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A rich peach blossom satin petticoat, hatidoomele trimmed
at the bottom with white satin slurs and net;
searfdraper ire of white gaustrommineoted with hroad
blued; ludo of peach blossom satiu, full trimmed with
blood lace.

MISS RRUCE.
Petticoat of white mitin, richly trimmed with blond ; dra-
peries of embroidered tulle, tastefully festooned with Rowers;
lobe of pink satin. Head-drew, feathers and pearls.
MISS C. LANGSTON.
Petticoat of white satin, with net draperies in applique,
with eel' burdcre, wad looped with bunqiiets of lilac ; train
of litac satin, trimmed with blond. Headdress, feathers
and diamonds.
MISS MOSELEY.
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Petticoat of white satin, with net draperies, embroidered
in applique, iristaiwirel with blood, and looped with hoaquets
of white roses and liberalist': tniii of white satin, trimmed
with Wood. Head-dress, feathers and diamonds.

NIM CI.INTON.

A train of white satin, handsuiesely trimmed with blond;
• white satin petticoat, with figured gauzy; draperies arca.
limited with bows and lowers. Head-areas, feathers and
diamonds.

MIM MARIA CLINTON.

The mine as bee stairs's.
MISS 11,441.F0RD.
Petticoat of rich white satin, with draperies of net and
sahn in applique, trimmed with blond, and looped with bou-
quets of rush and Sibs; train of while satin, trimmed with
blond. Head-dress, feathers and diamonds.
MISS KINGTON.
A petticoat of rich white satin, with net draperies, most
beautifully embroidered in satin and net, ill borders of roma
and leUseN trimmed with blond kce, and looped with bou-
quets of lilies, %cassia, and tuberose; train of pink satin,
trimmed with blond. Heail.dress, feathers and diamonds.

MISS COVENTRY.
Petticoat of rich white satin, with net draperies, embroi-
dered iu Ruse 'ilk, triintised with blood, and looped with
bouquet• of lilies mid tuberose; haul of blue Palm, trimmed
with blend. Head4ress, feidiers sad diatom:Huts.

31188 DAWSON.

A rich white satinpetticO4l, draprrict rich flowered
net, •taimptieertt with as elcgaut wreath of roars cud blood;
a tritsweitas of Latfueuaadier ; a trails to correrpondi with
draperies, body sud skewer of white natio, richly trimmed
with Maud.

MISS C. DAWSON.
A rich white satin petlicum, draperies of piuk net, ele-
gantly intim/nixed wish baquessaudier and peads; a rich
trimming a pink crape and pearls • a rich train of white
gauze traiiiiard aiih piuk PAM. &y and sleeves of white
satin, richly trimmed with blond.

10It1'IGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, APRIL 20.

Ytiterday Lord Wellington went to the Thuil-
lerie« to pay his respects to the King ; also to their
Royal Highnesses Monsieur and Madame, and the
Duke D'Angouletite.
We lately announced, on the antliority of the
Swiss Journals, that the Prince Jablonwsky (charged
to claim the mortal remains of Kosciusko), had
failed in his mission. The Gazette of Lausanne,
on the contrary, states, that the body of the Polish
General has been conveyed from Stature to Poland,
accompanied by the Prince Jablonwsky and M.
Zeltner of Soleure, the intimate friend of the de-
ceased. The Emperor of Russia ha. designated
the town of Cracow as the depository of his remains,
and it was this Monarch, himself, who caused a
proposition to be made to the Government of Poland,
tint a monument should be erected to his memory.

. DRESDEN, APRIL 7.

The Commis ion charged with the demolitions,
continue engaged in directing the destruction of
our fortifications. No traces remain of the works
that the French Army constructed in 1013, in the
skirts of the new town (upon the right beak of the
Elbe) ; the major part of the ancient works have
been demolished. No demolitions have
been made in the old town; we are assured. ho.‘.
ever, that the walls which enclose that part of
Dresden, will be levelled.

IRON, Arm!. 7.
EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM MADRID.

The delivery of the Russian squadron to the
Commissioners nousimited by the King to receive
them, is terminated. The Officers of the Spools!)
navy, appointed to command the different ships,
ore arrived at Cadiz ; as also the marine troops and
seamen, which will compose their crews. Anon.
melds air titling out with the greatest activity in
the ports of Cadiz mid Carthrgens ; a powerful
expedition will souls set sail. with on rainy full of
ardour, and mum:toiled by Generals who enjoy its
entire confidence. The particular place of its der-
tipation is kept, a profound secret ; all that has
been said upon the subject is only founded on con-
jecture. 'Elie Government has made great etlitrts
to provide fur the expense of so important an rape-
ditiou, al the success of which depend all the
hopes of the metropolis.

'THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
•
FRIDAY. Aram 24,

The proceedings in Parliament this week have at
length given to the public the whole of the minis-
terial schenies for raising the supply of the present
year, and it is easy to collect, from their tendency,
the unwillingness evinced by the CUANCELLoR of
the EXCHEQUER to reveal any part of them, until
the principal items of the expenditure had been
sanctioned by the Legislature. We can readily
believe that some apprehensions might have been
entertained lest Parliament should hesitate to vote
a sum of nearly 9,000,000/. to the army, and
6,456,8001. to the navy, if they had at the same
time been aware of the necessity thence resulting
of creating a loan of 14,0251,000% in the fourth
year of profound peace.
The mode of raising this loan, our readers are
aware, is by transferring stock from the 3 per
cents. into a new stock of 3.1,-the holders paying
to the Government for the difference of interest the
sum of 111.—and by funding Exchequer bills, as
we have already detailed to our readers. Li this
scheme there is nothiug mote remarkable than the
utter impossibility of regarding it as a permanent
plan of finance, to which the Treasury and the
country may look with confidence ass future means
of supporting our immense establishments ;—the
whole is evidently but a temporary expedient, cal-
culated solely to prolong a system of wasteful and
dangerous extravagance, and to increase the em-
barrassments of the celuntry. This consideration is
the more important, from the certainty that the
present is the permanent military peace establish-
ment ; for although in the last year there was a
reduction in the expenses of the army to the
amount of about 400,0001. and in the expenses
of the navy of about 1,000,000/. yet, by Earl
EATHURST's speech upon this subject in the
House of Lords, all hope is precluded of any
further reduction in the military force on the
home establishment ; mod the navy is already so
much cut down, that although in the civil de-
partment there are many charges wholly unneces-
sary, we are almost afraid to call for retrenchment,
lest, from what we have already witnessed, it might
be introduced in the wrong place, and the defence
and safety of the empire be sacrificed to the pride
of office and the patronage of Ministers. The
question for the consideration of the country then
is, whether it will be satisfied in a time of profound
peace to suffer the continuance of a system which
will require an mutual loan of from twelve to
14,000,000/. ? The loan of the present year, we
are ready to admit, although contracted at the high
rate of four and a half per cent. is free from much
of the inconvenience and loss attendant on such
modes of obtaining money ; but even this miserable
resource cannot be rendered available in future
sears, and all temporary expedients being ex-
hausted, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
will find it necessary, as formerly, to enter the
market, acid there subject the country to the
schemes of stock-jobbers, and to the ruin
which must wait on such transactions. With re-
spect to the present loan, however, it cannot he
overlooked that although we now contract to p y
only 4 per cent. yet it is very probable that what
we borrow nt 90 will he paid at 100, making a dif-
ference of 10 per cent. in the capital, in the same
manner as we are now paying an increase of more
than 20 per cent, upon the money borrowed during
the war, and lavished with all the thoughtlessness
of prodigality.

The funding of Exchequer bills has long ap-
peared to us extremely desirable; but many of the
advantages resulting from the operation have been in
the present instance countervailed by the high rate
at which it has beets accomplished. Who could have
believed that when Exchequer bills were to be pur-
chased in the market at about three per cent. the
Treasury would bare chosen to fund them at 79, in
a stock which every device is practised to elevate,
and which will most probably, at no very distant
period, mount to 90 ? The improvidence evinced
by Ministers in their anode of raising money is no
less censurable than their extravagance in spending
it. fly the union of both they have reduced the
country to a state of extreme depression, which
they appear determined to coot' ; they have
created sin artificial system wherein all pre-existing
relations have ceased to be discernible, but which
is so totally inconsistent either with the Isursour or
prosperity of Great Britain, that, according to'their
own confession in the case of the Bank Restriction,
the scheme of stir political Government and tolerant{
policy is more directly under the control of the mea-
sures adopted by Foreign Powers than of our native
Legislature ! This is a humiliating confession, and,
in our maid, leaves but one course for this country
to adopt, had that is, to close a system • of intrigue
end deception by—humbly praying. the PRINVE
RECANT to intrust the Government to hands more
capable thirst those of his preseut Ministers.

blades Papers to the bth or November have
reached torus. They coittain some details respect..

ing the movements of 62 several divisions of the
Madras and Bengal armies: Their destination is
presiped to be is the direction of Sagur. Tran.
quality is said-to be eort4ettly restored in the
province of Cuttrick:—We art: sorry to r.brerve the
death of Lieut.-General
,P,urca, of the Honourable
Company's Service, an officer who had served with
distinguished credit in sill the wart under Sir Eva
CooTE, and in many of the more recent actions
fought lay the Madras Arny. At one period he
commanded the many iu chief, on the coast of
Coromandel. The decease of the Hon. Sir Jolly
Itovos it also mentioned in theae• Papers, lute one
of the Judges of the Supieme Cowl at lluiritsay.
Ile died on the 24th of October lust, in the kith
year of his age.

The Pari• Papers of the 20th, Monday last,
have arrived. There was a brilliant circle at the
Thuilleries on Sunday. The Duke of WEL-
Ltasreow was present. —The proceedings at Alhi,
in the cape of the murder of,UALD6II, come down
to the 14th, but present no striking novelty or
feature.

A Flinders Mail has Hrrived, with Papers from
Brussels to the 41st instant. The following is an
extract :

Helmut% APRIL 18.
Lord Kinn:did arrived yesterday in thia city, coming from
Paris.

Mr. Bed's, who, as our readers have been already informed'
was arrested at Aut werp, and bruught hither, has been set
at liberty.
Mr. Lamb, English Minister to. the German Diet, has
arrived here with has suite, from Frankfort, on bis way to
London.