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Romans. The women appear in lit- || seen on horseback, or walking, on the roads; their ordinary pace being a kind of trot, or short run, in which manner they proceed to the town, carrying heavy loads. In returning from the market they are not so expeditious, being sometimes a little elevated with a liquor called pulque: they are, however, always respectful and polite to strangers. While these are passing they stop, take off their hats, and salute them; and are much pleased to be spoken to or noticed..

tle more than a petticoat and short jacket, with their long raven-like tresses plaited on each side of the head with red tape. When seated on the ground for hours in the market-place, exposed to the sun, I have often seen them place a cabbage, or other large leaf, on their heads, to defend them from its influence. They are generally clean in their appearance, and orderly and modest in their behaviour. Indians are seldom

FASHIONS.

LONDON FASHIONS.

In consequence of the court mourn- || sleeve is plain, and very large at the ing ordered for his late Majesty Louis XVIII. of France, who died on the 16th of September, our fair fashionables have exchanged for a short period their gay attire for the sombre trappings of woe. As this is a month in which very little change takes place, we have endeavoured to present our fair subscribers with what appeared to us most novel and striking, in our prints. The Lord Chamberlain's orders for the court mourning, circulated through the medium of the Gazette and all the newspapers, must, before the publication of this Number, have met the eye of all our readers. We have no doubt that the example of the Court will be very generally followed among the higher classes.

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top, and confined twice between the shoulder and the elbow by corded satin bands, which are decorated about two or three inches apart on each side of the front of the sleeve by campanulas or Canterbury bells made of lilac satin. The skirt touches. the ground, and is trimmed with five satin tucks of the same colour, elevated on the right side, and fastened by Canterbury bells of lilac satin: shaded lilac waist ribbon, and gold buckle in front. Very full worked muslin ruff, a little open at the throat, and fastened with a gold buckle. White chip bonnet, with a band of lilac satin introduced midway of the brim, which is circular, and deep in front, but shallow behind. The crown is low, and surrounded with a puffing of lilac satin ribbon and ears of corn: the strings are of crèpe lisse bound with lilac satin. Ear-rings of amethyst set in gold. Primrose-colour kid gloves and shoes.

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DINNER DRESS.*

folds; beneath are two satin rouleaus and a broad wadded hem. A large long sleeve of crape is added, and comes over the short one; it is something similar to the French manche à la neige, though without the redundant garniture. Turban of white crape, folded very small, and formed into large bouffants;

Dress of black silk barège: the corsage made rather low and circular, and narrow on the shoulder: it is ornamented with satin bands placed longitudinally. The sleeve is very short and full, set in a band of six small cords, and arranged in festoons, and fastened by buttons. The ceinture is of black satin cord-broad and plain in front: the left ed with palmated leaves pendent behind, with buttons in the centre. The skirt has two very rich borders composed of satin rouleaus, formed into crescents, and united by two leaves of the Alpine saxifrage, tied at the base by a circlet composed of French

side arranged in a full rosette, with alternate bouffants of white satin and crape; the right intermingling with the folds behind. Black necklace and ear-rings. White kid gloves and shoes.

FASHIONABLE FURNITURE.
SOFA-TABLE, CHAIR, AND FOOTSTOOL.

THE table is of rose-wood, relieved by carved ornaments in satinwood, and is of very simple construction, although of adequate strength. The chair is composed of the same materials, and the cushion supposed to be covered with merino damask. The form of the back produces a very agreeable support to the person seated; and in effect the whole, if well carved, is rich, and perfectly

suited to harmonize with the best furniture of the drawing-room.

The footstool is designed in a corresponding style. The delicacy of the workmanship necessary to the full effect of furniture designed in this manner makes it costly; but those who possess it have the benefit of knowing that it will never become common-place, and from its artistlike merits will always be valuable.

FINE ARTS.

THE DIORAMA.

particularly in the closed choir, have furnished scope for a charming display of dioramic art. All the parts that are in strong or even in middle light are admirable; but the distances do not fully confirm the illusion which the fore-ground creates in the mind of the spectator, that it

Tius attractive Exhibition is again open to the public with two new views, seventy feet by fifty, painted by Messrs. Bouton and Daguerre, representing the Cathedral of Chartres and the Harbour of Brest. The former is a fine subject, and treated in a masterly manner. The peculiarities of the architecture and forms," is actually a building which he sees,

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