The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert, accom-
panied by the Prince of Leiningen, and the royal family,
and attended by their usual retinue, left Claremont for
London. The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia was
presented to the Queen by Lord Palmerston, and had an
audience. In the evening Prince Albert dined with the-
officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and afterwards at-
tended, in company with the Queen, the performances at
Her Majesty's Theatre.
On Wednesday the Queen had a dinner party at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of
Kent, the Grand Duke Constantine, the Hereditary
Grend Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of
Lucca, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchess of Suther-
land, &c.
On Thursday, the Queen held a drawing-room at St.
e 's Palace, in celebration of her birth-day. In the
jaevrnsin g, the Queen and Prince Albert attended the per-
formances at Her Majesty's Theatre.
THE QUEEN'S BIRTH-DAY IN LONDON.—On Thurs-
day the Queen's Birth-day was celebrated in London with
the usual rejoicings. Part of the Foot Guards were
inspected by Prince Albert and the Grand Duke Con-
stantine of Russia, in St. James's Park. In the evening
the, public buildings, club-houses, and many private
dwellings were illuminated. State dinners were given in
honour of the day by most of the cabinet ministers and
great ministers of state.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE.—It is now gene-
rally understood that her Majesty and the Prince Consort
will arrive at Cambridge at an early hour on Monday, the
sth of July, and will remain till Wednesday afternoon.
It is likewise believed, if not indeed ascertained as a posi-
tive fact, that the Duke of Wellington will likewise honour
with his venerable presence the august ceremony.
A formal invitation has been sent by the Queen to Me-
hemet Ali, who is said to intend paying a visit to England
next year, if the state of his health and affairs will allow
him to leave Egypt.
LADIES DRESSES AT THE DRAWING-ROOM.—Her
Majesty :—Dress of white tulle illusion, trimmed with
ruches of tulle and gold blonde, over a white satin slip ;
train of gold and white brocade, lined with white satin,
and trimmed round with ruches of tulle and a wreath of
honeysuckle ; body and sleeves ornamented with gold
blonde and diamonds. Head dress, feathers, gold blonde
lappets, wreath of honeysuckle and diamonds. The
Duchess of Kent :—Court dress, composed of a rich blue
and white brocaded satin train, lined with white satin;
and trimmed all round with Brussels point and bows of
ribbon • dress of the same brocade, with a tablier of
Brussels lace, fastened on each side with bows of ribbon
and diamonds ; berthe of Brussels point and stomacher of
diamonds. ' Plume of white feathers, Brussels lace, and
tiara of diamonds. The Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Saxe Weimar :—Court dress, composed of a Brussels lace
train, over white, satin, trimmed with Brussels lace and
bows of white" satin ribbon; Brussels lace dress, over
satin, with lace flounces ; tablier of lace and bows of
ribbon ; berths of Brussels laCe, and stomacher of dia-
monds, with pendants. Her Royal Highness, wore the
Russian Order of St. Catherine, with the badge and star,
the ribbon fastened on the shoulder with a magnificent
bow of diamonds. Her Royal Highness wore a superb
tiara of diamonds, and a smaller one at the back of the
head, to fasten the plume of feathers, and lappets. Thf
pearls and diamonds worn as bracelets were magnificent.

June 1, 1847.

dress in pale colours, with single flounce and very deelY
heading, giving the effect of a second skirt.
Gimp buttons have quite replaced those imitating stonesr
&c. The broad catalan fringe is very pretty on silk, to
replace the flounce ; and ribbon is very much used in
every possible. way that it can be introduced. Two very
deep flounces, or three, five, and even nine are sometimes
used on robes of taffetas glace, commencing at the waist,
and great roundness to the skirt. Some plain barges have
bouillons to the knee.

The mantelet is become a necessary part of our toilet,
whether named mante, cape, or echarpe ; it undergoes
various changes both in form and trimming ; those of
black lace are termed Luisa. The Clarissa Harlowe re-
cals the English mantelet of the last century ; it is a white
mantelet of embroidered or plain muslin, fine cambric, or
lawn. The French mantelet Marie- Antoinette is rather
pointed behind, with end formed by the fulness from the
shoulders, made of the palest taffetas, trimmed with rich
white lace. Numerous little manteaux are made of taf-
fetas in light colours, trimmed with two rows of broad
black lace, one row at the edge, the other above, and a
third forms palerine at the throatt an& ornaments the
armhole. Fancy straws, mixed with mohair, are much
worn, and ornamented either with flowers, feathers, or
lace—paille de riz, crape tulle. All the lighter materials
are now in demand, and leghorns are also worn orna-
mented with a plume of three feathers or bunch of flowers.
Some very light straw bonnets are trimmed inside with
coloured tulle. For morning neglige checked ribbons, on
very dark velvet, are used.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. HUME AND THE QUARANTINE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—It has been asserted by the hon. member for Montrose,
in his place in parliament, that the lazarettoes stationed at this
port have for the period of two years past remained unoccu-
pied. He did not say through what medium he arrived at so
extraordinary a conclusion. The following statement will
show how far the honourable gentleman's assertions may be
relic d on :

Statement of Goods which have arrived at the Quarantine
Station, Liverpool, for the years 1845 and 1846.

Bls. of Cotton. ;Ms. of Wool

Bls. of Flax. Skins, Carpets, Szt

142,084, I 6,795, 28,904,
or or or Quantities.
194 per diem. 9* per diem. 39;1 rer diem.
From the account of arrivals which i have in my possession,.
I can vouch for the accuracy of the above statement ; and it is
only a matter of surprise that those who have the honour of
representing her, Majesty's Government in the quarantine de-
partment, do not furnish themselves with such facts as shall
enable_thein to refute the statements with which the hon.
members for Montrose and Bolton from time to time occupy
the attention of the house, and to, dispel the erroneous impres-
sions which their assertions, uncontradicted, are calculated to
produce on the public mind.
At some future period I may have an occasion to address you
more fully on the subject, but for the present I prefer waiting
a further developement of the honourable gentlemen's views.
I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, May 26, i 847. J. CAVE.

THE CHURCH VINDICATED FROM THE
ATTACKS OF DISSENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
doubt not that you and many of your readers have
inestimable
contemporary to see, copied into the columns of your
contemporary the London Morning Herald, an article from
the Christian Witness, a leading organ of the dissenting party
—an article remarkable only for its reckless abuse of our,vene-
rated Church and instructive only as an example of that oppo-
sition which we have to encounter, and those tactics from
which we must seek a defence. The purpose of transcribing
this article was to append a letter written by Mr. Seeley in
reply to its misrepresentations and statistical inaccuracies,
which letter the editor of the Christian Witness, uninfluenced
by that love of truth and detestation of error or falsehood
which ever characterise the Christian, refused to insert in a
reasonable time, or in any but a mutilated form,—thus clearly
evincing that spirit which goads on some Dissenters in their
opposition to the English Church—an opposition so factious
and so wanton, that not even the most sacred considerations
can induce a relaxation of its unwarrantable fierceness, though
even it must be relinquished or truth sacrificed in its retention.
On the frothy and rabid declamation contained in the article
in question, I shall make no comment. The idle rhodomon,
tade, in which our Apostolic Church is designated Babylon,
and her ministers as avaricious money-hunters, possesses
• • •

neitner tne graces or composition, the temperateness of mil;
gion, nor the semblance of truth; consequently, needs not the
seriousness of rebuke. But when we are asked of our Church,
" Whose is she?" and when the self-confident author presumes
to reply to his own question, I may be permitted to step in
between this lawless, ruthless outrage of truth and decency,
and that Church which I love, honour, and revere, and to
which I esteem it next to my highest privilege to belong.
Am I asked, then, "Whose is she ? ' I answer, the Church
of the people, the Church of rich and poor, of great and little,
of all classes, all intellects, all aces. and all eirenmst..,.. t

Whose is she? I point to her heaven-directed spires, uplifted
to the skies, .in every village and every hamlet where lives an
ear to hear the word of God ;—I point to her faithful parish
priests, toiling at their sacred occupation, wherever a fold can
be collected or a sinner saved ;—I point to all the varied modes
and ramifications of her system, whereby she has provided
every parish in England with an ambassador of peace, and
carried the " joyful sound" to the uttermost parts of this fa-
voured land ;—I call attention to the avowed principle upon
which she has ever acted, that " every sheep should have a
fold, and every fold its shepherd."
And, let me ask, what is the enormous revenue of those con-
temptuously called the "paid clergy"?—what these " abun-
dant treasures", which have given occasion to so much " fine
writing" and empty bombast? Just £285 a-year to each !
But again—how was this revenue acquired?— by extortion
but by the perpetual endowments of charitable
from the people?—by appropriating its moneys? Surelyio not,
t iannhaind,) what
be-
questers. I care not, then, (as to the argument
corrul tion these endowments may .en c
a t eireate; I care not
what covetousness and rapacity they may feed or excite • it is
not the fault of the Church that such cause exists, nor its agency
that induced it.

But it seems she is a burden upon the country, an incubus
on religion; she not only fails to disseminate truth, but sbe
sunnorts error: she is not nnlir enrala..

as um), tAtieleSS Or toe wants of her
children, but she resists any attempt at their improvement;
and sectarian dissent, rabid andtemocratical liberalism, is to
establish purity in its place To thresh this gigantic monster
of iniquity, I suppose these men, " proud in their own con-
ceits, and filled with spiritual self-exaltation, will proceed to
demolish that monument of wisdom and piety, the parochial
system of our church. Like their legitimate forefathers of the
seventeenth century, they would destroy the parish temples,
that not one reck or memorial should remain on the face of
the earth, though it was a sanctuary that preserved it ;—they
would exterminate her parish priests;—and the unholy work
of destruction would proceed till not one stone of the citadel
was left upon another, whilst the ruin would be completed
amidst the pompously perverted cries, " Babylon is fallen, is
fallen !" Can we view in prospect the state of England then?
Can we sketch the horrors of her desolation ? There was only
one age when it could have been exceeded. What a spectacle
would she then present to the world ! A prey to every system
that baited for their capture, her sons would wander without a
parent and without a guide, given up to their own " heart's
lusts", and to the direction of their own vaunted wisdom
society torn with sectarian division, and broken up by faction
and disorder ;—their minds distracted by doubts which no one
could resolve, and differences which no one could decide, and
" driven about by every strange wind of doctrine," without
the protection of that safeguard which Christ established, the
Apostles confirmed, and the wisdom of succeeding ages conti-
nued and preserved. _ _ _

The system of misrepresentation, indeed, carried out in these
dissenting ppiodicals, does not by any means occasion me any
surprise. Whenever the Church is to be attacked, the means
of accomplishing it are little considered, so that they be
thought effective. When the Church is to be stabbed, it mat-
ters not where the weapon was moulded, or what gives force to
the blow. We have had our attention drawn to another marked
instance of this, by that valued and valuable publication, the
Churchman's Penny Monthlyeieptrruyn rr
noefedno teitaar
Christiang takingnt
nadez(
as:pa
periodical
nfel,
intaoyyou
rp;du:acbicraaiehil
gcauaabrzt orthodoxclii
yonh d whicheafnedn adtneh
defended
most earnestly recommend to the notice of those who have nct
peThrveirssioinnsotafntchee
Hococumrril
s .IceBrt thei
apostolicityps et)inz nreaud n, whboeehfreo rohpefel
rano
another
gohuotelnh,
andexprloasinseesdt. ber
etro.
Christian writer clearly proved that the Church of England
yedonitnh et
th eu Sh earl
teaches Consubstantiation ! We seem to have Jesuits, sir, be-
sides those that walk in throats of crape, and other than Pa-
pists that act on the principles of Popery. Extremes are said
to meet. The same principle on which the latter bases the
vindication of her persecuting practices, actuates the former._
It happens that the force of circumstances at present represses
any violent exhibition from either party. We have had a ape-
cimen of the results of such principles from both. This prin-
ciple is, that the "end sanctifies the means"; and indeed it
too often happens that, as the means are discreditable and
wicked, the end itself is but to gratify the instigations of nts-,.
lice and the promptings of envy, or to effect the destruction 01,
that which is the grand bulwark of order and religion in ,Eng-
land—that where nothing can be lost, something maybe gained
in the ruin that should follow. As a Churchman, then, I would
fear both extremes : as I would avoid Scylla, I would also keep
clear of Charybdis ; as I tremble lest I should split upon the
rocks of Popery, I also would evince caution lest I should
flounder amongst the shoals of Dissent. If I would dread the
griping fangs of the one I would also dread the " tender mer-
cies " of the other. Bolh aim at the accomplishment of the
same object—the destruction of the venerated Church of our_
forefathers. Popery would take to its assistance any agent, or
itself aid any system or work, to extermit ate Protestantisni•
Dissent would disregard for the time the Progress of Poperit
or hush her clamour.; against it, so that she might effect the
overthrow of the Church.

These are times full of danger, and demanding the full Eel;
forrnance of our duty as Churchmen and as Christians. 'it,
enemies are up on all sides ; the trumpet sounds from all guar,
ters. Churchmen must band closer together to protect
Church which has fostered them under her wings in their 1:4
fancy, fed them with the "sincere milk of the word" as t 11,4
grew, and guided them with her protecting hand to a vigoro„
maturity, from the insidious and envious opposition of all (,),F0
ponents. They must not be decoyed to join one enemy, t'ss
(vain hope!) they may more easily vanquish another; but mu Y
join together for safety from all ; lest, while they fondly thin
to escape the danger that threatens from one quarter, they 1",-/
into a pit prepared for them in another and last. find 00,4
an alternative of masters. Still let Christian moderiitioil
exercised, and a Christian conduct illustrated and maintaill`i,
in all these moral struggles and encounters. Let the earn
ole
ness which actuates us be the earnestness of truth, and
end we aim at not victory over an opponent, but the trialsjr
of rectitudej—let not the unworthiness of the weaponsZA
ployed against us induce us to use any but this flne-eos;af
burnished sword; and let us enter t
the lists into which 000
own patriotism and, eligion have called us, or others' facia,
and intemperateness have dragged us, thus equipPed and t
_„,er
armed, never fearing finally to overcome all the arts of de`e,i;
tion, and the artillery of envy, hatred, and uncharitable?ope
whilst we are filled with but one hope. and moved with but
fear—the victory or the defeat of truth
26th May, 1847

Nlo'

• MR. BROUGR'S AMERICAN LECTURE.—This „
vocalist gave his entertainment on Friday evening otb
with the most unequivocal success, to an audience "",jog
respectable and numerous, the latter to rather a surf'
extent, considering the heat of the weather. Mr. Brougol.
voice is as good as ever, if anything rather improvalfhoe
his descriptive and humerous powers are such as we ever
seldom heard equalled. No lecturer or writer hasd the
come under our notice who seemed to understantorlest
character of brother Jonathan so well. His B_llol'
Yankee and Nigger, ~were given with wonderful tru
ness of dialect, and while the audience were being Too
vulsed with laughter at the richness and novelty ot 6_0.9
of them, they were never suffered to forget that theybly
being related by a gentleman. The songs were adinnir,
introduced and well sung. Pischeck's fine Gerinalt tile
"My heart's .on the Rhine,"was a digression, ,_nsble•
manner in which it was sung made it quite part,'.e 4tll.
Mr. Brough leaves this country for the States on. the
We do not know what his views are ; but if his Te
be to collect material for future entertainments, asst
well ite, _
make sure of success on his return. He wasaviavd one !iv'
by Miss Balfe, who is a delightful singer, ,„rt Ow°
would become a great favourite here in a very Sn.
She was deservedly encored in two or three song*,