Theatrical.

Evening Post, Issue 109, 15 June 1865, Page 3

Theatrical.

— A correspondent, who signs himself •' No Sneezer," writes to us as follows ;— "ln reference to a paragraph which appeared in the last issue of the Evening Mail, would you kindly allow me a small space in your journal to answer a query put by the writer. He asks (relating to the drama ' Temptation,' lately played at the Princess's Theatru) 'Why is it that a Fienchman, in a scene in France, where he is supposed to be talking French, is made to speak in broken English ?' I beg leave to state on good authority, for the writer's edification, that it was because the English character in the scene (Hke many other learned people) would not have understood the French language had it been spoken to him."— Canterbury Standard. Interesting Discovery at Jerusalem.— Sir Henry James reports, that Cuptain Wilson and a p*arty of English engineers, who are now making a survey of Jerusalem, have discovered an arch of the Temple causeway mentioned by Josephus. This arch is said to be about fifty feet In span ; to correspond, in style of masonry, to the Harem wall in its best parts ; and to be in a very good state of preservation. We infer that the work is Herodian. Now this discovery is of very high value ; not only as indicating the exact position of the Tyropceon bridge, but as proving, by an example, that the foundations ¦ of Zion were not destroyed after the great siege # This fact made pretty certain by tb.B now discovery, a vast field is thrown open to the explorer. If one of the arches of that mighty roadway could be covered with dust and waste, so as to be hidden in the soil for 1,800 years, why not all the lower chambers of the palaces and houses adjoining the royal bridge ? The first wall ran along that slope of Zion. Near the newly recovered arch stood the Palace of Agrippa; not far from it were the mansions of Ananias, Annas, and Caiaphag. A little controversy with the spade in that quarter wi'l be better than a thousand debates in books and lectures. Jerusalem lies buried in the wreck, and those who want it must dig it up. Meantime Mr. Orove suggests that the Assyrian Excavation Fund— of which there is a balance in Mr. Murray's hands—should be directed to the prosecution of labour in this new field. Touchstone says that, " the trust party js the most feigning.' 7 A certain Dr. Weinholdj a professor in the University of Kiel, must be of much the same opinion, as he has offered a prize of one hundred thalers (XI S) for the best poem on " The Gratitude of SchleswigHolstein to Austria and Prussia," Fletcher, Bithop of Nismes, was the son of a tallow-chandler. A proud duke once endeavoured to mortify the prelate by saying, at the J/wee, that he smelt of tallow, to which the bi#%> replied, "My lord, I am the son of a t*ttow-chandler, it is true, and if your lordsWlf flad been the same, you would have *©nH "flflfrft tPiW-chandier all your life.