The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR APRIL.

(From the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of

Fashion.")
The new taffetas and silks intended for redingotes are
very elegant, foulards, pekins, and silks of every variety,
striped, checked, jase6.s moires, or in Arabic designs,
with bareges toiles de Chine tarlatanes, nankins de soie,
and organdy, with coloured patterns on a black ground,
are all fashionable. Black continues as much in favour
as ever, but at this season the material is of course of
slighter texture. In the make of dresses there will be
but little change ; many redingotes will be worn,
and many dresses with tight bodies and sleeves ;
also peignoirs, with demi-wide sleeve, showing the
under one of white muslin, richly embroidered.
Black lace still forms the richest trimming, either
for redingotes or pelerines, also for flounces in three or
four rows, or narrow lace put on spirally, or en echelle
gimps, fringes, and soutache will be used on the spring
dresses, particularly a new kind, with pc.arl edge. Some
dresses of poult de soie are made with revers, em-
broidered in shaded colours. Fancy straw bonnets, in-
termixed with lace, are very fashionable ; and crape,
mixed with straw, form pretty capotes ; SOM3 crape
bonnets are covered with lace, which sometime, forms a
demi-voilette ; on the edge roses or jardeniares wreaths
are placed under these laces, and give much elegance
to the bonnet. Bonnets made of batiste de Chine of
its natural colour, lined with pink, blue, or lilac of ape
or gauze, form a pretty novelty ; the material is
very tine and light. Flowers will be very much worn to
ornament the interior as well as the exterior of bonnets
this spring. Foliage of light colour, as the acacia, or
dark, as the chestnut, will be used on straw bonnets ;
exotics, with large petals, will ornament crape bonnets ;
whil:t the more simple flowers of our gardens will be
required for pailles de riz. The Noemie bonnets are of
crape, covered with tulle I la niege and filet ; and the
flowers that ornament them are of the most delicate de-
scription, or marabou's. The pompadour is of paillo de
riz, with wreath of pompadour ribbon. For the public
dejeur,e7s a new sty le will be introduced, the petit bord
bernais, made of white straw, ornamented with field
flowers, or a wreath of roses or single feather. Very
small manteaux have been worn of green or violet
velvet, trimmed with two rows of broad black lace, one
at the edge, and the other above it, and a third row at
the throat ; this style will be adopted in taffetas of
every co:our. Mantelines are a mixture of the visite
and mantelet, made of gros de Naples, trimmed with
lace or fringe to match, with open heading, and sur-
mounted by a reseaux of application.

YATTON•—DISCOVERY OF COAL.—This parish has
recently been the scene of great rejoicing, on account of
the discovery, a week or two ago, of a vein of coal, be-
twetm three and four feet thick, on the estate of J. 11.
Smyth Pigott, Esq., at Claverham, in this parish. The
9 :rung belief that coal existed somewhere in the neigh-
bourhood induced Mr. Pigott., about a year ago, to com-
mence boring for it. After penetrating the led earth of
the surface, the workmen came first to a stratum of the
new red sandstone, and then to one of pennant— this latter
proved to be exceedingly thick, but on getting through
it, at the depth of about a hundred fathoms, the vein of
coal above-mentioned was reached. The spot where the
coal has been found is about a quarter of a mile from the
line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, to which the
estate of Mr. Pigott extends, so that by laying down
trams he will be enabled to load the trucks at the mouth
of the pit ready for conveyance by railway to any place
on the line. Iron ore also exists in the rpighbourhood,
but, for want of coals, this has hitherto been sent into
Wales for the purpose of manufacture, but it is now
hoped that furnaces will be erected on the spot, and the
cost saved of transit to the coal districts of Wales.—Bath
Chronicle.
HORRIBLE AFFAIR.—A letter of the 2d, from
Napoli, in Greece, records a horrible event:—A day or
two before two brothers, Demetrius and Theodosius
Tryphoupoulos, had been condemned to death for bri-
gandage, and were brought to the great place of the
town to be executed. Both allowed themselves to be
conducted to the foot of the scaff.)ld; but at the moment
the executioner was about to tie Demetrius to the fatal
plank he, being a man of extraordinary strength, broke
his bonds, and, throwing down the executioner and his
assistants, attempted to escape. They endeavoured to
secure him, but he made a desperate resistance, and
cruelly ill-treated them. At last, after a long and
violent struggle, the executioner drew a knife from his
pocket, and stabbed him to the heart, killing him instan-
taneously. He, nevertheless, caused his corpse to be de-
capitated. The other brother, Theodosius, was per-
fectly resignei, and trembled convulsively. He gave
himself quietly up to the executioners, and in a tew in-
stants ceased to exist.
MRS. RESTON, THE HEROINE OF MATAGORDA.—
We were very much struck and delighted, on Friday
afternoon, with a visit from this venerable old lady, Mrs.
Reston, the heroine of Matagorda, now in her seventy-
eierious deeds at that
place shed a lustre over her name, and the prowess of
of her arm in succouring the British soldiers in the midst
of the most dreadful carnage, will form a thrilling page
in the history of England. She came with a pound note
for the Sunday soup kitchen, saying, that when she read
that the soldiers of the 74th Regiment were cooking for
the poor, and that tho recruiting soldiers of Glasgow
had contributed their alloweeee for the same humane
end, her heart leaped with joy, re,--1 she declared she
could not rest till she came to pour in he. donation with
theirs for the poor and destitute. We were vtse averse
to accept of the money, but she insisted upon it with the
most martial vigour, and said she had plenty now to end
her old days in peace and comfort, and she wont away
perfectly delighted at the invitation we gave her to come
and inspect the rations herself in these old battlements,
at the Glasgow Town's Hospital, within whose precincts
she sojourned till she was discovered and rescued some
few years ago. This is a plain statement told in an UR-
varnished way ; yet it is a statement which might point
a moral and adorn a tale ; and it has made an impres.
sion upon us not likely to besoon forgotten.—Reformer's
Gazette.

L An action at law, in which M. Alexandre Dumas
was plaintiff, and M. Devallsde, the landlord of a hnuso
in the Rue de la Chausa4o rl'Antto, was defendant, came
to trial on Friday before the Civil Tribunal. The case,
as stated by the counsel of M. Dumas, was that in April
184.5, he took, as yearly tenant at 1500 f. rent, an entre-
sol in the defendant's house, and also a room on the fifth
story, to which he could retreat to follow his literary
labours in. purer air, free from the noise of the street,
and the interruptions of visitors. Soon afterwards, how-
ever, M. Dumas was tempted to Saint Germain, and ap-
oiled to M. Devallade to accept as tenant in his place
Nime. Leprivier, who was willing to occupy the apart-
ment. The landlord consented, exacting, however, half
a year's rent in advance. To this M. Dumas acceded, and
paid the 750 f. Mme. Leprivier paid her rent regularly,
and at the end of the year M. Dumas demand the return
of his deposit. The landlord, however, insisted upon still
holding it, as a security for such dilapidations as might be
found when Mme. Leprivier, who still continued tenant,
should leave the apartment. M. Dumas replied, that he
had laid out much money in decorations. M. Devallade
however urged that these decorations, though perhaps
indifferent to Mme. Leprivier, might not be the taste of
a new tenant, as they consisted i,i painting the ceiling of
Ithe bed-chamber black, and lining it with a violet-
coloured paper, which was nearly if not quite as dark.
IBesides this, M. Dumas had ornamented the dining-
room with shield s emblazoned with his own arms and
richly gilt. 'rile landlord further insisted that M.
Dumas had retained possession of the room on the fifth
story beyond the proper time for giving it up. This was
denied on the part of the tenant, who stated that he had
given it up, but with the knowledge and the permission
of the concierge of the house had left in it only a few
books, which he had engaged to remove the moment it
was let. The Court decided that the landlord had no
claim for the i:ent of the upper room, and as to the
A man haa.
reparations, rc iferred the question to a surveyor to settle
the amount.
of throwng at, nes at the windows of the Imperial Palace.
He wadifound 'been arrested at Vienna on a charge
• • -- to be home, and hag been. sent to a lunatic
Pylara., ' -

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCERY COURT, April 1.
(Bef ire the VICE•CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
3IOSLEY V. ALSTON.—THE OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM