Clevedon is, I believe, in Somerset. Anyone in search of a sensation ought to have gone there last week, for it is stated that "Mr. Victor Rosini's Spectral Opera Company commenced a week's engagement at the Public Hall on Monday evening." I cannot imagine a spectral basso or tenore robusto. And in any case, why should the unfortunate operatic spectres be harried into giving public performances?


Musical Honours!!—The friends of Sir Henry James, Q.C., M.P., will celebrate his being raised to the peerage by serenading with "The Aylestone Chorus."


"VIVA L'ITALIA!"

Admiral Punch (to Italia on the occasion of her Fleet visiting England). "Welcome, mia Bella, to you and your splendid Ships! I come of an old Italian Family myself!"