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extraordinary occurrence took place at the theatre at Paris on the 24th March, at the representation of Germanicus, a new tragedy, from the pen of M. Arnault, one of the banished members of the Institute. The Duke of Bern, who was in his box with his suite, honoured the noble sentiments the tragedy is replete with by his repeated approbation. All was tranquil during the representation, excepting when the genuine beauties of the piece called forth the rapturous applauses of the audience. But when the author was called for, as is customory at Paris, a serious skirmish ensued. In an instant a thousand sticks were brandished in the air: the royalist officers were violently assaulted with bludgeons by the half-pay officers, who were in much greater numbers. The pit was carried by the Bonapartists; the boxes by the Royalists. The curtain drew up, and a numerous party of gendarmerie, with fixed bayonets, rushed into the pit, and order was restored; but not till after many persons had been much hurt. MM. De Cazes, and D'Angles waited on his Majesty, and represented that it would not be prudent that Germanicus should be repeated, as the