New-York tribune., 1880-04-11
PARISIAN FACT AND FANCY.
GOSSIP ABOUT FAMOUS PERSONS,


TgANcE-GAMBETTA GOES OFF TO sNEEzE AT
Hrs RAsF--sARAH BKRNHARDT DEMANDING ROYAL
TRIBUTE AND HOMAGE OF AMsTERDAh-HER
EARTY HIsroRY-yBRDI N A TEMPER-HIs Es-
INNATE OF "AIDAP
,Yson THE REGULAR oon4xsroxDrxr OF THE TnmUSE.l
PANS, March 2e.-The Queen of England spends
xhis lugubfious holiday, Good Friday, on board her
yacht in the harbor of Cherbourg She will rapidly
travel through France no more participating In the
life OF the country than IL she werb letter In one
of her own mail-bags II not yet decided whether
she win allow the British Ambassador to wait on
her during the ten minutes halt at Batignolles'
where the royal train will be shunted from the
Western to the Ceinture line. Her Majesty is can
did and straightforward and is doubtless aware OF
the Bismarckian scheme into which BeacoDsheid
has entered for eDveOping France in union OF nos
tile mnnarchies. To woman OF her honest teehng
IT would. he in the highest degree painful 10 70
csiye kindly attentions from the French authorities
& when her Ministers were engaged in negotiating
pact against the Republic.
Ihaye quite recently spent an afternoon with
Scotch nephew of Lord Salisbury--a greater Tory,
Il possible than bis uncle. From him learned that
che present English Cabinet is not sanguine IN its
hopes of victory but that 1t greatly trusts TO the
jmprudence of Mr.. Gladstone to furnish them with
. GOOD electoral cry. 1t would be calamity Tor
European civilization IL the Beaconshed Ministry
egasn finds itself in the House of Commons at the
bead Of strong majority. A Holy Alliance for the
benefit of reactionary governments and for the
ndvsncement of Jewish interests which Lord Bea-
cousieid places above every other, would be pro-
NOTED at Downing Street.
The yigor with which the electoral war Is car
ried on in England astonishes French bystanders.
It is o very hard fought election which entails on
o candidate here and his committee an expense OF
OOOO francs and all the operations Mt the ballot
box are accomplished with order and quietness.
When there is excitement. it is of very mild kind
until the general result is made known to Paris
when thero IS burst OF enthusiasm on the Centrai
Boulevard.
GAMBETrA IN THE TOLLS OF COLD.
saw Gambetta on Wednesday before he started
for the country. He was still quite deaf from the
effects of the bad cold which he caught early in the
month, and appeared to me flushed. feverish and
deficient in vital tone There was very full ante
chamber when passed from secretary's bureau
into the room in which he was seated beside desk
never knew him to be synlpathique and genial
than on this occasion. Lord Salisbury had not been
70 visit Gambetta. but will. probably, IL In
Office. call on him his return from
Biarrit1. At Ville dAvray the wearied Pres-
dent of the Chamber intends to sit the whole
day long on O sunny and sheltered bench IN his
garden thinking (f possible, of nothing and doing
nothing He told me that he will receive neither
z visitors nor letters. His friend and private secre
tary. Arnaud (de iAriege). goes with him. GAM
BETA is not to be held responsible for stupid art
Gle which appeared In this mornings Repuohque
Fyaacaise in which the publicist who wrote 1T at
tempted to make out that it would be for the inter-
est of France, and consequently the French Repub-
lie for the Tories to come into office again in Epg-
land. He assumed that Beaconsfeld would support
the balance of power as 1T understood by
Pittapd the late Lor6 Clarendon. Beaconsheld's no.
sion is to make Asia the body of the British En-
pire with the United Kingdom for the dexter hand
mud Australia and South Africa for the feet. To
, this end he aimed with Bismarck to throw Russia
and Austria into position of mutual antagonsn.
As to the French, he opines that they will. Kill
kenny-cat-like. devOur each other. and thus spare
Europe the trouble of keeping them down. On this
point In, ana the German Chancellor are not quite
agreed.
SARAH BrRNHARDr IN HER PRIDE AND GLORY.
The company of the Theatre Francais have holi-
day in the Holy Week. by virtue of an old tradi-
tiou They generally take advantage of 1t to go and
play in Brussels where there is well ll.appointed
playhouse, and where the ay-going public under
stand French. This season Mile. Sarah Bernhardt,
who is not gregarious in her instincts, has deserted
her comrades and gone to star it in Holland. She
left OH Tuesday, travelled as per contract in a
saloon carriage with her boy Maurice. and was met
in Brussels by her Dutch impreoario Schumann, who
negotiated with her the conditions of her engage
ment with the Theatre OF Amsterdam. This
gifted daughter of Judah, who has a
special talent for getting herself pulled.
snsisted ON high pay and pubic hOnoIs. 1t
was set down in the agreement that she would not
be Obliged to play unless received at the railway
terminus by the burgesses and burgomaster, and es-
corted as she rode to her hotel in carriage drawn
BY four white horses, by the Royal Guard and the
kko II,,p in md
II sny other members Of the Comede Francaise
were with her. they were to ride in carriages drawn
by two horses only. After playing "Ph6dre" on Holy
Thursday il was moreover stipulated that she was
10 be conducted from the playhouse by four Dota-
bles of the city, and that retraite aar tanbeanr
vas to pass beneath the balcony Of her apartments.
This spectacle was to be followed by serenade
aiyen by 200 musicians of the Royal Academy Of
Music On Good Friday she acts, according to her
management, the part of Mrs. CiarksoH In
.PEtraneeren and on Saturday she recites tho
TRADE of Dona Sol and other of Victor Hugo,
ior the dsectation Of the young Queen before the
Court. NJ. Schumanu also stipulated to pay Sarah
3ernhardt $4,000 francs for each representation
md the Chamberlain OF King William will give her
1000 francs for her recitafOns in the Palace. 1t
vas Judged necessary to induce members of the
Francais to accompany Mlle Sarah Bernbardt in her
Dutch tour everalrefused They thought 1t beneath
their dignity to play second fiddle TO her. am told
that, to avoid wounding the pride of thosewho con-
sented to 60 has been arranged that Sarah should
be specially honored as daughter Of Amsterdam
who had conquered high place OH the stage of the
fret theatre In Paris.
THE GRRAr AcTREsss MODEST BEGINNING.
This would seem to settle the question of Sarah
Bernharit's birthplace but it does not. The Dutch
Legation here has ascertained that the gifted ac-
xress was born in Paris of Dutch mother. who at
,oA TINA was Rachels dresser This weman mar