Star.
London, England, 1824-08-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

MORNING DRERL—Dress of plain jaconot muslin ; made lash,
and finished with a trimming of work round the throat ; the front
of the corsage, and half way down the back, is of fine book muslin,
covered with corded waxed bands of jaconot, trimmed with very
narrow work, confined down the centre and at each end with but-
tons ; long sleeve, plain at the back, and ornamented in front with
corded trimmed hands, and fastened to the shoulder by buttons;
small cuff, edged with work, and confined at the wrist by a band
and button. The skirt is made full, and long enough to touch the
ground ; and the trimming at the bottom of it is composed of gra-
duated divisions of corded band, trimmed with narrow work, and
arranged in the form of fern-leaves or branches, with buttons down
the centre, and a broad bem beneath. Cap (a la baigoessar) of white
crepe lisse ; the border edged with rose-colouted satin. The cap Is
in one piece, and the crown formed by a drawing of pink satin rib-
bon, which ties behind ; lappets hang free from each side, or are
fastened under the chin by being drawn through a fancy ring. A
bouquet of flowers in front of the cap. Ceinture of shaded ribbon,
with a gold buckle in front. Yellow kid shoes. Topaz ear-rings.
BALL DRESS.—Dress of shaded blue silk barege ; the corsage cir-
cular and moderately high; narrow tucker of fine blond; the sto-
macher composed of blue and white satin rouleaus,ornamented from

the waist over the shoulders with sweet-briar roses; melon sleeve,
terminated with sweet-briar roses at the band; a very deep full
trimming of tulle round the bottom of the skirt, with a very broad
blue satin rouleau at the top and bottom, and a wreath of full
blown roses in the middle. The hair dressed in large curls round
the head, with a rose between each curl, forming a kind of regular
garland.—Necklace, ear-rings, and bracelets of carnelian. White
kid gloves. White satin shoes, and amber-colour silk scarf.—From
.efeteentann's Repository.
Batt. Daass.—A white tulle petticoat over another of ethereal
blue gees de Peoples: the body of ethereal blue satin, with stripes let
in of line blond. Round the body of the petticoat arc two rows of
trimming, en tire-bouclions, of blue crepe Bale, entwined with a rich
guimp of fioize silk; this crape trimming, which is set on in fes-
toons, is caught up, on the right side, with bouquets of fell-blown
red roses, or with bunches of the pink convolvulus. The hair is
arranged in the new Parisian fashion, short at the ears and elevated
en the summit of the head, so that the bows of the long hair behind
may be brought forward and seen enlace. These bows are sepa-
rated from the curls in front by a gold comb of beautiful workman-
, ship : blue gauze is entwined among the ringlets, in the most taste-
, ful and elegant manner, and interspersed with full-blown roses. The
necklace and ear-rings are of the finest Oriental pearl; the necklace
consists of one row of very large pearls. Over this truly attractive
dress is disposed, in graceful drapery, a scarf of white lace with tassels.
Waimea Daass.—Round dress of fine India muslin, with four
rows of triple folds, in bias. round the border. The sleeves made
en blouse, and confined by three rows of bracelets at the lower part
of the arm next the wrist ; but this confining rises nearly as high as
the elbow. A Valois hat of fine Leghorn, lined with pink, and
simply trimmed with a ribbon of celestial blue, over which waves
a plumage of white feathers. Under the hat is worn a small village
cap of fine lace. The dress being made partially high, no other out•
door covering is adopted than an elastic scarf of blue and white
Arachne net, tied at the throat with blue ribbon, and each end of
the scarf finished by a rosette of the same. Blue half-boots of
corded or spotted silk, complete this unobtrusive and truly elegant
costume.—La Belk sksensblefe.

UNIVERSIT Y and CL a CAL INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 30.
The annual prize at Coins College, for the Latin oration on the
different improvements in physic since the time of Dr. Coins, has
been adjudged to G. F. H. Greenbaigh, M.B. of that Society. The
speech was recited yesterday in the chapel.
OXFORD, JULY 31.
Saturday, Mr. Robertson, Commoner of Exeter College; Mr
T. P. Hutton, Commoner of Balliol College; Mr. Hughes, Mr.
Pilkington, and Mr. Wetherell, were elected Demies of Mag-
dalen College. And on Monday last, Mr. Richard Tawney. B.A.
of Trinity College, and the Rev. Samuel Ilartopp Knapp, B.A. of
Merton College, were elected Fellows of Magdalen College. Same
day, Mr. R. G. C. Vane, the Rev. Joseph Cox, and the Rev. R.
M. White, Demies of Magdalen College, were admitted Probation-
ary Fellows of the same Society.
At an Ordination held on Sunday, by the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, the following Gentlemen of this University were ad-
mitted into Holy Orders:
Daacox.—Thomas Sweet F.scott, B.A. Balliol College.
' Partsis.—Thomas Boucher Coney, B.A. Balliol College; Charles
Harbin, BA. Fellow of Wadhant College • George Sercombe
Luke, B.A. Queen's College; Richard Me:sitar • B.A. Corpus
Christi College; William Pyne, RA. Pembroke College.
At an Ordination, held by the Bishop of Worcester, in the parish
church of Hartiebury, on Sunday, the following Gentlemen of this
University were ordained :
Descoxs—John Mitchel Chapman, B.A. Exeter College ; John
Davies, B.A. Jesus College ; Edward Ward Wakeman, B.A. Wad-
ham College.
Passes.—Duncomb Steel Perkins, B.A. Trinity College; Wil-
liam Toovey Hopkins, M.A. Pembroke College.
ICCLxSIASTICAL PILOMOTIOI43.
The Rev. D. Wilson, A.M. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, has
been presented to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral of Rochester,
void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Strachan.
The Rev. R. H. Barham, on the presentation of the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's is preferred to the Rectory of the united pa-
rishes of St. Mary dagdalene and St. Gregory, in the city of Lon.
doe, vacant by the cession of the Rev. R. Webb.
The Bishop of London has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
Charles Rose, B.D. Fellow of Lincoln College, to a Preachership
at Whitehall.
The Blaitop of St. David's has conferred on the Rev. William
Hews's, Vicar of Swansea, the dignity of a Prebend in the Cathe-
dral Chinch of St. David's.
Wednesday the Rea Jahn Bull, B.D. Censor of Christ Church,
Oxford, and Bann al Soweto, was installed Canon Itesidentiary
of the Cathedral Cher& of Exeter, in the room of the late Rev.
John Francis Howell
The Rev.'Carrinstes Ley,late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford,
and Vicar of Beers Regis, Dorset, is appointed Under-Master of
Blundell'a Free Grammar School, Tiverton, in the room of his
father, resigned.
'llse Bishop of Winchester has presented the Rev. Mr. St. Barbe,
one of his Domestic Chaplains, to the Living of Stockton, Wilts.
Sunday se'nnight, an Ordination was held in the Chapel at Bish•p-
thorpe, by his Grace the Archbishop of Ycirk, when. SO Deacons
and 14 Priests were admitted into holy orders. '
Saturday sennight, the Rev. John Owen. Parr, B. A. was .k
by the Dean of Salisbury to the Vicarage of Dninford,Wilts,
void by the death of the Rev. John Raven, senior.
The Earl of Kinnoul has presented the Rev. Alexhnder When,
A.M. Preacher of the Gospel, to the church and parish of Biltron,
Presbytery of Dumbarton, vacant by the death'etthe ReV.J,Jeffrey.
Thursday se'nnight, the Associate Cony egition of Sc. Andrew '4-
street, Leith, lately under the pastoral charge of the late Rev. Mr.
Culbertson, gave an unanimous call to Mr. John Smart, froni'Stir-
ling, to be their Minister.
i Thursday the 15th ult. the Rev. Robert Allan was inducted cis
'lnstant and successor to the Rev. Andrew Gibson, Minister at
Muckhart.

1 MATS ST Llourstmo.—Saturday last, an Inquest
was held at the Rose and Crown public-house,Walworthi,
on view of the body of Martha Cooper. The deceased,
it appeared, lived as laundry-maid in the family of
JAWS Monaca, Esq. of Elm-park, and on the night of
the 14th ult. during the violent storm of thunder and
lightning, was coming with another servant through
the yard after work, with a large basket ofwashed linen,
when a tremendous clap of thunder, accompanied by
continued flashes of lightning, almost immediately over
their heads, completely transfixed them, and Cooper
immediately sunk to the earth. Surgical aid was pro-
cured, when it was discovered that her head and face
had been struck by the electric fluid ; over the right
temple, the hair was burned quite to the roots. The
patient seemed to recover strength for three or four
days after; she complained frequently of violent pains
shooting through the head ; the right eye closed almost
immediately after the surgeon's examination, and the
other, continuing to lose its perception, became at length
totally blind. On Monday the head-ache increased,
and notwithstanding the application of blisters, leeches,
and cupping, which were severally resorted to, the poor
girl expired on Friday last. After a few minutes' con-
sideration, the Jury returned a verdict —" That the de-
ceased came by her death in consequence of an inflam-
mation on the brain, produced by a stroke of electric
fire, during a thunder-storm." Deceased was 0017
nineteen years old.