INDEX TO THE KALEIDOSCOPE. Pole, passage by the north, a scarce and curious work on, 1. | Scottish tradition of Morillo Calder, 371. 422, 442. Sculpture and architecture, 109. Political economy, papers on, 335, 343, 351, 367, 378, 405, Sea-bathing, remarks on, 29-Sea, dangers of the, modes Pompeii, antiquities of, 407, 434. Popes, mode of electing a, 83-Homage paid to, 311. Port wine analyzed, 283. mons, 220. Secrets, how to keep, 163-Secret letter-writing, 222. Portraits, some from L'Hermite de la Champée, &c. 232. SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTIONS-see Epitaphs. Sepulchre, holy, visit to, 262. Preacher, the accommodating, 62.-Priests, African, 311. Serpent, on the, 377-Serpents, curious facts respecting, 167. Printers, Liverpool annual meeting of, 29. Printer's punning song, 28.-Printing-press, new, 53. Promotions, royal, 274. Pronunciation, queries respecting, 15, 56, 136. Puns, 69, 275, 287, 319, 319-A good article on, 74- Racing or trotting matches, 406. "Radiant, the Moon," &c. by G. 424. Raft, immense, constructing in America, 126. Raphael, the painter, anecdote of, 78. Rats devour fruit, 135-In Jamaica, 163. Servants, female, letters respecting, 176, 183, 189, 190, Shawl, history of a, from the French, 270. Ship, narrow escape of a, from being run down, 318. Shoemaker and elves, 325-Shoes, to render waterproof, 377. Signs, whimsical, 19, 62, 78, 152, 236, 244, 377—see "Sin, born in, and the child of wrath," 287. Sirloin, derivation of the term, 244. Sismondi's View of Literature, translated by T. Roscoe, 47. Skeleton, lines to a, 132-Shylock, literary, 287. Sleep walking, 130.-Sleepers reproved, 163. Snow, dreadful fall of, 61-Houses, of the Esquimaux, 153. Song, "I'll come to thee," &c. 52. Sonnet, to Miss A. B. 308-Sonnets, 12, 140, 230. Southport, walk through, 5-Praises of, in verse, 290. Reviviana, or republication of scarce works out of print-Speech, fluency of, Swift's saying on, 236. Royal promotions, 274.-Royal Society of Literature, 336. Rufus, William, curious particulars respecting, 142. Russia, letter from, of an English manufacturer, 335. Russian discoveries in the Polar Seas, 282. Russians persecuted and massacred on account of beards, Ryley's forthcoming volume of the Itinerant, 354, 389. Sabbath, the first or seventh day? 184. Sage, Le-see Gil Blas. Sailor, perilous adventure of, 27-Sailor-boy's Dream, 325. Salteellar, splendid, made by Benvenuto Celini, 27. Saw, newly invented, 77-Scalds and burns, remedy for, 67. SCIENTIFIC RECORDS, in almost every number-sec also Scotch Antiquities, 45-Scotch not cannibals, 56. Spelling backwards, singular facility in, 185. "The bloom that grac'd the rose is fled," 360. Throat, sore, gargle for a, 204-Remedy for, 243. Tide tables, Liverpool, blanks in the, 8, 15, 39, 55. Translations, whimsical, 55, 288-see Garrett-Ori U. Vale of Nightshade, Nathan's story of the, 109. Vive la Bagatelle, puzzles, enigmas, &c. 205, 212, £ Waldegrave, Leigh, original verses by, 12, 20. Spiders, singular account of, 16, 33, 58. of the Mountaineer and Emerald Isle, 45. Steam sublimities, Little Beelzebub's letter, 49-Won- Strawberries, good for the teeth, 67. Suicide, arguments against, 346.-Sun, spots on the, 208. Superstitious customs, notions, &c. 19, 133, 190, 203, 309, 310, 311, 371, 372, 387, 405. Tale, melancholy, 170. Tea making, the theory of, 102-Perfumed at Petersburg, Teeth, white, singular remarks upon, 19-Mode of clean- Telescopes, discovery of, 223. Thames, proposed tunnel under the, 347. "What means this new pain ?" song and music, 32 in India, Wykeham, William or, and his crosier, 3. OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI." Nantwich-E. Jones; Preston-P. Whittle; familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners . Ave Maria-lane; Burnley-T. Sutcliffe; Serock Co.; R. Barker; Burslem-S. Brougham; Here, Derb-W. Hoon; Bury J. Kay; -T.Cunning- Carlisle-J. Jollie; Chester-R. Taylor; Chorley-R. Parker; giza-H. Wrightson Clithero-H. Whalley; -Keil: Brandwood; Core-H. Earnshaw; urs-T Rogerson; Congleton-J. Parsons; -T. S. Meyler: No. 158.-NEW SERIES. Scientific Records. omprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improvements in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sinular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phiosophical, Botanical, Meteorological and Mineralogical Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History, Vegetation, &c; Antiquities, &c.; to be continued in a series through the volume.] THE POLAR REGIONS. The fate of our enterprising countryman, Captain arry, and his gallant comrades, excites universal symthy; and the eyes of all Europe are eagerly watching return from the dreary and hitherto unknown regions hich it was the object of his expedition to explore. At ch a period, every thing connected with the subject, ich may enable us to form conjectures as to the ultie success of the enterprise, will be perused with the a Lane End-J. Palmer; Newcastle-u.-Tyne-M.Humble; Rochdale-J. Hartley; Northwich-J. Kent; TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1823. A Brief DISCOURSE of a PASSAGE by the tions that can be urged against a Passage that Stockport-T. Claye J. Brown; VOL. IV. PRICE 34d. land Ship that Summer) told him that their Ship went not out to Fish that Summer, but only to take in the Lading of the whole way. As, 1. By a Navigation from Amsterdam Fleet, to bring it to an early Market &c. into the North-Pole, and two degrees beyond it ;- But, said he, before the Fleet had caught 2. By a Navigation from Japan towards the Fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the North Pole;-3. By an Experiment made by the Greenland Company, Sailed into the North Czar of Muscovy, whereby it appears, that to the Pole, and came back again. Whereupon Northwards of Nova Zembla is a free and open (his Relation being Novel to me) I entred Sea as far as Japan, China, &c. By JOSEPH Moxon, Hydrographer to the King's Most Excel discourse with him, and seem'd to question lent Majesty. London: printed for Joseph Moron, the truth of what he said. But he did ensure and sold at his shop, at the sign of Atlas, on Lud- me it was true, and that the Ship was then gate hill, 1674. in Amsterdam, and many of the Seamen beAmong the many Essaies that have been longing to her, to justifie the truth of it: And pest interest. The politeness of a friend enables us made to find a near Passage to Japan, China, told me moreover, that they sailed 2 degrees day to present to our readers a curious tract on the &c. the most probable and likely hath as yet beyond the Pole. I askt him, if they found ject of the Polar regions, published a century and (in my opinion) been over-seen, or at least no Land or Islands about the Pole? He The title and the whole work we have literally mscribed, necessarily omitting a small chart which ac- not attempted. And therefore I shall hereby told me No, there was a free and open sea! mpanied the original pamphlet. We have also literally communicate my Conceptions to Publick ap-deal of Ice? He told me No, they saw no I askt him if they did not meet with a great lowed the orthography, which is pretty fair, considering probation or censure. It is that a Passage time when the work was written. Ice. I askt him what Weather they had The most common-place opinion, on the subject of may very probably be about the North Pole. there? He told me fine warm Weather, ching the Pole, is, that it is impossible on account of And the Reason inducing me to conceive so, immense and impenetrable masses of ice with which its is, That we have no certainty from all the such as was at Amsterdam in the Summer inity must abound; and this opinion is natural enough, Discoveries that have been made of any Land time, and as hot. I should have askt him soning from analogy. Experience, however, compels to admit that the temperature does not always de-lying within 8 degrees about the Pole: But more questions, but that he was ingaged in ase as we approximate the Pole; from which we are on the contrary, that I have credibly been in-discourse with his Friend, and I could not in aged to admit, that it is not necessarily colder in the formed by a Steer-man of a Dutch Greenland tity of the Pole, than it is in lower latitudes. We Ship, that there is a free and open Sea under that very many navigators have sailed unobstructedly the very Pole, and somewhat beyond it. And two or three degrees of the Pole; but we shall lay I for my own part give credit to his Relation, stres upon the evidence of old log-books, or the stories and do conceive that any sober ingenious Man traders, who sometimes see strange things. We shall would do the like, did he know in what an But though I believe this story, yet meBy state a few well-known and admitted facts, to show & the cold does not always, if ever, increase in intensity honest manner, and by what an un-interested thinks I hear many object against it, and are approach the Pole. We shall confine ourselves to one accident I happened to hear it; For thus it apt to urge three seeming Reasons to prove Mice, which we shall select from Crantz's History of was: Being about 22 years ago in Amster-it false, or at least some particulars of his in and; reserving our further illustrations for a future dam, I went into a Drinking-house to drink Relation. And first, That it cannot be warm le the winter of 1739 and 1740 (says this writer) the a cup of Beer for my thirst, and sitting by under the Fole, because that about Green1 so keen in France, that the centinels froze to the publick Fire, among several People there land, and many other Parts less Northat their stations, and the birds fell down dead. The hapned a Seaman to come in, who seeing a erly, the Sca is so full of Great Bodies of Ice, arched over, so that people travelled from Co-Friend of his there, who he knew went in the that Ships can hardly sail for it. Secondly; to Dantzig like a turnpike; yet all the salt 4 Norway WAS OPEN, and the birds (contrary to Greenland Voyage, wondred to see him, be- Or if warm, yet not so warm as at AmsterWENT NORTH TO FIND OPEN WATER! Cause it was not yet time for the Greenland dam in the Summer time, because the farther Norway first had the swan and many other water-Fleet to come home, and ask'd him what ac- Northerly the colder Weather. Thirdly, Or -re accounts also say that 1763 was extremely cident brought him home so soon: His Friend if they were under the Pole, that they could ughout all Europe, yet in Greenland it was as in summer, page 45."-Edits. Kal. (who was the Steer-man aforesaid in a Green- not tell how to come back, but that they produce abundance of testimony such as it is, to modesty interrupt them longer. But I believe the Steer-man spoke matter of fact and truth, for he seem'd a plain honest and unaffectatious Person, and one who could have no design upon me. might as well go farther from, as return | Argument, though when I was parted from One Answer may serve to the first and second sage found by the Russians this last year, it came to the hands of the Secretary of Royal Society from Amsterdam, by a Corr pondent of his; which in Transact. Nu 101. run in these words: A Letter, and Map, not long since sent to the Publis by an Experienced Person residing at Amsterdam, taining a true Description of Nova Zembla, toge with an intimation of the advantage of its shape position. SIR, I herewith send you what I have ceived out of Muscovy, which is a New Ma of Nova Zembla and Weigats, as it hath be discover'd by the express order of the Cz and drawn by a Painter, called Panelapoet. who sent it me from Mosco for a Present: which it appears, That Nova Zembla is an Island, as hitherto it hath been believed be; and that the Mare glaciale is not a S but a Sinus or Bay, the waters whereof sweet, which is the same with what the T tars do also assure us, who have tasted the waters in the very midst of the Sinus. The s mojeds as well as the Tartars do unanimou affirm, that passing on the back of Nova Ze bla, at a considerable distance from the sho And 'tis a great fault in the English 2 Navigators may well pass as far as Jup Dutch, that seeking to get to Japan on South side of Nova Zembla, they have alm always passed the Weigats. The letter O the great River Oby marks the place o The letter Cataract or Fall of waters. denotes the conjunction of Zembla with Continent. The River marked L, runs ward China, called Kitaie: which is not ev where navigable, by reason of the rocks a other inconveniencies that obstruct the ing of Vessels. Wegats itself is very diffe to pass, because of the great quantity of I continually falling into it out of the Ri Oby, whereby that strait passage is stop up. The Samajeds go every year a fish upon the said sweet Sea and that on N Zembla's side. This Map of Nova Zembe here omitted, because here is set forth a M of all the Lands nearest about the No pa And if it be argued that it is so cold about Greenland, &c. and the Seas so full of Ice that Ships can hardly sail for it, yet cannot that Argument prove that it is so about the Pole: Because the Ice is made about shoars of Land, but never in open Sea, and comes there only by strength of Currents, or high he could not tell, only the Captain com- ACCOUNT OF THE IRON MINES OF PRESBE Winds, which does indeed carry it some small manded it, &c. But I suppose the East The third Objection is, that if they were under the Pole, they could not tell how to come back, because of the indifferency the Needle should bear to every point of the Ho rizon. Pole. BY DR. CLARKE. JUST PUBLISHED.] For grandeur of effect, filling the mind of the spect with a degree of wonder which amounts to awe, ther no place where human labour is exhibited under cir stances more tremendously striking. As we drew nea the wide and open abyss, a vast and sudden prospec they saw reason they might expedite their yawning caverns and prodigious machinery prepared u Voyages between Holland and those parts gulph whence the ore is raised, and ventured to lock d the descent. We approached the edge of the drea that way. I was thus Inquisitive with him, standing upon the verge of a sort of platform, constru because ever since I heard the former Rela-opening as far as the eye could penetrate amidst it glo tion of the Greenland Steer-man, I harped at a Passage through or about the North Pole to Japan, China, &c. and by these two coveries it appears very probable there is so, and that it is passable in Summer time. over it in such a manner as to command a view of the depths; for, to the sight, it is bottomless. buckets, suspended by rattling chains, were passing up down; and we could perceive ladders sealing all th Dis-ward precipices, upon which the work-people (reduce their distance to pigmies in size) were ascending and scending. Far below the utmost of these figures, a and gaping gulph-the mouth of the lowermost pit by its darkness, rendered rupervious to the view. the spot where we stood, down to the place where buckets are filled, the distance might be about sev I come to a third Relation, not only of examined not my Relator upon this the probability, but of the certainty of a Pas five fathoms; and, as soon as any of these buckets eine If we could have heard what she said, we should not have comprehended a syllable; but as several other Parca, equally Gorgosian in their aspect, passed swiftly by us, hastening tumultuously towards the entrance, we began to perceive, that if we remained longer in our present situ. ation, Atropus might indeed cut short the threads of our existence; for the noise of the hammers had now ceased, and a treinendous blast was near the point of its explosion. We had scarcely retraced, with all speed, our steps along the level, and were beginning to ascend the ladders, when the full volume of the thunder reached us, as if roaring with greater vehemence because pent amongst the crashing rocks, whence being reverberated over all the mine, it seemed to shake the earth itself with its terrible vibrations. Chit Chat. MODERN MIRACLE. Address of a letter, copied (verbatim et literatim) from the original, exhibited (for the purpose of finding an owner) in the window of the packet-office, Gibraltar: In haste. "With ane inclosure inside, For Mr. LAWRENCE O'KEEFE, Esquire, Garishon of Gibitalter, Gibiralter or Elsewhere, By Dublin." SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTIONS. NO. XI. COMPRISING CURIOUS EPITAPHS, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, &c. "I talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs, the gloomy cavity we have mentioned, or until they it in their descent, they were visible, but below paint they were hid in darkness. The clanking of the the groaning of the pumps, the hallouing of the the creaking of the blocks and wheels, the trampthe horses, the beating of the hammers, and the nd frequent subterraneous thunder, from the blastthe rocks by gunpowder, in the midst of all this of excavation and uproar, produced an effect which enger can behold unmoved. We descended with two anisers and our interpreter into this abyss. The ladstead of being placed like those in our Cornish mines, series of platforms, as so many landing places, are gether in one unbroken line, extending many faand, being warped to suit the inclination or curvathe sides of the precipices, they are not always perlar, but hang over in such a manner, that, even if a en beld fast by his hands, and if his feet should happen , they would fly off from the rock, and leave him ded over the gulph. Yet such ladders are the only pes of access to the works below; and, as the labourers accustomed to receive strangers, they neither use precautions nor offer the assistance usually afforded in res frequented mines. In the principal tin-mines of Cornwall, the staves of the ladders are alternate bars of ood and iron; here they are of wood only, and in some arts rotten and broken, making us often wish, during our lent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so haSuperstition the best Doctor.-The eldest daughter s In addition to the danger to be apprehended of a French lady residing in Bouverie-street, has been afEen the damaged state of the ladders, the staves were flicted with a most severe and excruciating nervous comtered with ice or mud, and thus rendered so cold and plaint for the period of 18 months. When she attempted Appay, that we could have no dependence upon our beto leave her bed, the depending posture of the legs proBabbed fingers if our feet failed us. Then, to complete duced the greatest agony in the stomach and bowels: and apprehensions, as we mentioned this to the miners, after the attempt, she would lie for several hours, suffering said, "Have a care! It was just so, talking about under acute bysterical flatulence, distention, and violent saves that one of our women fell, about four years ago, head-ache. In short, her agony was extreme, and she he was descending to her work." "Fell," exclaimed became completely bed-ridden. She was constantly be Swedish interpreter, rather simply; "and pray what dewed with clammy perspirations; her face was exanme of her?"" Became of her!" continued the fore-guine, her body emaciated. The most eminent physician st of our guides, disengaging one of his hands from the in this city attended this young lady; by expostulations adder, and slapping it forcibly against his thigh, as if to and entreaties he endeavoured to rouse her to exertion lustrate the manner of the catastrophe, she became by medicines and diet, to correct the deranged state of pankaka) a pancake." last visit, he received a long letter from this young lady, the human system, but to no purpose. Six days after his stating herself to be perfectly recovered. She had written to Prince Hohenlohe. He ordered her to say mass thrice, and pray for him; at the same time he would pray for her, and after the third mass she would be restored to perfect health. The attempts to kneel down at the two first masses were prevented by the tortures usually experienced upon trying to quit her bed. Dread and apprehension lest she should lose the chance of recovery, enabled her to perform genuflexion at the third mass, though her attempts to quit bed were equally excruciating. She rose quite well from her last devotions.' We give the following singular letter from the Times: To the Editor of the Times.-SIR,-If you think the following facts of sufficient interest to insert in the Times, when public news may not press, I send them exclusively 62.-On the monument erected to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, to you, and as original. I will give you the names of the parties, which will prove to you that there is no deception; but I must request you to withold them from the public eye, as well as my own name: As we descended farther from the surface, large masses fice appeared, covering the sides of the precipices. Ice raised in the buckets with the ore and rubble of the tine; it has also accumulated in such quantity, in some the lower chambers, that there are places where it is fiffathoms thick, and no change of temperature above revents its increase. This seems to militate against a no1 now becoming prevalent, that the temperature of the ir in mines increases directly as the depth from the surface, wing to the increased temperature of the earth under the Ime circumstances, and in the same ratio; but it is exlained by the width of this aperture at the mouth of the sine, which admits of a free passage of atmospheric air. Bour Cornish mines, ice would not be preserved in a solid tate at any considerable depth from the surface. withhold his name: he is, however, an eminent physician, "What now," said Conde to his aide-de-camp, on the Knt. in Westminster Abbey. Here is deposited Sir Isaac Newton, Knight, Who, by the light of mathematical learning, First explained the motions and figures of the planets, Paths of the comets, and tides of the ocean; Stephen and Time Are now both even; Stephen beat time, Now Time's beat Stephen. 64.-On Sir Phillip Sydney. England hath his body, for she it fed; The heavens hath his soul, The arts have his fame, The soldier his grief, The world his good name. Here lies a man, than whom no better's walking, A Dutch lover of the celebrated Mrs. Behns, in an epistle which he addressed to her, considers her as a 67.-The following is taken from a stone in the churchyard goodly ship, under sail: her hair, as the pennants; her forehead, the prow; her eyes, the guns; her nose, the rudder," &c. He desires to be "the pilot to steer her, by the Cape of Good Hope, for the Indies of Love." Elizabeth, it appears from a MS. inventory in the British After much fatigue, and no small share of apprehension, re at length reached the bottom of the mine. Here we mad no sooner arrived, than our conductors, taking each of s by an arm, hurried us along through regions of "thickbbed ice" and darkness, into a vaulted level, through tich we were to pass into the principal chamber of the ine. The noise of countless hammers, all in vehement tion, increased as we crept along this level; until, at ngth, subduing every other sound, we could no longer ar each other speak, notwithstanding our utmost efforts. this moment we were ushered into a prodigious cavern, hence the sounds proceeded; and here, amidst falling ers, tumbling rocks, steam, ice and gunpowder, about miners were in the very height of their employment. Tegnitude of the cavern, over all parts of which their tes were going on, was alone sufficient to prove that e iron ore is not deposited in veins, but in beds. Above, low, on every side, and in every nook of this fearful gen, glimmering tapers disclosed the grim and anxious artenances of the miners. They were now driving bolts The crosier of William of Wykeham, bequeathed by iron into the rocks, to bore cavities for the gunpowder him in 1403 to New College, is now in high preservation. basting, Scarcely had we recovered from the stupe- It is six feet to the crook, and six inches more to the top, tion occasioned by our first introduction into this Pan-rich in ornament, and exquisitely wrought. montum, when we beheld, close to us, hags more horle than perhaps it is possible for any other female figures pear, bolding their dim quivering tapers to our faces, bellowing in our ears. One of the same sisterhood, ching a lighted splinter of deal, darted to the spot where ood, with eyes inflamed and distilling rheum, her hair ted with mud, breasts naked and pendulous, and with a face, and such hideous yells, as it is impossible to ribe: SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Near Wavertree-lake is a board affixed to a tree, with the following inscription: "This House to Lett, Enquire Within:" At No. 2, Grad well-street, in a window: "Mrs. Tipping removed here from Park-lane, and Mount Pleasant, For curing bad Heads and the Scurvy." In Johnson-street, Great Crosshall-street: "Edward Holt, Slater and Plasterer, Slap-dasher, and Water-colourer, Rooms done here," of High Ercall. (Those who are fond of the sublime will Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Baarbamb, passed into eternity on Sunday, the 21st of May, 1797, in the 71st year of her age. When terrestrial, all in chaos shall exhibit effervescence, The celestial virtues, in their most effulgent, brilliant essence, Shall, with beaming, beauteous radiance, through the ebul lition shine, * Poetry. INVOCATION TO THE FATES. Spirits of ill! that drain the source of life, And press with heavy hand the sinking heart, In pity end this slow-consuming strife, And bid me from the scene of woe depart. Spirits of ill! from out your lurid cave, Where night and desolation ceaseless reign; Ye darksome imps that haunt the murderer's grave, Ye fiends that revel in the madman's brain; Spirits of ill! inexorable fates! In pity once your purpose stern forego, Wide ope, pale Atropos! thy prison gates, And bid me joyful o'er their confines go. For Disappointment, wrapt in sable veil, Companion chill, relentless still pursues, Still, still remorseless joys in sorrow's wail, Still o'er my couch her poisoned arrows strews, Hope's trembling hand, alas! is icy cold, And Joy to distant regions far is fled; Love's angel smile no more may I behold, His torch, extinguished, rests among the dead. Weave, weave no more your adamantine spell, Ye Parcæ dread that destiny control; Ala! cease your fitful woe-deriding yell, And shake no more the terror-stricken soul. Spirits of ill! ye fatal sisters list! In pity list your weeping suppliant's prayer; Oh! listen to her sole, fond, last request, And from her heart the cord that binds it tear. No stone, recording, o'er my ashes raise, A richer trophy mine than human art Than if proud Babylon had never been. What is ambition?-What is mortal's pride? One night, exalted on his ivory throne, A fatal night it was-Belshazzar shone. Poor wretched city! in thy mightiness Fashions for July. EVENING DRESS.-Dress of plain jaconet muslin : the corsage made high, close to the shape, and fastened behind. The elegant fashion of ornamenting the front of the skirt has become very prevalent; that most in use has a pagoda trimming, formed by bands, edged with cord, and narrow trimming of work decending gradually and regularly till it reaches the bottom, where there are four narrow worked flounces, each headed by flat corded bands, the upper one surmounted by a row of delicate insertion work, the same as is introduced on each side of the pagoda trimming. The corsage is nearly covered with similar bands, corded, trimmed, and arranged on clear book muslin, narrow at the waist both in front and back, but extending the whole width on the shoulder; falling collar of worked muslin leaves; long sleeves nearly tight; worked ruffle, and small pagoda trimming at the wrist, where it is tied with primrose-coloured riband, drawn through a narrow puffing of book muslin: the epaulette is divided in the centre, and tied at the top with a bow, and trimmed with a row of puffed book muslin and narrow work. Round morning cap of sprigged net satin, and primrose colour gauze riband; border of British Mechlin lace, plain in the front, and in large puffs on each side. Prim rose-colour kid shoes and gloves. BALL DRESS.-British tulle dress worn over a white satin slip; the corsage composed of white satin bands, branching from the front; each band corded and trimmed with narrow blond; two bands continue over the shoulder, and renew the same trimming at the back: the sleeve is of the melon form, with sprays of satin confining the tulle; in the centre is a circular space, occasioned by the omission of the satin, and a cluster of China roses is introduced, which has a novel and elegant effect. The tucker is of fine blond, surmounting a satin band of French folds; from the waist decends a succes sion of small oval baskets of tulle, edged with white satin, each containing a China rose and leaves; three rows of the same light tasteful baskets are continued round the bottom of the dress, which is finished with a broad white satin rouleau; white satin sash, with double bow behind. Milanese head-dress, composed of thirteen pins, two stationary and que pendant ball; the pins are of gold, with the heads of patent pearl, and are stuck circularly in a plaited band of the hind hair: this is a very pretty novel head-dress, and accords with the grace of feminine beauty and youthful fancy. Necklaces, ear rings, and bracelets of embossed gold and pink topazes interspersed. White kid gloves, with quilling of blond at the top; white satin shoes, and a rose-bud introduced in the centre of the satin rosette. Miscellaneous. Eclipse of the Sun.-There will be a very small eclipse of the sun to-morrow morning (Tuesday) the 8th instant beginning at Greenwich (and consequently a little later a places are more westwardly situated) 5h. 13m. 49s. ; middl 5h. 27m.2s.; end 5h. 40m. 27s. Digits eclipsed, Od. 22.0 the sun's northern limb. The solar defect will be so small that some astronomers think there will not be any eclips at all. The celebrated Beethoven, according to a recent letter is become so completely deaf that he is entirely lost to al society. Nevertheless, he has but lately finished two grea works: a mass which was bought for Berlin; and a ne symphony for the Philharmonic Society of London. The Drama. LIVERPOOL DRAMATIC REGISTER. We wish it to be understood that we are not at a identified with the writer or writers of this department the Kaleidoscope, whose opinions are, in many instanc very much opposed to our own, although the editor "We" is assumed throughout. We think that t writer of the following critique is, in some instances, mu too severe; and we happen to know that he is opposed opinion to many very judicious persons, not only in h estimate of the general merits of Mr. Vandenhoff, an Miss Kelly, but of other performers introduced in his con ments.-Edit. Kal. 2, Wednesday, Merchant of Venice-Shylock, Mr. Vat -Portia, Miss Kelly; with Cinderella, and Le don Stars--Peregrine Plural, Mr. Yates. 3, Thursday, Jane Shore-Jane Shore, Miss Kelly; wi London Stars, and Cinderella. 4, Friday, Venice Preserved-Pierre, Mr. Yates-Fel dera, Miss Kelly; with Cinderella, and the Sle Walker-Somino, Mr. Yates. 5, Saturday, Othello-Othello, Mr. Mathews--lu Mr. Yates-Desdemona, Miss Kelly; with T Prize-Lenitive, Mr. Matthews-Label, Mr. Yat Judging from the overflowing houses attracted by M Mathews, we should pronounce his several engageme universally satisfactory, both to himself and to the publ individually, indeed, we are reluctant to cavil about agreeable a repetition of amusement, but must unequi |