The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 12.
The Quf en and Prince Albert walked in the Rome
Park and Slopes, this morning.
The Prince of Wale•, the Princess Royal, the
Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took walking
and pony exercise. The Prince Arthur and the Prin-
cesses Helena and Louisa, were driven out in an open
carriage.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out on
horseback this forenoon, attended by the Equerry in
Waiting, Lieut.-Col. F. H. Seymour.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and the Lady
Cowley, are expected at the Castle to-day, on
visit to her Majesty.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, with the Prince of \Vales and Prince Alfred,
took a drive this afternoon in an open carriageo and
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The Oxford University Commission had a meeting
yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury in Downing-street. Present—The
Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master
of Pembroke, the Rev. IL G. Liddell, the Rev. G.
H.. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Se-
cretary.)
Tue. l'russian Minister transacted business at the
Office of the Board of Trade on Tuesday.
Sir Thomas Freemantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
queryesterday, at his official residence in Downing.,
street.

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FEMALE COSTUME. ii
Last night a lecture on this subject was delivered
• by a Mrs. T. C. Foster, at the Hanover-square
Booms, to an audience composed of about an equal
number of both sexes. The lady lecturer was wel-
comed with applause on her entrance, and
_began her
lecture by stating that she had no desire to mix up
with the question of female costume anything re-
lating to that which some lecturers on the subject
had styled the rights of women. After alluding to
the despotic nature of fashion, Mrs. Foster noticed
the changes which had been produced by it in female
attire in this country, more particularly since 1751.
She briefly noticed the absurdities of fashion that ex-
sted in the days of Elizabeth—the gigantic ruff and
lengthy stomacher, and contrasted with them the
comparatively elegant and simple female costume
that prevailed in the latter part of the reign of
Charles I. She then gave a charming descrip-
tion of the female dress in the time of Charles 11.,
describing it as a modern costume, which for ease and
. elegance had not since been equalled. She then
noticed the alteration of the dress in the time of Wil-
liam and Mary, the introduction of the monstrous
hoop in the reign of Anne, and illustrated the ampli-
tude it attained in 1751 by a painting of
i a lady at-
tired in the fashion of that day. Other illustrations
were exhibited, displaying in all their deformity the
to wering and artificial head-dress of a later day, and
the short waists, or rather no waists, and coal-scuttle
bonnets in fashion at the beginning of the present
century. She then touched upon the Bloomer costume,
and, with a modification, pronounced in its favour.
Wishing to speak to the eyes of her audience as to
the merits of this costume, she gave a living illustra-
tion of it, and, having retired, re appeared in a rich
velvet walking-dress in the Bloomer style, with the
skirts considerably longer than they appear in any
representation of that costume which we have yet
seen. A description of the inconveniences attending
the present style of the female dress and a condemna-
tion of the system of tight-lacing concluded the lec-
ture, which on the whole was an amusing one.