The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

GENERAL OR:ERVATIONS.

Young people wear their hair, st present, elegantly sr..
ranged iu 11w style of the beauties of lilaniplon Court, or ra-
ther •ceurdiag to those pictures we see painted by Vandyek ;
the head ore.•tweuts, whew they wear any, consist of eleireot
bandeaux, or strums of pearls. bet which is not appear
among the pinfisaiee atlas aide ringlets: this is • truly be-
cut•iag and chasuning style. of dressing the hair, though it
is not every forehead that will bear ►eing 69 displayed.

Married ladies wear turbans and caps of all amt., tall►
flowers, feathers, or «tier ornaments, according ea the style
of full or half dream: the Cleopatra herb.% will' very lone
ends„is.oill in very high conflation among the more mature
Wee of fashion.

The favourite eukiars are lapis blue, fallen leaf, Epp-
Han brown, and geranium.

A greet number of personator thoioefion left their
cud yesterday et Briondeishnrgh-house.
The Earl of DARLINGToN wee among th•
persons of ditaisteltoo, who honoured her MAJESTY
with a visit at Brandenburglt House ou Sueni.ty.

A subscription has been opened at Derby, fur
the purpose of purchasing a service of Derby
China, to be presented to her MAJESTY.
subscription is not to he More titan one shelling.
FREENASONS.--Many persons aspembled y►►ter-
day in consequence of a report that the Free-
masons were to go in grain(' procession to present sits
Address to the Qum,' ; hut on inquiry we Nets
informed that no such Address was ever comm..
plated by that body.
It was most puerile and contemptible on the past
of the enemies of the QUEEN to ask why was test
Bum:wog produced as a witness on behalf of her
MAJESTY. They well knew that no value could
attach to the evidence of a mast, however innocent.
under circumstalicts iu *lnch, if guilty, he maid
not be expected to speak the truth.
The fellow who saw through the crooked gallery
in the Princess of W•Ls.s's villa, has invented a
crooked gun, with which a man may take aim and
shoot round the corner of a street.
We learn from unquestionable authority. that
there is no foundation whatever for the repeat le-
cently circulated, of Lord HurcuilliON'S going to
India as Governor-Gesitral.—(Cork Mercantile
Chronicle.)

Mr. B. BATHURST arrived in town ou Tuesday
evening, from hi• seat i►► Gloucestershire.
Mrs. DatllloN commenced an engagement for
five nights at the Bury Sr. Edmunds Theatre last
night, in the character of Letitia Hardy, is the
Belle': Stratagem.
The haptisin of the son and heir of Sir %Yoffie'
and Leafy HARRIET WYNN was ultarrved on Thor—
day last, at Oswestry. with great rejoicing. Two
oxen wen: distributed to the poor. amidst the ac-
clamations of the multitude and the ringing of
hells; and similar re.p.icings took place in all the
towns round Wymistsy.

tier hlaassTir sends exprrioly every day to
South Andley-street to inquire tiller the health of
Alderman WOOD, who has been attacked by •
severe bilious fever, wising, we presume, frutn the
extraordinary fatigue he has lately undergone by his
unwearied attention to her MAJEssv's interests.
Such is the anxiety manifested by all her M•JIUTT's
household and friends for the health of an individual
who has so greatly distinguished himself as the
zealous and disinterested friend of her MAJIDITT,
that they call daily to make personal inquiries after
his health. We are happy to say, that Alderman
WOOD is better, though lull confined to his room.