The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

Velvet is very much used to trim and ornament
dresses, and, though flounces of the same material as:
the dress are not approved, those of lace continue to be,
worn, particularly black lace on dark dresses. The cor-.
sages continue to be made tigNt, with point or rounded
point ; and sleeves are still tighi,. but sometimes a cea-
lisses ; the skirts are worn very iong, almost training.
Redingotes are made with revers, and pelerines of velvet ;
those of toile de laine are made very high, closing with
buttons ; corsages are also made with flat folds from the
shoulder to the waist ; skirts are still orizamented, ea
tablier, with bouillons, fringes, &c.
In Paris the pelerine is quite the fashion of the
moment. The pelerine camail is well adapted for the
morning neglige ; made a little smaller they embeli.ish
the other dresses, and ornament the plain body, parti-
cularly when finished with rich fringes or lace ; they
will also be worn in full dress of black or white lace,
sometimes formed of one piece, or of rows of lace laid
on plain, forming square.
The bonnets now worn are very pretty : the crown
is low, and the former, narrowing over the forehead,
widens at the cheeks ; the corners are sometimes a
little turned up. Velvet, velours epingle, satins, &c.
are the materials used, and the colours are ra-
ther dark ; feathers are universally worn, and flowers
of velvet, or with feuillage of velvet : some are
made without bavolet, and satin bonnets a coulisses
have ruches of tulle between each runner. Caps
a la Puritaine arc formed of lappets of lace, with eoques
of velvet fixed in the centre, in each of which there is a
pearl button. Coiffures ala rosiere, ala Chatelaines,
a l'lsabeau, are amongst the fashionable caps now worn ;
i❑ dress hats, petits bores Victoria, hats a la Jean Bart,
turbans a jours, are all in favour, in the shades of mats
paille, mineral blue, sable d'Egypte, and Giselle a
rouge. Velvet flowers of brilliant colours are made
both to ornament caps, or for the bead.

ROYAL CALEDONIANHUNT.—By the deaths
of the late Earl of Houle, Marquis of Lothian, and Earl
of Elgin, within so short a time of each other, three va-
cancies require to be filled up in the Caledonian Hunt.
—Edinburgh Courant.

We understand the first iron steamer ever built
in Wales is now making by the Neath Abbey Iron
Company, to be called the Prince of Wales."—The

PUBLIC NUISANCE.—.We have repeatedly;
called the attention of the parish authorities and the
Government officers who have the charge of the property
belonging now to the Infant Duke of Lancaster in the
' Strand, to the dangerous state of several of the' houses in
thi2t quarter. The house N 0.126 was taken down some
three
_months ago, the foot pavement in front of it has
been sC.4treely passable since, and, as far as
can be ascei.,,4ained from the. operations going on, three
months more
must
pleted. But this
only the smallest part of the grilv-
ance of which the public have good reason to complain-
The houses on each side ,r)f the site are actually danger-
ous to the inhabitants in the neighbourhood, as well as to
the vast crowds that are daily passing along the Strand.
Last night all the beams except on,' thrown across Savoy-
str..,et to support the tottering fabric' next to the house
which has been pulled down, gave way with a tremen-
dous crash, and it was only by a miracle that a gen-
tleman who was passing escaped with his life. We
should not be surprised, if, before the morning, the house:
fell, and buried in its ruins the Globe newspaper office
which now adjoins it. The parish authorities show great
negligence in not indicting the lessees, for endangering
the lives of her Majesty's subjects.

In consequence of the failure of the Chichester
Old Bank, a meeting was held on behalf of the Chiches--
ter Infirmary, the whole of their funds being deposited
in the Bank. Lord George Lennox proposed that a
subscription be immediately set on foot, when, in the
'sj;ort space of 12 hours, upwards of 5001. was subscribed..

nip unday evening, about five o'clock, a young
woman, named Emma Wardlow. a dressmaker, in the.
employ of Mrs, ;Macmillan, of White Horse-street, Lam-
beth, committed st2r-destruction. She complained to her
mistress of being low,Rpirited, and said she thought that
she should go out acrd call upon her sister, instead of
which she walked to the river side, and when nearly op-
posite the Penitentiary, Millbank, brew herself into the
water, and was instantly car:ied down with the current.

. -
During the last few days we hare experienced
tremendous gales at Weymouth, 3rying front the N. IV.
to S.W. We regret to state that ,vqars are entertained
of a vessel having gone to pieces in the West Bay, during
the awful storm of Saturday night week, a% no fewer than
four bodies-have been seen- in the wash of the sea near
the shore, one of,them that of a woman.—Dorset Chron.

The following statement from the Number of
Tailg Magazine just published, illustrates the mis-
chievous consequences of the attempt of the followers of
Sir A. Agnew to subvert the Christian character of the
first day of the week by engrafting onit someof the obso-
lete restrictions of the Jewish Sabbath :—" The recent at-,-
tempt toprevent the running of coaches on, and even to stop•
the conveyance of the mail by, the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow railway on Sunday, has already had a serious influ-
ence in depreciating the stock. No longer ago than 28th
July last, when 401. a share had been paid, the shares
were selling at 391. 10s.; now that other 101. per share
have been paid, they are only worth 441. 55. Since the
stopping of the trains on Sunday has been so much agi-
tated, the price has sunk rapidly ; so that, taking into
account the interest on the instalments, about 71. per
share have been lest during four months; and seeing that
there are 18,000 shares, the proprietors of this single
railway have lost within four months, 126,0004 by the
attempt to enforce an ultra-puritanical observance of the
Sunday.

The Stockholm papers mention that the Jury has ac-
quitted the publishers of the Swedish translation of
Strauss's "Life of Christ," against whom proceedings.
had been opened by the Government.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A meeting of the
Noblemen and Gentlemen, Commissioners of Supply,
was s held County o nriTaltursrdaaa-I,eaty,.
Justices of the Peace, and Magistrates of towns, of .the
county of Renfrew, convened by Sir William Milliken
Napier, convener of the county, in compliance with A
nrnedoorne,PliiNsiittihoinn'thll
one
o'clock
afternoon,
for the purpose of adopting congratulatory addresses
her -Majesty and Prince Albert, on the auspicious to'
occa-
sion of the birth of the Prince of Wales. e meeting:
was more than usually well attended.
This,
in addition
to the exuberant feeling of loyal satisfaction so generally
experienced at the late joyous event, was in all proba-
bility partly occasioned
by
vionsly announced his i Mr. Wallace, having pre-
the Address, for the intention to move an addition to
Majesty the heartrendingdistresspurpose of communicating to her
that district. On the
willingness to call Convener, however, professing his.
with Mr. another county meeting, in accordance
and loyal addresses were Wallace's
views,ws,
the amendment was not put,
unanimously agreed to.
Sir James Graham
left town on Sunday by the
nine o'clock London and Birmingham train for Netherby
land.
Lor &Bexley and th* Rev. Mr. Millman had an
interview with Mr. Phillips, at the Home Office yes-
terday, relating to the presentation of the addresses
agreed to by the parish of St. Margaret's, We,3tminster,
I to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the bi hr,t of a
Prince.
The following from Geneva, of the 19th inst.:
is given by the Debats .—" The Council of State as-
sembled to-day, and wishing to anticipate the demandsowing
of public opinion, resolved to make the foll
changes :—A reduction in the numbers of the raembors
of the Council ; a partition of the initiative between
the two Councils ; an acknowledgment of the right of
petitioning ; a repeal of the second paragraph of the
Constitution, by which no alteration can be made in the
constitutional Charter without the assent of a majority of
two-thirds in the two Councils. These amendments are
said to have been voted, after a long and animated
debate, by two-thirds of the members of the Council.
It is, however, doubted whether this measure will
calm the agitation which is increasing ; it being
feared that the people will consider the conces-
sions as calculated to put out of their minds 'the
two thief reformations demanded by the Association
of March 3, viz., a wide reform in the electoral law,
and
a general municipal law for the whole canton. However
this may be, it is now certain that the Constitution
1814 will be modified. We are assured that the C o
of State, anticipating the legal period for the w ouncil
tion of the legislative body, has fixed itsrivma.
Monday, the 22d inst. meeting for

A TRULY MINISTERIAL PAPER.---A Ger-
man paper says, that the Prussian Minister for the Home
Department has established an office called " The News-
paper Bureau." It seems it is the purpose of the Ministry
to collect all articles relative to Prussia that may appear
in public journals, and to take care that they shall be
properly noticed, if necessary, in the State Gazette.
DOVER, Nov. 17. Arrived from Calais her
Majesty's steamer Swallow, Captain Shirlock, having on
board his Excellency General V. Sancho, the Ambas-
sador from Spain, with his suite. His Excellency took
some refreshment at the York Hotel, and proceeded
under a salute from the:western heights for London,
where apartments have been engaged for him at Mivart's
Hotel.

A mare and heifer were,
lightning, in a field at St. George's, which also nearly
destroyed a farm-house, killing a dog seated before the
fire, between two persons, one of which had an infant
on his lap. They were all struck senseless, but soon re-
covered.—Bristol Gazette.