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 Huet ViliersVilliers [sic] has displayed abundance of taste and playfulness of imagination in his various drawings and portraits; and Mrs. Green, to the honour of the female professors of painting, has presented us with one miniature portrait of a lady, which, for elegance, harmony, and truth, we believe has scarcely its parallel in modern art.

The drawings of the Stephanoffs, though crude and deficient in harmony, display considerable power, and prove that they have studied their art with attention and success.

Upon the whole this is an interesting little exhibition, and we have no doubt it will meet with the encouragement it deserves. It has, in common with the others, our best wishes for its success.

FASHIONABLE HEAD-DRESSES. No. 1., or hood of transparent gauze bordered with silver.

No. 2. Silver net dress cap lined with purple silk; silver cord and and [sic] tassels.

No. 3. Yellow silk walking-bonnet, with straw flower.

No. 4. Promenade head-dress of lilac silk, with short lace veil.

No. 5. Dress hat of cerulean blue, bound with pearls and trimmed with silver; white feathers tipped with blue.

PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF LORD VISCOUNT COCHRANE.

Viscount Cochrane, the eldest son of the Earl of Dundonald, was born on the 24th December, 1775. It is not improbable that in the choice of a profession he was influenced by the example of his uncle, the Honourable Admiral Cochrane, under whose auspices he commenced his naval career, at the early age of twelve years. The British empire was then enjoying profound peace, a circumstance not the most favourable to the hopes of an ardent and youthful mind aspiring to promotion. It was not till towards the conclusion of the late war, that his lordship’s advancement to the rank of lieutenant, furnished him with opportunities of displaying that determined intrepidity, promptitude, and energy of character, which have so eminently distinguished all his enterprizes.

In the month of December, 1799, we find Lord Cochrane serving on board the Queen Charlotte, the flag-ship of Lord Keith, who was then lying in Gibraltar. The admiral, having observed the Lady Nelson cutter surrounded and attacked by several French privateers, sent out the boats of the Queen Charlotte and Emerald to rescue that vessel. The Queen Charlotte's cutter was, on this occasion, placed under the command of Lord Cochrane, who pursued the privateers under the very guns of Algeziras; and to nothing but the darkness of the night were the enemy indebted for their escape.

The gallantry displayed by Lord