The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

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trimmed er, suite; very full under ones of muslin bou

a, and the interior trimmed in the cap style
The taffeta edges the brim and the bavolet.
)f green cot-ribbon encircles the bottom of the
crown; green brides complete the trimming.
Home Dress.—Rose.coloured mousseline cachemire
robe; the corsage, half high at the back and shoulders.

with lace
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low and square in front, is trimmed round the back and
down the sides with black lace, disposed a la vielle ; the
front, formed in a stomacher style by the lace, is orna-

mented with bands of it laid on.

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with lace
. Muslin

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very full trimmed with black lace and robe,
coloured brides.

Rose—

Carriage Pelisse, composed of spotted muslin, lined with
pink taffeta, and trimmed with lace surmounted by ruban

the sleeves, of an easy width, 'are terminatedby lace sur-
mounted by ribbon; pink sleeve knots.
Evening Dress.—Azure blue grenadine robe; the cor-
sage low, deeply pointed, and round on the bosom, is
trimmed with a black lace berthe, nmuds de pace of blue

ribbon, and a rose inserted in a tuft of foliage in the centre
of the breast. Very short sleeves. The skirt is trimmed
with three black lace flounce, each looped at the sides with

CHANCELLORS IN EXPECTANCI

(From the John Bull.)

The Lord Chancellor, we sincerely regret to hear, is
,criously indisposed. For some time past his lordship's
appearance has given considerable uneasiness to his
friends ; for the last ten days be has scarcely been able to
attend to the &lePotig duties of his high office.; and in the
early part of this week he became so much worse, that it
was found necessary to resort to copious bleeding. The
cause of his illness is a return of the same complaint from
which he suffered severely about a year and a half ago ;
and an opinion is gaining ground, that even if his lord-
- ahip's malady should take as favourable a turn as his most
qttached 'esire, it will be at his time of life

friends could c
next to impossible that he should e
upon the Woolsack, as he will al

resume his seat
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den recurrence of his disease. Under these circumstances,
considerable excitement prevails amongst the lawyers as
to his successor. Lord Campbell, it is understood, insists
strongly upon his prior title to the custody of the Great
Seal; a claim which Lord John Russell will, we appre-
hend, find it exceedingly difficult to resist with any show
of justice. At the same time, it is well known that his ap-
point'nent would be unpalatable to the highest quarter,
an.d in no one quarter that we know of, particularly ac-
ceptable. Still it would be a gross slight to pass over a
cabinet minister, eminently qualified for a very high post
by his legal attainments, though perhaps better calculated
for a common law court than for a court of equity. Be-
sides, it would be a glaring insult to Ireland, if the same
political party which made Lord Campbell chancellor of
that country, was to pronounce him unfit for the same
office in England; an inference hardly to be avoided if
the prime minister should eventually give him the go by,

ienera,

John Romilly, in preference to him.
The names of both these distinguished lawyers have
been mentioned. and both are eminently qualified in
point of character, deportment, and abilities ; but there
are circumstances which are likely to decide the case in
favour of the former. independently of his personal

fitness, the promotion of Mr. Baron Rolfe would have the
advantage of causing a vacancy in a puisne judgeship ; and

:orney-general, it is utmerstoon that
John Jervis would literally be forced to accept it. The
government, it may well be bellived, are exceedingly
anxious to get rid, without loss of time, of the gentleman
whom a provincial contemporary has dared to describe as
a " true specimen of forensic snobbery." Recent
events, to which we need not further allude, are said to
have hurried Lord John Russell in his determination to
dispose of his present Attorney-General, and to provide
himself with another in his place. If this latter move
should be adopted, Sir John Romilly would, as a matter
of course, succeed to the attorney-generalship, Mr. Cock-
burn or Mr. Martin stepping into his present office.
Possibly, however, Ministers may not find this arrange-
ment as easy as they appear to think. Sir John Jervis,
it is alleged, resists the proffered degradation, and spurns
the Puisne Judgeship as an insult, declaring his determi-
nation to take his chance of the Lord Chief Justiceship of
England, which he thinks it not impossible may fall
vacant ere long, as Lord Denman has hardly recovered
from a very severe bilious fever. This last piece of brazen
impudence and arrogant self-conceit on the part of the
hon. and learned gentleman is just now the common
sport of Westminster Hall, where the very idea of such
an appointment is ridiculed as too bad to be attempted
even by a Whig government. Amidst all these embar-
rasments and squabbles of the unfortunate Whigs, the
chances are, that our friend plain John, who is working
quietly and determinedly, will ultimately succeed; au
issue which will cause all further law changes to be, for
the present at least, postponed.