The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR ifARCII.

A fashionable dressmakerhas just completed some mourning
orders, including several ball-dresses. Among them may be
mentioned one or two of Chantilly lace. Other dresses are
composed of black silk, trimmed either with flounces of
Chantilly lace or with flounces of tulle embroidered with je t
Moire antique is also adapted for ball-dresses worn in mourn-
ing. One has been made of moire antique of a beautiful pearl
grey. The skirt is nearly covered with flounces of crape of
the same tint as the moire, and the flounces are trimmed with
vine-leaves and grapes formed of- black satin. A wreath of
the foliage and berries of the service-tree in grey and black is
the coiffure to be worn with this dress. For out-door dress,
in mourning, black alpaca, poplin, and paramatta, are suitable
materials. A paramatta dress, just made, is ornamented with
a front trimming formed of two large ruches of black sarsenet
ribbon edged with black guipure. These ruches pass up the
skirt, one on each side, in the tablier manner. A trimming
of ribbon passes along the upper part of the arm-hole, and is
continued down the front of the corsage to the waist, so as to
form bretelles. The sleeves, from the shoulder to the elbow,
set rather closely to the arm, and are trimmed with narrow
ruches of ribbon disposed in perpendicular rows. Below the
elbow they are finished by a deep frill.
Among the novelties in lace articles may be mentioned
some very elegant capes or pelerines. They droop over the
shoulders, descending as low as the waist at the back, thereby
resembling, in some measure, the cardinal capes formerly so
much in fashion. These pelerines are very prettily trimmed
with bows of coloured ribbon. The new berthes present some
novelty. They are composed of black or white lace, worked
muslin, or tulle, and are ornamented with bows and ruches of
ribbon ; or, when destined to be worn in ball costume, with
narrow wreaths of flowers. These berthes are round behind,
and in front the two sides are prolonged so as to form long
ends, which cross in front of the corsage, and are left to flow
over the skirt of the dress. Sometimes the ends, instead of
crossing in front of the corsage, are apart as far as the waist :
they then turn in a slight curve, one to the right, and the
other to the left side. The space in front of the corsage be-
tween the two sides of the berthe is filled up by a series of
bows of ribbon, small bouquets of flowers or ornaments of
jewellery, &c., placed one above another, the lowest being at
the point in the centre of the waist. Berthes of this descrip-
tion are occasionally made in muslin and organdy, and are
covered with needle-work,intermingled with medallions of lace.
The fashions for spring are not yet decidedly fixed; but we
may mention that in silk, rich, dark hues will be among the
fashionable colours of the coming season. Silks with broad
stripes, and those of chequered patterns in various colours,
which have been so long popular, also continue in fashion.
A beautiful ball-dress, made within the last week, is com-
posed of white silk. The skirt is trimmed half way up with
bouillonnes of tulle, sprigged with the crocus in every colour,
encircled with grass. A tunic of Chantilly lace covers the
upper part of the silk skirt, and descends to the top of the
bouillonnes of tulle.— The Lady's Newspaper.

RzarnocAL CONFIDENCE. A few days ago, a young
woman, the wife of Frederick Piper, applied to the Cranbrook
magistrates for advice, stating that she was in a state of
destitution, and could obtain no relief. Her husband was a
drunken, idle fellow, who might have work, but would not do
it; and the parish would give her nothing but an order for
herself, her child, and husband, for the union-house, whither
he refused to go. Mr. Dodson confirmed this account, and
the Rev. F. Barrow suggested the giving of relief, on which
he would issue a warrant against Piper for neglecting to
maintain his family. On Thursday last, he was accordingly
committed for a month. Piper, it seems, is a private in the
West Kent Militia. On being called out last summer, on duty,
he endeavoured to coax his wife out of her wedding ring; but
she withstood the seductive wiles of the charmer till the day
of leave-taking for Aldershott, when, with the "parting kiss,"
she gave him the golden hoop from her finger as a pledge of
affection never to be parted with. On arriving at head-
quarters, however, he hastened to a pawnbroker's to melt the
hymeneal token, when he found to his mortification that his
wife had substituted for the bit of gold a common brass cur-
tain ring—a ruse of which it will be long ere Frederick hears
thGealleatatte.among his comrades. The young wife, it is said,
acted on her mother's advice in the matter.—South-Eastern

TRIAIioP OITENDERS BlLL—This new bill, empowering
the Court of queen's Bench to order certain offenders to be
tried at the Central Criminal Court, has been sent down from
the Lords for confirmation by the Lower House. The former
court is hereby empowered to order any indictment which has
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been removed nto it by certiorari to be tried at the Central
Criminal Court, if it shall appear to be expedient to the ends
case). When such order
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original prison being
required to do so simply on the production of an office copy of
the said order, without writ of habeas corpu,,. No defendant
need appear in person before the Court of Queen's Bench. The
Central Criminal Court may order the payment of the expenses
of prosecutors and witnesses, rewards, L
c. No Ob3eCtiOn can
be raised to any writ of certiorari, either in the Criminal
Court or in a court of error. A prisoner convicted at the
Central Criminal Court under this act may be punished either
in the county where the crime was committed, or within the
jurisdiction of the court, at the discretion of the judges.
Where the crown obtains a trial at the Central Criminal
Court, the expense of witnesses is to be advanced to the
defendant. The treasurer of the county where the offence
was committed must pay for the prisoner's maintenance in
Newgate,