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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

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unions should also be given.
In addition to the clergy of the colonial dioceses, and of
the Scottish Episcopal Church, those of the Irish Church
are given this year, taken from Thom's Irish Almanack.
These last are given in a separate alphabetical I:st ; and

the colonial clen
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none of the others are uninteresting, we have been most
taken with the paper on Miss Mitford's " Recollections,"

from which we quote the following incident

FORCE OF FLATTERY

Last Saturday I happened to he sitting on a fallen tree
somewhat weary. my little damsel working as usual at ne
other end, and Fanchon balancing himself on the trunk
between us; the curls of her brown coat—she is entirely
brown—

urninz into

e sunshine played upon

them through the leaves. In this manner Were we [Hs--
posed, when a gipsy, with a pair of light baskets in her
hand, came and offered them for sale. She was a middle-
aged woman, who, in spite of her wandering life—perhaps
because of that hardy out-of-door life—had retained much
of her early beauty : the flashing eyes, the pearly teeth,
the ruddy cheeks, the fine erect figure. It happened
that, not wanting them, my companion had rejected these
identical baskets when brought to our door in the morn-
ing. She told me so, and I quietly declined them. My
friend the gipsy apparently gave the matter up, and,
alaiming me as an old acquaintance, began to inquire
after my health, and fell into the pleasantest strain of
conversation possible; spoke of my father, who, she said,
had been kind to her and to her tribe, (no doubt she said
truly ; he was kind to everybody, and had a liking for the
wandering race,) spoke of her children at the zipsy school
in Dorsetshire ' • of the excellent Mr. Crabbe, the friend of
her people, at Southampton ; then she began stroking
Fanchon, (who actually, to my astonishment, permitted
the liberty ; in general she suffers no one to touch her
that is not gentleman or lady ;) Fanchon she stroked, and
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rose-tree, she talked ; then, to leave no one unpropitiated,
she threw out a word of pleasing augury, a sart of gratui-
tous fortune-telling, to the hemmer of flounces; then she
attacked me again with old recollections, trusting, with
singular knowledge of human nature, to the power of the
future upon the young, and of the past upon the old—to
me she spoke of happy memories, and to my companion
of happiness to come ; and so—how; could I help it ?—I
bought the baskets.

In an able review of Mr. Prinsep and M. Hue's works
on Tibet, Tartary, and Mongolia, we are presented
with the subjoined description of

DRESS AND MANNERS IN TIBET,

The people of Tibet are of the great Mongolian family,
and exhibit its characters in a very marked degree ;—plat-
ter face, with prominent cheek-boneq, button-hole eyes
and upright eyelids, squashed nose, wide mouth, retiring
chin, scant beard, coarse black hair, deeply-marked and
weather-beaten countenances; naturally of a pale-brown
colour, but tanned to any depth of copper, not without a
ruddy tint at times; of a considerable variety of stature.
The English traveller, who, in traversing the steep val-
ley-sides of the Himalaya, comes for the first time on a
party of Tibetans driving southward their flock of sheep
and goats—each little quadruped, like a camel from 'Atli-
put, laden with some twenty pounds of salt or borax—is
struck at once with the idea that he has stumbled on a
group of Esquimaux out of Parry's voyages. These
quaint, good-humoured people frequent the fairs of the
British hill territory, to exchange their salt for wheat and
barley ; and sometimes they get so far from home as to
astonish, with unwonted apparition, the evening prome_
naders at Simla or Mussooree. Dark woollen cloths is
the standard material of dress, formed into a wide frock,
trousers, and leggings, the last replaced in the wealthy by
boots of Russia, or other costly leather. Over all is worn
A Capacious mantle of cloth, sometimes lined with fur.
From a red girdle depend various purses, containing the
wooden teacup inseparable from a Tibetan, flint and steel,
and other odds and ends. Gay broad-brimmed hats are
in vogue at Lhassa, but are rarer in the west. The women
dress much like the men, and plait the hair in narrow
tresses hanging on the shoulders. On the top of the head
the Ladakh women wear a flat lappet of cloth or leather,
descending in a peak bellied, stuck over with beads of