The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

,erials flounces o

nts fetes (Vital
1,,, made with

la Reine, taffetas Victoria, Pekines levsntines, ombrees in
dark colours ;—papelines camayeux are all in favour for
dinner or evening wear, and in richer materials velvets,
damas, satins spotted with velvet, &c. All shades of
grey are fashionable en neglige, particularly pearl grey,
iron grey, and taupe. The make of dresses varies but
little, always high bodies for the manning ; evening cor-
sages are still light and pointed. A pretty style of trim-
ming is a plat of two shades of the colour of the dress edg-
ingthe reveas of both body and skirt ; these little plats

will also be used on dresses of thin materials for evening
wear on white crape, or sky blue, or on crape lisse. The

. .
small collars and cardinal cuffs suite well with the plain
redingote; these collars stand erect, a little open round
the throat, embroidered and trimmed with narrow lace,
put_on a little full; the cuffs are of the same style, turned

. .
back on the sleeve forming gauntlet, and closing with
small gold butaons. Wreaths ala Ceres, a la Ninon, a
l'lsabeau, with couronnes Rachel and Pamela, are the
fashionable coiffures ; they are all made with waxed leaves
instead of velvet, being lighter. Pelisses la Valliere,
Manteaux, Bayard, and Fouliere, are all in favour ; the

Andalon.se is also pretty, a kind of demi-montelet, ge-
nerally made of black or deep blue velvet richly ma-
i with gimp; the form is

,gant and calculated to

show the dress.
A new form of bonnet, less open at the sides than the
Pamela, are talked of. Velvet bonnets of the beaver
colour are very fashionable, ornamented with feathers of
the same colour, or with several small ones, sometimes
mixed with the colour of the lining, pink or cerise. Lice
is again being used on the edge of bonnets ; on white
bonnets the lace is point d'Angleterre ; on black, green,
or ruby velvet, it is fine black lace ; these are ornamented
with an aigrette on ostrich feather on a lappet of black
lace instead of ribbon.

THE POTATOE DISESE

We take tF

Le following from Dr. Buckland's lecture

from which we have preciously made extracts :
" Much good will result from evil, if this year's scarcity
of potatoes compels the Irish peasant to labour for and
feel the want of some better kind of food than the same
roots on which he feeds his hogs. He will begin to
advance in the scale of civilization as soon as he begins
to eat the grain of wheat and barley, oats and rye. The
English cottager, too, may learn to use patato-jelly, of
whizh a large mess may be made in one minute with
boiling water and potato-flour ; (which is potato-starch,
e arrow-root, and worth from Bd. to 12d. a pound).
t him use this jelly one day, sweetened with coarse
together with brown bread or barley

ugar or treacle,

cakes, and the nest day eat oatmeal-porridge and potted
potatoes, with little or no bread for his family meals.
He may learn, also, the value of cakes, puddings, and
dumplings, made of equal parts of potato-flour or ground-

and of oatmeal or barley-Meal, or the flour of

wheat, or beans, or peas—all these may be boiled or
broiled, or baked or fried with hog's lard, like fried
potatoes, and would be a cheap and pleasing change for
less nourisbing white bread and boiled potatoes, with but
little trouble. Such a change would be a God-send to
our present miserable cottaae-cookery. Sweetened
potato-jelly would also be a cheap and pleasant change
for tea; I take it daily for breakfast.

" if your seed runs short, potatoes can be grown from
cuttings, taken off six inches long, planted i❑ rowe with-
out bruising, and watered till they take root. Those who

have saved the apples of the potatoe, may sow the seed
they cont'in, and raise new sort. Potatoes should no
be kept in bed-rooms—they occasion fevers

even in the house.
who can afford to d
scarce and dear by

and not
—ingly

All persons should use them r,F_
o so, to present their becoming very
and bye; and all who have

low rate in the spring, especially for seed. Nev:.r mind a
little trouble now, you will be well repaid for it before
spring ; perhaps before January is over.
" The panic of famine is spreading wide in Germany