... Foutards in various styles; bareges in both large and small checks ; chine royal in stripes on either dark or light grounds ; poults de soie, taffetas, and pckins, with foulards in narrow satin stripes of gray cerise lilar, green nankin, &c., with plain popeliness and poils (le chevre, compose the materials for spring toilettes. Dark colours will be confined to morning wear; whilst pink, blue, ...

... Mr. W. J. Fox, whose jtsdgnientand experience as a theatrical c ritic ao one will deny, says of Mi-t; Cuehm~an, in ?? recent lecture on- the,zommon, interests of Great Britain and America, If the Americans$ hasve our artists, we have tlteira COO, and wve arte glad to see themn. The beet Rumors ever sceft on the English stage, or that I have ever seen 0n t11e London. LooisMssa Cushmean, an ...

... atterature. eisive grounds for the oph)ion, tiult every conceptioa, every mental affcotion. ia fotlowed by cimn6es in tho sb ehemiealuature of tbo secreted fluidstbat evory thought, 8e every scasation, i6 aecompanied by a change in the eom- ls position of the stibstance ef the brain.' But She brain 8h nffect6 tilo stomaeh, aud, tbreugh it, tbe wvholo body. ?? ei SELI. C 1'}:19 P OE TS Y. TIHE ...

... STI 9XlW^?fl~ A As Prnnonn.tfAd . - AR iaso CAPITAL AN4D SECONDARY PUNIssn1enwS.-A new ma- *rec gaizine, containing a variety of popular information on- the above important subjeets, is now being published at VaS GlaDsgow. It is designed principally to draw attention to Is1 the necessity of dolng away with capital punishments, i nto bring about a reformation in our criminal code, and by - cnne ...

... irni, THIE SHADE OF TaUTH. Fomn first Why, why 'mild thecorowd of the gorgeo~u hail, iits 'Mid the boauteous, the mirthfulthe gay, Does a shade on that manly but young face ?? -L~ike a cloud en a briiht summer day; iota This place is devoted to mirth and song, itpl Paraway from the regions ot care; md Ten why, 'mid tha joyous and giaddy throng, Bht Is tho shadow ?? lingering theret The hail of ...

... LITERARY NOTI(,ES. LIvEs Or TrHE KlNGS or ENrI.A.ND, hi*L, 1. I1 TmoNTAS ROSCOE, E2Q.--Thir is the firdtvolunlw Of, nn, which will prove a great addition to Engli ,h h htorv, x better supplemont to our annals could be supplpiki tin well-written biographies of oter kings and qcells. Ia ?? great histories tho changes which society ha' neri rz-n since the conquest do not find that prominent ...

... Chancellor, in elaborate speech, moved the second reading of the Religious Opinions Relief Bill, which was founded on a report of the Criminal Law Commissioners, to whom the matter had been referred. At his suggestion the Commissioners had drawn up a bill, a copy of which was on their lordships' table, but which he had thought advisable to divide into two parts; one part relating to oaths ...

... sitting of Thursday several laws of local interest. M. Demesmay's motion for the reduction of the dutv on salt ■\otcd b\ the Chamber ot Deputies, lias been introduced to the Chamber of Peers. The bill for the extraordinary grant of ninety-three millions of francs for the Navy has also been presented. The Chamber of Deputies has voted by a majority of 219 4.3 the bill for the Bordeaux and Cettc ...

... dated Corunna, loth inst., which declares of Galicia in a state of blockade, from Ldeo to Guarda. The Captain-General of Ga- on the 14th inst., that the detachment f the Ist and 3rd battalion of Zamora, under the orders /funeral Puis Samper, had defeated the insurgents f SSI®. Several were killed, and an officer and f mcn of the Government troops were wounded. General Concha, in a despatch ...

... JIEI? MRAJE'STY'S ThEA,',TEE7. There ?? been a r emar];able revolution in thle long icg Thulrsdays' this season. ?? longer is anl osuious thronig the seen pent up in the nalrrow p)sssnges, before the opening' of a the doors. At the risingn of thle curtain there is nOW room barc cnough to indulige in a comfortable repose, and the transfer the of'the eight-anid-sixflenny' visitors to the ...

... ?? SR P' POEIIS.* othsff I aned We inust set before oulr readers another mental repast SWI~ utoted f~rom thi8 agreeable volume, and then repeat the hope Bd~e le ave that for further gratification, and edification too hun- Del, d ge dreds will have the igood taste to secure the whofe eol Lorer btornet lection for themselves, and enjoy the fireside plealsures Mr f o which they are calculated to ...

... WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITIONS. OLD AND NEW. The first feeling suggested by a survey of these two exhibitions is, how much better they would be, joined in one: how much more varied, how much more pleasingly, more usefully contrasted. There are in each too many works of the same artists in the same room. There is not one of those De Wints or Copley Fieldings exhibited in the Old Water Colour society ...