... FASBIONS FOR MARCH. (From Le Follet, JournaZ ?? Monde:)' Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very fashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatare, with flounces embroidered with coloured spots of vel- vet or of gold-spotted all over with gold, silver, cerise, &c.-are all in favour. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, wrhich makes a simple but very charming dress, ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEA RICALS. I FRXOUR OWNt COBREfPOEDENTS.) ABBEDMRK.. TuimiawE ROYAL.'-As intimated in the paragraph of laot week. Mr3 Pollock. the lessee of this establiobment took her benefit on Friday even, jathe 2d mast, when the attendance of a numerous and respectable sudience testifiod as to the-estimation in whichl she is held, and sohwed that her efforts to keep alive an interest in the ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, C0VENT-GARDAN. The season proper of the Pyne and Harrison company terminated on Saturday evening. The operetta of Romanee preceded the Lurline of Mr. Vincent Wallace. This latter work hai not only sufficed to fill the theatre each evening since its production, but has decided the manage- nent on giving nine additional representations. On Satur- day night the opera was ...

... n. (From Le Follet.) exhi Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very bon( ashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatane, with flounces em- beer broidered with coloured spots of velvet, or of gold-spotted the a led all over with gold, silver, white, cerise, &c.--are all in favour. held I W. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which mat, makes a simple but very charming ...

... Xd FBZ. dr AT , GdzlBrol MdJCl.8sTz. The first ateps have been taken towards the reaisation of Mr. Thomas Fairbalan's scheme for a free art gallery in Manchester. A numerous and infr'eetial meetinh 5 was held yesterday in the Mayor's parlour, at the Town-hi t in that city, the Mayor presiding, to consider the pro Mr. Falrbairm, after explaining his seme eubstantlauy tt in a letter reently ...

... LI TBRAF URE. | Greysiuore; a Story of Couantry Life. 3 vols. Lot- don: Smith, Elder, and Co. Whatever be the merits of female novelists in these times, we certainly do not envy them the labour of their productions. It may be that the male critic is unable to comprehend the fineness of discrimination by which an authoress can extract character out of interminable walks through meadows, along ...

... 4Joftr - THE TEACIILNG OF DEATH. I SAWI my darlhg in cahn slumber lyini- His sti u, pale faCe so beautiful il death * So like sweet sleep, that, Iluiued from tears and sighing, I looked and listeied for hifs gentle breath. His little hands, so white lid thlin, were folded, ClasPing tit purest flowers that love could bring Never was marble hil such beauty mnoulded- God anud Death only make so ...

... REVIEDWS. SI3iP-BUILDINIG ox NEW AND ECONOMICAL PRINCI- rLEs. By Capt. A. MACGREGOR nEIt, R.N. CAPTAIN A. MACGREGOR SKCINNER IIas contributed some very valuable information on the subject of ship-bllilding in the form of a letter to the Presideut, Vice-President, and Council of the Institution of Naval Architects; and he has also proposed a new and economical method of construction, the merits ...

... THE C OURT. LONDON, TUESD.AY.-Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Priticess Alice, and attended by the lion. Horatia Stopford, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lient.- Colonel the l-on. D. de Ros honored Mr. Bcll with a visit yesterday afternoon, at his studio, in Douro Place, Kensington. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort presided yesterday at a ...

... ' LITERARY, EXTRACTS.', I. ai CLEANqEEI;-gMan is an amphibiousw animal, and -ac ought 'topass -ome small portion of caoh'day.in the,water In fact, a largeiv . ziot the larger proportion' of disesg s arises from leavig' the pores of the- ski closed, whether with natural exqdation or matter-from without, aluW dirt. _ It is quite a mistake to suppose, and the idea must at once bedone away with, ...

... Last night, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia-one of the most popular compositions in the range of the Italian Opera-was performed at the Queen's Theatre. The house, though not crowded, was well filled, and the enthusiasm of the audience was intense. Madame Lorini, as Lucrezia, was in capital voice and spirit, and did ample justice to her part. Her Cor e hello quale incanto was given with ...

... I IAAdI2 Trarels in reru and MeoitV. By S. S. HUa Longman. The merits and defects in this book are pretty equally balanced; but at least it may be said for the author that he belongs to a school unfortunately on the decline; or he may be more strictly, though negatively described as being free from the peculia- rities of a school which is rapidly on the increase. There are very few of those ...