... [^toLenZ Paollet.] Silks are but sparingly worn in the country this year; still, in visiting toilettes, some very rich taffetas, as well as satins, and even velvet, are worn. The question of garnitures has become of importance this season. Formerly trimmings were added to enhance the beauty of the robe; now, on the contrary, the robe is inferior, the additions of trimmings being the subject to ...

... - `SrnIRITUALsM, in the person of Mr. D. D. Home-the hero of a recent trial in which Mrs, Lyon andlher money were largely concerned-has again appeared on the scene Mr. Hone or Hume-for the spelling of the name is as shif by as the spirits-has not only appeared as a reader, an aspirant to tho honours won by Dickens and Bellew, but Iar ventured before acommittee of the Dialectioal Society ...

... COnRONOLOGY; with a Brief Outline of History and a Mremoria Techlnica on Dr. rey's System, adapted for use in Schools. By Elizabuth Thring Phipson. [Birmingham: Edlueatiollid Trading Company.1 This little volumme, as its title shows, alapts Grey's Memoria Techlnica, to the recmembrance of all sorts of dates. By taking a vowel and a consonant (or occasionally diphthsongs) torepresent figures, 1 ...

... THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE T aXRTB1-' TION, AT WOLVEEHAMPTON L ORNAMENTAL WORKS IN VARIOIJ A 'MTERIALS, CHIEFLY METAL. We were precluded by the length glass, from including in it the &ass of Mr. Thomas McCann, to which we now dir r teio W y premise that one theory of glass t attention. We may stainers, viz., that all good g' ciadows is that of the old mosacsto ive igh thour st windows arc simply ...

... II Considering the unfavourable state of the weather, and the increased admission charges, the attendance at the Town Ball, on Saturday night, might have been worse. As it was, we are afraid, it could hardly prove satisfactory to the bdnlftciairc, whose pro- grasmme certaintly mnerited a, mnore liberal measure of support. The artistes were Madame Florence Laucia, Mrs. A. J. Sutton. Miss ...

... SIIAKESPEARE'S TEMPEST AT THE THEATRE ROYAL. I The 'Tumpest stands first in the folio of Shakes- pesr's Flays collected by 'his fellows, Heninge and Condell, and published seven years after ]Iis death; although it is pretty certain that the Tempest wts not even an early production of the poet, but probably one of his latest works, Trench and English criticsbhaverecently contendedl that ...

... CHRIS TMAS IIOLIDAY[ I AMUSEAIENTS. Apart from thle evidence at the calendar, there is not I much just now to remind us of merry Yule-tide, For- tunately, ice and snlow and winter blasts are not indiep-sas-- able to the enjoy meant of thle good things which Christin 4iI invariably brings in his train, and the absence of seasonableI phenomnena we imuagine will not mnaterially affect Ppoular ...

... TBE PORTE AND THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. A French pamphlet just written and published at Constantinople by M. Bordeano, the editor of' the snmi-.flieial 'urJoliqe, entitled ?? L'Egypte d'apr&s les Traites de 1840.41, leaves no doubt that a serious misunderstanding has arisen between the Porte and the Viceroy of Egypt. The recent appointment as announced by telegraph, of Mustapha Fazil Pasha, the ...

... iLITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, RPD ARTI I ~ ~~A SCAPSbr . r Miss Charlotte Cushman is at present at Malvern. F Shc meditates another tour with her version of Meg I Merrilies, The Rev. C3. L'Bstrange and the Rev. W. Harness f are jointly busy on a memoir of Miss Mary Russell i M~itford. An Art and Science Institute is to be formed at Leeds, under the direction of the Science and Art De . 0 partment.t ...

... RrrINsTs of rare books are now so numerous as to bo beyond all ordinary means of cataloguing or description. Last week we noticed several, and this week we have one which deserves special mention-the fifth of the series of fac-simile copies, executed by Mr. C. W. Ashbee, and issued ( Limited to a hundred copies), by Mr. Turbott, of Great Russell Street, The present Fec-Simile Reprint is of ...

... PRIME OF WALES THEATRE. MIB, FECHTER IN BLACK AND WHITE. It needed nothing short of the powerful battery of attractionsbroughtinto playat this house on londay night, to galvanize the moribund season into life, and draw the 'reluctant public once again within the wals of a theatre. Mr, Fechter alone we are afraid, would havo been unequal to the ?? in these degenerate days could hardly make ...

... The next Exhibition of this society is to be held at Burton-on-Trent, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 21st and 22nd of September next. At the late meeting of the general committee, held at Uttoxeter, it was announced that the president, Lord Vernon, would offer a prize of £10. for the best dairy of cheese made subsequently to the 1st of May in the current year, the cheese to be viewed about the ...