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Foreign News and gossip.

We continue to-day, extracts from the foreign correspondence Clay 30, of Northern journals, giving a few items at European News and gossip.--From Paris we have little beyond what was published in yesterday's issue.


The Feast of the Ascension.

Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, and all Paris presented a religious aspect of the most imposing character. From an early hour the churches were througed and throughout the day all the splendors of the Reman ritual were exhibited to increase the devotion of the faithful. The Madeleine, St. Roch, St. Eustace, and Notre Dame, vied with each other in the magnificence of their altar worship and their choral harmony. Indeed, throughout the whole month of May, the Catholic churches have echoed with divine song in honor of the Virgin. Sermons laudatory of her character have been preached every evening, concluded by anthems and chord hymns, in which the highest triumphs of melody and harmony were displayed. The churches were always crowded to excess, and no one who witnessed the external reverence displayed, could doubt of the sincerely religious feeling that pervades a very large proportion of the populace. My own experience, now founded on a residence of twelve years, would certainly go to prove that whoever associates irreligion to France attars a thoughtless libel first engendered by the gross enormities of the faction of Robespierre.


"on Dit."

The accouchement of the Princess Clothtide is expected in July or the commencement of August and the Empress, who has from the outset preserved the kindest and most intimate relations with the young Princess, will be with her at St. Cloud on that interesting occasion. The Princess Clothilde is another of the many instances of woman's gentle influence on the rugged nature of man. Oh! if women were wise, how happy would they be to set up for their treat the willow and not the oak; for it is by bending to the blast, and not resisting it, that they become absolute masters of a stubborn soil. When Prince Napoleon took this interesting child from her father's house, all who knew the immoral habits of the man, his turbulent yet fickle temper, and his general scorn of those poits soins which the feebler sex expect, lifted up their brows and hands in dismay. The commencement of his wedded life was certainly confirmatory of their worst fears. He never broke with any of his former liaisons, but his carriage might be seen night and day at the door of women of the most scandalous lives. He was never seen at home. His father performed the martial role of attending the Princess in public; and the poor thing, as she drove by, was far more compassionated than envied by the humblest of those who gazed at her. Little by little her virtues, her piety, her boundless charity, her feminine affability, to every one who approached, began to endear her to the hearts of all without respect to party. Prince Napoleon was more and more despised for his unappreciation of such excellence, but by degrees the dark clouds began to break. The monstrum horrendum was seen to desert his old hannts, to be more and more by the side of his wife, till at last it comes out that he has been converted into the most affectionate of husbands, and she into the most devoted of wives. She has only to convert the Prince into an Achilles to be set down as a positive enchantress. I am afraid this is beyond her strength. The Prince, from the very first, admitted to his intimates that he never had and never should have any military talent; and I believe it has always been with the greatest reluctance that he has ever found a command forced upon him.


About the Drama.

Halevy's opera, ‘"La Juivo,"’ is to be produced a the Grand Opera to-morrow evening, for the first time in a year.

Ristori has been playing for the last week at Versailles. For several years past it has always been her custom to take the Italians in May, immediately at the close of the opera season, and play a round of her characters. Last year she was not very successful, and says that tragedy is dead in Paris. So she has taken the little theatre at Versailles for a week or two and considerable numbers have gone out nightly from Paris to see her. She and Alboni have just erected each a pretty hotel on the new boulevard des Malesherbes, near the Pare de Morceaux. I understand that Ristori has abandoned the idea she had of going to America this year.

At the recent annual meeting of dramatic authors and composers, the following theatrical statistics were given: The total receipts of the Paris theatres, from April 1, 1861,to March 31, 1862 exclusive of the Italians and the little theatres formerly comprised in the Vanlieue, were 11,191,041£., of which the authors dues amounted to 1,277,178£. The largest receipts were those of the Grand Opera, amounting to 1,215,060£., and from which the authors and composers received 87,026£. Two other theatres only exceed a million. The Cirque, with the show pieces, ‘ "Prise de Pekin"’ and ‘"Rhotomago."’ which have been played all the year — the latter being still in the tide of success — receiving 1,185,624£, and paying its authors 148,736£ and the Porte St. Martin, which received 1,057,528£., principally from the ‘"Grace de Dieu,"’ an old piece revived, which ran over two hundred nights, and which has just been put on the bills again — the authors' dues were 137,521f. The receipts at the Français were 929,287f.; authors' dues, 112,355f., At the Opera Comique the receipts were 860,367f.; authors' dues 128,314f. At the Gymnasia, receipts 629,000f; authors dues, 76,000f. Vaudeville, Varieties, and Palaces Royal, about 600,000f. each. The Gaite and Ambigu about 700,000f. each.

Next month the Cirque and Lyrique are to be removed into their new salles on the place du Chatelet. The theatres on the Boulevard du Temple it was originally arranged, were to remove in July, but with the Delaissements, the Funambules, and the Lazary, have obtained a prolongation of their sojourn up to April next. The Folies Dramatiques and the Gaite remove in July.

Edwin Booth has taken apartments, and with his family, has quietly settled down in Paris for two or three months. He is by no means idle, however.--Besides being engaged as I wrote you, in studying portraits and costumes of Pichelieu and his time, in order to produce the grand play of Bulwer in a perfectly correct style, he is superintending the translation and adaptation of several effective French plays, which he will produce upon his return to the United States, and which will be great and attractive novelties.


Miscellaneous.

The Prince of Wales is expected in Paris on his return from the Levant. The Constitutionnel declares that the explanations given by the French Government on the Mexican business to Spain have entirely satisfied it. The movements at the Camp of Chalons will be superintended by the Emperor in July. The greatest possible interest is attached by the army to what passes there each year, as it is considered the great experimental practical school of the French army.

Garibaldi is said to be eating ‘"humble pie."’ to the party of order in Italy. By many persons his whole conduct is supposed to be a simple coup de theatre.

Hon. Simon Cameron and Mr. Bayard Taylor, his Secretary of Legation, arrived here yesterday from London, and will leave in a few days for St. Petersburg. Mr. Cameron is stopping at the Louvre, but Mr. Taylor is stopping at the house of a friend, Mr. John L. Graham. Jr., of New York.


London — the business season.

The business season is complained of as among the worst of London, notwithstanding the presence of the World's Fair. But the Fair is, in truth, a mere English, or even a London one. There are few people from the country, and absolutely no foreigners. The preparations made for these are quite melancholy in their collapsing. I leave you to imagine what it must be with the traders. But in the British Museum, this only exhibition at the same time intellectual and gratuitous of the nation, the readers were curtailed of an hour of their time for the reception of foreign visitors to see the wonders of the library; the gates were to be open all week days to the public, and a number of extra policemen placed on duty. But I observe that things have returned to their old state, except the restoration of their time to the students. The gates are open on the alternate days, and the posse of police seemed to dwindle to the usual number. No foreigners arriving, even English sensibility was equal to perceiving the ridicule of this parade. But to return to the exhibition, or rather to the reason for which the exhibition failed to do what was expected: so extreme is the depression that the papers have of late been hinting to the Queen to return from her Highland residence, and come to spend her salary among the people who give it to her, lest they might come to think that it is possible to do without her. This is plain and genuine English talk for you. And springing, as it does, from the stomach or the pocket. I was curious to observe if that wily aristocracy who tremble at the muttering of these two oracles would attend to it. In fact, the papers of this morning announce the return of her most gracious Majesty from Balmoral to London, and her purchase of a thousand ‘"shilling tickets"’ to the exhibition. These were probably intended as presents for some school children. And after a munificence so large and condescending, she will probably feel warranted to hasten back to Scotland. She is evidently not averse to quit her capital and aristocracy, with their Saxon rigidity, coolness, and mental barrenness, for the Celtic cordiality, graces, and humor of those mountaineers, notwithstanding their ‘"horrid kills."’ of course so shocking to English modesty. They thus are picking up her coppers in their own thrifty fashion. The harvest very probably does not amount to much.


An Irish celebration.

The Irish are to have a great national celebration — yes, a national celebration.--I mean, of course, an ultra montane one, on laying the foundation of their new Catholic University. It is to come off in July, when the American bishops can partake in it on their passage in returning from Rome, and it will be also graced by some leading French prelates. The orator will be no other than your old friend, Archbishop Hughes. You are aware that he has long been at Paris, and much at course. He is. I can assure you, esteemed highly by the Emperor and, in fact, issa man much after his own heart or head. He has also done capital service for the republic, and probably is destined to do more for that and other things. You need not be surprised if you should hear, some fine morning, of his having been presented with a Cardinal's hat, and thus endowing America with the first dignity of this order. Nay, if the holy chair itself of Peter were now vacant, I am not very sure that he would not be the successor. The thing would be completely in the hands of Napoleon. And what a compliment could not this profound statesman thus combine at once to America and to the wretched with, who never had nos only not a Pope, but not even a cardinal, or any higher meed for their fanatical fidelity than to be trafficked in by one Pope and to be made little of by all.


"such is life."

A fashionable shopkeeper, residing in front of St. Pauls Church has just had his two young and only children poisoned to death by their mother. This, however at all startling in London; child

mother by on everyday occurrence this chanced to as coming of two the home where the coroner was holding his inquest on the murdered children, and seeing a crowd as the shop windows, which were not merely open but decked off with all their show of bonnets, shawl mantillas, I stopped to ask a well dreamed was when it was all about. On hearing of the neural presence of the inquest, I asked if it were possible that they continued business. He answered with a smile which was apparently at my simplicity that the shop ‘"took in more money"’ since the accident happened than it probably had debt for several upon before. This characteristic incident reminded me of Horace Greeley, who, when arrested some six or seven years ago in Paris, was offered by a friend of mine, who deals extensively with America, to be come his ball for any amount. ‘"No, no"’ said Her are, "I prefer to go to prison. The thing will attend thousand to the circulation of the Tribunes.


The pure.

Bath Course. May 27.
--Tenth bimetal staker of 10 sova. each, with 50 sova. added for feals of 1859: colts, 8st 10lb., fillies and gelding, 8st. 7lb. with certain allowances. One mile and a half. The second to save his stake. 43 subs.

Betting--5 to 4 on the Knave, 9 to 2 against To lure, 6 to 1 against Olive Branch, 8 to 1 against Ethel, and 12 to 1 against any other.

Ethel made play, followed by the Splitvolte colt Tolurno, and the favorite to the lower turn, when Ethel gave way to Tolurno, who came on with a slight lead, waited upon by Bloodhound, the Knave, and Olive Branch, the latter lying next the rails. On reaching the distance Bloodhound headed Mr. Parr's horse, and half way up the pair were joined by the favorite and Olive Branch, the four joining issue at the entrance of the stand enclosure ran lock together to the end, and finished one of the finest races seen for some years. Olive Breach running the longest just landed her owner's colors by a short head, Tolurno being a head in advance of the Knave, who ran a dead heat with Blood hound for the third place. After them came and Gemse, the Splitvolte colt and Margery being the last two.

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