The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

RBD HAIR IX PARIS.

The Paris correspondent of the Post writes :
"A thoughtful and inquiring English friend, coming
away from the races last Sunday, observed—' How very
odd, so many pretty young ladies driving themselves is
basket carriages ; but still more 'Smogs, bow many of them
have what 1 suppose we must politely call golden hair.
What is nature about that she is producing so many reddish
fair-haired beauties just now! Mrs. M— (who is very
severe) being present, I indulged in a significant frown at
my friend, the innocent husband of the said lady. A solemn
silent pantie ensued, which Mrs. Id— broke eventually by
observing—' Is it true that the Emperor is lams, and that
the Empress never speaks to her husband ! What won-
derful stories we get over from Great Britain!' But I
think I may say • few words about the singular practice of
doing something, I presume, chemical to the human hair,
which turns certain dear ladies of natural and vaned com-
plexions into • series of uniform blondes, approaching what
a Yorksbireman would call • a red-haired lass.' Poets and
painters, we know, prefer this odour. Shakopee*, Dante,
Tama, and Goethe,i and all the old Italian and Spanish
painters go in for reddish fair hair. All the people of
the sunny south like that colour by instinct. But, until
the present day, lovely women generally contented
themselves with the tint Nature bestowed. We
have all read about the period of patches and powder,
and have seen the hair to drawings at differeat
epochs of civilised history turned lain every conceivable
conceit, from the classically beautiful, when the ringlets
were at the back of the head, to later days, when they
bung in corkscrew luxuriance about the ears. At what
period in the world's history did • lady whose hair
was naturally brown or black deliberately go to the
hair artiste and request that coiffeur to turn it into a light
red ! That is what some ladies of Paris are now doing. It
is the fashion. Yet more wonderful things still are done
to make ladies more beautiful. Manse of hair, ever ans.
mooting in else, are stuck on where satire's handiwork
ends. These bores commenced with us modestly enough ;
they are now about the circumference of a soup plate. As
much am 160 fr. is paid for one of these hairy deceptions,
which are generally imprisoped is net work, occasionally
studded with diamonds, sad often half circled with • broad
golden comb. Do you think iaventsze ends here ! Not •
bit of it. 'I he front hair is a curious nest of floral and
other conceits, reminding as of as old poet's linen
Her hair was rolled in many • carlotts fret,
Much like • rich and cc-ious coronet;
Upon whose arches twenty Cupids lay. •

And then the little hate with mare carious feathery con-
mita. As • Frenchman said the other day—• Trap de
choreal et pea user de chapeau.' What an elaborate
get up appears to be now necessary to invite the mon
&lieu' affections of the Inert. And how odd this wiper
will look when • quarter of • oa•tury has passed away.
Do we not now wonder how oar fa►hers fell dee.
perately m love with ladies who dressed in the
fashion of the Pint Err ire, with waists under their arms,
and Ruth a comic h I' We almost marvel they
married inch queer figures, and that we were consequently
brought into this wicked world. Go and see the pale
gingerbread win with long plaits descending to the feet of
Madame Carvalho. as Marguerite In Puma (when playing at
the Lyrique). Go and see how the doctor paasioostely
runs atom the garden after that romantic coijicur. Let us
humbly treat all faahioes with sublime respect. No ore
is superior to their influence. There will always be at
least one tyrant in the world so loeg as [rabies oxide. All
youthful male Paris now falls down ••d worship red hair."

Last evening Mr. Alderman Salomon. met his
constituents at the Lecture-hall, Greenwich, to reader his
annual account of his stewardship. The hall was pretty
well filled, but was by no means crowded.

The Baptist Union for England and Wales
°polled its apenal merlon at Biredogasto yeehorday. The
Dumber of ministers Red repreeoutstmee present woe &beat
100. _ _

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THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OP IRELAN D.—At a
recent meeting of the board of guardians, Mr. Coon gave
notice that he would, on some future day, move the fol-
lowing resolution :—" That a bumble address be preeseted
to the Queen, from this board, praying bee Majesty, in the
event of tie abolition of the office of Lord Lientesuit, to
give directions for the assembhag of the Impanel Parliament
for one month in each year in her loyal city of Dublin,
for the transaction of Irish busies's alone, reserving all im-
perial matters, English affairs, and foreign reliable", for the
sittings at the Palace of Westminster." loom eexmention of
opinion took place ma to the propriety of snob a dow amnia at
the board of guardians, but we think most Irishmen will
moor in agreeing that the suggestion was one which de-
served some consideration' sod we shall be "lad to bear
the arguments which Mr. Coon considers sufficiently cogent
to iodate bee Majesty to bring bee loyal COMUSOSS to Dublin.
—Waterford Masi.
WORKMEN'S SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL. A
crowded meeting of the executive and friends of this move•
meet took place at St. Johres-gate, Clerkenwell, on Tues-
day evening, Mr. R. Moore in the chair. A long list of
subewibers having been read over, in which many well-
known names appeared, it was reported that sheets of the
Shakespeare heads, containing seventy peony receipts,
were now ready to be nailed to persons who felt an interest
in the movement, and that a large number bad already been
applied for from benefit, tinder, and working men's literary
societies ; alao that 500 colleens' boxes bad been prepared
for distributios throughout the metropolis and promos..
A rumour having reached the committee that Primrose•hill
might not, after all, be available for the purpose of the
monument., it was stated that there was not the slightest
foundation for such rumour.

THE COMMON LAW COURI/1.-11M Court of COM-
non Mess will sit at Niel Prins in Michaelmas Term, in
Middlesex, on Thursday, Nov. 3, and Wednesday, Nov. 9,
and in London on Monday, Nor. 7, and Monday, Nor. 14.
The court will sit after term, in Middlesex, on Saturday,
Nov. 2G, and after term, in London, on Thursday, Dec. 8.
The Court of Exchequer will hold its first eating-day in
term, is Middlesex, on Thursday, Nov. 3 ; mood sitting.
day, Wednesday, Nov. 9; third tittles-day, WedoesdaY.
Nov. 16 ; and is London on Monday, Nov. 7, and Monday,
Nor. 14. The court will sit after term, in Middlesex, on
Saturday, Nov. 26, and lb Loudon on Thursday, Dec. 8.
The court will sit in Middlesex st Nisi Prins in term by
adjournment from day to day until the causes entered for
the Middlesex sittings are disposed of.
Tax Naw lizausreAß IN Bkimarrrcy.—Tbe
Lord Chancellor has apeoluted Mr. James Stephen, of the
Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, to be a registrar of the
Court of Bankruptcy for the Leads district, in the room of
Mr. Samuel Payee, who retiree on soneuat of age and infir-
mity, after a minim of upwards of 20 years. Mr. Stephen
was called to the bar in 1846, hes obtained the degree of
LL.D., is Professor of English Low and Jurisprudeace at
Eines Doilsge, sod is also Records of Poole.