Prince Fritellini, sings very well indeed, and acts fairly. The Rocco of Mr. T. P. Haynes is in every respect a satisfactory performance, his appearance, gait, and gesture in the robes of grand chamberlain being extremely mirth-provoking. Miss Lottie Venn makes a good Fiammetta. Misses Graham, Deacon, Percival, Callaway, Ward, and Douglas, as the Royal pages, look simply charming, and sing well together. Last, but by no means least, Mons. F. Gaillard, as Pippo, the shepherd, wins all hearts by his fine voice and handsome appearance. The performance is preceded by the comedietta Seeing Frou-Frou,' which would be more enjoyable if it were less ridiculous in its conception of the proprieties of society, and not quite so extravagantly acted. Mr. T. P. Haynes and Mr. Lytton Grey, as Augustus Perkins and Samuel Pribble, however, are not bad.

In order to satisfy those who may still be anxious for their personal safety whilst in a theatre, I will mention that in building the Comedy great care has been bestowed on the various entrances and exits of the theatre. The corridors and passages are wide and fireproof. Two separate ways lead from each part of the auditorium into the street, thus rendering accident from fire or panic next to impossible. Lamps are used in all the passages to give light in case of failure of the gas, and it is estimated that when full the place could, if required, be emptied in less than two minutes, in this respect presenting a marked superiority over many theatres.

At the Adelphi theatre, the old home of melodrama in the Strand, Messrs. A. and S. Gatti have at last hit the taste of their patrons, and there is every probability of Mr. Henry Pettitt's five-act English drama occupying the stage for a long time to come. In Mr. Charles Warner (whose fortunes for a considerable period now have been identified with melodrama) as Walter Lee, the artist hero, Mr. Pettitt has secured an exponent who, uniting a manly form and fine delivery, at the same time possesses all that facial expression and powers of pathos and humour so necessary for the ideal hero of this class of work. With Mr. Warner's conception of the character little fault can be found even by the most captious critic. He has power and force without ranting, and never for one moment does his tender pathos verge upon the ridiculous. As Kate

Denby Miss Gerard found fair scope for the display of her undoubted talents, nor did this actress fail to take advantage of every opportunity the part afforded her. Philip Radley, an adventurer and sporting man, was played by Mr. J. D. Beveridge, who represented the conventional villain of domestic dramas in the conventional mode. He was, however, so far successful in his delineation as to excite the cordial hatred of his audience, and their hisses whenever he showed himself before the curtain. Mr. Fred. Thorne, in the rather difficult character of Titus Knott, a tipster and sporting prophet, acquitted himself fairly; so also did Miss Edith Bruce as Mary Maguire, a servant girl and afterwards the cast-off mistress of Philip Radley. Her father, William Maguire, found a fairly good representative in Mr. E. H. Brooke; and John Denby, Kate's murdered brother, in Mr. Edward Price. Miss Florence Chalgrove is to be complimented on her lively impersonation of Bella Graystone, the heiress in love with Robert Channell, a young gentleman of sporting proclivities, played by Mr.

Otway Compton.

Taken from Life' is altogether a powerful drama, liberally mounted, and it introduces some very realistic effects-for example, the blowing down the wall of Clerkenwell Gaol in order to allow the escape of certain Socialist pri soners, whereby Walter is set at liberty; his second escape on the back of the Derby winner, Comet ; and also the fading away of the walls of the prison to enable the audience to witness a sad meeting between Walter Lee and his wife within. There is plenty of sensation in the piece : enough, I am sure, to satisfy the craving after excitement of the most ardent playgoer in this sensation-loving age. January 26. THESOP.

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NOTES AND LEADERETTES.

PROFESSOR THEODORE SCHWANN, the world-famous histological anatomist and biologist, died last week.

NATIONAL HEALTH SOCIETY.-At the meeting of the National Health Society held on Tuesday, at 44 Berners Street, it was announced that Lord Derby had become a life member and vice-president of the society.

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, IRELAND.-A proclamation in Tuesday's Dublin Gazette dissolves the Queen's University, Ireland, in favour of the Royal Irish University, which is now in a position to confer degrees.

SIR JAS. PAGET, whose departure to Nice on account of ill health we some time ago announced, has, we are glad to be informed, returned to town fully recruited, and is once more engaged in active professional labours.

DR. ANDREW CLARK will preside at a lecture "On Dress of the Period," to be given (under the auspices of the National Health Society) by Mr. Frederick Treves, F.R.C.S., of the London Hospital, on Saturday afternoon, February 25, at the Town Hall, Kensington.

AT A MEETING of the Cardiff Infirmary governors on Monday, the report of the building committee that the contract for the erection of a new infirmary at a cost of 22,720/. by Messrs. Clarke, Burton, & Co., Cardiff, had been accepted, was agreed to. The building is to be completed within twelve months. Among the subscribers to the fund are Lord Tredegar and Mr. Ware, each 1,000 guineas.

THE Sanatorium near Windsor, built by Mr. Holloway, and on which he has already expended 300,000, will probably be opened next May. The institution will, it is stated, be endowed with 50,000l. According to the proposed rules, no patient will be permitted to remain an inmate longer than twelve months, nor will anyone be received whose case is considered hopeless, and no person will be admitted to the

benefits of the Sanatorium who cannot pay the moderate charges which will be made, Mr. Holloway's announced intention being to assist the great body of the middle-class.

VIVISECTION.-The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, in a letter upon vivisection, says :-'I loathe the subject intensely, and am unable to imagine the process by which men of education-or men at all-bring themselves to perform such cruelties.' We may be permitted to wonder, in return, by what means Mr. Spurgeon is enabled to utter any opinion on the subject. What are the claims he advances in favour of his being accepted as an authority on scientific questions?

THE SMALL-POX SCARE has extended to Camberwell, where, at a meeting of residents in the neighbourhood of Old Kent Road, on Monday evening last, the following resolution was passed:-'That this meeting pledges itself to support the Camberwell Vestry by every possible means to secure the closing of the Deptford Smallpox Hospital at Hatcham, and will enlist the concurrence of the inhabitants in order to effect such a consummation.' It was further resolved to collect subscriptions. towards obtaining an injunction against the Metropolitan Asylums Board continuing to employ the existing hospital. Presently small-pox patients will be, as a matter of necessity, if this local agitation continues, confined to their homes, and thus act as centres of infection.

THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING, at the monthly conference of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination, to be held in Steinway Hall, 15 Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, Marylebone, at 7.30, the chair will be occupied by Dr. Andrew Clark, and a paper read by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C.B., entitled 'The Increase of Small-pox Mortality in London, during the year 1880, without any corresponding increase in other parts of the kingdom, a reason-not for a Repeal of the Compulsory Vaccination Act-but for increasing the efficiency of its operation.' question have been invited to attend. Medical men holding different views on this

BICARBONATE OF SODA as a remedy for burns is still, The Practitioner believes, un

familiar to the majority of medical men. If this surmise be correct it is to be regretted, for, whether applied to the wounded surface in the form of fine powder, or in (saturated) solution with water, no applica

THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF

DISEASES OF THE nervous SYSTEM.

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pain. We have seen the specific influence thus exerted on many occasions, and the knowledge of the properties possessed in this direction by the bicarbonate cannot be too widely spread.

A MEETING of hospital authorities will be held this (Thursday) evening at the United Service Institution, where the ambulance presented to the London Hospital by Mr. Crossman, will be exhibited. This is intended to serve as the model for similar carriages which it is designed to provide at different places in the metropolis to serve for the safe and easy conveyance of injured persons to the hospital nearest the scene of accidents, thus avoiding the distress. occasioned by travelling in cabs. meeting will also consider Dr. Howard's proposition to organise a hospital ambulance service for London, to include the establishment of telephonic communication with hospitals and police stations. We hope the objects of the meeting may be fully secured.

The

A CORRESPONDENT has sent us a copy of the newspaper called the Referee, a writer in which makes a most ignorant and unjustifiable attack on hospital surgeons, in a column of notes headed 'Mustard and Cress.' This person is apparently impressed with the idea that medical practitioners are born fully equipped for the prosecution of professional work; any notion that the study of medicine and lengthened observation of the characters of diseases is an essential preliminary to the acquisition of medical knowledge, is evidently quite foreign to him; and, as might be supposed, he commits the grossest errors possible in drawing conclusions favourable to his limited view of professional education. We can only regret that the public should be misled by such articles as we refer to; and for his own sake, the author of it would do well to make inquiries which may lead him to repudiate the offensive and vulgar attack into which he has been betrayed by sensational articles as founded as his own lucubrations.

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Dunelm.

Physician to, and Joint Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at, the Newcastle-on-Tyne Infirmary; Physician to the Children's Hospital; Joint Lecturer on Physiology, University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

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[NOTE. The diagram, fig. 1, on the Supplement to the thirteenth number of The Medical News is, unfortunately, very incorrect, and the explanatory table corresponding with the numbers on the figure is also full of errors. The writer had the diagram and table copied for him from Bartholow's book, and as he did not see a proof of the paper he was unaware of the errors until too late. Being in want of a diagram of the kind to introduce, and being too much pressed for time to prepare an original one, the writer took Bartholow's diagram and table without suspecting their inaccuracies, and hence the appearance of so many errors, for which an apology is offered to the reader. Appended is a correct diagram, showing the motor points.]

APOPLEXY. CEREBRAL HÆMORRHAGE. The following considerations refer to the effusion of blood into the substance of the brain or its ventricles.

Morbid Anatomy.-Cerebral hemorrhages vary very considerably in extent. They occur either as capillary extravasations (usually formed with cortical grey matter), or as isolated effusions, some of which are exceedingly large, and may occupy the greater part of one hemisphere-in some cases as much as eight or ten ounces are poured out. As a rule these hæmorrhages vary in size from a small hazel nut to a large walnut.

When fresh the apoplectic clot is generally dark, and, towards its periphery, more or less mixed with broken-up brain matter. The limiting wall consists of brain débris, outside which lies a zone of softened tissue infiltrated with blood serum, which is often the seat of capillary hæmorrhages.

When recovery takes place the effused blood and broken-up brain matter gradually disappear, and in their place may be found, a few months after the attack, either a cyst containing yellow or brown else cicatricial tissue which may have been preceded fluid and some loose, spongy connective tissue, or by a cyst.

Etiology.-Whilst it is true that cerebral hæmorrhage occurs most frequently in advanced life, comparatively seldom below 40- according to Gintrac's statistics the decade from sixty to seventy showed the greatest proportion of cases-it must be recollected that early life by no means precludes such a diagnosis. In childhood meningeal hæmorrhages are proportionately much more frequent than in advanced age.

Men are more frequently attacked than women, being more exposed to the influences which predispose to the affection.