"_The change of tactics last week on the part of the Police, in permitting a Meeting in Trafalgar Square, was said to be due to the interference of the Home Secretary._"--_Daily Papers._ ] * * * * * T'other and Which; or, an Old Saw re-set. _The Showman at Nottingham or Islington (exhibiting figures of G. O. M. and Orchid Joe)._ Here you see the Separatist Party as large as life! _Dubious Elector._ Please, which is the Separatist Party? _Showman._ Whichever you please, my little dear. You pays your money, and you gives your vote. *** FREE AND VERY OPEN.--In Canterbury Cathedral, the other day, there was only one worshipper present at the Service! The occurrence is declared to be unprecedented, four having been the previous low-water-mark of attendance. It might be described as "one-man rule," only it isn't the rule, but the exception, it seems. If this sort of thing spreads, the craze for restoring our Cathedrals ought to give way to a cry for restoring their congregations. Was the Service altered to "Dearly Beloved Brother" or "Sister?" * * * * * SHOWS VIEWS. _By Victor Who-goes-Everywhere._ [Illustration] M. COQUELIN is at the Royalty with an efficient French Company appearing in a round of his best-known characters. He has already taken part in _Un Parisien, Don Cæsar de Bazan_ and an entirely new piece (first time in London and elsewhere) _L'Aîné_. This last I had the pleasure of seeing the other evening, and was delighted to find that it was a play that could be safely recommended as a fit entertainment for their charge to the guardians of that apparently very easily-influenced infant, "The Young Person." It is rather suggestive of several English original pieces, amongst the rest _Miriam's Crime_ and _Faded Flowers_. The adopted daughter (rescued as a child from the gutter) of a millionnaire, after her protector's death, undertakes the reformation of her benefactor's brother, who takes, through intestacy, the whole of his senior's estate. To carry this out effectively, the young lady prevents the heir from drinking his _chasse_ after his coffee, and playing a game of _écarté_ with an old friend, for love, and finally offers to marry him. The heir is as quiet as a lamb under these inflictions, until he discovers that his _fiancée_ loves some one else, when he proposes, at the earliest possible moment, to commit suicide. This inconvenient intention is prevented, the adopted daughter marries the man of her choice, and the heir goes back to America, thus all ends happily. COQUELIN, as the heir, was seen to very great advantage in the less sentimental parts of the character, but was not quite so successful when he commenced crying over the portrait of _L'Aîné_, which, by the way, was a very excellent likeness (without the eyeglass) of the Right Hon. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. For the rest Madame MALVAU was rather a mature adopted daughter, M.