hoop, the under skirt also is often made with flounces. Children's frocks are made with four flounces, and thé bodies with jackets, and open in front, confined across the centre by bands of velvet. White bodies are also very pretty for them, made low, with deep jacket at the waist, and skirt of coloured silk. The large Leghorn hats are much in favour for them, forming the best protection against the sun's rays. The trimmings vary: some are simply of straw cords, encircling the head, terminating at the side with wheat ears; others are with ribbon and nœud, with long ends behind or at the side, whilst wreaths of flowers again are used by others; but capotes of taffetas and straw are also used, and ruches form a favourite trimming. The dress toilettes of little girls are said to be of pink, white, or blue silk, covered with flounces, almost forming a ruche.

There has been some doubt expressed as to whether the fancy ricestraw bonnets would be again worn by ladies of decided fashion; but they are so becoming and beautiful, that they have been accepted anew, and will be much adopted. They are often simply trimmed with ornaments of the same material, and take their place with those of crape, tulle, or taffetas.

Votre devouée,

M. de W.

The Drama.

FRENCH PLAYS.-" Lady Tartuffe" is the title of a new piece in which Mdlle. Rachel appeared last week. It is from the pen of Madame Emile de Girardin, and was first introduced at the Theatre Française, about four months since. The female Tartuffe is of course an adventuress; she has found her way into a good family, where she has obtained a firm footing; her ingenuity, malice, double-dealing, followed by her discomfiture, form the gist of the subject matter of the piece. The acting of Rachel was sometimes terrible in its intensity, for the "Lady Tartuffe " labours under the pangs of remorse for a fearful passage in her early life, and that, as one of the elements of the piece, makes it more suited to Rachel than its title would have led us to suppose. M. Regnier, as the worldly diplomatic scamp, was admirable; and Mdlle. Palmyre placed the part of a young girl with great sweetness and simplicity. The play received the warm applause of a very crowded house.

HAYMARKET.-Mrs. Crowe's play of the "Cruel Kindness" is being played every night. It has been most successful. Mr. Buckstone's "Ascent of Mount Parnassus" was played for the seventythird time on Saturday. The house is crowded nightly.

Various Things from Various Sources.

THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.-Within a pleasant distance of the metropolis, and with all the attractions of military splendour, and this glorious weather, ten thousand men are at this moment encamped, and pass through all the vicissitudes and discipline of war which can be endured in the absence of an enemy, and in time of peace. To the world without-to the thousands who make holiday for the camp at Chobham-it has no greater import than a splendid display. A few who have never smelt powder in the professional sense of the phrase, will perhaps think that fighting, after all, consists in living in tents, and cooking in the open air; while others, fearful of invasion, will take this martial exercise as a proof that war is anticipated in the most knowing quarters. It would, of course, be absurd to reason with such suppositions; but though they are ridiculously wide of the truth, there is a portion of truth in them. As the various regiments now encamped live, so would an army live in the country of an enemy, with the aggravation which occasional failings of the commissariat would supply. Change sunshine into clouds, a genial atmosphere into storm; substitute the soft, cool turf of the common, by a mud foundation and a drenched pallet; in short, only place the rain of Monday morning before your imagination, and fancy sleeping in the open air, even under the shelter of a tent, but very often without one, and the conclusion will strike the most zealous financial reformer that soldiering is not such stylish work as he imagines. In this, the camp at Chobham may have the effect of rectifying false impressions; and it will teach, by ocular demonstration, that frequently the clash of arms is the least of war's toils. It is more important, however, to address the fears which their encampment may occasion. No maxim is truer than that if you wish peace you must be ready for war. Few, in all probability, of those who are now about to pass through the discipline of a campaign, have ever seen as much service as they have already undergone, during and since the march of Tuesday last, while the soldiers of the Continent, constantly practised in warfare (too often in suppressing the insurrections of their martial fellow-subjects), have not rusted in their arms. Now, though we trust and believe there is no probability of a war, and, least of all, of invasion, there is still of course the possibility of such a thing; and it will take no stretch of reasoning to convince the public that, in such an event, it would be convenient that our troops should be up to their work. In the Camp at Chobham it is intended to reap all the practice that can be had in time of peace; to accustom our soldiers and their officers to the hardships of campaigning, and to the discharge of those duties which they would have in such a case to perform for themselves. If, at the same time that

it does this, it tends to impregnate the national spirit with a little more chivalry than it possesses, and lowers the intensity of the money-grubbing tone, it will help us materially in other respects, perhaps not less important than those of martial greatness.

THE TRICHOSARON HAIR BRUSH. One of the latest toilet novelties has been the invention of a new hair brush, entitled the Trichosaron, invented by Messrs. John Gosnell and Co., No. 12, Three-king Court, Lombard - street, City, very ingeniously constructed for cleansing the hair, and imparting a gloss to its surface with the least possible labour, and without collecting the particles of dust, &c. which it has removed; and also without injuring or irritating the skin of the head, which is well known as the originating cause of scurf, and, in many cases, of premature baldness. But few hair brushes amongst the many hitherto introduced to the public possess any of these desiderata; and most of them, by improper construction, produce the very consequences it is of the greatest importance to avoid. The first peculiarity observable is the arrangement of the bristles so as to leave five or six curved spaces, at regular intervals, by which the whole surface of the brush is divided into symmetrical compartments. It is also conspicuous that the bristles in each compartment are of two different degrees of strength; and that those of the inner row in each, are placed at a different angle from the rest, or of various lengths; whilst the inner rows are even cut," or of uniform length, being considerably shorter than the others, and we find altogether the improvements are considerable, and moreover, while the toilet table will receive a new and fresh ornament, the heads of the establishment will be agreeably surprised by fresh curls; for ourselves we have never used any brush we like so well.

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Recently a small party of Patlanders obtained admission to the gaol at Durham, on a visit to their countryman, M'Cormack, who had to take his trial on a charge of murder. Having intimated to the prisoner that they had retained a sufficient sum to retain counsel for his defence, they were about to take their leave, when one of the party, shaking the accused by the hand, administered this truly Hibernian piece of consolation:-"Ah! thin Martin, my boy, keep up yer spirits; it's no consequence whether ye're hanged or transported, so long as ye get justice done to yez." Poor Martin, unable to appreciate the force of the logic, replied by a burst of tears, in the midst of which the comforters took their leave. He was subsequently found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to twelve months' imprison

ment.

SPRINGFELLOW'S ELECTRO GALVANIC POCKET BATTERY, W. ELLIOTT AND SONS, 56, STRAND.-We have had an opportunity of examining and testing a new and elegant little instrument, under the title of "Stringfellow's Galvanic Battery:" the portability and neatness of this really pretty apparatus is the least surprising part of its merits, for small as it is, its decomposing power was such that water

was resolved into its elements with great rapidity, and albuminous urine instantly indicated its presence in a most ready and satisfactory manner, and we feel certain that for those cases where electricity has been found beneficial, this miniature galvanic machine will prove of great value, as its simplicity is such that the most ordinary intelligence on the part of the patient cannot fail to insure a mild and continuous current in one direction, and by employing the whole of the elements a succession of minute sparks, or a current of sufficient intensity is produced as will excoriate the skin, or by using a less number of the bars forming the electrical combination, a current of proportionately less power is obtained, admirably adapted for the use of the nervous invalid, and its moderate price brings it within the reach of every one requiring such aid.

"I know a worthy old facetious chap," says Mrs. Wrigglesworth, "whose name is New. He named his first child Something; it was Something New. His next child was called Nothing; it being Nothing New."

Coleridge tells a story (says Moore), of a poor author who, on receiving from his publisher an account of the proceeds (as he expected it to be) of a work he had published, saw among the items, "Cellarage 31. 10s. 6d.," thought it was a charge for the trouble of selling the 700, which he did not consider unreasonable; but on inquiring, he found that it was for the cellar-room occupied by his work, not a copy of which had stirred from thence!

The skeletons of a cat and rat were recently found in a state of excellent preservation in the crypt of Gerard's Hall, London. The rat was firmly held in the mouth of the cat. It is thought they had been there nearly five hundred years.

A young girl was introduced to James I. as excelling even learned men in classical acquirements. "Well," said the Monarch, "now tell me what this prodigy can do." He was informed that she could speak and write Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. "Ah," replied the King, these are rare attainments for a maid; can she spin also?"

INQUISITIVE CHILD.-"Ma, has Jane got wings inside of her dress?" -"No, my child. How foolish you are." "Well, her beau sent her a Valentine, and wrote in it that she was an angel."

A gentleman who has travelled much, says, "Dutch babies are the most phlegmatic, contented, independent-looking creatures on the face of the globe. They never cry. In order to test this, I pinched several of them as I passed in the crowd. One of them slightly yawned; the others merely gazed placidly at me, but made no sign.'

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"Did you ever see Forti?" asked a travelled gent, at the Royal Italian Opera, of a middle-aged lady. "See forty!" said she, with an indescribable air, "I aint thirty-five yet, Sir!"

One Mucianus, having, given the emperor just cause to be offended, he complained of him to a friend, but ended his complaints with these remarkable words: "Yet I myself am but a man, and consequently not free from blame."

Almanac. -Births, Marriages, and Deaths.