The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

LEVEE.—The Queen held a levee (the second this sea-
son) on Wednesday afternoon, in St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived shortly before ten
o'clock, from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a detach'
merit of Life Guards. Colonel Vernon Harcourt had an
audience of the Queen, and deliverer) the insignia of the
Order of the Bath of the late Earl of Liverpool. The Earl
of Derby had an audience of her Majesty. The Queen
wore a train of white watered rainbow silk, trimmed with
white satin ribands and tulle. The pe'ticoat was of white
satin, trimmed with white satin ribands and tulle. Het
Majesty's head-dress was composed of emeralds and dia-
monds. The levee was fully attended.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at three
o'clock on Friday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty in Council was pleased to appoint George
Hammond Whalley, of Plas Madoc, Ruabon, Esq.. to tN
Sheriff of Carnarvonshire, in the room of Martin Williams'
of Penamser, Esq. A new florin was submitted to the
Queen in Council and approved of.
The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Charles Crompton, Esq., one of the
Judges of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
with their Royal Hite:nesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Se-
lena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, attended by the
Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Cal'
the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieutenant• Colonel Biddulphl
Major-General Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, left
Buckingham Palace at 12 minutes past 10 o'clock on ge"
turday morning for her Majesty's marine residence, OS.
borne, Isle of Wight, where they arrived at two o'clock.
HER MAJESTY'S SUMMER CRUISE.—We have reason
to believe that her Majesty will not take any long marine
excursion this year before July. The Royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, it is said, will have a most thorough
refit, and will be in the dockyard-metes hands until the
middle ofJune.—United Service Gazette.
HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY.—Their lordships met
shortly after eleven o'clock, when the new Lord Chan'
cellor (late Sir E. Sugden) took the oaths, and afterward/
presided in the house under the title of Baron St. Leonard:
His lordship was introduced by Lords Lyndhurst and
Brougham. The Earl of Derby and the other principei
members of the government being prvsent, the ceremooff
agreeably to the wish of the Lord Chancellor, was Per'
formed in private, to the disappointment of numeral'
strangers who had assembled to witness the proceedingSs
The first Cabinet Council of the new Administratiott
was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign.offlue:
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The Ear'
of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lonsdale, the,
Marquis of Salisbury. Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Malmeshury, the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, the
Right Hon. B. Disraeli. the Duke of Northumberland,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Hardwicke,
and L ,rd John Manners, The Council sat three hours.
The Oxford University Commission had a meeting en
Saturday at tine official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle. the Master of Pe-aihroker
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier. Esq., the B
Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the
R'v. A. B. Stanley (secretary).
A large body of the Liberal members of the House of
u
Commons have been invited to meet Lord John Rusee
on the 11th inst., with a view to some consultation and
determination on the present position of public affairs.
We understand that the Earl of Westmorland. 0111
ambassador at Vienna ; Lord Bloomfield, minister e
Berlin, where his lordship has just arrived ; and Lord
Cowley, minister to the French Republic, are to retail:
their respective missions to the courts to which they are"
present accredited. -

DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR•4II!
Count and Countess Walewski I,ft London on Saturaa,
evening for Paris. The suddenness of their departure gal:
rise to several rumours; some of them of a grave Of
serious import, attributing this unexpected departure 0f
the French Ambassador to causes more pressing than were
" private affairs."—Observer.
Lord Eglintoun has been re-elected Lord Rector 01
Marischal College, Aberdeen.
A private letter from Montreal states that on the 1.1/1
ult. the Countess of Errol gave birth to a son and heir!:
the peerage of the ancient and noble family of Hay. iru
title of " Lord Kilmarnock" is thus again revived. 0
The Marquis of Londonderry has agreed to present to
Rev. Mr. DIW. who recently eloped with
Lady Adelaide Vane, to a living of about £6OO per annue!
no a•
one of the six good rectorships in the gift of the u
his daughter'

marquis.
This
DEATH OF THE HON. LADY WARRENDER
lady died at Malaga, in Spain, on the 26th tilt., in her 62a
year. Her ladyship was second daughter of the late, tit
sister to the present Lord Alvanley, and married, June xo'
1831, the present Sir John Warrender, Bart.
DEATH OF LADY MARGARET. MILBANK
complished lady, died in Eaton-place, London
morning, in her 27th year. Si— the r-

—This ne-
., on Sandal,
only daughter 41;
the late Lord Grey of Groby, and sister to the Earl of
Stamford. Her ladyship married, 1847, Henry Milbank,
Esq., by whom she has left an infant family.

FASHIONS FOR MARCH.
(From Le Follet.) 10
The robes Albanaises, with velvet .tympeti 00 ~,
ground, and the robe's with printed or br chee flounces, b"
shades, make charming dinner or evening dresses

• Re/
Velvet brocades, the- moire antiques, With tbeir exqun,
painted bunches of flowers, are all employed for dinner dr
ess
Ball dresses are composed of various material ; among 'or
most elegant may be seen those of gold or silver lame,
silk gauze, embroidered with silk. We have seen one of
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latter, made with three skirts, embroidered with rosebutiVie
their natural colours; the two upper skirts raised at the 11fe,
by bouquets of roses, with graceful hanging foliage of initpbt
and rosebuds. A bouqueCto match on the body, and
erls*
hanging wreath falling across the head over the should
This toilette is suited for a young lady.
pa sill
Skirts are worn long, especially behind. Some exP- by
robes are made with trains, but these should only be worn of
those ladies who have entirely renounced the pleasure
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dancing. It is given out by s ,me that the skirts will be Wv e,
van
shorter in the spring, to show the pantalon ala m‘ •to-
Time will show; but we think that this innovation will not
pose itself so tyrannically as the waistcoat has done.
The waistcoat will still remain in vogue until it has 0',,,et1
the tour of the globe. The Parisiennea, who had comnierar
to turn it into ridicule, still patronize it; and the pretlY_ro
vinciales need not fear to adopt it. But some condition.,oo
necessary in order to render it becomming and stylish.
figure of the wearer should be thin, tall, and sylphliK's o
t tulle'
others should avoid this style. Rounded white shouhi!nd 01
pear to much more advantage in toilette Pompadour t"'
toilette Lapis XIII. n Rea
The corsage Louis XIII. and the waistcoat accord toe,
together that they are scarcely ever separated. t the
some bodies a basquines are made to be worn withnli,,,boo
waistcoat. They are then trimmed with velvet or tba
bands, which cross the chest and fasten with buttoos, op
chemisette being composed of frills of English point, or Val
,
to
dean's, separated by embroidered insertion. The styl;rbe
suited for plain taffetas, black, chesnut, blue, or green- ,
velvet used is sometimes black, but appears in better I_,ll
when of the same colour as the dress • the skirts are trinlrdet,
with from three to seven flounces, edged with a broad OLIO
t. or three or four narrow velvets placed at equal distances, W'
are repeated upon the skirt between each flounce.
Plain taffetas are used for simple toilette, particularly II e.
ing dresses. A simple cloth or cachemire dress, with Pt!e
pines trimmed with braid; an embroidered collar, with dnnigli
jabot escaping down the fromt, between the buttons of the 106
body; a small cravate, tied with art and taste •, and lge.
embroidered sleeves, form an elegant and unpretending to' _itte
The maiden/a. with hoods, continue in fashion : theYdnoil
generally made of cloth. We have noticed some in very rib'
taste; the hood was lined with moire, and a broad awn hp&
bon was placed round the manteaux; others bad the
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lined with velvet; the revers and trimming round the,,'seel
were also of velvet. A lady of great distinction has hen'ioti
in a very long 'Palma of black velvet, trimmed with !I 0a
embroidery of jet, which formed a peleiine, pointed Inepba
shoulders and back, each point terminated by an 11'
taThe Cosaafte is making
of silk and je
violeto csetoo
t its appearance : made in . :
Ife"
and lined with white quilted satin, it forms an elegant cnclll
~
for a you, g lady : it descends a little below the hips, ,
large pagodes sleeves
little . ets
There is but alteration in the style of bonn A
month: capotes with velvet fronts and satin crowns!, afl
viellle, with two rows of black lace covering the crow,:"
forming a point on the curtain, seem much approved oi_ifitife!.
The Pouf is the most graceful and piqucnte style of 7, id
inventedsince the time of Marie Antoinette. To giveforioil/
of this pettf, we must picture some bouillonnes of tulle, esCoPei
a head-piece, allowing the plats and bows of ribbon nionne,
behind, falling very low on the neck. Across the b0n;.,0c,,h„,
is twisted a very small wreath of roses, widening as it
the bandeaux, and falling in light branches over the ellLibbor;
'blonde pouf is more elegant with pink satin curl anre
iltv carict-ca--tLc ha4l-.
laid across the head, and fall just below the ear. A %ac riid
elegant one may be composed of fold blonde, with
bon; embroidered with gold, forming coques, with long
ends reaching the waist.

LORD DERBY AND THE LEAGUE.—" A Pleoia. Ate+,
writes to the Times :—" I regretted to see that the "tor'
man of the Anti-Corn-law League had threatened '-hif
rby
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wei
ae atsnmhyeatittiwst
might
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hi ffnonorio,besliuprncmehittl:te:herdaCe coming
for, and that Lord Derby will, now he has the res,PsioeFf
bility of power, act with the wisdom of a great legider at
for the benefit of the whole nation, and not as a le,sgs,
a single party for the benefit of any particular 0%001
know something of the more intelligent of the '!c"„ the:
classes, and the feeling among them is increas,a%be
that they have more to fear from the Plutocracy ohs
from the aristocracy. The money-power of master!: the ,7
havo. rapidly risen to their wealth by labour, whi;jitstil
remain in poverty, is what they detest, not the hgerijy.
wealth of men who spend it liberally and grace"l,oo6ht
,:f
organic changes of our constitution are to he it
about by the cotton lords, how long will theirlh°llo
stand ?—an order strong merely in money, and :11-.4/3o
the principle of aristocratic strength in this cowl big
union of wealth with birth, and noble feelings, as
tculture, d as cd
calledengaging
in
a s arbitratorssoc iel refi nbeymtehne engineers
t . Were the
o
("pies,
hereditary lords ? Did Mr. Newton, as the rooatb„iso9l
of the great body of this intelligent and strong 'ore:
workmen (strong physically as well as mentallY),„eAdel
their willingness to abide by the decision of 'l4 Sof,,
Bright, and Wilson ; or of the Earl of Carlisle, L'd
of Shaftesbury, and Lord Robert Grosvenor ? 0"j
did these men choose three noblemen but becakticitill
felt that in their order they had confidence in tues ono
ness, sincerity, unselfishness, straightforwardoes
truthfulness characteristic of English gentlemen. 1 eon
it is on such qualities that the strength of ag.,itielSb
order must rely, not on money power, or the pie.ooo
amassing great wealth. Lord Derby may desrase so prix
threats if he acts as the Premier of England on larg
ciples for her good as a nation." gish*P.
TRANSPORTATION OF A TRADRSMAo•
Haigh, carrying on business at Pontefract, has ."71401""
tenced to seven years' transportation for receiving
goods.