The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

A DOZEN YEARS HENCE.
(From Blackwood 's Magazine.)

" LET'S sing and be merry,
Dance, sing, and rejoice,"
So runs the old carol,
" With music and voice."
had the Bard but survived
Till the year thirty-three,
Methinks he'd have met with
Less matter for glee ;
To think what we were
In our days of gdod sense,
And think what we shall be
A 'dozen years hence.

And Catholics dictlite
Our new Church Reform ;
While the schoolmaster swears
"fis a useless expense,-
Which his class won't put up with:
A dozen years hence.

Perhaps 'twere too much,
To rejoice at the thought,
That its authors will share
In the ruin they wrought
That the tempest which sweeps
All their betters away,
Will hardly spare Durliam,
Or Russell, or Grey :
For my part I bear them
No malice prepense,
But I'llscarce break my heart for't
A doien years hence.

01. once the wide Continent
Rang with our fame,
And nations grew still
At the sound of our name ;
The pride of Old Ocean,
The home of the free,
The scourge of the despot,
By shore and by sea,
Of the fallen and the feeble
The stay end defence—
But where shall our fame be
A dozen years hence ?

When Cobbett shall rule
Our finances alone,
And settle all debts
As he settled his own ;
When flume shall take charge
Of the National C hurch,
And leave his old tools,
Like the Greeks, in the lurch !
They may yet live to see
The new era commence,
With their own " Final Measure,'
A dozen years hence.

The peaccr-and the plenty
That spread orer all
Blithe hearts and bright faces
In hamlet or hall ;
Our yeomen so loyal
In greenwood or plain,
Our true-hearted burghers,
We seek them in vain;
For loyalty's now
In fife pluperfect tense,
And freedom's the word
For a dozen years hence.

Already those excellent
Friends of the mob,
May taste of the fruits
Of their Jacobin Job ;
Since each braying jackass.
That handles a quill,
Now flings up his heels
At the poor (.:•,-Ing. Bill;
And comparing- ;Arcady
The kicks with the pence,
Let them think of the balance
A dozen years hence.

The Nobles of Britain,
Once foremost to wield
/ler wisdom in council,
Her thunder in field ;
Her Judges, where learning
With purity vied ;
Her sound-headed Churchmen,
Time-honoured, and tried ;
To the gift of the prophet
i.make no pretence,
But where shall they all be
A dozen years hence ?

When prisons give place,
To the swift guillotine,
And scaffolds are streaming
Where churches have been ;
We too, or our children,
Believe me, will shake
Our heads—if we have them—

Alas ! for old Reverence,

Faded and flown -
To find our mistake ;
Alas ! for the Nobles, To find the great measure
The Church and the Throne, Was all a pretence,
When to Radical creeds, And be sadder and wiser
Peer and Prince must conform, A dozen years hence.

LADIES' FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY, 1833.
BALL DRESS.—The hair is arranged in the new fashion, a la Floride,
with garlands and bouquets of various flowers. One garland is put
the left side, and continued round the base of some light bows of
hair, which are surmounted by feathery sprigs. A bouquet is placed'
above the curls on the right temple. The dress is of white crape over
white satin ; the corsage plain to the shape, with a.full blonde man-
tilla and breast-knot, in place of a sevigne. The sleeves are full-fall-
ing berets, sloping towards the elbow. -The skirt is ornamented in a
very novel mode : five rouleaux. of white satin or gauze ribbon de-
scend from the.belt, and fasten at the head of the hem, under live
bouquets of black and red roses, with foliage and buds : and knots of
ribbon, similar to the rouleaux, finish the bouquets, and occupy the
whole front of the skirt, as the rouleaux spread towards the bottom
of the dress. Necklace and ear-rings are of emeralds, surrounded
with enamelled chasings. White kid long gloves, finished with dents
at the tops. White satin shoes and sandals.—Lady's Mapzine.
HATS AND BONNETS.—The former are most in favour in half-dress ;
they are for the most part trimmed in a very light style, with gauze
ribbons to correspond, and a single ostrich feather. both of the colour
of the hat ; it is placed almost on the front of the brim, in a manner
equally new and original. When flowers are employed they are
divided into two tufts, which are separated by leaves formed of rib-
bons ; there is something singularly pretty in this last style of trim-
Ming. Bengal roses and elder.blossoms are the flowers most in favour
for hats.—World of Fashion.
OUT-DOOR COSTENE.—Mantles continue to he universally adopted,
but the only novelties are those for soirees ; they are of two kinds;
cloaks with large sleeves, which are fastened over those of the dress
by two or three gold buttons placed down the centre of the arm.—
'this is an elegant style of opera cloak, particularly when it is made
iaf a new material, with a rich satin ground, and velvet flowers very
highly raised. The effect is equally novel and beautiful. The other
mantle is of a similar form, but the sleeves are of the Mameluke kind,
of enormous width, but not very long. The most elegant of these
last are of orange cashmere, embroidered in black silk, and lined
ith velvet. The mantle is trimmed round the bottom with a broad
border of sable fur set on below the embroidery. The sleeves are
also bordered with sable, and the collar is, composed of it. This is
really a superb envelop —World qt. Fashion.
MoaNING Duess.--The pelisse form is most in favour in deshabille.
A good many are of black satin : they are worn with triple colours
of tulle embroidered in a lace pattern, and a cravat of Norway crape.
Sometimes a pelerine canezou of clear cambric, bordered with narrow
Valenciennes lace is adopted, instead of the collar. When this is the
case, cambric manchettes, flat and rather deep, are worn; they are
also bordered with Valenciennes lace. Caps are indispensable in
morning dress: the prettiest are the bonnets des Enfans ; they are of
tulle, with a caul like a child's cap, and the front trimmed with a
double ruche, one part next the face, and the other the caul. These
caps are always trisimed with gauze ribbons, which are coloured, to
mark that the black satin robe is nut mourning.
MAKE AND MATERIALS OF DINNER DRESS.—A late splendid party
has furnished us with some ensemblies 'of dresses worn by ladies,
alike distinguished for their rank and taste, Which we shall lay before
our fair readers. Oue distinguished by its elegant simplicity, was a
robe of satin des Indes, the colour of Indian corn, a low corsage,
draped in the Tyrolien style, and plain lone sleeves. A black velvet
hat, larger on the right side than the left, it turned up on the for-
mer; and trimmed with a boUquet of seven ostrich feathers to corre-
spond ; they were of tlitibrent sizes, rising one above another, and of
the colour of the dress. A knot of gauze ribbon to correspond was
placed on the other side of the brim. This robe and hat were both
furnished by Mrs. Bell.
EVENING HEAD-DRESS.—Turbans are more in favour than berets,
though the latter are still very fashionable. We see a number of tur-
bans of plated gauze ; one-half of the material is plain, the other
lightly figured in gold or silver.
MAKE AND MATERIALS OF BALL DRESS.—Crepe Veloute, and gaze
Floride. are the last new materials. The first is, as its name implies,
of uncommon richness : the velvet applications are always of a dif-
ferent colour to the ground ; wood colour upon blue, or upon rose,
and deep red upon mats, are those which have the best effect ' • the
gaze Floride resembles the Donna Maria'gauze, but is richer. Cor-
sages a la Tyrolienne, and short sleeves of the bouffant form arc uni-
versally adopted. Some of these robes have no trimming; others are
adorned with bouquets of small and light flowers placed at some dis-
tance from each other, round the border, nearly as high as the knee.
A dress of this description of a very original kind, is of black gauze,
adorned round the border by bouquets of refine Marquintes of differ-
ent colours. Three smaller bouquets were attached upon each sleeve.
The ceinture was embroidered in relief, in a wreath of the same
flowers.

COIFFUE ES.—They are either of ribbons or flowers, and
sometimes a mixture of both. Some also are of blond and roses in-
termingled in wreaths; these List are beautillll. So also are-knots
forming half wreaths on one side of the head, with ends which fall
upon the neck. The colours most in request are Vert de Cour, rose
de Jericho, mail, violet, orange, ruby, pule rose colour, and blue.—
irorl4l of Parhiun.