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DECEMBER 6, 1850.
LONDON, FRIDAY
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SkIITHFLELD CLUB PRIZE CITTLE
SHOW, and EXHIBITION of IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS,
ROOTS, &c.. commences TUESDAY MORNING. and closes FRI-
DAY EVENING, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th December. Bazaar,
Klng.-str,t, Portman-square,
The arrange]) cuts this year are upon a more extended scale, and
marked by the usual attention to the comfort of Visitors. thereby
enabling Ladies to 'view this National Exhibition with facility.

PUBLICATIONS.

1 THE FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER.

MOORE'S LALLA ROOKIE, ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
In royal Bvo., price Its. cloth ; bound in morocco, 355. ; or with
Proof Impressions of the Plaice, 425, cloth,
LA LL A ROOKH: an Oriental Romance.
By THO NTAS MOORE. Illustrated with Thirteen fine Elates,
engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath, from
Designs by Corbould, Meadows, ant Stephan AT.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

(From Le Follet.)
The winter fashions are no longer an uncertainty ;
our most celebrated couturieres have decided upon
the principal forms for robes and redingotes. The
accessories in trimming offer: an endless: variety to
meet the taste both of wearer and artiste. Bodies are
still worn long waisted, more or less pointed, or
rounded in front; the skirts are very full, rather
longer behind than in front ; the sleeves long, or half
long, small at the top, and enlarging towards the
bottom, in the Greek or pagode style. Such is the
foundation of our winter costumes, which will he
found to resemble closely those worn for some time
past. We must add, that the body a Louis XV., with
its multiplicity of ornaments upon the front, ncrrow
frills of lace, ruches of ribbon, bias chicorees, bows
of all kind in velvet, mixed with bouillonnes of tulle,
are each resorted to, according to caprice or good
taste, and are the distinguishing characteristics of the
bodies a la Dubarry, a la Montespan, a la Valliere, &c.
It appears that the flounces will be worn deeper and
fuller than they have lately been made ; tall and
slender figures will hail this alteration with pleasure.
Narrow ribbons, fringed or scolloped, with a thread
which can be drawn to form it into a frill, are used in
a thousand different wa3 is as trimmings for dresses—
the ribbons, with fringe on each edge, are found very
serviceable for ruches, heading of flounces, branie-
bourgs, or echelle upon the front of the skirts, Ste.
We have already spoken of the great success f the
oriental fringes as employed on some magnificent cos-
tumes. Indeed, nothing can be more splendid than
the stars of gold, or gold and silver mixed with the
network of white silk, or prettier and more graceful
than the garniture of passementeries, with fringes
a grelots. We must notice one composed of a fringe
about ten inches deep, forming a light-network of
black chenille, spotted with small grelots of jet,
which hang from the chenille network ; this fringe
terminates with long tassels of chenille and jet. We
have seen a black velvet dress, destined for a lady at
Madrid, trimmed with two rows of this fringe, the
small jacket having a narrower one to match round
the bottom. These fringes are likely to become much

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in request fer fancy dresses this winter.
Ribbons seem to dispute with flowers for pre-
eminence as ornaments for the coiffure ; they are
disposed with so much elegance that we wonder not
at the demand for these ornaments. Among the most
graceful and most fanciful coiffures, we cite the
Maintenon ; this coiffure is formed of a half veil of
black lace, with rounded corners, which fall on each
side, veiling the neck and shoulders ; it is fastened
upon the bead with a bouquet of roses, mixed with
some long-faded foliage, which offers an agreeable
contrast to the more brilliant freshness of the rose.
£he diplomacy of female taste that originated this be-
coming coiffure is strikingly revealed in this melange
of contrast and harmony.
Morning capotes made of biases of satin, in two
shades of the same colour, are still worn ; green and
ruby are the favourite colours, but the prettiest
capotes are those made of velvet and satin, the front
being of velvet and the crown of satin, covered with
several rows of deep lace; to render these more
elegant they are sometimes trimmed with a small
bunch of feathers on each side of the same shade
as the capote ; the inside is trimmed with coques of
ribbon, of three or four different shades to match the
capote.

For full-dress bonnets, light colours are chosen,
such as white, pink, or blue, &c., trimmed with
fringed feathers to match ; choux of ribbon, with a
small rosebud in the middle, covered with blonde, are
placed inside.
In speaking of coiffures we omitted to mention that
application of Honiton lace is still in great request,
especially when ornamented with white laurel and
light leaves, bunches of small cherries, or tufts of ge-
ranium mixed with other flowers. The coiffures of
blonde are still much worn with broad ribbon, form-
ing a scarf over the shoulders.
The petit bards, or head-dresses, are trimmed with
flowers, feathers, or long flowing ribbons. They are
made of crape or velvet, and their vogue teems greater
than ever.

To return to the bonnets, we would mention ano-

ther of velvet, of Chambord green, the front of velvet,
the crown of satin, covered with narrow black lace ;
choux of different shades of green, with rosebuds or
flowers in the middle, are placed inside. These are
called colimacons.

We have seen a full-dress bonnet of white satin,
covered with an open stamped terry velvet, also
white, trimmed with lace and small feathers ; the
curtain to this bonnet is very deep, and of a graceful
form.

Among all the bonnets for this season, the first to
be noticed are those of felt, a material so light and
supple as to render it capable of being► made into
the most elegant forms of the present fashion. llrc
übservedihe Princess M-2I ways the first to give coun-
tenance to any happy innovation, wearing one of these
new felt bonnets of the natural colour, trimmed with a

long flat feather, placed across the head and falling
very low on the side. This feather was fastened with
a bow of velvet and satin, of the same colour as the

felt ; small pink flowers with feather foliage inside.
A very pretty lady who accompanied the Princess,
and was in mourning, were a black felt bonnet with
a casoar feather and black velvet ribbon ; it bad
small jet flowers, mixed with black velvet leaves in-
side. A very young lady also wore a white felt
bonnet trimmed .on one side with a single white
rose with long velvet foilage ; the inside was
trimmed with bows of white satin, and strings to
match. All of these were beautiful, and left no doubt
of the success of the new felt in this winter's fashion.
Some very pretty bonnets are made of violet satin;
each drawing is intercepted by a narrow black lace
put on full ; a small bunch of feathers, half black half
violet, ornaments one side ; coques formed with a
barbe of black lace, mixed with coques of violet satin
ribbon inside.

Another of pink terry velvet of a very open shape,
with a long pink feather placed round the front and
across the head, falling on the left side, whilst on the
other the feather is fastened with a ribbon bow; the
inside has tufts of pink blonde, drawn up to give the
effect of a large rose.

A capote of satin, of Chambord green, trimmed
with a water flower, with long foliage of very narrow
velvet ribbon of different shades of green, producing
the pretty effect of a plume. A light foliage of green
velvet, mixed with green and white blonde, inside.
Short veils are more than ever in fashion this win-
ter. Lace is much in demand. Chantilly, Brussels,
Valenciennes, Alenqon, are each in request for veils,
shawls, scarfs, cannezouts, sleeves, flowers—in fact,
for whatever purpose this elegant ornament can be
used.

In the houses where may now be seen hundreds of
dresses of all descriptions, we have particularly ob-
served some evening dresses of organdie, with double
skirts, worked with straw-coloured silk. The design
of this embroidery on the upper skirt is in stripes,
which reach up to the waist; the under skirt has a
wreath much narrower, and leaving an interval be-
tween the embroidery on the two skirts; the body
had a berthe fastened with a bow of straw-coloured
ribbon.

A robe of moire antique of pearl grey, with broad
satin stripes ; the sides of the skirt are trimmed with
lozenges of grey satin, edged with narrow blonde
fulled on. The body, a Louis XV., hid the front
piece trimmed with eight crossings of very narrow
satin creves, edged with narrow blonde ; the sleeves,
which reach to the elbow, are trimmed to match, and
have deep falls of blonde. A bouquet of roses in the
middle of the body. The coiffure is of long foliage
of pink velvet.
A redingote of gros de Tours, of Chambord green,
is edged with a plain satin of the same shade. This
border is placed round the pagodes sleeves.
Another robe of pink and white broche droquet
had three flounces, with a broad satin line forming
festoons.

The small mousquetaires vests, made of velvet or
satin, in green, dark blue, or ruby, lined with white
quilted satin, with revers turning back over the chest,
aid at the bottom of the sleeves, are much more
elegant, as they permit the display of the splendid
chemise tte.
With all these costumes, the g,uimpes of lace, and
the sleeves with simple pagodes of Alencon, or point
d'Angleterre, are the seals of elegance and distinc-

[PRICE SD.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS:
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—(MiIes in work, 236.)
—Return of Traffic for the Week ending Nov. 24, 1850 :
Passenger 3, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ...£3,634 4 7
Merchandise and minerals ... 2,263 19 5
Cattle ... ... 192 12 8

Total .. £i,140 16 8
Corresponding week, Nov. 25, 1819 (143 miles) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £1,541 12 2
Cattle 1,'i1!,6 7 3

... ... 2,927 19 6

NOP.TH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles open, 112.)--
Return of traffic for the week ending Nov. 24 :
Railway and canal .- £4,351 0 0
Corresponding week last year -.. 3,752 0 0
Note. - The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the agreement with the London and North-Western
Railway Company.
SIIREWSRURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY."-Traffic re-
ceipts for the week ending Dec. 1 :
Passengers ••• ... £295 11 6
Car: iages, horses, and parcels ... 17 17 8
Live stock 9 3 4
.•• •••
Merchandise and minerals ... 20g 12 1

Total .. ... ... £529 4 7
Corresponding period last year.. 266 5 2

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLANDS JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.—Return of Traffic for the week ending
Dec. 1 :

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