posed of gauze riband, or else of the material of the bonnet. The crown is decorated with two knots of riband, one placed near the top, the other at the bottom, close to the brim. The curtain placed at the back of the crown, is deep, and very full. Blond lace is very much employed to ornament half dress bonnets; besides the curtain veils, which are even more worn than last month. We see several with a blond lace drapery that crosses the crown, and falls over one side of the brim; there are also a good many that have the inside of the brim decorated with ends of riband, edged with narrow blond lace. These bonnets are trimmed with a mixture of flowers and gauze ribands. Plain and printed gros de Naples, and palmerein, are in equal fa. vour in dinner dress. Many dinner gowns have the corsage made open before and behind, with lappels which turn back, and are disposed in very full plaits upon the shoulders, so as to have the effect of a half sleeve. The chemisettes and long sleeves worn with these dresses are either of gauze or crêpe aerophane, the chemisettes are cut square at the top, and have very little fulness, which is disposed in large round plaits, and being much fuller at the bottom, forms the shape of a fan. The sleeves are cut in the demi gigot style, so as to be nearly, but not quite, tight at the lower part, and very wide at the top. The corsages of evening dresses are almost invariably disposed in drapery folds, that. cross in such a manner as to display very little of the chemisette, which is brought so low as to show more than delicacy would warrant of the bosom and shoulders. The sleeves, still of the béret form, are also cut extremely short. Trimmings, if worn at all, are of the same description as last month, but the greater number of dresses are made without trimmings. Bérets composed of white and coloured crapes and gauzes, and ornamented either with ostrich feathers or esprits, are much in favour in evening dress. They are made less voluminous than they were in the winter, but the shape remains the same. The most fashionable colours are dogrose colour, bleu de roi, vert de chine, lilac, primrose, canary, and rose de parnasse. STATEMENT OF FASHIONS AT PARIS There is great variety in the materials of promenade dress, but very little indeed in the form of dresses; muslins, ginghams, silks, and four or five fancy materials, composed either of silk and cotton, or silk and wool, are all in favour in promenade dress, and so equally fashionable, that it would be JULY, 1831. difficult to say which was highest in estimation, only it must be observed, that to be fashionable, coloured muslins must be flowered in columns, in large patterns, and very vivid colours, and ginghams must be either plain, or in very large stripes of strongly contrasted colours. Pelisse-gowns are still fashionable for the promenade, but not so much so as dresses with plain corsages of a three-quarter height, and to fasten behind. A great many are worn with a pelerine of the same material, pointed before, behind, and on the shoulders, or else made with ends reaching below the ceinture, and rounded. The pelerine is sometimes bordered with a row of dents, but more commonly made plain; the skirt has no trimming of any kind. Capotes Anglaises are still in high favour, and are expected to remain so during the summer. They are now made closer in the brims, and those that are drawn, have the drawings placed perpendicularly on the brims, and horizontally on the crowns; the latter are almost all made in the shape of a globe, with the drawings towards the front; they are lined with a different colour, and are trimmed with a puffing of tulle or blond net next the face, on the inside of the brim. The crown is decorated either with one large rosette, or two moderate sized ones of riband, to correspond with the bonnet, which we must observe is composed of plain gros de Naples or gros des Indes. These are properly morning bonnets, but with the addition of a curtain veil of blond lace, they are frequently worn in half dress, and in the fashionable promenade of the Tuilleries gardens. Those of a more dressy description are composed of rice straw, crape, and watered gros de Naples. Those of crape have the outside of the brim partly covered with a drapery of the same material, cut in points. A pointed rosette, also of crape, with long flowing ends, which fall in the style of brides, is attached to the crown near the top, and a long light sprig of flowers rises from its centre. Rice straw and watered gres de Naples are trimmed with a mixture of ribands and flowers. Public breakfast dresses are this year distinguished by more simplicity than usual, a good many are of printed chaly, the corsage cut a three-quarter height, and draped in front in the Grecian style; others, of the demi-redingote form, are of clear muslin, over coloured gros de Naples, the fronts, collar, and lappels of the dress are finished with an embroidery.in feather stitch, of a very light pattern; some are cut in dents, and edged with narrow Valenciennes lace. The sleeves are nearly, but not quite, tight from the elbow to the wrist, and excessively H wide at top; if the collar, &c. is cut in dents, the sleeve has a narrow cuff ornamented in the same manner, if not, the cuff is simply finished with an embroidery. The sleeves of chaly dresses have a little fullness at the lower part, which is confined by three bands. mixture of ganze ribands, flowers, and blond lace. A few capotes, composed of blond gauze ribands only, and ornamented with flowers, have recently been seen upon very elegant women; they have no curtain behind, are ornamented with a very light rosette of gauze riband, placed on one side of the crown, in the centre of which is a bouquet, composed of white and red roses, with their buds and foliage. A full knot of riband is placed at the bottom of the crown, near the back. The brides hang loose. Hats of crape, and of white watered silk, are partially worn at public breakfasts; they are of a small size, and are trimmed in general with feathers; a few, however, have been recently seen ornamented with a mixture of flowers and blond lace, in a very The colours most in request are lilac, light and tasteful manner. Capotes are, various shades of green and rose-colour however, more fashionable than hats; they bleu-Adelaide,cowslip-yellow,lavender-grey, are mostly of crape, and trimmed with a and Clarence-blue. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. In Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Ramsden, of a daughter. In Fitzroy Square, the lady of William John Lysley, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. At his house, No. 11, Saville Row, the lady of Dr. Bright, of a son. At the house of her father, in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, the lady of Lieut. C. G. Butler, R.N., of a daughter. The wife of W. B. Kitchiner, Esq. of Wilton Crescent, Belgrave Square, of a daughter. At his house in Bryanston Square, the wife of Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P., of a son. In John Street, Berkeley Square, the lady of the Hon. Geo. Talbot, of a daughter. In Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, the lady of the Rev. Dr. Roy, of a son. In Baker Street, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Talbot, of a son. At Little Maplested, Essex, the wife of the Rev. W. Burkitt, A.M., of a son. In Sloane Street, the lady of Edward M'Mahon, Esq. of a son. At Stoke Newington, the lady of Samuel Reynolds, Esq. surgeon, of a son. MARRIAGES. At Paris, Capt. A. Douglas, of the Indian army, Madras establishment, to Emma Money, eldest daughter of the late Hon. M. T. Harris, of the Madras civil service. At St. Luke's church, Chelsea, the Rev. Carr John Glyn, rector of Witchampton, Dorset, to Augusta, daughter of John Granville, Esq. of Cadogan Place. At St. George's, Hanover Square, Robert Marsh Westmacott, Esq., captain in the 98th regiment, and second son of Richard Westmacott, Esq., R.A., to Louisa Marian, eldest daughter of the late Rev. George Plummer, rector of North-hill, county of Cornwall. By the Rev. W. Knight, Maurice, only son of Wm. Cecly Trevillian, Esq. of Middlency, in the county of Somerset, to Charlotte, second daughter of John Portal, Esq. of DEATHS. At his seat, Yotes-court, in Kent, in the 64th year of his age, George, sixth Viscount Torrington, Vice Admiral of the White. Suddenly, at his seat, Woodend, Hampshire, Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.B., aged 83. John Payne, Esq. of Stubbington House, near Titchfield, Hants. aged 90. At his house, Eaton Place, Belgrave-square, W. Robertson, Esq. in his 84th year. At Spencer-house, the Countess Spencer. At his house in Berkeley-square, Sir John Edward Harrington, Bart. in the 72d year of his age. In Gloucester-place, Percy Meade, Esq. aged 28, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and son of the Hon. and Rev. P. Meade. In Alfred-place, Capt. Isaac G. Richardson, late of the Hon. Company's Indian navy, aged 71. After a long and severe illness, Sarah, the wife of Henry R. Bishop, Esq. the composer. At sea, on his passage home, Captain Randle Jackson, Bengal Artillery, formerly Aidede-Camp to the Marquess of Hastings. At Portland, near Weymouth, aged 52, the Baron Nolcken, son of the late Baron Nolcken, many years Envoy Extraordinary at this Court of the late King of Sweden, Joseph Ager, Esq. of Felsted, Essex. At his seat, Cane-end, Oxon, W. Vanderstegen, Esq. aged 71. New and Improved Series. AUGUST, 1831. LEAVES FROM THE CHRONICLES. THE BEAU-KNIGHT. BY HAL WILLIS, STUDENT-AT-LAW. Now," qou' ye stallwart knyghte, “bee thys ryghte hande, Whiles Godfrey, hys stout vaunted myghte, It was a rich, mellow day in the autumn of 1350, that Sir Walter Burgh, (a beau-knight in the gallant train of the renowned Prince Edward, surnamed the Black,) accompanied by his sworn friend, Sir Guy de la Maine, entered a beautiful and romantic vale in the fair county of Norfolk, in whose ample and luxuriant lap reposed the neat, unostentatious dwelling of Robert Vennill, a substantial yeoman, and a good soldier, who usually retired here, in the short intervals of peace, to the enjoyment of his greatest felicity -the society of an only and beloved daughter, who was more especially, in his absence, under the sole guidance and guardianship of his maiden sister, Joan. At this particular juncture Robert had been from home several days, and the affectionate Gertrude, daily expecting his return, had been upon the look-out upon the public road, when the gay Sir Walter Burgh observed her sylph-like form winding down a bye-path on the opposite side of the vallev. "By Venus' eyebrow, Sir Guy!" exclaimed he, "I do espy Euphrosyne, or one other of the fair trio, threading yon thicket with the lightsome trip of a fawn! May I lose my spurs, De la Maine, if I do not give her chase! so Love speed me!" and away he darted, followed by his comrade, laughing AUGUST, 1831. heartily at his high-flown rhapsody upon "a freckled peasant, with yellow crockets," as he unjustly termed Gertrude; for Sir Guy was too thorough-paced a courtier, to believe there could possibly exist any beauty worthy a gentleman's admiration without the pale of nobility. The hair-brained Sir Walter thought otherwise, although he never considered it worth his invaluable time to labour in the conviction of his friend, merely for the ungrateful satisfaction of often finding him a competitor in the chase of beauty. There was not, perhaps, a braver or more gallant knight in the prince's army than Sir Walter Burgh, notwithstanding the foppish particularity which he observed in the adjustment of his attire, and the choice phraseology of his speech. With the fair sex he believed himself irresistible, addressing himself to them with that easy confidence which is the natural result of many conquests. Nature, however, had been very lavish of her personal favours, and he was universally accounted one of the handsomest and best-bred men of his time. Such a finished lover felt no hesitation in introducing himself to the blushing Gertrude; and if her figure had at first won his attention, the sweetness of her innocent speech, and the rare simplicity of her beauty, at once fixed • Locks. 1 |