ginally French, but now made here in equal perfection. The ground is chamois, printed in a running pattern of chocolate and aventurine. The corsage is of a three-quarter height, and the front and back of the bust is trimmed with a lappel of equal depth before and behind, but open and forming deep jockeys on the shoulders. The lappel is of the material of the dress, with the pattern placed horizontally. A party-coloured effilé, in which the three colours of the dress are interwoven, border the lappel. Amadis sleeve. The front of the dress, from the waist to the bottom, is ornamented with bands, which are crossed in the form of an X: they are placed at regular distances, and increase in size as they descend. These bands are also bordered with an effilé, about half the size of that on the corsage.

Changeable silks are coming much into favour in dinner dress: they are of a richer kind than those so much in fashion two years ago. Ruby, green, aventurine, and crimson, all shot with white, are the favourite colours. Corsages are always cut low, and disposed en cœur, or in crossed drapery; but they differ from those recently worn, by having the folds arranged in such a manner as to display very little of the chemisette in front, and only the lace that trims it behind. Several dinner dresses have been recently made with the upper part of the sleeve of the material of the dress it is of the bouffont form, and extremely wide; the lower part, which sets close to the arm, is of blond lace, and is terminated by a ruche of blond net.

Evening dress coiffures are mostly of hair dressed in various ways, but never high. One of the prettiest of these is the coiffure à la Taglioni: it is composed of plaited bands, which form an ornament something in the style of a coronet on the summit of the head. Two plaited bands, which issue from this coronet, cross each other immediately under it, and descending on each side border the soft braids into which the front hair is divided: they turn back above the ears, and crossing again behind, terminate under the coronet. A light sprig of flowers, or of cut riband, ornaments the coiffure.

In addition to the colours already mentioned, we may cite as fashionable, rose, violet, canary, and blue.

STATEMENT OF FASHIONS AT PARIS IN
JANUARY.

The gardens of the Tuilleries afford a very elegant variety of winter toilettes. Gros d'Orient, or cashmere dresses, with velvet pelerines trimmed with fur, or pelisses of the same materials, with velvet pelerines edged with black blond lace, are

much in request. They are not, however, so generally adopted as mantles, which are composed of a great variety of materials, both silk and woollen. The latter are all imitations of cashmere, but of different patterns. Some are of an onyx ground, with a zigzag in relief, of claret-colour; others have a Valliere ground, thickly strewed with bouquets of fancy flowers of very vivid colours, and of a bizarre, we had almost said a grotesque, appearance: these last are very fashionable. Those of silk bave always a plain ground, with a very large velvet pelerine, and, in some instances, velvet facings. We have also seen a few lined with fur, but these latter are as yet very partially adopted.

Velvet is the only material for bonnets. They are always of rich wintry colours. Black is very much in favour. The most novel have a round brim, very short at the ears, and a crown of the helmet shape, upon which the material is disposed in folds: they are placed in a bias direction on each side, and intersected by two or three dis posed longitudinally: these last terminate in front in a small ornament composed of velvet, from which a panache of either ostrich or cocks' feathers issue. The inside of the brim is sometimes trimmed with knots of gauze riband only; in others the knots are mingled with blond lace.

High dresses, of the pelisse kind, are much worn in demi toilette: they come quite up to the neck behind, but partially display the chemisette in front. There is more variety in the materials than in the make of these dresses: they are composed of very rich silks, as gros d'Orient, gros des Indes, gros de Naples, Glacée. The corsages are uniformly plain, and the sleeves of the gigot kind, but the front of the dress is generally very richly embroidered. The pelerine, which must be of velvet, is either embroidered, or else cut in square dents, which are edged with rich but narrow black blond lace.

Hats are much in request in half dress. They are of velvet, and of a new material, a satin ground with a velvet spot. The crown is always low, and generally of an oval form. Bows of gauze riband, of the coque kind, fall upon the brim, which is partially turned up in front, and a bouquet of ostrich feathers drops over it. The inside of the brim is always adorned with a bandeau, and coques of gauze riband, which must correspond with the hat. The feathers may be either white, or the same colour, at the pleasure of the wearer.

Ball dresses are almost the only ones worn with trimmings round the borders. Among the few exceptions that may be

cited, are a dinner dress of chaly, a white ground, thickly strewed with green satin leaves; this dress was trimmed round the border with green gauze riband: it was laid on in very long puffs, which was but little raised; they were formed by cabbage roses of white gauze riband. Another dress trimmed round the border is of blue gros d'Orient, finished above the hem with a row of square dents: they are of satin to correspond, are very deep, and are edged

with narrow blond lace.

Ball dresses are always trimmed with flowers, but instead of being put above the knee, the trimming is not now placed higher than the calf of the leg. Wreaths are very generally adopted: they present a melange of various flowers, and of a great variety of

hues. We see, also, a good many dresses trimmed with two bouquets of flowers, which serve as agraffes to a band composed of either two or three gauze ribands; this band, placed very low on one side, is brought higher on the other, in such a manner that the bouquets nearly surmount each other, but at some distance.

Coiffures of the Grecian, and demi Grecian style are both in favour: they are ornamented with flowers, which are mingled, in general, with bijoux of fancy, such as golden arrows, with four points, or pins of different shapes, formed of small white or coloured beads.

The colours most in favour are vert d'acanthe, beet-red, dark-blue, chesnut, azure-blue, pale-rose, and aventurine.

BIRTH.

a son.

MARRIAGES.

In Dublin, Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour Blane, of the Scots Fusileer Guards, son of Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Armit, Esq. of Kildare Street. In Marylebone, Viscount Turnour, eldest son of Earl Winterton, to Maria, third daughter of Sir Peter Pole, Bart.; and at the same time, T. E. Swettenham, Esq. only son of the Rev. T. E. Swettenham, to Wilhelmina, second daughter of Sir Peter Pole, Bart. At Ulpha, Mr. Willie Sawrey, yeoman, of Wallowbarrow, aged 79, to Miss Lewthwaite, of the same place, aged 75. This verifies the old proverb, that "while there is life there is hope."Whitehaven Herald.

DEATHS.

Maria, the beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Brooks, of Duke-street, Manchester-square, aged 31. After an illness of more than three years' continuance, the lady of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton, G.C.B., of Wenbury House, in the county of Devon. After a few hours' illness, Lady Sarah Tournay Staines, the wife of George Gunning, Esq. of Frindsbury, and Dent de Lion, in the county of Kent. At Philadelphia, Mr. Gerard, the banker. His property is estimated at six millions of dollars. It is generally received, as a certain fact, that he has left two millions, with directions to apply more, should this sum prove insufficient, for the establishment of a great public school for this city and county, to be built on his land. The sum of three thousand dollars is bequeathed to the state

It is

said that there is a bequest of half a mil. lion for improving the docks and the eastern front of the city; that there are no legacies to individuals exceeding 10,000 dollars each, except one of 20 and one of 50,000 dollars.-Philadelphia paper. At the Colliery-house, near Ballycastle, Mrs. O'Neill, relict of the late Bryan O'Neill, at the advanced age of 86 years, 30 of which she was a widow; during which time she showed the most marked respect to her late husband, by retaining the emblems of widowhood until her death, never appearing after his decease but in the deepest mourning.-Northern Whig. A death, occasioned by a rather curious circumstance, took place on Monday, at Hoddesden, Herts. Mrs. Batty had been many years hostess of the Black Lion, at that village, which she had rendered famous for its ale, and her own beauty, having been reputed the handsomest landlady on the road. On the previous Saturday, when in the act of correcting a servant, she overbalanced herself. In the fall, one of her pair of long ear-rings broke, and a fragment cut open the jugular vein, and she died in consequence on the Monday evening.-County Press. The Derby Mercury contains the following notice :-On Thursday morning, Miss Butcher, daughter of Mr. William Butcher, formerly a draper, at Sutton in Ashfield, was proceeding to the church to be married, accompanied by her father, who was very cheerful, when he dropped down and expired almost immediately. The wedding, of course, did not take place.

THE gipsy had, however, prophesied too truly. Bedreddin led his father's troops against the Cashmerians, whom after great loss he succeeded in conquering, and bringing their chief at his feet. The war had arisen from some treachery which that personage had shown towards Bedreddin's father, in breaking certain rules in a treaty of alliance which had formerly existed between them; but as the holiest attributes of Heaven-Mercy and Forgiveness-dwelt in the prince's heart, he generously pardoned the monarch, and restored him to his throne, in consideration of his bestowing his daughter Arabinia's hand in marriage on the prince, who had become captivated with the soft beams which fell in mellowed rays from her blue eyes. This was agreed to, and the fair Cashinerian princess was sent under an escort to Samarcand; whilst her lover was compelled to remain behind to regulate the disorders which had arisen in consequence of the plague having broken out amongst his troops. But although numbers fell victims to this fearful disease, Bedreddin escaped uncontaminated; and when, in crossing a small gulf on his return home, a storm arose, and wrecked many a vessel, his alone rode triumphantly over the tempestuous ocean without wetting a single sail in its waves. “I bear a charmed life!" thought he.

In the meantime Arabinia brooded over the means of revenging not only her father's disgrace, but her own wrongs, in being torn from the arms of an officer of her court whom she MARCH, 1832.

fondly loved. In pursuance of the plan she formed, the fair Cashmerian contrived to inflame Bedreddin's father Selim with her charms, and he resolved to make her his bride in the stead of bestowing her upon his son. When therefore the prince arrived, Arabinia secretly informed him, in a letter, of the sultan's passion, and implored him to visit her in the seraglio gardens to devise some means of averting her too probable fate with the letter was sent a slave's habit, in which he was directed to disguise himself. The artful beauty then flew to Selim, and, prostrating herself, with tears in her eyes informed him that one of his slaves had dared to address her in terms of love, and vowed her death if she did not meet him that night.

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"Let him come," cried the enraged monarch," and the bowstring shall be his fate."

With a joyous heart Arabinia retired, and waited until the appointed time arrived, when she descended into the garden, where, beneath an alcove, she found Bedreddin. The young prince cast himself at her feet, and, in moving terms, besought she would wed him upon the spot, and when the following day dawned he would have their marriage publicly acknowledged. Arabinia feigned a reluctant consent, and, placing a ring upon her finger, the enraptured prince vowed eternal fidelity. At that moment his father approached, followed by his bowbearer and his assistant. The executioner of despotic tyranny was a hideous wretch, scarcely five feet high,

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