The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY.

(From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.)
Velvet is the universally favourite material this
winter. Morning dresses, carriage dresses, and even-
ing dresses, are made of it, the style being adapted to
the use required ; some high, with buttons, others
with revers, and others with pointed bodies and
berthers of lace, jet, or chenille ; it is equally used for
pelisses, mantalets, scarfs, as also for trimming dresses
of satin and other materials.

Lace and gimp form almost indispensable accom-
paniments for every article of dress. Point d'Angle-
terre is used for satin and damas Pompadour ;
and point d'Alencon for velvet. Tunic dresses are
very fashionable ; made of crape, gauze, organdy,
with the latter several rows of gold or silver cord,
intermixed with silk cord, are often introduced with
good effect. The redingote form is also advantage-
ously used for evening toilettes in satin or pekin,
trimmed with gimp. Black preserves its favour ;
dresses of black tulle are trimmed with satin fringed
ribbons, forming what used to be termed volants a
la Ninan. Robes, redingotes of serget de sole or
cloth, are made with the corsage casaque ; that is
tight demi-busque in the waist, with jacket all round,
rather deep. The Amazon form is much adapted for
walking dresses, and admits of various modifications.
As double skirts will be much worn, besides the
ornaments of flowers hitherto in use to raise them, a
new style is introduced; very small flowers, forming
a chain, made- narrow, and terminating in large
flowers, are placed on each side, and the body and
sleeves corresponding.
Furs are much in favour : sable mantelets palatine,
and pelerines echarpes of ermine and marten fur, with
long square ends, and rounded behind, are used for
the promenade. Velvet manteaux are edged with
marten or ermine, and have collars forming pelerine
to match. The bonnets are now all velvet
or satin, ornamented with biais and lace ;
some are made of velvet, with crowns of
satin fulled under a biais; those of velours epingle
are finished at the edge with biais of satin, and an-
other round the crown ; others are ornamented
with a plait of satin ribbon. Capote a coulisses are
ornamented with lace laid at the edge of the first
runner, and another on the crown. The petits bords
Regence, the turbans Rozane, the Druid coiffure,
coiffures a la Vierge, Ondine or Cerito are all fashion-
able. Little caps of silk tulle are trimmed with two
biais of tulle, and a wreath of blue flowers. Muslin
caps are deep at the sides, and trimmed with several
rows of narrow lace very little full, and separated by
small toques of red velvet, each side being finishtd
with a Chou and ends of velvet. Caps are still worn
small, but the crowns are more ornamented than -they
were.

For evening parties little caps, toques, or turbans,
are very much worn, placed more or less backward
on the head, but always very short at the ears, with
long ribbon-ends drooping on pompons, or branches,
which spring from flowers falling on the neck. These
coiffures are made of velvet of every colour, inter-
mixed with lappets of lace or wreaths in feuillage,
placed on foundations of point lace; of gold resilles,
with bunches of beads falling at the side, or with
fringes of bugles, black, green, or white, terminating
the scarf which encircles the face.

PRINCE ALBERT'S Ox.—Not unmindful of the
little romance which has hung itself—in place of the
cattle-show ticket—round the neck of this extraordinary
animal, and rendered him, to a certain degree, a public
character, we feel justified iu giving a biographical sketch
of him. Our hero—we mean our ox—was born of re-
spectable parents in a paddock in the Home Park, at
Windsor, and at a very early age began to exhibit a
talent for eating which marked him out as a fit sub-
ject to be stuffed fur some future cattle-show. On one oil
the visits of Prince Albert to the farm, the brute was en-
gaged in discussing a bunch of turnips with such ex-
traordinary gusto, that his Royal Highness was attracted
by the circumstance, and made inquiries of the principal
bailiff, who was told to keep his eye on the subject of our
present biography. Our hero's heiferhood passed in one
continued round of munching, and it was remarked by
those who had charge of him, that taxes or turnips,
grass or grain, beans or beet-root, came all alike to his
ra;)acious appetite. In the course of a few months his
hide began to expand, and he evinced all the usual
characteristics of a prize ox—such as losing the power
of walking at a greater rate than half a mile an
hour, while shortness of breath, and other con-
comitants -of fatness, became extremely evident. The
success with w hich these qualities were cultivated is well
known, and we find our ox ultimately installed at the
Baker. street Bazaar, where he behaved himself with the
dignity becoming a prize, and thus set an example to
the surrounding cattle. It was in this honourable situa-
tion that our hero attracted the attention of Mr. Ban-
nister, the butcher, of Threadneedle-street, who, having
mentally divided him into sirloins, estimated his ribs,
made a rough calculation of his witch-bones, and cast off
his steaks, consented, with much spirit, to give 60 guineas
for him. Our hero's fate now appeared to be sealed,
and nothing was apparently capable of saving him
from being gibbeted at Mr. Bannister's, with a placard
announcing his having gained a prizi, stuck with a
wooden skewer into his back, as an invitation to cus-
tomers. Fortunately for the sagacious creature, Prince
Albert paid a visit to the cattle-show, when our hero,
panting with fatness, chanced to put out his tongue just
into contact with the Prince's hand, the incident was at-
as his Royal Highness passed, and the tongue coming
tributed to a burst of affection, though it really was no-
thing more than a lupus lingua, or slipping out of the
tongue, from sheer want of breathing-room. The cir-
cumstance svas noticed by
the Queen, and the result is
known. The ox, that was standing on the very brink of
untimely sharnb!es, has been restored to his paddock at
Windsor.—Ptoich.
SEIZURE or AN ILLICIT STILL IN WORCESTER.—
Superintendent Phillips and Sergeant Chipp, of the City
Police, having reason
to suspect that an illicit still had
been some time in operation in Worcester, quietly set to
work, and the result was that they made an appointment
with Mr. Green, Supervisor of Excise, and another Ex-
cise officer named Rouse, to meet them in the Corn-
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rendez-
vous, from whence they went to a
Black Swan, in Quay-street, some of thedioining the
to
the front and some to the back door. While
entei? going
to gain an entrarce ut the front, a
man
came
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back door, and was instantly seized by Phillips, who'
seeing him hiding a key, exclaimed 4" This is the man,
and he has got the key in his pocket !" Tho key was
I instantly taken from him, and he was given into custody
to the officer on the beat, while the others entered the
house, which was uninhabited, and merely contained
I two or three chairs and a table. On reaching the top