An Old Lamp and a New One.
The scheme of the Archbishop of Paris for instituting a fête under the name of Fête des Ecoles, to promote learning in connexion with faith, is a happy one. Everybody will agree in the sentiment expressed in his pastoral, that "Religion and Science are the two lamps which enlighten the world." And if by religion he means Popery, it may be permitted to congratulate him that, happily for the human race, one of the lights which he alludes to has put out the other's burning.
An Improvement.—The Russian army boasts of a Prince Stirbey. We think it would be an improvement, and only a just compliment to the aggressive spirit of the Russians, to call him Prince Disturbey.