... (lrom Le PdM1.8) Throughout the season gold and eilver gauze has been very fashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatane, with flounces em. broidered with coloured spots of velvet or gold-spotted all over with gold, silver, white, ceries, &o.-are all in favour. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which makes a simple, but very charming dress with two skirts or a tonio; body round, ...

... I The annual exhibition of this society was held on Tuesday, at Hexham.. The ahow was held in a field near the town belonging to Miss Chariton, of the Grey Bull Ini. It was considered the best ehow of stock | vhioh has yet been held under the auspices of this ficur- ishing seciety. The prize ball was greatly admired. It is the same animal which gained the head prize at the show/ of the ?? ...

... The concert arranged by our townsmen, Messrs Philipson and Hare, particulars of which had been so long before the public, came off on Tnesday night. Hopos had been raised of an unusual musical treat, in having two of our most famed singers, and a band of so much excellence; and the cone-ert fully realised the high expectations which had been formed. The assemblage of fashion and beauty was ...

... ?? -flO1MT,- 4 A~ flN 2rIie ede Montponier and suiheiaie t ' departire' from SoutbamEptori an theiireturul to CadN.1 I rrotfeseor Owen bag delivered tbe' third ofa seriesof lectures on natural history at Buckingham Palace be- fore the Prince Consort and the royal family,. ,.I rince Alfred ?? is expected5 take, leave of her &Iejesty next week,, and rejoin his 'zip for another ?? .ouraesZ. The ...

... THE COMPANION SOH YOUTH. No. 1. New Series. [LoDinoN: Dean and Son.]-Very instruotive and amusing, and caloulated to owupy the attention of youmh profitably. IVI - ENSIGN SOPEHTS ILLUSTaRTED VOLUNTEB ALMA NACK FOR 1861. [8dinburgb: W. R. Nimmo. Loan doni Simpkin and, Marehall. |-A good deal of wit, and some wiedom, will be found embodied in ihis small pub- liction. While the volunteer staff is ...

... (II Aom Le .ollO4.) The unseasonable character of the weather has almost en. tirely prevented the adoption of those light- and elegant tnilettes prepared in anticlpation of warm daya and snony skies. Hence the fashion (which we hoped ,was but for a day) of large silk paletohs, or burnous with sleeves, is still almost universally followed . For the oame reason siks, poplins, poll de ehevre, and ...

... sw~~- : NOBTTYNE AND REDESDAL AGRII CULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual exhibition of this society was held on the 4tb Inst., in a field near the village, granted for the Urpose by the pr'prielor, Ur Robert Breokcns, of the creste IrJn, Bellingham. Tto entlies for horned cattle were not sO 1hugs3 as on me former occa zone; but the stoek exhibited was of ,,,ellent quality. Prizes were offered, for ...

... COURT AND FgASHOi Xr Gladetone, MP., has returned to town. The Earl'of ELgin has made arrangements to leave on his mission to China by the last mail this month. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to London on Tuesday from Broadlardd, Hants. The remains of ?? Oountess of Elgin were deposited in the family .aul t of the Abbey,, on Tuesday. The Ducheesof Norfolk was sately delivered of ...

... BLACW9OOD..The pervading characteristic of this tggzine is soitdity. Never ponderous or prosy, its papers have invariably a sterling value; and it is a good ?? at c.nt. in the current number, the opening ar- ticle id F paper on ?? Iron-claa Ships of War, being the -sequel ot a previous one en a similar subject. The writer thinks we can no longer chuckle with the idea that the Frenchmen we, c ...

... THE Quim's RmrTi; Psom GaImANr.-Her Ma. joaty, the Peinoo Consort, and their attendants left Cobourg on Thursday last, and arrived at Mayenoe the same evening. They were accompanied by Prince and' Princess Frederick William of Prussia, and the Prince Regent of Prussia joined the party at Frankfort. On Friday, the royal train started from Maymnos, and pro- ceeded to Bingen. At this point her ...

... (From Leo .F011.) The redingote form of dress will inaugurate the &sason, and can be worn either with a pointed or round body. Of Course, with the latter, the skirts must be set in large plaits. Fiounees will be the ornament mostlywuqed on silk dresses; either several narrow ones to the knee, or one large, eur- mounted by narrower ones, or by a trimming. Large but. tone, called macarone, ...

... ALoNWICK HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY. The eighth annual exhibition of th6 Alhwick Haor. cultural and Botanioal Society, which has deservedly become one of the most extenive' and popular in the North of England, came off on Wednesday, the 5th, with an eclat and aucceas not inferior to that of the most brilliant of its predeoessora. The committee, beaded by their able secrethrieo, Messra ...