The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY

(From tie " Landonand Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")
The warm and comfortable douilette has re-appeared
this winter, in Paris, in an improved form, ornamented
by quilting. In patterns for evening social parties they
are made in pink and niais satin, trimmed with ermine,
and small mantelet to match. The style of trimming
redingotes is no longer confined to the tablier form ;
many have trimmings encircling the skirt, particularly in
quilting. Cloth dresses are worn, dark blue and claret
being the favourite colours ; they are embroidered in
soutache, intermixed with embroidery en relief, the tight
back of the corsage being equally ornamented with the
front; they are also accompanied by mantelets embroi-
dered and festonne ; some have merely a single wide
galon velonte, or four very narrow ones divided by but-
tons. The gimp trimmings continue an indispensable
accessoire of most toilettes, and not only for robes and
manteaux, but also bonnets and caps are frequently orna-
mented by them ; fringes, oudes and crepe are much
used on ball dresses.

Walking and carriage dresses are made tight and high,
with long sleeves, closing at the wrists ; for evening wear
the corsages are low, tight and pointed, many having dra-
perie on the top ; pretty little mantelets are made for
evening use, of lace, or plain tulle trimmed with several
rows of lace ; the rich lace scarf is, however, more ele-
gant. Flowers are very much used on ball dresses, either
in bunches or wreaths forming moutants, or cordons so
small as to form the headings of flounces ; those of foliage
are particularly pretty.
The velvet bonnets are mostly of dark colours, black,
royal blue, vanilla, but they are lined with a contrasting
colour, and ornamented with much taste inside ; plumes
of small feathers are fashionable, the last falling low, but
the most elegant ones have a single ostrich feather noue,
with marabouts, or a bird of paradise ; gimp is also used
on velvet bonnets,. in a kind of resille covering the crown.
Velours epingle is very fashionable this season, in all
shades of grey, fauvette and deep blue. The pardessus
were never prettier than they are this winter ; the forms
are various, whether in velvet, satin de chine, casimir, or
draP cachemire ; those for young ladies, of satin a la
reine, are with sleeves, and made close to the waist.
Manteanx de visite reach very low, and have several rows
of trimming. Very pretty little caps are made of narrow
blonds, and narrow velvet, with lappets of blond ; ve-
lours epingle, and stamped velvet, form numerous coif-
fures, mixed with black lace, and the half squares of lace
are much in favour, confined by a bouquet of flow va or
velvet noeudE.

IRELAND.

On Wednesday night last, between eight and nine, a
small farmer, named Thomas Brown, was shot dead on
the high-road, within a few yards of his own house, near
Cashel.

CONCILIATION-HALL BRAWLS.—Mr. Henry Grattan,
M:P., has directed his solicitor to apply for a criminal in-
formation against Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., for the words
attributed to the latter in a speech delivered in Conciliation-
Hall at the sitting of that grave deliberative assembly.
According to the Tipperary Free Press, the presidents
and vice-presidents of the Queen's three colleges building
in Ireland, have already each received -a year's salary—
£Boo and £soo—while the main walls of the intended
edifice are not yet raised.
DEATHS BY FEVER.—It is to-day our melancholy duty
to record the deaths of four of our medical friends, who,
within a few days, have been sacrificed to fever :—On the
23d inst., Dr. George Seymour, surgeon to the Kilconnel
Dispensary ; on the 24th inst., Dr. Charles Donnollon,
of Winterfield, medical attendant to the Annadown Dis-
pensary ; on the 25th inst., Mr. Francis Bodkin, for
many years apothecary to the Clifden poorhouse ; and on
the 26th inst., Dr. Edward Lambert, of Oranmore, a
gentleman much beloved, leaving a widow, with a young
and interesting family, to deplore his loss. Independent
of the above, we are sorry to add that serious apprehen-
sions are entertained for the recovery of Dr. Mulvillo, of
Gort, and Dr. Hynes, of Kinvarra.—Galway Vindicator.

The state of Ireland has not improved much since the
proclamation, which has fared scurvily enough at the
hands of the peaceful in Tipperary. The " boys" have
torn it down in several places, and as if in defiance taken
to the old work of plundering arms. The King's County
Chronicle states that robberies of that nature abounded
last week. In the county the threatening notice has been
on the wing. The lady of Colonel Westenra, in the ab-
sence of her husband, received one, threatening her with
death if money was not given to some person or persons.
A Mr. Tyre, a benevolent Englishman, residing near
Tullamore, received a similar notification. His crime as
a landlord was a suggestion that a rate of seven shillings
in the pound be levied on the district. He, of course,
prepares to emigrate until better times.

SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTION IN IRE LAND.—That valua-
ble institution, the Sunday School Society for Ireland,
has recently published a paper containing some interest-
ing facts connected with the spread of Sunday school in-
struction, and shewing the extensive demands upon the
society for asBistance to the schools. It appears that 818
schools, containing 68,267 scholars, have received assist-
ance in books during the last six months ; and that 36,796
Bibles, Testaments, and portions of scripture, besides
28,914 Scripture reading books, and spelling books con-
taining reading lessons selected from the sacred Scripture,
have been granted to the schools during the same period.
It is also a striking fact that the number of Bibles granted
during the last six months exceeds by 9954 the number
disseminated during the corresponding period of the year
1846.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—MONDAY.--A letter from Mr.
Dillon Browne to Mr. Dunne, who had severely censured
the conduct of the hon. member for Mayo for the vote he
gave on the " coercion act" was read, and with some reso-
.

lutions founded thereon, referred to a committee. Mr.
John Reynolds addressed the meeting at considerable
length on various topics. He censured the conduct of
Messrs. Grattan and Browne for their vote on the bill for
the prevention of crime in Ireland, stating that the former
ought to be the last man who would vote against his
country, and that many a pound and many a sleepless
night he had cost him (Mr. R.), and that but for the citi-

zens of
Meath

id not now represent the_countyof

He next proceeded to censure the conduct of the
examiner of recognizances on election petitions, and con-

ible
him to defend the petition---that he would do his duty
they might depend and he hoped they would do theirs.
The rent was £27 18s. 51d.

FURTHER CONTEMPT OF THE LAW, AND ASSASSINA-
TIONS IN TRELAND.—We learn from the Cork Constitu-
tion that there is a priest named Kenyon, in Tipperary,
who has braved the law as correctly laid down by the ma-
gistrates in his locality, and being thwarted, has from the
altar so denounced its administrators t

hat they are in
hourly danger of losing their lives ! The case is briefly
this. Kenyon built a wall near his house at Templemore,
which encroached upon the public road. On the morn-
ing on which he commenced it he was warned of the en-
croachment in a friendly way by Mr. Crawford, the county
He, however, persevered, and being sum-
"he magistrates was fined £l, and the wall
aw required. He commenced the
,ummoned. After

surveyor

iblic rights had been proved,
the chairman of the magistrates, who had presided on the
former occasion, recapitulated the case, showing that
Kenyon had said that "A man may be got to commit a
murder for money, bat no one could be got to throw
down that wall;" that an assault was made upon
those sent to throw it down by 5 to 600 ruffians, many of
them armed ; that government military had to be em-
ployed ; and that Kenyon after this rebuilt the wall ; and
(added the speaker) he had since so spoken of him from
two altars that he was on the list for assassination. On
this statement, which caused great sensation in court, no
fewer than three other gentlemen on the bench, exclaimed
almost simultaneously, that " they had received similar
information." The chairman said he had stated the real
facts of the case, and the bench came to the unanimous
conclusion that the wall should be again levelled.—" These
facts," says the Cork paper, " show the pacific disposition
of his reverence, and the degree of credit that is due to
the veracious Titulars who have appeared as sponsors for
the priests."

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A SPORTING PRIEST,

The following advertisement of the sale of the effects of
the late Rev. Thomas Maguire,.who lately died of "gout
in the stomach," as the Freeman's Journal says, caught
in his attendance upon the poor, proves that a priest could
-ake himself comfortable, even in the I 'qtr'

probably
the most miserable county of the miserable province of
Connaught, nctwithstanding all the sufferings of 1846-47.
We give the advertisement, exactly copied from the Fer-
managh Reporter, except tbrt we are under the necessity
of omitting a handsome wood-cut of a coursing match
with two of the rev. deceased's greyhounds, whether
young Lady Hark-away, Dash, Smiler, Doctor, or Wait-
ing Maid, the artist does not furnish any means of guess-

mg:-

"To the Sporting World.
" Interesting and Important Sale by Auction.
"Edward Nolan, Auctioneer, of Enniskillen,
" Has received instructions from the trustees of the Rev. T.
Maguire, of Ballinamore, county of Leitrim, to bring to com-
petition that rev. gentleman's universally valued and justly
prized kennel of pure bred greyhounds.

"To be Sold by Auction,
"On Wednesday, the sth of January next,
"At Ardrum, near Ballinamore,
His entire household furniture, valuable library, phaeton, tax-
car, hagyard, farming implements, and black cattle. Amongst
his horses is a truly-admired thorough-bred bright bay filly,
rising four years old, combining unusual muscular formation

and perfect points, got by Mr. Ferguson's celebrated Hark-
away out of the distinguished Maid of the Mill, by Roller.

" Greyhounds

"No I.—Young Lady Hark-kway, out of the Old Lady, who
beat Dr. Douglas's Heather Jock for 300 guineas, by the dis-
tinguished Dog Tyrant, from Old Lady Hark-a-Way, and the
celebrated dog Old Tyrant, by Bounce.
"No. 2.—Dash, by True Blue, the son of Lady Hark-a-Way,
off the celebrated bitch Leech, by Dr. Browne's Sport, as
noted in Bell's Life.'
"No. 3.—Blackbird, full sister of Dash-away.
"No. 4.—Smiler, full brother to Dash-away and Blackbird.
"No. s.—Doctor, by Molly Maguire and Tyrant.
" No. 6.—Waiting-maid, full sister to Doctor.
" Sale to commence at eleven o'clock.

"A catalogue of the library can be had of Mr. Connolly
printer, Ballinamore; or
MR. NOLAN, Auctioneer, Enniskillen.
" Dated 21et of December, 1847."
_ _ _

Not a year ago a Roman Catholic priest denounced in a
letter to a member of Parliament the hard-hearted selfish-
ness of a gentleman of large fortune, giving as proof of
the charge, that the gentleman in question persisted
in keeping up his hunting stud and kennel of hounds
amid surrounding famine. The charge turned out to
be a lie, as such charges, preferred by such parties,
commonly are, the accused party having long before dis-
missed his stud and destroyed his hounds ; but were it
true, the case is not so strong as that of Father Thomas
Maguire, vouched as we have it by the rev. person's
trustees.