of the sons of the clergy, for these seventyfive years past, without receiving a shilling remuneration; nay, many of them, who do not play on the various instruments required, are obliged to pay for substitutes." If this be so, the objection of certain reverend prelates to the desecration of Westminster-abbey, as they are pleased to call it, for the benefit of the musical profession, seems not only unreasonable but ungrateful.

BOOTH, THE ACTOR.-This individual has long had, in America, the reputation of being insane. There are those, however, who say there is method in his madness, and that his extravagances kept his name up when his acting would not. As a performer, he is still popular. Among his freaks he bought a great number of chickens and had them killed, and then sent for a clergyman to read the burial service over them. Once he invited a party of gentlemen to follow an old friend to the grave; when they arrived, they found it was to assist at the funeral of his horse. He took it into his head, not long since, to go into prison among the runaway negroes. He then exhibited in the streets of Louisville, painted black, asserting negroes to be the superior race, and himself one of them. He has lived on vegetables for years, and usually drinks water, but sometimes indulges in more potent liquors, and then he acts in the way described.

Sinclair, Mrs. Austin, and Miss Fisher have been performing, with great success at the Cam Theatre, New Orleans. The first has been particularly happy in "Masaniello." He is thus mentioned in the Mercantile Advertiser of February 16th:-" Mr. Sinclair, as Masaniello, has established for himself a reputation with the citizens of New Orleans that will not easily be rivalled. We have frequently been delighted with this gentleman's vocal performances, but never until last night have we seen such spirit thrown into any character, as was given to Masaniello by Mr. Sinclair. The late hour forbids us to go too far into particulars, but can any one imagiue any thing more perfect to nature than was the performance of the last scene? It was really a treat, and we feel convinced that Mr. Sinclair has not his superior, indeed we may say his equal, in this character.

There is not an actor now alive who performed in the "Duenna" when it was first represented. Quick, who died about four years ago, was the original Isaac Mendoza.

NEW SINGERS-A Dutch vocalist made his debut at Moscheles' concert; his voice is a high tenor, with a very extensive falsetto, not unlike Sinclair's. He sang a pathetic ballad and a national hymn, in both High and Low Dutch, for he ran from C below the staff to F in altissimo! Mr. Conrad Boisragon, son of the eminent M.D. of that name at Cheltenham, has just arrived from Flo

rence, and has made his debut at Mr. F. Cramer's concert; he possesses a very fine bass voice of great compass and power. M. Gwys, the newly-imported violinist, delighted the audience in a fantasia of his own composition, which was deservedly admired. He ranks among the first performers of the day.

MRS. WAYLETT.-At Bologne the saloon of the Hotel d'Orleans has been enlivened with a soirée musicale, got up in a superior style. Mrs. Waylett was all the rage. She was most fervently applauded in all she did. At the end of one of her concerts, a lady stepped up to her and said, "I hope it is not asking too much, but will you sing me 'O, no, we never mention her?'" The syren complied with the greatest affability. The rush back of the retiring audience furnished one of the oddest scenes that could be imagined.

MADAME STOCKHAUSEN.-Perhaps there is no vocalist living who is more generally admired than Madame Stockhausen whereever she has appeared. It were a wonder were it not so, for she sings with equal taste and sweetness in Italian, French, German, English, and last, but not least, Swiss.

THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.-Pierce Egan's "Life in Dublin," with the farce of " Love, Law, and Physic, were performed by desire of her Excellency the Marchioness Wellesley. Shortly after seven o'clock her Excellency, accompanied by Miss Caton, alighted from her cariage, at the grand entrance. Her Excellency was escorted to the theatre by a guard of honour of the 15th Hussars. A party of the 60th Rifles were also in attendance at the piazza. Her Excellency was conducted by the lessee (Mr. Calcraft) to her box, and received in the warmest and most enthusiastic manner by the house. Stewart's Telegraphic Dublin Dispatch.

WEBER'S grand opera of "Euryanthe" will shortly be performed by the German company. Other novelties, among which are "The Eagle's Eyry," by Horst, and a new opera by Spontini, are in preparation.

Among the "lions" of the present fashionable season, is Madame Fillipowicz, a Polish lady, who is a most excellent performer on the violin. Her talent has been exhibited in private parties only, but she has surprised some of our best professors of that instrument by her strength of tone, brilliancy of execution, and bold masculine style. She is a pupil of Spohr.

GRAVE CON. Which is the deepest, the longest, the broadest, and the smallest grave in Esher churchyard ?-That in which Miles Button lies buried, for it contains Miles below the sod, Miles in length, and Miles in breadth, and yet it is only a Button-hole.

NEWS FROM PARIS. PARIS, MAY, 1834. You will be grieved, my dear friend, when you know that I have been acting la garde malade ever since I last wrote. I have had three of my children ill, and M. de F is still labouring under a very severe attack, not only of mauvaise humeur, car cela va sans dire, but of gout and asthma. Oh! ma chère, I have had so many privations: I missed the races at Chantilly, where I had made up my mind to go; and a splendid fête the other evening, chez la Comtesse d'Appony. I was so annoyed; mais, mon amie, quand on se dévoue à son mari et à ses enfans, as I do, one must be prepared to suffer many deprivations. Nevertheless, it is very provoking, that if there is any thing that M. de F- does not wish me to go to, such as the opera balls, or if we have invitations to a fête that he imagines would be too gay for his staid and sober years, he always contrives to feel a fit of the gout coming on, that must necessarily keep us both at home. I tell him that we should go and take up our abode in the midst of a forest; for really to live comme des ours, in such a place as Paris, is dreadful. He put me in a passion the other day; but I soon forgave him, for he bought me a most beautiful fan, quite an antique, of the reign of Louis XVI. It represents a comedie à la cour. Marie Antoinette, Madame Elizabeth, and the Princess de Lamballe, all excellent likenesses, are on the stage. Louis XVI. is seated on his throne, and the boxes and parterre are filled with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, all in the costume of the period. The mounting of the fan is mother-o'-pearl, inlaid with gold and precious stones. You cannot imagine any thing more beautiful. The rage for these fans is carried to a great extent just now, and immense prices are paid for them. But I must tell you the cause of the quarrel: all our ladies are as busily employed as possible, embroidering waistcoats for the gentlemen; c'est un fureur; they are done on white or pearl-grey cassimere, or black, brown, puce, or white satin, and are worked in coloured floss silks in guirlandes, detached bouquets, or what is prettier than either, en ramages (a running pattern all over). I thought M. de F- would look très distingué in one of these waistcoats, and commenced one for him; but only think, he refused to wear it, saying that such things were only fit for the young men that make themselves look like bears and monkeys and goats, with the pretty beards that are the fashion VOL. IV. No. 6.

just now in Paris. I was so angry, that I gave it to a lady to finish for one of her friends; and if he had not given me the fan, I should not have spoken to him for a week.

HATS AND CAPOTES.-The hats have increased very much in size lately, particularly in the height of the crowns, which are nearly pointed at top; the fronts are also larger, descending low at the sides, some, indeed, almost meeting under the chin; the bavolets (curtain at the back) are excessively full, and deep, and are gathered, instead of being plaited. Almost every hat and capote has a demi-voile of blonde or tulle illusion with a wide hem, or a short veil of very fine tulle Anglaise, sewed round the edge; and all, except the little bonnets, worn en negligé, are ornamented with flowers or feathers: small wreaths or very small bouquets are worn underneath the fronts, mingling with the curls, and descending low at each side of the face they are very becoming. Hats of paille de riz are the most fashionable for grande toilette; but hats and drawn capotes of poux de soie glacé, and of crape, are much adopted by our élégantes just now. Hats of paille d'Italie are a good deal worn; they are lined with poux de soie, and trimmed with sarsnet ribbons glacé de blanc. The most fashionable colours on straw hats are lilac, light blue, rose, and green. These hats are worn larger than any others.

FLOWERS. The flowers most in favour are roses the rose pompon, the rose noisette, the rose de Meaux, and all small roses; branches of the acacia, of the apple, cherry, and peach-trees; pinks, scabious, violets, jessamine, mimosa, tulips of different colours, double and single hyacinths, woodbine, bouquets à la Cérès of wheat, oats, barley, grass, straw, poppies, daisies, harebells, &c. mixed; filberts, grapes, currants, and oak with acorns, are also fashionable.

DRESSES.-There is nothing very new in ball-dresses. The skirts are in general open in front; but some, instead of being open, are only made to look so. They are trimmed with rich blondes, flowers, bows of ribbon, or held back with jewels. The corsages for these dresses are invariably à pointe; but the points are very short, scarcely coming below the waist. All the corsages are made to fit tight to the bust, and have draperies à la Sevigné put on; but these draperies are enormously full. Three or four small bows of ribbon (about a quarter of an ell in each bow) are placed down the centre of the corsage; one is also 3 B

put at the top of the back, and one at the waist. The noeuds de page are worn on the shoulders, but the ends are much shorter than they were. The sleeves are à double and à triple sabot, with ruffles à la Louis XV. Bows of ribbon or flowers are placed between the puffs of the sleeves, and sometimes a wreath of small flowers goes all round the arm, dividing the puffs: it has a very pretty effect. Sashes tied in front, with very long ends, are worn when the corsage is not à pointe.

In Toilette de Promenade, redingottes are universally adopted. Some are trimmed with bows of ribbon placed at distances down each side of the front of the skirt, or with ruches, to make the dress look as if it was an open robe or skirt en tablier. Some have an opening down the centre of the front, and are tied at distances with bows of ribbon: the corsages tight to the bust. Some are plain, others have draperies put on à l'éventail, coming in full folds from the shoulder to the centre of the waist; and others again have these draperies to cross in front. The sleeves of all the new dresses are excessively full all the way down, and are finished at the wrist by a very narrow wristband; however, the sleeves full at top, and tight from the elbow down, may still be worn.

Large round pelerines, or those à longs Pans, with long ends put beneath the ceinture, of the same material as the dress, are worn; the waists are long, the petticoats long and excessively full, and the hems at the bottom of the dresses never exceed half a quarter of a yard English in depth. Although I tell you, my dear Clorinde, to wear your dresses long, I entreat you, ma chère, not to have them long enough to save the balayeurs the trouble of sweeping the streets.

I gave you a long list of new materials in my last. The patterns on the Foulards silks, on the mousselines de laines, and on the jaconas, are immense flowers; the black grounds are the prettiest. Every thing is worn as much as possible en suite; I mean the trimmings, and feathers or flowers of the hat, the dress, the brodequins, scarf, &c., as nearly of a colour as you can; the variety of colours being only in the material of the dress.

are coming in; they are not frilled, but are merely a small cuff, which is sometimes pointed like a half handkerchief, the point turned up.

COLLERETTES AND PELERINES. Large round pelerines, and pelerines à Pans (with long ends) made of India muslin, or thin cambric, embroidered and trimmed with Malines or Valenciennes, are very fashionable; the collerettes have square falling collars, embroidered and trimmed with lace. The pierrots, which I have so often described, are much worn; and mantelets of black taffetas, or of lilac, or green poux de soie, trimmed with deep black lace, are quite as distingué as they were last year; these mantelets are also made of the same material as the dress, and trimmed with black lace, they look very elegant.

APRONS.-The newest aprons are made of satin broché, satin and gros de Naples, embroidered in floss silks; the pockets are on the inside, the ceinture is sometimes made with a slight point, and the apron trimmed all round with narrow black lace, or a ruche of satin ribbon.

HAIR.-Ringlets are rather more worn just now than the large tufts of frizzed curls; the front hair is a good deal parted on the brow, and descends low at the sides. A braid, en couronne, is preferred to any thing else, especially for young persons; sometimes the braid is encircled by a wreath of roses, mixed flowers, or all white flowers, but this rather depends on the colour of the hair; pink or white flowers should seldom be worn by a blonde, whereas on dark hair, their effect is particularly pretty. The fairer the hair, the darker should be the flowers, while dark hair is more set off by white or light coloured flowers. In the coiffures à la Mancini, à la Marion de Lorme, à la Sévigné, &c., the hair is not worn high, the curls stand out far from the head, and their volume is much increased by a quantity of mixed flowers which are intermingled with the curls. Feathers, birds of Paradise, rich bracelets, &c., are much worn par les Mamans; but demoiselles content themselves with flowers, or a string of pearls round the head, and crossing the brow, as being more simple, and far better adapted to their more juvenile style of beauty.

TURBANS of rich gauzes, ornamented with birds of Paradise feathers or diamonds, are a good deal worn.

SHAWLS AND SCARFS of a rich material, called Foulard satin, are worn: small light scarfs of mousseline de soie, and mousseline de laine, knotted at the neck, are admired in walking costume.

COLOURS.-The prevailing colours are, rose, blue, several shades of lilac, lemon, yellow, straw colour, apple green, parrot