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laughter, as Sam Slick informs us, "shakes the wrinkles out of our hearts," it may possibly do the same by our countenance; and as to provoke laughter is the especial province of Messrs. Bedford and Wright, and the Adelphi their especial head-quarters, neither the pathos of Black-Eyed Susan," nor the sentiment of "Poll and my Partner Joe," can prevent people from enjoying the after-flow of fun and reinvigoration upon the Halliburton principle. Considering the many last nights that the rejuveniscent T. P. Cooke has passed through, we should not be surprised if this first week in November find him still surviving, to the delight of numerous admirers of the sentimental school of stage seamanship.

BURFORD'S PANORAMA.

At this extremely interesting place of amusement, the grand pictures of Moscow and Sierra Leone, to which we drew the attention of our subscribers some months back, are still on view, and well deserve the attention of those who have not yet visited them. The former, whether regarded as a work of art, or on the score of its historical interest, or simply as a correct and life-like picture of an imperial procession in modern times, will be found equally worthy of attention. We are glad to announce that a picture of Delhi will shortly be exhibited.

THE TOILET. (Especially from Paris.)

FIRST FIGURE.-Walking dress of maroon gros de Tours, made with three deep flounces, bordered with velvet to match the colour of the robe. Corsage plain, finished with a waist-band, and fichu of the silk, fastened with a small brooch. Large puffed under-sleeves with embroidered wristband. Bright yellow gloves; burnous of grey Cashmere cloth, bound with green and yellow binding. Double hood of green silk, finished with Arab tassels, mixed green, grey, and yellow; similar tassels finish the neck and corners of the burnous. Bonnet of white

terry velvet, with bias pieces of emerald green Russian velvet: on one side a tuft of lilac China-asters, surrounded by a ruche of black blonde, green strings, bordered with a narrow black guipure, the

interior ornamented en suite.

SECOND FIGURE.-Robe of Sevres blue drugget, with small ribbed stripes; on the sides are narrow slashes of blue silk, separated by baguettes of large spots; there are three slashes of silk and four rows of blue velvet spots, forming these side-ornaments. Corsage with deep lappets, bound with a galloon to match, and ornamented with blue velvet spots, similar to those on the skirt; the breast is trimmed with small slashes of silk and three rows of blue velvet

buttons.

New sleeves, composed of small slashes in the Maria Stuart style, with a deep frill; small guipure collar. Muslin puffed under-sleeves, with guipure cuffs. Bracelet of large blue beads. Blue pins in the hair.

THIRD FIGURE.-Little girl of six. Frock of violet poplin quadrilled with black. The skirt, which is

short, has three flounces, bordered by a broad velvet bias. The body, half low and bordered with black velvet is finished with a fichu of black velvet, crossing and tying at the side in a bow. Plaited chemisette, set into a hand of embroidery, edged with narrow Valenciennes at the neck. Puffed muslin sleeves, with embroidered cuff; embroidered pantaloons, grey boots, black velvet in the hair.

And now, having given you a description of the newest modes, I must tell you something of the most fashionable fabrics. The beautiful moire

antique has no rival; but satin, which went out with Mrs. Manning, is again in favour for robes and pelisses, and some novelties have been produced, which surpass, in richness of design and colour, anything that has yet appeared in this fabric. The robes à quilles and with double skirts are really marvels of art and elegance; les quilles, representing exquisite designs in velvet, or rich effects écossais, also in velvet, springing out of the material with

which it is united.

The woollen fabrics also merit attention. There is a mixture of silk and de laine-soft, bright-looking, and very comfortable. Cloth robes will also be worn; and both these textures are handsome in appearance, as well as soft and durable-qualities never to be lost sight of, in a walking or house dress.

As for confections, the burnous, and ample mantle with sleeves, have quite exploded the basquine and its varieties. There is also a new long shawl of knitted wool, very beautiful, and which I have no

doubt will be much worn; here is a list of the rose-coloured satin ribbon; in the middle of the
latest I have seen :-
ruche is quilled another little one of rose satin.

A burnous of eider-brown velvet, with sleeves This first skirt is relieved all round, à l'Espagnol,
and a flat capuchin, forming a fichu.

A burnous of Cashmere cloth, with capuchin, forming a collar before. A mantle of velvet, covered with passementerie in relief, with large square open sleeves.

A paletot imperatrice in black velvet, with a coquetish pélerine, bordered with guipure, falling to the waist.

As for bonnets, those of crape, mingled with velvet, are at present the most fashionable. I have seen a very pretty one of rose-coloured crape and blond, with a garland of rose-tinted marabouts around the crown, and a fringe of the same edging the front. In the interior, a bandeau of wild-roses, and brides of rose-coloured velvet épinglé. But the ball-dresses are charming; here is one modelled on a Spanish type :-Of African velvet, of a China rose tint; it is made with double skirts, the first jupe bordered with rich point d'Alençon, surmounted with a full ruche of tulle, with narrow

with knots of rose satin; the corsage is decorated with rose-tinted marabouts. Sous-jupes and tabliers of lace will be much worn with ball-dresses; the sous-jupes come round, and open en tablier. Trimmings of marabouts are as much in vogue as during the first empire.

The latest novelty in perfumes is the "Lotus," produced by Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, of New Bond-street, the fragrance of which, reminiscent of the Bengal rivers, has a mythic interest attached to it from the use of the sacred flower in the present Indian conspiracy.

Let me also recommend, as the most efficacious and innocent preparation I have met with for the purpose, the Pistachio-nut Powder of this firm. It effectually prevents all roughness and chapping of the skin, and naturally renders it soft and white, from the admixture of vegetable-oil contained in the farina of the nut.

HONEY СОМ В.

THE ABSENT.-Of all the exercises of the unfettered mind, perhaps none is attended with a more benign influence than that of indulging in a kind remembrance of the absent. Every loving word that fell from the lips of the absent is treasured with tenderness. Each kind act is recollected with affection. We look forward to meeting, with unbounded happiness. Have we parted in anger? Time softens us into indifference-at length into a quiet acknowledgment of past friendship. Have we parted in silence or estrangement? This, too, wears away; and we meet again, to forget the past in future communions. Have we parted in grief? The sorrow is mutually borne, and tenderly consigned to the corner of our hearts devoted to the absent sharer. Have we parted in love? No joy so great as the remembrance of it-no event so delightful or sacred as the reunion. Have we been parted by death? Ah, the affection that travels with the flown spirit to its home in the realms of light! The changed but ever-increasing sacredness of the love that bound us on earth is now freed from its alloy, while the unfettered spirit hovers near, to watch over us, and bear the incense of truthful and purified affection on the wings of enduring love. Absent from sight, to the spirit ever near-no shade of earth mingles in the holy office of a ministering angel, whose sweet influence is like the gentle dew upon the fragrant flower, which exhales a perfume unseen, but ever grateful to the perception of the inborn spirit. Absent, but not forgotten, is a sweet and touching memorial.

RICHARD THE THIRD'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. As to Richard's personal appearance, Horace Walpole mentions in his "Historic Doubts," that the old Countess of Desmond, in an afterreign, declared that she had danced with him, and that he was the handsomest man in the room except his brother. Polydore Virgil, who lived under Henry VII., described his face as like his father's, short and compact, without the fulness of his brother's. As I have just received, through another channel, a traditional statement of what the Countess of Desmond mentioned on this subject, I will subjoin it, and the series of authorities for it Mr. Paynter, the magistrate, hearing of the announcement of the preceding poem, related to my son, the Rev. Sydney Turner, the following particulars :-When a boy, about the year 1810, he heard the old Lord Glastonbury, then at least ninety years of age, declare, that when he was a young lad he saw, and was often with, the Countess of Desmond, then living, an aged woman. She told him that when she was a girl she had known familiarly, and frequently seen, an old lady who had been brought up by the former Countess of Desmond, who became noted for her remarkable longevity, as she lived to be above one hundred and twenty years of age. This lady mentioned that this aged Countess of Desmond had declared that she had been at a court banquet where Richard was present, and that he was in no way personally deformed or crooked. Edward IV. was deemed, in his day, the handsomest man of his court. It is a fair inference,

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from her impression, that his personal appearance could not be such as the Tudor partisans and our Shakspeare have described it; and it is an instance how much they have misrepresented him, in order to depreciate him, and to make him an object of popular abhorrence. As the countenances of many men, once handsome, change into the contrary from sorrow, care, anxiety, vexation, and disease, or internal sufferings, Richard, after his usurpation, and the murder of his nephews, and finding, to his own disappointment, that their death only lessened instead of augmenting his security, may, from his

avowed agitations and fears, have contracted in the last few months a different expression of features; or, as his body was very much bruised and illtreated in the field of Bosworth after his fall, the popular account may be a wilful, but colourable, exaggeration of what his face, then distorted by wounds and pain, may have been at that time found to be. We cannot, therefore, fairly credit all the misconceptions or mis-statements of those who were so interested to make his memory odious.--Turner's Richard the Third.

HOME-GARDENING FOR

BY CAROLINE A. WHITE.

My task is nearly done. A few more preparatory operations for another year, and our practical gardening in this will have ended.

LADIES.*

protection from the frost. Gardeners generally cover them with hoops and mats; but a covering of ashes, about an inch in depth, will answer the purpose effectually.

When the mould is in a condition to work, turn it up to mellow, and top-dress the beds and borders with fresh earth, manure, or the compost formed of the waste from your garden, which I presume has been carefully looked after, and stored for use. In removing dahlias, be careful not to cut or injure the tubers; and attach a ticket, descriptive of its colour and qualities, to each root. Place them in some sheltered, but airy situation, to dry; and when this is perfectly effected, cover them with earth, sand, or straw, and set them away in a dry cellar, or other convenient place, out of the fear of frost.

Continue to water the paths, as you see occasion, with very strong brine. Strewing dry salt on them answers the same purpose, and lets us into the mythic sense of the Eastern custom of sowing devastated and conquered cities and districts with salt: a pennyworth of this material effectually frees the paths of a small garden from grass and weeds for a month or six

Supposing that all the measures recommended in my last paper have been carried out, very little remains to be done in this month, except the ordinary attentions requisite for the sake of cleanliness and neatness. The falling of decaying leaves, till all have vanished; the lingering process of decline in dahlias (which I notice are more vigorous than usual at this period of the year); the necessity for keeping the paths free from grass, and one or two other little matters, will oblige occasional activity on thepart of my fair clients, whom I must impress with the assurance that fine, dry, and bright days are the only ones (when other matters, such as transplanting shrubs, and roots, setting bulbs,' &c., &c., have been neglected) that can be usefully employed in a garden. Even though the sun may be warm, and the air mild, if the ground has been subjected to continuous wet, no good can come of your meddling with it. The earth when turned up should be in a condition to fall away from the spade or trowel; otherwise it becomes hard and clayey, and not only unsightly in ap-weeks at a time. pearance, but injurious to the plants; while few things are more dangerous to oneself, than the rash habit of poking about in a garden on a damp day, simply because the new bulbs have been sent home, or the aspect of the morning suggests the whim to you, or you happen to have no inclination for in-door pursuits. Wait until the wind has sufficiently aerated the soil and dried the paths; and then, with the precautious aid of double soles, or overshoes, you may safely venture to the task of digging up the roots of dahlias when ready; of putting in hardy anemones, ranunculuses, and Dutch bulbs; dividing herbaceous border-plants, transplanting shrubs and evergreens: in brief, all that should have been done last month, if it has been imprudently put off.

The bulbs already planted will require some

*The author reserves the right of reprinting this article.

Worm-casts at this season greatly disfigure the appearance of a green-sward. Where a garden-roller is at hand, it should be used to spread them; otherwise, a pole may be drawn over the turf, which should be watered with limewater. An application of this liquid to the beds and borders will also help to destroy the insects in them, and a dose may at the same time be given to those plants in pots which have stood out in the garden, and on that account are very likely to contain worms and other insects injurious to them.

While on the subject of plants in pots, I must remind my readers to be very careful as regards watering them. Those in flower will require to have the soil kept moist; but others will want only a very little and remember in all cases to use tepid water, and to apply it in the morning only. Such plants as shed their leaves may be left almost dry. Geraniums want very little, and evergreens just sufficient to keep the mould

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