patterns which are all small, or, at least, not excessively large. Those that we consider the prettiest offer a good imitation of the plaided Gros de Naples, some of which have one of the stripes that form the squares composed of a fairy wreath of flowers. We have seen some of these dresses worn with a double pelerine of fine French cambric, trimmed with the same material, small plaited; these pelerines have a neat and gentlewomanly appearance, and are well calculated for walking dress. They are not, however, as yet very general, shawls being more in request; but we have no doubt that early in June they will be very fashionable. Straw bonnets are, as we predicted they would be, very generally adopted in promenade dress, but principally for the early part of the morning. Those of pou de soie, gros de Indes, and other rich silks, adopted later in the day, are mostly trimmed with ribbons to correspond, and several have the edge of the brim adorned with a curtain veil of black tulle illusion. The most novel form is a horse shoe crown, rather high, with a small curtain at the back; the brim is round and short at the ears, but decidedly deeper than those of last year. The interior is trimmed in the cap style with blond; there are two rows, and in some instances, small single flowers are placed at regular distances between the rows, but this kind of trimming has now become common; a blond ruche without flowers, is in much better taste.

Leghorn straw hats, of the finest kind, begin to be very generally adopted in carriage dress. Some have the brims lined with gros de Naples, plaided in white and rose, or white and green; they are trimmed with rich ribbons to correspond, which are fringed at each edge. Others, adorned with flowers, are lined with crape c rresponding with one of the colours of the flowers. White lilac, mimosa, convolvolus of a new kind, Persian lilac, heath blossoms, myrtles, and dog roses are the flowers most in favor for trimming hats and bonnets. Those of the former, composed of Italian straw, have the brims larger than those of last year, close at the sides, wide over the forehead, where it spreads in such a manner as to display the ornaments of the interior; the crowns are of moderate height, less of the cone form than last year. Some are placed rather backward, others incline to the front, each mode seems so equally in favor that it would be difficult to

say which predominates. When flowers are used to trim the interior of the brim, they are of a very light and small kind, and are intermingled in a very novel manner with gauze ribbon. The majority are trimmed with ribbon only, arranged in coques of different forms, some placed in the style of a wreath across the forehead, others descending like a cap border at each side. The most elegant among the new silk bonnets are those of white pou de Soie, ornamented with a bouquet of white ostrich feathers. Those of pale dustcolored gros des Tours, trimmed with pou de Soie ribbon, plaided in dust-color and rose, and a sprig of red moss roses placed at the side, are next in point of elegance, and are very generally adopted.

Some summer shawls, of a very rich kind, have just appeared, and are very likely to remain in favor during the season; they are of twilled satin, black or dark grounds; some are thickly covered with an Egyptian pattern in vivid colors; others have a rich border en rosaces. Mantelets, both of black and colored silk, lined with gros de Naples of a strongly contrasted color, begin to be adopted in carriage dress. Some are trimmed with black lace, others are bordered with awansdown; they cannot be cited as a new fashion, but there is every reason to believe that they will remain in vogue during the summer.

Clear muslin, either spotted with colored cashmere worsted, or plain, is at present the favorite material in evening dress. We observe that robes have the corsages cut a little higher in the bosom than they were in the winter; they are square, and, for the most part, draped horizontally. The most fashionable sleeves are formed of a succession of bouffans; there are, sometimes, five, decreasing progressively in size as they approach the bend of the arm, which the lower one nearly reaches. Skirts still retain their usual extravagant width, and a good many are ornamented either with embroidery, en tablier, or with knots of colored ribbons; this last style of decoration principally adopted for the muslins spotted in colored worsteds.

Head-dresses of hair are most in request in evening costume. They are now ornamented with flowers; only those which our botanists have imported from foreign countries are the most fashionable, but they must be of a small size both

for bouquets and wreaths, the latter are preferred. The colors most in favor are some new shades of green and dustcolor, lavender bloom, pale blue, canary yellow, several shades of rose, and some fancy colors.

MADAME MALIBRAN.-After an absence of two years this gifted songstress has returned to London. She appeared at Covent Garden on the 18th of May, in Bellini's Opera of La Somnambula. As a singer she far excells all her cotemporaries, and as an actor, in her peculiar style, she has few equals. Her performance in the opera is electrical.

MRS. HEMAN.-This distinguished poetess died at Dublin, after a long and tedious ilness. Her maiden name was Felicia Dorothea Browne, and she was born in Liverpool in a small, quaint-looking house in St. Anne Street, now standing, old fashioned and desolate, in the midst of the newer buildings by which it is surrounded. Her father was a native of Ireland, her mother a German lady-a Miss Wagner-but descended from, or connected with, some Venetian family, a circumstance which she would playfully mention, as accounting for the strong tinge of romance and poetry which pervaded her character from her earliest childhood. When she was very young, her family removed from Liverpool to the neighbourhood of St. Asaph, in North Wales, that she married at a very early age-that her married life, after the birth of five sons, was clouded by the estrangement of her husband-that, on the death of her mother, with whom she had resided, she broke up her establishment in Wales, and removed to Wavertree, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool-from whence, after a residence of about three years, she again removed to Dublin,-her last resting-place.

In private life, Mrs. Hemans had attached to herself many sincere and steadfast friends. She was remarkable for shrinking from the vulgar honours of lionism, with all the quiet delicacy of a gentlewoman; and at a time when she was courted by offers of friendship and service, and homages sent to her from every corner of Great Britain and America, to an extent which it is necessary to have seen to believe, she was never so happy as when she could draw

her own small circle round her, and, secure in the honest sympathy of its members, give full scope to the powers of conversation which were rarely exerted in general society, and their existence, therefore, hardly suspected. It will surprise many to be told, that she might, at any moment, have gained herself a brilliant reputation as a wit, for her use of illustration and language was as happy and quaint, as her fancy was quick and excursive; but she was, wisely for her own peace of mind, anxious rather to conceal, than to display her talent. It was this sensitiveness of mind which prevented her ever visiting London after her name had become celebrated: and, in fact, she was not seldom reproached by her zealous friends for under-valuing, and refusing to enjoy the honours which were the deserved reward of her high talents, and for shutting herself up, as it were, in a corner, when she ought to have taken her place in the world of society as a leading-star. The few who knew her, will long remember her eager child-like affection, and the sincere kindliness with which, while she threw herself fully and frankly on their good offices, she adopted their interests as her own for the time being.

FOREIGN FASHIONS AND NOVELTIES. PARIS PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.-The robe is of cross-barred jaconot muslin, the ground is thickly strewed with single roses, worked in fine cashmere worsteds. Corsage of a three-quarter height, plain behind, and disposed in folds on each side of the breast. Sleeves à la folle, with tight cambric manchettes, finished at each edge by narrow Valenciennes lace. Clear cambric pelerine, made up to the throat with short scarf ends; it is cut round the shoulders and back of the bust in points, and bordered with a deep pointed band, edged with Valenciennes lace. A narrow band also edged with lace, borders the ends; knots of rose ribbon which attach the upper part of the pelerine, complete the trimming. Rice straw hat, a deep brim, close at the sides, the crown rather high and placed backwards; the brim is lined with rose-colored crape. The crown is profusely adorned with sprigs of red roses and rose gauze ribbon.