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AMOPTG THE TREES.
DT WILLIAM CFILEN narAtir,
Oh 3e who love to overhang the springs.
Aud stand by running waters, yo whose boughs
Make beautiful the rocks o'er which they, play,
Whe pile with foliage the great hills, and rear
A paradise upon the lonely plain..
Trees of the forest and.the open field
Have - ye - no sense of tkeing?---Does the air,
The pure air. which I breathe with gladness, pass
In gushes o'er your delicate langs. yotirleaves,
All unenjoyed? When on your Winter-sleep
The sun shines warm, have ye no dreams of
Spring? _
And, when tbeglorionsspring•time comes at last,
Have ye no joy of all your bursting buds,
And fragrant blooms., and melody ; of birds
To which your young leaves shiver? Do yo etrive
And wrestle with the wind, yet know it not?
Feel ye no glory in your strength when he,
Thelexhausted Blusterer flies beyond the hills,
And leaves you strongei3.et? Or have ye not
A sense of loss when he has strippedyourleaves,
Yettendel;nnd has splintered your fair boughs?
Does the loud bolt that smiles you fronalhe aloud
And - rente you, fall unfelt? Do there not ran
Strange shnddcrings through your fibres when
the axe ,
Is raised against you, and the shininghltide
Deals blow on blow, until, with all their boughs,
Your summits waver and ye fall to earth?. •
Know ye no sadness when the hurricane -
Has swept the wood and snapped its sturdy stems
Asunder, air lifts `wrenched. froutont_the so il ,
The mightiest with their circles of strong roots,
And piled the ruin all along his path?
Nay, doubt we not that under the rough rind,
In the green veins of these fair growths of earth,
There dwells a nature that receives delight
From all the gentle processes of life,
And sbrinks from loss of being. Dim and faint
May be the sense of pleasure and of pain,
As in oar dreams; but, haply, real still.
Our sorrows touch you not. WO watch beside
The beds of those who languish or who die,
And minister in sadness, while our hearts
Offer perpetual prayer for life and ease, „
And health to the beloved sufferers.
But ve, while analottg fest and fainting hope
Are En our chambers, ye rejoice without.
The funetel goes forth; a silent train
Moves slowly from the desolate home; our hearts
Are, breakingon we lay away the loved,
Whom wk ohall see no more, in their last rest,
Their little cells within the burial-place.
Ye have no part in this distress; for still
The February sunshine ateeps your boughs
Anil tints the buds and swells the leaves wtthin:
While the song-sparrow,warbling from her parch,
Tells you that Spring is near. The wind of May
Is sweet with bresth of •orchards,in whose boughs
The bees and every insect of the air
Make a perpetual murmur of delight,
And by whose flowers tho humming-bird hangs
poised
in air, and draws their sweets and dub; away.
The linden, in the fervors of July,
Einma with.;, louder concert. When the wind
Sweeps the broad !brat hi its summer prime,
when some master-hand exulting sweeps
The keys of some great prgini, ye give forthj
The music of the woodland depths, a hymn
of gladness and of thanke— _ 2 llle.heniikUhrtish.
Pipes his sweet note to make your arches ring.
The faithful robin, from the wayside elm, ,
Carols all day to cheer his sitting mate.
And when the Autumn comes, the kings of earth,
in all their majesty, are not arrayed
As ye art. clothing the broad mountain-side,
And spotting the smooth vales with red and gold.
While, swaying to the sudden breeze, yelling-
Your nuts to <multi, snd the.britik_equirrel comes
To gather them, and barks with childish glee,
And scampers with them to his hollow oak.
Thus, as the seasons pass, ye keep; alive
The cheerfulness of nature, till In t im e
The constant misery, Which rings theteart
Relents, and we rejoice with you again,
And glory in your beauty; till once wore
We look with pleasure on your vanished leans,
That gaily glance in sunshine, and can hear,
Delighted, the soft answer which your boughs
Utter in whispers to the babbling brook. -
Ye have no history. I cannot know
Who, when the hillside trees were hewn away
haply two centurlea since' bade spare this Oak,
Leal:Anglo shade, with his irregalar arms,
Low-bent and long, the fount that from his
roots
Stipa through a bed of creases towards the bay.
know not who, but thank him that he left
The tree to flourish where the acorn fell,
And join these later days to that far time
While yet the Indian hunter drew the bow -
la the dim woods, and the white woodman first
Opened these fields to sunshinet turned the soil
And strewed the wheat: An unremembered
Past
Broods, like a presence, 'mid the long gray
boughs
Of this old tree, which has outlived, so long
The flitting generations 01 mankind.
Ye have no history. I ask in vain
Who planted on the slope this-lofty group
Of ancient rear-trees that with spring time
burst
Into each breadth of bloom. One bears a scar
Where thetill quick lightning scored its trunk, yet
s
It feels the breath of Spring, and every May
is white with lajossozw--Wholt-was that laid
!'heir infant roofgint earth, and tenderly
Cherished the delicate sways, I ask in vain,
Yet bless the unknown hand to which I owe
Ibis annual festival of bees, these songs
In birds within their leafy screen, these shouts
of joy from children gathering up the fruit
-lbakeu in August from the willing boughs.
Ye that my hands have planted or have
spared,
Beside the way, or in the orchard ground,
Or in the open meadow, ye whose boughs
With every summer spread.a wider shade,
Whose herd in coming years shall lte at rest
Beneath your noontide shelter? Who shall
pluck
Your ripened fruit?. Who, grave, as wasjhe
wont
Of simple pastoral ages, on the rind
Of my smooth beeches some beloved name?
Idly 1 ask; yet may the eyes that look-
Upon yon, in your later, nobler growth,
Look also on a nobler age than ours;
An age when. In the eternal strife between
Evil - and Good; the Power of Good shall win
A grander mastery; when kings no more
Shall summon millions from the plough to
learn '
The trade of slaughter, and of populous realms
Make camps of war,- when in our younger land
The hand of ruffian Violence; that now
Is insolently raised to smite, shall fall
Unnerved before the ealm rebuke of law,
And Fraud: bis sly coofederate,eltrink, in shame,
Back to his covert, and forego his pref.
(Tranoteted for the Philadelphia - Evening Balletbs.l
rriOIMMUOLD It 1:11)1PES.
BY BARON BRIBES
The recipe of beef boiled f l'Odette is very
old; according to tradition. she who invented and
gave her name to it, was as graceful as the
recipe is good.
Beef Boiled a l'Odetto.--litew over the fire
some chopped mushr.mms with a lump of but
ter; Mir in flour moisten with soup stock and
water, Beason with an onion stuck with cloves;
let.it simmer; add afterwards boiled beef cut in
thin slicea, being careful that all aro - covered by
the sauce; let it boil, then thielten with yolks of
eggs, acidulated with vinegar or lemon jute; turn
it out; surround it with toast and serve.—Petit
Journal.
Ir m stated that the New Dominion delegates
now In England, on o'intssion with roterenco to
the incorporation of the Northwest Territory,
will return,to Canada on account of the Ministe
rial changes, auMmake another trip 'to England
after the next Session of the Dominion Parlia
ment.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1868. -TRIPLE SHEr.
THE DEATH OF ROSSINE
EKTRA.CT3 FRO ,PARIS PAPERS
A Frenoinan'a Funeral Oration
Some Criticisms and Anecdotes
d FRENCH FUNERAL. ORATION ON ROSSINI.
When Rossini's remains 'arrived at the vault at
Pere la Chaise, orations were pronounced by vs
rious.persons as follows: by CamWeDoucet on
behalf of, the Arts of Prance:by Ambroise Thomas,
on behalf of the Institute; by de Saint
Georges, on bebalf,.of the , Society ; of Dranutle
Amateurs and CompoSers; by M. Perrin; on be
of the Opera; by Bamn-Taylor ' as a personal
friend, and by M. Gevaert, on -behalf of the Con
servatory. Thp best of these funeral speeches
that we have seen, is the one we tratualote below,
by M. Perrin, representing the Grand Opera :
SPEECH Or M. IMBRIN. 4
"Gentlemen: It may be said of the illtudrione
man whom we have just brought 6 his last home
that immortality preceded death. The last dedl
cation of the most famous names is supertlaoas
here, for he who sleeps in this coffin has been
satiated g ory an renown.sarong the di=
verse lives of great artists there has been , none
more surprising. His adolescence was like a
spontaneous development of Marvellous` gifts.
His youth s , in its vary joy, scattered works by
turns charming or sublime. At the age o* man
hood, when others begin' their career, he willingly
finished his, crowning it with that imperishable
master-piece— William Tell.
"Does it not seem as if the very name Rossini
was itself a definition of the divine word Genius?
Between Tancrecli and Winiam . Tell scarcely six
teen years had elapsed. In that time thirty scores
came from that marvelous brain. What ideas
cast on the current of that river of art whose
waters roll renewed unceasingly, but into which
none poured streams more abundant and more
port. What exalted passion, what charched
in
teiiects ! How many hearts have been moved
by those accents which sound at once in all the
theatres of the world, which cross the seas,whlcla
enehant every people, which make.all understand
and speak the same language—the fraternal and
sacred idiom of music.
"But all at once the eagle Stops' in fall flight.
On the highest point of his career,the artist breaks
his lyre. He is silent and heiwishes to be silent.
Neither demands, promises nor prayers could
make him yield. He sealed with his own hands
the doors of the temple of his.genius. ,No _oak
could make hir4 re-open them. , Let us not ;try'
flndout the, Secret 'of this silence. 'Wel' it
laziness or disdain P Or was it the supreme law
_of-hietrilliant deelinY ?..7_,The_formtain of his in
spiration was not dried up. It gushed forth at
times brilliantly. Witness the admirable Stabat,.
and that sublime mass, which he would only
have performed once and before an audience
chosen by himself. But the author of Moses and
William Tell had bid a last and inexerable fare
well to the stage.
"History shows us monarchs, tired of great
ness, voluntarily laying down the sceptre, and,
like sitapba citizens, looking on at the great
events they have brought--about. Thus this
monarch of art lived in retirement, supported by
a devoted affection, siorounded alittle circle
of friends, and contemplating with a look calm,
Indifferent and somewhat satirical, those of hie
contemporaries who kept nu the struggle. He
haw the patient labor of years accomplished in
hie own works. He followed their ascending
progress with his own eyes. He saw them rising
day by day, and reaching the loftiest heights of
the serene region where the pure master-pieces
shine.
"The pride of the French stage will be that I
gave the highest expansion to the genius of Ros
sini. Moses finished and William Tell wholly
written for our first lyric stage, form the key
stone of an admirable structure.' It is the pride
of France thus to attract to herself all fames, to
absorb them in her bosom, and to increase them
by making them in turn_national and French.
Like his illustrious predecessors, Rossini paid
this tribute to France. He wished to acknowledge
it and show his love for his new country. While
be left his property to the littre city of his birth,
he ordered that his body should rest among us,in
this French soil, in this Paris which crowds
around his bier, and whose pious assemblage
gives him to-day right royal funeral honors.
"Really, in seeing thus disappear the men who
have Meed the glory of the musical art so high,
there is a feeling of deep anxiety as well as of
great Badness. And yet, at this very tomb, it is
permitted that we should * not despair. It is,the
highest glory of these great men that they open
the road of the future. By the light which they
project, new talents can walk, new generations
advance. Rossini sleeps, but his work awakes.
May it be an encouragement and a model for all.
Art dies not with this immortal master. There
can be no night in a skywhiati his genius has
peopled with such luminous stare."
ROSSINI AND MATEEII3II2
The Paris Figaro, in an editorial on Rossini's
funeral, signed "Albert Wolff," says some things
about the great master of a different tone from
that of most of the Paris journalists.` A' few pass
ages ,are worth translating, in which . there Is a
comparison with another great compOser, who
died a few years ago inYarle—ldeyerbeer. Here
are the extrude :
"Rossini assisted at his own apotheosis. While
living he wished to know the joys of bnmor
tality. We have been so 'used to bowing before
bis bust, thinking of the groat master
'who was no more of, this world,
that the news of his death seemed tons at first
like a bitter mystification. The living most not
be.distnrbed in their worship for the dead. If Mo
zart were to come back to,be buried again in La
Triuia, we should go certainly . ; , not to weep, but
as we go tp the Conservatory On . a concert day,
to hear the ramie. .
" It must be declared with a savage sincerity,
that the grief • of survivors is , measured by the
void that the deParted leaves behind him. When
a great artist falls in the fullness of hie ge
rdus, the multitude le struck to the heart.
It says :to Itself that with him who is
gone are gone anknoWn delights,
and that IM...coffin that encloses the body has
also swallowed up works that were to come.
When Meyerbeer died, at the moment when, with
the ardor of youth, he was haVlng his Africaine
rehearsed at the Opera, there was profound sor
row among all those who, trusting In the old
master'e energy, thought with emotion of the
works that hie brain, always active, Might yet
have brought forth. The Northern Railway car
ried off with his body part of our burn intelli
gence. Meyerheer was one. of ourselves; ho lived
among us; he worked for us; we witnessed his
daily struggles. His last thought was for kis
last work. A few days before, be wa
OUR'WHOtE`COMTRY.
seen. crouching on the proscenium of the
Opera, absorbed "in the score, seeking
oat the best, dreaming the beautifuL Thus died
ite.ethoven, Mozart, and the others; thus die all
great men—ia the breach.
i• Do not suppose that I wish to judge• Rossini
and bleyerbeer; I shall not try toplace one above
the other, or to disparage one for the benefit of
'the other. Let us leave their works in peace. I
shell speak of them only as of two men, of their
life and their death. I never had the honor to be
'presented to either. I admired the genius of Res.
slut, and I was enthusiastic about Meyerbeer.
How was it that in seeing them on the Boulevard
I felt la presence at Meyerbeer an admiration and
respect for rho mart that Rossini never insuired in
Me 1 * *
"The Italian, with his ridiculous , wig, his
smirk, and the supreme beatitude of his fice,-er
tinguiShed in me every artistic instinct. For me
he Wall not sufficiently poisoned by that creative
fever, which ought not to leave an artist but with
his est breath. I saw in his obstinate silence,
the liege pride of a man of genius scorning 'the*
generation which dared to adore another God be
side him. He was waiting; according to his own
rash phrase, i till the Jews, Meyerbeer and
Ralevy, would finish what he dladainfully
called their Babbat. Posterity had, began for
Rossini I z his life, and this walking apotheosis
- bad -- thc - effect ---etf irrltsting into- -horribly,
When I saw him moving *boat the
wag, without fever, without passion, separated ,
front • all that sestains and makes vibrate an ar
tist soul, all my being revolted against him whom
flatterers called 'the sublime idler.'
"Then when Isaw Meyerbeer pass—him whom
fanatical and unjust criticism scorned, whilst
bowing down before the silence of Rossini—
when I met this inveterate worker, this indefst-
!gable thinker—also a great artist, but passion_
ate for his art to the death-rattle—l felt a pro
found respect for the indomitable toiler. To me,
their writings apart, this was the true artist,
realises, excited, in a word living. Even through
his bine spectacles, the light of his eyes shone,
and you could bear his heart
beat across the pavement. That was
a soil; the other was only a body. Contact with
Heyerbeer warmed you. The sight of Rossini
gave you a Gold shiver. He was no Falser a
Jiving man of our life, of our, passions, our apt ,
rations. He was; in some sort, the mortal re
mains of a man of genius moving about the
street.
"Therefore it Is that the death of Heyerbeer
produced so great emotion, whilst the end of
Emig was for the artistic world but a piece of
sensational news. Snatched away from life in
the midst of its strife, is artists die, their last
breath, le for their art, and when they disappear,
there is a thrill through all the veins of the mul
titude.
"Itleyerbeer died the heroic death of a soldier
on the battle-field. Rossini, with all his genies,
departed like , a proud old pensioner, in a tobacco
shop."
Among the crowd following the tamales of
Roulet was a white-haired old man, decorated
with the order of Isabella; who wept bitterly .
This was M. Piermarbli, one of the oldest friends
of the demand, formerly director of the Madrid
Conservatory. now teacher of singing in Paris:
In his parlor Rossini's portrait hangs beside Mo
aart'a, and ender the latter were written In. Rea
ders own hand, - these lines: "I am happy, dear
Piermarini, to offer you this portrait of Mozart.
Take off your bat to him as I do, for he Is the
master of masters! G. Rotuma."
Signiz,d'Ancona, who represented the Italian
Commission at liossinre inneral, made a speech
in broken French, for which he apologized. In
the course of it he sketched the last French cam
psdgn in Italy, and Subbed by saying: "Yon
gave us union. we gilq? you RossinL Our two
nations are sisters!"
Among the marks of respect paid to Rossini in
Paris on the day of his funeral was a placard on
the closed windows of a music publisher on the
Boulevard, with the words: "Fermi a la AU
moire de Rossini!"
Among the crowd about the church of Ls
Trinitd at Rossini's funeral, were boys crying,
"Have a biography of Mossieu Rossini, and his
last words on his death-bed!" These words are
said to have been: "He who wrote the Stabat
bad faith!" This confession, with the biography
and a portrait, was sold for ten centimes (two
cents).
It was epitefi said that of the crowd in the
church at Rossihi‘ . bsequies, as mdny came for
the appearance 13 as fof the departure of
Rossini.
The Last Honors to she Great Coin
poser-,interestingSeenes in the Paris
aireets.
[Correspondence of the London Morning Star.]
Ettras, Sunday, Nov. 22.—France is fast losing
all her great men. An epidemic seems to reign
over celebrity, and for those who fear death it is
a comfort to be among the humble and unknown.
My lettere of late have recorded but deaths, and,
if we are to believe reports, many other such oc
cuirences will, ere this year is burled, be regis
tered in your paper. Mortality, as I beard it ex
pressed by a humoristic friend, is now more fleet
ing than the fashicins of a coat. Who can say
that a great man's spirit may not cast off its gar
ment of flesh before the gloss has departed from
his new waletdiat? Who could have guessed that
this month of November - IMAM have plunged
Paris, nay, Europe itself, into mourning?
Yesterday the whole of Paris, I may say, with
out exaggeration,wes preoccupied by the mourn
ful,event of the day, Rossini's funeral. On no
public occasion since the return of the troops
',rem Italy, in 1859, have I witnessed so tremen
dons a mass of people as that which congre
gated. in the Rue de la Chausee d'Antin and
along the Boulevards, clustering on
the gilded balconies, at the windows, on the
roofs, on the lampaddres; on every fragment
of halfilemolished.houses, in the cafes—ln fact
on and in every spot where a view could be ob
tained of the simple bier which contained the re
mains of the great musical genius of the nine
teenth'century. Thousands of the
working classes, quiet and orderly,
thronged the street, many amongst
them humming, airs from "Guillaume Tell" and
the "Barbiere de Seville." It &sit des nitres—`she
was ono of ns"—l heard uttered by a blouse, and
with a certain pride. And so he was; the mighty
genius wo deplore was the child of a strolling
player, who,in his most sanguine moments, could
scarcely have foreseen' that his son would one
day be escorted to tho grave by the Ambassador
of Italy,humbly. walking by the side of his coffin,
accompanied by the representative of an Empe
ror, and;by deputations from all the academies
of Europe, as well as by the population of its
most Important capital.
Yet so it was, and a more splendid recognition
of genius was never witnessed than that displayed
yesterday by the French people. The. King of
Italy had, yon - nro - aware; petitioned for the honor
-of interring the remains of his great compatriot
nt Pesaro, his native city. This was-refused; ho
therefore ordered his ambassador to represent
him, and desired that a funeral service of the
most magnificent scale should be celebrated. the
products to be added to the national subscription
for the monument to bo erected at Santa Grace,
which, as you aro aware, is the Pantheon of
Italy. - King could do no more. Now I must
ndeavor to gilciyou. an account of what Paris
, . ,
has - done: My ticket gave mo admittance to
a seat on a llne with the grand altar. In
fact,the railing alone separated me from the black
'velvet and'silver embrolderedfauterditi proms rei
for the English and Italian ambassadors. .Mk -,-
taking tfie hour, I presented myself at 10 o'clock
at the church doors, which were only opened at
11; but early as It was, I found a dense throng as
sembled around each of the four entrances of the
new Chord! of La Trinite, and some hundred of
a' mente-de-villa and'.:a ' strong body of the
mounted Garde , de Paris on duty. < Let me at
once, however, de justice to. the patience and'
creditable demeanour of the populace' yesterday.
Yon heard nojOkes;there was no rude pushing,no
vulgar uterritnent, dense , as was the crowd; all
seemed penetrated by one' common feeling of
sorrow. A groat man had Teased away, and
Paris deplored his lose. La Triniti, fresh from
the hands of architect and artists is one of the
new churches of this capitaL and from its struc
ture was well adapted for the ceremony of yes
terday, inasmuch as its splendor consisted not in
silver-fringed velvet draperies . and painted es
cutcheons, but in the glorious music which was
to be the appropriate homage of the most gifted
artistes of the age to the Maddens maestro. For
this reason, as well es at his own express de
sire, the church was utterly undraped
by mourning hangings, which would
have 'muffled the sound of voices; there
fore, curtains of velvet outside the
church doors ' and . a catafalque, around which
burned wax tapers, in the centre, were the only
preparations for the ceremony of the day; the
extreme simplicity of which, as far as outward
ornament Is concerned, was touching and most
impressivo. - The -doors - - were-opene d-at-11.
Within a quarter of an hour , the whole body ,of
the church was filled with men; the side chapels
and, galleries. with ladies, uniformly attired in
mourning. To record the names of thostt who
responded to the invitation of Mme. Rossini
would be simply repeating the nomenclature of
the great men of the day, whose names
are already inscribed on the blazing roll of fame.
A group of academicians, wearing their uniforms
embroidered with the green bay ktaves; Senators
in bine and gold;the deputations from the Italian
cities- '
that of the Gene des Lettres, Paul de Mus
set at lts head; that of the musical compo.:ers,
with hi. Pougui (Auber was with the Conserva
toire in the right-nand gallery); that, of dramatic
authors, led by M. de- SL Georges, to whose
talent we owe Man's, due., dulls guanli. I was
politely asked by the hedeau to allow Marshal
Valiant to pass, and immediately folio wiag him
I recognized Prince Poniatotveky, the composer
of "Pierre de Medici," and Edmund About. At
1L45 our Ambassador. Lord Lyons, in his official
uniform of scarlet and gold, wearing several
stars, and a broad light blue ribbon
Across his breast, took his fauteuil on
the grand altar,* and next to that reserved for
the Italian Ambassador and the qonsul. The
Nuncio had an arm-chair close to the altar. Pre
cisely at 12 the first notes of the'Requiem in sTo
-111.010'15 Mute pealed from the I,roav orgao, soft
and low, gradually Mel li ng tin IS Veltiffie lt d titib
deed harmony flied the rast enciente. To convey
an idea of the impressive character of this over
ture is impossible—the denee audience listened
motionieses, and not a stir could be observed till
the velvet draperies . being drawn open we saw
the coffin being . carried into the church, sur
rounded by the immediate friends of the family,
as well as by Chevalier Nigra,
Baron Cerbuti Tamburini, Dnprez,Delle
Sedie, Gustave Dore and his brother,
Ambroise Thomas,&c. The , service of the dea
then c ommenced , the sound of the organ
having gradually died away in a melody - of ex
quisite softness.. Chevalier Nom, in his fall offi
cial costume, followed by,the Italian Consui,then
preceded to take his seat next to Lord Lyons.
The coffin was - placed beneath the catafalque,
and the musical homage of the greatest artistes
Europe could produce, maybe,salt en to have
Waist lords fiom the gallery in front - ot he grand
)
organ, responded to by the voices an harps of
the conservatoire and Grand Opera, tationed
in the right - hand gallery over-the gran -altar—
these latter under the personal eaperi tendence
of the veteran chief, Anber. The - bat" of the
mighty dead, executed by Tamburini, Garden!,
Nillson and Black; the duo of the "Stabat" by
Mine. Alboni and the Marquise de Caux;
the "Pro remade" by Fanre ; the "Lam
Mozart's "Lamy
moss," from Requiem; Berge
tem% "Ste.bat," by Nilsson, the "ele Jean," qua
tnor,by the great maestre,enng by Krauss,Grossi,
Nicollni and Agnesi; concluding by the Praver in
Melee, the soloa by Alhom,Patti, Nilsson, Black,
Garden', Tamburini and - Fiihre, composed the
magnificent musical tribute of respect and sor
row, to which we listened with feelings of pro
found sympathy and admiration. My pen is
powerless to convey to you even a faint concep
tion of this musical performance. I can only
comment on what struck the audience most for
cibly. Alboni had not been heard in years; when
her magnificent voice, in perfect unison with the
clear ringing tones of Patti, poured
forth its rich melody on oar ears, we
were literally entranced and breathless
with astonishment and rapture. The last
note sang, there was an instant's pause, and I
almost feared that the audience would have audi
bly expressed its appreciation of this matchless
perfotniance. Faure was grand in the "Pro Pee
cads," but the Swedish Nightingale's execution of
Pergolese's "Stabat" was the only event which ex
cited a similar./ ranissement throughout the audi
ence. "There were tears in her voice," remarked
a "fanatico per la musica," seated near me; and ho
was right, and tears were in many an eye, and
deep emotion manifested, on many a counte
nance, as this lair child , of the North interpreted
with the most exquisite delicacy of fetslieg
and musical science the glorious expression
of grief composed by forgolese. As I leaned
against the railing which divides the high
altar from the raised gallery, and surveyed the
immense congregation which filled La Trinite
I could not help being deeply impresttione by the
effect so evidently produced on the countenances
of the listenere,and the more deeply inasmuch as
the audience was composed of the most experi
enced musical critics in the world. But while I
thus write of the single voices, lot me not omit
the surprising beauty of the choruses, accompa
nied by the harps of the opera choristee. This
was a triumph of musical science, and inepres
sibly beautiful. Bat to describe sound and its ef
fect is simply impossible. I give it up, and pro
ce.ed to estate my' impression of the aspect of
Paris, ,a 8 it struck me on quitting the church, The
Place de la Trinitd was kept clear by-the Garde do
Paris; and this was but a necessary pre
caution to insure space. The procession
on leaving the church was opened by
two companies of the Fifty-first Reg
ment, with its band, which played the march in
"Semiramide" slowly and softly. A muorning
coach containing the clergy, preceded the simple
bier drawn by a single pair of horses, on which
lay the coffin, literally covered with wreaths of
fresh violets from Brescia, white lilacs and white
roses from Nice, pansies and camelias from his
native Pesaro—some tied with silver and some
with gold ribbon—all arrived by trains from dis
tant localities; the cordons held by the Italian am
bassador and Baron Cerruti, the Italian Consul,
on one side, and by , Camille Doncet, Saperin
tecdent-General des Theatres, and Anbor on the
other. I see in the evening papers several others
mentioned—l write but of thobe I saw; and a very
long and cold walk his Excellency must
have had to Pere la Chaise, for it was
freezing all day yesterday, and so dense was
the crowd that the procession was constantly
stopped. He wore a greatcoat over his uniform.
The numbers who preferred walking to follow
ing in their carriages were so great that when
the corbillard entered the Boulevards, the
mourning and private carriages had not yet quit
ted the Place de la Trinite. For the speeches I
must refer you .to the evening papers. M.
d'Ancona, who led the Italian deputation, re
calling• the campaign of Italy, and what his
country-owed-to France, terminating_his oration
with these words: "Yon have given us Malty; wo
have given you Rossini. Our nations are sis
ters." Camille Donut spoke next, in the - name
of the fine arts of France; Ambroise Thomas, in
I the 'name of the Institute; M. de St. George's,
for the Society of Dramatic Authors; M. Perrin,
for the Opera, and Baron Taylor and M. Gevaert,
for the Conaorvatcaro. I have heard to-day ,of
tickets having been sold by persons prevented
f rom being present as high as £2 and All. .
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