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 [sic] on a platform, covered with carpet the same as the room. A pedestal, painted as marble, is placed on one side, and ornamented with or moulu, serving as a table. The dome of the bed has a strong iron plate attached to it, with hooks, which slip into sockets fixed in the wall, whereby it may be put up and taken down at pleasure, leaving only the sofa.

The taste for single colours, in silks or calicoes, still continues to prevail, Black chairs, ornamented with metal gilt, in various elegant devices, are in universal use, and certainly have a good effect, from their great neatness; and there is hardly any apartment in which they may not be suitably placed.

Bronze and gold still continue in use in the more ornamental and decorative articles of tables, candelabras, glasses, and cornices for windows; and we still witness a taste for using draperies in continuation. Holding the antique as a ground-work for taste, a much lighter style evinces itself in modern works of art than has prevailed for some time; for which we are greatly indebted to the Grecian school, and which in the space of a very few years, bids fair to give this country the pre-eminence, not only in execution, but also in design.

ALLEGORICAL WOOD-CUT, WITH PATTERNS OF BRITISH MANUFACTURE.

pattern, No. 1, is the Adairian dot, a novel article, of an uncommonly neat and elegant appearance, yard and half wide, and exquisitely adapted for morning dresses. It is manufactured in the north of England, and furnished us by Mrs. Thomas and Co. corner of Chancery-lane.

No. 2 is a white and lilac figured sarsnet, half yard wide, much in fashion for pelisses. It is the manufacture of Harris, Moody, and Co. Pall-Mall.

No. 3 is a Turkish figured gauze, half yard wide, for dresses, worn in a variety of colours, but principally in that of which we have given the pattern. It is furnished us by the manufacturers, Robarts, lowman, and Snuggs. of Chandos-street, Covent-garden.

No. 4 is called printed India rib. It is a species of marcella, and is, at this moment, a very fashionable article for gentlemen’s waistcoats. It is furnished us by Messrs. Kesteven and Co. York-street, Covent-garden. 

.—Married.] At Iver, S. Farer, esq. to Miss Mitford.—At West Wycomb, Doyle, esq. to Miss Crowther.

.—Married.] At Haddenham, the Rev. J Fayrer, of Sonersham, Huntingdonshire, to Miss S. Clay.

.—Married.] At Knutsford, the Rev. L. Dixon, to Miss Drake.—Mr. Coppock to Miss Margaret Knowles.—At Prestbury, Joshua Wood, esq. to Mrs. Nicholls.

Died.] At Nantwich, Mrs. Leversage.—At Macclesfield, Mr. W. Roe.

.—Died.] The Reverend Malachi Hitchins, Vicar of St. Hilary and Gwinnear, and principal calculator to the Board of Longitude.—In St. Agnes, aged 86, Capt. John Tregelles.—At Roscrow, near Penryn, Miss Fox.—At Polruan, Mrs. Michell, 83.—At Trevillin, H. H. Gillard, esq.—At Poughill, the wife of Thomas Trood, jun. esq.

.—Married.] At Kirklinton, Mr. David Tate, aged 60, to Miss Mary Little, aged 19.

Died.] At Middleton-Place, Mrs. Burn, and the following day her husband, Joseph B. esq.—At Winmarley, aged 90, Ann Bourne; mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, to 137 children.

.—Married.] At Kelly, Sam. Laing, esq. to Miss Agnes Kelly.—At Exeter,