... FASRIONS FOR JULY. - (Abridged from Le Follet, Journal du Grand Monde.) At no season have the patterns of taffietas dresses been more varied or more ele gent than at the present time. Large flowers and checks are less in lavour than they were; narrow stripes, small sprigs, spots, or stars appear to be the favourite styles; these figures are frequently of the same colour as the ground, but of a ...

... THE TRUTH AND PLAIN DEALLNG.-If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circum- stances, out of which you are at a loss to extricate your- self, do what is right, end be assured that that will extri- ente you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cnnnot see when you take one step what wil be the nest, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never ...

... ORInG OF ST. BARITOLOMEW'S, ST. THOMAS'S, AND CRBMf3S Ho8FiTAsi. - In. the beginning of 1633, Dr. Ridley, Bishop of London, preached before King Edward, whose health was. then declining, at Wlstn4nster. The subject he selected for this discourse-in which he urged. the king, in eloquent language, to take care that a more effectual provision should be made for the poor-was charity.. This ...

... Vidtfno from I iunjb.py THE REAL MMLRE WAY--The projected telegraph line from Alderney to Cowes. YOUNG l'RkCTITIONER: Hl'W, very Odd-I mnust have made some mistake; there's nothing the matter with this tooth. Never mind, try again I CLERICAL BOREDoM.-Thea Abbd Domenleh, in his record of priestly experiences in Texas, describes how he drove his errant congregation from his garden Into his ...

... pft (fnomi m vurwb. Ors'sxssgn NtsnEs.-.It mnay be all vr well toch out aia~a confiscation In Oude for. those who Imagine that any proper Oude haa been unjustly confiscated. But Justic as wells Cha . rty, should bgin at home. Does not confiscation exist in tills great (pgOa of a) country, in the shape of a partial and nneqou -income-tax ?? e A Cno bON CanonqoLu..-Mr. Reiseaberg. continues to ...

... I ldAUlvrED HOU8SES Ur Lo2(GIVELLOW. Wberein men have Idved and died Ai bal ted ho Thses. rough the Open door re hare5s bphantomf on their errado glide, t t that make no sound upon the floorS them at the door-wSy, on the stair, s methe ,athe they come and gE, Ajoe til ps~geS in the air, a ImrtegsIo trmoving to and fro. ssse rf u~me tbig table than the hosts han ID f e- aviD q iet noffenslvo ...

... OUR LIBIRARY TABLE. Co-o old fricend, DLaAC0Y~Ot), ill his iuteber fo r Sep- teul'er, gives us two papels on CiterhDani- -cule Cons)iderin g ?? display aG the beginll: 0 of last, mut lth cs a spectacle, -the otber HaeatrtiTg the partijilel PS of the sonitovial trip in tihc Pera. The ia ter is, We C i- not say howt truly, attribute~l to Mr. \\Watort.o, thcue IlCil- ber' for Midhtirst, and ...

... jHER_ MAJESTY'S THEATRE.| The Fourth Festival Perfornmance. Ou Friday evening the fourth and final festival performance in honoulr of the Royal nuptials took place under circumastances that gave the eccasion on additional interest. Tue last time the audience assembled within the magnifiucent salle of Her majesty's Theatre, they had greeted the Princess royal only as a betrothed maiden; they ...

... The Wizard and his Detective, Professor Anderson, the Wizard of the North, during his recent performances at Melbourne, created an unexpected elect by the use to which he put interest taken in his conjurations. A writer for the Melbeornes Ecetxiner, adopting the signature of Chris- topher Sly, after having for some period furnished a series of sharp and shrewd notices of the Professor, ...

... D ONE HUNDRED VOLcUXTARIES, PRELuDES, HYasN, and FUGUES. ByRIiNK, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, &c., for the Organ or Harmonium. Arranged by W. WILSON. Davidson, Doctors'- ?? cheertuilvandhonestly award the highest praise to Mr. Wilson for this useful collection of organ masic. It will give a musical stimulus to that numerous class in the country-parish organists-and be to them of great practical utility ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT 1 Garden. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Harrison have fairly taken posses- sion of the Royal Italian Opera Honse, and commenced an under- taking which, we sincerely trust, will turn out prosperously both for themselves and the musical art of this country. Their former expe- riments, at the Lyceum and Drury-lane, have been duly chronicled in these columns, and such ...

... ?? Those of our readers who have retentive memories will recollect our report of a public meeting which was held at the Royal Prin- cess's Theatre, on the 21st of July last, to receive an offer of five acres of freehold land on which to build houses for aged and infirm members of the theatrical profession. Mr. Henry Dodd, by whom the land was offered, was then represented as a gentleman of ...