The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-31 00:00:00

THE IRISH PRESS.

(From the Plot. )
As the following letter from Mr. O'Connell contains
nothing but matter of public interest, we have thought it
advisable to make it public property, that the gentlemen of
the press, who assemble to-morrow, may have its contents
previously before them :
Lon'don, 26th March, 1836.
MY DEAR BARRETT,—I an sincerely glad to see the man-
ner in which the Newspaper Stamp question is taken up in
Ireland. You may rely on our anxious co-operation--and
you may, perhaps, blame us for not sooner expressing our sen-
timents. I can answer, for one, that I would have done so,
but I was prevented by the arrangement made by and enforced
on the friends of Government, not to lengthen the discussion
so as to preclude the important Irish business before the
House that evening. I should otherwise have replied to
Goulburn, and exposed, as well as I could, the falsity of his
principle, and the oppressive nature of his practice. I in-
tended to do so, but was prevented by the wish so generally '
expressed to go into the other Irish business.
For the present, my intentions

First—To support Mr. Wakicy's motion for the total abo-
lition of the stamp duty. The papers to be transmitted free,
under a cover stamped with a penny stamp. Thus the stamp
would be paid only by persons receiving the newspaper by
post—and not by any other person.
Should we be defeated on this motion, I intend to divide the
House on a motion to lessen the stamp on Irish newspapers
to one half of that paid in England.
If any thing occurs to your meeting, in which I can be of
any use, they may command my service.
Believe me to be yours, very sincerely,

DANIEL O'CoNNELL.

FASHIONS FOR APRIL.
(From the Court .Aragazine.)
_ GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

The Spring Fashions are as yet very much in retard, but
we have reason to believe that their simplicity will present
a strong contrast to the magnificence of the winter toilettes.
The peign or form will continue in request for half dress,
and washing silks and jaconot muslins, both white and printed,
will be much in favour.

Scarfs are expected to be very generally adopted in out-
door costume. We have seen some of Cashmere, the pat-
terns were Turkish, and the colours extremely rich; nothing
could be more tasteful than the manner in which they were
mingled. For the approaching season, however, we consi-
der those of white Cashmere edged with Cashmere lace, far
preferable, and much more likely to be fashionable. Some
pelisses of pou de soie in spring colours, particularly green
and lilac, have already appeared, but we do not observe any
actual novelty in their form. They are trimmed with swans'
down. This delicate fur will, we have reason to believe,
continue in favour during the month.
The only spring bonnets that have yet appeared, are com-
posed of pou de soie. Some morning ones are of an extreme
simplicity of form : some have the brims close at the sides,
others wide, but all are wide over the forehead. There is as
yet no decided form ; but we think the majority of those we
have seen had the brims rather shorter than those of the winter
bonnets. There is something of novelty, too, in the backs
of the crowns, which we cannot well describe ; they have
neither the curtain of a bonnet, nor the usual form of the
crown of a hat.

Ecru will be much in request for morning bonnets, and it
is likely that in the early part of the season, drawn ones, both
of that colour and white, will be very generally adopted.
Straw colour, white, pistachio green, and violet of Parma,
will be favourite colours for half-dress bonnets. Where these
hues are employed, the edge of the brim will be finished by a
piping of another colour. We may cite as a pretty contrast
a bonnet of white pou de soie, edged with azure blue piping,
and ornamented with a bouquet of blue flowers and white
roses intermingled. Another very tasteful bonnet of white
pou de soie, edged with straw colour ; the crown was deco-
rated with white lilac, and the interior of the brim trimmed
with tufts of small straw-coloured roses,

The new evening dresses are principally of gauze, crape,
and organdy ; this latter material is indeed carried to a perfec-
tion that almost rivals gauze in beauty and transparency. We
have seen some very pretty robes composed of it, and trimmed
with rose or blue satin riband. Three bands of riband descend
from the waist on each side of the skirt in the labile). form ;
each terminates in a knot at some distance from the bottom.
The corsage was draped horizontally, and very deep before
and behind. Tight sleeves, ornamented with riband forming
chevrons, over which fall a double trimming of organdy, edged
with narrow riband : a similar trimming was disposed at the
bottom in the ruffle style, and looped over the bend of the arm
by a knot of riband.
Some gauze robes are made with flounces. As the skirts
have lost nothing of their preposterous width, we cannot con-
sider this kind of trimming graceful; however, the effect is
not so bad on gauze as it would be on more heavy materials.
We have seen some trimmed with two flounces cut bias, and
set on double ; they are placed one above another in such a
manner that the extremity of the one just touched the top of
the other. The upper one is usually looped at the side by a
full knot of riband with floating ends, or by a bouquet of
flowers. A good many robes are trimmed round the border,
with a single flounce only, with the beading lightly festooned
in silks ; this style appears to us both lighter and prettier.
Although the majority of sleeves in evening dress are tight,
yet they are in many instances trimmed at the upper part
either with lace or the material of the dress, and invariably
terminated by ruffles: this gives some degree of fullness, as
well as a very dressy look, to the sleeve. We see also some
tight sleeves covered with three or four rows of trimming fall-
ing one over the other ; the trimming is set on with moderate
fulness : this kind of sleeve is generally made only to those
robes that have the border trimmed with flounces.
Small hats and turbans have as yet lost nothing of their
vogue in evening dress. The most remarkable among the
former are the chapeaux pouf}; they still continue to be made
in velvet, and trimmed with white feathers ; but being just
introduced, and of a singularly-becoming form, they will, we
understand, be made in crape, and most probably continue in
favour during the summer. Wreath of artificial flowers will
be very fashionable for bead-dresses of hair ; some of new
forms are about to be introduced. The colours most in
request will be those we have already given for hats and
bonnets—dust colour, pearl grey, lilac, and rose. White lilac
and very pale rose are expected to be most in favour in even-
ing dress.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THII CUS-

TOM-HOUSE, Ainxcti 30.

The John Bull, Corbin, from Hamburgh; Thomas Coutts,
Onslow, Bombay, Canton, and St. Helena; Alexander Bar-
ing, St. Croix, Canton; New Phcenix, Barton, Jamaica;
Thomas Grenville, Thornhill, Madeira and Calcutta; Cla-
rinda, Antram, Demerara.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, MARcri 30.
The Janet, Chalmers, for Mauritius ; Tourist, Ling, Ant-
werp; Favourite, Steward, Gibraltar and Cadiz; Duchess of
Northumberland, Jobling, Sydney ; German, Spencer, Elsi-
neur and Pctersburgh; Trois Freres, Smit, Antwerp and
Brussels.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAacn 30.
The Hannibal, Casswell, for Trieste and Venice; Vantour,
Grillet, Cherbourg ; Carl Frederick, Prins, Hamburgh ;
Thames, Hornblow, Madras and Calcutta ; Retrench, Bunt-
ing, Jamaica ; Tourist, Ling, Antwerp; Ambassador, Att-
wood, Mauritius.

CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MARCH 30.
The Joseph Fenton, Henderson, fog Shields and Odessa;
Edwards, Thompson, Quebec ; Ocean, Robertscn, Quebec ;
James, Lyon, Quebec; Jemima, Palmer, Riga; Fame, Banks,
Elsincur.

ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, MARcn 29.
The Malabar, Trolessher, from Savannah ; Wilkinson,
Martin, St. Mark's; Arethusa, White, Barbadoes.
ENTERED FOR LOADING, MARCH 29.

The Agnes, Broadfoot, for Calcutta; Frankland,Edwards,
Demerara ; Fremleigh, Lilo, Elsineur and Revel; Hayti,
Reed, Hamburgh ; Palinurus, Ayshford, Jamaica; Sperma-
ceti, Bartlett, Maranham ; Salvadore, Rallo, Naples and
Messina; United States, Holdridge, and Royal William,
Nullage, New York ; Indian, Fox, Quebec ; Dee, Corkhill,
Ramsay ; Tier, Connor, St. John's, Newfoundland; Grace,
Reid, Virginia; Cyrus, Robinson, Quebec.
CLEARED OUTWARDS, MARcn 29.

The Janet Izet, • Roe, for Trieste ; Mole, Winsor, New
Orleans ; Mary, Wills, Trinidad ; Resolution, Mobile ; Nia-
gara, Horns, Boston ; Superior, Salmons, Havannah ; Arab,
Marshall, New Orleans; Robert, Blythe, Montreal.