MRS. LORIMER STACKWORTHY is busy with a new life of one of our earliest Queens, BOADICEA, based on contemporary documents and family papers, many of which are in cipher. The publishers, (SPORLE AND MUSSITT) will be glad to hear of an authentic portrait of the subject of MRS. STACKWORTHY's interesting monograph. The article, in the _Pedantic Review_, on "Pies and Puddings," which has caused such a stir in literary and culinary circles, bears strong internal evidence of the practised pen of PROFESSOR PORRINGER. That on "Extraordinary Ebullitions," in the _Impartialist_, is understood to emanate from DR. JULIUS TEEZER. JEWINI'S great classic Opera--_La Vecchia Madre Ubardio_--will be revived next season at La Scala. A new weekly periodical is announced. It will be printed, published, edited, written, illustrated, stitched, and sold exclusively by women, and the type, ink, and paper, will be supplied by manufacturers who employ none but female artificers. Men will not be allowed to interfere with this journal in any way, except as purchasers. The title is _Superior Wisdom_. SIGNOR ZAFFERANO-COLLINA has resumed his (open air) Organ performances on Campden Hill. The Signor's _repertoire_ has not received any accession during the recess. In the course of the ensuing season, MESSRS. BRANE AND BOOKER will bring to the hammer the valuable Library formed by the late JONATHAN BELL DIVER, M.A., F.A.S., F.E.L.S. It is remarkably rich in nursery rhymes, cookery books, gipsyana, and treatises on dentistry and fireworks, and includes a unique series of privately printed publications relating to the County of Rutland. The result of more extended investigations goes to prove that the _Octopus_ will not attack man, except in defence of its religion. MR. GRANBY FUSSFORTH has completed his arrangements for the delivery of a course of Six Lectures on "Winds and Windfalls," in the North of London. He will afterwards make a tour through Lambeth, Surrey, Southwark, and the Tower Hamlets, and will probably conclude his labours in the Old Kent Road. Telegrams from Trebizond say that MADAME CORALIA VOLANTI has created a perfect _furore_ there, by her extraordinary performances on the high rope. _Bertha's Black Box_ is the title of a new Serial Story, by a popular and prolific writer, to be commenced in an early number of _Alsatia_. It will be illustrated by BANNOCKS. MR. WYCHERLEY BIBB has a farcical comedy in preparation which will be produced at the "Sheridan" in the course of the season. The plot turns on one of the principal characters mistaking a private mansion for an hotel. FACEY SMILES has a wonderful part in it.