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-
pear. The approach and advent of Her Majesty ushers
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 JULY

(From the London and Paris "Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")

All light and transparent materials are now in favour,
cachemire barege is one of the prettiest; the patterns are
mostly large for printed materials, as mosseline de soie;
two shades of the same colour are very fashionable; lilac,
' with violet, pink, or currant, dark green or light, the
organdys are in large checks, awl for morning wear jaco-
nots and brillantes with flounces; the ensemble of toilettes
is simple, the dresses intended for country wear are prin-
cipally redingotes and peignoirs of foulard de Kamboul
Nankin, with deep hem, and mante Luisa trimmed with
nankin fringe—many are made with corsage a qmazone;
toiles de Chine are ornamented with embroidery in sou-
tache. For the present moment redingotes of muslin,
lined, with collar, are pretty ; the corsages are made high,
and full at the shoulders, with ceinture and long ends ;
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
depth, the same style is worn in white over coloured
dresses. A new material, termed taffetas ruban, is very
fashionable; it consists of a silk stripe and a wide satin
one shaded, chine, or brochee imitating ribbon. Flounces
and ruches in silk materials are pinked in crete de coq,
others are in deep vandyke edged with gimp or braid;
printed tarlatanes, mousselines de soie grenadines require
flounces, and under skirt of white silk, the corsages full
at the shoulders and waist, forming gerbe with ceinture of
ribbon. For all thick materials the sleeves are tight;
others are wide fulled into a wristband and showing the
bouillons of the white sleeve below, or with cuffs turned
back a la Louis XV., finished with a plisse of ribbon.
Many short sieves are worn with mittans. Many rendin-
gotes have been made in Pan; of white taffetas, but very
simple in style, merely closing with gimp buttons; light
collars are decidedly fashionable this season.
The uncertainty of the temperature renders variety
necessary in out-door toilette, and the lace shawl of the
morning must often be replaced for an evening promenade
by a wadded cloak, closing to the throat with pelerine,
and long ends crossing in front; many pardessus are with
frills, having wreaths of flowers, broth& on the same
material ; the mantelets form a shawl behind, and the
ends in front are short; many are of black figured net,
trimmed with lace of embroidered muslin ; those of taffe-
tas glace have trimmings of the same material; ecru,_
green, glace, with white, dark blue, lilac, and currant, are
favourite colours.

Tn bonnets, all the lightest materials are now in request;
the dentelle paille is particularly so ; bonnets of crin and
aloes are also of pretty texture; they are lined with lilac,
trimmed with ribbon, veloute or checked; pailles de riz
are ornamented with large flowers; marine ones, chesnut
blossom, honey-suckle, &c. Some bonnets of dentelle
paille are lined with a light-coloured silk, with pinked
ruche inside, and bunches of flowers; some fancy straws
have silk crowns, and the fronts lined with silk and
finished with a ruche, which continues round the bavolet;
the bavolets are made larger than they were a few months
back, particularly for capotes; tulle bouillonnee and crape
are much admired, those of dark colour are enlivened by
the beautiful flowers that ornament them.