The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Queen, it is said, will visit Ireland in the month of
July, and preside at the ceremony of laying the first stone
of Queen's College, Belfast.
Lord and Lady Stanley are now at Knowsley Park, and
are to receive a visit from his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, this day.
Gibson's statue of the Queen was added to the Royal
Academy on Saturday week, and inspected by her Ma-
jesty the same morning, her Majesty expressing her plea-
sure to be thus early in her visit, that she might not in-
terfere with the usual arrangements for the public. The
statue is in marble, and about the size of life, with an
antique feeling, and yet a good deal of Canova about it.
Her Majesty is represented standing with a wreath in her
right hand, a small roll of paper in her left. The drapery
is admirably arranged, and quite a study and example in
a very difficult department. Mr. Gibson has coloured
his statue after the antique fashion, and with extreme
good taste. The tiara, wreath, and sandals, are of a light
yellow colour ; the border of the drapery a faint blue and
red. The statue was a commission from the Queen ; and
will be erected either in Buckingham Palace or Windsor
Castle, which ever will afford the best light.
THE ROYAL VISIT.—In ancient times a Royal progress
was the scourge of a country. Wherever and whensoever
the Court appeared in any locality the people trembled
with apprehension. It resembled rather the march of an
hostile army through the land than that of the beneficent
sovereign of the people. The purveyors for the Royal ta-
ble were entitled to carry away, sans recompense, from any
house or enclosure whatever promised to be agreeable or
appeared necessary to the subsistence of the monarch and
his numerous hosts of retainers ; and this privilege was
abused in the most atrocious manner—so scandalously,
indeed, that what they could not consume the Court pur-
veyors not unfrequently destroyed in sheer wantonness.
A Royal progress, or Royal visit, is now a very different
thing indeed. Her Majesty, by moving to and fro, not
only diffuses general gladness and gives a stimulus to
trade, but actually whitewashes her dominions. Nuisances
that have enjoyed a lease of centuries disappear at the mere
prospect and anticipation of a Royal visit. Every house
and lane and suburb puts on a new appearance. The
Royal route is renovated. Improvements are suggested,
and rapidly carried into execution, which were never pre-
viously thought of. Dunghills tremble and are troubled,
and at last they are absolutely swept away for very shame,
because " the Queen is coming.' All old things disap-
proach and advent of Her Majesty ushers

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in a new era, promotes the sale of brooms, and a rapid
traffic in mops and brushes. Temporary decorations lead
to permanent renovations, and Her Majesty may boast at
her departure, in the language of Augustus—" I found
this place of brick, and 10, I have built it of marble."—
Cambridge Advertiser.

FASHIONS FOR JUL

(From the London and Paris "Ladies' Maf;azine of Fashion

transparent materials are now in favour

with violet, pink, or currant, dark green or light, the
organdys are in large checks, and for morning Wear jaco-
nots and brillantes with flounces; the ensemble of toilettes

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toiles de Chine are ornamented with embroidery in sou-
tache. For the present moment redingotes of muslin,
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some are trimmed with several rows of lace, divided by
boillons, with a ribbon through ; others with muslin fes-
tonnee or bouillonnee; these are accompanied by black
lace shawls ; some are of net, almost covered with lace,
and partake of the demi mantelet form; more elegant
ones are small, with a simple row of lace half an ell in

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