... The theatres are breaking into blossom now, one after another, fast as flowers in June; and the new dramatic season, which begins well, promises yet better for the months to come. DBuity LANE has reopened with Mr Bayle Bernard's successful arrangement of Faust, and plays after it-as a joke for the present generation-what our forefathers took seriously as one of the best of melodramas, the ...

... The following amusing Parody on the Epistles of St Paul has been issued by authority of the Archbishop of Canter- bury: TO THE FAITHFUL IN CHRIST JESUS, THE PRIESTS AND DEACONS, AND THE LAY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN COMMUNION WITH THE ANGLICAN BRANCH OF THE CHURCH CATHOLIC. We, the undersigned bishops gathered under the good providence of {od for prayer and conference at Lambeth, pray ...

... if I might give a short hint to ean impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. If be resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unhiassed truth, lctltim proclaim war with mankin -neither to give nor to take quarter. - If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron bands of the law ;if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob ...

... Saturday Evening. FLORENCE, Oct. 4.-Up to yesterday no serious encounter had occurred between the insurgents in the province of Viterbo and the Papal troops. It is said that the majority of the population remain passive. Several parties of in- surgents, mostly destitute of arms and provisions, have surrendered to the Italian authorities on the frontier. Advices received here from the Roman ...

... Edu zf lot M uh# Home Notes. The Reform Banquet at the Crystal Palace came off on Monday with success. The following is Mr Bright's answer to the invitation to be present: Dear Sir,-I shall be very sorry to disappoint any of those who rejoice with us in the wide extension of the suffrage, but I cannot undertake to be present at the proposed great meeting and dinner at the Crystal Palace, to ...

... if ltnft.t THE NEWTON-PASCAL PAPERS. Professor Hirst writes to the Times: In a communication to the British Association at Dundee, reported in the Times of September 12, I stated that M. Chasles, desirous of submitting his newly-acquired papers to every possible test, had for- warded specimens of the alleged, handwriting of Newton to Sir David Brewster and myself through his friend M. de ...

... 6assipo The Queen spent several days last week in a private vis;t to the Duke of Richmond, at his shooting lodge at Glenfid- doch. The Prince and Princess of Prussia will visit the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Sandringham, about the middle of October, and on the Queen's return from Scotland, the Prince and Princess of Prussia will pay a visit to the Queen at Windsor. The Queen of Holland ...

... A Church Congress has been meeting this week in the Agricultural Hall at Wolverhampton. At the evening sitting, on Tuesday, the topic was The best reains of bringing Losonformnists into Union with the church. It was opened with a Paper by Lord Lytteltonj who said that they must assume that the Church held a 'vantage ground, not only of ancient position but of truth; and they desired to see her ...