A DARK SAYING.--Had HILDA DAWSON--who, as reported in the _D. T._ one day last week, was haled before Sir PETER EDLIN--been a character in some play of SHAKSPEARE'S, to whom the Bard had given these words to utter--"And this is what you call trial by Jury! Why they are not fit to try shoemakers!" what voluminous suggestions and explanations of the meaning of this phrase would not the learned Commentators have written! What emendations, alterations, or amendments of the text would not have been proposed! Perhaps, some hundreds of years hence, this dark saying of HILDA DAWSON'S will engage the close attention of some among the then existing learned body of Antiquaries. * * * * * "SOUNDS RATHER LIKE IT."--In France the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has gone to the DEVELLE. * * * * * THE HAYMARKET HYPATIA. That I never could struggle through CHARLES KINGSLEY'S novel _Hypatia_, is, as far as I am personally concerned, very much in favour of my pronouncing an unbiassed opinion on the "_new classical play_" ("Historical," if you like, but not "classical," and there is not the slightest chance of its becoming a "classic") written by G. STUART OGILVIE, entitled _Hypatia_, and "_founded on_ KINGSLEY'S _celebrated Novel_," which "celebrated Novel" is, for me at least, not only "celebrated," but "remarkable," as being one of the very few works of fiction (excepting always the majority of KINGSLEY'S works) completely baffling my powers of endurance. [Illustration: The Tip for the Alexandr(i)a Park Meeting. "_Heraclian_ must win." Notice the _Rara Nativa Oysteriana Shrub_ in the background.] [Illustration: Cyrillus Fernandez Gladstonius Episcopus.]