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HER MAJESTY'S'THEATRE.

On Saturday night last this Temple of the Muses was
a scene of unusual excitement and gaiety, caused by the
little enchantress Marietta Piccolomini's highly-finished
and exquisite performance of Norma in Donizetti's fa-
vourite opera, "Don Pasquale." Those habitues of the
opera and lovers of music who were fortunate enough to
enjoy the Piccolomini's admirable interpretation of Vio-
letta in "La Traviata," and who were sensibly affected
by her sorrows, were equally enchanted on Saturday
night with the extreme versatility of her talent in the
gay, pert, buoyant, young hypocrite, which she acted to
perfection. We, who to a certain extent are rather
blase, from our operatic experience of thirty years, must
candidly acknowledge we were thoroughly amused, nay
even delighted, not only with the piquant prof ago.
nista Piccolomini, but with the extraordinary effect she
produced upon her enraptured audieece. Some ladies
near us, who seemed as if they came from the coantry,
smiled, others tittered, and others laughed, but at, last the
irresistible comicality of some of her scenes with Belletti
as Malatesta, and Rossi as Don Pasquale, was so
great that they were obliged to throw off all restraint,
and they indulged to their heart's content in fits of
laughter the most enthusiastic and genuine. To de-
pict the various phases of this admirable performance
would occupy too much space in our journa'. Suffice
it to say, that the two principal scenes, the one be-
tween her and Malatesta, where they. are concocting
the plot against the amorous old dandy Dan Pasquale,
and the scene between her an 1 the Dan, where, ho hav-
ing signed the mock marriage cintract, she immediately
throws off the mask, and from being the most lamb-
like of the gentle sex, she bee )nee the tyrannic terma-
gant, were given with aq that genuine vis coinica
which would have done honour to the most mature
actress on the English boards. Her singing also was
remarkable for good taste, judgment, and careful study,
and her exertions were crownoi with oomplete success
by calls before the curtain after each act, and calls
and recalls after the opera, besides a shower of
bouquets. Calzolari was a worthy representative
of the lover Erneste, and sung most sweetly, as he al-
ways does. The serenade was, of course, encored, as it
always is, and always will be ; and the duettini " Tor-
narni a der the m'arni," with Piccolomini, was a gem of
the first water. When we say that Belletti was the Mala-
testa of the evening, our musical readers will be confident
that nothing could be more effective than the well-known
reading of this ungrateful role. We now end our pleas-
ing task in recording the triumphant success of Signor
Rossi, as the amorous old beau Don Pasquale, whose
performance gave universal satisfaction. We have much
pleasure in adding our meed of praise to his highly
comic interpretation of this role, and further add, that
he not only acted and sung the part in a highly-finished
manner, but that his byplay was judicious, his make-up
in good taste, and his appearance altogether just what
it ought to be. We congratulate the spirited lessee on
the number of talented artistes he has introduced this
season to his subscribers and the habitues of the opera,
who already are favourites of the public. The charming
Rosati displays all the wonders of the dance nightly in
" The Corsaire," one of the most splendid ballets ever
produced.

MADEMOISELLE JOHANNA. WAGNER'S benefit took
place last night, when we were happy to perceive the
house was crowded in every part. Tue moment the fair
beneficiaire made her appearance she was greeted with
a genuine burst of applause, which must have been very
gratifying to her. Ail through the opera she seemed to
exert herself, so as not to leave anything to be desired
by her numerous patrons—singing and acting with an
abandon truly artistic, and at the fall of the curtain she
was called, and recalled, four times by the unanimous
voice of the house, when she was so overwhelmed with
garlands, crowns, and bouquets, that one might have
thought all the bouquetcriee' shops in Covent-garden
market were deprived of their floral treasures. The
first time she was called before the curtain she grace.
fully and gallantly led on Madl'e. Jenny Baur, who was
OD this occasion as successful as on the first night of the
performance of Tancredi. The orchestra, under the able
direction of Signor Bonotti in the opera, and Mons.
Nadaud in the ballet, was admirable.

ON CANCER-V.ELPE AU-MARSDEN.

( From the Lancet.)

[We extract the following notice with much plea-
sure from a publication very competent to do full
justice to the eminent author, and no less eminent
translator of a work of deep interest to the public
at large, but more particularly to the medical pro-
fession] :

Traito des Maladies du Sein et de la Rjgion Mammafre.
Par A. VELPEAII, Membre de l'lastituto Chirurgien
de l'Hopital de la Charit6, &c.

On Cancer of the Breast and Mammary Region. By A.
VELPEAII, dlember of the Instigate, &o. Translated
from the French by W. MARSDEI,T, M.D., Surgeon to
the Royal Free and Cancer Hospitals. London

Henry Renshaw.
A. literal and faithful translation of a most valuable
treatise on the Mal:gnant Diseases of the Breast and of
the Mammary Region, by M. Velpeau, the celebrated
Parisian surgeon, has most opportunely been offered the
publ►c and the profession by Dr. Marsden, senior sur-
geon to, and founder of, the Royal Free Hospital, and
hea I :surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, Brampton and
London. Notwithstanding the many valuable additions
to the literature of malignant disease of the Breast an-I
Nlammary Region, such a work was greatly wanted. It I
history is briefly this :
M. Velpeau is pre eminent as a-practical man, pro•
found physiologist, ani talented author. The present
work contains the results of more than thirty years' care•
ful clinical observations conducted in large hospitals, in
the presence of numerous c'a-zses of students ; and in an
extensive private and consultation practice, aided by the
researches of the first micrograoliers of the day, who
mostly were, indeed, M. Valpeau's students. Thus no.
thing has ben neglected, ca'culated in the most remote
manner to throw light on a subject confessedly surround-
ed by the greatest difficulties. Dr. Marsden, being
surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, where, daily, as it were,
every form of this dreadful disease is brought before him,
must, during a long and active professional life have be-
came familiar with all the difficulties besetting an in-
geiry which, as M. Velpeau judiciously remarks, ha-;
extended, nearly in its present form, from Hippocrates to
the present day. Thus the work appears in its English
dress under the most favourable circumstances.

As regards the Pathology of Cancer, that all-import-
ant point, it is but too evident, and we say it with re-
gret, that the doctrine of the cancer cell, so ably ex-
pounded by L6bert, Vogel, and other distinguished
micrograpbers, can no longer be accepted as a doctrine
or theory entitled to hold its ground in medicine. The
cancer cell is not pathognomonie of cancer ; its presence
is no proof of the malignant character of the disease, nor
its absence of the opposite. The work before us proves
incuntestibly that M. L6bert and those who think with
him will be compelled, however reluctantly, to modify
their views and opinions on this important matt€r. To
the operation, as performed with the scalpel or bistoury,
Velpeau still looks as the only remedy to be at all
depended on. That it fails he frankly admits ; no sur-
geon lives who' less dreads his want of success being
known. But although favourable to the use of the
kuife,—emboldened in this course, no doubt, by the suc-
cessful application of etherisation,—he is not unmindful
nor reluctari t to admit the benefits which patients labouring
under malignant disease may derive from the judicious
use of caustics, the various qualities of which he de-
scribes with infinite care, and the utmost impartiality.
To say that the work of M. Velpeau contains every
novelty in doctrine and in practice, as we shOuld expect
from a French surgeon, is not to do it justice ; it con-
tains the results of the inquiries of a highly gifted mind,
which for thirty years bad never lost sight of the disease.
Thus every remedy has been tried, every recommen-
dation attended to, how suspicious soever might be the
source whence the recommendation or the proposed
remedy came. It is not enough to say that it merits
the confidence cf all ; the work is destined to become
popular, and to be a standard of reference for a century
at least. To the oldest, to the most experienced, its
perusal will suggest many points for reflection ; carefully
studied, it will place the young surgeon aa courant with
the most advanced doctrine•and practice of the day; to
the provincial surgeon especially this work must prove
invaluable,

If an agreeable reflection may ba drawn from a sub•
ject so disheartening as the medical history of cancer, it
will be found, we think, in the courageous, indefatigable,
and unceasing efforts on the part of the profession, dur-
ing so many centuries, to disc3ver a remedy for the most
terrible of all diseases. The latest effort in this direction
we now review ; the treatise before us furnishes a secure
starting point for future inquiry, and for a long period
to come will assuredly he viewed as a classical work on
Cancer of the Breast. Four highly-finished and beauti-
fully-coloured engravings further enhance the value of
this elaborate and practical treatise.
It was, originally, the intention of the translator, as
we learn from a short note attached to the translation,
to have added to the original work of M. Velpeau, notes
and observations drawn from the results of his own ex-
tended practice, bUt we think he has acted judiciously
in reserving them for a separate and distinct work, in
which the great practical question of the importance of
a combined constitutional and surgical treatment may be
fully submitted to the profession and the public.

TR E CZAR AND PRINOE If ENSOB 'KOFF.

The Invalicle I?usse publishes the following imperial
rescript, addressed to Prince Menschikoff, on the occa-
sion of his jubilee of fifty years passed iu the service of
the state :

"Prince Alexander Sergovitch,—The completion of
the fiftieth year that you have paF!sed in the service of
the state furnishes me with the most agreeable opportu-
nity of recalling the eminent services, both rui!itary and
administrative, that rendered conspicuous your indefatig-
able, zPairme, and loyal devotedness during the reign of
the Emperor Alexander I. of blessed memory, and during
the reign of my late father, the Emperor Nicholas.
"In the memorable period of the years 1813, 1814,
and 1815, you took part, in the capacity of aide-de-camp,
and in the functions intrusted to you by your Sovereign,
in many actions within sight of the enemy, and every-
where you gave proof of much personal bravery and
great self-denial.
" In the courre of the war of 1818 against the Otto-
man Porte, which was so honourable for you in every
sense, the capture of the fortresl of Anapa, covered you
with glory, as likewise the army that fought under your
orders. On that occasion you hoisted f'r the first time,
to use the words of your own report, the flag of corn-
mander-in•chief of the naval staff, functions with which
you had just been invested by the confidence of the mo-
narch. Your labours and the dispositions you made at
the siege of Varna, in which you were severely wounded
by a gun shot, are no less worthy of enlogium. Yonr
!lame will remain for ever connected with the history of
the incomparable defence of Sebastopol, that you main-
tained for 11 months.

"It is to you that belong the first brilliant pages of
the annals that will relate to posterity the history of an
obstinate defence against the immense forces of the

enemies.

"In enumerating your military merits I am happy at
being able to mention your civic career. During the 26
years of your administration of the naval jurisdiction,
and during your equally long administration of the great
principally of Finland, you constantly enjoyed the un
alterable good wishes of my father, of imperishable me-
mory, who esteemed you, as he expressed to me, before
the supreme hour of death, as his companion and friend.
"Moreover, your merits and high capacities have
caused other functions in other branches of the Govern-
ment to be confided to you, and in every instance you
distinguished yourself by indefatigable activity and great
sacrifice of self. In fully appreciating the eminent ser-
vices you have not ceased to render for half a century,
I consider it my duty to express to you my cordial and
sincere gratitude, and I hope that, amid the labours
that await me, I shall obtain your valuable assistance
and your old devotion, for the welfare of our beloved
Russia.—l remain for ever pion affectionately,
(Signed) " ALEXANDER."