes thrcc four times day AS for
tho ladies' Heaven and the dressing maids only know
how often they change thoir apparel.
In New York everybody has his own ideas about 80
ciety and does pretty much he ies fixing his dinner
hour to suit himself, dressing he pleases, calling
when II happens to 90 convenient; bat here all these
matters fixed by role and precedent, and NOBODY
would bc bold enough to violate the social laws Ali
Englishmcn submit to them with gravity which is at
first amusing and finally becomes admirable Sul.
there some queer contradictions. For exampe:-A
lady cannot go into any OF tho best scas Of theatre
shc bonnet She must either take or tho bonnet
be excluded from the stalls and dress circle That is
fair perhaps But fair 70 admit gentlemen in shoot.
ing jackets il they choose wear thene The foreigner
10 London nrs laughs at the rigidy Of the manners
and customs; but by aud by he discovers ,ha, the
English will not conform TO his notions and iha.
it is most comfortable for him to conform
10 theirs Thus in process OF time he to believe
that the Times is great newspaper; that Punch is
funny that u is impossible to eat dinner cxccp. n
dress coat and ha, livery makes a servant auel-
tive, dociie and skfui. When no has reached this
poin. he may be considered civilized
rgSrAN AFrAlRs
About the FenIan insurrscton which has crea.ed such
Juror 10 America there Is the excitement
hero The papers have done writing about the subject
with the exception Of stray correspondent in Ireland who
tells how he has yet any FenanA Tho fact Is
That the English people know very little about the FenAn
operations the papers scem know less and the detec
tivcs know nothing II for the Irish inform.
es there might be rising every day in the week, aud
each rising would find the government unprepared.
Fenian Generals travel through ireland openly aud ara
never detected until betrayed by informsrs. Ia the
very heart OF London the insurrcction which has
just becn suppressed was completely planned Here
councils Of were held maps prepared. prociama.
tious printed, ana the police were none the wiser Not
until all the birds had flown did the detectives discover
tho empty nest which they are now carefully guarding
in the vain hope that some silly fellow may ~ back to
When the recent rising was put down ali tho Fenian
leaders who escaped arrest in ireland ci 10 London for
safety. Here they stayed, paying visits ana raising
finn u,hnifv
moestcd The newspapers here have no, yet learned
the facts In regard the arrivals OF these consprators
their consultations ana their present abodes and will
probably never hear tho particulars. Imagine Generals
Lee, stoncwa Jackson and Masruder coming
10 New York during tho rebellion, taking a
house in the most fashionable part OF the city,
promenading up Broadway and Fifth avenue and max.
ns speeches as some quiet hail. aud all without the
knowledge OF the poccl Yet this precisely what tho
Fenian leaders have done in London No wonder then,
that the gossip about Fenianism should be 80 scht,
limited as 10 Is BY overybodys ignorance OF the SUBJECT
Why, public opinion is sti as evony divided upon
tho question whether the Chester affair raid
hoax, upon the question whether the little 'Red,
White and Bluc' crossed the Atlantic under her own
mills Tho papers all that the nsurrecon In Ireland
has come 10 an end and we ali Dclieye ~ but no one
cnn tell what the instruction how many persons
were engaged In i or how was suppressed rhs sub
converse and the less he knows about the more COM
placent be will pa Fsef
And this leads to few words oncenng the English
press Just at present London is full Of Americans,
and many moro win be hero during the summer II
would really that this the time TO devote
little moro attention TO American II from Ave to
ten thousand Englishmcn 70 TO New York the
American journals would double their cable kilograms at
once, and give the visitors all the London every
morning. Tho English press takes such trouble 20
cbllge its readers tin tho London Tms Of March 10
there was bref telegram from New York informing rs
that there had been riot on 81 Paircks Day and that
several people were killed We have heard not q word
moro Of this afAir. Who killed; whether the riot
was suppressed; whether Il s s,il in progessthess de-
tails not considered worthy Of notice
The other day there was this line In the teleQram:
" The Winter Garden Theatre has been burned down"
Now, every American knows that tho Winter Garden
Theatre located In tho Iafarge Hotel and we ask
each other whether the hotel be also burned VIII ether
any lives were lost whether tho theatre completely
consumcdS This Intelligence OF immense interest 70
thousands OF people here English well as Americans,
carefully withheld BY the lcnterprsng British prcss
Compare this with the report IN tho New York papers OF
the burning of the Surrey Theatre here AZ news-
papers the London journals age behind those Of
New York. Take out tho reports Of tho debates
In parliament, and tho telcgrsms which Reuter-
sells all tho papers alike, aud what rcmainsS A
few local items, generally a dav or two old and