cault, which he has adapted from the stores of Madame George Sand, and called "Pierre the Foundling." Who of our readers but is familiar with the exquisite story of "François le Champi ;" one of those refined, yet simple quiet, yet interesting stories of pastoral life, from which few would expect to find the result of an "Adelphi piece!" It is, in fact, superior to the usual calibre of such pieces; but we think and hope that it is likely to ensure a run, whilst we cannot but laud the good taste and boldness of the management in giving us a savour of refinement and comparative nature, as a change from the hot condiments of melo-drama and extravaganza. The strength of the company do justice to the piece. Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste play the foundling and the widow inimitably. Miss Woolgar coquettes charmingly; and the Keeleys are rich in fun-she as a Breton farmservant, he as the drollest of all possible little fellows, Gribon Bonnia.

We must not omit a word of justified praise to Mr. Bayle Bernard's novelty at the HAYMARKET. "The Balance of Comfort" does honour to the author who wrote it, and the

management which accepted it. It is far superior to the usual run of comediettas, and will be a piece of more seasons than one. We understand that the clever Miss Lydia Thompson will personate the heroine of the forthcoming pantomime, which is founded on a familiar nurserytale. The Spanish Dancers will have danced their last steps during their present engagement ere our notice sees print; but the increase of bouquets, honorary and honourable, proclaims their steadfast hold on the affections of the public. In conclusion, and whilst dealing with the Haymarket, it may be a duty to notice that Mrs. L. S. Buckingham has obtained a divorce from her husband, pronounced by the Supreme Court of Sessions in Scotland. It is intimated that in future she will appear in the playbills under her maiden-name of Miss Caroline White.

Reports are afloat touching the knighthood which ere many months may deprive the PRINCESS'S THEATRE of one of the most successful and deserving of managers. This house closed for the season on the 19th, to reopen with the other houses for Christmas entertainments before this notice appears in print.

black and green fringe. The first flounce has three rows of fringe, the second has four. A collar in English point lace. Sleeves of two rows of the same lace, gathered on bouillons of tulle. A green silk bonnet, ornamented with feathers and guipure.

WALKING DRESS.-The first toilette consists of of narrow black and green fringe. The corsage has a puce-coloured taffetas gown, the skirt orna- basques rounded, and is closed up the front with mented with a trimming, en tablier, of stripes of grelots of passementerie in green and black. The velvet, guipure, and of large glands. This trim-sleeves are formed of two flounces, trimmed with ming is continued up the front of the corsage of the dress, en plastron. A wide band, or stripe of black velvet, goes down the front of the dress from the top to the bottom, ornamented at equal distances with large glands of passementerie and chenille. On each side are stripes of velvet placed bias; then a guipure, rather deep, and in high relief on the outer edge. Sleeves of five bouffantes or puffings, of unequal fulness, smaller towards the wrist. The lower part of the sleeve terminates with two rows of lace, fulled and turned back. On the top of the sleeve is what is called a jockey, in guipure, which is a sort of epaulette. A bonnet of white velours épinglé, on each side of which are three little bunches of white marabout feathers, coming very forward so as to pass the brim and mingle with the blond in the interior. Boots of the same colour as the gown, with heels, and laced down the side.

The SECOND DRESS is a gown in green taffetas, decorated with bands of black taffetas, and a row

TOILETTE for a little Girl of Eight Years old: A frock of violet poplin, the corsage ornamented with bretelles of black velvet, fastened at the back and front with a knot of black velvet, with long flowing ends. A white capote bonnet, with puffings bias ways, a little ruche separating each puffing Embroidered trowsers, and violet bottines.

Evening gowns are made with berthes trimmed with fringe. This fashion is very pretty and becoming. The coiffures are almost all at the back of the head, and with long sprays of flowers falling on the neck. There are a good many made with velvet and ribbon, or with a mixture of lace, for small evening parties or for the theatre,

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him. Governor Vance, of Ohio, had been a plain farmer through life, and entered that state as a pioneer, with an axe on his shoulder and very little in his pocket. Joseph Ritner, formerly Governor of Pennsylvania, served his time with a farmer as a regularly bound apprentice, after which time he for several years drove a waggon from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.

CHARACTER OF THE IRISH.-Restless, yet indolent; shrewd, and indiscreet; impetuous, impatient, and improvident; instinctively brave, thoughtlessly generous, quick to resent and forgive offences, to form and renounce friendships, they will forgive injury rather than insult; but the honour of both they eagerly vindicate; oppression they have long borne, insolence never. With genius they are profusely gifted, with judgment sparingly; to acquire knowledge they find more easy than to arrange and RICHES AND POVERTY.-That poverty is a real employ it; inferior in vanity only to the French; evil it would be absurd to deny; and that it is the and in wit, superior perhaps, to the Italian; they parent of many other evils, moral no less than phyare more able to give, and more ready to receive sical, experience teaches, and will for ever teach us. amusement than instruction; in raillery and adula-Not only that poverty that stands between its victims tion they freely indulge, but without malignity or and the common comforts, almost necessaries, of life, baseness. It is the singular temper of this people is thus pregnant with sorrow and sin; but that, too, that they are prone equally to satarise and to praise, which closes the access to every elegant enjoyment, and patient alike of sarcasm and flattery. Inclining and binds down to petty cares and worldly anxieties to exaggerate, but not intending to deceive, you will the time, the thought, the whole spirit. But to beapplaud them rather for sincerity than truth. Ac-lieve that the reverse of all this must in itself be curacy is not the merit, nor duplicity the failing of a lively, but uncultivated people. Their passions lie on the surface, unsheltered from irritation or notice; and cautious England is too fond of recognising the Irish character only by those inconsistencies and errors which her own powerful Government has contributed to produce or perpetuate.

VALUE OF THE WILLOW.-The importance of the willow to man has been recognised from the earliest ages, and ropes and twigs were probably among the very first of human manufactures in

countries where these trees abound. The Romans used the twigs for binding their vines, and tying their reeds in bundles, and made all sorts of baskets of them. A crop of willows was considered so valuable in the time of Cato, that he ranks the salictum or willow field, next in value to the vineyard and the garden. In France, the leaves, whether in a green or dried state, are considered the very best food for cows and goats: and horses in some places are fed entirely upon them from the end of August till November. Horses so fed, it is stated, will travel twenty leagues a day without being fatigued. In the north of Sweden and Norway, as also in Lapland, the inner bark is kiln-dried and ground, for the purpose of mixing with oatmeal in time of scarcity. The bark of the willow and the leaves are astringent. The former is much used in tanning.

ERRORS OF CAMPBELL.-Thomas Campbell, the poet, is said to have rejected Miss Mitford's papers when he was editor of the "New Monthly Magazine." They found a place in the "Lady's Monthly Magazine," and were subsequently brought together in a volume under the title of "Our Village."

AMERICAN STATESMEN.-David Webster was the son of a New Hampshire farmer, in very moderate circumstances. Henry Clay of a poor backwood's preacher. Martin Van Buren was too poor in youth to obtain a tolerable education; and it had been said of him in reproach that he sold cabbages around the village of Kinderhook. Andrew Jack son was an orphan at an early age, and was left penniless, with nothing but his own efforts to aid

happiness, is to have little experience, indeed, of life, with all its varieties of pain and disappointment -of blighted hopes-of unavailing repentance. Some who have never known what it is to possess

riches believe that the power of dispensing them must and does bring happiness; but in vain does "the widow's heart sing for joy," if no chord in the breast of her benefactor echoes to the sound of her

rejoicings-if he feels that there are evils much worse than poverty. If personal regret have closed the heart to sympathy, he may be beneficent, but the blessings of beneficence do not return upon him.

GENTLENESS is a sort of mild atmosphere, and it enters into a child's soul like the sunshine into the rose-bud, slowly but surely expanding it into beauty and vigour.

HAIR AND HAIR-DRESSERS.-The importance of the trade in hair in this country, and the atten tion paid to its culture and due order, may be esti mated from a glance at the statistics of those engaged in it in the metropolis alone. Pigot's Directory for 1840 contained the names of 950 hair-dressers in London, and about the same number in the provinces. According to the London Directory of the present year (1853) there are the following persons exclusively devoted to the speciality of the human hair :-Three hair-merchants hair-manufacturers; twenty-four artistes, or work(large wholesale importers probably); seventeen ers in hair-hair-jewellers, or device-workers as they may be termed-who elaborate the hair of our deceased friends and relatives into such memento mori as rings, brooches, earrings, chains, and other fanciful ornaments; 650 hair-dressers, barbers, &c., and twenty-seven wig-makers, besides hair-manufacturers; but I am doubtful whether the latter are merely preparers of the hair for the wig and artificial ringlet makers, or belonging to the former division of workers in hair. The law wig-makers, who use horse-hair, are a separate class of the trade. The number of apprentices and assistants employed by these various persons in town and country, it is impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy. -Rowland on the Hair.