Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-05

man as dull as lawyers deed. Paris will soon be jealous of London. There is an earn ! est cry going up from the poor quarters of Paris for work to do which will bring I bread to eat. The republic has proved to be the enemy of the artificer in one way. By setting it's face against the luxury and display of the imperial regime, it has re- duced the mechanic to state of penury, if not of starvation. Some Republicans are at least opening their eyes to the fact that a right of meeting and grumbling may be a very good thing to confer the working man, but that before all plenty of work for a fair wage is what he and his family want So the government have appointed committee to organize 8 series of fetes for the coming winter, avowedly with view to giving an
 impulse to trade and attracting strangers to Paris. This is step in the right direction and hope it will be attended with success One of the most brilliant of the fetes
 has just been arranged by M. Charles Garnier, one of the administrators of the Grand Opera House, and will take place in that building. The entertainment is to begin on the 18th of December, at halt-past eight at night and
 last until six in the morning, but will be in two distincts parts, the second commencing at midnight and arranged to suit different class of sightseers In the first part it is M. Garnier's intention to give the history of the stage from antiquity to the time of Louis XIV by means of representations of single acts of such plays as the Frogs of Aristo phanes," old miracle plays and so on. At midnight, serious histrionic art will give place to farce and pantonime and an Egyptian ballet with animals heads. During the whole night there will be amusements in the foyer and outlying parts of the splendid building; processions, medieval pageants
 and fairs, etc. From applications already made for places, M. Garnier confidently hopes Ia will tn 0H0 The expenditures will be about 80, 900 francs and hundreds of pairs of hands will find work to do. Unless each workman claims
 orchestra stall as his due everybody in
 Paris will be thankful for the attempt made
 at restoring to Paris it's reputation and past glory.
 As sort of set-of against the constant an nouncements of new English plays adapted from the French comes tho news of a per formance of the ''Silver King" in French at the Ambigu- -Comique Theater. From the fact of it's having had two years run in England, to say nothing of America and Australia, it is clear that the ''Silver King" suits the taste of Anglo Saxon play goers. Whether it will please the Parisians remains to be seen. Various and conflicting are the opinions expressed by the critics who attended the first night. NJ Vitu and M. Sarcey, two great dramatic critics dismiss the play rather contemptu-
 
 Wilson Barret, the excellent actor who man ages the Princess Theater in London. He is
 very proud of his ''Silver King' and it was his dream to see the piece the French stage, and on the night of the five
 hundreth representation in London he made use of his privilege of addressing the public in order to express his wish. From an artistic point of view the ''Silver King" has very little value,
 but it is full of ''go," and the French actors play it so we'll that rivers of tears were she'd So the Parisian critics say.
 The Archbishop Of Canterbury has followed in the steps of Massillon; he has tried to awaken in the hearts of the upper classes sympathy for their poorer brethren. Moth ing astonishes me more than this feeling of caste in nation that owes her greatness to her mercantile spirit When I was teaching in great public school nothing amused me more than to follow groups of boys swagger- ing home. Sons of professional men boy cotting sons of merchants; the latter showing their contempt for the sons of clerks, who themselves would have nothing to do with the sons of shopkeepers. 'tThe want of sympathy, said the archbishop, "between the upper and lower classes made one tremble to think of the mines of ill will which lay buried for the present among the suffering and toiling class es." The expression is very forcible It ex- presses exactly the situation which has given years. Just now if the arch bishop would in quire he would come to the conclusion that the condition of the people in their earnings, their homes, their food and clothing is worse than it was ever known to be to city mission aries forty years ago. MAX O'RELL.