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We must return to the inexhaustible subject C-
hair-dressing, if only to point out that the new fashal(setn. s
by the Parisian demimonde) of yellow or golden hair, with
a tinge of red or auburn, is simply the revivalof one which
began under more respectable auspices towards the corn
mencement of the reign of Louis XIV. The two Queens,
Anne and Maria Theresa, dowager and regnante, the se-
ductive heroine of the Fronde, the Duchess de Longueville,
and the two first favourites, bidets. de la Valliere and de
Fontagnes, were blondes; so, for all the aspiring beauties

4d.
STAMPED sd.

few shillings short of £l2O. The responsibility
naturally falls on the owner, but. it is stated to be
the intention of the Board of Admiralty not to
press their claim.

whom nature had made a shade too dark, there was no
alternative but to wear a wig or dye. The men fell into the
custom, as may be learnt from Moliere, who makes
the Misanthrope exclaim to Celimene
" Vous etes-vous rendue, avec tout le beau monde,
Au merit° eclatant de sa perruque blonde."
The assumption of the perruque by Jean Baptiste, the
son of Racine, secretary of embassy in Holland, is regularly
discussed between him and his mother-in-law : " Your
father deeply regrets the necessity which you say you are
under of wearing a wige. He leaves the decision to the
ambassador. When your father is in better health he will
order M. de Marguery to make you such a ono as you re-
quire. Madame la Comtesse do Gramont is very sorry for
you that you should lose the attraction which your hair
gave you."
The entry in Pepy's Dairy for May 11, 1667, runs
thus :

"My wife being dressed this day in fair hair did make
me so mad that I spoke not one word to her, though I was
ready to burst with anger. After that Creed and I went into
the Park and walked, a most pleasant evening, and so took
coach, and took up my wife, and in my way home disco-
vered my trouble to my wife for her white locks, swearing
several times, which I pray God may forgive me for, and
bending my fist, that I would not endure it."
They renewed the discussion the next day, Sunday, and
came to an understanding that she should give up her white
locks on his agreeing to give up keeping company with one
Mrs. Knipp, of whom there is frequent and rather compro-
mising mention in the Diary.
There was no concealment nor fear of detection on the
part of either sex. The false hair was put on or off by the
women like a bonnet or a cap ; and a court lady would
have felt little abashed at an accident such as recently
happened to a fair equestrian, who had the misfortune to -
drop the whole of her back hair or chigiwn in -antton, row.

The fashion of powdering the hair with gold dust, which
has recently found votaries both at Loudon and Paris, was
commenced by Poppet, the wife of Nero, and also by
Lucius ti erus (the adapted son of Aurelius), who was ex-
travagantly vain of his hair. Authorities are not wanting
to prove that the golden and auburn tints which we admire
in the portraits of Titian, Tintoret, and Paul Veronese
were produced by a tincture in vogue at Venice in the
sixteenth century. The collections.show that other shades
of colour, especially brown and bla‘:;k, have had their day ;
and it is a disputed question in connoisseurship whether
the highest degree of beauty has not been attained by the
brunettes. Red or carroty (which is the corrector trans-
lation of roux or rousse) has been at a discount in all ages.
It was thought ominous of evils by the ancients, and
typical of villany during many ages of the Christian era.
"Judas-coloured hair" is the spiteful reproach of Pope.
" Aussi, dans tout notre muse de coiffure, pas un cheveu
roux ardent couleur de carotte."
The reason why Racine put off ordering his son's wig
is obvious enough, when we find that the price of ono of
the fashionable colour was a thousand French crowns.
The
gentlemen whom Sydney Smith, in reference to the
length and redundancy of his curls, accused of growing
hair for sale, might have driven a profitable trade at that
time. —Edinburgh Review.

SOME CLUB MEN.—The other London guests
may just be " observed," as the reporters say.
Doddy Dalston —let us save the honour of his
sponsors by mentioning that he was christened
Theodore was not thought to have much ima-
gination ; but if he had a dim idea of a future state,
it was held that Doddy's visions were of some place
where nobody has to ply debts. His earthly power
of incurring obligations of the kind, notoriously
never meeting them, and yet of always looking like a
gentlemaN, and having money for everybody but creditors,
amounted to . a financial and social miracle. His utter
ruin had long ceased to be matter of prediction and
had taken its place in history ; but there Doddy sat, ex-
ceedingly well dressed, and listening with an air of
complacency to solvent men, and as if his only doubt
was whether he should buy the house which one of them
wished to sell, or to beg the other to invest the money for
him in Madagascar Passives. Moreover, whether Doddy
Dalston got hold of his money by burglaries, as some of his
friends insisted, or by picking the pockets of bankers' clerks
in the City, as others contended, he got it, and never
sponged. It need not be said, therefore, that Dalston was
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much liked. So was Jemmy Rydon, for other causes, the
most salient perhaps being the capital parties which he was
fond of giving at a certain secluded villa in a north-western
suburb, where Mr. Rydon, who always intended to marry,
but never did, was rehearsing domesticity. So was little
Walter Latrobe, because he had been a gallant soldier, and
in an emergency had held a fort with a handful of men
against a raging mob of Indian Huggers, and with his own
small white hand had Mont a dozen of them to Padalon, before
the relieving force of cavalry came down to the slaughter.
Ile had a gentle feminine voice, and was loved of women

fur his beauty and valour, and of children because his busi-
ness in life was the invention of child-games. It may be
that he was wicked at odd hours. Then there was the
instructive Dick Marsden, who knew everything, and the
indolent Toni Alford, who. knew nothing ; and the remain-
iug typo was Willy Daimes, who went in for politics, and
was always standing for some place or other, and always
losing because he made his agents leave off bribing just at
the point when another three hundred pounds would have
sent their principal into the British Legislature. —"Sooner
or Later: by Shirley Brooks.
THE BANDA AND KIRWEE PRIZE MONEY.—In a
very few days the Royal warrant for the first distribu-
tion of the Band% and Kirwee prize money will be issued.
The troops which will be entitled to share are those which
accompanied General Whitlock to Jubbulpore, Saugor,
Banda, or Kirwee, and which were still under his com-
mand on the 19th of April or the 6th June, 1858. The
corps which are included in this category are the follow-
ing :—The left wing of her Majesty's 12th Lancers, No.
8 field battery Royal Artillery; also of the East India
Company's army—The A troop European Horse Artil-
lery, the F troop Native Horse Artillery, the C com-
pany of the 4th battalion of Artillery (horse battery), the
B company of the 4th battalion of Artillery, the L company
of Sappers and Miners, the 3d European Regt., the Ist Regt.
of Madras Native Infantry, a detachment of the 50th Regt.,
Madras Native India, and a squadron of the 2d Regt. of
Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent. To these must be added
her Majesty's 43d Regt. Light Infantry and the 19th Regt.
of Madras Native Infantry, as these joined them under the
command of Brigadier M'Duff, and by a detachmentof Sikh
Cavalry under Lieutenant Metje, known as Metje's gorse.d
Besides these we must include those portions of the
„yr, and
European Regiment, the 50th Madras Native
other portions of the Madras army
and which
Gene-
ral Whitlock before he met the enemy at Ban_ ,
of the capture of
were still under his command at the denial
wander in chief
Banda or Kirwee. The share of
ofth etch: late Lord Clyde,
will be paid to the representativessffare
likewise entitled to
and the general and divisionalicsotay......
participate.—Homeward Mail, Nov
week the
which had joined Gene-.
—Last
THE TIN TRADE IN Cll 20
ton, and the value of
per ton,
ton ; for common, £43
pin every mining district in
of better. Mine agents and ad-
Cornwall is worse instead
wits,
end. Work as close as they
venturers are at th
amreaknionwg
totphr the best
5. tin
Thetino raesgt isaa now
oowffeS thingsl
few mines inalgebocthouenntryds
wmheieath.
areThenreot
very indeed are paying even the shadow of a
calls, and few
dividen •
before long. Persons best informed
dividend. Eventually there must be a stop to these large
and continuous calls
may they cannot m.
on these
matters can only express a hope that in some
six months the price of metals may be higher. Working
miners are still leaving the country, and they must
either leave or starve. At a large mine 70 men were paid
off last Friday for a month's work with about £lOO, and
this mine has been most liberally supported for years by
large-hearted and rich adventurers for the solo purpose of
giving employment. At present the existence of the mine
hangs on a very slight thread, and a meeting is to be held
next week to determine as to the carrying on of the opera-
tion. Meanwhile the tributers have been ordered to close
their bargains and finish up their work as soon as possible,
and many of them have been dischfirged. The reports of
meetings held lately tell an almost universally dismal tale.
At Wheal Margery there was a balance of £1,195 against
the mine, and a call of £1 per share was made. At Pen-
deenConsols there was a loss on the quarter of .E 785, and a
call was made of 4s. per share. Clearly, Cornish miners
must seek work elsewhere. The sooner they do this the
better. Winter is close upon them. If they can obtain
work such as they can perform in any part of the kingdom
it is to be hoped that their more intelligent and well-to-do
neighbours will help them. The choice in many cases lies
between this and the union workhouse. Merchants au ..1
holders of metals cannot command prices at will. Demand
and supply aro the only governing principles in this case,
and demand can no more be created by our millionaires
than by our paupers. Manifestly, then, we must wait
patiently. Meantime, our population cannot, must not
starve. Already there is poverty, if not absolute distress,
retstheand nothing but prompt and energetic action can save
time.—
Western population from the latter in a very short
Weste7n Morning News.
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