The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

THE LAST NEW FASHIONS.

The coats of the gentlemen are now buttoned close up
to the throst, and the hands are worn in the pocket.
Blue is a fashionable colour for the face, and noses are
slightly tipped with a deep pink or crimson. Where
gloves are not worn, the ends of the fingers are
brought as near the mouth as possible ; and we have
seen a pretty substitute for cloaks, worn when it is
likely to rain, in a species of material sometimes used for
making coal and potato sacks. Where there are many
in a family, it is sometimes customary to throw a dra-
pery of green baize, or something else, over the shoulders
of one of the tallest members, which hangs down in a
natural fold, but not very full, dyer the younger branches.
We have seen a new style of shoe, very much worn
indeed by the humbler class of pedestrians. It is fore-
shortened so as to leave the heel entirely unencumbered;
and the front, or upper-leather, is slightly slashed in an
irregular pattern, so as to show the foot or stocking—
when the latter article happens to be used witk it.
We have seen a few great coats, but in many instances
we have observed that these articles are worn only as
substitutes for the usual surtout which is discontinued
when the warmer garment is adopted; and which being
the last thing out, it is presumed that the surtout, or
body coat, may be considered to have gone in, at least
for the present.
The holidays being at an end, boys' jackets are trim-
med as before ; and there is about the same quantity of
lacing behind as usual. During Christmas there was a
good deal of oen work about the month, and a rich
spotted material, resembling in colour a plum-pudding,
was very generally resorted to for lining.—Punch.

A gentleman of Peterhouse College, Cambridge,
named JOhn James Hopwood, was found dead on Tues-
day evening, about eleven o'clock, on the pathway lead-
ing from the ferry over the river to Chesterton. The
deceased was found by two men, doubled up in a narrow
gutter, when he gave slight signs of life, and moaned
once or twice. It appears that the deceased had been on
his way to Chesterton, to join a friend, with whom, on
the morrow, he was going out on a shooting party. He
was a native of London, whither an express was imme-
diately despatched to his family, with the melancholy
news of his death. Mr. Hopwood had been just examined
for his degree, and was expected to stand high in the ma-
thematical honour list.

AN ABSENT MAN.—There is a man at Phila-
delphia so subject to fits of abstraction, that if you were
to meet with him in a crowd, he would probably abstract
your watch from your pocket, and make off with it. He
then would be seized with such a fit of absence that you
might look after him for a month, and he would never
give you a chanco of finding him.—Punch.
The further examination of W. Hitchcock will
be resumed at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street, on Monday next, the 17th inst., at 11 o'clock,
before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd—that •day having
been appointed by the Learned Commissioner, in pur-
suance of an application made on Tuesday last.
SOUTHERN COUNTIES ANTI - CORN-LAW
CONFERENCE.-It has at length been decided that a
grand Corn-law Conference for the counties of Hants,
Wilts, and Dorset, including the Isle of Wight, shall
take place at Southampton just before the meeting of
Parliament, and will be attended by Mr. Cobden, Lord
Radnor, Sidney Smith, and a host of distinguished Anti-
Corn-law advocates. Th• Rev. Thomas Adkins, the
minister of the Congregational Chapel above Bar, in this
town, who was one of the Presidents at the Manchester
Conference, has drawn up an admirable circular, which
will be addressed to every Dissenting minister in the
three counties, inviting them to attend the Conference•
The Rev. Mr. A., ever since his return from Manchester,
has been indefatigable in denouncing the iniquitous
Corn-laws, and in organizing a determined opposition to
them, for Which he has been assailed with the most vile
and disgusting abuse by the Hampshire Tory ass.