Our amusements are suffering the usual stag nation they undergo before the patomimo season of .Christmas. At the Royal vulgar effrontery and impudence reign supreme in the person of a California^ ac.tregs, who calls her self " Nell, the Californian Diamond f and at the Opera Houses matters jog on in jfche old fashion — "Madame Angot" alternating with the "Grand Duchess," and Balfe slightly varying the run of Offenbach. The Budget is still under discussion, but it is confidently anticipated that tlae Ministerial proposals will be carried over tho opposition of I Mr Berry, That politician and bis unsprupu,

Judge Munro— one of the quietest and most respected of judges— has been violently at tacked by Eapana, a well-known Thames chief and large land owner. The Judge"' had just closed his Land Court with a judgment against Rapana, and was going into the street when the Jatter suddenly barred egress, and in furious tones assailed the Judge, pushing him back forcibly whenever he attempted to leave, He was given in charge to the police, and finally mulcted in LlO by the Magistrate. He made no defence beyond that he was pouri, or very angry— a condition in which a great chief oiiplit, n? doubt, in hw ppjnjon, t Q

AUCKLAND.
