The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-07 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR APRIL

(From the London and Paris Ladies Magazine of Fashion.)
Although until after Longchamps the fashions are not ; e
nerally introduced, still the Magazine de Mode are filled with
the endless variety of materials for every description of
toilette. Silk it is expected will be decidedly in favour, pe-
kilts d'et6, anti of various descriptions, with foulards of new
style, thejnost elegprit of which is ecru, with moss rose buds of
cerise, thefeuillage and moss being tinted with brown bare-yes,
varying in colours and designs; and reps cachernire is spoken
of for walking dresses. In eveningnegligemuslinbrocatelle
is worn, and tarintane embroidered in silk and gaze Arach-
nee , with Aragonaise embroidery sometimes intermixed with
gold, form the more elegant toilette de soiree. New forms
fur dresses are spoken of, and with the Grecian sleeve there
is, as ever, great yaristy observable in our toilettes. and dres-
ses are ornamented in a thousand different styles, floweas
and lace forming the principal ornaments : many tulle dres-
s,:s have detachedboOrets. Walking . dresses are made
high and with rounded point ; ,the material when plain is
enriched by.cogues of ribbon, and epaulieres of black lace
enlarging en gerbe on the body, and descending the skirt, or
else biais of :velvet, ornament the corsage and jockeys, and
continue in three rows down the skirt ; gimp trimmings,
either of the same or contrasting colours are much used,.
and under the name of gimp arachnees, filiaranes, gut-
puree, are formed elegant fronts for dresses, berthes, or
sleeve ornaments, forming a kind of embroidery with ex-
cellent effect. Dresses of gray poult de soie are elegantly
trimmed all round the skirt with black guipure gimp, which
rises up the sides of the front breadth, meeting at the point
of the corsage. The coiffures are worn rather higher and
wider. Small scarfs of fichus Algerien of silk and gold are
used to form elegant coiffures, and are much in demand to
intermix with the hair ; those of dark blue and gold or pun-
ceau and gold are extremely pretty for the little coiffures
creole:. Historical coiffures are in favour for grande tr,ilette,
with resilles and dress-hats, Louis XV. and turbans. Tassels
of white bugles and fringes of the same are used in coiffures
without crowns, as well as with rich turbans. Some of the
dress caps are very short at the ears, and blond is quite re-
stored to favour, and rivals the richest lace for full drees.
Bonnets are all making in the favourite spring colours ; green
trimmed with lzlas d'Espagne, lilac trimmed with Persian
lilac and vervein, blue with clematis and jacinth, paille with
heart's-ease and roses, pink with snow-drops tinted pink and
pink and hepatica. The forms are moderate and mostly
straight, advancing beyond the profile. Capoles are with
ruches or biais at their edge.

SINGULAR CASE •OF SUICIDE.—On Wednesday, Mr.
Baker held an inquest at the City-road, on the body of Wm.
Joseph Chandler, 26 years of age, who cut his throat under
the following singular circumstances :—lt appeared by the
evidence, that the deceased, about three weeks since, had
been troubled with a violent toothache, and the tooth was
extracted. That trifling circumstance appeared to prey upon
his mind ; and on Monday morning he complained of a
degree of fever, and whilst his wife went to a neighbouring
doctor's, he procured a razor, and nearly severed his head
from his body. The jury returned a verdict of—Temporary
insanity.

CHEAP BREAD AND CHEAP COALS !---NEWS FOR CORN-
LAW GRUMBLERS.—(From a correspondent.)—ln many of
the bakers' shops in the principal thoroughfares of the me-
tropolis excellent bread is now marked up at jivepence the
four-pound loaf, " weighed on delivery." In several places
among the crowded suburbs, such as Shoreditch, Somers
Town, and Paddington, very good bread may be obtained for
fourpence halfpenny Ike four-pound loaf! Unless the Anti-
Corn-Law Leaguers require bread for nothing (and take un-
limited credit beside), it is impossible to say how this staple
of life can well be cheaper. It may be added, that in New-
cate-maiket, on Friday morning, prime beef was obtainable
in the smallest quantity at fourpence per pound, and mutton
at threepence-halfpenny. Vegetables are proportionably low.
Having bread and meat so very cheap, it can be no harm to
suggest to the disinterested gentlemen who act during Lent
at Drury-lane Theatre every Wednesday evening, to turn
their attention to the getting up of an " Anti-Coal Tax
Company." The public evidently have cheap bread—why
not cheap coals 7—Herald.

COMMON SENSE.—We find the following communication
in an opposition Journal :—" May I avail myself of your
columns to inquire why it is that the Anti-Corn Law League
and other advocates of free trade do not press for the estab-
lishment of treaties as the primary step, most likely at least
to lead to the accomplishment (virtually) of the objects
which the free traders profess? How stands the case?
Foreign countries it is said—the Americans for instance—
would be willing to admit our manufactures duty free if we
would open the trade for their grain, and by both parties
agreeing to this a great aggregate gain would seemingly
accrue to the United States and to Great Britain. Would
that gain on either side, be nearly counterbalanced by ac-
companying evils of any kind ? If not, then is it not ob-
vious that a treaty is the first thing which each country
should be forward to propose and agree upon, and that no
common or slight inequalities or difficulties anticipated to
result to internal class interests in either country should be
permitted to stand in the way as hindrances of the aggregate
gain derivable by both nations ? It is easy to say that, with-
out a treaty, the Americans would take our goods if their
corn were admitted here. The American government and
ndividual traders would do just what should appear to be
most for their respective interests. The probability is, the
tariff on British goods would be continued and the American
manufactures be additionally stimulated by our opening the
trade for American grain. A treaty it seems to me should
be the ordinary occurrence between all countries having with
one another any importand commercial intercourse."

A SKIT ON THE ENGLISH.—We see by the Journal de
Havre that amongst the exhibitions of the Mi-Careurie at
that place on Thursday week, was one which caused great
merriment to the public at large, but which could not have
been very agreeable to.some of the inhabitants who had em-
barked their money in the speculation which was turned
into ridicule. In the proceession of the maskers were three
carriages, one of which was a construction made to resemble
the hull of the Teleniaque, with a quantity of machinery in
imitation of that used by Mr. Taylor, the engineer, to raise
her from her bed of sand. At a signal given by a man
wearing a wig of ied hair (the cherished colour of the sons
of Albion, says the Journal du Havre), the men in this car-
riage began to work the machinery in imitation of the appa-
ratues of the Telemaque. After this a person representing
the engineer, and armed with a harpoon, plunged it into the
side of the vessel, and drew out at various times an old iron
boiler, a quantity; of carrots, and a glass jar of cucumber
(un Local de cornichons). All the actors in this scene rep-
resented persons in the speculation, and had very yellow
faces, with noses of an immoderate length. The carriage
which followed was perfectly empty, representing the caisse
des actionnaires. A cabriolet accompanying this carriage
contained a charlatan, who for 20 centimes disposed of copies
of the programme in favour of the Havre fund for the suf-
ferers at Guadaloupe. Such of our readers as know the full
force of the French phrase firer la carolle, and the applica-
tion of the word ornichon, will appreciate the wit, such as
it was, of the getters up of the Havre masque.—Galtimani's
Messenger.
THE PENNY POSTAGE.—The Morning Herald publishes
a correspondence between Mr. Rowland Hill and Sir Robert
Peel relative to the removal of the former gentleman from
the temporary situation at the Treasury, in connection with
the Post-office, recently filled by him. The late Chancellor
of the Exchequer, it appears from some parliamentary papers,
engaged Mr. Hill in September, 1839, far two years, at a
salary of £l5OO a-year, to give the Treasury the benefit of
his services in carrying into effect his own plan of a penny
postage ; before this term expired the whig government was
driven from power, but previously to its expulsion Mr. F.
Baring informed Mr. Hill that he thought. it would be ad-
vantageous " to continue his services beyond the two years
originally settled; that he, Mr. Baring, did not deem it ex-
pedient to make any engagement beyond one year, but that
Mr. Hill might consider that for one year from the expirtion
of the two former years his services were engaged on the
same conditions as before." This extension was confirmed
by the present government, and the three years expired in
September last. Two months previously to such expiration
Mr. Goulburn intimated to Mr. Hill that he did not think it
advisable to make any further extension of the engagement;
whereupon Mr. Hill complained that he was removed be-
fore his plan was carried ont, and sought to be reinstated
for such terra—without salary if it were an obstacle—as is
necessary to perfect it and all other postal improvements
he had in view ; to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
replied that the principle of the penny postage was now
thoroughly understood, that so long as a post-office should
continue opportunities for improvement wouid present them-
selves, and that the retention of an independent officer for
the purpose of conducting such improvements would either
lead to an entire supercession of those who are responsible
for the department, or a conflict of authorities prejudicial
to the public interests. Mr. Hill appealed from this decision
to Sir Robert Peel, and the premier supports Mr. Goulburn.

EXTRA ORDINARY PERSEVERANCE. The Rev. W. Cary,
curate of Estleigh, in Devonshire, completed, in the year
1809, a work, entitled A Syslern of Divinity, which extends
to 26 volumes. He first attempted to publish it by subscrip-
tion, but not succeeding, he formed the singular resolution
of printing it by his own hand labour. To effect this, he pur-
chased as many worn-out and cast-off types of a country
printer as were sufficient to set up two pages, and made a
press for himself. With these materials he went to work in
1795, performing every operation himself, and working off
page by page. He struck off 40 copies of the first 300 pages,
26 of which he distributed among the Universities. the
bishops, the Royal Society, and the reviewers. Disappointed
at not receiving the encouragement he expected from this
proceeding, he resolved to spare himself of any farther ex-
pense of paper upon those before whom he had thrown pearls
in vain ; and as he had only reserved 14 copies of the 40 with
which he had commenced, 14 only he continued to print, and
at the end of 12 years of unremitting toil, he finished the
whole 26 volumes—a rare morceau for the bibliomaniacs of
the next century ! A parallel to the above is to be found in
Fransharn, the Norwich Pagan, who died in 1811. He one
day made this remark—" Every man has some great object
which he wishes to accomplish, and why should I not have
mine? I will choose such an one as no mortal being ever
yet chose ; I will get a cup and ball, and I will catch the ball
on the spiked end-666,666 times." And this he actually ac-
complished.— West of England conservative.

INGENUITY OF BlRDS.—Thrushes feed very much on
snails, looking for them in mossy banks. Having frequently
observed some broken snail-shells near two projecting peb-
bles on a gravel walk, which had a hollow between them, I
endeavoured to discover the occasion of their being brought
to that situation. At last I saw a thrush fly to the spot with
a snail-shell in his mouth, which he placed between the two
stones, and hammered at it with his beak till be bad broken
it, and was then able to feed on its contents. The bird must
have discovered that he could not apply his beak with suffici-
ent force to break the shell while it was rolling about, and
he therefore found out and made use of a spot which would
keep the shell in one position. When the lapwing wants to
procure food, it seeks for a worm's cast, and stamps the
ground by the side of it with its feet; somewhat in the same
manner as I have often done when a boy, in order to procure
worms for fishing. After doing this for a short time, the
bird waits for the issue of the worm from its hole, who,
alarmed at the shaking of the ground, endeavours to make
its escape, when he is immediately seized, and becomes the
prey of the ingenious bird. The lapwing also frequents the
haunts of moles. These animals, when in pursuit of worms,
on which they feed, frighten them • and the worm, in at-
tempting to escape, comes to the surface: of the ground, where
it is seized by the lapwing. The same modeof alarming his
prey bas been related of the gull.—Jesse's Gleanings in Na-
tural History.

FARMING IN 'APPGRANISTAN.—On the prices of farm-
ing and labour in Kohistan I gathered the following particu-
lars :—A landlord-who farms his estate is understood to pay
one-third of the total produce for sowing, rearing, and reap-
ing. The state takes a' third, and the remaining third falls
to the proprietor. In this 'case, however,,be furnishes the
seed, and water for irrigation. If the proprietor also furnish
cattle, and all the materials, &c. which are required, the la-
bourers than receive only one-sixth for their trouble. It is
not usual to hire daily labourers_ ..,han DIOUgh. two

aim a vaii w vice are so, employed, the wages are halt
a-khan rupee, or three-eights of a company's rupee, per
diem. Affghanistan is a cheaper country than Persia, for
grain is more abundant. Wheat yields from ten to sixteen

told, seldom more than fifteeniricegives sixteen or
eighteen; jurawee as:rnuch as fifty fold. The best soil in the
district of. Cabool
is at Deh Affghanee, a village in the
suburbs, Where a jurfeb of land, or half an English sFre, Pro-
duces a rent of ten tbrnauns, or 1000 rupees, and yield, be-
sides the profits of the proprietor, a revenue as high as forty
rupees to government ; but this is ground on which vege-
tables are reared, the sale of which is highly advantageous,
for the Affghans preserve cabbages, carrots, and turnips, as
we do potatoes, placing them on the ground, with a little
earth over them, and leaves, so that they are thus kept fresh
till April.—Burries's Cabool.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.
Although the wind has been mostly favourable for arrivals
since Friday, the samples of all sorts of Grain and Flour up
for to-day are extremely small, and those of Oatmeal com-
paratively but moderate.

The principal consuming markets of the country in the
course of last week appearing to have recovered a little bet.
ter tone as regards Wheat, and the improved features re-
ported in London yesterday imparting a somewhat steadier
feeling among the trade here, most descriptions of English,
Irish, and Foreign Wheat were held, at this day's market,
Id. to 2d. per 'Nibs. over the rates of Tuesday last, which,
although not freely paid, nor generally established, sales to a
moderately fair extent were effected at the amendment.
Flour of all denominations met a rather improved demand,
and fully supported former prices.
Barley, upon a short supply, remained steady in value;
whilst Malt, Beans, and Pease, continuing to meet a very
limited inquiry, hardly maintained our last quotations.
Oats, of which a few parcels have been taken by specula.
tive buyers and consumers, were id. to Id. per 451bs. dearer ;
and Oatmeal, though not in lively request, realised the ex-
treme terms of this day se'nnight.