The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fav),jmi.”)
Materials of light colours are confined to indoor dresses ;
pekine'es, with alternate satin and silk stripes, or stripes
espouline'es, brocke-es, B^c., pout& de soie, plain velvets,
ottomans or epingle's, are fashionable for high dress(
redingotes, cavalieres, Vitchc
or promenade dresses ; gimp,

fur, form at this

moment tne usual trimmings, excepting tor tun dress ;
all corsages are worn quite high, even covering the throat
with trimmings, or ribbon buttoning. close up, and long
..•

In every dress, silk mater

with bovillons of gauze of the same'colour, intermixed

duced in every variety of form

White is very fashionable

in moire, antique dramas, velours 6pinyle; tiir full dress,
Pink and blue are also worn, the latter shade very pal(
•.

silvery

The mantelets and erispim of wadded velvet are gener-
ally made small but of a pretty form, trimmed with lace
and gimp ' • the latter is made very light and elegant, and
is laid on fiat near the edge. Very pretty capotes are
made of satin conlissor, having two rows of narrow lace

'uueu on to earn runner; feathers are used very small
and round ; bonnets ofpense'e satin covered with black

led acid divided by double ioques I

lace, are very elegant.
rope preacee.
In coiffUres the (winds Castillanes are much approved,
aro ..n.11.• f^":^`-^lsl- -1
a melange of velvet, resille of %gold and feathers, Church of St. Andrea della Valle. It was the
during the last 300 years, that a Sovereign Pontiff .-
the pulpit. Is this neglect becoming in
-41 e who said, " Woe is me if' I preach not
succes-

they are

namentea on one side by two aem:-queues,of birds of pa-
radise, so delicately mounted as to possess ihe lightness
of marabouts, on the other side a lappet of blonde
d' argent falls on the, shoulder.
For the hair ive have swirlandes navades

fors. of the apostk
the Gospel" ?
The Pope has had an exact return made to him of the
persons in the service of wealthy
revenues and expenditure of all the houses of refuge and
other charitable institutions. Many children, belonging
green,foliage.
_Ottdine wreaths of marine flowers ,spark- placed in these institutions, without any plea of necessity ;
ling with etoiles of diamonds. The Foidange en.re.ly but the Pope has put an end to this unjust system, and
composed of rosebuds and the eouronne des twee; ; appropriated the funds of these institutions to their legi.
families, have been
formed of small wild flowers, &c. See- i timatt objects.
tong to

A very good blow has been struck at duelling in Mis-
sissipi, by the enforcement of a law of the State, which
-requires that the survivor 'shall be responsible for thi
debts of the man he killS in a duel.
The King of Bavaria has authorised an association of
ladies, formed for rearing silkworms, and promoting the
growth of silk within the kingdom. The Queen has
taken the association under her patronage, and is to name
the president. Its sittings are to be held at Munich. -
MR. COBDEN IN ITALY.-Mr. Cobden was entertained
at dinner on the 16th ult., by the free traders of Genoa,
the Marchese Alezio presiding. The English, French,
Spanish, Belgian, and other consuls were present ; -and
the toast- of the night, the health of the member for
Stockport, was given by the French consul.
A great flood has occurred in Ohio, rooting up trees,
destroying shocks of corn, injuring the railway, and caus-
ing an immense loss of property. In some places boats
were used by the inhabitants to -get to their residences.
At Cincinnati five persons were drowned, and there the
loss of flour, hogs, and pork is great, several mills being
swept away.

By the arrival of the transit ship Zenobia, at Liverpool,
on Wednesday, a copy of the president's message to con-
gress has been received. In this document. the president
recommends the appointment of a Lieutenant-General to
command the armies of the republic, and that ten addi-
tional regiments shall be raised to serve during the war.
The increase in the regular army is for to enable the re-
ublic to " prosecute the warLwith Mexico with vigour

and success

The National Club have received upwards of .£10,00(
for the starving Irish.

There' are Co' 1

ass than 5,300 paupers in Cork Work-

Major iieamish at a meeting in Cork, last week, said
that 15,000 persons have died in the west of that county

of starvation

The Wolverhampton subscription for the Irish amounts
to heady 4:2000. Among. the subscribers is the Rev.

VERY LIBERAL.—The Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Arinagh has issued an indulgence, giving the famishing
labourers permission to work on holidays.
Emigration, for the present year, has already com 7
inenced. The quays of Dublin are crowded with partic.s
preparing to start for the New World. The Limerick
Ckronicle states that emigrant 'vessels are to sail from
that port so early as the 13th of February.
OIL FOR IRISH LIGHT-HOUSES.—The Dublin Corpo-
ration advertise for a supply of the above coirfrnodity.
Could not Mr. O'Connell supply the native article ; no
man being a greater holder of the Irish palm-oil than the
honourable gentleman.

aat utautco via vv
India rum imported into Ireland to 3s. 2d. per gallon will
prove utterly ruinous to the Irish distillery trade, and
most prejudicial to the landholders, farmers, and traders
of Ireland.

The subscription relief fund for Ireland and Scotland
has reached nearly £lOO,OOO ; and the committee have al-

,
ready freighted with meal, and despatched to Ireland, se-
veral Queen's ships, placed at their disposal by govern-
ment. They have also undertaken the supply of one of
the meal depOts at Cork, opened in the first instance by
government. Their importations are either to be given
away under judicious and experienced direction, or to be
sold at a low rate to the relief committees.
SICIBpEREEN.—The following is a passage of a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. Blake, of Cork, by Dr. Crowley, of Skib-
bereen, dated January 22nd :—" Deaths here are daily in-
creasing; Dr. Donovan and I have just returned from the
village of South Reen, where we had to bury a body our-
selves that was eleven days dead; and where do you think?
in a kitchen garden. We had to dig the ground, or rather
the hole, ourselves ; no one would come near us, the smell
was so intolerable. We are half dead from the work lately
imposed on us It is now, as I write, eleven o'clock at
night,. and I have not as yet dined."

SOUND POTATOES !—A-. correspondent informs us (Lon-
donderry Standard,) that, in the parish of Lower Ba-
' dopey, a great number of the farmers, whose names he
mentions, have large pits of potatoes, the quality of which
is, in every respect,,equal to that of former years. We
hahe seen (says the Leinster Express) a sample of pota-
toes belonging to a gentleman not twenty miles from
Newbridge ; they were in the highest state of preserva-
tion. We have been informed that this is the case with
many a gentleman and farmer in the county Kildare, and
that strong hopes may he entertained that we have not
seen the " last of the potatoes."

I.3.l.intAi ON THE IRISH COAST.—OR Sunday week,
Limerick and the neighbourhood were.visited by a violent
storm. Fortunately little damage was done upon land ;
but the shipping in the river suffered severely by the visi-
tation. The brig Glencoe, of Liverpool, Captain Bower,
which discbarged wheat and flour at that pirt, and was
outward bound in ballast for Alexandria, dragged from
her anchors at Scattery-roads, and was forced ashore at
Kilrush side, with loss of mainmast, foretopmast, rigging,
and rudder unshipped. An Italian brig and barque, also
at Scattery, were dashed ashore at Isleorne, between
Moneypoint and Kilrush, and, it is feared, will become a
total loss. The Friendship, at Bideford, for Liverpool,
ballast, is ashore, with loss of keel.
The members of the Relief Committee at Thurles have
sent a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, in which they
pray him inimediately to open depflts of corn, and sell it
at such prices as would leave the merchant a fair and rea-
sonable
.profit, instead of that far too large one of 60 to
70 per cent., which he now heartlessly takes. They state
that there are 7,000 persons in that town in various degrees
of destitution. By far the greater part of the landed pro-
prietors are non-resident, and consequently give little aid
in money, and still less in employment or moral influence.
While they continually hear of Indian corn brought to the
different ports at £lO to £ll a ton, they cannot buy one
ton of it for less than £lB, besides the expense of carriage;
and the poorhouse now contains 200 more persons than
its roper complement.
THE MINISTERIAL MEAsuREs.--The plans for the
immediate and permanent relief of Ireland, propounded

oy ministers, have raised the drooping spirits of the citi-
zens of Dublin, and already the stock and share markets
have experienced the good effects. There is only one
point upon which there appears to be any complaint—
that of the grant of £50,000 for the purchase of seed for
the poorer landholders. The popular comparison of the
" drop of water in a bucket" is applied to it • and many
hold that the grant of this, or three times a 'larger sum,
would be fraught with evil consequences, as every poor
tenant would he led to expect a share of it. The editor of
the Packet calculates that, taking the average of the baro-
nies at 90,000 acres, the proposed grant would not, at.*'
of oat.

E.ices , as, supply more than seed fora sing'e
acre in each barony in Ireland.. At the Commercial Build-
ings, the opinion prevails, that it would be better to

auanaon the proposition altogether, if the amount be not
advanced to at least £250,000. However, taking the
statement of Lord J. Russell in oninibta, it has given
great satisfaction. - -

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Another " positively last ap-
pearance this season " of the star of Conciliation-hall
failed in dr^LlVitlfr fiill itrullen nn Monday• Mr.

nell was present, and, on the authority of a Mr. William
Thomas Kelly, a member of the association, read out thp
names of several landlords in the county of Mayo, who,
according to Air. Kelly, had obtained decrees against
their tenants at the late quarter sessions for the rent only
due in November lat. These were the gentlemen who
deat h
were calling the government to come forward,
they themselves would render noassistare,e n although
even if
were to be the consequence of their hardheartedness. It
was arranged that the committee should meet on the fol-
lowing day, to PrePare a petition to parliament upon the
subject from Mr.
Kelly, in order to have commissioners
appointed to point out the good from the bad landlord
through the country_ .n as to enable the len:

treat such a caseas'ii deserved. It was announced that
Mr. O'Flaherty, of Knockbaue, is to 'be the " Old Ire-
land " candidate for Galway, in succession to Sir Valen-
tine Blake, whose resignation is no longer , 8, matter of

was a serious
£l5 16s. lid.

in the funds, t,
The ship is sinking

he rent having closed at

MORE STARVATION,

The Galway Mercury says, " In one wretched cabin
in the village of Glen, westward of Onterard, by about
two miles' ten human beings, constituting an entire
family, lie dead before the observer in one heap of rotten-
ness and putrefaction ! In another, seven miserable crea-
tures have already paid the debt of nature, while four
others are struggling in the last throes of agony ! and in
a third half-covered hut, an expiring wretch is found crawl-
• ~ 1.,....,.,. .-. LA. •

ing on the grouun,
a few turnip peels-
the &hi

nueavouring to sustain existence upon
not fit sustenance for the beasts of

The Sligo Champion says, that the coroners of that
county cannot attend to the calls made on them, and
numbers are buried. without inquests. Ten inquests, i"
all of which the verdict was " died of starvation,"
recorded. • • •
dated
Dr. M'Cormick, the dispensary physician at Crook-
haven, 25 miles weSt of Skibbereen says, in a letter
Our
26th January, " I think nothing can so truly depict
miserable condition as the deserted state of our religious
church was,
week 50—

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all-. -•••••
domiciliating visits show it is not a want clination,
but an impossibility for them to attend. We have scarcely
that have not six -
weight
any fuel in this parish, and there are many large families
pounds
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4"..r.ering fir both
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T 1 our

;1 (10 not kn

- house the •• mere is
one lying dead now at third that was
brought in to be corpse,t; Within the last ten days. I was
yeSterditythrough th parish : I,t was shocking to see the
rvn thCir Moters bQ +0 ...:

uourisnmem " ***: few-ith;..e emidren that were
~-
mimi
fine and plump a since,, now, nothing but
sinew and bone, with their eyes larger than the socket."
visited a sick den a few days since. On entering
I myself
sawn figure in the corner; she pointed to the other
side, and on my taking up a bundle of straw to admit the
light, literally a swarm of rats jumped from under it. I
was yet to witness. a more horrid ~,d-ii- • there lay for

I a,skpd

...ivunkt - sign t, ; ,
brothers:l37
Wa there. close by him her dying
nnt intprrpti ? The answer

For genera

one to put him in the eaith:;;- lily duties as Dispensary
physician call tne hourlinto caves such as those.; unfor-
tunately without the means of relief.

7 H. E

CHA SE

' nvi
IFI6 CHESHIRE no UNDS. on Wednesday, at Tilstone ;
Thursday at Stamford Bridge ; Saturday, at Crewe Hall—
at half-past 10.
The moNiuomititysitT,LLhneTirrids,z,
aTtulsbdearray
u(Lhis
day), at the Cock Inn,
.at 10,