... LITERARY EISCELLANEA. FRENaCE Wom=.-In no country in the world has the female sex exercised so great a social influence as in FralncS, and it was during the reign of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Louis that this influence was more particularly dominant. . During their reigns it was openly and unblush- ingly exercised without the slightest attempt at concealment. The royal mistresses ...

... LITERARY XISCELLANEA. ENiGLSH WOMEN IN THE WEST UNDIES.To any one ao- sostoned to the highly educated, elegant, and spirituelle fe. male society of Europe, I know nothing more disagreeable than the absence of all conversable women in these out-of- thbe-1Y colonies. Generally speaking, creole wamen are utterly uninformed. They sometimes have a few flimsy ac- CUrpiishments; but as they never ...

... THE DRAMA. MUSIC, &C. The week preceding Whit-Monday is invariably a dull and barren one in theatrical matters; all novelties being kept in reserve for the holidays. Danny LANE has closed its doors from, lack of public support and other untoward causes; re- ferred to by Mr. Bunn in his address. Mr. Sims Reeves, to whose whims and caprices the disasters of the house have been generally ...

... ETH. F.ASHIONIS. I - ..t ' ?? l-~ .[s'O5O.THE -FREN ?? ~ s I Wlst with theyfet coftiae eagles, and the fine weatherthe world offaehien has quite-takeu-a torn. 'file walks-of tho Champs Elpsees and the Bois de Boulogne, that amphitheatre of eleganto, wherein is to be found all that is beautiful, have bean 'crowded. ?? this m6h-vng panoramia of living beauties is It tfiat the 'world adopts its ...

... MUODiSTY adoins virtue, as bashfulness ornaments beauty. It harmonizes with a just sense of character, as moderation harmonizes with jostice. It heightens dignity of character, a simpnplity enhances greatness. It adds to £perit the same charm which candour addsto the greatness ofi hearb, What is modesty? Is it not a sense of excellence so deep and true, that the observance of duty appears a ...

... TEIR MELVILLES. Bentley, Burlington-street.This is a three volume novel, by the author of John Dray- ton, a writer whose powerful pen has frequently been employed in forcibly depicting the Struggles for exisa- tence by the humbler orders of society,' The present work is an interesting tale, tracing the fortunes of the Melville family, .from the time *ihen awifd with her son and daughter was ...

... THE FASHTIONS. [FROMc THE FRENCL.) Myfair readers will think that I amalways giving themthe same things over and over again: and it is perfectly true, it is the same thng, with but very little alteration, as last month, were it not for a few balls that have taken place at the Tauieries, and other fashion- able places in Paris, there would not be a ?? novelty worth relating. Tha dresses that ...

... EL] EWSOF BOORS, 0- Bonrxn1 TALFS.., -W. X .H:-AXWELL. Bentley, Bin'- ?? fbovd-natmed tales fornm a volume of Mr. Bentlev's shiliing.sieries of literature, and are well calculated to Occupy the pages of ajork which aims at providing amusement for the -hour. The Brder-T ales are sonme of Mr. Maxwell's best pro- duCtions, vvritteu' in the off-hand, dahling stvle whichl characterised his everi ...

... ?? yBS GASHELnL, the talented authoress of Mary Barton, ahadsome woman between thirty and forty, of fair i5 fully and stroagly -made,- with blaok -hair, and- a- bealthfl reddish-brown complexion. From the shape of her 0,ad the cut of her features, and her complexion, you would be 'er for atn Italian, ?? her glancing dark eyes help out tae o-eressim. There is such a stamp of power, of ...

... t it HIATOrY OF ENGLAND. LoBD MAHON. Muzwry, Albemacle-street.-The sixth volume of Lord Mahou's 1 History of England'! brings us down to the year 1780,; t and contains his lordship's version of, and opiniofn fi the 'ciuses'Whichled to the American outbreak:andl I final separation ofg-that country from 'the crown of ?? England. ?'From a member of the Englishnriatocracy,: -a imbued withi ...

... THE DRAIA. MUSIC, &c. HER, MArESTY'S.-Fidelio wa-s given on Thursday night for the first time this season, Millie. Cravelli being, of course, the Leonora. Her performance, fully merits all the com- mendadtions which were bestowed on it last season, tnd gave abundant evidence of the high artistic qualifications of this promlsing singer. A new baritone, Signor Sesini, made his d but as Bocco. ...

... THE FASHXIONS. [aOslM Tan PRENCH.] A straige rumnour is afloat, I muist repeat it, since such is rny mission to record all the dihferent innovations that take place lie tie world of fashion whether pleasing or not. This rumour, for the truth of which I will net vouch, is, that several ladies of fashion appeared a few flights sineo at a ball 'with dresses the bodies of whieh were quite an idsch ...