Duke of Rutland-John, the first Dukesay, that "upon occasion of new laying a chimney at Minster Lovel in 1708, there was discovered a large vault or room under ground, in which was the entire skeleton of a man, as having been sitting at a table, which was before him, with a book, paper, pen, &c., and near him a cap, all much mouldered and decayed; which the family and the neighbourhood judged to be this Lord Lovel, the manner of whose exit had been involved in obscurity." So it seems that this unhappy nobleman, who was Lord Chamberlain to King Richard, and possessed of estates equal to any peer in the kingdom, after escaping the perils of Bosworth and Stoke, died the most miserable of deaths under his own roof.-Earl of Egmont: Sharpe's Peerage.

LEMONADE versus LIFE. -The Marquis de Brosset once passed through Metz, going to his regiment; he entered a café generally resorted to by officers. These gentlemen, displeased at seeing a man not in uniform amongst them, resolved on annoying him. The Marquis called for a glass of lemonade; it was brought; one of the officers upset it. A second was called for, brought, upset; and a third shared the same fate. The traveller thereupon rose: "Gentlemen," said he, "short reckonings make long friends. I have to pay for three glasses of lemonade, for which I must have in return the lives of three of you. I am the

Marquis de Brosset-that is my card and route." At this the party felt silly, and sorry for having insulted a comrade; but they were obliged to go out with him. Three of them, one after the other, fell dead beneath his arm. Then M. de Brosset wiped his sword, bowed to the rest of the officers, and continued his route.

THE BROOM GIRLS.-A large portion of the industrious class of Germans who emigrate to England for a limited period, and endeavour to realise a little money by the invitation to" buy a broom," have returned to their own country in the neighbourhood of Frankfort, each of them having five or six sovereigns in pocket, which, according to their habits of frugality, is enough for their sus tentation at their humble homes during the winter. They cross the water at Dover, and then travel the remainder of a long journey by land, supporting themselves, in their progress, on a little bread, stewed peas, and

water.

THE DEAF AUDITOR.-Meanwhile, Maitre Florian, the auditor, turned over attentively the leaves of the written charge drawn up against Quasimodo, and presented to him by the registrar, and, after taking that glance, appeared to be meditating for a minute or two. Owing to this precaution, which he was always careful to take at the moment of proceeding to an interrogatory,

he knew beforehand the name, quality, and offence of the accused; made premeditated replies to answers foreseen; and so contrived to find his way through all the sinuosities of the interrogatory without too much betraying his deafness. The written charge was to him as the dog to the blind man. If it so happened that his infirmity discovered itself here and there, by some incoherent apostrophe or unintelligible question, it passed with some for profundity, with others for imbecility. In either case the honour of the magistracy did not suffer; for a judge had better be considered either imbecile or profound than deaf.-Effingham Wilson's Edition of Victor Hugo's Notre Dame.

THE AGES OF THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS. The following list shews the age of all the Sovereigns of Europe :-William IV., King of England, 69 years; Charles John, King of Sweden, 69; Pope Gregory XIV., 68; Francis I., Emperor of Austria, 66; Frederick IV., King of Denmark, 66; Frederick William, King of Prussia, 63: William King of Holland, 61; Louis Philip, King of the French, 60; William, King of Wurtemburg, 52; Mahmoud II., Emperor of Turkey, 48; Louis, King of Bavaria, 47; Leopold, King of the Belgians, 42; Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, 37; Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 35; Ferdinand II., King of Sicily, 23; Maria II., Queen of Portugal, 14; Maria Isabella Louisa, Queen of Spain, 3 years.

A LONG YARN.- One pound of cotton (says Mr. Gordon), which formerly could only be spun into a thread of 108 yards long, can now, by the application of steam, produce a thread of 167 miles in length.

VELOCITY OF BALLOONS.-The velocity of 80 miles per hour is that at which the aeronaut Garnerin was carried in his balloon from Ranelagh to Colchester, in June, 1802. It was a strong and boisterous wind, but did not assume the character of a hurricane, although a wind with that velocity is so characterised by Rance's Table. In Mr. Green's aerial voyage from Leeds, in September, 1823, he travelled 43 miles in 18 minutes, although bis balloon rose to the height of more than 4,000 yards.

EMIGRANTS. The number of families who have emigrated to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land since the formation of the Board of Emigration to the end of September, and who received loans from Government, was, to New South Wales 397 families, of 1,538 persons, 7,8314. expended; Van Diemen's Land, 422 families, of 1,571 persons, and 8,406/. expended. The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom to the British colonies in America in the year 1832 was 66,339; to the Cape 196; to Australia 3,733; and to the United States 32,872, making a total of 103,140.

"May I be married, Ma?" said a pretty brunette of sixteen to her mother. "What do you want to be married for?" returned her mother. "Why, Ma, you know that the children have never seen any body married, and I thought it might please 'em."

THE OLD WITCH OF FERMOY.-A correspondent in the Liverpool Journal of Dec. 7, gives the following verbatim account from the lips of an Irish peasant resident on the scene of her "freaks and phantasies:""There once lived in the kingdom of Munster, nigh-hand the town of Fermoighe, a most elegant, fine young gentleman, as rich as if he had the wealth of the Injees. Early in his life 'twas God's will his father and mother should die, leaving himself the master of a beautiful grand castle and a power of goold, and a deal of servants. After the mourning, which lasted a whole twelve months-to be sure he went into company as usual; but the people were all surprised by his introducing along with him an ugly ould woman that was humpy (more misfortune to her), and only for his being sich a grand gentleman, the never-a-one would speak to her, good or bad; so out of compliment to him, she was left in all parties and company. Itself he could not go to a ball only she must be stuck to his skirts. If he went out airing in the carriage, that was the finest ever was seen with mortchal eyes, herself must be clung up alongside of him, equal to his shadow, until at long last people began to think all was not right; for on some friends asking him about her, he swore she was an angel, and every thing else that was beautiful. Well, it was no good for 'em to beat him; the more advice he got the worse he was, and they thought for certain it must be some bewitchment of magic or other devilment that come over him. they made a bargain, some of them, to go to his castle, and they no sooner determined on it than away they went and never rested till they got to his own room, where he was

So

down on his knees before the ould witch. Never a word they said, but one come to his head, and another to his heels, and carried him down stairs, and shoved him into a carriage, and druv away as if ould Nick was after 'm, and never stopt or staid till they came to Cork's own town all the way; and they druv up the main street till they come to Judy Kelly's, who kept a very decent house, the sign of the Bagpipes,' long before M'Dowell's, or any of the great inns that's there now was heard or thought of; and getting a warm bath, they stripped off every tack of clothes, and soused him holus bolus into the water, and scoured him all over; while others ran away with his clothes, even to his garters, and cut 'em up in bits to see what deviltry was the manes of his misfortune, when what would they find through every stitch but bits of erubs, wove in and out as curious as if they were made in the clothes. Well, when they had dressed him again in span-new clothes, away they whisked him back to Fermoighe; but they had to search high and low for my lady before they found her, for she was greatly in dread himself would kill her when he came home, he'd be in such a fret. The never-aone of him would believe, good or bad, that the like ever kem over him to love such an ugly old hag; and what did he do, but he tuck a hoult of her be the poll, and thrum her out of the windy into the river; but sure if he did, herself swum ashore equal to a duck, being she was a witch, and you could'nt drown a witch. As soon as she got to the other side of the river, and landed ashore after her swim, she went on her two knees down, and you may b'lieve me 'twasnt a blessing she gave him, or any thing belonging to him, only the worst o' what could happen to him ever after. From that day out, there was no tale or tidings, good, bad, or indifferent, of the Ould Witch of Fermoighe." * Herbs.

COSTUME OF PARIS.

PARIS, DECEMBER 26, 1833.

My dear Friend.-I have just had the extreme pleasure of receiving your toute aimable, toute charmante letter, and proceed to answer it without delay. I shall execute all your commissions, and give you in my next all the renseignemens I can gather on the subject of our carnival balls. You must excuse my letter being very short to-day, as I shall have occasion to write to you again, a day or two hence. I shall therefore proceed without further delay to the

fashions.

Dresses of brocade silks and satins, Persian satins and pompadours, are more worn than any others; they are made completely à l'antique, with sleeves à double sabot, and ruffles à la Louis XV. Dresses of black blonde, embroidered in large detached bouquets, or à colonnes in natural flowers, done in coloured silks, and worn over black satin, are the most distingué dresses that can be worn at dinner parties; they are also very elegant for balls; they lose their effect if worn over white or coloured under dresses. For morning wear, dresses of foulard silk, poux de soie, pékin, and satin, are esteemed

the most elegant. The corsages are tight to the bust, the sleeves by no means so immoderately large at top as they have been, and perfectly tight from the elbow to the wrist. The skirts are very full plaited round the waist, and little or no space left plain in front.

HATS.-The fronts of the hats are rather longer at the sides than they were; and a small rouleau or piping is put over the very edge of the front, which gives it a pretty finish. The crowns are en casque (rounded at top), and the velvet or satin is put on in folds lengthways or across. Velvet hats font fureur just now. Black velvet, lined and trimmed with orange, and two very long ostrich feathers of the same colour, or a bouquet consisting of four short feathers. The ribands worn on the hats at present are very rich and handsome: they cost fifteen francs a yard, and are called " pompadour ribands." A dark green velvet hat trimmed as above, with a riband a shade or two lighter than the velvet, is very elegant: the feathers and ribands must match exactly. This difference of shade between the hat and garnitures does not answer so well in any colour but green. Some of our elegantes, instead of feathers, have a bouquet of velvet flowers, which have a pretty effect. Satin hats are the next in estimation to velvet. An orange satin, lined and trimmed with black, and a couple of long feathers, one black, the other orange, is très bon ton. Rose and black, Haiti blue and black, dark green and black, and pea green and black, are the colours most worn in hats.

FLOWERS.-The velvet flowers just mentioned are mostly fancy flowers, and are of mixed colours, as black with orange, green, or rose; roses, dahlias, marigolds, and sweet pea are also made in velvet. Natural flowers (artificial) are also much worn, or bouquet of soncis (marigolds), china-asters, dahlias, or roses, are the flowers most in vogue.

TURBANS.-Turbans are coming in very much this winter: those called the "Moabite turbans," are the most worn they are made of gaze de soie, embroidered cachemire, embroidered tulle, gauzes, gold and silver tissues and lamas; and are ornamented with birds of Paradise, esprits, and diamond aigrettes.

FANS AND BOUQUETS. The fans in fashion just now are called "Eventails à la Valois," they are as large as those worn formerly by our great-grandmothers, and are exquisitely painted and gilt; the subjects on them are taken from the heathen mythology. The bouquets for carrying in the hand are very prevalent: the centre of the bouquet is formed of white flowers; the coloured ones are placed all round.

CRAVATTES.-Those of black tulle, embroidered in coloured silks, are still much worn, but the newest of all are called "Pom

padours;" these are merely about two yards of the widest and richest satin riband, put simply round the neck, and knotted in two knots, one after the other (no bow), forming a sort of braid; the ends are brought beneath the ceinture, and reach at least as low as the knee. Sometimes the ends only pass the ceinture about three or four inches, but those with the floating ends look the most distingué; they are particularly adapted for concert or opera dress, or dinner costume, with a white dress. The ceinture should match the "Pompadour" as nearly as possible. FURS. Palatines or long fur tippets are much more prevalent than boas, although the latter are worn. The furs in highest estimation are marten, sable, and swansdown.

CLOAKS.-The most elegant material for cloaks is called "satin de laine," or worsted satin. It resembles plain fine Merinos (not twilled) broché in satin flowers. Black and orange, black and blue, black and green, black and red, green and violet, green and crimson, and brown and orange, are the most beautiful colours in this material: it is à riflets (the colour changes according to the light in which it is seen). Some cloaks are loose, merely fastened at the neck with a small cordelière and tassels: others are fastened round the waist, Some are with sleeves, some without. The sleeves are frequently made to put on and take off in the following manner. Arm-holes are cut in the cloak, which are concealed by the cape; to each arm-hole are four straps with buttons in them; the sleeves have four corresponding straps with button-holes, by means of which the sleeves are put on or taken off in an instant, and with the utmost facility. The capes are invariably square, and are deep and very full; the collars of velvet. These cloaks are well wadded and lined with silk or satin. They have one or two pockets on the inside to carry the handkerchief, fan, purse, &c.

COLOURS.-The colours still in vogue are those of last month; orange, Haiti blue, cherry, rose, moss-green, pea-green, vertbouteille, violet, lavender, maïs, and every shade of brown, from very dark to very light.

Adieu! Ma chère amie. I cannot write more to day. Mon mari te presente ses hommages, je t'embrasse de tout cœur. Toute à toi,

DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.

L. de F.

(1.) TOILETTE DE BAL.-The plate gives an exact representation of the style of coiffure adopted in France during the reign of Charles VII. The front hair is drawn in smooth bands as far as the temples, where it is braided, and turned round two or three

times, and fastened in the centre by a small gold ornament. (See plate.) Another braid, forming a large bow of hair, falls towards the back of the neck. (See plate.) The back hair is turned up en chignon ; a thick braid, with a row of pearls twisted over it, goes round the head, and finishes by being twisted in the chignon at the back. (See plate.) A golden arrow, placed at the back of the head, fastens the braid and chignon. A string of pearls entirely encircles the head, and crosses the upper part of the brow. Dress of white tulle, corsage plain, and perfectly tight to the bust. Sleeves à double sabot, with immensely deep ruffles à la Louis XV. A rich mantille of blonde ornaments the corsage; at the back and front the mantille is very narrow, and in a single fall; but on the shoulders it is excessively deep and full, and in three falls. The skirt of the dress is ornamented en tublin with guirlandes of small roses, with buds and foliage. Five full-blown roses, increasing in size as they go down, are placed at distances down the centre of the front of the skirt. On the shoulders, in place of the neuds de page, are two full blown roses, and two others make a finish to the ruffles at the inner part of the arm. (See plate.) White satin ceintures, fastened in two coques (bows without ends) at the back. The necklace consists of a double chain of pearls, to which is suspended a small, flat, scent bottle, that is hid beneath the ceinture. White silk stockings à jours (open work); white satin shoes,

white kid gloves, blonde scarf, and fan à la Valois.

The sitting figure gives the back of the dress and coiffure.

On the table is a newly invented lamp called "lamp hydraulique:" the form is that of a high vase standing on a pedestal (see plate); it is of bronze gilt à or moulu. The shade is of green paper.

(2.) TOILETTE DE CONCERT OU DE SOIREE. A toque of gaze de soie, surmounted by a rich plume of ostrich feathers, and ornamented with bows of gauze ribands, The toque is extremely high at the right side (see plate), and quite shallow at the left. A large bow of wide gauze riband is placed close to the forehead at the right side, and fills up nearly the entire side of the leaf. The hair, in full curls, is a good deal parted on the brow, and falls particularly low at the left side. Dress of embroidered satin, with corsage à l'antique, and sleeves à double sabot, with ruffles à la Louis XV. The corsage has a revers or sort of mantille of satin, the same as the dress, cut out at the edge in points (see plate), and trimmed with narrow blonde. A tucker of narrow blonde appears also round the bosom of the dress. The mantille is very deep in the shoulders, and slopes off gradually until it becomes quite narrow in the centre of the front and back. The skirt is excessively full. Black satin shoes, silk stockings, white kid gloves, pearl necklace and earrings.

BIRTHS.

Dec. 21, at Brighton, the lady of Lieut.Colonel Loftus, Grenadier Guards, of a son. Dec. 27, the lady of Henry Chitty, Esq., of the Middle Temple, of a daughter. Dec. 2, at Richmond, the lady of Henry G. Wells, Esq., of a daughter. Dec. 26, the lady of T. Thompson, M.D., Keppel-street, Russellsquare, of a daughter. Dec. 25, Mrs. H. Bagster, of Guildford-street, of a son. Dec. 16, Mrs. Firth, of York-place, Walworth, of a son. Dec. 15, at East Bergholt, Suffolk, the lady of E. Godfrey, Esq., of a son. Dec. 14, in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, the wife of T. Chandless, Esq., of a son, who survived but a few days. Dec. 14, Mrs. R. Johnson, Crescent-place, New Bridge-street, of a daughter. Dec. 13, in St. Andrew's-place, Regent's. park, Mrs. J. Leman, of a son.

MARRIED.

Dec. 26, at Westbourne, the Rev. R. Eden, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Head Master of Hackney Grammar School, to Emily, daughter of the late John Cousens, Esq., of Prinsted-lodge, Sussex. Dec. 26, at Leyton, Essex, Mr. J. E. (lemmens, of Holywell-row, Finsbury, to Jane, the eldest daughter of the late T. Edmonston, Esq., Brick lane, Christchurch. Dec. 17, at Bridgwater, the Rev. J. Allen Giles, A.M.,

Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. to Anne Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Frederick Dickenson, Esq., of his Majesty's Victualling Office. Dec. 17, at Warnford, the Rev. A. A. Hammond, of West End Lodge, near Southampton, to Elizabeth Malpas, eldest daughter of the late T. L. O. Davies, Esq., of Alresford, Hants. Dec. 17, W. H. Heathcote, Esq., third son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., to Sophia Matilda, the only daughter of T. Wright, Esq., of Upton Hall, Notts, and half sister to Sir R. Sutton, Bart.

DIED.

Dec. 22, at his house in Kensington-square, H. Penny, Esq., aged 66. Dec. 23, at Brompton, in her 22d year, Jane, the only surviving daughter of the late Rev. D. Felix, of Chelsea. Dec. 24, at Cheltenham, after a long and painful illness, P. Cianchettini, Esq., aged 66 years. Dec. 24, Mr. T. Sherwood, of Newgate-street, aged 63. Dec. 23, at Kidderminster, Sarah, the wife of J. Morton, Esq. Dec. 23, of apoplexy, Mr. Jones, of Upper Baker street, aged 76. Dec. 21, Lieut. W. Freebairn. Dec. 8, at Rotterdam. Mary, wife of James Macdonald, Esq., and third daughter of Alex. Ferrier, Esq., Consul to his Britannic Majesty. Dec. 15, in Nottinghamplace, Sophia, eldest daughter of V. Fane, Esq.