shape of the English cottage bonnet. These last were much in favour last suminer, and are now revived, but are not yet very general: they have no other trimming than a riband, which crosses in front of the crown, and ties under the chin. The former are worn very large, and a good deal trimmed. The materials for both descriptions of bonnets are the same, rice straw ribands sewed together, crape, and taffetas of various kinds, particularly plaided.

The most novel crape cupotes have the fulness of the brim arranged in flutings, and are trimmed with noeuds of gauze riband only. Those composed of plaided taffetas are of an excessively large pattern. The favourite colours are green of two shades, or green and white.

Hats remain the same sizes, those of the newest form have the crowns shaped like a melon; the material is laid on full, and the fulness arranged in compartments by twisted satin rouleaus. Curtain veils of blond lace are much in favour, and flowers are universally worn for the promenade. Those most in request are chesnut blossoms with their leaves, dog roses, heart's-ease, violets; and for the larger flowers, tulips, peonys, and different kinds of lilies.

India muslin, either plain or embroidered in colours, is much in favour, both in half and full dress. One of the most novel dresses of the former description is a redingote of very thin jaconot muslin; the corsage of the shawl form; the dress is open in front, and cut round the corsage and down the fronts in scollops, which are edged with Mechlin lace; the skirt has no trimming, but the hem is excessively broad.

Those redingotes are generally worn over satin under dresses, either white or coloured, but the former are most in favour. The under dress has a corsage uni, a very short full sleeve, and no other trimming at the bottom of the skirt than a narrow satin cord, which marks the edge of the hem.

Of the various descriptions of coloured muslins now worn, those of Moorish patterns are most in favour. Some of these dresses are trimmed as high as the knee with a flat tresse two inches in breadth; it is composed of four torsades, each of one of the predominant colours of the dress.

Silks have still a certain degree of favour in full dress, but they are generally worn with white sleeves, either blond or gaze de Paris; the latter is an imitation of the former, and so good a one as hardly to be distinguished from it. Long and short sleeves are almost equally in favour, but sleeves tight to the lower part of the arm are now by no means so generally adopted as last

month; those à l'imbecille have again become fashionable, and are quite as much in favour as those à la Medicis.

Dress gowns have the corsage made something higher than last month, but still square. Some are made exceedingly plain, without any other finish than a piping round the upper part; others are made with draperies, which cross low enough to display a chemisette richly embroidered.

Bérets and dress hats, particularly the latter, continue much in favour for the spectacle and for dinner dress. Gros de Naples and crape are the materials most in favour for dress hats; they are generally adorned with flowers, but feathers, particularly the plumage of birds of Paradise, are still adopted by many elegant women. Many white crape hats are ornamented with a large rosette of satin gauze riband, à mille raies, placed at the bottom of the crown, with the plumage of a bird of Paradise issuing from it. A similar rosette and feather was placed inside the brim on the opposite side.

If the hat is trimmed with ostrich feathers, there must be five arranged en bouquet, and placed much to the left side.

We may cite among the most elegant novelties, a white crape hat lined with rose colour, trimmed with two bouquets à la Jardiniere, partially shaded by cornets of crape, in which they were inserted; one of these cornets was placed on the right, the other on the left side; both were edged with narrow blond lace.

Turbans are generally composed of two different materials; one of them is usually white gauze, or India muslin; the other is blue, rose colour, ponceau, or green silk or crape.

Several balls and entertainments have been given at court, and by the members of the royal family, in honour of the arrival of their Sicilian Majesties; the French and English nobility, and persons of distinction, have been invited to these entertainments, but though the ladies in general were most splendidly dressed, nothing actually new in point of fashion has appeared; the dresses were of gold and silver tissues, lamas, rich silks, and crapes. Very few gowns were trimmed at the bottom, but the corsages were superbly ornamented, and the display of diamonds, both on them and in the head dresses, was perfectly dazzling. Toques, turbans, and bérets, were more in request than headdresses of hair; the two first were in general ornamented with feathers and diamonds, or other precious stones; the latter with jewels only. Head-dresses of hair were decorated with flowers intermingled with gems.

The colours most in favour are rose colour, blue, emerald green, straw colour, and various shades of brown.