expectation of the appearance of the victim-for the appalling scene in which life in its freshness was to be given over to mortality!

On the coffin of her husband sat Kathleen M'Carthy, the image of despair. Her hands rested upon her knees, and her tearless eyes were turned upward to the scaf fold. Her long black hair hung wildly about her face -a vivid contrast to the wan countenance which it half shrouded. Her cheeks were sunken; her lips had lost their redness, and her whole frame was wasted to a skeleton. She had parted from her husband on the preceding night, and no word had since escaped her lips.

A murmur of mingled terror und commiseration ran through the crowd when the manly form of M'Carthy, attended by the priest, appeared kneeling at the threshhold of the scaffold chamber, the door of which was now suddenly flung open. As he arose, the air resounded with the most startling cries. Kathleen sprung to her feet.

Now, courage, my son,' said the priest as they advanced; the last of your mortal ills will soon be at an end, Bear it like a christian and a man.'

Redmond made no reply, but walked with an unshrinking step upon the scaffold. A white cap covered his head, whose black ribbons, the emblems of his fate, gave a ghastly expression to his countenance. The loud keena, or song of sorrow-wild and incoherent, but beyond measure affecting-with which Kathleen was thrilling the hearts of all who heard her, first attracted towards her the eye of her husband. His first impulse was to stretch out his arms towards her. He forgot that they were pinioned, I cannot!' said he, and— the man unable to control the husband-he burst into tears.

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The hangman, masked from top to toe to avoid recognition-for a thousand hearts among that crowd would have sacrificed their best blood for his life-came forward and commenced the preparations for the unhappy man's execution. Kathleen saw the fingers of the wretch busy with the throat of her husband-she saw him unloose his neck-kerchief-turn down the white collar of his shirt, and with professional accuracy adjust the rope around his neck. She saw him place him on the drop, but she saw no more. She was carried, fainting, into the prison.

I thank Heaven for this,' exclaimed Redmond fer vently; she cannot be a witness to what must follow.' He then proceeded to address the crowd. He denied that he was guilty of the murder. He declared his solemn conviction that the Lady Clare' who had led them to Moor-hall on that fatal night was the murderer. He averred that he was himself directed to the room by a loud outery, and that immediately after, the Lady' rushed down the stairs, his garments red with blood; that having entered the drawing-room, and seeing Meredith lying upon the floor with a bayonet sheathed in his bosom, he attempted to withdraw the weapon, and in the endeavor was surprised by the police. He assured the multitude that he was resigned to his fate, and ended by requesting their prayers for his salvation. He then shook hands with the priest and the executioner; the latter drew the cap over his eyes, and both retired. Appalling moment to the victim ! The light of heaven is shut out from his sight for ever-the last hand is touched! He breathes

Not yet suffer me to breathe one short prayer,' was the answer.

Had I not better put him out of pain, your reverence?' said the callous wretch to the clergyman. Hold answered ths priest; would you interrupt his last prayer to heaven ?'

Are you yet prepared?' again interrogated the hangman, after a short pause; but the unfortunate man continued his prayer without heeding him.

'I can delay no longer?' growled the hardened finisher of the law-and his hand again touched the spring.

Stay, stay! said the holy father suddenly grasping his arm: Did you not hear a noise ?'

I heard nothing your reverence: I must perform my duty.'

Stir not for you life, fellow, - the tumult waxes louder.'

What if it should be a rescue?' 'Hold, villain!'

Scarcely had the last word dropped from the lips of the priest, when the air resounded with the cries of the multitude. Hold, hold!' was shouted and echoed on all sides, until the very bars on which the resigned victim stood, vibrated with the sound. Suddenly an avenue was made through the vast multitude withoutthe gates of the prison area were thrown open, and a horseman, spurring the reeking sides of his steed, rushed in, and with his dying charge made directly for the scaffold.

M'Carthy, so soon as the horseman had revealed his business, was removed to the scaffold-chamber. In the mean time, Floyd Moore, stretched upon the coffin which was soon to have received an innocent tenant, made a full confession of his guilt. He had commanded the attack upon the house of his kinsman; and while after the flight of the domestics, the others were employed in the search of arms, he was perpetrating the murder. He then rushed from the house, divested himself of his disguise, and hastened to spread the alarm. In attaching suspicion to M'Carthy he was actuated by a double revenge. Well had he remembered his oath Eternal perdition he my portion, if I forgive him! But his conscience would not suffer him, as his last hour approached, to leave the world with the guilty secret unrevealed.

His confession was received and recorded by the sheriff. As he was noting down his last words, the horseman, who had been crowded from the immediate scene by the eagerness of the multitude, forced his way to the scaffold, and addressed the sheriff:

Will the testimony of this unhappy man suffice, Mr. Sheriff?'

ber. He found the respited sufferer with the cap still drawn over his eyes, and his hands in those of the priest.

There is hope for you still,' whispered the horseman, as he cut the rope that bound his arms. The mind of the wretched man wavered a little at the intimation of hope so utterly unexpected. His spirit had been dark too long too endure steadily the first light that burst upon it. He inquired languidly: Who is it speaks ?' One that brings consolation to the guiltless.' 'Sure I should know that voice! Let me hear it again; and he inclined his head towards the speaker.

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By the advice of the holy father the cap was removed from the face of the prisoner; and he saw, in the person of his deliverer his long absent brother Phelim. We must throw a veil over the excess of transport which marked their recognition and embrace.

Through the exertions of many gentlemen of wealth and influence in the county, an unconditional pardon was obtained for the crime of participating in the riotous proceedings of the Clare insurgents; and Redmond M'Carthy was immediately liberated from prison. The Illegitimate breathed his last a few moments after the conclusion of his guilty record; and Fitzpatrick and Alloway were transported for life for his murder. Redmond M'Carthy, his loved Kathleen, and her happy family, accompanied by Squire Phelim, were soon tossing upon the Atlantic, on their way to America.

I have engraved upon my heart the sentence with which-by his own contented fireside, not two months since he closed the eventful story which I have, I fear in vain, endeavored faithfully to embody: The ways of Heaven,' said he, are unsearchable; we should, therefore, bear our sufferings with patience; for how often are our seemingly worst misfortunes the occasion of our choicest blessings? When we murmur most at the dealings of Providence, we may be most accusing Heaven for its unseen kindness.'

THE FAITHLESS PRAYER.

ST. OMERS' Convent walls were glittering bright,
When Luna's beams illumed both tree and bower;
St. Omers' chapel gleamed with other light,
Where knelt the victim of parental power.

Had not the blue veins oe'r her marble brow
Somewhat of life's warm current been revealing,
I could have argued from such breathless woe,
'Twas but a statue at the altar kneeling.

I saw thee last in summer's cloudless noon,
Fair saint, the sunshine gilding thy bright tresses;
Thy sigh then soft as when the rose in June
Expands its pink leaves to the gale's caresses.

Canst thou be won by the deep thrilling sound
Of solemn music, vestals round thee praying,
To think that on such consecrated ground
None but the virtuous and the blest are straying!

Oh, no! the tears just struggling into birth,

To leave those cheeks so pale with secret grieving, Seem to confess there is some spot on earth, Thou art for this above reluctant leaving,

Each bliss was thine which decks life's opening scene,
And joy to joy was in thy heart awaking;

Nor could the transient sorrows of nineteen
Ere tempt thee thus to be the world forsaking.

F'en at this hour, and in this lone retreat,

Fondly thou thinkest on thy warrior-brother, Him for whose fame thy youthful heart must beat, Linked as ye were from childhood to each other.

From him thought wanders to the favoured youth
So often met within the moon-tinged grotto,
When in those hours held dear to love and truth,
Ye vowed unchanging faith should be your motto.

And couldst thou, cruel father, doom to woe

Her, so oft likened to her sainted mother; Gaze on her eyes, yet cause the tear to flow, For hopes the cloister's gloom must henceforth smother?

Thy noble son. for whose augmented lands
Thou'st doomed her peerless brow to wear the willow,
Would scorn the highest honours wealth commands,
Before one tear should stain her midnight pillow.

Stern priest, though low she bends at yonder shrine,
Her heart denies the laws thy creed advances,
Love's latest gifts are still more dear than thine,
Thy cross and rosary ne'er shall claim such glances.

Then let that veil with all its gloomy folds

Fall over dark remorse, or pale contrition; But not o'er one whose heart in secret holds Loves which should ne'er be blighted by ambition.

LETTER OF A FRENCH GOVERNESS TO AN ENGLISH LADY.

THOUSAND thanks, my very dear Miss, for all your goodness I you assure that I myself feel quite knocked down by your amiability so touching and attendering. How you were good for me procure the situation of instructrice to the minds tenders of the youth: the childs of Miladi Bull, who are confideds to my cares, are of a beauty dazzling, and of a nature extraordinarily drawing-towards.

How I am rejoiced that the cares of the tenderest of the mothers have rendered me capable of to instruct the little strangers in every branch of a nature exhalted;

Helas my best friend, some times I am not capable to repress the movements of anger at cause of the stupidity of the childs: yesterday I could not arrive to make the little bull feel any difference for say "dessus” and dessous," which are as unlike that possible: I cry"Ah! how you are beast!"" forgetting you tell me that "Commes vous etes betes," mean "how are you stupid!" Miladi Bull hear me, aud fling herself into au anger frightening!

These little Bull are engaging to marvel! but as to Miladi, it must that I opon the heart for you on this paper friendly, Miladi Bull is quite impolished, illhonest, starch, and not drawing towards. She me stops from to sing when that she is present: she me defends from to wear some slippers, or some paper-curls to the hair and she me forces of be dressed in great toilette at eight hours of the morning. As says our proverb, I myself feel obliged for be "drawn at the four pins" all the long day, and for her please I not know" on which foot for dance."

She me say that word " cabbage" is in very bad taste, it must say "greens', at cause of the color: we had the week last, to dinner some cabbage some peas Prussian, and some cabbage-flower. She ask at me

"Will you some greens:" I look to the color of the peas Prussian, and I say~" I shall prefer some these blues," Then she laughed of a manner horribly impolished, but without me tell that which I say bad. Then I thought she had want of some cabbage flower; and as I could not say green blossoms,'' I "Will some yellow, Miladi? She laughed again to the clatters! I pray you, my dear Miss, to tell me that which I have ill said.

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Green detestable! - I it hate; it goes bad with my skin brown; and 1 shall understand never of it the meaning! The other day Miladi Bull say--" Run very fast to the green-house, and tell Sir John for come to me:" so I put my bonnet, and run almost a half league to the alone house I ever see here painted in green-nothing of Sir John:-I come back and find Miladi mean the "serre a fleurs" when she say greenhouse, and not "ma son verte."

Before yesterday I was read the roman of "Redgauntlet" of Walter (that man of the genius,) when Miladi Bull enter, and making the great eyes, she say "You not read, you mind child always bring me two quills and the Canary: you forgot to water the plants." I regard the flowers, see their blossoms tenders quite past from the ardour of the sun, and their heads elegants leaning with the indisposition: I melted into tears at my negligence; that Walter is witch! I pour some water on the souls thirsty and faintings of the flowers, then I look in dictionary for "quill," I find "plume," so I run to the library where was Sir John "Have the complaisance sir, for give me two quills, and say me where is Canary ?" (Sir John is more honest in his manners than Miladi, and always say to me " my dear," He answer- My dear, Canary is a large island in the Sea Atlantic, near to the coast of the Afrique." Eh, la! what for Miladi make me a ridicule, for me send to carry large island! Miladi goes to a large Evening yesterday, and while she herself dress, she me sends for ribbon for her waist: she not like that which I bring, and say at me-" The ribbon shall be watered; and quill this lace on my dress." I take the dress, and think she have want for it to be garnished with feathers as I find "quill" mean plume.', I sew the lace and add feathers very gentille, and Miladi want ribbon watered, I make it wet with sponge, I think for make it fit close the waist of Miladi. Oh, la! she herself throw into an anger frightening again, and say at me that “quill" mean tuyeau," and "ribbon watered" mean "ruban moire." You have more of idioms in your tongue than I no thought.

When I arrive here, the girls dears make me to see a cat and her littles. I cry "Oh the cat superbe, with her littles also! Oh the genteel smalls beasts!" They ask at me — "What will you say by her littles?" "I wish to say ses Petits' the little childs of the cat, my dears, loves,"

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The little Bulls laughs to the tears even, and then say that little cats not named "childs" nor genteels." Sir John say at me" My dear, you say gentille" in French, that is "nice" in English; and my naughty girls laugh because you say "genteel small beasts," intead of nice little animals.”

To-day we expect some world to dinner, and I myself arranged to marvel, in a gown rose, and capped in a cap of blue tender, garnished with buttons of roses,

and teeth of wolf, and ears of hare in satin thoughtcoloured. I pass near to Miladi Bull and she say at me, in anger-"What a dash you cut! why you are more like a Merry Andrew or a Jack Pudding than a respectable governess."

I you pray, my dear Miss, for tell who are these gentlemen, Mr. John Pudding and Mr Andrew whom she named Gay? and also what she means by cutting a dash, which I find in the dictionary "coupant un trait" Mon Dieu! elle est drôle, cette femme !

At dinner she cut a large rosbif and I say Miladi "How you are good dissector!" She laugh (always laugh that woman there) and say - "Not dissector, but carver."

I do not like her contradict, but I know well that "carver" will be in French " sculpteur;" so I say only, "Thank you, Miladi, I ignoranted that;" and she laugh again.

It was there some of ladies at dinner who ask at me if I love the music? 1 cry, "Oh yes! I love that dear music to the folly we had a music charming in the bosom of our family: my sister oldest can touch delightfully; my sister young pinches of a manner extraordinary; and I have a brother who gives of a style astonishing." The lady fixed me, and then clattered with laugh. (Mon Dieu! the Englishes are very unpolished! Then she say "What you mean by say one touches, another pinches, and another gives, in speaking of music?' I answer to her We others French say always, touch the piano,'' pinch the harp' or the guitar,' and give of the horn my family are all very strongs. "Very strong!. !' she repeat, "what for very strong?"

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very strong musiciens :" we French say always, when one play very well. "You French are funny people!" say the lady and laugh again.

I forget to tell you again one mistake I have made. Sir John say, "Miss De la Roche, I must have my rubber, go and get all ready."

I thought he want clean some pencil mark with gomme-elastic, so I bring him large piece of Indian rubber! They long time before to tell me that "rubber' will say two or three games to the whist, as much as rubber to clean paper.

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Oh Miss, I pray you me procure an emplacement, otherwise; Miladi Bull has me put to the door; she has me chased of her house, and for such little thing,

also!

You know, dear Miss, that I am of a good family, and that our house at Paris, like the houses of all the nobles, was called after our name, "Hotel De la Roche:" when the woman of chambers attached my robe before the dinner, I say at her — Oh, Mary, what number infinite of domestics I have seen at the Hotel of my papa!"

She laugh (every body laugh of me I think), and she say -"Your papa keep an hotel! Miladi papa keep an hotel also, very large."

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Eh, well! At dinner I say, Miladi, where is the hotel that Mr. your father keep, and how you call it ?" She answer not, and makes mien to not me hear; but her neck redded, and I suppose she some person low and her family have no hotel!

After the dinner, come the servant to my chamber

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say- -"Here is your money, Miss; go directly, as you got into a scrape with Miladi about the hotel: good night, Miss French."

When that she go, I look in dictionary for " get into a scrape," and all I find is, “monter dans un gratter." So if you find one other emplacement for me, say me at the same times what is "get into a scrape;" and believe always in the devotion entire, and the gratitude eternal of, dear Miss,

Your passionately attached, Celestine Pulcherie Zaire Anastasie De la Roche.

THE SWAN.

I stood upon a mountain's height,
And view'd the dancing waves beneath,
That heav'd its little bosom's light

In many a gay and fairy wreath
The rosy flood that stream'd on high,
Roll'd red along the twilight sky.
And there was melody in ev'ry glade,
The nightingale's soft song of love,
The dashing of the light cascade,

And wailings from the turtle dove.
The hour so calm, the spot so fair,
A spirit might have slumber'd there.
But lo! what bark along the tide,
Leans graceful on his stately side.
With silken sails of snowy hue,
That sparkle fresh as morning dew.
Some spirit sure from home awhile,
Crossing the deep to yonder isle,
Is gliding down the currrent stream
Like fairy vision in a dream.

It is the Swan, that through the spray,
In native grandeur ploughs her way;
Her neck, a rainbow, rais'd on high,
Curves beauteous like the summer sky.
With gallant front the downy queen
Rides onward with majestic mien,
Or veering oft, the wind as free,
So lightly walks her little sea,
The billows scarce can feel the press
Of that soft bosom's loveliness.

May Fortune's ebb and sea of strife,
Ne'er strand thee on the shoals of life,
But swan-like through the adverse spray,
Be it thine to wend thy easy way,
The wintry storms of fate to breast,
And blessing all by all be bless'd.

KATE G

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LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS.

DRESSES, The brilliant assemblages in the London court circles during the past month, a month so fruitful in fêtes and pageantries, and in which the luxuries and elegancies of this age of improvement have been fostered to an unprecedented extent, have afforded an unexampled treat to the admirers of the " pomps and vanities" in whom by the way let us not rank alone the light and frivolous, but the grave, demure, plodding, and studious, who have exhibited an emulous curiosity, and stepped out of the ordinary path of every day life to fix their greedy eyes on the brilliant array of rank, beauty and fashion which has graced our metropolis.

The infinite varieties of splendid costume connected with the magnificient entertainments of our court and

aristocracy, have sufficed to satisfy the most fastidious taste, and the most luxuriant fancy. The accounts that meet the eve on every side, illustrative of the dazzling fêtes of the élite of European nobility, have left no point of information untouched to gratify public curiosity, and we shall thus only introduce a few of the most remarkable aud tasteful examples of costume in our present notice,

Her Majesty herself sat the example of a most elegant simplicity at one of her first balls, having a dress of azure-blue trimmed with silver lace; her coiffure was adorned with white roses and a diadem of diamonds. On her arm she wore the order of the garter and a diamond star.

A dress of white satin, embroidered with golden vermicelli of which the heading was formed by a torsade of variously colored precious stones, which also surrounded the corsage en pointe and formed a cordelière in front; acorn nœuds to match were placed on the shoulders.

A Pekin dress had an ornament down the front consisting of a silver embroidery in the form of ivy foliage and figuring a tablier. At the bottom of each of these garlands which extended to within half way down the leg, was attached a bouquet of roses, the heart of which was in diamonds and the foliage in silver.

A white silk-gauze was sprinkled with gothic designs. in silk and silver embroidery. The patterns being so dissimilar throughout the whole dress as not to represent two alike together in any part. The silk was in very lively colors and the gold in cordonnet, which gave a relief to the other part. Two flounces to match festooned in gold.

An emerald-colored satin dress, worked in gold, had a stomacher adorned in tasteful forms with emeralds and diamonds, with a slight sprinkling on the sleeve, which had also the addition of a wide blond one, of golden tissu of gothic design, three rows of the same were retained by bouquets of emeralds and diamonds.

A white moire dress was embroidered with foliage in gold and silver, in columns intermixed with flowers in Nakarat velvet. A double row of gold lace placed on each side the skirt graduated in size to the form of a tablier. These two rows of lace were so arranged as to produce an elegant effect of drapery, each fold being confined by a pompon of Nakarat velvet, surrounding a diamond rosette,

A very splendid and much admired costume, was composed of a union of gold lace and white satin ribbons embroidered in gold and variously colored silk in Arabesque designs. The skirt was made particularly full and the sleeves to correspond, falling very low.

A dress was formed of vieux points, of which the patterns were traced in gold, and the flounce was caught up in festoons by bouquets of precious stones in various colors.

We are enabled to give a slight extract from the brilliant catalogue of dresses occurring at her Majesty's state ball of the 26th inst. of the most distinguished costumes which will afford an adequate idea of the style and splendour of the occasion.

Her Majesty. A white satin costume, covered with a figured blond, ornamented down the front with gera nium blossoms. Head-dress of flowers, with the centre of jewels.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.-A rich

white satin dress, ornamented with flowers. Head-dress of flowers and diamonds.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.-A white figured satin, trimmed very plain, looped in the front with two pale roses. Head-dress of diamonds and pale roses, a necklace of brilliants, &c.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda.A French satin dress, with flowers and lappets of figured lace; necklace of diamonds and head-dress of the same precious jewels.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Angusta of Cambridge. A pale pink satin costume de bal, covered with a thin fabric and ornamented with roses. dress of flowers.

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Her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe.-A white satin costume, richly embroidered with gold, trimmed with figured lace. Head-dress a circle of diamonds and a wreath of flowers.

HATS AND CAPS.-The little hats of rice straw, with round borders and caught up on one side by long marabout feathers, reaching over the crown, and falling on the opposite side, are among the most distingué costumes of the season, and have been worn at the late fêtes by many of the first ladies of ton. These forms are par ticularly adapted to the mode of wearing the hair in long ringlets as well as the bands à la Clotilde, in which are frequently placed a rose or small bouquet. They also frequently have lace barbes intermingled with flowers, ribbons or small feathers so as to fall down on each side of the neck.

The tuscans are larger and more turned up behind. Field flowers are frequently worn with straw hats, disposed round the form, graduating to a larger size in the middle, the ends united by ribbon nœuds, no other part being ornamented by ribbon except this and the ties.

For straws of all kinds, ribbons of a green and a kind of brownish green are much used, being calculated to suit the generality of shades. Black lace generally suits this color well.

Straw capotes are also very much trimmed with white ribbons which form a rosette nœud on one side of the crown. A half veil attached to the border gives them a distingué appearance, without depriving them of their denomination, grand negligé, by which they are recog nized in the fashionable world.

The marabouts have become an article of almost universal wear with costumes of the higher order, and this style harmonizes especially with light summer hats, both in respect to their form and the lightness and transparency of their texture.

A capote of rice straw, with a rose-colored crape lining, and a ruche bordering it as well as a shaded or scotch chequered ribbon form an elegant negligé cos

tume.

MATERIALS AND COLORS.-White predominates both in the court and the circles of the nobility, in the former especially, this color in many materials, has a chaste and elegant effect, ornamented with embroidery of pearls and gold, as well as bouquets of diamonds.

On the whole we can quote little or no change in this respect for the present month, their being no accession to the immense variety that was produced for the coronation and its concomitants.

VARIETIES.-Bracelets in very great variety were much worn during the late festivities, being capable

of a brilliant display of ornament by the addition of precious stones, &c.

Diamonds and precious stones in general were employed less in necklaces and girandoles, than as orna. ments for the corsage and coiffure. On the corsage they are laid in a variety of patterns, forming various figures, though usually in compact forms. In tocques, ranges of diamonds are substituted for ribbons and ribbon nœuds. Cordelières formed of rubies, emeralds, &c. have obtained great sway.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.

PLATE 1.

FIGURE 1.-PROMENADE DRESS.-Mousseline de laine dress, draped corsage, with a double frilling round the neck, and sleeve of moderate width, similarly ornamented down the front of the skirt which is rather full, are placed in the tablier form, a ribbon with lace edging, which assumes a serpentine figure, and at the same time slightly graduates to the extreme of the hem. Crape, with flowers and plain ribbon tie.

FIGURE 2-VISITING DRESS.-Muslin dress, half high mounting corsage, made perfectly plain; the sleeve gathered in the upper part, and having two frillings at a slight distance apart, full to within a short distance of the wristband, where it is formed into close gathers. The wide double flounce with a piped border is headed by a double row of piping twisted together, after leaving spaces at intervals. The hat of rice straw is decorated with flowers on the side of the crown, as well as beneath the brim.

FIGURE 3.-CARRIAGE DRESS.-Mousseline de laine dress, with figured mantilla fall, having a frilling edged with narrow lace, which similarly ornaments the sleeve, as well as a nœud or narrow ribbon. Plain silk capote with a bouquet.

FIGURE 4.-CARRIAGE DRESS.-Armandine redingote, having a mantilla fall, with a frilling of the same, from the shoulders to the ceinture, where it unites, and is fixed by a noeud, and then diverges in continuing down the skirt in the tablier form, inside of which a rouleau is placed closely following the same direction. The sleeve has rather a full frilling placed double near the shoulder, close to the full part. Hat of embroidered silk and blond trimming and barbes.

The first figure differs in the formation of the sleeve, in being full and with only one frilling, it in other respects resembles that immediately under it.

The second figure is formed high at the shoulders, and moderately low in the bust.

The hats and capotes of tuscan and gros de Tour are ornamented principally with blonde. A very elegant and becoming garland of small flowers is placed round the crown of the lower hat to the right.

PLATE II.

FIGURE 1.-WALKING DRESS.-Organdi dress, the corsage moderately high, fitting the shape accurately. and ending in a point with a noud; the sleeve is gathered close together at about one third of the distance. Small chip gipsy bonnet ornamented with a garland of small bows and a small bouquet on the crown and inside.

FIGURE 2.-OPERA DRESS.-Tulle dress, corsage