_Then the Ghost in great detail acts the murder in the orchard, imitating the apples and the singing birds, the setting sun, &c., &c. He shows the composition of the poison after its plucking from a bush, and its arrival in the laboratory. He represents the actual pouring of the poison in his ear. He hints too (by suggesting the action of the bell-ringer) that he was never really mourned, and concludes a most spirited Ballet d'Action by a rapid sketch of the paling of the ineffectual fires of the glow-worm. As he leaves to the music of_ "Then you'll Remember Me," HAMLET _imitates cockcrow, which brings the entertainment to an appropriate termination._ Surely this would be an improvement upon the conventional reading? In this case where speech is silvern, silence would be golden. Trusting some Manager will take the matter up, I remain, always yours sincerely, A DUMB WAITER. * * * * * OPERATIC NOTES. _Monday.--Faust_ and Foremost. Miss EAMES better even than she was last week. NED DE RESZKÉ not so diabolical a _Mephistopheles_ as M. MAUREL. NEDDY RESZKÉ Not so goblineske, and a stouter sort of demon, but of course a "_bon diable_." [Illustration: Cards held by Druriolanus Operaticus.] _Wednesday._--_Roméo et Julietta._ JACK and NED DE RESZKÉ _Roméo_ and _The Friar_. Why the waltz alone, which ought to be on every organ besides Miss EAMES'S, but which, strange to say, isn't thoroughly popular, should be enough to make an Opera; but it's like the proportion of one swallow in the composition of a summer, and, however well sung, it does not do everything. It's a dull Opera. _Thursday._--_Carmen_ again. House not immense. Persons "of note" chiefly on the stage. JULIA same as before; therefore refer to previous notice. Cab and carriage service after the theatres everywhere wants reforming altogether. We may not be worse off than in any other capital of Europe, but we ought to be far ahead of them. Somebody or other complained of my writing "GLÜCK" instead of "GLUCK," He didn't like the two dots; one too many for the poor chap, already in his dotage, so to relieve him and soothe him, I'll write it "GLUCK," and then he can go to the proprietor of "DAVIDSON'S Libretto Books" and ask him to take the dotlets off the "Ü" in GLÜCK. I wonder if my strongly-spectacle'd fault-finder writes the name of HANDEL correctly? I dare say so correct a person never falls into any sort of error; or if he does, never admits it. I like it done down to dots, as "HÄNDEL," myself; it looks so uncommonly learned.