The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

THE CURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen and royal farnily went to Claremont on Sa-
turday, and return to town to-day.

FASHIONS FOR MAY.
(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")
Foulards in various styles; barges 'n both large and
small checks ; chine royal in stripes on either dark or light
grounds ; poults de soie, taffetas, and pekins, with foul-
ards in narrow satin stripes of gray cerise lilac, green
nankin, &c., with plain popelines and poils de chevre'
compose the materials for spring toilettes. Dark colours
will be confined to morning wear ; whilst pink, blue, and
lilac glace are worn for the promenade ; the corsages re-
main tight and high with jackets; but bareges, muslins,
&c., will be with full bodies on bands and ceintures ; the
sleeve half-long or quite short, with gloves of glace kid.
Ribbon flounces on silk dresses are very fashionable, as
also fringe, which is made very deep and full, matching
the dress ; glace, ombre, &c., rows are placed on the bot-
tom of the dress, or en tablier, with a new style of tassel;
flounces will be worn, particularly on thin dresses, on
which several are placed. Visitee av still the fashionable
style in pardessus ; they are made of piaci silks in light
colours ; some are rather short behind, but trimmed with
lace half-a-yard deep; but the usual trimmings of visiles
are of gimp, or biais laid one on the other.
Open fancy straws are very much worn, as well as the
chapeau guipure; the new form is very pretty, particu-
larly with the wreaths of exotic plants. Capctes of crape
and tulle bonillonne are lined with fringed ribbons, and
ornamented with flowers ; white crape bonnets are trim-
med with voint lace, and wreaths of spring flowers.
Pailles de riz will be very fashionable ; their forms are a
little open, but the ornaments inside are full—flowers
ribbon, but particularly bouillonnes of tulle.

IRELAND.

On Saturday night four persons were drowned at Wa-
terferd by the upsetting of a boat.
A few days ago, Mr. Brew, agent for Colonel Vande-
lenr, ofKilrush, was fired at by'a person in female attire,,
and wounded in the arm. The assassin walked in the
presence of several persons, coolly reloading his gun and
threatening to shoot any one who followed him.
• EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—It is calculated that
30,000 persons will have emigrated from Ireland in the
present year. Many of them are known to have consi-
derable sums of money ; but, at only £2O a-head, they
will withdraw from the small capital of this impoverished
country no less than £6oo,ooo.—Dublin Register.
There was a dull meeting at Conciliation Hall, on Mon-
day, Mr. Steele in the chair. A letter was read from Mr.
Smith O'Brien, on the relation between the repeaters and
the several political parties of England, by no means
complimentary to the latter. There was a fearful falling
off in the week's " rent," which only amounted to £7B.
Lord Cloncurry has received a letter from Mr. Peel,
dated Calcutta, March 7, intimating that an additional
sum of £2,000 has been transmitted to the Bank of Ire-
land, for the relief of the distressed Irish, from the Ben-
gal Presidency, with an intimation that more money may
be expected from the same benevolent source.
SPLENDID BEQUESTS.—The late John Scott, Esq., of
Broad-street,. London, has bequeathed the sum of £27,000
to each of three Societies,—the Church Missionary So-
ciety, the Church Pastoral-Aid Society, and the Bible
Society ;—and £9,000 each to the City Mission, the Lon-
don Missionary Society, and the Clerical Education-Aid
Fund.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday week, Corpo-
ral Kenneth Brodie, of the 73rd regiment, stationed at
Cork, shot himself with his musket in his room, while
under confinement on a charge of intoxication. The de-
ceased had his boots on and was apparently cleaning his
musket, when he took off his right hoot, and having placed
the muzzle of the gun to his mouth pulled the trigger with
his toe, and litterally blew the roof of his skull off, scat-
tering the brains about in all directions. _ _

The Commissioners of Public Works, in Ireland, acting
under the Drainage Act of the present session, have issued
a notification that they are ready to receive loans for the
execution of drainage and other works. The amount re-
quired for the present year will, probably, be £200,000.
The sum at present required for the works in Louth,
Meath, Monaghan, Cavan, Tipperary, and other counties,
is £92,000. The maximum rate of interest is five per cent.
The security is a first charge on the lands to be drained
or improved.
OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.—According to a parliamen-
tary return, the number of outrages specially reported to
the constabulary-office, Dublin Castle, in 1842, was 6,535;
in 1843, 5,875; in 1844, 6,327; and in 1845, 8,095. By
returns from the Chief Secretary's office, it appears that
the number of persons committed for trial in Ireland, in
the year 1844, was 19,448, and in 1845, 16,696. Among
the outrages reported to the constabulary-office, threaten-
ing notices or letters form a prominent feature. They
numbered last year 1,944, and in the preceding year, 862.
Of homicides, there were 106 in 1842, 122 in 1843, 146 in
1844, and 139 in 1845. Outrages in attacking houses
numbered last year 483, and incendiary fires, 478. Of the
number of persons committed for trial in the second re-
turn, it is stated that in 1844 out of the 19,448 there were
8,042 convicted, 10 found to be insane on arraignment,
and 13 acquitted as being insane, and 11,406 acquitted anti
discharged. In the year 1845, of the 16.696 committed
for trial, there were 7,101 convicted. and 959 acquitted.
THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD'S TENANTRY.—A.
writer in the Carlow Sentinel, who, however, withholds
his name, has published a lengthened explanation of the
circumstances under which the recent evictions took place
on his lordship's property in the south of Ireland. The
most material passage in this rebutting statement is as
follows :—" The hundreds stated to have been ejected
were no tenants to the Marquis of Waterford, but stran-
gers from the counties of Cork and Kerry, who located
themselves in miserable hovels, not more secure or com-
fortable than pig-styes'--erected, too, on the acre of
ground in the occupation, mark ! of each and every one of
the 40s. freeholders, and who latterly pair'. no rent for
these wretched hovels to the ' forty shillingers,' hut re-
fused to pay rent in any shape. '; bus, the public will
perceive that the parties ejected were miserable squatters,
deriving under the ' forty shillingers' still in occupation,
and having no connexion, directly or indirectly, with the
Marquis of Waterford, although this generous and much-
calumniated nobleman is falsely charged with evicting by
wholesale a body of ' 40s. freeholders.' "