The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-03

To the Editor Of the Press:
Yesterday was the Prince Imperiaps birth
day, and having recently been promoted in
the academic scale, there was, it is said at
the Princes desire, general holiday at all
the schools of Paris, and the fair sun shone
out on the juvenile sons of earth as if con-
graduating them on being free for a few
hours from dictee and dictation-the words
OF learning, and the bidding of authority. The
work that is required here of boys at the
Lycees or colleges is something almost increG-
ible-boys, as, Charles Lamb said, "with
their mothers milk hardly dry on their lips"
aie expected to repeat without the least depar-
ture from the text, eight or nine pages from
some Latin author, to stand cross-examin-
alton on Egyptian history, and to do an un-
limited number of "dictees," that is follow
the professors words with the pen, besides
the usual amount of algebraic and qeometri-
cal exercises. have sometimes asked N.Y.
sell when thinking of the severe duties i'm
posed upon eally youth, il this hard labor
did not generate that irritability of nerves so
common among the French, and if this pre-
mature strain on the faculties might not ag-
gravate If it did not induce that fierce bill
lousness which at later stages crops out in
bloody revolution.
Dy this way, the Toulouss emeute, has ex-
cited little alarm as to whether the execu-
ton OF the Army Law will find the Emper-
ors Partisan subjects ready, in this matter,
20 DO their "spiriting gently" but forewarned
foiearmed, and the alarm has not abat-
ed ienten amusements. The operas, and the
theatres, are now well patronized, and Miss
WILSON'S Ophelia is the great success OF the
honr. Dancing aid gay parties are not to be
thought OF; but music and scenic representa-
tlons are allowed. Then Laboulaye is giving
magnificent lectures on MIrabeau. and all
the preachers are assailing the ears of the un-
sodly with the unction belonging to the sea-
son. There is news from Rome that the elo-
quent Carmelite.P. Hyacinthe was preaching
for the first time in the Eternal city, is Civ
ing them la belle peT. "This preacher at
Notre Dame has been used to pour out his
soul in grand emotional torrents without let
mails must have their spirits taken out OF
them before they show their faces in public,
and SO the Superior General of the Carme-
lltes with view to keeping the stormy ora
Tor fomr straying into forbidden ways gave
formal order TO Father Hyacinthe, who pom
ised to give the heads of his discourses but
how do more when he always improvised
and then the Word of God, non est ahiga-
tum! But promise all they wished, once in
pulpit the orator has taken the wings of the
morning, and gone up out of sight, and
frightened all the martinets of papal disci-
pine. They say he will surely get into
trouble.
The American colony is getting to be de-
terminate part of Paris, to enter into its joys,
sins and dark dispensations. At the morgue,
the place you know where the unrecognized
dead are carried, lies young man believed
to be an American. He was found dead in
the Latin quarter. On his person were sew
eral hundred dollars and gold watch. The
fate of the beautiful Miss r., who married not
long since Spaniard, is now current topic
in Paris. When she married there was the
expectancy of a brilliant dot but her father a
few weeks since failed and the Spaniard
threw of the wife who to save herself from
starvation has joined the innumei able army
of sinners that grace and disgrace this bril-
liant metropolis.
The pamphlet of the Bishop of Orleans,
that spite of its exaegeration and one-sided-
ness is written with vigor and is well freight.
ed with sallies OF invective and emotional
appeals, has had an immense sale.
The little story "Two Years at College,
written by Madame Pressensee, wife of the
Protestant pastor, is about to be translated
by Miss Ynse, the author of the "Heir ol
Redcliffe."
DR.. Eldridge of the Rue du Berri church
has sent in his resignation, and Mr.. Robin.
son of Brooklyn, New York, is about to sup
ply the pulpit of the American church. EDr
Eldridge has done the church some service
since he has presided over it. He has nearly
cleared it of debt and by his wide-awake
sagacity resisted the "soit impeachment" o.
various French proposals that weaker man
might have entertained, and by so doing
compromised the safety and dignity of the
American Protestant cause. Mr.. May, the
New York artist, has an excellent likeness Of
DR.. Eldridge. This same artist is putting
the finishing touches to his Ophelia whicl
is to be placed in the spring exhibition Of
Paris. 1t is an admirable conception that
cannot but increase his fame.
WANDERER.