‟The Church Owls.”— The following is a correct copy of a recommendation paper, affixed to the church doors of a rural parish, within this Union, and a few miles north of Petersfield, in June, 1856:— ‟The vicar and churchwardens severally recommend the church owls the protection of the parishioners in general.—First, because they are harmless; second, because they are useful; third, because they are ornamental; fourth, because they are tenants of public property; fifth, because they are tenants of the House of God, and therefore in some sense under his protection; sixth, because of old time, the Owl is the bird of Wisdom, which is never found when she is molested.” Why the poor barn owls, being birds of the same feather, and possessing all the qualities of ‟the church owls,” should be left out of the considerate kindness of the above high parochial functionaries, we cannot imagine; surely it could not have happened simply from their being tenants of private property, and conservators of ‟the staff of life,” that they were left out of the church door recommendation for protection!