The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1853.

new regulations that have been adopted by Lord Cowley,
and which have been issued at the Embassy in a printed
form to those who have made applications to him. It has
hitherto been considered a sufficient reason for seeking to
be presented that the person had already been introduced
at his own court, or that of the last monarch ; it now
appears that Lord Cowley requires either a letter from
the Foreign-office, or from some individual who is
honoured by his acquaintance.
The receptions at the Tuileries are to go on for some
time longer on the Sunday evenings, until the greater
part of the notabilities of France and the provinces have
been presented to the Empress, after which there will be
one or two balls, when the Easter season has commenced,
but the days are not definitely fixed. The ministers, for
the most part, have weekly receptions.
The morning promenade is now to the Louvre, where
an exhibition of a novel character has been opened, and
which the Emperor and Empress inaugurated last week.
It consists of five saloons, devoted to a display of
different objects which have immediately belonged to the
Sovereigns of France. The two first are devoted to
Henry IV. and Louis XIII. ; the third to Henry 11. and
his successors ; the fourth to the family of the Bourbons ;
and the last to the Emperor Napoleon. Religious volumes
or missals belonging to Charles the Bald, of Anne of
Brittany, of St. Louis, are collected. There is the sword
worn by Henry IV. the day of his marriage; that which
Francis I. wore at the battle of Pavia; which Murat
brought away with him from Madrid; the mirror given
by the Republic of Venice to Marie de Medicis ; and,
amongst other curiosities, is the desk of Louis Philippe,
hacked and hewed by the tiepublicans when they entered
the Tuileries at the moment of his abdication. This
singular and interesting collection daily attract strangers,
and on Sunday the halls of the Louvre are quite im-
practicable:for any but the most zealous lovers of sights.
Among the curiosities of modern fashion in Paris we
give the following :—Walking dress has shown the most
marked change during the month, inasmuch as the
change in the weather from the mildness of spring to the
sudden severity of winter, has necessitated a warmer style
of clothing than has been adopted during the whole year.
Thus the dark cloth dresses, which had been thrown
aside, have been resumed, with the addition of closely
fitting pantaloons, made long, and falling over the boot,
with straps beneath the sole. Some ladies prefer the long
gaiters of black kersey mere, buttoned up to the knee, and
cut to the shape of the leg. These gaiters. which are
tout-a-fait bien porle-s, are called a la Prince Eugene, and
are amongst the most convenient articles of dress com-
posing a winter costume. The dress is made considerably
shorter than of late, and need not be held in order to
avoid the mud, which the late thaw has occasioned in the
streets.

Pocket handkerchiefs are much reduced in size, and
are embroidered nearly all over. In the centre a small
button-hole is worked to receive the button, which is
sewn in the palm of the glove for security, leaving thus
the hand free to use the fan without inconvenience.
Visiting cards have grown the medium of a declaration
of political principles. Those who love the present sys-
tem have their cards of sea-green glae6, upon which the
name is embossed in white letters. The partisans of
Henri Cinq have theirs of white unglazed board, with the
likeness of the Count de Chambord or the order of the
Holy Ghost stamped in the corner. With the Orleanists
the card, still white, is generally surmounted by the shield
of the Charts, bearing the Gallic cock. It is curious to
behold on the tables of our fashionable mailresBel de mai-
son these various opinions lying side by side in peace, as
their owners bad, perhaps, danced together, hand in hand,
the evening before.
When the weather admits of a promenade in the Bois
de Bologne, the Emperor and Empress drive to that
delightful part which is known under the name of Madrid,
and generally descending from their carriage, they take a
walk in the more retired spots. This visit has brought
the neighbourhood into vogue, and occasionally it may
vie with the fashionable exhibition of carriages, and of
horsemen, for which Hyde Park is so deservedly celebrated.
There has been an attempt to get up a feeling of
sympathy in favour of a lady, who has, by her conduct,
rendered herself exceedingly obnoxious to the highest
individual in the empire. It has altogether failed, for as
soon as the real nature of the case became known, it was
felt that the commiseration that was expressed must be
as spurious as it was ridiculous.