PARISIAN TREATRICALS.
The Italian Opera opened for the season on Thursday week, with Madame Alboni in Cenerentola. On Monday last, at the Grand Opera, Madame Medori, a soprano, Belgian by birth, (in spite of her name,) made a successful debfit in the presence of the Emperor and his consort. The character was Helene in the Vtpres Siciliennea. MM. E. Grange and L. Thiboust have written a burlesque on Les Blies, which under the
tide of Lea Nifes is performed at the Varietes. The plot of the original" is closely followed. Lea Toilettes Tapagenaes, a new vaudeville, written by MM. Dumanoir and Barriere, and produced at the Gymnase, pleasantly ridicules those extensive female dresses so often satirized in Punch. A virtuous married lady, by wearing one of the questionable habits, attracts the regards of a libertine, and nearly involves her husband in a duel. Penitence and straitened skirts are the happy result of the misadventure. A new melodrame called Le Maris' de la Garde has been brought out at the Cirque. To concoct this work, the authors, MM. Anicet Bourgeois and Michel Masson, have heaped together all the ordinary means of melo- dramatic excitement ; a war between France and Portugal forming the background, in accordance with the military character of the theatre.
The departure of Mademoiselle Rachel for Egypt is thus pathetically described by La Presse—" Thursday, the second of October, Made- moiselle Rachel embarked at Marseilles in the vessel which is to take her to Alexandria ; where she will pass the winter, on a calque, moored on the Nile, without ever touching land. Before her departure, she pre- pared with her own hand the documents relative to the sale of her hotel and her various property. All her final arrangements were made with the greatest calmness," which did not abandon her even when the moment of leave-taking arrived. She assembled around her the members of her family, her friends, and her servants, and addressed them in terms deeply affecting. All wept; she alone maintained tranquillity of mind and a countenance gravely impassible."
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