trust a tailor with the making of those costumes, but on the contrary we put them into the hands of our most experienced dressmakers; they are thus much more graceful than when made by men. The petticoat of my riding habit is of dark green cashmere; the corsage is a beautiful canezou of plaited batiste, and embroidered. This canezou has a small embroidered collar, trimmed with a Valenciennes lace, under which a cravat is placed, which ought always to consist of China or watered gros de Naples. I have several canezous, but I have described the prettiest. I have a very pretty pelisse in glacé gros de Naples, paroquet green and white, the sleeves very large above, and very small below; the corsage flat, the front trimmed with bows of riband, and with this pelisse I wore a mantelet of black blond, trimmed with riband of the same shade as my dress. I also wore with it a hat of chip, with a bunch of pink and green flowers; it was trimmed with blond and pink riband. Instead of buskins, which are only worn of a morning, I have had laced gaiters of bronze gros de Naples to wear with English leather shoes of that colour. For dinner, I have a lawn dress of lilac, à l'oreille brochée of the same colour, with short sleeves, the corsage à drapé et pointe, the mantille of black blonde; with this I wear long open-worked mittens, exceedingly fine. When I have not my head dressed, I wear with this toilette a small cap of black blond, with flowers the colour of the dress, and gauze ribands. I have another dress for rainy weather. It is of China silk, with a bronze ground; it has small ramages of bright colours, a flat corsage and pelerine to match, with long points embroidered, and borders of different colours. I have also had made for this negligé a hat of tissu straw, with a halfveil of black blonde, and black ornaments. I have also some very pretty peignoirs for the morning, one of chalis, with a large Gothic pattern; another of La Chine made à coulisses, and a third of jaconot muslin, trimmed with garnitures of embroidered muslin. I have several morning caps in blond and muslin trimmed with lace. Hats continue to be worn somewhat larger, and few are made without feathers or flowers and ornaments of blonde. Aprons of moire in deep colours, either embroidered or trimmed with black lace, are quite the rage. Small bags of figured gros de Naples, or of black lace, lined with light colours, are worn more than ever. Mantelets are likewise worn of puce and black silk, lined with all sorts of light colours, and trimmed with black lace or blond, having a falling collar also trimmed with these materials. Morning dresses are generally made in the form of pelisses. The form of evening dresses has not at all changed since my last letter. I have seen nothing remarkable at the play, for all the fashionables have relinquished the theatres for the present, and are not likely to visit them for several months to come. Adieu, my dear Lady Louisa, Yours, ever sincerely, A. DE M. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. NEARLY ready for publication, editions in English and French, of" The Language of Flowers," with beautifully coloured plates. A Tale, understood to be from the pen of Miss Knight, author of "Dinarbas," and "Marius Flaminius," is just ready for publication, entitled "Sir Guy de Lusignan." Village Belles:" a novel, in three volumes, delineating the home life and manners of English society in the country, will shortly issue from the press. The author belongs to the same school as Miss Austen and Miss Mitford, and, like them, will be found to possess the talent of investing even trivial incidents, and every day people, with interest, and of producing effective, although unpretending, pictures. In a few days will be published, the third and concluding number of "Donaldson's Collection of Doorways," from ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, expressly measured and drawn for this work. There are in all twenty-six plates, accompanied by letter-press, which contains the Latin text, and a new translation of a chapter of Vitruvius upon the subject, the original of which is derived from a valuable MS. in the British Museum. In a few days will appear, an Abridgement of the Rev. Gilbert White's " Natural History of Selborne," with the omission or alteration of such passages as are unadapted for the perusal of children and young persons. The contents of this edition, which is embellished with numerous engravings, have been arranged by a Lady for the use of her own children. In the present month will be published, the first number of a new English Version of the great work of Cuvier, "La Règne Animale; or, The Animal Kingdom." This work will consist of thirty-six numbers; it will appear uninterruptedly on the first of every month, and the contents will be letterpress and plates. The letter-press will be an exact and close representation of the original, and will furnish not only the definite meaning, but also the In addition to this, a series of spirit of the text. notes will be subjoined, in which each branch of the general science will be carried up to the present state of knowledge. The plates, which constitute the most important source of expense, will amount to no fewer than five hundred. In the present month will be published, No. I. of "The Encyclopædia of Romance;" consisting of original Novels, Romances, and Tales, conducted by the Rev. Henry Martineau. A new work of an original character is announced from the pen of Lady Morgan; it is to be entitled "Dramatic Scenes from Real Life," and will form two volumes, uniform with her "Book of the Boudoir." In the press," The Judgment of the Flood:" a Poem. By John A. Heraud, author of "The Descent into Hell." BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. At Wotton Bassett, the Lady of the Rev. T. H. Ripley, of a son. The Lady of Lee Steere, Esq., of Jayes, in the county of Surry, of a daughter, which only survived its birth a few hours. The wife of Anthony Salvin, Esq. of Somersetstreet, Portman-square, of a daughter. Lady Mary Ross, of a daughter. At Upper Woburn Place, Mrs. Joseph Salkeld, of a daughter. In Weymouth-street, the Lady of Dr. George Gregory, of a son. In Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the Lady of Charles Douglas Halford, Esq., of a daughter. At Stanley Grove, the Lady of the Hon. Colonel Grant, of Grant, M.P., of a son. At 16, Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, the At Brighton, the Lady of Charles Morgan, Esq., Lady of Adam Duff, Esq., of a daughter. of a daughter. At Ipswich, the Lady of Lieut. Col. Stisted, At Cheltenham, Lady Walsham, of a son. The Lady of Edmund Jerningham, Esq., of a daughter. At 27, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon. Lady Langford, of a son. At Helme, the Lady of the Hon. Philip Stourton, of a son and heir. At Auchernick, Morayshire, the Lady of W. M. Coghlan, Esq., Bombay Artillery, of a son. At Abbott's Ripton, the Rev. George Cheere' second son of the late Charles Madryll Cheere, At the Rectory, Sedgefield, Durham, the Lady Esq., of Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire, to Harriet of the Rev. T. L. Strong, of a daughter. At Cambridge, the wife of Henry Hemington Harris, Esq., solicitor, of twins, still-born. At the residence of her father, S. Barrow, Esq., Lansdown Grove, Bath, the Lady of John B. Lousada, Esq., of a daughter. Emily, eldest daughter of J. B. Rooper, Esq., M.P. for the county of Huntingdon. At Elveden, Suffolk, Sir Mark Wood, Bart., to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Newton, Esq. At St. George's, Hanover Square, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, of Belhus, Essex, Bart., and M.P. In Dover-street, the Lady of T. B. Fyler, Esq., for that county, to Georgiana, relict of H. D. Milliof a son. MARRIAGES. At St. Andrews' Church, Hertford, George Parbury, Esq., to Mary Ann Joanna, the only daughter of the late Edward Ellis, Esq, of that town. At St. James's, William, only son of the late William Hazlitt, to Catherine, second daughter of Mr. Carew Henry Reynell. At St. Mary's Church, Bryanstone-square, George Moore, Esq. of Appleby, Leicestershire, to Susan, youngest daughter of W. P. Inge, Esq., of Thorpe, Staffordshire. At Munich, Count Potemkin, Ambassador from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia at the Court of Bavaria, to Eliza Mary Rose, eldest daughter of E. M. Grainger, Esq. of Twysrg, Denbighshire. At Bury St. Edmund's, John Thomas Ord, Esq. of Fornham, St. Martin, Suffolk, to Susanna Agnes, third daughter of the late M. T. Cockredge, Esq., of St. Edmund's Hall, in the same county. At Layton, Essex, the Rev. Henry Charles Eaton, youngest son of Richard Eaton, Esq. of Stetchworth Park, Cambridgeshire, to Catherine Harriet, eldest daughter of John Pardoe, Esq. of Layton. At St. John's, Hackney, John Tylston Wicksteed, Esq., of Prince's-street, Blackfriars, to Emma, fourth daughter of the late John Barton, Esq., of Hackney. At Carnock, William Maxwell, Esq., eldest son of Sir William Maxwell of Monteith, Bart., to Elenora, daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, of Greenock and Blackhall, Bart. In Castleane Parish Church, William Villiers Stuart, Esq., second son of the late Lord Henry Stuart, and brother of Henry Villiers Stuart of Dromana, in the County of Waterford, Esq., to Catherine, only daughter of Michael Cox, of Castletown, county of Kilkenny, Esq., and niece to the Lord Dunally. At St. Pancras Church, Mr. D. Clarke, of Judd Street, Brunswick Square, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Danby. At St. Ann's Aldersgate, Charles Coryton Hutchins, to Amelia Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Gideon Hebert, Esq. At St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, to Thomas Grain Smith, Amy, eldest daughter, and on the same day, to John Wilkes Pain, Elizabeth, third daughter of Captain James Boxer, R.N. gan, Esq., and daughter of the late Sir Walter Stirling of Faskine, N. B., Bart. At St. Mary's, Marylebone, H. B. Caldwell, Esq., of Hilborowe Hall, Norfolk, to Esther, eldest daughter of T. R. Buckworth, Esq., of Cockley Cley Hall, in the same county. DEATHS. At his house in Weymouth Street, Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Bowser, K.C.B., in his 84th year. At 21, Conduit Street, Maria, Lady Anstruther, widow of the Right Hon. Sir John Anstruther, Chief Justice of Bengal. The Hon. Lady Halford, wife of Sir Henry Halford, Bart. At the Lawn, South Lambeth, Mrs. Vezian, in her 90th year. Suddenly of a fit of apoplexy, in his 43d year, the Hon. Captain Thomas Roper Curzon, Royal Navy, of No. 6, Cumberland Street, Portman Square, second son of the Right Hon. Lord Teynham. At the Vicarage House, Cripplegate, the Rev. William Holmes, in the 63d year. At Smedmore House, in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, the Rev. John Clavell, in his 74th year. At Taplow, Bucks, Colonel Marmaduke Williamson Browne, H. E. I. C. Artillery. At the residence of the Hon. Lady Shaw, St. Margaret's, Rochester, in her 43d year, Augusta Anne, daughter of the late Sir Gregory Shaw, Bart., of Kenward, in the county of Kent. In Portland Place, G. R. Heneage, Esq., of Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire, in his 64th year. At his residence, Somerset Street, Kingsdown, the Rev. William Anderson, Classical and Mathematical Tutor of the Baptist Theological Institution, Bristol. At Rotherhithe, Dr. Gaitskell, M.D., in his 71st year. In Gorey, Ireland, Mrs. Hart, late of Kilkenny, aged 110. She retained her faculties until her last moments. At Madeira, on the 11th of May, in his 28th year, Thomas Reid, Esq., of the house of Keir and Co., eldest son of Joseph Reid, Esq., of Thornton Heath, Surry. At Hanbury Vicarage, Staffordshire, the Rev. Hugh Bailey, M.A., Canon Residentiary of Litchfield Cathedral, and Vicar of Hanbury. of In London, of apoplexy, Arthur Wyatt, Esq., Monmouth. |