_Wednesday._--Extra. _Carmen._ Derby Day. I have been at the Derby. Glad to get back again. As to "back again," I don't "back again" anything for a long time. But, _à nos moutons_. _Toreador_ evidently has had his money on _Sainfoin_. Never sang better. Glad to see the simple Scotch lassie, MAGGIE MCINTYRE, once more as the village maiden. Charming. ZÉLIE DE LUSSAN as wickedly attractive as ever. What a collection such a gipsy would make on a Derby Day--a fine Derby Day--among the "pretty gentlemen" whose fortunes she would tell. Extra night this, and extra good. _Thursday._--A WAGNER Night. Crowded to see JEAN DE RESZKÉ as another Wagner Knight. NEDDIE DE RESZKÉ as the _King Henry_--every inch a King, and something to spare. Freddy Telramondo suits DAN DRADY better than _Don Giovanni_. Madame FURSCH-MADI as the wicked _Ortruda_,--("Never saw ought ruder than her conduct to Elsa," observes the irrepressible Mr. WAGSTAFF,)--And MAGGIE MACINTYRE as the virtuous but unhappy _Elsa_. The stranger in the land of WAGNER begins to wonder at the continuous flow of the melody, not one tiny cupful of which can he take away with him, until with joy he hears the Bridal Chorus at the commencement of the Third Act, and for a few moments he rests _dans un pays de connaissance_. _Friday._--_Lucia di Lammermoor._ Great night for Madame MELBA. Recalled three times before Curtain after each Act. Living illustration of once popular romance, "_Called Back_." Great night, too, for Harpist and Flutist. Both gentlemen highly applauded, and would have been recalled, but for the fact of their not having quitted the orchestra. Harper plays solo from _Harper's Miscellany_, arranged by DONIZETTI. RAVELLI the Reliable recalled also. _Saturday._--Brilliant house. Royal Highnesses early to come and last to go. Magnificent performance of _Die Meistersinger_. M. ISNARDON very comic as _Beckmesser_, LASSALLE a noble Hans Sachs ("the shoemaker who sings a sole-o," says Mr. WAGSTAFF), JEAN DE RESZKÉ a grand young _Walther_, MONTARIOL (as before) a capital silly idiot _David_, Mlle. BAUERMEISTERSINGER very lively as _Magdalena_, and Madame TAVARY a skittish young chit in the somewhat trying and rather thankless part of _Eva_. The tenor's song to her ought to be, "EVA, of thee I'm fondly dreaming," if WAGNER had only thought of it. Opera too long; but Wagnerites don't complain, and certainly to-night they get their money's worth and something over, from 7.30 till past midnight. * * * * * A SWEET THING IN CRITICISM.