The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

COLERIDGE ON THE CORN-LAWS

The following extracts, showing the opinion on the corn-
laws of a man who thought, are worth volumes of declama-
tion from the shallow brains who now write on the subject :
" Those who argue that England may safely depend upon
a supply of foreign corn, if it grow no more or an insufficient
quantity of its own, forget that they are subjugating the ne-
cessaries of life itself to the mere luxuries and comforts of
society. Is it not certain that the price of corn abroad will
be raised upon us as soon as it it is made known that we must
buy ? And when that fact is known, in what sort of a situa-
tion shall we be ? Besides this, the argument supposes that
agriculture is not a positive good to the nation, taken in and
by itself, as a mode of existence for the people, which suppo-
sition is false and pernicious ; and if we are to become a
great horde of manufacturers, shall we not, even more than
at present, excite the of all the manufacturers of other
nations? It has been already shown, in evidence which is
before all the world,, that some of our manufacturers have
acted upon the accursed principle of deliberately injuring
foreign manufacturers, if they can, even to the ultimate dis-
grace of the country, and loss to themselves.—Coleridge's
Table Talk, p. 297.
" It may be admitted that the great principles of commerce
require the interchange of commodities to be free ; but com-
merce, which is barter, has no proper range beyond luxuries
or conveniences ; it is properly the complement to the full
existence and development of a state. But how can it be
shown that the principles applicable to an interchange of con-
veniences or luxuries apply also to an interchange of neces-
saries ? No state can be such properly, which is not self-
subsistent at least ; for no state that is not so is essentially
independent. The nation that cannot even exist without the
commodity of another nation, is in effect the slave of that
other nation. In common times, indeed, pecuniary interest
will prevail, and prevent a ruinous exercise of that power
which the nation supplying the neces.kary must have over the
nation which has only the convenience or luxury to return ;
but such interest, both in individuals and nations, will yield
to many stronger passions. Is Holland any authority to the
contrary ? If so, Tyre and Sidon and Carthage were so !
Would you put England on a footing with a country which
can be overthrown in a campaign, and starved in a year ?"
/big, p. 303.

LADIES' FASHIONS FOR AUGUST

(From the Magazine of Fashion.)

Materials of silk or worsted are now so varied and beau-
tiful, and also so moderate in price, that in Paris they are
more fashionable than the coloured muslins, or cotton manu-
factures, bareges, foulards, persanes, chine, &c., and a new
article imitating lace, lined with colours, with robes of
tarlatane in pink or blue, embroidered in white tambour, are
all fashionable at this moment, in consequence of the late
cold weather. Peignoirs of muslin lined with silk have been
slightly wadded, the wadding being placed between two
breadths of silks. Deep tucks are much in favour for
orgendys, tarlatanes, and muslins ; but for gaze de lane,
cashmere, barege, and silk materials, two and three flounces
are preferred. Gimp trimmings continue to be used for
walking dresses and morning negliges. The newest corsage
is high, and full all over, with sleeves fulled their entire
length by means of runners; the corsages a la Greeque and
en Gerbe are also worn.

Cannezous and fichus are made of plain newen bouillons,
with inlets; high cannezous with long sleeves are made in
this style, the cannezous Camargo with long cords, em-
broidered, and the demi decollette with small sleeves ; and
the waist encircled by small basques trimmed with lace have
a pretty effect on the coloured skirts. Chemisettes of muslin
are plisse en guimpe, and finished with a ruche. Scarfs con-
tinue in universal favour in Paris ; on account of the coldness
of the last month, muslin scarfs were lined with pink or blue
cachemere, and trimmed with fringe to correspond.
The cap a la Pompadour, with the lace drawn together on
the centre of the forehead, plain at the sides, forming wings
on the throat, with a bunch of pink daisies, green currants,
&c., on the left side, and rosette of pink gauze ribbon on the
other; lace lappets intermixed with flowers ; the small pay-
sanne cap, and the pointe or half handkerchief a la fauchon
9f pointe lace, placed very backward on the head, the ends
intermixed with flowers, form the newest style of cap at this
moment.

The youngest ladies now, even in the summer, adopt coif-
fures, a sort of medium between the coiffure of hair and the
cap, composed of lace, gauze, and ribbons. Bonnets do not
undergo much change at this season. Capotes of poult de
soie are ornamented with ruches, and sometimes covered
by a voilette of lace. The straight form is much in favour
either for poult de soie, bouillonne, embroidered organdys,
&c. Straw bonnets are used for morning wear, trimmed
with narrow bands of velvet laid on flat, sometimes confining
small lace veils ; the velvet ribbon is arranged in a line of
toques at the back of the bonnet. Pale blue gloves are all in
the fashion at Paris ; both long ones and mittens are made
in this shade, closing with a small double button called gita-
nos, united by a chain which admits of their hanging a little
beyond the button hole.