The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

THE INDIA CIVIL SERVICE,

The following is a list of the successful competi-
tors in the recent open competition for the India
Civil Service:—
George Smeaton 3200
Benjamin Purser
Edward Keats Lidderdale
John William Neill
Charles Montgomery Rivaz .. 2310
Frederick d'Olbert Bullock 2244
Francis P. Beachcroft
Richard Wylme Trafford 2064
Abraham William Stogdon .. 2011
John William Gardiner
John Revsns Hallet
Robert Fulton Rampini
George Jasper Nichols
Frederick Yenning
Frederic William Richards Fryer
Thomas Creswick Huddlestone
Thomas Edward Ellison ....
William Frederic Murray 1779
William Fitzpatrick Meres
George James Spence Hodgkinson
Alexander Manson 1747
Henry Hicks Hocking 1738
Hamilton, Winkup Gordon..
James Maurice Pears
Thomas Francis Flynn O'Donnell l7ll
Septimus Smet Thorburn 1707
M ontagu Bernard Baker
Edward Cordeaux
William Bushe Power
John Sturrock
Reginald Digby Starkey
Robert Rice.. . ...........
Lorne Augustus Campbell
Henry Gribble Turner
Henry Bidewell Grigg
Gustavus Julius Charles Hare
Charles George Blathwayt
William Alexander Happell 1625
Thomas Von Donop Hardinge
George Ayerst ....
John Jardine..
John Persse Lambert ..
Satyendra Nath. Fagcre .............. 1574
Edward Wolfenden Colons 1572
George Francis Mytton Grant............ 1566
Charles Augustus Bird .................. 1663
Andrew Lyon ..... 1557
Edward Gibson
John Lee Warner 1544
Henry William Wellesley
Francis Edward Hall
Edward Parry Eardley Wilmot 1516
John Nugent .. 1516
Edward Turner ..
Edward Noel Overbury
David Buick
Kenneth Mackenzie Pughe 1494
Arthur Johnston Breeks Atkinson 1491
George Kennaway Chamberlain 1461
Herbert Frederick Clogstown 1456

The Archwological Institute of Great Bri-

taro and Ireland,

On Wednesday evening a special meeting of the Section
of History was held in the County-hall, Rochester, um ier
the preciden+•y of the Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester,
when there was again a numerous attendance. The first
paper was read by Mr.W. B. Rye,assistant keeper of printed
books at the British Museum, on " Visits to Rochester and
Chatham by Royal and Distinguished Personages,English
and Foreign, between the years 1300 and 1783." In the
description of the Royal and other visits paid to Rochester,
Mr. Rye gave interesting details of the visits of Edward,
Henry V., Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, James I.,King
Christian IV., Prince Henry, the King of Bohemia,Charles
I. and 11, Peter the Great, Hogarth, and Dr. Johnson, the
last-mentioned of whom spent some time in the city a short
period before his death. After an interesting discussi non
the subject of the paper, in which the names of other Royal
and illustrious personages were given as having visited the
city prior to the period not included in Mr. Rye's paper,the
Rev. J. L. Warner read a paper on " Some hitherto unpub-
lished passages in the life of John Warner, Bishop of
Rochester." This estimable prel ►te lived in the early por-
tion of the 17th century, and was chiefly distinguished
for his uncompromising fidelity to the Royal cause, and
remarkable as being almost the only bishop who held his
see both before and after the Commonwealth. Yesterday
the members of the Institute proceeded by special train
from Rochester to Sevenoaks, and the day was occupied
in visiting the Mote, at Ightham, the residence of Luard ;
St. Leonard's Tower, the ruins of Mailing Abbey, and
Leybourne Castle and Church. By special invitation of
the Marquis Camden, president of the Institute, the
members partook of luncheon at Wilderness-park, the
hospitable mansion of the noble marquis. Last evening
a conversazione was held at the museum of the Institute.
Corn Exchange, which was attended by the principal
archsealogists of the country, and most of the members
of the Institute. The programme for to-day (Friday) in-
cludes meetings of sections of history, antiquities, and
architecture at the Guildhall, at 10 o'clock; after which
Prof. Willis will deliver a discourse on Rochester Cathedral,
at the termination of which he will accompany the visitors
in an examination of the structure, explaining its remark-
able features, conventual arrangements, &c. In the even-
ing the meeting of sections will be held in the County Court
Hall. To-morrow (Saturday) is set apart for a visit to
Leeds Castle, the hospitable Mansion of Mr. C. Wykeham
Martin, after which the Institute will visit Maidstone, and
inspect the fine old church—the architectural features of
which will be explained by Mr. Beresford -Hope--together
with the ancient college, Chillington House, the Charles
Museum,and the museum of the Kent Archeological Society.

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

(From Le Follet.)

In the same degree as the season advances, so the Telma
establishes itself with undoubted authority, and we expect
that in another month it will reign almost exclusively. It
must of admitted that its form is equally convenient and
graceful.
The talma if often made of the same material as the dress,
or in white or black woollen lace, black taffetas, and even
tulle. The -black lace talma must be trimmed with a gar-
niture of guipure. The tulle talma, so suitable for very
warm days, is covered with several rows of caduated laces,
each headed with a narrow ruche or passementorie. Care
should be taken not make these frills to full.

Before writing about gauze dresses, which constitue, wore
less, a visiting toilette, it is well to enter into some particu-
lars relative to la mode of the present time, the distinguish-
lag style of which is in some years the classical, in others
the picturesque.
The fashionables of this day have adopted the Louis XV.
style—the raised skirt over a coloured petticoat. The long
trains no longer sweep the dust or mud from our streets :
shoes, boots, and stockings, must, therefore, form an essen-
tial part of our toilette. Some ladies have been seen in Rus-
sian leather boots, laced up the front with leather tassels,
and high heels. The petticoats, also, should suit in colour
the dresses with which they are worn. The most useful
petticoat is of white English wool, with a band of bright
plaid. _ _

Pardessus are made to fit the back, and open in front,
trimmed on the shoulder with floating ribbons, jockeys of
passementerie, black lace, or guipure.
Robe of taffetas, of the new shade of brown, trimmed with
insertions placed zigzag, and in each hollow a chou of nar
row brown velvet. Corsage a basque postilion, edged with
insertion, Sleeves with elbow. Bows of velvet on the front
of the body, and others up the seam of the sleeve, between
rows of insertion. Bonnet of crinoline, with crape curtain
covered with blace lace, Wheat-ears and corn, tied with
black velvet ribbon, and long floating ends of the same,
ornament one side of the crown.

Robe of corn-flower blue taffetas, trimmed with pink
flounces, separated by broad chicorees. The body is trimmed
with narrow chicorees.

Robe of taffetas, in checks of black and white, trimmed
over the hem with a broad guipure insertion over white rib-
bon. The body is trimmed to match. Belgian straw bon-
net, with a fanchon of spotted black tulle, forming a Marie
Stuart point in front, trimmed with small rosebuds.
Robe of white takou, with a broad band of violet taffetas,
trimmed with a wide braid placed above the hem. Collet
to match. Crir oline bonnet, with curtain to match the
trimmings on the robe; tufts of violets,anemones, and green
grass, placed on the summit,
Robe of mohair,of the gera'da shade, crossed with threads
of black. A goffered flounce, about 6 inches wide, with e
band of blue taffetas edged with black braid ; above this is
a row of pattes of taffetas, about 3 inches apart. The body
has a basque behind, and waistcoat front trimmed to imitate
an open jacket with ruches of the same material as the dress,
surmounted by an ornament of taffetas much narrower than
that on the skirt. Straw bonnet, trimmed with blue bells.
This last dress is suitable for a very young lady.
Another, of the same description, is of grey takou,
trimmed with five rows of black velvet above the hem.
The body trimmed to match, forming a postilion jacket.
The sleeves are cut with an elbow and drawn in at the bot-
tom. Tho collet is trimmed to match the dress.

An exceedingly pretty dress is of pale drab or lemon-
coloured mohair, trimmed with graduated velvets on the
bottom of the skirt and collet.

Narrow stripes and checks are not much used for young
ladies' dresses. Ihe bodies are cut low and square in front,
with bouffant sleeves, and worn over a chetnisette of tucked
muslin with puffed sleeves.
White dresses are much worn. Plain mashies are made
with three goffered flounces, or one broader with a bouil-
lonne above, or, still more fashionably, with ornaments of
black guipure.

Muslin dresses over blue, lilac, or pink taffetas, are be-
coming quite in demand. These robes are made high, and
the camail, or scarf, is lined with the same colour as the
skirt. The bottom of the skirt is trimmed in various styles,
sometimes with fluted flounces with a heading, or with a
simple hem, an insertion of Valenciennes, or guipure mixed
with narrow frills of muslin. These robes of organdi,
lined with colours, are worn for carriage drives, wedding
visits, or evening dress. A broad sash of taff.tas, fringed
at the ends, is now worn with this toilette.

White alpacas, or foulard Shanghai, are trimmed with
coloured flounces, or braided in colours. Plaid taffetas is
also used as trimmings on white alpaca.
The burnous, the camail, and the paletot are made of the
same material as the dress. These should be accompanied
by the postilion hat of grey straw, with coloured feathers.
The organdi dresses over coloured silk are always worn
with rice-straw, crinoline, chip, tulle, crape, or Italian straw
bonnets, lightly and elegantly trimmed.
We have noticed a very elegant sea-side dress of leather-
coloured taffetas, trimmed with a band of real leather, with
steel edgings, below which was a deep fringe of thick silk,
nearly reaching the bottom of the skirt. The body, which
was ornamented with leather bands to match the skirt, was
opened over a waistcoat of plaited cambric, with a jabot of
lace placed on the edge of a rich insertion. Flat sleeves,
open to the elbow, trimmed to match. A leather purse, or-
namented with steel studs, was suspended to the leather
belt. A Coligny hat, of Italian straw, with the edge covered
with velvet of the same shade as the dress. A feather to
match, turned round one side, was attached to the crown
by a band of leather, fastened with steel clasps in front.
The following is very elegant and suitable for full dress.
A robe of mauve taffetas, trimmed on the skirt with bou-
quets of mauve and white feathers, mixed with chenille
These bouquets appear to be fastened on the skirt by an in-
sertion of Chantilly lace, tied like a ribbon bow, a Louis
XV., at the bottom of each bouquet. The insertion is
edged with white taffetas. Corsage Senorita, open over a
plain body, buttoned up the front. A splendid burnous of
Chantilly lace is worn over this toilette. which Is completed
by a mauve crape bonnet, trimmed with white and mauve
feathers and black lace.
Grenadines are much admired both for their excellence
and lightness.

A simple and elegant dress is composed of pearl-grey
taffetas, with long train, ar.d the indispensable goffered frill
at bottom; plain high body, and scarf of the same material,
with the plaits at the neck fastened down with ribbon bows,
and edged round with guipure ; a deep frill of viral") all
round the scarf.

A second robe, of maize-coloured tussu Mexicaitt. The
bottom of the skirt is trimm.d above the hem with a broad
insertion of antique guipure, placed over white taffetas. A
burnous of the same material, with an insertion all round ;
the hood composed of guipure, Hued with white taffetas. The
tassels of floss silk are placed at distances up the coif, so as
to fall over the back of the head when raised. Shaded
feathers are much used as ornaments on bonnets. Flowers
are generally adopted.

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