HER ROYAL HIGHNESS— WOMAN. To a capital houße in the Theatre Royal, last night, Mas O'Rell discoursed upon Woman. Her Royal Highness, he styled her, and when he had finished what he had to say about her, his audience per ceived that the title was bestowed as much in earnest as in jest, if, indeed, it were bestowed in jest at all, for the witty Frenchman showed that, in verity, he reverences woman. His auditors also found much to relish, much to laugh at, and much to sympathise with, in hia remarks. They roared, for instance, at his delivery of Emerson's dictum that Eng land has produced the finest and the ugliest specimens of humanity. " When the Englishwoman is ugly/' said the lecturer —he did not complete the sentence in wordß; his pautimitnic silence conveyed his idea iu a man ner which drew a shouo of laughter. He contrasted the women of France, England and America very happily. Not the women of the upper ten, a class which he irreverently declared was like -sheep, alike everywhere, and very tedious, so much 80 thai he took more interest during his travels in the submerged tenth than in the upper ten. The audience applauded and laughed heartily when he told how there were no " Society " papers in France, and that bis compatriots did not care to know that Miss A. took tea with Miss Jj., or that Mrs C. looked strikingly lovely in electric blue. French ladies would object, he said, not only to have their n&mes published in the papers, but to have their photographs displayed in shop windows. With patriotic enthusiasm the speaker defended his countrywomen against the charge of being frivolous. He showed how the Frenchwomen ie, in the true sense of the word, a help-meet to her husband, in hia business as well as in domestic life; and how, to her admirable discharge of all the duties of life, she adda piquancy and grace the most charming. A graphic portrayal of that excellent creature, the thrifty French country woman, was closed with a really eloquent passage, by which the old soldier of 1870 roused his auditors to hearty applause as he told how the weary soldiers of France, even when "superior " people turned from them, were succoured by the kindly peasant women. 