, 1876-04-02
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Reception Of Notabilities at the Open
ing Of the French Assembly.
The Artists Festival at Munich-Parisian
TheatreS-George Sand ana
Victor Hugo.
THE CARNIVAL IN SPAIN.


4 letter from Cadiz, March G, to tho London
Times says: The Carnival in Provincial Spain
is always m ephemera1ly bright and no1Hy three
days festival This ye.e it Was rendered doubly
joyous by the frequent kilograms posted night
after night as every street corner, informing the
lighthearted crowd Of reyelers shat ono strong
hold after another vas being wrested from the
Carliats, and that peace would soon be proclaimed.
The Andaiuzea are marvelously happy
go-ucky, neyer-think-for-the-morr net
Of men, and, despite the exceed
ing poverty and misery which now prevail,
especially in the vine-growing districts which
skirt Jerez and Cad1z and San Lucar where Vine-
yard-mep, who used to earn their two and three
dollars day, now have to work for haH dollar
per diem despite this, aud the thought OF the
many from among the numbers who wele wound
ed or suffering in the North, to say nothing OF
despite all this, the Carnival had not even spice
Of seriousness about it. The usual gaudy
costumes staggered about the streets;
the masks wero 70 the fun as ugly
snd prominent az usual. Here wers
dozen men dressed up as priests, With
streets and publicly mocking their own reli-
g.on here were Indians; and Prince crowned.
in tie midst, marching to tha beat of drum to
represent the Prince Of Wales progress through
India there were dozen in long white night
goHas. with cheffy-coloreo 1osettes' anu .t .aI
band, PRECEDED ~ poY oea1ane = panl'e1 "na
7" Equality for al Spauiards." No ono could
pass uoae1 pne seem!ns paiso4Ase na e~.a ".oas ~
his black coat ana uas ns.nR s sosetea esss as
WIN sno"et ~ suo" euaA1u ao"n u';.a a.'d
some oVet'auen p1ue-ues' WIN tne Mnne ana
here serve the sarne purpose as the ton-bons Of
Rome and Southern Italy ; and ears were deaf
ened bv tne snlA [atseto voces ana pan.a paatosAe ~
aftlculat1ons Vi LIE Ea'ute1 etaees u ~
masqneraaera. Aod]0 tos fhSfos r5-o1a o"n
With the t4eros - :. ptod e e. Key Fteu %
paz !" piua e ge'cito :" we're sentences , m
scr1bed on every banner: bano1en IRON up 70 up;
and posted on every street Tall ana noN ano
vgaln' when Policeman vac Sleepy; , OF 9na @ ,a nsa
C1ca OF ontg, troop or nolsy s 1elo"s VIM aaa
break out into the Marsesttasse or some 11ng'nes
Republican dlttY. At night. Theh casino
and club were illuminated, when Chinese Ian
terms hung in festoons across every thorough,
fare, the sight OF the groeesque MASKS ana
many-colored costumes passing, under tue glare
of light, with the serene and starilt Southern
sky Ahove, WAS really . striking and picturesque
one. promenades, 1lumipations. masked hallH
marked the 9th, 2sth, and 29th OF FEBRUARY;
then came the eve OF Ash-W ednesday-
de Ceniza-and with it the proclamation - Cter-
rdnse las Uelaciones" (wcddings close) until
the end Of the Cnaresnsd, or forty days
Of fasting. The masks, however. come out
in force once nore-v1z.: On the hrss sun
day IN Lent; and never aid tney sno" n
greater force than yesterday 10 tne provincial
towns Of Andalusia From IN the afternoon noon
until l. at night the streets were aqsoluter
ablaze, sod tho music Was des1en1nG. ~ waa
church festival, and the hold OF the church n
Spain upon the ahections ot me masses is SUI. SUI
very strong. 10 sec tne i,le Gn'u a. ruh ous alo
the etrcet,corner: klss the hands Of tne pnsstng
padre, and so Claim ana Wln hla blessing, 81, 80
carelessiy given to see tue ceremony or pless-
ing the horses 1tom some open cnnlcn VI cun. ~
vent window on the 10th OF January 70 sec tne
Sisters OF Charity STAND, 81 q: H. IN tne
fruit-market and receive titna onet-
ing Of fruit and vegetables LOT tne
paupers OF their establishment. oe II dsaO, OF
hosplcio, OF hosp1tal,-a 1ree elis lrom sne poor
gardeners and fruit Tsnders, these are grace
fnl sights enongh. And the chnIeh threw per. 1sr.
self keenlr into this Sundays 1esaEai, tho iass
day of masks and carnival; m This sundays 90,
ings must be described. The festival Is called
that OF the p.naed. large nag, OF sklh, OF
pitcher full OF oon-oons is nnne from tne ce,n1'6
OF the room where ,s held the last carnival pau.
To this bag are attached soma Two or threo
dozen strings. The fashion IL for loyal
swain to take his wife, family, Of sweet
heart to the - breaking OF the pshata ne pay