EASTER CARNIVAL IN RUSSIA.

THE following interesting picture of this Annual Festival is extracted from a volume of Letters from the North of Europe, by CHARLES BOILEAU ELLIOT, Esq. :

During seven weeks preceding Easter, the Russians are prohibited from eating the flesh or produce of animals; the restriction extending even to milk, butter, and eggs. A curious exception is made in favour of nobles, soldiers, and most employés of government, who are required to fast during the last two weeks only; This prethe imperial family keep holy but seven days in Lent.

vious abstinence prepares all parties for the enjoyment (if enjoyment it can be called) of a week of revelry and gluttony, during which they indulge in every species of excess; as though the uncurbed licence of the appetites were no less a matter of religious duty than the fast previously observed. The Sunday before Easter the churches are adorned with boughs and artificial fruits. The following Thursday, the archbishop assembles a large body of monastic clergy, and exhibits to a crowded congregation a representation of the Saviour washing the apostles' feet; himself acting the part of our Lord, while twelve priests supply the place of the apostles. On Easter-eve a model of the holy sepulchre is presented to the people. During this day, which is the last of the fast, the markets are filled with viands of every species. The only business performed is that of buying and selling the components of the morrow's feast. Large carts, full of meat, vegetables,

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fish, and sweatmeats, are seen in the streets; and night is awaited with all the ardour of enthusiasm, gluttony and wantonness. Some time before midnight the people crowd to the churches which remain full of anxious expectants, bearing in their hands tapers, whose concentrated blaze diffuses a brilliant light around. priest informs them that the bishop is gone to search for the body of the Saviour. As the clock strikes twelve, the doors of the sanctuary are thrown open; the bishop, sumptuously apparelled, and decked with a profusion of jewels, marches forth. A long retinue of priests, similarly dressed, follows; and the bishop proclaims to the audience-Christos voscress; that is, "Christ is risen!"

This declaration is received with shouts of exultation : the bells ring a joyful peal; and the choir strikes up a hymn of praise in honour of the risen Saviour. When this is concluded, the bishop and priests throw themselves on their hands and knees, and crawl all around the church, kissing the pictures of saints and other sacred relics. The spectators follow their example; but, preferring living to inanimate objects of salutation they set about kissing one another; then, leaving the church, commence an inordinate meal, which lasts, with little intermission, for a week.

During this period, the same custom of salutation is continued nor is it confined to equals, but prevails among acquaintances, however different in birth, education, age, or sex. A noble lady cannot refuse a kiss from the meanest peasant, if he advance with an egg in his hand in token of the conclusion of the fast, and the words Christos voscress on his tongue. She is obliged by her religion to receive the egg with courtesy, to return the kiss in kind, and to reply Vies tiny voscress, " Verily he is risen." The habit of personal salute obtains more among the Russians than any of the other continentalists. After the first introduction of a gentleman to a lady, he kisses her hand whenever they meet, while she gracefully returns the compliment on his cheek.

The festivities of Easter continue, with almost savage exuberance, for a week; but there are few or no breaches of the peace. It is a singular trait in the character of the natives that, amidst all their boisterous sports and licentious revelries, they never quarrel; and, whenever anger is excited, seldom as it is, it vents itself in words. Their language contains a remarkable variety of terms of abuse, with which they are satisfied, without having recourse to the more brutal expedient of blows.

RELIGIOUS NOVELTIES.

LECTURES On the Dispensations of God with Adam, by the Rev.
Ralph Wardle, Thatcham, Berks, is about to be published.
The Records of a Good Man's Life, by the Rev. Charles B.
Taylor, M. A. is in the press.

Songs for Sunday Evenings will appear immediately. Advice to a Young Christian, on the Importance of Aiming at an Elevated Standard of Piety, by a Village Pastor, will speedily be published.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

We understand that LADY SANDFORD has in the press," Stories from the History of Rome." This little work was written for the peculiar instruction of her Ladyship's own family. We shall notice it particularly when it appears.

A new edition of the Scots Worthies, with notes, by W. M'GAVIN, Esq. corrected and revised, will be published in a few days.

MISCELLANEA.

EDUCATION IN AUSTRIA. There is a system pursued in the German dominions of Austria, which has been attended with singularly beneficial results, in diffusing knowledge amongst the No working classes, and, in fact, amongst the people in general. village is without its school; and each school is under the care of a master, who is paid by the goverment. It is a law of the land in the hereditary provinces, that no male can enter into the married state unless he is able to read, write, and cast accounts; and every master is liable to a heavy penalty if he employ a workman who is unable to read and write. Short publications of a moral character, which are compiled with great care, and sold at a low price, are circulated in every town and throughout every cabin in the country. May we not refer it to this system, that crimes are of extremely rare occurrence in the German provinces of the Crown of Hapsburg? Indeed, it is accounted as a disastrous year, so far as public morals are concerned, two executions take place at Vienna in the course of twelve months.-Quarterly Journal of Education.

LEARNING ENCOURAGED.-One of those booksellers in Paternoster-row, who publish things in numbers, went to Gibbon's lodgings in St. James' Street, sent up his name, and was admitted. "Sir," said he, 66 I am now publishing a history of England, done by several good hands. I understand you have a knack at them there things, and should be glad to give you every reasonable encouragement." As soon as Gibbon recovered the use of his legs and tongue, which were petrified with surprize, he ran to the bell, and desired his servant to shew this encourager of learning down stairs.

LACHRYMATORIES.-The idea that lachymatories, so called, were used for collecting tears at Roman funerals, seems to pass away. Some have been found with stoppers, and retaining a faint smell of the perfumes lodged in them-their real destination.

MEMOIRS OF A PAISLEY BAILLIE.

MY FIRST ASSEMBLY.

There was a sound of revelry by night,

And Renfrew's capital had gathered then; Her Beauty and her Baillies, good and bright, The gas shone o'er fair women and fine men. Four hundred feet beat merrily.

MR. EVERY DAY,-As ye have a kind of body servant, named " Spentacles," that gangs till assemblies, and sic like fine splores, I wonder ye didna send the lang-leggit cretur out our way, to write an account of the uncommon fine han'ling that we had in Paisley, on Friday was aucht nichts. Me and the spouse of my bosom, as weel as twa of my auldest weans, were there bodily present; and, to be candid, and to tell the truth, we managed, atween dancing, claverin' and taking a sup of het toddy, or aiblins, noo and then, a glass of port wine negus, seasoned wi' cinnamon cloves, and a bit sugar baik, ginger-bread snaps, queenscake, or some sic snyster, to pass twa or three very pleasant hours. I had my e'e upon ilka body that came doddin intil the room, and speerit ance or twice, in my ain hamely, condescendin' way, at Willie Tamson, the toun's offisher, gin ony gentleman of the name of Spentacles, frac Glasgow, or that airt, had drappit in frae a noddy or Omnibus; for, ye see, our Lord Provost, to gar the ball gang aff wi' greater effeck, and to strike the gentles that might arrive from far awa pairts of the country with awe and wonderment, had set Willie at the outside of the Assembly door, in his single-breastit scarlet coat, edged with blue, his white. vest, blue plush breeks, and white silk stockins, and, wi' halbert in hand, in great state, to act as usher to the company as they poured in thick and three fauld, and to direck them whare to pay their sillar, gif they hadna providit themsells with tickets aforehand. Willie, wha kent me for mony a year, as weel as seeing that it was na sae mony years syne I had the wand of power as a magistrate mysell, naturally touched his hat, and, with a pleesant smile, said jocularly, "Deed, Baillie, if the spentacles didna ride in on the brig o' your ain nose, I'm no thinking they'll be here the nicht." With that Willie gied a bit nicher o' a lauch, and I leuch too, for the thocht struck me at the time that I might do waur than write a bit sma' narrative, anent our ain assembly, and the ferlies that micht strike my individual een during the evening. Its really wonderful how a man of judgment can avail himsell of ilka hint that falls out in the coorse of conversation, tho' it were held with a born fule or bletherumskyte, no to say that Willie Tamson is aither ane or ither; on the contrair, I will say for him, that he is a weel behaved and sensible man as ony in his station, and good-natured to the bargain. He was never nae boo-cow to the wee bairns when they were playin' at the hand ball, the shinty, or dosing their peeries on the plainstanes, like some ither offishers; but aye dealt furth the law of the land and the burgh, to the puir things, with leniency and mercy; but amang big throuither neer-doweel blackguards, he was as manful as they were maisterful and flegged them mair nor a man of bigger bouk would do, or I'm mista'en for ance in my life, though it ne'er may be again.

But, as Dr. Kittletext says, this is diverging from

the main branch of the argument which was anent the ball, the whilk as ye couldna fail to observe from our newspaper, was to help the relief fund that was got up here when wark grew scarce, and a number of puir bodies were thrown on their ain shifts to sink or soom as the law might direck in this christian land. I am no conneckit with the Board of Health, or the Relief Board, tho' as a man of substance and a christian brother, I've subscribed according to my means, not being greatly in the way of taking a charge in public affairs, having, as ye will see in my memoirs, had my ain share of thankless labour in my time; but I am creditably informed, and I tell it to you and the world with nae sma' pleasure, that wark is a wee thocht plentier, and that maist of the hands that can and are willing to work, can noo get on, no sae weel to be sure as ane could wiss them, but in a moderate way I think they might mak a fend.

Weel, as I was observing, this ball was proposed at some County meeting, and was patroneesed by all the principal folks in the toun, and there was an unco talk about this lord and that lady being sure to be there, till the hail place was in a perfect fizz, frae the East till the West toll-frae the head of the Causeyside till the Score. Its impossible to tell you the forenoon visits amang the leddies, and the bit quiet cracks amang the gentlemen ower an afternoon's glass anent it. As for me, I keepit a gayen quiet sough for a while, no wantin to take a lead in the matter; and, indeed, sic sichts were, in comparison, naething to me, that had rubbed shouthers with the first nobility in the land, forbye seen the king, as is written in my life; but it was quite different with my wife, that hadna seen ony sic grand adoes, and as for our son, Tummas, and my auldest dochter, Miss Jean, that had just got a finishing touch at a fashionable scule in Embro, and could sing like a linty, loup like a maukin, and play on the piano to the bargain, they were neither to haud nor bind. They insisted that they should be allowit to show aff their new steps, and they said it was expeckit by the hail respectable inhabitants of the toon, that Baillie Pirnie should countenance the assembly, seeing that the magistrates had sic a lang finger in the pie. Of coorse it was out of the power of flesh to stand against their chaunering, mair especially as afore they spoke I had coft four tickets, just for the credit of the thing, but no intending to gang-nor would I hae set mysell forrit on the occasion, had it no been looked for by the public. This is a positive fack, and my being there was no piece of ostentation; for sic a thing is no in my hail corporation, as ye may have observed frae first to last in my written buke. To me, as the faither of a family and the head of a house, it was the soorce of no small contentment to be the means, in an honest way, of adding to the innocent pleasures of my wife and bairns; and really, when I tauld them it was my final determination that the gudewife should hae her ain way in the matter, and that the family should appear in sic state and grandeur at the ball as effeired to their station in society, I was downright worried with kindness. The young things danced round me as gin they were clean gane gyte, and nearly grat for fainness, and the worthy and virtuous partner of my bosom and bedfellow said no a word, but just gave me ane o' the auld langsyne blinks of affection, when

we first foregathered as lad and lass, and used to take a bit daiker to the country to see how the gowans and the gerss were growing, and the birds singing in the woods, in a simmer Saturday's afternoon. Hech, Sirs! its mony a year sinsyne; but the memories of these sweet days of youth never die in the heart that has truly and purely luved, as me and my wife have done. Kenning fu' weel that our house would as a matter of course, be turned upside doun for a day or twa with mantua makers, taylors, milliners, shoemakers, bonnetmakers and siclike clamjamfary, making new dresses and ither necessars for our domestic establishment, I thocht it behooved me to give mysell a day's recreation or twa by visiting a freend either in Greenock or Glasgow, till the house calmed again. Accordingly, I just daunered doun to the Bank and drew a bit five pund note, and with that in my pouch I thocht I need neither fear cauld nor hunger, for the short time I was awa frae hame. Weel, as I was standing in the Bank chatting familiarly with the Teller, a nice seusible man, wha should step in but a gomeril chield of a manufacturer, no that lang set up in business or he wudna hae sae lang a tongue in his head, and with less havins than harns in his pow, and, whanever he clapt e'e on me, the toom cretur got up wi a guffaw of a lauch that might be heard at Dumbarton. Me and the Teller thocht the body had tint his senses, howsumever he got round again and then he said, "Gie's a shake of your paw, Baillie, and with that he leuch again louder than ever:" "What's the joke," quo' I-"Joke, nae joke at a' sees'tu," said he, "but I'm like to burst my twa sides when I see, Baillie, that ye have retired from busines just to write haverel books". "Did ye see The Day, the day, Mr. Sillerloof?" "I see't the now," said the Teller, turning up his e'en quite innocently to the sunshine that was playing upon the iron stenchers o' the window. "Touts that's no what I mean; did a penny pamphlet call'd The Day, in which the Baillie cuts as fine a figure as gin he had mountit a new harness for a fancy web?" Od when I heard tell of this, I didna ken weel whare to look, howsumever I just buttoned my breeks pouch, and taking up my hat, said, with something mair than ordinar bitterness, "a strae will gar a fule cackle." "Atweel it will quo the menseless sumph," and with that, out I bangs, determined to see to the bottom of the concern. But, thinks I, to mysel, this is a fine fetch to put the Teller in good humour, I would lay my lugs that the body will be wanting a wind bill discounted.

ye see

Coming out of the bank, wha should I come plump against but our Doctor, gaun in as I would jalouse to lodge a twenty pund note, for the Doctor is a tenty and thriving man, and has attended me and mine ever since he set up business on his ain can-and meeting with him, he took me all in his arms, "Ah, Baillie, Baillie, quo the Doctor, there's more wit yet in a beld pow than a hassock of hair. Yon's clever, really clever, but for gudesake avoid personalities. Just proceed as ye have begun, and ye'll bewitch the town?" "Deed Doctor, to be plain with you, I dinna understand this daffin?" "Daffin its no daffin, buy "The Day," Baillie, and become enlightened-Phoebus is a spunk to it. Bravo, Baillie, go on and prosper day after day, till Death and the Doctor"—" Houts fie, Doctor, quo I, ye're mad as a March hare. Gude mornin Sir, but mind to send round your laddie wi' the healing saw for wee Johnnie's cuttit finger, it's fashing him sair."

Parting with the Doctor, discreet man, up I gade thro' the town, booing to this ane and to that ane, for there was an unco wheen of my auld acquaintances afit, and every ane of them had, in my opingyon, a pawkie smile on his lips; and I soon came to ken the for just as I was stumpin by the Deil's Elbow, (that's the auld fashioned name for the neuk at the Smiddiehills, but aiblins ye'll no ken the town, and maybe its no worth while drawing a sketch the noo, there being

cause,

already a very good plan of Paisley, drawn and engraved by Mr. Knox of Embro', in which the streets and the properties of every feuar are fairly set down, and amang the lave, I'll no say but ye may see my ain name prentit on twa or three gayen big steadings, as weel as vacant ground;) I passed a knot of claverin weavers, haflins callants I may call them, and when they observed me-they got up with a screigh, of a lauch that might have deaved Satan himsel, and the tane gieing the ither a dunch in the side, cries "Gordon's Lone! Willock, that's the Baillie o' The Day." "It's no possible," says anither; "as sure as death it's the bit body. Losh, man, how pensy he bangs bye as if he wudna ca' the king his cousin, or thocht there wasna as gude men on the crown o' the causey as himsell ?" "What is he? Was he no a weaver like oursells? Seest'u, my freend, he was ance a drawboy to my faither."

This is a swatch of their idle conversation, howsumever it didna muve my gall the least scent, and sae I just steppit up to David Dick, the bookseller, at the auld brig, and on purpose bent to fley him a wee about The Day. Intil his shop I gade accordingly, and whenever he got his ee upon me, I saw the colour come ower his chaft blades at nae allowance. “Mr. Dick," quo' I, in my maist serious tone, "this is a bonny plisky ye have been playing with the respectables of the Leeberties of an unwarrantable kind have been taken with me and mine, in a bit pamphlet that ye sell, and I am determined to howk out wha has ventured to satyreese me, as I understand it does, though I have not yet seen it. Sae confess this moment of time, so that the innocent may not be poonished with the guilty? Mak' a clean breast, sir, speak the truth and shame the Deil."

town.

Od, Mr. Day, had ye seen how the other Mr. D. looked, ye would have pitied him from the very bottom of your heart. His face grew as white as paper and his fingers and lips trembled as if ye had been standing before a Justiciary lord, with his black cocked hat on, when he is about to pronounce the awful sentence of death. I'm thinking I looked as serious, and spak as stour as the best of them, and kent weel eneugh how to put on an awsum countenance, having had practice, as ye may weel ken, when I was a Police Magistrate, and struck terror into the heart of mony a hardened thief and brazen-faced limmer. Having keepit him in this unco funk a minute or mair, I unscrewed my face, and, with my usual smile said, "dinna think ony mair on't. Baillies and siclike public characters are public property and maun put up with these leebirties. But let me see what the paper says anent me." With that I took up the twa numbers and read them ower in the back shop, and after that I called Mr. Dick ben, telling him that the "Diel's no as ill as he's ca'd," and that, for my part, I saw na that muckle wrang with what the feckless fule had written about me, and that he might put down my name as a subscriber, for I'll no say but our ain Tummas, or some ither wag that's in the Divinity hall, will have had a hand in the concern. With that Mr. Dick's face brichtened up like sunshine, and, as he was muttering something about "uncommon magnanimity, unparalleled generosity worthy of all laud and reverence," some fine blawflum that he maybe heard at Political Unions, Burns' meetings, or siclike gatherings, I slippit out of the shop, bookit mysel for an inside with Lyons' three o'clock coach, where I foregathered with some queer folks, but it's no necessar for me to speak anent them in this letter.

Having spent a day or twa with my auld friend Mungo M'Wattie, ye'll ablins ken him, a retired bachelor in the Stockwall-he was ance in the fleecy hosiery line-and very bien in his circumstances, I returned hame, just in time to see my wife's and my lassie's braws come hame, forbye a braw new blue coat with yellow buttons, a silk vest bonnily spraingit with

various colours, and tight pantaloons, made to fit like a glove, for Tummas. Sic an unco wastry in the way of claiths, great feck o' whilk coudna look decent a second day, made me a thocht donsy, I must confess; but, when I began to refleck on the matter with a mair philosophical speerit, I saw there was even in this prodigality and vanity, the workings out of a beautiful providence. For, ye'll please to observe, Mr. Every Day, that this was a charity ball, and operated as such in a twa-fald sense or degree. First, the sale of the tickets created a fund for real sufferers under the sair pinch of want and starvation: And, second, a lively impulse was given to the industry of ithers, wha were necessarily employed in the decorement and garnishing furth of them that bocht the tickets. Manufacturers of broad cloth, muslin, shawls, tailors, mantuamakers, milliners, bonnet-makers, hat-makers, shoemakers, glove makers, haberdashers and shop-keepers; even the sellers o' needles and preens, and sic sma' wares, had either frae this soorce a direck or indireck gude. And, when I saw that the ball was devised, not for the mere bodily recreation of them that attended it, but to supply food and raiment to the necessitous and hungry, and that, when it did this to a certain extent, it moreover added a spur to the industry of mony a hard-working, weel-meaning and industrious body, that lives by the lawbour and skill of their ten fingers, I could not but admire the twa-handed way in whilk the milk of charity was squeezed frae the human heart, and made, like a refreshing shower, to fall ower a far wider surface than the wee clud in the sky would at first betoken.

(The remainder of the Baillie's Letter we must postpone till tomorrow.)

NEWEST LONDON FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

THE London winter is now fairly set in: it has commenced with more than ordinary splendour; and FASHION, with that benevolence which, amidst her endless changes, still remains fixed and unvarying, has rendered the luxuries of the rich conducive to the comforts of the poor in a more than usual degree. New materials continue to be introduced in every dapartment of the toilette, and We select new modes of making them up are daily invented. from the most novel modes those which Mrs. Bell has just introduced, convinced that our fair readers will agree with us, that she has displayed in them all that taste and invention, which have so long characterized the Temple of Fashion in Cleveland Row.

HATS AND BONNETS.-Bonnets are closer than last month; they are either of the bibi shape, or of one much resembling it, called marmotte. The brim continues to be made small. The crowns of bonnets are of various shapes. Some are very low behind, and rise almost in a point in front: others have the crown placed very far back, and the centre pointed in a very slight degree. Some have the material laid plain upon the crown, and others disposed in folds. The cock's feathers, plumes, frimaties, and even the flowers which ornament bonnets, are always so placed as to droop to one side, or else over the crown; it is only the plumets russes which are placed in the latter direction. If flowers are employed, they must be large pinks, full blown roses, or other flowers of a large size.

MAKE AND MATERIALS OF OUT-DOOR COSTUME.-Encore des manteaux, but mantles of a different description from those of last month. Cachemere striped alternately in imitation of watered gros de Naples, and of rich shawl patterns; they are generally lined with satin, and lightly wadded. Others are of coutil de soie, lined and trimmed with peluche of a strongly contrasted colour, as ponceau for dark green, azure for avanturine, &c. &c. There are also some satin ones, trimmed with a velvet border embroidered in wreaths, or detached bouquets of flowers. The principal novelty in the make is, that the pelerine, which is still deeper than ordinary, terminates in points before, and a single one behind, and is surmounted by a second pelerine of a similar description, but very shallow.

MAKE AND MATERIALS OF DINNER DRESS.-White China crape, striped or figured in satin, is coming much into favour; so

also is printed and embroidered barèges; the latter is very much in request. We see also a good many velvet dresses. Corsages are in crossed drapery, or of the demi cœur form; the latter have the fold in the centre, disposed en dent de loup. The sleeves of velvet and China crape dresses are always of the bèret form, with long ones of blond lace drawn over them; but many barege dresses have a long sleeve of the same material, trimmed at the wrist with a single point of bareges turning upwards, and edged with blond lace. A new style of trimming for corsages, and one likely to become very fashionable, is à la Medicis; it is blond lace disposed round the back and shoulders in such a manner as to stand up; this style is borrowed from the portraits of Mary de Medicis. Another and still more elegant style of trimming for corsages, consists of blond lace draperies, so arranged as to form a kind of low canezou. This is an accessory employed for dresses of different materials; it has the most elegant effect, particularly upon velvet, by the disposition of the jockeys, which fall over the sleeves.

season.

HEAD-DRESSES IN DINNER DRESS.-Turbans of crapes, gaze sylphide, and trimmed with a single ostrich feather, or two esprits are in favour; they are smaller, and the folds lighter than last Blond lace caps trimmed with a bouquet à la Malabar are adopted by some of our most fashionable belles. The bouquet is composed of four roses of different colours, placed near the top of the caul on the right, and enveloped by the blonde. Another very fashionable cap is the beret á la Rossi; it is also of blond, a low crown of an oval form, the blond lace trimming is of a light pattern, and disposed on each side so as to form ailes de papillon. The cut ribbons which sustain the trimming are of striking colours. A volkameria or a large rose à gouttes d'eau is placed on the left side of the caul, and droops towards the left temple. A third style of cap has the trimming of the front arranged in the form of a diadem. The most fashionable ribbons are of gauze with satin stripes, either very broad, or à mille raies. BALL DRESS. Gauzes seem most in favour this month, particularly gaze zephyr. A favourite trimming, for dresses of this material, is a wreath of coral sprigs, embroidered in silk of the colour of coral. We see also several ball-dresses, particularly those of crape, trimmed with wreaths or bouquets of stamped velvet. Gold or silver is generally mingled with the trimmings of dresses for grand parties. We may cite as one of the most elegant, a dress of rose-coloured gaze zephyr embroidered above the hem in a wreath of vine leaves in green silk; the edges and contours of the leaf were silver lama; the stalk was a mixture of lama and green silk, Coiffure en bacchante, a wreath of green and silver vine leaves.

ends.

Corsages have not altered since last month, but we observe that flowers are much used to ornament the sleeves of dresses, which continue to be worn very short and full. They are arranged in bouquets, some of which are tied by a ribbon with long floating If the sleeve is à l'Espagnole, the bouquet is passed through one of the puffs, and attached to the under sleeve. If the sleeve is ornamented with flowers, the trimming of the skirt must correspond either by a wreath placed horizontally above the hem, or by detached bouquets at regular distances, or else by one or two bouquets which serve as agrafes to a noble trimming.

HEAD-DRESSES IN BALL DRESS.-Very young ladies have in general their hair arranged in soft braids on the forehead, and twisted en cœur behind. A large flower, as a rose, or a pink, or else a small bouquet formed of different flowers is employed to orna

ment it.

Wreaths or diadems of coral are much in favour for the ball

coiffures of married ladies. They are generally mingled with epis d'or. We have also to notice among the most elegant coiffures-those composed of a diadem of gold flowers, surrounding the head, and a panache of white feathers inserted in the knot of hair behind, and those composed of nauds of marabouts and gold flowers.

Fashionable colours are vert d'acanthe, violet, slate colour, crimson, azure, citron, and all the shades of aventurine and rosecolour.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

QUESTION AND ANSWER.

Maiden! fair Maiden! why drop thy bright eyes?
Why heaves thy young bosom with sobbing and sighs?
Have you found that this world 's but glitter and gloss-
That a touch of affection can turn all to dross?
That a sweet smiling lip, and a bland open brow,
Oft conceal floods of misery rushing below?
Or has some false lover forsaken thy side,
To marry a younger or wealthier bride?—
And the maiden looked up, while she dried up her tears,
And she said-She was punished for pulling TOM'S EARS!
V. H.

GLASGOW GOSSIP.

THE large bills posted through the city have given rise to a considerable deal of talk about the Oratorio, about to be given in the Old Episcopal Chapel, for charitable purposes. It is long since

any thing of this kind has been attempted in Glasgow, and we trust it will prove successful. We will revert to this subject when

we have more room.

A gentleman talking of the many wants of this world stated that he had seen the following, which certainly is one of the most original that has lately come under our notice :

Wanted, By a respectable tobacconist in town, a male child of from 3 to 4 years old. One with red hair and stout bandy legs will be preferred. Its duty will consist in standing above the shop door, from 10 a. m. till dusk, with a short pipe in its mouth and a snuff mull in its left hand. If it can smoke a high salary will be given. It will require to wear the philibeg and belted plaid, and be fully armed and accoutred in the manner approved of at the last general meeting of the society, for the suppression of breeches in the Highlands. The dress and arms will be furnished by the employer. In intense cold weather the boy will be supplied with flesh-coloured drawers. N. B. As the shop is situated in a genteel part of the town, the boy will have an opportunity of seeing the best society.

PUNISHMENT OF PLAGIARISM.

THE literary sin of plagiarism is not less common than it is mean and pitiful. To enrich one's writings, however, with acknowledged quotations from esteemed authors, is not only quite justifiable, but often, when aptly made, the quotations give additional zest to the writer's own thoughts. But the dishonest practice of borrowing, without acknowledging, and giving forth as one's own, not the ideas merely, but the ipsissima verba, of another, cannot be too severely reprobated, nor the plagiarist too much exposed to ridicule, derision and contempt. It would be well to bring up, for judgment, some individual plagiarists, and bestow on them that castigation which they merit. This would be doing an essential service to literature, by stripping the borrowed plumes from a parcel of jack-daws, that pass, with the less erudite among readers, for real geniuses, though the chief, if not the only beauties of the work which bear their names, are the passages they have pilfered from the writings of others. Fielding, in bis admirable novel of Tom Jones, alludes to the manner in which Pope punished an author for borrowing from him without acknowledging the loan-and we would wish every literary burglar were served in the same way:-"The omission of this," says Fielding, "was highly plausable in one Mr. Moore, who, having formerly borrowed some lines of Pope and company, took the liberty to transcribe six of them into his play of the Rival Modes. Mr. Pope, however, very luckily, found them in the said play, and, laying violent hands on his own property, transferred it back again to his own works; and, for a further punishment, imprisoned the said Moore in the loathsome dungeon of the Dunciad, where his unhappy memory now remains, and eternally will remain, as a proper punishment for such, his unjust dealings, in the poetical trade."

MUSIC.

THE HOUR IS COME. A Duet, as Sung by Mr. and Mrs. Wood, words by T. Atkinson, Esq. music by J. Turnbull.

We have just heard and examined the above Duet, and we are sorry that our critical fairness will not permit us to speak very favourably either of the poetry or music. The words are certainly not in Mr. Atkinson's most poetical vein: while the melody is still less to be commended. The style of the latter, with the sprightly effect of the accompaniment, is, in fact, very little adapted to express the feelings, which are generally called forth at parting. The poetry laments that "the hour has come" when " they must sever." The character of the music on the contrary intimates that they care nothing about it. The poetry is expressive of great tenderness— the music skips about with the most restless and untired agility. In the second movement, "a la polacca," the singers get absolutely merry on the occasion. This perhaps might be forgiven, were it not that the first two phrases are each a foot too long, which occasions a rather awkward and unbecoming limp.

FINE ARTS.

MR. HEATH'S PICTURES AND DRAWINGS. THIS Collection was sold lately by Mr. Sotheby; and, notwithstanding the badness of the times, there was a briskness in the bidding which proved that our modern School of Art is justly appreciated. The principal lot was the Collection of Drawings by J. M. Wright, for the illustration of Shakespeare, in thirty-seven pieces, which brought £146; Miss Louisa Sharpe's "Juliet," brought £37, 16s.; Chalon's drawing of "Hotspur and his Wife," £16, 5s. 6d. ; Stothard's scene from "Boccaccio," £12, 12s.-and his "Alfred in the Danish Camp," £14. 14s.; a delightful little gem by Smirke of " Singing," brought £17, and another of "Listening," £11, 11s. ; a charming" Sketch near Venice," by Bonnington, £22; Howard's "Swiss Peasant and Child," £25, 10s. We could not stay to the conclusion of the sale, and there remained a large collection of the paintings and drawings of Martin, with some lovely specimens by Stothard in oil.

ANECDOTE OF VERNON.-During the run of the comic opera of Cymon, when Vernon was in pursuit of his supposed mistress, Sylvia, and came on singing

"Torn from me, torn from me, which way did they take her?” A wag in the pit replied, in time and tune,

"They're gone to Long Acre, they're gone to Long Acre!" The house was in a roar of laughter; and Vernon, with great presence of mind, as soon as there was silence, sang

"Oh, ho! are they so? I shall soon overtake her!" DAINTY DEVICEs of the DanDIES.-Checks being universally dishonoured, are going out, and printed garments are coming in. So, who dare deny the "march of intellect?"

A N'APT REPARTEE." Isn't your hat sleepy?" enquired a little urchin, of a gentleman with a "shocking bad un" on. "No; why?" enquired the gentleman. "Why, because I think it's a long time since it had a nap," was the reply.