Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

LATEST FASHIONS

Passementerie, which, during several seasons, has
played so important a part in the ornamentation of
dresses, mantles. &c., is now improved by the introduc-
tion of a beautiful Parisian novelty, called Point de
Hongrie (Hungarian lace.) It surpasses in beauty every
article hitherto employed for applicator, and indeed is
nearly equal to fine embroidery. Ire have seen a
black velvet mantle on which this Point de Hongrie
was employed with exquisite effect. Several evening
and ball dresses, just completed by a fashionable milliner,
awe worthy of description, and will afford hints fcr ladies
v.ho may be ordering dresses of a similar style. One was
pnly crape; with seven gonffered flounces. The cottage
plain and pointed at the waist. The berthe with ends
frtvnt, and trimmed with two narrow gouffered frills,
headed by a bouilfonne. The sleeves finished with
three frills in the same style. Another dress is of white
tulle, with three skids, each edged
,with three rows
of embossed ribbon. This dress is worn over a slip of
white satin. The corsage is draped at the back, as well
as in front. The short sleeves are in puffs ; over them
are loose &raring sleeves in the style called odalisques.
The loose sleezes are edged with rows of ribbon in the

same style as that whicitrims the skirts. A third dress
is of skyblue moire antique, and has two skirts. The
upper one is trimmed with three rows of blue tulle
bouillonne, and between each ro-Wthere is a narrow ruche
of blue satin ribbon. At the very edge of the skirt
there is a row of broad silk fringe. The corsage is plain,
pointed at the waist., and has a berthe with long ends
crossed in front; ancY trimmed with fringe corresponding
with that on the skiA, and surmounted by three rows of
bouillonne and ruches of ribbon. An elegant out-door
dress, suited for morning visits of etiquette, is also worthy
or notice. A robe of silver grey silk has side trimmings

of black velvet woven iir with the material,. and forming
moutons at each side of the skirt: The corsage has a
deep basque pointed behind in the lancier. style. The
sleeve has a bouillonne onihe shoulder, and is finished at
the lower end with slasAings, within the openings of
which are seen white tnllc sleeves, with. cuffs of
Valenciimpes falling slightly over the hand. An
in-door dress, suitable for neglige dinner costume,

is composed of pale willow greeii. silk ; the skirt orna-
mented. with broad bands of satiii'of the same colour,
alternating with bands of striped grey, producing a.
beautiful' effect. The corsage is high or low-at' pleasure,
being made high by means of a,fichu or pelerine of moire
antique trimmed with fringe, or with guipure and chenille.
Another robe is of blue Louise silk,- and has *double
skirt. A Pompadour pattern, woven in black velvet,
edges the- upper skirt, and runs up each side, forming a
tablier. A third dress is of violet-colouted brocatel/e, the
fiont is covered by a tablier of what appears.to be exquis-
itely fine black lace ; but it is merely a Lace pattern-woven
in the silk. The corsage and sleeves are ornamenta with
Lady's _Ye wspaper.

corresponding

WATERLOO COURSING MEETING.—This celebrated
coursing meeting will take place over the Altcar demesne
on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next. - The prin—
cipal contest for the long tails is the Great Waterloo cup,
value sixteen hundred pounds in specie. There are no
less than sixty-four subscribers, and a large numbei of
dogs have already been trained c Mr
Wlzell will officiate

r the occasion
s meeting. —The kra.

ACCIDENTS. —On Saturday afternoon, Jtihn Hanlon,
a labourer, residing in Porter-street, was received into
the Northern Hospital, suffering from a contusion of the
breast, sustained by his falling into the hold of a ship
in the Victoria- Dock. About the same time Thomas
Shean, labourer, was brought in, suffering- front-a--con-
tused neck and shoulders, caused by a bundle •of sacks
falling upon him from one of the upper stories of a
warehouse in Pullen-street, Dale-street.

Althouoh,,, it is the month of January, 1859, most
people admit we are living in hard times, hence it
shonld be the study of every one to ask themselves the
question, " How can I save my money ?" We reply,
without hesitation, buy your steel pens and other sta—
tionery, at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse,
23, South John-street. John Gillett's, Thomas Lowe's,
G. W. Hughes, and other maker's pens at is per gross.
Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen.

LIVRRPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY. —Return.- for week
ending Jan. 22nd, 1859. Admitted : in-patients,.4B ; out-
patients, 12; surgical casualties, 15. Discharged: cured,
19 ; relieved, and at own request, 12 ; made out-patients,
3 ; irregular, 0 ; dead, 3 remain in the house; 196.
For the ensuing week. Visitors : Messrs. W S. Caine
and M. C. Jones, Esqrs. ; physician, Dr. Wee ; sur-
Feon, Mr. Stubbs; house surgeon, Mr. T. S. Welker;
Junior house surgeon, Mr. J. Allen ; chaplain, Rfuv4 H. J.
Garrod, A.B. Robert Hutchison, treasurer.
EXEMPTION FROM LOCAL TAXES. —A meeting has beer/
held in London to consider "the best means of:giving
effect to the recommendations of a select committee of
the House of Commons that all property occupied' for
public purposes should ceaso to be exempt- from local
taxation." The meeting was of an influential and repre-
sentative character, among the persons present being
several members of Parliament and delegates from various
important places. A deputation was appoihted. to wait
upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Rev. Rector
Campbell, of Liverpool, presided-on the occasion.

TILE SUSPECTED AtIiROBB. OF A WOMAN BY HER
HUSBAND IN WOLVERHAMPTON.—The inquiry into the
death of Harriet Thompson closed on Friday.. Owing
to the statement of a female companion of the deceased,
the son's account of the scuffle between his father and
mother in the house, and some marks of violence which
appeared on the body, the coroner adjourned the inquiry
for the purpose of a post-mortem examination, The
surgeon to whom this was entrusted found the internal
organs of the deceased extensively diseased, and gave it
as his opinion that she had died from an attaok of pul-
monary apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of "Death
from natural causes ;" and in the course of the day the
husband of the deceased, who had been• apprehended on.
a charge of killing his wife, was liberated by the.sitting
•

FIRE AT THE ROYAL ADELAIDE BATHS, DOVER.—
Early on Friday morning a fire broke. out in this. well-
known bathing establishment, and completely. gutted the
rooms of the western block of baths facing the sea,
besides destroying a bath-room in the rear, and causing
a good deal of damage to other parts .of the same range
of buildings. It appears that one •of the rooms in
question, viz, that adjoining the -public reading-room
attached to this set of baths, was used by Mr. Marsh's
family as a dwelling place, various other detached rooms
being devoted as sleeping apartments to different members
of the household. It was in the first-mentioned room the
fire broke out, and thus 'stole upon the building without
arousing any of the occupants of the remaining rooms
until it had obtained a. complete mastery. The
alarm was first given by the coast-guard upon duty,
who perceived dense volume's of smeke issuing
from thCchimney, which he at first supposed to be on
fire, and he accordingly aroused Mr. Marsh. Information
was quickly given to Mr. G. T. Parks, the captain of the
local fire brigade, who, with the most praiseworthy alacrity,
got out the apparatus of the Local Board, and in less
than twenty minutes had it playing %upon the flames,
when the immense volume of water thrown by _the ,hose
very
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contents, were totally destroyed. The .only explanationt
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Fire office. Doode Express.
SURNAMES.-The following amusing combinations of
names of members of the. Commercial Travellers'
Society of Scotland, was given by the Secretary at the
Banquet held 'la the Queen's Rooms on Friday even-
in; :—To begin with occupations, they had Smiths,
\frights, Masons, Slaters, Taylors, Coopers, Millers,
Turners, Chandlers, Ferriers, Skinners, Maltmen,
Websters, Barters, Chapmen, Clarks, and Foremen.
They had Hunters, Falconers, and!Forresters. Then of
colours, they had Reid; Brown, Dunn, Black, White,
and Gray; They had net, however, had a Green um
CTr thy, Chraoass,twrod.
among them. They had Youngs, and if they had' not
Wyse men
a Balnydth - ando
an Aud; they had at all. events an Elder. Of disposi-
tions, si-
tai o ns,
Cummings. They had aAistoe
they hadGoodfellow.
racy, too, for they had
two- Nobles, awl even ' •they had
a. mg. In politics
Mnirs, Parks Blairs,
nothing but two Torrys. In scenery they had Woods,
'three
geography try had Scotland, Stirling, Kirkpatrick,
Hills, Dales, and Glens. In
Comrie, Johnston, Renfrew, Reton, Ramilton,
WonlYss :Preston, %Boat, and even as far. as Rome..
They had two French and one Welsh ; a Seller, a Locke,
and a Keay ; Clay, Wood, Irons, and Steel.. They had
several Heads, two Hornes, Shanks and Cruikshanks,

Proudwand liroadfoot. They had Sharp fellows,
and Smart ones too; Strang and Manley; Lang and
Little, Short and Mickle, Small and Lean. They had
two Roses and a Thorn. In music they were defiCient,
as they had only one Harper and two Bells. 0' a' the
airts the wind can blaw they only had the West ; but
they had also Westland's. They bad Halls and Walls,
Mills, Rhodes, and Bridges. They had two Fairbairns,
and two or three Blackies.. They bad Mathew and
Mathewson, Robb and Robson, Dick and Dickson, Thom
and Thomson, Donald and Donaldson. The monthswere represented by sweet May ; they were
done not poor,es
being possessed of Aitehies, and in addition
u rtor. alt
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at
they had one more. One thing he had been p
hueteietrtawiasnlyiloetxposof;st.edTthhaeyt tihmedSmaailthys_ wlrsidap.nsrtehd.sonatzinaaintest;
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19 Browns so that the Smiths were fairly proto;.

JtZtrE,.'•-%
Captain WlLmAjas
Will sail in a few days, and can take freight and passengers.—
Apply to W. H. HAYNES, 11, Rumford-place; or
SAMUEL & WM. PEARCE & CO.'
66, Tower-buildings, Water-street.

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Sailing on the First and Sixteenth of each Month,
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