The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-12 00:00:00

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Dress at Brighton is of the most extreordi•ary and
one mirk kind. At the Brat convert giro' at the Queen a
0 is lens by tie sth Damon Gaud% there was west the
local r..p Were call.. well-dressed crowd,the grtst majority,
ailing and robupt, being In bath -chairs.
youns woman dressed like • gigantic child ..'l short, very
short, loose frock without • waist, with an extremely
OPi4 tyhoeing%.t re•ou'kable eoituince was worn by
old
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wide bright-yell° e sash :it would bate done molten, for
a faaerbair aa " Beg." Accourpanyinx this child was •
a perms in • wagoner's smick-frock, hackled in at the
waist, the Le nigear, a soft felt, In keeping with the dress.
This would have done for the "jolly wagoner." Another,
also more fitted for private theatricals than for walking,
was a shad wee 'ergo, with a twine net trimmed with
. corks artistimilly enough draped, • red Iff rasniello cap on
' the bead, desh-col.nued hose, and sand-shoes.
The 'loaned worth Lunbton,fiag-lieutenant to Admiral
Seymour, has proved biassed equal to an emergency. The
gathering of men-o'-war of the Summon Power', by wet
of a naval demonstration against the Porte, neoessit•tee
the devising of a simple intereational °ode of signals, se es
to twilit tee oommunination between the different vessels:
and it is stated that such • oode was originated. of rather
conipiled, by Lieutenant Lentloton, and has baton foetid to
&newer satisfactorily.
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VicoAdmiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, as the head of
the cnineil of admirals, has it diffioult and responsible
duty to discharge ; and the oilier" of the Alexandra and
the Terneraire have ha I, on their pert, to uphold the
tra.litonal hospitality of the British nation. le enter-
taining the naval Aims of cther countries, assembled to-
gether in connection with the imminent bombardment of
epicurean Cartes. Under these Doleigno, coesiderable demands have been Illba• upon
their
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4.lerahtbnitt to need suggesting that the Admiralty
circum-
stancesfsso: didmiitatk
financial demands made upon the officers of the Alexandra
and the Terseraire are a necessity of their situatton, and
have not been voluntarily sought.

All Paris was talking last week about Sarah Bernhardt's
new dresses for bor approaching American campaign.
They are iu number ebnit thirty, and are the creations of
It. lull. oce of the moat artistic foionos (I believe the
correct word) of Paris. A full catalogue of them produc-
tions mary it they be, might be WOWlsOlne
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but may b s permitted to mention one or two remark-
able ones. The nava be stadia', perhaps, lath, dress for
the Ls* ql It. Cawooltioa—o long r.tiss of white satin,
embroidered with very truthful Mgt itions of the dower in
raised silk. This drills Ii to be worn soniethiag like •
Smarm too, fuku vi upon the shoulder, perdu under
one aria, :dad draped rimed the figure in picturesque folds.
Another dregs is of black velvet embroidered In front
with bright-plumaged birds; • third I. of Same-coloured
velvet, a fourth of ivory velvet. others of various della its
shades of flush. Selma among the lot are dehedrias
dresses—tea-gowns or dressing-goens—the prettiest pro-
bably being oise of white ism covered almost entirely
with esed-isearls Tti• price of VIC; gorgeous raiment
must amount to • high figure—upwards of Wee thousand
pounds, it is said. But Sarah mat be growing rich- Tbe
terms she is promised in America are extravagant/7 high;
and in her meat provincial tour through Trance the
Tempts have been everywhere tremendous Not • seat
was to be had at Nantes for lore or mousy; all were
engaged days ahead. It was the same at Lyons, Dijon,
Marseilles: and at all these towns Sarah wee personally
greeted with the wildest enthusiasm.

Lord Mountmorres, the- latest victim of Hibernian
agrarianism, could not have been a very unpopular sort of
man after all. Father L teals, the parish Priest of Om&
knew him well, awl attended his funeral. Father Lavelle
is no lover of the lord. He is the fire-eating cleric, one
time known as the ecclesiastic apologist for Fenlaniem.
the foe of 0 ordinal 0311.132, and the particular ratio/ of
John. Archbishop of Tusm. Father Lavelle is an extreme
lent agitator in principle, and yet he was the friend ef
the murdered Lord Hountmorree. The canes of the strange
friendship was simply that the murdered nobleman,
though severe in his dealing with breakers of the law,
was thoroughly Irish, and was deeply imbued with that
charity towerds the poor, which C ivereth a multitude of
offences. No one know this better than the parish.priest
of one of the poorest populations in the West of Ireland.
Tradesmen at seaside places, both at home and abroad,
have been complaining this year, and apparently not with-
out reason, of the great difficulty of getting any ready-
money payments from young ladies. It not unfrequently
happens that a bevy of lovely damsels order and take
away with them lawn-tennis balls, a visitors' watts, and
other small articles; while they omit to pay, giving as a
reason that they do not carry a puies with them. The
modern style of dress—a jersey and tight-fitting skirt—is a
good deal answerable for thir, there bring no space for a
pocket. Probably, too, the alarmlog Tam4-Sbanter cape,
which the fair sex now weer, produce such an effect upon
the brain as t eucourago a memory so treacherous that it
enable, the debtor to pass and repass the same shop day
after day without considering her oblige hone to pay, but
only to pachase. To such • pitch has this arrived that,
in more than ono plaos, tradespeople decline to do business
with young ladies unaccompanied, not by a cherwrion. for
such an msociation Is quite oboolete, but by one of the
sterner sex, who, es in La Femme a Papa, may be described
as to pacers slams, and has the privilege of paying up,
whether he wishes it or not.

One has recently been under the impression that the
bad behaviour of English people in foreign churches, so
animadverted on by Albert Smith in his lectures, was •
thing of the paat If anyone had been present at the
cathedral at Boulogne last week during a wedding, such
an idea would have been rudely upset. 'There was nothing
extraordinary about the wedding; it was an ordinary
every-day aff air of well-to-do people. Yet for some mama
or other the English residents and visitors, the larger por-
tion being of the fair sex, chose to attend in considerable
numbers. Such • seising hold of and dragging chairs about
to favourable positions; ladies chattering, both before and
durinx the service, running here and there, as gentlemen
do at the Opera, to convene with their friends, then turn-
ing round and sitting face to the door and back to the
altar! On the approach of the bridal procession some
climbld up on the chairs, and then there wee * genmal
stampede to the entrance to the chancel. We lady con-
sidered it necessary to bring a dog with her, whom barking
was heard more than once. The offenders were chiefly
members of the Baldish (smiles whom Lard Fate compels
to reside abroad, or those who have paid a lengthened
vis‘t to Boulogne, and who, one would imagine, had some
reverence for 101' xi's house, even though the religion might
be different from what they profess, but do not practise

The Channel Sisadros wiU leave home waters for •
month or six weeks' armies round the coast early in
November, returning to the ports Urns enough for the
Christniu leave. At least that Is the arrangement at
present made, but the critical state of affairs in the
Mediterranean readers it liable to modification. The flag-
ship, the Minotaur, will be ready for sea by Uwe latter part
of October, and Admiral Rood will not rejoin her till
within • few days of her completion. When that gallant
officer's period of service in her expire she will be paid
out of commission, either to have very extensive improve-
ments carried oit on board her, Was to make her
equipment more in harmony with the necomilies of
modern times, or to hr converted into a troop-ship. The
latter alternative dose not find much favour, although the
Minotaur only pose uses arinour-pisting, which would, in
an actual engagement, be practically useless.