No doubt of it! A great diplomatic stroke on the part of Mr. JOHN HARE is this revival of _Diplomacy_--_i.e._, SARDOU'S _Dora_ in an English-made dress--at the Garrick Theatre. An unequivocal success (of which more "in our next") on Saturday night for everybody; and, after the Play was over, the audience, inspired by "the gods," called Mr. and Mrs. BANCROFT before the curtain. Mrs. BANCROFT, in the course of an admirable little speech, said, "If I stood here till next week, I should not be able to express all I feel." Now as, by the right time, it was exactly 11:54 P.M. _Saturday night_, this clever lady would certainly _not_ have been able in the time to express all she felt, or to say all she would have liked to say, seeing there were only six minutes left before "next week" began. * * * * * [Illustration: "GOING FOR THE TIMES!"--CHARGE OF "MERCENARIES." "Once more unto the breach (of privilege) dear Friends!"--_Henry the Fifth_, Act iii. s. 1.] * * * * * THE OLD FRENCHMAN AND THE YOUNG. (_After a Well-known Original._) "You are old, '_Le Grand Francais_,'" the young Frank said, "And your hair has become very white. Yet the Judges award you five years, it is said-- I can't think, at your age, it's quite right." "Such Gaul gratitude, boy!" _Le Grand Francais_ replied, "As it brightens history's page; In my youth I served France, was her boast and her pride; And France has forgotten my age." * * * * * "I hear," said Mrs. R., "that there is some question of real or sham Constables at Burlington House. Why not refer it to the Chief Commissioner of Police?" * * * * * Sad, but True. Your journalist may be a scribe of sense, or comicality, Avoiding the sensational, the silly, and the shoppy; But he can never make a claim to true originality, His contributions always being recognised as "copy." * * * * * NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception.