lace mantelet; it is of the scarf kind, but with a very deep pelerine back; the fronts are richly worked, and the back trimmed with very broad blond lace. The cap, also composed of blond, has a small round caul trimmed at the back with a ruche. The trimming of the front is very short at the ears, and turned up in the usual style. It is trimmed with an ornament of cut ribbon on one side and a bow on the other. The caul is ornamented with a band and bow of ribbon; the ends of which form the brides, it is of rose-colored gauze corresponding with the strings of the mantelet.

BALL DRESS.-A robe of saffron-colored crape; a pointed body, drapery front, the drapery retained on the shoulders by coques of brown gauze ribbon. The front of the corsage is traversed by a single row of knots of the same ribbon; two rows descend en tablier from the waist to the bottom of the skirt. Bouffant sleeves trimmed with ribbon and blond lace. The hair is parted on the forehead, arranged in curls at the sides, and in braids on the crown of the head; it is adorned with epis and bunches of red grapes. Earrings and necklace, fancy jewellery.

CURSORY REMARKS ON THE LAST FRENCH FASHIONS.

At this moment nothing is talked of, or thought of, but balls and ball dresses. In vain does the amateur of new fashions search the promenades, or the morning exhibitions for novelies; the first presents only ladies wrapped in mantles of a rich and elegant kind certainly, but such as both in form and material have been seen often in the course of the season. The same may be said of the demi bibi chapeau or capote, the only perceptible alteration in either, being a little increase or a little diminution of the brim, according to the fancy of the wearer. Do we go to the morning exhibitions, there we find high dresses, or pelisses with mantelet pelerines, trimmed with fur or black lace, and velvet or satin hats or bonnets, adorned in nine instances out of ten, with a single long curled ostrich feather, placed nearly upright. It is singular that this fashion, long as it has been in vogue, should be still so prevalent, not only in half but in evening dress. But let us turn to the Salle de danse, we shall there find novelty, richness, and elegance combined.

A great number of dresses are composed of figured gauze. Several of them are open at the side, but attached at regular distances by bouquets of flowers, knots of ribbon, or cameos. Some of the most elegant are of white gauze, figured in ich columns, open in the apron style, and closed at each side by knots of silver gauze ribbon. The arrangement of these knots is at once very novel and graceful; they are made with ends fringed with silver, which descend to the head of the next knot; by this means the form of the apron is distinctly marked, and the effect is singularly pretty. The corsage pointed in front is draped before and behind, the draperies of the back are retained by a knot corresponding with those just described, and the sleeves of the double sabot form are ornamented with similar knots.

Some dresses of a more simple but yet very elegant description, are of white crape or gauze, open on the left side, where the dress is looped back nearly at the knee, and at the bottom by small bouquets of artificial flowers; one of a much larger size, of that kind called á la Jardiniere, is placed in the waist ribbon on the right side.

The head-dresses of the danseueses are invariably of hair, but fashion allows great variety in the style. That called the demi Anglaise is much in favor. The hair is curled in ringlets at the sides, but neither so low nor so thick as it is generally worn, and the hind hair is disposed in platted bands, which are arranged something in the form of a coronet, very far back on the summit of the head. Feathers or flowers, with in general, a mixture of jewelled ornaments, are employed to decorate the hair. Feathers are, upon the whole, more in favor than they have been during several years in ball dress.

The robes most in favor for chaperons are composed of satin figured in gold and silk. Several are made open and worn, over a crape or white satin under-dress. Many of these robes are trimmed with black blond or real lace; the trimming is looped back down the fronts by knots of gold gauze ribbon. A gold cord and tassels is always employed with a dress of this kind instead of a ceinture.

Turbans are the head-dresses most in favor for matrons, those described in our last number are most in request. Fashionable colors are bleu raymond, beet red, violet, rose, light blue, and different shades of green.

You do not love me-yes, 'tis true;
Yet never can my heart forget
The passion it has felt for you-
The love it ever must regret!

I've loved thee-and in secret sigh'd,
That I did love thee-for I felt
My hopes of thee would be denied,
Thy icy heart would never melt.

Yet little boots it now to say

What I have felt-what I have known;

It will not chase my grief away,

Or call back peace, for ever flown.

Oh! fare thee well, but let no tear
Bedim my eye while thus I speak;
Let no unbidden pang be near,

No flush of hectic stain my cheek:

But let my soul be calm, when I
Resign the maid I've loved too well;
And stifle what can never die-

L. 34. 1.

K

Yes, fare thee well! it is the last,

Sad, broken-hearted, fond adieu,
Of him from whom all bliss has past,
Whose hopes were centred all in you!

THE FAMILY PICTURE.

A FRAGMENT.

It was quite dusk when I got ashore, and the evening being delightfully serene, I was glad, after so long a confinement, to stretch my legs, and determined to walk home to my lodgings at the west end of the town.

It is a doubt, whether any capital in Europe equals London in populousness,-but it is beyond a doubt, that none vie with it in convenience and cleanliness. I could wish those, who may be inclined to dispute my assertion, would consider the wonderful security in which above a million of people are crowded together, and the equally wonderful manner in which this million are supplied with every thing that necessity demands, or extravagance can call for. The good order preserved in our streets by day,-the matchless utility and beauty of their illumination by night,-and what is, perhaps, the most essential of all, the astonishing supply of water which is poured into every private house, however small, even to profusion !-the superflux of which clears all the drains and sewers, and assists greatly in preserving good air, health, and comfort!

Paris may be smelt five miles before you arrive at itMadrid, ten-and all the great cities of France, and Spain, in proportion. As to those of Italy, the atmosphere which surrounds them, is so impregnated with garlic, that the nose cannot easily analyze the other compounds which are overpowered by it ;-yet in spite of all the advantages our metropolis may boast, those who are just arrived from the purer air of the country, will, every here and there, at a short turning, or alley-end, catch many an unsavory whiff, which they would always wish to get to the windward of.

On these occasions I have commonly recourse to my snuffbox; but its contents were unfortunately exhausted, by being liberally offered to some of my companions in the Hoy,so it occurred to me, to call at my old snuff-shop in Covent