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shape and long brim; the interior bas no ornament; the exterior is decorated with a very long marabout plume, shaded in pink and deep rose colour.

No. 4, DEMI-TOILETTE.-Pale orange pou de Soie robe; the corsage high behind, and a little open in frout, is trimmed with a pelerine of rather a large size, forming a heart on the bosom and rounded behind; it is embroidered in silk to correspond, and a similar embroidery is continued down the front of the skirt in the form of a broken cone. A cord and tassels fasten the pelerine at the throat. Point lace collar and cuffs. Chapeau à la Márquise, of azure blue satin, the crown and brim in one; the latter made excessively long and close; the exterior is trimmed with three shaded feathers, arranged in the style of a willow plume. No. 5. CARRIAGE DRESS.-Indian green gros de Naples robe, half-high corsage, rounded behind, descending in the stomacher style on the bosom, and terminating in a scallop at the bottom of the waist; it is bordered with a bias. Tight sleeve,

trimmed en mancheron with these bias. Pale canary coloured pou de Soie chapeau, an excessively long and very open brim lightly turned up, and edged with folds in front; nouds of straw coloured ribbon decorate the sides of the interior, and a long and excessively full ostrich feather, thickened with the beards of marabouts, is disposed in the style of a half wreath on one side. Plaided silk scarf.

tation. He mixed in the world, enjoyed its pleasures with moderation, was generally liked, and when at last he determined upon committing matrimony, his proposal for Mademoiselle de V. was warmly received by her widowed mother, a perfect woman of the world, who had for some time had her eye upon him, and spread her net by a skilful exhibition of those qualities in herself and her daughter, which, though they were very far from possessing, she knew he would look for in a wife. The bait took, to her great joy; for she almost began to despair of a match for Sophie, whose own fortune was too small to entitle her to a good one, and who being turned of twenty-four was fast verging on what we in France consider as old maidenism. The young lady had played her part so well that, without at all transgressing the rules proposal would be perfectly agreeable to her before of propriety, De M. had reason to believe his he made it to her mamma; his explicitness on one point was, however, far from pleasing to either lady-that was his intention of devoting the same sum as usual to charitable purposes, in which he had no doubt he should be assisted by his dear the young lady, and an eloquent harangue from Sophie. A few timid words of acquiescence from daughter to participate in his benevolent plans, the mamma on the pleasure it must give her settled the matter to De M.'s great delight. The preliminaries of the marriage were arranged. De M.'s family jewels, which were really very handsome, were sent to be new mounted, and he requested his belle fiancée to make choice of a cashmere. No task could be more agreeable to the fair one, who soon shewed that her taste was equally elegant and magnificent, for she selected a superb long shawl, bleu turquoise ground, and a border of matchless beauty; nothing could be handsomer, but unfortunately there was one objection that the bridegroom elect could not get over-it was just double the price he intended to give. Now here I find myself in a strait. I wish to please all my readers, and if I mention De M.'s price, I have no doubt that some of the gentler sex will say, "Oh! how mean!" while several of those in unmentionables will call him an extravagant fellow. In order theu to avoid drawing upon my hero the displeasure of any party, I shall avoid specifying the sum, and shall merely, in justice to him, declare that the price he intended to give would be considered by the generality of people as a handsome one. He requested Sophie to make choice of another, and several were shown to her, but she had some decided objection to each; and in spite of the significant looks, and even hints of her mother, she shewed so much ill temper and ill nature, that she fairly frightened away all the Monsieur de M. began some time ago, not- little cupids that were dancing about the heart withstanding his large fortune and very handsome of her intended; in short, the cashmere was not person, to be set down by his acquaintance as chosen that morning, and the evening brought not a decided old bachelor; this opinion might be the devoted lover, but a letter, in which he made thought too hastily formed, as he was only thirty- his adieux in a very decided manner. We have six, had not his mode of living given colour to it- no trials in France for breach of promise; but I for it was well known that he did not spend half think even in England the lady would not, all the his income; and he would certainly have been set circumstances of the case considered, have got down as a miser had not circumstances revealed damages, unless indeed she was allowed to have that instead of hoarding his riches he dispensed a female jury. The matter passed off, and De M., them in charity, but it was charity without osten-perfectly recovered from his love-fit, went on his

PARISIAN SKETCHES.

No. XXV.

Everybody knows the vast importance which our Parisian belles formerly attached to the possession of a cashmere shawl; and although their value is considerably decreased since the Empress Josephine gave fifteen thousand francs for one, they are still objects of desire to all female hearts; I mean married ones of course, for the cashmere is rarely worn by a demoiselle, at least till she begins to despair of ever being called Madame. Indeed these shawls play a very important part in matrimonial arrangements; many a match has been brought about by the lady's impatience to possess them; and many a menage has been rendered unhappy by a husband's obstinate refusal to buy one. I do not, however, recollect any adventure in which the cashmere has played so singular a part as the one I am about to narrate.

usual quiet way for some time. One morning he called on an old woman, to whom he had been a constant benefactor for some years; and as he mounted to her dwelling on the fourth story, a lady passed him on the stairs plainly dressed, and with a black veil down. As he made way for her respectfully, he observed that her figure, though petite, was elegant, and her features, from the slight glimpse he had of them, agreeable. On entering Mannette's apartment, he found her in tears, and a handsome cashmere shawl lying on a chair.

"What is the matter, my poor Mannette?" cried he in a pitying tone. "What are you crying for?"

"Oh, it is nothing, Sir," said the old woman, wiping her eyes; "there is nothing amiss indeed." "But what are you in tears for?"

"Why I could not help crying while I was telling poor Jeannette's story to that dear good lady, Madame de --."

My readers will easily believe that De M. insisted upon hearing Jeannette's story, which we shall tell more briefly than Mannette did. She was a friend of the old woman, recently left a widow, with several small children; reduced by the death of her husband to the greatest distress, she was in danger of perishing for want, when an offer was made her, if she could raise six hundred francs, of going into a business that would support both her and her children creditably. "But,' continued Mannette, "where could she raise six hundred francs? Bah! one might as well have asked her a million; and so I said to Madame de -, who found me crying just as Jeannette left me."

"Don't say that, Mannette," cried she, "we shall make up the money somehow. I have very little by me now, but I think you could sell this shawl for that, or at any rate for nearly as much, and I will make up the rest ;" and before I could say a word, Monsieur, she had thrown off her beautiful shawl, and telling me to do the best I could with it, and to let her know as soon as it was sold, she hurried away just as you came."

"What an excellent creature!"

"Excellent indeed! I don't believe there is her equal in the world. Why, Monsieur, though she is young, aye and very pretty and lively too, she thinks of nothing but doing good. You would not believe how sparingly she lives, and how many things she denies herself, that she may have it in her power to assist the unfortunate."

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delayed doing so for some time, lest through it his share of the affair might be discovered, and be lose the pleasure of her acquaintance. When he sent the usual marriage presents, there was no cashmere among them. Whatever the widow thought of the omission, she said nothing about it; but on the very evening before the ceremony was performed, he asked her to choose one, which she did; and this time he had no fault to find with his fiancée on the score of extravagance. The morning after marriage he said to her, as they were seated at break fast

"Were you not surprised, chère Amélie, that you did not sooner receive your cashmere?" "I thought you had forgotten it." "No, I delayed out of prudence, that you might not have an opportunity of selling it." At these words Amélie's face became scarlet. "Dearest! best beloved!" cried the happy husband, unsealing a packet, and presenting the shawl receive again the offering you made to charity; an offering dear and sacred in my eyes, for it has led to a felicity which I despaired of finding-that of a wife whose heart was in perfect unison with my own."

And so in truth it is, and will I hope remain, notwithstanding that the acquaintance-the female part of it, I mean-of Madame de M. think she pays a very bad compliment to her husuand's present; for while his rich cadeau de Noces is seldom seen on her shoulders, she is observed to be excessively fond of a cashmere that she was known to have some time before her second marriage, and which is very inferior to the one De M. presented her with.

OUR SCRAP SHEET.

CONSISTING OF ORIGINAL AND SELECTED SHORT

ARTICLES, EPIGRAMS AND FACETIÆ.

CAPTAIN MARRYATT." This morning I fell in with an acquaintance whom I had not seen for years, and him also I did not recollect. I am very unfor tunate in that respect, and I am afraid that I bave very often given offence without intending it; but so imperfect is my memory of faces, that I bave danced with a lady in the evening, and the next day have not known her, because she was in a bonnet and morning-dress. Sometimes the shifts I am put tions, and answering those put to me at random, to to are quite ludicrous, asking all manner of quesfind out some clue as to who my very intimate friend may be. They ought not to be angry at my forgetting their names, for sometimes, for a few minutes, I have actually forgotten my own. It does, however, only require one clue to be given me, and then all of a sudden I recollect everything con nected with the party. I remember one day, was passing Whitehall, somebody came up, wrung self delighted to see me. I could do no other than my hand with apparent delight, and professed himsay the same; but who he was, and where I had seen him before, was a mystery. I am married since we parted,' said he, and have a fine little

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boy.' I congratulated him with all my heart. You must come and see me, and I will introduce you to Mary. Nothing would give me more pleasure; but if he had only called his wife Mrs. So-and-so, I should have had a clue. Let me see,' said I, 'where was it we parted?' Don't you recollect?' said he. At the Cape of Good Hope.' But I was still mystified, and after putting several leading questions, I found myself quite as much in the dark as ever. At last I asked him for his card, that I might call upon him. He had not one in his pocket. I pulled out my tablets, and he took out the pencil, and wrote down his address; but that was of no use to me.Stop, my good fellow, I have so many addresses down there, that I shall be making some mistake; put your name down above it. He did so, and when I saw the name, everything came fast like a torrent into my recollection; we had been very intimate, and he was fully justified in shewing so much warmth. I could then talk to him about old scenes, and old acquaintances; so I took his arm, and went forthwith to be introduced to his Mary. I recollect once, when I was sitting at a table d'hote, at Zurich, being accosted by a lady next to me, and being accused of having forgotten her. I looked with all my eyes, but could not discover that I had ever seen her before. At last, after allowing me to puzzle for some time, she said, Sir, you and I met at dinner four years ago, at Mr. K- -'s house in Demerara.' It was very true; but who would have thought have running his memory over to South America, to a cursed alluvial deposit, hatching monthly broods of alligators, and surrounded by naked slaves, whilst out of the window before him his eyes rested upon the snow-covered mountains of Switzerland, and he breathed the pure air of William Tell and liberty!

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contribute different articles, such as shoes, leggings, leather drinking-cups (for travelling), &c., which are laid with the rest of the things on the mat, and are subsequently distributed to the priest of the neighbourhood and those who assisted in the ceremonies. The family can retain nothing except the arms which the deceased bore and the horse he rode, which, out of respect to his memory, is kept six months in the stable and well fed during that time. When one has died a natural death at home, his body is immediately washed, enveloped in new white cotton or linen cloth, and buried within three or four hours, the immediate neighbours assisting in the first portion of the lamentation. If he was killed in the battle (that is a bona fide battle, not a mere excursion for booty, for a decided line of distinction is drawn), he is interred in the clothes he was killed in, and without washing; it being supposed that in this state he will be at once received into Paradise, as having fallen in defence of his country; but if he survive his wound some days, he is presumed to have sinned (perhaps in regretting his wound, or expressing impatience under it), and must, therefore, be washed and dressed for his immortal journey. The same ceremonies are performed at the death of women and children, but the assemblages

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SIR W. GARROW.-It was not on the hustings nor in the scrutiny room alone, that Mr. Garrow obtained high renown. An incident occurred, which may be related, not exactly perhaps in his own words, but strictly according to his narration: "I was one evening at a consultation with Mr. Lee" (honest Jack Lee, as he used to be called, the Attorney-General of the Coalition Administration), "and when the business under discussion was disposed of, Well,' said he, what do you think of A CIRCASSIAN FUNERAL.-When the body is not our honourable house in the question of the Westforthcoming, a cushion is placed on the mat at the minster election?' I answered that I thought the side of a room; upon and around it are the clothes honourable house was acting in a most dishonourable of the deceased, and on the wall immediately above, manner. Well,' said he, you must go to their are suspended his arms. The room is filled with the bar to-morrow, and tell them so.' That,' I said, females, and the female relatives and friends of the is impossible; the business we have been consultfamily, seated; and at the door, stands the widowing upon will then be on, and that will be sufficient erect. At each side of the cushion are seated the daughters or some young female relatives. On the green before the door the men assemble. One of them approaches the door, uttering a wailing cry, which is responded to by the females inside, who rise while he enters softly with his hands over his eyes, and kneels before the cushion, placing his forebead upon it. The young girls on each side assist him to rise, and he retires. The rest follow, one by one, until the whole have performed this ceremony; but the old men generally, instead of uttering the lament, speak some short sentence of consolation or endurance, such as, "It is the will of God." This larger assemblage of men and women lasts for three days; but the females of the family and its immediate relatives must be in attendance to receive mourners in this manner for a fortnight; and the clothes and other relics of the deceased remain as described until the great funeral repast, which is given either six months after, or on the anniversary of the death. The very poorest never omit this entertainment; but the rich give other repasts at the intervals of a week, a fortnight, and forty days after the death. If the clothes of the deceased were not good at his death, new are made, and the relatives

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to engage all my attention.' I tell you,' said he, you must go, and there is no avoiding it.' No attorney waited on me, nor was any message sent; so I thought no more of the matter, but on the following morning, when I was in Court at the Old Bailey, I was told that a gentleman wished to speak with me. I went into the Lord Mayor's parlour (a room to which in those days Counsel used to retire, to consult, to refresh themselves, or to see their friends or clients) and there I found Mr. Fox.

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Oh, Mr. Garrow,' he said, my petition is to be heard at four o'clock, and I shall depend on your assistance to support it.' I said I could not do it; I had no time for preparation, nor any instructions. Instructions! poob, pooh!' said Mr. Fox, you know the business better than any body; and if instructions were required, we should look to you to give, not to receive them. We shall expect you-I won't detain you from your other business-good morning-good morning!' and so he bowed himself out of the room. I went to the house, and Mr. Douglas (Lord Glenbervie) was first heard on the petition. I made my speech, determined to suppress no portion of my opinion, unless compelled by authority."

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