these bonnets are low, and of the dove form; the brims of what is called the chapeau capote shape, which is a medium between the cottage bonnet and a hat; they are trimmed under the brim, next to the face, with five or six puffs of riband placed close together.

Carriage dress is as yet of rather a light description, for although silks are worn, we see also a good many chaly dresses; but we observe that they are generally those with a citron-coloured ground, embroidered in bouquets of flowers in vivid colours. Shawls are very generally adopted in carriage dress; and we scarcely remember a season in which we have seen, thus early, so many novel and pretty ones. Those most in favour are the British cashmeres; they are of the finest texture, and of uncommon softness and lightness. They are square, and of a large size; some are bordered en rosaces; others have no border, but the ground is thickly strewed with small bouquets of flowers in vivid colours. A third sort are of white cashmere, with a broad border in foliage of various shades of green.

Watered gros de Naples, Terry velvet, and a new kind of watered satin, which we have borrowed from the French, and which is styled satin à la reine, are all in favour for carriage hats and bonnets. The latter are most in request at present, and will, we think, be most decidedly fashionable during the winter; they are of the shape we have already described, in speaking of promenade dress; they are decorated with feathers and blond lace, arranged in a very novel style; the feathers are placed on one side, near the top of the crown-there must be either three or five short curled ostrich feathers arranged in a bouquet. A row of blond lace forms an ornament round the base of the bouquet, and traversing the crown in an oblique direction, but with little fulness, is arranged behind in a double row, and in very deep plaits, to form the curtain. Blond lace is also sometimes employed to decorate the inside of the brim, but riband is more generally used; it is arranged en papillon, either in bows or ends.

Plain and figured gros de Naples, watered silk, and chaly, are all worn in dinner dress. The demi redingote form is, we think, most prevalent; the dress is cut half high, and the lappel forms a cœur, and is of equal breadth all round; but it is either cut in lozenges or dents, which are bordered with narrow blond lace, or with effilé. Long transparent sleeves of the gigot shape, over short ones to correspend with the dress, and formed by a single bouffant. Dinner

head-dresses are either bèrets or blond lace caps; the former are of rich figured gauze, or of crêpe aerophane-they are trimmed with ostrich feathers, esprits-but the latter are most generally adopted. Blond lace caps have not varied in shape, but the trimming of the front has somewhat diminished in breadth. The fashionable colours are different shades of brown, all of a rich kind; rose colour, lead colour, green, and canary colour.

STATEMENT OF FASHIONS AT PARIS, IN OCTOBER.

Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, chaly continues in favour in promenade dress: it is, however, only worn when the weather is favourable, and always with a shawl. There is, indeed, at this moment, quite a rage for shawls: those of China crape are still partially worn, but the cashmeres de Lyon are more in request; they are the best imitation that has yet been produced of the real cashmeres.

Silk dresses, of the pelisse-gown kind, are fashionable both for the promenade and for the morning dress; they are composed of plain gros de Naples, are closed in front with a high corsage, which sets close to the shape, and is nearly concealed by a pelerine pointed behind, and with the ends, which are also pointed, crossing under the ceinture in front. The sleeve is of the gigot shape. A falling collar, trimmed with a triple fall of lace, and a cashmere scarf, with very rich ends, are usually worn with these dresses.

Public promenade bonnets are composed either of moire, or gros des Indes; they are usually of light colours, or rather, we should say, of full but not dark colours, Swedishblue, and rose, are the favourite hues. The brims of bonnets are somewhat deeper but not so close as they were in the summer, except at the ears. There is nothing decided as to their ornaments; some being trimmed with feathers, others with flowers, and a still greater number with ribands, which are disposed in a variety of ways: the most novel consists of a cluster of bows without ends, placed near the top of the crown, on the left side, and a smaller ornament, of the same description, laid on the brim, but close to the bottom of the crown on the right; they are united by a band of folded riband, passed from one to the other.

High dresses, of the pelisse kind, composed of moire, or of satin d'Egypte, are much in favour in half dress, particularly for morning visits; they are made in general in a very showy style, nearly, but not quite, up to the throat, and with a round pelerine, which is embroidered in different

coloured silks, or else cut round in dents de scie, each of which has a single leaf rather highly raised, embroidered in the centre. The sleeve, of the gigot form, is terminated by a cuff turned up in a single point, and always ornamented to correspond with the pelerine; sometimes, but rarely, the dress is embroidered round the front.

Hats are more in favour than bonnets in half dress, though we still see a good many of the latter, of the capote shape, but with round and rather wide brims, which are frequently finished with a curtain veil of blond lace. The inside of the brim is decorated with coques of riband, or else with a riband placed en cœur, and edged with narrow blond lace, set in with little fulness. The crown is ornamented either with feathers or flowers; the latter is intermixed, and generally shaded with blond lace of a light pattern; this style of ornament is novel, and produces a very pretty effect. Hats continue of the same form and size as in the winter; they are trimmed with bouquets of ostrich feathers, so placed as to fall in various directions, or else bouquets of cocks' feathers, disposed in the style of esprits. A good many have the crown ornamented with blond lace draperies.

Some new materials, as gase d'Alger, satin de Russia, and gaze Polonais, have recently been introduced in evening dress; the gauzes are figured, and of a very rich description; as is also the satin: the latter has, as yet, been very little employed, but it is expected that it will be very fashionable. Evening dresses have the corsage always en cour: the cœur is formed either by blond lace, or by a lappel, which, turning back, and being arranged very full upon the shoulder, forms an epaulette: it is edged either with effile, or with blond lace. Long sleeves are still very frequently adopted for social parties, but short ones are, upon the whole, more general; they are of the beret shape, and several are finished, en manchette, with blond lace.

The hair parted in the centre of the forehead, combed back on each side, and turned up in moderately high bows on the summit of the head, is the most fashionable style of coiffure en cheveux: it is always ornamented with flowers.

Fashionable colours are Feiulle d'Acanthe, Aventurine, citron, rose-colour, and Swedish-blue.

BIRTHS.

Ar Kneller Hall, Whitton, the lady of Charles Calvert, Esq. M P. for the borough of Southwark, of a daughter. At Wandsworth, the lady of Archibald Leslie, Esq. of a daughter. In Devonshire, the lady of Sir Ralph Lopes, Bart. M.P. of a son. Lady Georgiana Ryder, of a daughter, at the Duke of Beaufort's, Grosvenor Square. The lady of E. H. Cole, Esq. of Twickenham, of a son and heir. In Portman Square, the Hon. Mrs. Montagu, of a daughter. At George Town, Demerara, the lady of Charles Herbert, Esq. First Fiscal of British Guiana, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

At St. Mary's Bryanstone Square, H. H. Southey, M.D. Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, to Clara, youngest daughter of the late T. Latham, Esq. of Champion Hill, Surrey. At Lee, Kent, Lieut. J. A. Gilbert, Royal Artillery, to Emma Owen, daughter of the late J. R. Williams, Esq. of Lee, Kent. John Warmsley, Esq. of the Belvidere Road, to Miss Robinson, of Egham. At St. Giles's, Camberwell, Charles Harden, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, Esq. to Amelia Pritchard, eldest daughter of Josiah Cocke, Esq.

DEATHS.

In Cloyne, Ireland, Mrs. Maginn, aged 62, widow of the late John Maginn, Esq. of Cork. At Morant Bay, Jamaica, in his 80th year, Peter Smith, Esq. of Ayrshire, North Britain. At Battersea, in her 70th year, Elizabeth, relict of the late Joseph Benwell, Esq. of Henley on Thames. Thomas Stonor, Esq. of Stonor Park, Oxfordshire. At York-gate, C. Connell, Esq. in his 82nd year. In Welbeck Street, Allen Chatfield, Esq. aged 82. At Offington House, Sussex, J. T. Daubuz, Esq. of that place, and of Low Layton, Essex, aged 74. In Upper Wimpole Street, Lieut.General Malcolm Grant, East India service, aged 69. J. H. North, Esq. Member for Drogheda. At St. Sidwell's, Exeter, W. B. Radcliffe, Esq. in his 68th year. At Trincomalee, in the island of Ceylon, Lieutenant Edward Tindal, of the Royal Artillery. At Brighton, Henry Cowd Teed, Esq. of Devonshire Street, Portland Place, and of Plymouth. At Ryde, Caroline Frances, fifth daughter of Thomas Bacon, Esq. of Donnington Castle, Berkshire. At Huish House, near Blandford, Dorset, Martha, relict of Harry Parnell, Esq. Post Captain, R. N.