elsewhere) about midnight, many being detained by the singers at the Opera from getting to the SPEAKER'S "at Home," Sweet Home. _Thursday._--_Pagliacci_, with Miss PAULINE JORAN appearing as _Nedda_, and playing it in first-rate style. "Gee up! _Nedda!_" _Query._ PINI-CORSI good as _Tonio_? _Answer._ 'CORSI was. T'others not much, but Opera still charming. Yet this evening's programme too trying for emotional persons. _Pagliacci_, tragedy; _Cavalleria Rusticana_ tragedy also; tragedy from beginning to end; even the celebrated _mezzo_ very like a wail! Not kind of DRURIOLANUS to afflict us thus. Madame BELLINCIONI, "the original _Santuzza_," admirable. Honours easy between Madame CALVÉ and BELLINCIONI. The latter played it first abroad; but the former had the start of her _here_. In some of the action peculiarly characteristic of the type, BELLINCIONI wins, not by a neck, but by two hands. CALVÉ more striking (hands down) in her jealous agony. Signor VALENTINE FIGARO ANCONA excellent as _Alfio_; the situation when VIGNAS, going strong as _Turiddu_, catches _Alfio's_ ear, in order, as he says in Sicilian, "Tu-rid-u of his presence" by subsequently killing him, more dramatic than ever. GIULIA RAVOGLI admirable as quite the gay _Lola_ of the Sicilian Seven Dials. After _intermezzo_ Bowing BEVIGNANI declines _encore_. _Friday._--Child _Harold_ allowed to sit up late for another night. Composer COWEN ought to sing, "I love my ALBANI with an A, because she's Admirable." _Harold_ improveth on representation. _William Malet_ played by RICHARD GREEN. Nice of the librettist, Sir EDWARD MALET, to keep the memory of his ancestor Green. It must make singers rather nervous to have the composer _vis-à-vis_ conducting his own work; as WAGSTAFF observes, "in this instance it must have the effect of Cowin' them." 'Nother week gone. * * * * * A SIESTA. How sleepy I feel! It is this beastly influenza cold and headache. The best thing to do for a headache is to have a little doze and sleep it off. Not a very easy thing to do in a big Paris hotel in the afternoon. However, it is quiet enough in my room, looking on to the courtyard, away from the noises of the Boulevard.