On s'abonne au Magasin de Musique, Boulevart des Italiens, Passage de l'Opéra, me L'administration du Journal, Rue Notre-Dame de Naxareth, N° 25. Published by Page 112 Fetter lane. London. 1 Miscellanies of the Month. plain gros de Naples; the sleeves exceedingly wide at the upper arm, but the material that supports them is made to incline more from the shoulders to the elbow, giving a falling appearance to the former, that has been too much neglected since the reign of full sleeves. The dress is without ornament on the skirt. The brodequins are pale grey cachemire and Russia leather of a shade deeper. 81 The sitting figure is dressed in plain jacconet muslin. The hat ribbons and belt are of green ribbon, à gros grains. The jointstool represented in the engraving is a new invention, and formed of hollow tubes of iron, that render it light and firm. We recommended the pattern to the attention of our English manufacturers. Miscellanies of the Month. Death of the PRINCESS LOUISE DE SAXE WEIMAR.-It is at length our painful duty to record the death of this interesting young lady, who, after a long series of unparalleled sufferings, resigned her spirit into the hands of Him who gave it, on Wednesday, the 11th of July. Ever since her arrival in England the complaint, under which she was then labouring, an affection of the spinal cord, left no room for hope; but the patient resignation, and humble submission to the Divine Will, which the amiable sufferer unceasingly displayed, will long be remembered by that illustrious circle of which she was herself so bright a star. On the evening preceding the day of her decease, at half after nine, the medical attendant, on being suddenly sent for, perceived that a considerable change for the worse had taken place; and his opinion being communicated to her Majesty, and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, they both immediately repaired to the chamber of their expiring relative, where they remained until half-past four the ensuing morning.-At three o'clock (previously to their departure), the Princess was seized with convulsions, which, however, lasted but a few minutes, and she then sunk into slumber, in which state she remained until a quarter before six, when she departed this world, for, we doubt not, the regions of a blessed immortality. Death came, indeed, "like an untimely frost, And nipped the fairest flow'r in all the field." On the ensuing day, a post mortem examination of the body took place. by Mr. Davies, the King's private surgeon, before Sir A. Cooper, Sir C. Clarke, and Messrs. Keate and Brodie, all of whom had been previously consulted.-Nothing new, however, was elicited; the disease was a softening of the spinal marrow, from the middle of the back to its termination. THE FUNERAL.-On Monday morning, July 16th, the regiment of fusileer guards marched into the Castle-yard, Windsor, and formed a line, from the grand entrance to St. Georges' Chapel; at half-past eleven the procession began to move, in the following order : Their Majesties' Pages, two and two. The Physicians, two and two. The Coronet, borne on a crimson velvet cushion. The Coffin, carried on a bier by ten men. Lady Howe, Chief Mourner, dressed in deep mourning, with a long white veil, which was borne by a Lady. Lady Sidney, Lady Fox, Lady F. Fitzclarence, Lady Falkland, Lady Erskine, and Lady Errol. The Duke of Cumberland, Prince George of Cumberland, the Duke of Gloucester, the Earl of Errol, Lord F. Fitzclarence, Lord Ashbrook, Sir William Freemantle, Sir C. Thornton, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Turner, Lord Falkland, the Dean of Hereford, Sir J. Wyatville, Sir G. Seymour, and Sir H. Wheatley. The Upper Servants of the Household closed the procession. At the door of the church, the procession was met by the Dean and Canons of Windsor and the Gentlemen of St. George's Choir and the Chapel Royal, and passed slowly down the western aisle, and from thence, up the middle of the cathedral, to the interior of the choir; during which time was sung Handel's splendid anthem, "I am the resurrection," &c. Lady Howe, as the chief mourner, took her seat at the head of the coffin, which was placed on a bier near the altar. The service immediately commenced, the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiating, the usual psalms and lessons were read, followed by Kent's sublime anthem, "Hear my prayer, O God! and hide not thy face from my petition." Immediately on its termination, the procession again formed, and moved with slow and solemn steps from the choir to the vault, where the service again recommenced. "For as it hath pleased," and "I heard a voice from heaven," were then sung without accompaniment, after which followed (with the organ) Blake's funeral anthem, "I have set God alway before me." The service concluded with the Blessing, and the chorus to Luther's Hymn for the voluntary. Her Majesty and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar did not leave the Castle, but the King preceded the procession in a carriage to the Chapel, The coffin was an extremely neat one, covered with rich crimson velvet, and studded with silver nails. It bore the following inscription : "Her Serene Highness Princess LOUISE WILHELMINA, Duchess of SAXE WEIMAR, eldest daughter of Duke BERNARD and Duchess IDA of SAXE WEIMAR, and niece of their Majesties King WILLIAM the FOURTH and Queen ADELAIDE, born at Ghent, 31st March, 1817, died at Windsor Castle, 11th July, 1832, in the 16th year of her age." On Sunday night, at 10 o'clock, their Majesties inspected the vault; and the Queen, whose attention to her departed niece was such as to occasion the greatest anxiety to those around her, wept biterly. We are happy to state, however, that the gloom which for a while pervaded the Castle, is gradually disappearing; and we sincerely hope, that time, the great healer of all hearts, will shortly alleviate that distress which must naturally be experienced for the loss of so young, so amiable a relative. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS. -The establishment of the Times newspaper is an example, on a large scale, of a manufactory in which the division of labour, both mental and bodily, is admirably illustrated. It is scarcely imagined, by the thousands who read that paper in the various quarters of the globe, what a scene of organized activity the factory presents during the whole night, or what a quantity of talent and mechanical skill is put in action for their amusement and information. Nearly one hundred persons are employed in this establishment; and, during the session of Parliament, at least twelve reporters are constantly attending the Houses of Commons and Lords-each in his turn, after about an hour's work, retiring to translate, into ordinary writing, the speech he has just heard and noted in short-hand. In the meantime, fifty compositors are constantly at work-some of whom have already set up the beginning, whilst others are committing to type the yet undried manuscript of the continuation of a speech, whose middle portion is travelling to the office in the pocket of the hasty reporter, and whose eloquent conclusion is, perhaps, at that very moment, making the walls of St. Stephen's vibrate with the applause of its hearers. These congregated types, as fast as they are composed, are passed, in portions, to other hands; till at last the scattered fragments of the debate, forming, when united with the ordinary matter, forty-eight columns, re-appear in regular order on the platform of the printing-press. The hand of man is now too slow for the demands of his curiosity; but the power of steam comes to his assistance. Ink is rapidly supplied, to the moving types, by the most perfect mechanism; four attendants incessantly introduce the edges of large sheets of white paper to the junction of two great rollers, which seem to devour them with unsated appetite; other rollers convey them to the type already inked, and, having brought them into rapid and successive contact, re-deliver them to four other assistants, completely printed by the almost momentary touch. Thus, in one hour, 4000 sheets of paper are printed on one side; and an impression of 12000 copies, from above 300,000 moveable pieces of metal is produced for the public in six hours. To this passage, extracted from a useful little work just published by Mr. Babbage, is appended the following note:-"The author of these pages, with one of his friends, was recently induced to visit this most interesting establishment, after midnight, during the progress of a very important debate. The place was illuminated with gas, and was light as the day. There was neither noise nor bustle; and the visitors were received with such calm and polite attention, that they did not, until afterwards, become sensible of the inconvenience which such intruders, at a moment of the greatest pressure, must occasion; nor reflect, that the tranquillity, which they admired, was the result of intense and regulated occupation. But the effects of such checks on the current of business will appear, on recollecting, that, as 4000 newspapers are printed off on one side within the hour, every minute is attended with a loss of sixty-six impressions. The quarter of an hour, therefore, which the stranger may think it not unreasonable to claim for the gratification of his curiosity—and to him the time is but a moment-may cause a failure in the delivery of 1000 copies, and disappoint a proportionate number of expectant readers, in some of our distant towns, to which the morning papers are dispatched by the earliest and most rapid conveyances of the day." The late MedICAL TRIALS.-A great stir has been caused in the medical world, by the two trials for libel, which have recently taken place in the Common Pleas. Dr. Ramadge, a physician, residing in Ely Place, who distinguished himself as the defender of the celebrated Mr. St. John Long, when that gentleman was tried at the Old Bailey, was the plaintiff in both actions; and Mr. Wakley, the Editor of the Lancet, was the defendant in the action first tried; and the second was brought against Dr. Ryan, the Editor of the Medical and Surgical Journal. It appears, that, ever since Dr. Ramadge published a letter, in |