A CURIOSITY IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION.- -At the west end of the gallery we come upon what might at first sight be supposed to be a suit of armour, but which, so far from being in any way connected with the chivalrous calling of a knight, is, in reality, intended to subserve the requirements of a tailor. This object was constantly surrounded by a group of spectators, all of whom agreed in expressing admiration at the industry and skill that are here displayed. The instrument consists of a large number of steel plates formed into a model of a man, and filled in the interior with an infinity of keys and springs, by which the size of any limb or any part of a limb can be increased or diminished at pleasure. The figure can thus be altered so as to correspond with almost any variety of the human form, and by its aid the art of a tailor can be brought to the highest pitch of perfection and accuracy. The instrument is said to have cost 7,000l., and to have occupied more than seven months in its construction, from which we should be inclined to fear that the ingenuity which it exhibits cannot, for the present at least, hope to be rewarded by any very large or general patronage on the part of the trade. Let every lady carry with her in her reticule a friend in need, a friend indeed, and a friend at all times! We shall perhaps be asked the meaning of this seeming enigma: and we therefore hasten to explain it. A new discovery has been made in the elaboration of a combined essence and perfume-the result of which is a product exquisitely spirituous, entitled Aqua d'Oro. The Messrs. Rowland have the high merit of this discovery-which, during the languor and fatigues contingent to the approaching warm weather, will prove invaluable. A golden fountain of Aqua d'Oro is exhibited in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park. STORMS ANTICIPATED.-The advantages of the electric telegraph in America, where it extends over several thousand miles, are of immense value, merely as giving notice of storms. A hurricane storm traverses the atmosphere at about the same rate as a carrier pigeon-sixty miles an hour. A vessel in the port of New York, about to sail for New Orleans, may be telegraphed twenty hours in advance, that a southwest storm is advancing on the coast from the Gulf of Mexico, and thus escape all danger by waiting till it has passed. THE LAND OF DOLLARS.-Our republican brethren on the other side of the Atlantic sneer at our Court Circular with its circumstantial notices of the everyday doings of royalty. And yet, the fashionable intelligence of the capital of the United States does not seem to have any very dignified advantage over us in this particular. Take, for example, the following paragraph in a Washington daily paper:The Secretary of War took an airing to-day in his New York thousanddollar carriage." AN ODD INTRODUCTION.-Cook, the translator of Hesiod, Plautus, Terence,and part of Cicero, once introduced Foote to a company in the following singular terms :-"This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother." Births. On the 5th ult., at Providenceterrace, Kensington, the wife of the Rev. Edgar Alfred Deacon, of a son.-6th, at Limerick, the wife of Captain Cumming, 52nd Regiment, of a son.-8th, at Mallow, county of Cork, Mrs. Edward Montresor, of a son.-8th, at Chessington-lodge, Mrs. John Miles, of a son.-8th, at Brighton, the Hon. Mrs George Bridgeman, of a son. - 9th, at Hamilton-lodge, Upper Kensington-gore, the lady of the Hon. W. E. FitzMaurice, of a son.-9th, at Auchleeks, the wife of Robert Robertson, Esq., younger, of Auchleeks, of a son.-10th, at Weedon, Northamptonshire, Mrs. George Jenkinson, of a son.-11th, at Oxford, the wife of the Rev. Richard Harrington, D.D., Principal of Brasenose College, of a son.-12th, at Eaton-place, Mrs. William Stopford, of a daughter.-12th, at 21, Park-square, Mrs. Little, of a son. Marriages.-On the 1st ult., at the British Chapel, Copenhagen, by the Rev. R. S. Ellis, Anna Frances, second daughter of R. J. Grant, Esq., and granddaughter of the late Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., of Dalvey, to William Marcus Westerman, Esq., of Copenhagen.-6th, at St. Saviour's, Jersey, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Jersey, Arthur Augustus, son of Joseph Longmore, Esq., of the Mythe-house, Gloucestershire, to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of the late Rev. John Croker, of Fort Elizabeth, county of Limerick.-8th, at Tynemouth, by the Rev. Francis Close, of Cheltenham, Lieut. Francis Ardie Close, R.N., to Mary Henrietta, daughter of the late George Hebden, Esq., of Appleton, Yorkshire, and Gothenburg, Sweden.-8th, at Wold, Northamptonshire, by the Rev. G. Casson, rector, the Rev. F. F. Beadon, M.A., 21, Pulteney-street, Bath, to Maryanna Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Rear-Admiral Carroll, C.B. Deaths. On the 9th ult., at Roehampton, Surrey, Charles Lyne Stephens, Esq., aged 88.-19th, G. Rush, Esq., of Elsenhamhall, Essex, and Farthinghoe-lodge, Northamptonshire.—11th, at Milton-place, Egham, Emily Louisa, eldest daughter of R. W. Edgell, Esq., aged 11.-11th, at Benwell, Northumberland, S. R. Streatfeild, late major 52nd Light Infantry, aged 42.12th, the Hon. and Rev. J. E. Boscawen, late canon of Canterbury, rector of Wotton, Surrey, and vicar of Ticehurst, Sussex, aged 42.-13th, at his residence, Tottenham, John Day, Esq., of Water-lane, City, aged 67.-14th, at 5, Euston-place, Mary, widow of Joseph Bowstead, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Medical Service, Bombay, aged 40.-15th, in Saville-row Major-Gen. Sir W. Morison, K.C.B., M.P., for Clackmannan and Kinross. OF BLACKWOOD'S LADY'S MAGAZINE AND GAZETTE OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD; JANUARY TO JUNE 1851. Under the especial Patronage of Her Royal Highness The Binder is requested to place the Plates as before, and the Contents at the end of the Volume. ORIGINAL ARTICLES: A Legend of Roylan Dias, 201. An Irish Funeral, 25. Charms and Amulets, 61. Glimpses of the Beautiful, 87. Suburbs of London, 20. The Beauty of Aberleigh, 41. The Champion, 180. The Confederates; or, the Days of Margaret of Parma, 99. The Dead Alive, 64. The Dirge Mass of Norman Leslie, 121. The Dying Slave, 66. The Fiery Ordeal, 26. The Forget-Me-Not; or, the Mother's Grave, 81. The Legend of Fra Diego, 161. The Myrtle, 1. The Philosopher's Blunder, 227. The Rescued Criminal, 27. The World in an Omnibus, 186. Vrichzy of Radzivil, 12, 50, 88, 136, 165, 208. POETRY: Bessie Gray, 19. Love and Friendship, 107. My Beloved, 97. On the Death of Summer, 11. Song of a River, 185. The Berberry, 65. The Corn Poppy, 207. The Deformed Child, 145. The Dream, 225. The Fisherman's Home, 60. The Guelder Rose, 11. The Hare-Bell, 164. The March of Death, 188. The Return, 19. The Scarlet Pimpernel, 86. The Sun-Dew, 10. The Sweet-Briar, 189. The Wanderer from the Fold, 135. Yellow-Horned Poppy, 63. ALMANACK, 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240. EXHIBITIONS, 36, 75, 112, 194, 237. LITERATURE, REVIEWS, &c., 29, 67, 102, NEW MUSIC, 70, 114, 151, 190, 233. PARIS CHIT CHAT, 73. PARIS FASHIONS, 30, 71, 115, 152, 190, 233. |