The periodical conflagration of the houses, mosques, and synagogues, in Smyrna, took place with great splendour on the 30th ult., and the next will be arranged for the ensuing month, when everybody suspected of the plague will receive orders from the government to remain in their dwellings until they are entirely consumed. By this salutary arrangement, it is expected that much improvement will take place in the public health. The inundation of the Nile has also been very favourable this year, The water has risen higher than usual, and carried off several hundred poor people. The Board of Guardians of the Alexandria Union are consequently much rejoiced. * * * * * TO MR GREEN, THE INSPECTOR OF HIGHWAYS. ON HIS RECENT SKYLARK. "The air hath bubbles as the water hath." Huzza! huzza! there goes the balloon-- 'Tis up like a rocket, and off to the moon! Now fading from our view, Or dimly seen; Now lost in the deep _blue_ Is Mr. _Green_! Pray have a care, In your path through the air, And mind well what you do; For if you chance to slip Out of your airy ship, Then _down_ you come, and all is _up_ with you. * * * * * FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Two thousand and thirty-five remarkably fine calves, from their various rural pasturages at Smithfield. Some of the _heads_ of the party have since been seen in the very highest society. * * * * * ADVICE GRATIS. "What will you take?" said Peel to Russell, on adjourning from the School of Design. "Anything you recommend." "Then let it be your departure," was the significant rejoinder. * * * * * PLEASANT CROPS ABROAD.--A GOOD LOOK OUT FOR THE SYRIANS. "French agents are said to _be sowing discontent_ in Syria."--_Sunday Times_. * * * * * THE GENTLEMAN'S OWN BOOK. Having advised you in our last paper of "Dress in general," we now proceed to the important consideration of DRESS IN PARTICULAR, a subject of such paramount interest and magnitude, that we feel an Encyclopaedia would be barely sufficient for its full developement; and it is our honest conviction that, until professorships of this truly noble art are instituted at the different universities, the same barbarisms of style will be displayed even by those of gentle blood, as now too frequently detract from the Augustan character of the age. To take as comprehensive a view of this subject as our space will admit, we have divided it into the quality, the cut, the ornaments, and the pathology. THE QUALITY comprises _the texture, colour, and age of the materials_. Of the texture there are only two kinds compatible with the reputation of a gentleman--the very fine and the very coarse; or, to speak figuratively--the Cachmere and the Witney blanket.