21 FEBRUARY 1846, Page 12

Madame Casten= is not dead, after all. We have seen

a letter from the lady's father to Mr. Lumley, contradicting the report of his daughter's death, and expressing just indignation at the way in which the false state- ment was contrived to depreciate her talent. Madame Castellan had been slightly indisposed, at St. Petersburg, but recovered, and reappeared with great eclat: a letter stating this fact was happily received by her father on the very day the rumour of her death reached him in Paris.