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NOTES OF THE WEEK....

EDITORIAL ARTICLES:
Ex-President Johnson.

..........353 dination to their will, that he will neither trench fest delight of Bowery audiences and Western 354 upon their assumed prerogatives, nor interfere constituencies. But the American people have English Burlesque and French Opera Bouffe........855 with their special favorites and protegés, now com- learned many things since that day. Among fortably ensconced in office.

MUSICAL:

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Peabody Institute (Eighth Grand Orchestral Concert)-Ole Bull's Concert-New Musical Publications-The English Musical Pitch............ AMERICAN ART-Continued. (History of Art: Development of Painting).....................

REVIEWS:

The March Monthlies.....

HAMMER AND ANVIL. A Novel by Friedrich Spiel-
hagen. Chapters XVIII. and XIX
NEWS SUMMARY............................................................

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If the members elected to the House of Representatives were all admitted to their seats, the

them, that they can not afford to fight if they can help it. The same lesson has been well conned The tone of the American press upon the Ala- by England; and he who fancies that a conflict 357 bama negotiation has provoked very decided re- can be inaugurated between the two nations, sadly 358 plies from several of the English papers. Deem-underestimates the good sense which, after all, ing the treaty negotiated by Mr. Johnson to be lies at the foundation of all serious diplomacy in almost humiliating, because of its concessions, these modern days. Besides, the national debt is .861 and alleging that everything has been yielded to a bail-bond to keep the peace with all the world. 361 the demands of the United States, they declare that England must leave the question in whatever THE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers attitude this Government may choose to place it. out of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the If the treaty be not ratified, they deprecate everyCity every Friday evening: Subscription price Three Dollars per annum-payable in advance. thing like haste in renewing negotiations. The fatal majority of two-thirds with which the RePersons residing in the city can be served by Car-language of the Saturday Review is both digni- publicans have controlled the Executive and the riers, by prepaying at the Office. fied and positive: "After approaching to the verge Judiciary, would no longer exist in both Houses. Books intended for Review should be sent in of humiliation, the English Government has But the many contested and disputed elections early in the Week to receive prompt notice. Ad- thrown upon the United States the responsibility leave in the hands of a majority the power to revertisements must be left at the Office on or before of keeping the quarrel open. Grave as the evils duce the opposition vote to a strength but little Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for inser- of war would be, it would be better for England larger than that of the last Congress. What is to face it at once than to submit to intolerable the value of a system of checks and balances, degradation. A war gratuitously commenced for which can at any time be thrown out of poise by the purpose of avenging upon England the recog- the arbitrary action of one of its elements? nition of a belligerency which was simultaneously Among the numerous amendments which have accorded by France, and, two or three weeks later, been and will be proposed to the Constitution, is by every European power, including Russia, would it not practicable to secure full equality, within be an outrage revolting to the moral sense of man- the scope of their authorized powers and duties, kind, and ultimately it would not go unpunished." to the Executive and Judicial Departments? By means of an amendment to one of the lead-We are at a loss to know what has convinced the We have had abundant examples of the facility

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Notes of the Week.

ing appropriation bills, another attempt was made in the Senate, on Tuesday last, to effect the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office act. It failed, not only because of the adherence of a majority of

the Radical Senators to the decision of the cau

cus, but the irregularity of the proposed mode was distasteful to others who sympathised with the purpose of the amendment. The application

with which Congress may make itself really omnipotent in the government of the countryand the evils which have resulted from its usur

Review that there is even a remote contingency of
war. Its very accurate analysis of our political sys-
tem, in a late number, indicated such knowledge
of parties and politicians in this country, that it pation are too apparent to need recital. Now
might have escaped the necessity for such a sol- that the President and Congress are in accord,
emn response to the idle threats of a few newspa- there is no practical difficulty in providing against
pers. The truculent cry of "Fifty-four-Forty or a repetition of the conflicts and dangers of the
Fight" did not prove the precursor of conflict-past four years.
nor will war ever be kindled by the Alabama
question.

to the administration of General Grant of a
measure which was invented to restrict the au-
There seems to be little doubt that emigration
thority of a hostile Executive, has occasioned no
from the North to the South has been com-
little dissension in the Republican party. As- We are aware that an effort has been made menced, with indications of steady and rapid in-
suming that necessity demanded the imposition of to claim General Grant as the leader of those crease in the future. We have received letters
restraints upon Mr. Johnson's power, upon what who are most dissatisfied with the Alabama communicating intelligence of recent and valuable
pretence is the same restraint to be imposed upon treaty. We have no doubt that every statement additions to the population of several of the
General Grant? The answer lies in the fact, ad- to that effect is purely fanciful-certainly author- Southern States, derived principally from the
verted to by us last week, that the check which ized by nothing said, done, or written by the Eastern and Middle States. In a material point
the Senate holds upon the Executive will not be President. He, possibly, if he has taken the of view, the South needs more people and more
relaxed until General Grant shall have shown trouble to think on the subject, may disapprove capital-and both are supplied by immigration.
how thoroughly he will adapt his administrative of some provisions of the treaty, or, more likely, Politically, the result will be advantageous, since
action to the demands of party-rather than in some politician at Washington may have presented the majority of actual settlers, when identified
the declaration of Mr. Edmunds and others, that some strong suggestions, to which the reticent with the communities into which they go, soon
such a check is essential to guard against the ab- General vouchsafed, at best, a doubtful reply. become cured of all tendency to extreme Radical-
solutism of the Executive branch of the Govern-But that he entertains any other views than that ism. Direct contact with the negro population
ment. The failure of the Fortieth Congress to the pending questions can be fairly and honorably has dissipated many erroneous impressions formed
remove the shackles which it had fastened upon determined by negotiation, is simply absurd. The by Northern men as to the place it occupies in the
the Presidential office, will not be remedied by truth is, before the country had its full and ex-social system of the South; and the friendliness,
the present Congress, we are assured by a leading hausting experience of war-clothed in all its energy and patient endurance of the whites soon
Republican paper, unless the Radicals of the stern and horrible realities-it was a favorite demonstrate what gross deceptions have been
Senate are satisfied that the power of removal practice of the hustings to talk about the "Brit-practised upon Northern credulity by the adven-
will be exercised by the President in such subor-ish Lion," and threaten John Bull-to the mani- turers and slanderers who have undertaken to

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portray the condition of the Southern States, and ers-the former blaming him for going too far, abler man than Mr. Johnson could have stemmed the character and conduct of their people. the other not sparing their condemnations of the tide of Radical usurpation during the past his short-comings. In the meantime, he has the four years, is questionable. The means which he A map of the United States will soon become comfort of being sustained by the London Times, employed for the purpose were singularly ur for as unreliable as a map of Europe. The results which endorses his plan as sufficient to accomplish, tunate. The resistance which he offered to the of all wars on the last-named quarter of the globe, fairly, the difficult task of disestablishment. If, dominant faction served to exasperate, but never from that of thirty years down to the last one of as Mr. Gladstone claims, the tranquility of Ireland, to discourage. It was a passive kind of resistance seven weeks, have been to disturb all ancient and the union, security and power of the empire springing apparently from natural doggedness of land-marks and confuse the boundary lines of of Great Britain depend upon the adoption of character, and which made him simply a sort of States. Whether the civil war in this country this or some kindred measure, its success will dead weight in the Government machine, which has produced like effects, or whether the popular necessarily be an important and strong point in the Republicans were constantly under the neces desire for change, or the universal disposition to the history of the new ministry. sity of shoving forward and carrying before them. find out new fields for place and plunder is at Like a hedge-hog, he sullenly rolled himself into work, it is difficult to say. Commencing with The Inaugural Address of General Grant reaches a corner of the White House, and there defied West Virginia, which was roughly carved out of us at a moment too late to permit more than the dogs that beset him-but for purposes of rethe old Commonwealth when she was helpless, word of comment. It is a brief and terse decla- taliation or attack he was perfectly harmless. the work of making new States seems to have be- ration of the principles which shall guide his Probably, there never was a man in high public come an agreeable pastime to political specula- Administration-most of them too general in position who had so many enemies themselves tors and schemers. Texas has undertaken to terms to afford any very definite indication of his thoroughly venal, yet whom he had not the art to divide itself into two States; Wisconsin and policy. On two important questions, however, corrupt-inspired only by the audacity which Michigan propose to establish, out of the penin- his opinions are very distinctly announced-the springs from numbers, yet whom he knew how sular portion of the latter and sufficient additional payment of the public debt and the proposed neither to overawe nor divide. By a natural territory of the former, a new member of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution. He sequence, from the same traits of character, it folrepublic; Florida desires to attach its western pronounces himself in favor of the discharge of lowed that the ardor of the friends of the late counties to Alabama; and now little Delaware has all national obligations, in gold, "unless other- President was by no means equal to that of his a grand scheme to add to its imperial territory wise expressly stipulated in the contract. opponents. His sluggish, torpid temper kindled Eastern Maryland and the two Virginia counties regard to the subject of suffrage, the text of no enthusiasm, infused no devotion. There were of Accomac and Northampton. It will be well, his declaration is as follows: "The question probably various periods in his administration therefore, for map-buyers to be patient and wait of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate when leading men, both in civil and military life, the public so long as a portion of the citizens who, if not opposed to him, at least lent him no of the nation are excluded from its privileges in effectual aid, might have been won over to an acCrime in this country seems to be not an epi- any State. It seems to me very desirable that tive and powerful support, had he only known demic or occasional moral pestilence, but a con- this question should be settled now, and I enter- how to inspire them with confidence. For one stitutional and chronic disease. It does not break tain the hope and express the desire that it may other unfortunate deficiency in Mr. Johnson's out at times because of some specially exciting be, by the ratification of the fifteenth article of character was, that he was a man, in great emercause, but it seems to pervade the whole body amendment to the Constitution." Upon both of gencies, not to be depended upon. He was a man politic, and exhibits its leprosy at any and all these questions the opinions of this journal have of half-measures-hesitating if not vacillating, times. A letter of a recent date from Indiana, already been expressed. and fond of resorting to palliatives and temporizing addressed to a New York contemporary, anexpedients. In a conflict such as he was engaged nounces that the extraordinary prevalence of De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a charitable maxim, in with the two Houses of Congress, men who crime in nearly all parts of that State continues to engross the public mind. No wonder-for this the application of which to the case of the re-sympathized with him were afraid to risk much correspondent adds: "Twenty-one murders have tiring President would impose upon us the duty in his behalf, because they did not know how far been committed in Indiana in the course of the of silence in regard to that portion of his public they could count upon his support. It is not likely The truth is, that Mr. Johnson, accidentally past ten days." The population of the State is career which has just closed. that Andrew Johnson will ever be heard of again lifted into a position which he would never have not very large, and is scattered over a wide exin the general politics of the country. It is certain been selected to fill, was in waters beyond his panse of territory; and yet within so brief a time more murders have been committed than in any that small good can be spoken of his administra- depth. He was less of a statesman than a politiof the large cities of the civilized world, where tion. With the motives that led him first to cian-more of a demagogue than either. His break with the party that elected him to office, rise from very humble beginnings, and without as many people are daily brought into close conWe will not make the suggestive contrast and which may be supposed to have influenced him any adventitious aids of fortune, was remarkable, between this State of the North and any or all of during the four years of his troubled official term, and would have been greatly to his credit, but for the Southern States. It is enough to say that we have no concern. History may inquire into the use to which he sought to turn the circumthe Northern press admit that this frightful sumthem, and, indeed, a proper estimate of those stances of his birth and education, by inflaming mary of crime surpasses the experience of Texas motives is essential to a just appreciation of his class prejudices, by the aid of which he first rose -taking that experience to be according to the character and services. According as the histo- to local popularity and power. How deeply Mr. rian shall ascribe to him a sincere love for the Johnson himself shared these prejudices was fabulous reports of wandering correspondents or the deliberate falsehoods of interested carpet-bag- Constitution, which was in danger of being over-illustrated by the exclusion from the benefits of gers and office-seekers. As compared with the thrown, and a spirit of enlarged patriotism rising his first Amnesty Proclamation of all persons in real experience of Texas, one easily sees where above the petty demands and needs of party, or the Southern States whose estates were worth attribute to him simply the ambition to become $20,000. It was a useless and contemptible disthe advantage lies. himself the leader of a party and to lay the foun- tinction-which was never practically enforcedWe can not gather from the brief cable report dation for a more extended lease of power, pos- was abandoned in subsequent proclamations, the precise features of Mr. Gladstone's bill to terity will adjudge to him the place which belongs and which, while it lasted, only served to create disestablish the Irish Church. Mr. Disraeli, of to an honest but unsuccessful statesman, or that a profitable and shameful traffic for the pardoncourse, may be expected to attack it in detail, as, of an aspiring and disappointed politician. mongers and brokers who besieged the Attorneyon the motion for leave to introduce the bill, he Mr. Johnson's administration will be chiefly General's office and the Executive Chamber, and stated that he regarded the measure not only po- memorable in after years for the humiliation to mark the personal antipathy of the President litically wrong, but in effect an act of confiscation. which the Executive office suffered in his hands, himself to the class whom he had always been acMr. Gladstone will have, moreover, to encounter and the encroachments of the Legislature which customed, upon the hustings, to stigmatize as the criticisms of the Tories and the ultra-Reform- he was powerless to prevent. Whether a much "gentlemen." It was because thus fettered and

tact.

EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

hampered by conditions and qualifications that destroyed all the gracefulness of the deed, that his various acts of amnesty failed to add to the popularity of the President even among those who were benefitted by them. He would delay and higgle over an act of grace, until those who sought it scarcely thanked him for the boon so hardly won. He opposed the same dull, impassive resistance to the importunities of his friends that he did to the assaults of his enemies.

for wit and humor, should have achieved tempo- English family at tea. An elderly gentleman is rarily the highest popularity. gravely reading; an air triste et melancolique The distinction between Wit and Humor has pervades the group; slow and lugubrious music is never been very accurately defined. The definition heard. The explanation is given in the note which that Lord Kames gives of the former is broad describes the scene; it is Sunday evening andenough to cover both. Wit-he says-is "the junc- Sir William lisant le Bible! So with respect to tion of things by distant and fanciful relations, the marriage state-at all times a favorite subject which surprise because they are unexpected." A for the witticisms of French dramatists. In some more concise definition would be, that it is the inti- degree the French stage is still what the English mate association of ideas seemingly incongruous. stage was, in the reign of Charles II., but has long It is obvious what a scope for the exercise of wit in since ceased to be. How far French ideas upon the Upon the whole, Mr. Johnson's history as its varied forms is afforded by the Burlesque, the subject of marriage are the result of custom, and President affords as little material for commenda- humorous effect of which lies chiefly in the incon- how far they may be constitutional-we can not gruity between the characters introduced and the pretend to say. It is very certain that a Frenchsituations in which they are placed, and the man-man's love-making-upon the stage at least-when ners and language which they are made to adopt. it is not exalted into the most extravagant sentiThe absurdity is merely heightened when distinc- ment, in which case it takes the form of the subtions of sex as well as rank are confounded, and limest nonsense-usually sinks to the level of mere Queen Elizabeth or the Goddess Minerva is per- gross solicitation. Which type we are most likely sonated by a male comedian. The spectacle of the to find in the opera bouffe it is unnecessary to former arriving at Kenilworth in a steamboat; of mention. There is one other needful restriction in regard the Duchess of Gerolstein dancing the cancan in the crowned with roses, reeling in from a symposium objectionable in the piece itself in plot or language, presence of her court and army; of Agamemnon, to burlesque performances. When there is nothing of the kings, with a champagne-bottle in his hand offence may yet be given by the demeanor and and a cigar in his mouth, are absurdities conceived gestures of the actors, and the accessory features in the broadest spirit of burlesque. In one piece we introduced in the ballet, &c. We have heretofore have an amusing travesty of the burdensome re- said that it is absurd to accuse stage-authors or quirements of court-ceremonial, in another a par- managers of a deliberate design to corrupt the ody of a familiar mythological or nursery fable. public taste. They simply aim to supply what It is but the application to purposes of stage en- that taste demands. They produce such plays as tertainment of the humorous idea which long since they suppose will draw, and add those features gave birth to the great romance of Cervantes and which they find generally attractive and which the poem of Hudibras, and which in our own day ensure the best audiences and the largest receipts. inspired the publication of the Comic Histories of Hence the footing obtained upon the boards in Rome and England.

tion as his previous record as an East Tennessee politician, as a Senator, and as Military-Governor. He deserves praise less for any good he did, than for the evil he might have done and did not. He might have lent himself to further the schemes of the Radicals. His best defence is to be found in the extraordinary and trying circumstances in which he was placed. No President ever had to face an opposition as powerful, united, vindictive and unscrupulous as that of the Republican party. In fact it is Congress that has governed during the past four years, and the President that has been in opposition. At open war with the Legislature, he was the constant victim of hostile intrigues and cabals among the members of his own Cabinet. Something is to be pardoned in a man so beset by enemies and destitute of friends. That he should have ever fallen into such straits would be the one inexplicable feature in his career, but for those traits of character we have menEngland and America by that Parisian extravationed. The great burden of Radical complaint So far, and so long as no attempt is made to gance, the cancan (which, be it parenthetically against Mr. Johnson has been that he was a cast ridicule upon things which are really sa- said, is a single word of two syllables, not two traitor to that party. It can not be forgotten cred or deserving of respect, the Burlesque is words, nor a compound word, Can-Can, as it is that he apostatized from Democracy long before, one of the most unobjectionable and harmless usually written and printed.) As a stage-dance, when, during the war, he ranged himself on the forms of theatrical entertainment. So far from it is even less graceful and to a corrupt imaginabeing immoral, it is generally innocent of any tion hardly more suggestive than the Polka side of extremest Radicalism, was himself the moral whatever, either good or bad. Dull, point- or Cachucha. Introduced as a feature in a burfirst to inaugurate, as Military Governor of Ten- less, overladen with verbal conceits, devoid of lesque, it is simply grotesque and nothing more. nessec, the arbitrary and oppressive measures he striking or amusing situations, some of the A far more serious evil is the length, if one may has since endeavored to check, and received for popular burlesques of the day may be, but we can say so, where shortness is the idea to be conveyed, his reward the nomination of that party for the not recall one which has a positively evil tendency. to which managers have gone in the matter of stageoffice of Vice President of the United States. We admit that as much can not always be said of costumes for female performers in tableaux and in the French counterpart of the burlesque-the the ballet. This abuse belongs, however, as ENGLISH BURLESQUE AND FRENCH Opera Bouffe. There are two subjects upon which much to the spectacular as the burlesque drama, OPERA BOUFFE. American ideas and French ideas are widely dif- and it is one which public opinion will sooner or Five weeks of uninterrupted burlesque at the ferent. These are religion and the marital rela- later correct. Already there are signs of a reacHolliday Street, beginning with the engagement tion. Take, for example, the Sunday observances tion in the popular taste in this respect. Simulof the Chapman Sisters, and ending with the French of England and this country. The calm repose taneously with the late letter of the Lord High Opera Bouffe, suggest some considerations in re- of our Sunday, the cessation not only of worldly Chamberlain in England, to the managers of the gard to a style of dramatic entertainment which business but of wordly pleasure, the closed shops, London theatres, on the subject of alleged indehas become so recently popular. French or English, theatres, saloons, the deserted streets, which attest cencies in the costume of the ballet and the corythe general character of the performance is much the public respect in which the Christian Sab-phées, the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg has isthe same; the attraction varying in degree, ac- bath is held, strike a Parisian not only oddly, but sued an order abolishing the ballet altogether in cording to the cleverness of the actors, the spirit disagreeably and oppressively. He misses his his theatre, and directing the appropriation herewith which the burlesque is conceived and carried jour de fête, his day of days for out-door pageants, tofore made for its support to be divided between out, the merit of the mise en scene, and in the case jollity and amusement. He is not unnaturally the musicians of the orchestra and the actors. of the opera bouffe, the hold which Offenbach's disposed to turn into ridicule the religious observ- The Pall Mall Gazette intimates that a similar light jingling music has upon the popular car. ances of a people, with the depth and earnestness measure of theatrical reform is likely to obtain If we are right in the view heretofore advanced in of whose religious sentiment he has no sympathy. in Prussia. A surer remedy would be that which these columns, that the province of the Stage of our We shall never forget the almost pathetic account a change in public opinion would supply, and day is to amuse more than to instruct-that with given by a venerable foreigner, now for many to bring about such a change, a few shafts the dissemination of books and the spread of years resident in this country, of his first impres- like the following, aimed in Sardou's new comedy knowledge, its function as a teacher of history and sions of a New England Sabbath in the town of of Séraphine, lately brought out at the Paris morality, as a vehicle for the transmission of New Haven, with its streets hung in chains to pre- Gymnase, are worth a whole chapter of penal legnational traditions, or even, as in the case of the vent the possibility of public worship being dis- islation: "Malheureux enfant"-exclaims SéraMiracle or Mystery-plays of the Middle Ages, of turbed by the noise of a passing vehicle, the cold phine to Sulpice-"vous avez vu le corps du balreligious truths-has passed away, and that people mutton for dinner, the long faces that surrounded let!" "Ah, c'est bien vrai"-replies Sulpice-"on now-a-days go to the theatre chiefly to laugh and him, and which grew perceptibly longer when, to leur voit tout le corps." In the Presse Libre-one be entertained, without having either brains or feel-escape the stifling atmosphere, moral and physi- of the characters says-"Je vais finir ma soirée à ings severely taxed or called into active play;-cal, in-doors, he sought relief in an afternoon stroll l'Opera." His friend asks-"Y pensez-vous? un it is scarcely matter of astonishment that of the beneath the elms that shaded the College green. different forms of dramatic entertainment now in In one of Offenbach's least successful works, Robvogue, the Burlesque, as it affords the widest field inson Crusoe, we have a scene representing an

jour de carême!" "Basta! les danseuses sont si maigres!" is the reply and excuse.

The truth is, that there is a golden mean in this

as in all things. The world is not likely to give up again. Yet if they had not come, people would out with it then. Up! Up! "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work dancing, in public or private, to please either have complained of the omission, and of want while it is called To-day, for the Night cometh in Archbishops or Governments; but then in these of enterprise or liberality in some quarter. It which no man can work.' days of sewing-machines and cheap fabrics, man- is as Dion Boucicault says in a late letter to Now, with all deference to Mr. Southard (if this agers might afford a little more outlay in the way the Pall Mall Gazette about the outcry in re-device be his) we will say, if he has anything to of skirts for the ballet, without incurring ruinous gard to the decline of the legitimate drama. offer us really illustrative of the music, we will acexpense. No doubt there is a point at which it When there was a legitimate drama, illustrated cept it thankfully; but we prefer not to have exbehooves the authorities who are custodians of the by the brightest names in the history of the Eng- tracts from entirely irrelevant works thrust upon public morals equally with the public peace, to lish stage, did the public support it? Did mana- us because he happens to associate them with this step in and curb the freedom of theatrical repre- gers or actors fare better in their pockets than in or the other piece of music. If it be his pleasure, sentations, which threatens to degenerate into these days of the sensational drama, the spectacle we should prefer to read our Carlyle in our studies, license. There are in this city to-day, cheap thea- and the burlesque? The presence next week at and to have our Beethoven pure, without any adtres which are nightly crowded, where the charac- the Holliday Street of the entire Fiske or Bateman mixture of Teufelsdröckh, or any other of Mr. ter of the entertainment offered is sufficiently indi- troupe, will fairly test the disposition here to sup- Southard's favorite authors. cated by the advertisements which appear in the port an opera and the extent of the demand for an The Overture to the Wasserträger of Cherubini daily prints. We do not propose to describe the opera-house. In New York, this company has evidently felt the effects of the fifth Symphony's features of these performances, inasmuch as there been playing with uninterrupted success since the performance, and, in the last bars, the orchestra are some things which become more disagreeable commencement of the theatrical season in Octo- was ahead of its leader. Cherubini was born (1760) in proportion as they are stirred. The strictures ber. During the month of January their receipts in Florence, and died (1842) in Paris, where he of the press would have no effect upon the propri- at the Grand Opera House, as shown by the Inter- was Director of the Conservatory from the year etors of these places of amusement or the audi-nal Revenue returns, amounted to $37,377.00, 1822. His principal title to the admiration of posences which frequent them, unless it should be to nearly fifteen hundred dollars per night. Accord-terity will be his church music. He composed his increase the latter and enrich the former. The ing to the New York Herald, the subscription for first mass when thirteen years old, and his first regulation of this evil falls within the province of seats in Philadelphia this week exceeded $14,000. opera at the age of nineteen. His more popular Grand Juries and the Police. With respect to the better class of theatres-those which are patronized by refined and cultivated people-the abuse of The eighth concert of the Peabody Academy of which we have spoken exists in a much less degree Music was not so well attended as usual. Was than the wholesale denunciation with which they the cause the sharp wind which blew from the are at times visited from the pulpit and by a por-north; or was it, on the part of the public, a sort tion of the religious press, would lead the nontheatre-going public to believe. As it is, and for the reasons already given, the evil is on the wane, and the class of exhibitions complained of will soon be confined to the lower and less reputable class of theatres which have lately sprung into existence.

MUSICAL.

operas are "Ifigenia in Aulide," "Lodoiska," and "Les Deux Journées." His Overture to "la Belle Portugaise" is considered his best; we prefer it to the "Wasserträger," although they are both distinguished by a complete absence of melody. The Overture to the "Bohemian Girl" of Balfe, was better performed. Balfe has composed two French Opéras-Comiques-"Le Puits d'Amour" and "Les Quatre fils d'Aymon." This will explain why the Overture to the "Bohemian Girl" is written in the French style, so much so as to recall, at each moment, the overtures of Auber.

of premonition of the fate reserved for one of Beethoven's master-pieces? In fact, the Fifth Symphony was coldly and deliberately murdered. It would take too much time to enumerate the im perfections and faults which occurred in almost every bar; to say nothing of a perfect misunderstanding between the baton of Mr. Southard and Passing from general observations to particulars, the musicians of the orchestra. Still, we will not The march from Tannhäuser was well played, we have said so much heretofore in commendation too severely reproach the Director for such a per- considering its difficulty. It was very much liked of the acting of the Chapman Sisters, who, since formance. It would be tiresome to repeat a third by the audience, and this should encourage Mr. their first appearance in this city four weeks ago, time what we have before said of the orchestra. Southard to give us a hearing of the "Prelude" of have played chiefly in burlesque, and during the There are in it some individual features that are Lohengrin, and of "Les Entr'actes des Maîtres past week have gained additional credit by their good; but the general character-its ensemble-Chanteurs," by the same composer, Richard performance in The Forty Thieves, that we have is most imperfect; and we must say, with resig- Wagner. The execution of a cavatina from Lucia left ourselves little to add in their praise. We nation, that "what can not be cured must be en-di Lammermoor by a lady amateur, a pupil of the can only repeat, that one marked characteristic dured." But, if the means of the Academy are Academy, received the honor of an encore. and especial charm of their performances has so limited as to admit of no improvement in this Concordia Hall was crowded last Tuesday evebeen their thoroughly modest and lady-like de- respect, it would have been more dignified andning, on the occasion of Ole Bull's concert. Ole portment on the stage. This-to sum up-in both more prudent to have avoided puffing advertise- Bull is an eminent violinist, known all over the sisters, is combined with a manner entirely natural ments, speaking of the Conservatories of Paris world, and it is almost useless to say that he played and free from stage affectations, a native sense of and of Leipsic, and promising the highest degree with that sureness of bow, and that grandeur and humor and the vivacity and freshness that belong of execution. Such advertisements have not only elevation of style which are his prominent qualito youth, and an evident desire to please and to been injurious to the Academy, but they are in ties, performing with irreproachable precision the excel. In addition-the elder, Blanche, has a voice sulting to the musical taste and intelligence of the most complicated runs, and expressing with the which only needs further cultivation to qualify her public. greatest feeling all the emotions that music can for a high place in English opera. Although in no The printed "illustrations" designed to be given evoke. None of the artists who lent him their cosense novices, as their thorough self-possession of the Symphony, in the form of printed quo- operation deserve particular notice. The audience, before the foot-lights and aptitude in all stage- tations from Carlyle, added still more to the gro- perfectly silent and attentive when Ole Bull was business testify, it is to be remembered that this tesque nature of the performance. Such illustra-playing, was restless, talkative and distrait during is the first star-engagement which the Chapman tions, when clearly written, are necessary for works the other pieces. Why do not artists, who have Sisters have filled. It has been of unusual length, such as the Ode-Symphony of Félicien David, not enough in themselves to command attention, and attended throughout by evidences of increas- called "Le Desert," because that composition is, try at least to pique curiosity by playing or singing favor and popularity. The impression they throughout, intended to imitate "the calm of the ing something new? The field is so immense, and have made will not only inspire, at parting, cordial Desert"-"the rest of the night"-"the Dance of the we are in that respect so far behind the age. wishes for their success, but ensure them a warm Almées." It is merely imitative music, and the air from Martha, the cavatina from the Barbiere welcome whenever and as often as they may return. composer wishes to have understood what he has On Monday, English burlesque gives place to attempted to imitate. But Beethoven had no such French opera bouffe. La Perichole will be given plan; he obeyed the inspirations of his genius, and at the Holliday Street, with Irma, who has charmed every one can feel the passions expressed by his all young New York, and Aujac, in the principal music. And we should like to know to whose inroles. Neither opera nor artists have been heard genious public-spiritedness we are indebted, for here before. On the following nights will be pre-serving us up scraps of Sartor Resartus as a run- M. Martens' selections were good. He is a pupil sented Orphée aux Enfers, La Barbe Bleue, and ning commentary upon Beethoven. Here for in- of the Conservatory of Leipsic, (so we understand so on to the end of the week and of the entire re-stance is a fragment offered as an illustration of the words, "from the Conservatory of Leipsic," pertoire of pieces performed by this same company the Scherzo : which accompany his name, because, if he be in New York. When part of this troupe (Tostee, &c.,) were here last, they played at the Concordia e o longer in Chaos, but a World, or even not be traveling in America,) and in fact he plays It is written "Wo unto him who is at rest in Zion." longed to that establishment as a teacher, he would to houses one-third or one-fourth filled. We al- Worldkin. Produce! Produce! Were it but the piti- like a good scholar, with that correctness which is most wonder at their courage in visiting this city in God's mantess fraction of a Product, prothes, acquired under the control of a strict teacher—with

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di Siviglia, and the duett Guarda che bianca luna of Campana, have been so much sung, so often repeated, that every one is tired of them, and would prefer to hear something from the new operas which have so much success abroad, but are com paratively unknown here.

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