The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-01 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1866.

QTODARE. - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.-
THEA r_ RE OF MYS.TERY, EGYPTIAN HALL

•
MARVELS in AIABIO and .VENTRILOQUISM, as per-
formed7by command before her majesty the Que n and the
Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening. Nov. 2',
1855. Great attractions for CHRISTMAS.. Maglc,,Ventri-
lcquism, Ineaustible Showers of. Christmas Presents, the
marvellous SNIIN X, the BIRTH of N'LOWEftTREES,and
STO DARE'S c,lebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only
perform, d by him.
Every evening at 8; Wednesday and ,faturdly at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian
Hall. Admission, is., 25.; and stalls, 33.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 1835.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
k.) Piccadilly.—The only original ani veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Wednesdays ana
Saturdays at 3 and 8, retaining all the specialties and old
favourites who originally created the reputation of the Com-
pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 35 ; unreserved seats, 28. ; gal-
lery, Is. Tickets at Austin's, 28, Piccadllly.--Manager,Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

fr lIE 0 X F ORD.
6, OXFORD bTRERT,IV. -
The 0 xford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited% •
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA 'PER-
FORMANCES by all the availabla talent. Opera, Bur-
lesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening,
performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell,
-Fitallenry, Barrie; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams,
Spagnoli, &c. The HUNGARIANS in their new entertain-
ment; Messrs. Duriah and Daviea's illustrations of Negro
Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer from the Grand
Theatre, St. Petersburg; the D'Aubans, Herr Berrani and
his talented family; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven
characters performed by Mr. E. 'Marshall (his first appear-
ance here), the entertainment Written expressly for him by
Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which
see programme and small bills. 'EVERY EVENING-.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is.; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY lIALL.
RI-FD;AI ! TI-FUST t
The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell;
will be produced This Evening.

Mr. E. MARSHALL-will make his appearance in
RI-F UM TI-FUM!
Mr. and Mrs. W. RANDALL will make their Re-appear-
ance in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
LES FRERES D'ETOILE in
RI-FUM .TI-FUM!
Lea MONTAGNARDS will make their first appearance in
this Country in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
Thq FLIGHT of MERCURY by the renowned
TALLIOTT in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and Rival of the late
DONATO, in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
The MYSTERIES OF MABILE in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
Les TABLEAUX D'AMOUR, illuminated by the Magnesium
Light, in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
The Beautiful BA LLERIN E S in
RI-F UM TI-FIT3I!
LE GALOP INFERNAL in
RI-FUM T I-F UM!
The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. W.
Gowrie, in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in
RI-F UM TI-FUM!

MADAME TUSSAUD'S
Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full-
,ength Portrait Models, taken from life, of CHARLOT
WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST
SOUTH EY.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children tinder 10, hall-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

EXHMITION,

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Manager, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close live minutes to 12
p'clock.
Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

-1- DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special
ity • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their

NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER,
With Circular Wick,

which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light,
perfect combustion, and its entire freedom from heat, sur-
passes everything that has yet been introduced.

ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the
METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY,4I7, Strand,
and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Wan houses iu Town
and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial-
street, Whitechapel.

ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE
LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.)

ASTRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL

AS Tlt A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW
PATTERNS for the Season now on Show.

TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
tl • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS.
Newest Patterns, Correct Measure.
T DEFRIES and SONS
16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES,
For 12 Persons, £1 18s. 6d.
BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES
in great variety, £1 ls.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS,
In the Grecian and Venetian Designs.
JDEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, CO HMERCIAL-STREET.

BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS,
New designs, for the Dining-room.
JDEFRIES and S ONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

• CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS
(Registered) for India.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
ei• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS
for the above Goods promptly executed.
Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

DEFRIES and SUNS
• Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free.

DEFRIES and SONS'
• TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS.
16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC HAPEL,
Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment,
147, HOUNDSDITCH.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED TUE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &c.
WOTHERSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of *ALES, K.G

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and iiizacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospittti are capable of
containing several -hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas
:,erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; dlianas, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Ca, Berners-street ; I. Barned and
. Liverpool; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5.
STANFORD S MIT 11, Secretary.

SAILORS' ORPHAN
11031 E, Hampstead.
PATRON —TI
TRUB'

GIRLS' SCHOOL and
Offices, 77, Cornhill.
ke QUEEN.
CEEB.

Capt. thi Hon. Francis Mitide,lfbe Rev. Canon Champneys
R. N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the ItoyNavy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
ft clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss of life at sea, andt o enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thantiully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
B. SWEETTNG, Hon. sop.
cSARLEs NAM) Seo.

J. ani D. NICOLL, Tailors to the
Li • Queen, • Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.
For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for th© SEASONS,
for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats,
with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine
Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 8i to 4
guineas; for the latter 241 to 41 guineas. For neglige
purposes, morning coats with pocket flaps at the waist,
also the neglig6 jackets ; these are of Melton, fancy coat-
ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to. 4
guineas. The Angolas and Cheviots are also made in
suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black
cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton,
Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For
young gentlemen from eight years of age—The morning
coat and neglig6 jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot,
the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the
suit. For boys from four years of ago—The Knicker-
bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine
cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning,
the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit.
For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from
1 to 2 guineas each. • Foreigners and visitors to London,
Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's
garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours'
:notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street; Man-
chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and
SONS, Dentists,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.

Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
" Lancet."
Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London; 15, Whitcfriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds; and 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31,
1865 1865. 1865 1865
£ £ £ £
5,570,000 5,178,005 5,289,000 5,670,000
5,342,000 4,865,000 9,332,000 5,110,000
2,501,000 2,490,000 2,272,000 2,373,000
398,000 1,407,000 242,000 1,317,000
3, i 27,000 2,210,000 815,000 ),451,000
1,005,000 9;0,00J 1,145,000 1,130,000
81,000 70,000 70,000 90,000
1,150,151 339,520 297,39? 8.6,415
19,177,151 17,549.520 14,46 ~39 : 18,097,4. 5

Customs .
Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Property Tax
Post-office
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous

Tote's

19,177,151

117,549.520

114,46 ',33

Quarters ended
March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 34,
186 E 1864 1861 18Gt
X X X X
Customs 5,`33,000 5,446,0, 0 5,24,000 5,932,000
Ex he 5,1,7,000 4,864,000 4,352,000 5,000,000
Stamps
Taxes - 367,000 1,432,000 168,000 1,294,000
I'roptrty TAX : 3, 68,000 2,4 9,000 78-,000 1,580,000
I'ost-ofli e
Crown Lands .. • • 81,40' 69,000 6 ~000 8-,000
Miscellaneous ..
Totals

Customs
Excise
Stamps
Taxe •
Property Tax
Post-Office
Crown Land
His ell Lneous

Total .

Year e:
1865

21,707,000
19,649,000
9,636,000
3,%61,000
7,603,0(0
4,250,000
314,000
2,673,478

6 ),195,478

tded
1E64

22,5'5,000
19,343,000
9,468,000
3,261,000
7,999,000
4,060,000
307,500
3,151,874

70,t25,374

11.—Increase and Decrease in the periods ended Dec. 31,
1865, as compared with corresponding periods of the
preceding year :

Quarter ended Dec. Nine months ended
31, 1865. Dec. 31, 1865.
Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
X X £ X
Customs
••
Excise
110,000 91,000
•• • •
Stamps 150,000 .. 10e,eoo ••
Taxes
• •
Property Tax .. 129,000 353,000
..
Post-Office
Crown Lands
• •
Miscellaneous
Tota,ls
Net Decrease....£62,lBl Net Decrease.. £ ,116,958
Year ended Dec.
31, 1864.
Inerease.t_l Decrease.
X £
Customs • • 828,000
Excise 306,000 ..
Stamps
Taxes lt 3,000 ..
Property Tax
Post Office 190,000 ..
i_ rows Lands
Miscellaneous ... • • 476,396
•
Totals 773,500 1,702,396

let deereas,

4 £828,856

lII.—An Account showing tho Revenue and other
Receipts of the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1865, the appli-
cation of the same, and the Charge of the Consolidated
Fund for the said Quarter, together with the surplus or
deficiency upon such charge :

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Con-
solidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
Sept. 30, 1865, viz.:—
Great Britain
Ireland

£220,582

Income received in the Quarter ended Dec. 31,
1865, as shown in Account I.
Amount received in the Quarter ended ,Dec. 31,
1865, in repayment of Advances for Public
Works, dm

512,504

£18,740,501

Balance, being the Deficiency on Dec. 31, 1865,
upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund
in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends,
and other charges, payable in the Quarter
to March 3 , 1866. and for which Exchequer
Btils (Deficiency) will be issued in that
Quarter

Amount applied out of the Income in Redemp-
tion of Deficiency Bills issued in the Quar-
ter to Dec. 3!, 1865, for the charge of the
Consolidated Fund in Great Britain on
Sept. 30, 1865
Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Ser •
vices, in the Quarter ended Dec. 3t, 1865 ....
Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended Dec. 31, 1865, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent
Debt £6,241,093
Terminable Debt
Principal of Exchequer Bills 384,200
Interest of Exchequer Bills VACS
Interest of Deficiency Bills
The Civil List 101,395
Other Charges on Consoli-
dated Fund 533,955
Advances for Public Works,&c. 524,297
Sinking Fund

£21,314,105

3,018,274

8,6C8,219

8,778,9'8

Surplus Balance in Ireland beyond the charge of
the Consolidated Fund in Ireland for the
Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1865 .

910,724

£21,314,105

THE BLOCKADE-RuNNERs.--T he extent of the assistance
given to the rebels in their war against the Union by
British blockade-runners, as well as the heavy penalty
American cruisers exacted from their owners, is strikingly
exhibited by the statement of Secretary Welles, showing
that the number of vessels (nearly all British) captured
and sent to the courts for adjudication, during the war,
was no less than one thousand one hundred and fifty-one,
and the number destroyed three hundred and fifty-five !
The gross proceeds of the former (with a number of im-
portant cases yet unsettled) was $21,829,543 96, and the
value 91 the voseele destroyed at bad $7,000,000.

Fashions for January.

(From Le Follet.)

Although the winter season has advanced, the fashion of
wearing an entire toilette of the same material is still
adopted. Of course; there are only certain materials
which is admissible. Cloth, or woollen materials, are thus
worn ; but perhaps nothing is more suitable for this than a
kind of velvet, called " Velours de Londres"—it is less ex-
pensive even than taffetas, and makes a more thorough
winter's costume. It may be trimmed . either with passe-
menterie, guipure, or fur. For visits of ceremony, a dress
of satin, with a small casaque of the same, trimmed with
fur, is exceedingly elegant.
Our subscribers will, just now, be the most anxious to
know what is a la mode for evening and ball-dresses ; there-
fore, just mentioning a few favourite materials for these
purposes, we will proceed to our long and choice list of
toilettes. _

White tarlatanes, with double zig-zags or interlacings of
coloured ruching, are in favour, abovo all, those spotted
with gold or pearl, or with stars of gold or glass.
Another pattern meeting with much favour is that of
flies or birds in black and gold, blue and gold, red and sil-
ver, &c. _

Many rich foulards are made in stripes of colour on a
white ground, or dotted over with small designs. Ball-
dresses, of thin material, are frequently. ade with tunics
caught up by ribbons, cords, or trails of flowers. At the
bottoms of skirts bouillones or flounces are placed, and cor-
selets with points, or with small separated basques, are
worn. There are some chains of gold made as trimmings
for white satin dresses, covered with tulle illusion. These
chains—holding as it were the bouillones— are extremely
distingues. There are also very rich galons sultanas, made
in colours and fringed with gold ; gold guipure embroidered
with pearls ; and ribbons of gold or silver, upon which are
large daisies of white or coloured velvet, with gold or sil-
ver hearts. Crystal is used on velvet; the- skirts cut on
the bias and every seam trimmed with a crystal fringe.
A toilette de bal. Under-skirt of striped blue and gold ;
the upper of blue satin ; upon each seam a gold lace, placed
two rows together, forming an insertion, and finished off
with gold tassels falling over the under-skirt. Low body,
with gold lace forming a rabat ; and wide gold band, fas-
tened by two cameos. Head dress in the Empire style,
with gold bandelettes. Necklace of cameos, fastened on
blue velvet.

A robe of white tulle ; the bottom of the first skirt trimmed
with five rows of red velvet, heading a narrow row of gold
pendants. The upper skirt in the Princesse style, with
corselet of white, caught up at every seam with ends of red
and gold. Under the corselet is a low chemisette, and short
sleeves of plaited tulle. Collier of red velvet, with a gold
cross.

An evening dress of pink poult de soie, trimmed with
galon of guipure and pearls. The body draped with pink
silk, covered with guipure, forming small Spanish sleeves
from the shoulders, and fastened at the waist with two
cameos, from which it hangs in two scarf ends, fringed
with pearls.
Toilette of tulle bouillone, with under skirt of white
taffeta; which is trimmed with a gauffered ruche. The
upper-skirt is festooned by chains of pearls, fastened by
bows of pink satin. Similar chains and bows form the
drapery on the body and sleeves.

A robe, with a very long under skirt of tulle lsonillonne
dotted over with gold sequins. The upper skirt with scol-
loped basques, composed of maize-coloured satin ; each
basque trimmed round with black velvet and sequins.
Body and black velvet sash also trimmed to match.
An emerald-green velvet dress, with tablier of green
satin, fastened to it with silver buttons. The skirt is
opened on each side, over a breadth of green satin ; the
openings being edged round with a green passementerie
and hanging silver buttons. Tho body is low, with a
long basque, forming a tunic behind, and very short in
front, trimmed also with passementerie and buttons.
An Empire robe of cerise satin, with tablier of white
satin. The dress is cut on the bias, without plaits at the
sides ; very wide at the bottom, and trimmed round with a
bias of cerise satin, and a gold cord. The body is low, cut
square, with a plastron of white satin joining the tablier,
both of which are trimmed with tulle and gold beads.
A green satin tunic, trimmed with guipure, embroidered
with pearls and silver stars, describing the grecque pattern
at each point of the tunic, which is finished off by tassels of
green and silver. The guipure is fringed with silver lilies
of the valley. The sleeves are very short, being formed
merely of the guipure. The tunic is equally charming,
made of white satin embroidered with gold, blue satin with
silver, cerise with gold, or black with silver.
A Princesse robo of violet poult de soie. Round the bot-
tom a grecquo of beaded passementerie. This is also
placed en revers up the front of the skirt, and on the body
to each shoulder, forming epaulettes. A row of black
cameos fastens the body and are put down the skirt be-
tween the revers.
A dress of Russian drab satin, with arabasques at tho
bottom of the skirt, mado of ponceau velvet, embroidered
in gold, and opened over a guimpo of muslin, trimmed
18,069,696 with guipure.

A robe of silver-grey gros grain, trimmed at the bottom
with a band of ruby-coloured plush, straight on the upper
edge, and put on the dress with a cord of the same shade.
The lower edge is cut in dents, and finished with a silk
cord worked with jet. A fitting casaque, trimmed round
the arm-holes, bottom of sleeves, and seams, to match the
skirt. A ruby-coloured band, trimmed with passementerie
in jet, and jet buckle.
A green moire antique dress, forme Princesse, with a
double band of velvet a rather deeper shade, commencing
at the neck, and widening towards the bottom of the skirt
and trimming the hem—these bands are put on with a
passementerie of beads. Tight-fitting sleeves, with jockeys
and cuffs of velvet.

Gold is worn as trimming on bonnets, as well as on other
articles of dress; for example, a black velvet bonnet is
trimmed with bands of plush ribbon, striped with gold.
The inside is a torsade of black velvet, with three gold stars.
A mere simple style of bonnet is of drawn black velvet ;
bouillonne tulle crown, spotted with jet. A bow of velvet
ribbon on the side, with a cameo in the middle. Two tor-
sades of passementerie worked with jet cross the crown,
falling in festoons over the chignon. The inside is drapery
of tulle and velvet, fastened with a cameo.
Blue velvet bonnet, with a flax plait from the front to
small curtain, edged with white blonde. High on the side
is a puff of blonde, from the centre of which a white
feather falls over the crown, The feather is fastened to
the blonde by a small bird. White strings.
A very pretty bonnet for a young lady is of white tulle,
spotted with blue chenille. Small bouillonnee .curtain to
match, with a band of blue velvet, fastened with a pearl
buckle. Barrette to match inside, and blue velvet §trings.
A capote of Mechlin lace, with edge and curtain of black
velvet, trimmed with a scarf of tulle, fringed with feathers
and gold beads, and fastened in the bonnet with bunches of
gold daisies. Inside trimmed to match. White satin strings.
A white velvet empire bonnet, trimmed on the front with
a coquille of black lace, fastened with a bunch of coreopsis
in black velvet and green leaves.
Rich blue velvet bonnet, with jocky front ; barbe of black
lace, ruched over the middle of the head, the ends falling
on each side and forming strings. A small bird placed be-
hind. The inside is trimmed with a plait of blue velvet.
A ruby-coloured velvet bonnet, edged with sequins in
jet. A bird of the same colour fastened on the curtain
with a black cameo. Bandeau of ruby velvet, with white
stripes inside.
Bonnet of mauve-coloured royal velvet, spotted with
silver. Chains of silver on the edge. Bows of velvet
fastened with a silver buckle on the side. The inside
trimmed with the same velvet, and silver leaves.
Capoto of bouillonnee white velvet. Soft crown of
Mechlin lace. A puff of velvet on the side, with a palm
of gold feathers. The inside trimmed with a plait of velvet
with gold chain and feathers. White satin strings, edged
with gold.
A bonnet, formed of a drapery of imperial velvet, with
Greek bandolettes of silver. The inside is a drawn velvet
bandeau, with bandeaux of silver. Blue velvet strings.
A grey felt bonnet, with biases of velvet to match, edged
with a curled feather to imitate Astrakan. A flat plume of
small grey feathers, fastened on the side with flat cameo.
Bands of grey and ruby ♦elvet, and black camoes inside.
A fanchon bonnet of black lace, covered with bands of
black satin. Bandelot of the same, trimmed with a grec of
et, with hanging balls. Black curled feathers on the side,
fastened with a flat cameo. A diadem of violet velvet,
jwith a grec and aiguillettes of jet inside.

WRECKS.—During the past week 39 wrecks have
been reported—making the total for the year just expired
3,362.
GREAT IS COLOUR.—A short time since, the Louisiana
Senate received a communication commencing as follows :
—" The undersigned, as a committee of ladies, acting in
the name of a large number of loyal ladies of New Orleans,
wish to present your Honorable Body with a United
States flag," &c. The Senate received the communication,
voted to accept the flag, and assigned an hour in the after-
noon for its formal reception. Before the hour arrived,
however, the fact became known that the donors of
the flag were colored ladies, when the Senate hastened
to expunge from the journal all record made of the corn-
manication and of the acceptance of the flag.
LEGAL DISCRIMINATIONS IN ALABAMA.—A bill intro-
duced into the Alabama Legislature provides that inter-
marriage beeweeen whites and blacks be made felonious
and punishable by imprisonment for the whites, and brand-
ing and whipping for the negroes. Other disreputable con-
nections between the races subject the whites to a fine of
$l,OOO :and imprisonment in the county gaol for twelve
months. The other parties to the crime are to receive
" one hundred lashes on his or her bare back."