PARISIAN Tunanticans.
A short piece entitled La Clef des Chanting has been produced at the Opera Comique. The inhabitants of a French village, anxious to celebrate a local festival, are tit a loss for a rosiere, when the arrival of a
yqung domed, who wishes to officiate as servant to the cabaret of the place, seems likely to supply the deficiency. Everybody is fascinated by Jeannette, who to native graces adds the refined manners of a court. At last she proves to be the famous Madame Dubarry, who has left Versailles in a huff on eccount of some slight affront, and returns to the abode of Royalty when the huff is over. The music of this operatic trifle is by M. Dens; the words by M. Boisseau.
The old story, according to which Simon de Caus one of the many early inventors of the steam-engine, was confined at Vicetre as a lunatic, has been turned into a drame by M. Bigness, and is now played at the Gene. Tho misfortunes of the French engineer are attributed to his patriotism. Under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham' he seems in a thriving condition ; but his patron wishes him to employ his invention against his native country, and this he will not do. Hence a course of misery, which culminates in a madhouse ; but Cane before he dies has the satisfaction of seeing the book that contains his ideas in the hands of his young friend Pepin, afterwards celebrated as another patriarch of the steam-engine. The production of a new opera called Les _nits d' &papas, at the Theatre Lyrique, on Tuesday last, caused much excitement in the musical world. It is composed by M. Semet, an instrumental performer in the orchestra of the Academie, who for ten years has vainly endeavoured to bring it upon the stage. At last it appears, and the public has shown itself anxious to applaud the maiden work of a veteran musician.
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