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The ladies wore their dresses long and flowing, and were then servile copyists of the French, but not so much so as they have been since; they flounced their coats, a fashion probably borrowed from Albert Drurer, who represented an angel in a flounced pe ticoat, driving Adam and Eve from Paradise. The ruffles were long and double; aud the hair much frizzled and curled; jewels, pearls, and atnber, were much worn in the hair; and earrings, necklaces, bracelets, ornaments on the stomacher and the shoulders.

The head-dress was more like a veil than a cap, thrown back, the sides of which hung below the bosom; from this the head-dress gradually shrunk to a caul with two lappets, known by the name of mob. The shoes had raised heels, square toes, were high on the instep, and worked with gold, and were always of the most costly material. The gloves of both sexes were of white leather, worked, but not so extravagantly as in Charles the Fifth's reign.

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Happy, thrice happy ladies of modern days, who can go and purchase a profusion of costly toys from India, in almost every street in London, the great mart of traffic, when Mary, luckless Mary, was obliged' by stealth to obtain from a woman who dealt in such forbidden articles, fans and other female paraphernalia; and yet, being discovered, though she wore a crown, was soundly rated for her extravagance or gossiping, or both, by her austere husband.

Hoops did not encumber the fair sex at this time, but not to be without something more than a gentle swell, they had their commode, which set out their hinder part, and gave additional grace, it was thought, to the evening train. [To be continued.}

PARIS SPECTACLES.

We may judge of the gaiety of Paris from the following account of the revival of the ballet of Paris, by Gardel.

Academic Imperiale de Musique.-This ballet was performed some months ago, with retrenchments and suppressions, in order to lull into silence the clamours of the squeamish. But taste sighed for the original, and M. Gardel had the singular felicity of hearing that his work could not be amended by alteration. He hastened to obey the public voice: and success proves that the first edition was better than the second. This fame belongs only to a classic in his art. He had, for the sake of the scrupulous, suppressed the whole act of the baths and toilette of Venus, a picture full of grace and voluptuousness, in which, though there is nothing to wound the eye, the imagination may form to itself the most

riant exposures; and this cannot be difficult when we are to behold the most beautiful of all that is

beauteous, Miss Victoire Saulnier, who personates Venus, floating in a bath of transparent gause. This was the picture which the sedate and critical formerly objected to, but spectators of this cast are now no more. It was applanded with unanimity. The performance of this ballet left nothing for taste or judgment to desire. Vestris was as elegant as elastic, as graceful and brilliant as when he first executed the part, and all the world knows that this was the triumph of his art. Miss Chevigny, in the part of Enone, gave a new proof of her fine talent for pantomime. It is impossible for acting to give more warmth and energy than she did to the separation in the second act. Miss V. Saulnier, as Venus, would, in the time of the Heatlien Mythology, have deccived even the gods themselves. We have no picture handed down to us from antiquity, comparable to her form; and besides the merit of graceful symmetry, and the charm of a face in which all the loves revel, she performed the part with the most piquant se|| duction. Madame Gardel danced a pas seul to the violin obligato of Kreutzer. These two artists rivalled each other in precision and delicacy. One of the tours de force of that incomparable creature, Catalani, was to mount and descend the gamut by semi-tones. Madame Gardel appeared eager to console us for the loss of Catalani, by renewing this prodigy, and by the exquisite finishing and tenuity of her steps, to follow all the gradations of sound so rapturously executed by Kreutzer on his instrument. The chef d'auvre was crowned with accla

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MARRIED.

At Maldonado, Captain Rundell of the 54th regiment, in consequence of the wounds he re

Sir Thomas Strange, Chief Justice of Madras, to Miss Burroughs, daughter of Sir Wm. Burceived on the 4th January, by a party of Spanish roughs.

At Barbadoes, the Hon. Robert Augustus Hyndman, of Dominica, to Miss Eliz. Christian Beckles, second daughter of the Hon. John Beckles, Attorney-General and Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbadoes.

At Guernsey, B. Child, Esq. son of ViceAdmiral Child, to Miss Catharine Ford.

In Dublin, the Hon. George Ponsonby, son of the late Lord Ponsonby, to Miss Glaston.

At Bath, John Curwen, Esq. (eldest son of John Christian Curwen, Esq. M. P.) to Miss Allen, only daughter of Lewis Robert Allen, Esq.

of Bath.

DIED.

At his house, in Berners-street, Oxford-road, John Opie, Esq. R. A. The disease which terminated his life had its origin in a cold, caught in returning from a visit to his friend, Mr. Tresham. This cold produced, at first, but a slight indisposition, attended with a fever; the symptoms, however, encreased in a very alarming manner, and an inflammation in the brain, which deprived him of his senses, was the result of a few day's illness. As a Painter Mr. Opie was undoubtedly in the first rank of his profession, and, in losing || him, a gap has been made in the Art, which will not speedily be filled.

Lately, at St. Petersburgh, the Lady of the Russian Prince Bariatinsky. She was the second daughter of Lord Sherborne. About three months after her marriage, she accompanied the Prince to Russia.

At St. James's Palace, in the 94th year of her age, the Hon. Frances Tracy, First Bed-chamber Woman to her Majesty, and only surviving sister of the late Viscount Tracy, of Toddington, in the county of Gloucester.

cavalry, while commanding a foraging party a few miles from Maldonado.

At his seat at Santon Downham, Suffolk, aged 79, Charles Sloane, Earl Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, and a Trustee of the British Museum.

After a long and painful illness, Colonel Fane M. P. for Lyme Regis, at his house in Wimpolestreet, in the 55th year of his age.

After a short illness, Mr. Mark Supple, a gen tleman of very considerable literary talents.

At Bruges, in Flanders, Mrs. Mary Austin Moore, Superioress of the Convent of English Nuns at that place. She was the last lineal descendant of the celebrated Sir Thomas Moore, of the 15th century.

At Chichester, in the 75th year of her age, Lady Viscountess Lifford, relict of Lord Chancellor Lifford, of Ireland, and mother of Lieut. General Hewitt.

In Glasgow, Malcolm White, in the 1024 year of his age. He retained all his faculties to the last, and was able, on the morning of his death, to rise from his bed, and do some things about the house; he used to go about the town and country selling religious books; he was a native of Cowall, Argyleshire.

Amelia Butcher, of the Castle Foregate Shreysbury, aged 104: she declared that she broke her heart for the loss of her husband, who died about seven weeks ago.

At Birchincliffe, near Huddersfield, Mr. David Haigh, aged 83 years, and on the following day Frances, his wife, aged 90. They were both interred at Huddersfield, in one grave. They had been married upwards of 60 years. It is very remarkable that from a presentiment of their approaching death, the husband was heard to say on the Friday preceding, he believed they would both be carried out of the house together; which accordingly came to pass.

London: Printed by and for J. BELL, Southampton-street, Strand.

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1. A Portrait of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF NAPLES..

2. FOUR WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAITS in the Fashionable Costume of the Month, two of which are finely coloured...

3. AU ORIGINAL SONG, set to Music for the Harp and Piano-Forte, expressly and exclusively a for this Work, by Dr. CALCOTT.MI

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