The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-05 00:00:00

DECEMBER.

( From the World of Fashion.)

CLOAKS are composed of velvet and lined with satin ; the
velvet is either black, or some rich dark hue; the lining should
be either rose, green or yellow ; it is wadded and quilted, and
in some instances turns over, so as to form a facir.g, but not a
very deep one, on the fronts of the cloak ; an embroidery,
either in the colour of the lining, or in small shaded flowers,
encircles the border, and ends in a gerbe, which mounts ra-
ther high at each corner. The pelerine is pointed, is of very
moderate size, and descends but little below the waist ; it is
embroidered to correspond, as are also the bottoms of the
sleeves, which are long and wide, but not immoderately so.
Some were made with sleeves, which answers the purpose of a
muff, and are, in fact, more comfortable ; they are wide and
deeply trimmed with sable, so that when the arms are folded
on the bosom, and the hands enveloped in the sleeves, the re-
semblance to a muff is perfect.

SnAwt.s.—A new one has just been introduced, called chate-
lama ; it has come from the banks of the Ganges, and promises
to become very fashionable; they are of a large size, and of one
colour only, either green, groscille, Peruvian blue, ecru, or
grey ; they are bordered with a galon, composed of gold and
silver twilled, interspersed with acorns of the same.
BONNETS.—VeIvet ones begin to appear, but the most de-
cidedly fashionable, as well as novel, are those of the drawn
kind, composed of black crape, edged with niches of the same ;
and the crown trimmed with black lace, intermingled with
flowers. Bonnets are decidedly smaller, and those of the
demi-bibi shape are in great request ; it is a pretty and be-
coming modification of the cottage form.
HATs.—The brims up to the present time encircle the face
en aureole, and the crowns descend low behind. Those of
shot silk and velvet are a good deal in request. The favourite
style of trimming for hats consists of an intermixture of fea-
thers, with either black or white lace ; the most novel fancy
feathers are the marabouts argus.

DINNER DRESS.—It is expected that furs will be very gene-
rally adopted in the trimmings of dinner robes. Some are
trimmed en tuniqne, that it is to say, a rouleau of sable des-
cends from the waist on each side, and is turned back round
the border at a considerable distance from the bottom ; the
extremity of the skirt is finished with a broad flat band of sable ;
the corsage, half high, is trimmed with a lappelle, forming a V,
and edged with a narrow rouleau of sable, and the sleeves large
at the lower part, and terminated by sable cuffs, have the tops
confined to the arm by three narrow rouleaus of sable.
TunaAN CAPS will be in very great vogue for dinner dress.
Some are composed of tulle Sylphide, others of blond net, but
the most elegant are of blond lace. The call is always low,
and placed far back, the front small and light, is decorated
with velvet flowers, placed on one side only.
TURBANS will enjoy more than their usual vogue, both in
dinner and evening dress. Those for social parties, of grena-
dine guaze, either plain or figured in rich full colours, and
trimmed with a dyed bird of Paradise ; black ones are the
most in request. The turbans for grand dinner parties are
either of velvet trimmed with feathers, or of guaze embroidered
in gold ; these last are decorated with esprits.
EVENING ROBES.—The materials are extremely varied—.
the richest silks, the most superb velvets and satins. India
muslins, gauzes, and tulle, are all in request. The generality
of velvet robes have no trimming round the border, but the
corsages and sleeves are profusely decorated with lace. Some
have short sleeves made a little full, the fullness arranged in
oblique puffs, by very narrow bias descending from the shoul-
der piece.
HEAD-DRESSES IN EVENING DRESS offer greater variety than
we ever remember. The bonnet Clorinde is composed of black
tulle or lace, with black ornaments, intermingled with orange
ribbons and yellow monk's-hoods. The effect is exceedingly
striking and original. More simple, but exquisitely pretty, is
the bonnet Rachel, which has nothing Jewish about it but its
name ; the caul, small, and placed very backward, is compose
of tulle Sylphide ; the front of blond lace, an extremely open
ground, and very light pattern, is disposed en aureole round
the film, and intermingled with small field flowers: this is one
of the most generally becoming caps we have ever seen.
BALL Dah.ss.-1-leavy materials are decidedly hers de la
mode for ball robes—tulle, gauze, mousseline de soie, and or-
gandy, all, be it understood, over satin slips, are the materials
trimmed that will be in request this winter. Some of the most elegant
ball robes are composed of tialle trim
•
with a deep flounce
of blond lace.
floors AND TRAINS .—Their revival has been announced so
often that we have hitherto given very little credit to it, but
Be are forced at last to admit not only that there is a strong
probability, but even almost a positive pertainty, that as soon
as the season has fairly opened both will be introduced in full
dress. The first resemble, in no respect, those cumbrous
machines of whalebone and beekrare, jo which our great grand-
mothers were encased ; they are light, flexible, and of moderate
size, and are so constructed that by touching certain springs a
lady may raise oil lower her hoop in a moment. Trains, which
arc certainty indispensable with hoops, are
very graceful if
properly managed.
BALL HEAD-DRNISSES are of hair, and decidedly low ; the
antic= style is most prevalent in the ornaments of fancy
jewellery adoptqd for thenif Wreaths of small gold flowers and
Venetian pins of gold, with the heads enriched with precious
stones. Artificial flowers will t'so be very much employed both
in wreaths and sprigs.

The Marquis de Bassano, son of the Duke de Bassano,
is ,been named First Secretary of Legation at Brussels.
Lady Beresford and suite arrived last week at the Hotel
Windsor, Rue Rivoli.

Government," says the Sleek, " has just forbidden
foreign armed vessels from enrolling French sailors to com-
plete their crews. This measure may become an obstacle
to the Chili frigate, recently finished at Bourdeaux for the
Chilian Government, on its leaving France.
The Malta papers of the 10th ult. mention a violent
storm, to which Admiral Sir R. Stopford's squadron was
exposed on its return from Greece ; no vessels, however,
were damaged. Captain Walker of the Vanguard had not
returned to Malta, having been requested by the Capitan
Pasha to remain on board his ship.
The highest regulating price of corn in the markets of
France, for the first fortnight of the present month, is on
those of Paris, Rouen, Soisson, Bergues, Arras, and Roye,
being 24f. 37c. per hectolitre (24 bushels English mea-
sure), and the lowest on those of Saumur, Nantes, and
Marans, being 19f. 64c.
The Bishop of Bardstown, in the United States, is at
present travelling through France, and preached at Vesoul
on the 28th ult.

According to a recent statistical account the number of
poor soliciting relief (pauvres-mendians) in France is up-
wards of 192,000, or about 1 in 60 of the whole population.
The Commerce states that the indiscriminate articles of
the Almanach Populaire for 1839, which are 12 in num-
ber, were written respectively by Messrs. T. Degeorge,
Timon, Domes, Dubosque, Le Blanc, A. Billard, Alta-
roche, J. Bastide, Degouve-Denunques, Cabet, and two
anonymous contributors. The offences imputed to the au-
thors of these articles were at first four in number :—ex-
citing to hatred of the King's Government ; exciting to
hatred and contempt of the said Government ; exciting to
hatred of the different classes of society ; and, finally, an
attack upon property. These four offences have now been
reduced to two—provocation to sedition, and to contempt
of the institutions by which France is governed.
The Prefect of the Department of the Lower Seine re-
fused to sanction a meeting to have been held at Rouen on
Thursday last, to celebrate the anniversary of the Polish
Revolution.

The numbers of the pupils at the colleges of Paris, Ver-
sailles, and Rheims, have greatly increased this year, as will
appear from the follo wing table :

Increase
Henry 1V....
St. Louis
Charlemagne
Louis-le-Grand 1,031
Bourbon
Versailles
Rollin
Rheims 285

The college of Stanislas is the only one which has sus-
tained a reduction ; its number is 194, being 41 less than
last year.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psais, DECEMBER a
Five per Cents.. 110 f. 109 f. 93c.
Three per Cents., 81t: 50c, 40c. 45c.
Bank Actions, 2,735 f. 2,73:f. 50c. 2,730 f.
Rente de Naples, 101 E 75c. 70c. 65e.
Roman. Five per Cents.. 161,
Spanish Actives, 17 163,N.
Belgian Five per Cents., 102.
Belgian Bank, 1,460 f.
Haytian Loan, 410 f.

EXCITANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f'. 30c.: money, 25f. 274 c.
Tkree months, paper. 25f. 17X,c.; money, •25,. 15c.

LATEST PRICES.
Fiveper Cents. 110 f. 15c.
Three per Cents., 81f. 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
Romans, 10154.
Belgian Loan, 10'2.
Belgian Bank, 1,400 f.
Spanish Actives, MN.
Haytian Loan. 410 C

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 2G.—Nothing has been yet definitely
arranged with respect to the Ministry. The Captain-Ge-
neral, I understand, again pressed upon the Queen's atten-
tion yesterday, the necessity of appointing a Liberal Cabi-
net, in conformity with the whiles of the National Guard
and the people of Madrid.
There is little news from Seville. The Commissioner
who brought the orders of the Junta to Cleonard to resign
the Captain-Generalship at Andalusia, was ordered to be
shot by him ; but the Junta in Seville taking the family of
Cleonard into custody as hostages for the safety of the
Commissioner, the sentence was not put into execution
against him.
The session which took place yesterday, though expected
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quietly.
Both Chambers meet to-day, and will be occupied in
discussing
news here to-day of any consequence.
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tain order, and to guard against the ambitious views of
individuals.
(Correspondence of the Correo Nacional.)
Bunoos, Nov. 22.—1 t is said that Don Carlos has
caused the arrest of, and wishes to punish, Balmaseda, for
having shot 52 soldiers of Salamanca, which was the cause
of Espartero's shooting an equal number by way of reprisal.
This system of reprisal has, it is also said, excited the at-
tention of Don Carlos. The junta of reprisals has
been just nominated in this town ; it will be in-
stalled to-morrow by order of the General-in-Chief.
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valry and 100 infantry, entered Mansilla yesterday, where
he exacted large contributions, and then retired towards
Las Huertaz.—.2lfadrid Gazette, Nov. 26.
Armendariz, who held a place in the department of the
con-
stantly voted with the majority under that of Ofalia, is
charged with the formation of a new Ministry. It is, how-
ever, theii niA at rixYo
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The
Courier of ylndalusia bears intelligence from Seville, dated
the until
the 21st, and from Cadiz, dated the 20th ult., which are
both much more tranquil. A proclamation has been pub-
lished relative to the insurrection of Seville, severely blaming
the conduct of Cordova and Narvaez, and declaring that
all who join them shall be punished with the utmost rigour.
Granada, Malaga, Cordova, and Jaan have not as yet
risen, and measures have been taken to preserve the peace
of the capital. All is quiet, but it is time that the Ministry
should be formed and the Government show some eq.kgi.
—.Horning Chronicle.

...
HANoTI474
The King of Hanover 'according to a letter of the 25th
ult. from Aremun, quoted by the Hamburg Corresrvidcnt)
has refused to obey the order of the Germanic Diet to lay
before it his reasons for aho4hing the Constitution, toga-
ther with the gr4ntAnces and other documents relating to
this measure ; and has disavowed the engagement entered
into by his Representative, at the Diet, M. do Stralenheim,
to comply with this resolution by a given day. This re-
fusal has caused the delivery of several notes to King
Ernest from the Cabinets of Vienna and ti,ellil-4, reminding
his Majesty in serious and explicit :erms of the duties im-
posed upon him as
upon the necessity of his fulfilling I\iember of the Germanic Confedera-
don, and insisting up
imme-
diately and entirely the resolution in question ; inasmuch
as both Austria and Prussia arc anxious fa; a, cessation of
the excitement and disquiet created in Germany by the

" I have heard from an unquestionable source that the
Czar is alarmed in the highest degree at the spirit of discon-
tent prevailing among the Russian troops quartered in Po-
land ; that he has determined on replacing them by others,
and has written to Field-Marshal Paskewitch an autograph
letter, upbraiding him in harsh terms with having allowed
the most pernicious doctrines to find their way into the
barracks. It is believed that immediately after the mar-
riage of the Duke of Leuchtenberg„ General Paskewitch
will be superseded in the government of Poland by eitier
General 'Molls, Karjenisk. or Benkendorf. It is not pro-
bable, however, that the Czar will choose the latter, on
account of his foreign extraction.
" Before you receive this letter, the German journals will
have informed you that the Russian General Rajewski had
gained a victory over the Circassians and taken the fortress
of Sotcha ; but these papers will not tell you that this vic-
tory was dearly purchased, or rather that the Muscovites
suffered a frightful disaster without any victory. The Rus-
sian troops five times assaulted the fort, and were as often
repulsed with slaughter.
" After experiencing these checks, and sustaining a loss
of 3,800 men in killed and wounded, General Rajewski
wished to make a last effort to carry the place ; but his
troops were so discouraged and demoralized that not a
man comeated to march forward. The General then sent
for five bAtalions of marines, who, after requiring and
obtaining a promise that the fortress should be delivered up
to plunder agreed to scale the walls. The assault took
place at night, the marines gallantly climbed the ramparts,
and entered Sotcha without striking a blow, or encounter-
ing the slightest resistance or obstacle. They only found
in the place 20 pieces of artillery, spiked or broken, and
about 100 dead bodies lying on the ramparts or in the
streets. The Circassians had evacuated the fortress a few
hours before, and destroyed whatever they could not carry
with them. This is what the Russians call the storming of
Sotcha.'

The Emperor of Russia, after 1830, had constituted
himself, in the eyes of monarchical Europe, the high priest
of legitimacy. This mission suited at the time the policy
of the Czar, but it was evidently a feigned part he was per-
forming, as, in her exterior relations, Russia hearkened
always to the voice of interest, and never to that of prin-
ciple. Russia little heeds the means she employs in order
to attain her end, which is the possession of the Dardanelles
and the Sound. Since the Czar began to despair of arming
the Kings of the North against revolutions, be determined
o❑ trying what could be done by stirring up the revo-
lutions against Kings. Europe must be set on fire, to
enable Russia to carry on her plans. We are not,
consequently, surprised to find in the Augsburg Gazette
a letter from Genoa, announcing that " a great Power
of the North wns disposed to lend its as,istance to
the party of Young Italy." Similar manoeuvres were
resorted to in 1829 and 1830, at the time of the waa
against the Ottoman Porte. At that period the Emperor
Nicholas wrote to Charles X. to invite him to keep Austria
in check, promising him as a return for that service to ob-
tain for France the restitution of her Rhenish frontiers.
Nothing, consequently, appears more likely than that
Russia will renew her intrigues in the Italian peninsula
the moment that a good understanding shall have taken
place between the Paris and Vienna Cabinets. It was by
fomenting the Greek insurrection, and turning to her ae-
' count the sympathy of Europe for the Greeks, that
Russia was suffered to attack Turkey, and exact, first the
treaty of Adrianople, and then the treaty of Unkiar 'Ske-
lessi, against which the Sultan energetically protested with-
out being able to cancel it. These facts should not be
overlooked. Moreover, Austria, whose prudence is pro-
verbial, is already taking military and political precau-
tions."—.Siecle.

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Last night a special meeting of the above Association was
held at the Horse and Groom, Great Portland-street, for
the purpose of receiving a report prepared by the Com-
mittee—of discussing the question of Vote by Ballot—and
of considering the propriety of holding monthly lectures.
The meeting was very respectably attended. At nine o'clock
Mr. Eldridge was called to the Chair.

Mr. WAIL, Secretary, having read from the Morning
Advertiser the notice convening the meeting, then proceeded
to read the minutes of the last meeting, which contained
the report of the Committee, suggesting the adoption of
several measures for conducting a canvass in the borough,
in the event of another contested election, as well as a
petition to the Legislature for the repeal of the Corn-laws,
which was submitted to the meeting for adoption.
The following are the principal allegations contained in
the petition :

"That the petitioners observed with deep concern the
recent advance in the price of corn, and the distress thereby
occasioned to the industrial and labouring, population of the
United Kingdom.
" That under a wise and liberal system of trade peti-
tioners would submit to such a visitation as an unavoidable
evil ; but they could not conceal from themselves, that the
disastrous effects of an unfavourable harvest were greatly
aggravated, if not entirely occasioned by the laws restrict-
ing the importation of foreign corn—laws which sought to
promote the supposed exclusive interest of one class of the
community, by forbidding the application of the excessive
prodae of neighbouring states to the relief of the wants
and sufferings of the people.
n That justice, sound policy, and humanity alike de-
manded that the principle of leaving commerce unfettered
should be applied more emphatically to the particular
trade on which the sustenance of the people depended than
to any other.
That the selfish and impolitic principles on which the
Corn-laws were based, had called into existence in foreign
countries, political leagues for the exclusion of British
manufactures---had occasioned a great and increasing dimi-
nution in our foreign trade, and a consequent deficiency in
the public revenue—had injured the cause of European
freedom, by enabling despotic Governments to foment and
cherish a feeling of hostility towards the people of this
country, and had crippled the power and diminished the
influence of Britain, by fettering the industry on which that
power and influence depended.
" The petitioners therefore earnestly remonstrated against
the continuance of the laws imposing restrictions on the
importation of foreign corn, and humbly prayed that the
same might be entirely repealed."
The question that the minutes of the last meeting be con-
firmed, and the petition just read be adopted, was then put,
and carried unanimously.
Mr. RODWELL said that one of the first duties of the
Association should be to petition the Legislature for the
adoption of Yote by Ballot. From the scenes which had
occurred in that borough, and the many persecutions
inflicted on tradesmen who had conscientiously exer-
cised their franchise, it was quite clear that the protec-
tion of such voissg was necessary. He would not tres-
pass farthcl, on their time, as the Gallant Colonel (Thomp-
son), was about to address them on the subject; but would
conclude by proposing that a petition to this effect should be
adopted.
Col, TROMYSON then rose and was received with cheers.
Ile said there was not one individual present who had not
observed the great and flagrant evils experienced by those
who either felt the necessity of voting against their con-
sciences, or who had run the risk of letting their enemies see
how they exercised their franchise.—(Hear, hear.) No-
thing could he plainer than that, if the voter was to be
only the instrument in executing the will of other parties,
and that the 'saw had given no means o.f ascertaining who
thwo ether parties were, such a mode of conducting an
election was not only irregular, but contrary to the inten-
tion of the community.,—,( Hear, hear.) It was necessarb then, that something should be d to protect the honest
man in, the exercise of his franchise from the PerseFu.- tion of his enemies. The only serious objection which
had been urge,l against the Ballet was, that there were
unrepresented classes who possessed
()Teat influence with
the xotert. Now, he world ask, wily did these classes