The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-01 00:00:00

LONDON PJSMOSS.

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11AIN-cape.—A round dress, composed of rel.:nal
rpiogk : the colour.is difficult to describe; it is between,
a dark fawn and a sage screen, without being rcactiv
either ; hat, of the two, it is nearest to the green. The '
'twit., is made rather more than half high ; the bark ha.
a little fellows at he banister the waist; the fronts are
tight to tisp ehape and shaped a little on each side of the
• homes. *VIM partially to lay the upper part of the
t
neck. The body ie• elegem y finished by a ruff com-
posed of gm de Napa and satin. to correspond with
the dress; It steeds up behind in the Elisabeth style, so
PK to shade the back of the throat. but is open on each
cede of the bosom. long sleeve, of a moderate width;
the bottom is ornamented with satin, to correspond with
the dress; it is let-in is plait., and intermixed with
twisted gruff de Naples cord, in such a manner as to
form a new and very pretty cuff. Half-sleeve, of the
same materials as the ruff; it is disposed in full oval
puffs. The bottom of the skirt is fimsbed by a double
fall of lace, between whirl. is a novel and pretty Mut-
=lugging/109mi of white satin and whke groo tie Naples.
Ileatidremaeap.ornaineitted with pomegranate flowers.
•Neekfilee and esc-rings, dead gull Black kid shoes,
Owl Lbeerick gloves.
RVSNING iftllll.—.% round dress, composed of white
figured lace, over a white satin slip. The skirt is ele-
gantly ornamented with lace draperies, which an headed
by a trimming composed of white satin intermix.ed with
pearls; each drapery is ornamented at the points with,
stars funned of white satin and pearls. This trimming
is at once light, elegant, and stove]. The body is tight
to the shape ; it is eat a very decorous height round the
beat: the front is formed in the iirecian style, with a
little point is the centre of the bosom ; it is ornamented
he a tucker a reefeet, and that is headed by a rottleati
of lace twisted with pearl. The sleeve is extrrtuely
novel and elegant; it is composed of the 1;31110 material
as the dress, intermixed with white satin and pearl.
The hair is dressed in light loose curls in front : the
forehead is very iltde e=posml. ileed4lress, pearl urns-
mean, and a superb plume of feathers, one of which
cheeps a little to the right aide. Necklace aud ear-
. "ors Ptak. While talk *husk sad white kid gloves.

CUIIIOIIB CALCULATIOX.
The number of letters of all descriptions, delivered
daily 7 the poet, la Paris, is, *a an average, 3t,000 ;
sad of menials 111011. la London, the letters are 133,010 :
and theloansais HAIN, Vasaking, IN the former capital,
one letter among It powwow and. ose journal among
349; and, in the latter, one letter among nine persons,
and one journal among 43. Bat this ratio is still great-
er in the provinces of France, because the communica-
tions between Lisle, and Lyons, and Marseille', and
Bawdy's:, sad Strubstreli, are not near so great as
&tweets Li I, and Manchester, and Bristol, and
"Ililaarow, ti biim; and, including the "hole popu-
lation.o( France, the number of lettenedistrihated s• not
quite one among ninety persons. Thin, tiles, every
Esigtishman writes nine letters for every one letter
nhWt. a Pronebenaa writes in the same space of time.—
I% ow, hit the flambee of letters upon business be ssippolaed
la the ratio of the respective industry of the tiro coon-
rrias ; of those urn polities In the ratio of their respec-
tive liberties; sad let the reader then deduce, according
to his fancy, the share which friendship, 'oriel inter-
course, mad the heart, have in the excess of English
over Feenik co ed sad we have ao doubt that
our superiority will be stilami greater there than even in
our wealth or freedom. As to journals, 3-1,000 are dis-
patched daily from Paris to the departments, among a
=riots if about 2 million", making one journal
70 persons; sod, by this, the number of seas-
paper readers is Ragland would be, to those in France,
sun to I. But the suerilser and circulation of country
papers in 'England are so much greater than in France,
that they raise the proportion of English readers to
shoat tli to 1; and ~papers contain about three times
as mach letter-press as -a French paper. The result of
all this is, that an Eoglishman reads about ;5 times as
mach of km newspapers of his (vinare, in a given time,
as a Frenchman of his. But in flue towns of Eng-
LAW, most of the papers are distributed hv means of par-
te,* not by the pest; on the other hand, on account of
the number of coffee-houses, public gimlets, and other
snodes of communication less usual in England, it is pos-
sible that each French newspaper may he read or listen-
e-1 to he a greater number of persons ; and thus the
Englisli mode of distribution may be compensated. To
be quite within bowed; however, anal in order not to
overpower oar yesslers, we state, as the final result,
that env reads daily fifty times as much
as doses airman. of the newspapers of his country.

Extract of a late letter from Madrid :—" As
Spanish Court Calendars have no very extensive
circulation in Europe, and the Grandees of this
cantor'', which they *Wont quit, are out very generally
known a little biographical outline of the [Juke de San
Fernando, whose name you will perhaps have occasion
t,o see mixed to State papers, may not be unacceptable.
Tl.t Duke beloogs to an old and respectable Andalusian
family of the name of Malgarejo. that, has enjoyed the
title of Marques de Cosa-Malgarejo. if I recollect well,
his father was Captain-General oldie department of Per.
rut, conseoseody a naval character. The present fluke
is of the age of King Ferdinand, was his play-mate, of
reuree always sear the lace. He married the King's
Rant, the sister of the Cardinal tie Bourbon, now Arch-
bishop of Toledo; the other sister was married to Hoiloy,
the famous Prince.of Peace. He was a Colonel of va-
rsity at the wasensiearesient of the late Spanish Heroin-
time, but I deo4oot know of any monument raised to hi-
v-dour, or soy record- of his military or political PT-
v'ses during 'bps momentous period. Being a favourite
with the Kiev, and allied to him by marriage. Verdi-
wind raised lam to the Hoke of San Fernando, or ra-
ther made him a isionesake. I leave you to judge how
far an education in a Spanish palace can have fitted the
Dakota become a Plenipotentiary to the United States,
or the Premier of Spain. I also learn, from unones-
tionable authority, that the Court of Brazils has given
a decided aegative to the delivering op of Monte' ideo,
ender may condition whatever. The Spanish Cabinet is
a complete quandary on discovering that a secret on-
derstending exists between the Court of Rio Janeiro
atod the Barnes Ayres Government, amounting nearly
to a co-operation of force against an invading enemy.—
This info/motion, whether true or false, has produced a
high degree of irritation anioog the big wigs in Madrid,
some of which opeolvndrocate the necessity
tu of an im-
ediate declaration iof war against Porta and ronse-
gaeotly to direct all the efforts of the grand expedition
to that olden."
la 'Upper 'Egypt, above the province of Esne,
there' have been 'lately discovered, besides the
sul
phut mines fbbad some time ado, also iron and kad
pines; the latter are said to be very r:ch. he
Puha has. seat to 6010 parts several persons to
look for the gold and emerald mines, which have
Won negleotod for wow eoutarles. The Pea* has
fitred..loo.ooo dollars to -the person who shall
cavorter p coal isipe,.whieklirostial be particularly
liftable, on account of the great scarcity of wood.

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