The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

LADIES' FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

The winter fashions may now be said to be in a great
measure decided. Velvet, satin, and velours epingle are
the materials for chapeaux and capotes. Velours e'pitial6
is also fashionable for half-dress, but not for the promen-
ade. Several capotes have appeared composed of black
satin and velvet, striped in equal stripes. Fancy velvets
have not yet appeared, but we have seen a few chapeaux
spotted and lightly figured with velvet. The Pamela has
been considerably modified within the last two months ;
it is shorter at the ears, and not near so wide at the sides,
which renders it more generally becoming. The capote
form has not altered ; it is most in vogue for the promen-
ade, particularly in plain walking dress. We m,y cite,
among the most novel capotes, those composed of satin,
the materials laid full on the brim, and the fulness con-
fined by narrow bands of velvet; three are generally em-
ployed. The lining is usually satin, of a full shade of red.
A good many are trimmed only with fringed ribbon ;
these we consider very well calculated for walking bon-
nets, particularly when they are black..

Cloaks and pelisses will certainly be this season as
much in vogue as they Were last year, but we think with
more variety in the forms. We ma•; cite, for promenade
dress, the mantle Catherine 11. as 1:).-Itig at once a com-
fortable envelope, and of a rich plainness that renders it
perfectly gentlewomanly ; it is rather more than a three-
quarter length, composed of black satin, and lined with
crimson sarsenet ; it is made to fall in easy folds from the
shoulders, but is tight on the upper part of the bust, with
a standing and rather high collar, and large pelerine falling
over the shoulders in such a manner as to have something
of the effect of a sleeve. The trimming is either an em-
broidery in chenille, which has a very novel and elegant
effect, or else from three to five bands of velvet ribbon of
different widths, which encircle the whole of the cloak.
We have seen these mantles also made in velvet, and trim-
med with fur. Indeed, it was in that they first appeared
last month, but that style will not be much see❑ till tne
season is further advanced.
Coloured velvets and satins are the materials most in
favour for carriage cloaks; violet, pensie, and a new and
beautiful shade of blue, called blue Victoria, are most
fashionable. _

Some splendid winter silks and satins for evening dress
have appeared in the course of the month ; there are also
damasks and brocades, which really might vie with those
worn by the court beauties of 1740 ; the forms of these
dresses will vary very little from those of last season ; the
skirts of some that we have already seen are equally full,
and made with demi trains. There is again a report that
long trains will be introduced; hut that has bee❑ the case
so frequently that we do not give much credit to it. The
corsages continue to be deeply pointed before, and, in
some instances, behind also, but not so deeply, they are
cut very low. Sleeves are not so short as they were last
winter. Passementerie, of new and very beautiful kinds,
will divide the vogue for trimmings with black and white
lace. Fashionable colours are the same as last month.—
Ladies' ( abinet of Fashion.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-SATURDAY

PUFFERS" AT AUCTIONS -THOHNET V. HAINES

This action was brought to recover the sum of £315,
deposit paid by the plaintiff to the defendant, on the sale
by auction of a public-house. . . ..

The real question was, whether a sale by auction was
vitiated by the employment of a person, technically called
a•• puffer," to enhance the price of the thing-sold by ficti-
tious biddings. It was proved that, in this case, a person
named Robinson, who was the only bidder against the
plaintiff, did not mean to become a purchaser, but bid at
the request of the owner of the property, the real defen-
dant in this action.
On the close of the plaintiff's case, counsel for defen-
dant submitted, on the authority of the case of Woodward
v. Miller, which had been lately decided before Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, and was not yet reported, that the
presence of Robinson as a bidder at this auction did not
vitiate the sale, and that consequently this action would
not lie. . . _ _ .

..........
The counsel for the plaintiff observed that all the corn-
mon-law authorities were, without exception, the other

way.
The Chief Baron told the jury that, according to the
current of all the cases in the courts of common law, the
presence of a puffer at an auction vitiated the sale. It
was competent to the owner of the article to be sold to
protect his interest by having a person to buy it in, if it
should not fetch the price he set upon it, but he could not
employ what was commonly called a puffer.
It was arranged that there should be a verdict for the
plaintiff for £315, and interest since the deposit was de-
manded back, with leave reserved to the defendant to ap-
ply to enter a nonsuit.
Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly.

E. S. Bain, Esq., of the Northern Circuit, is about to
be made a Sergeant-at-Law.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Burge (for-
merly Attorney-General of Jamaica) to the commission-
ership of bankruptcy, vacant by the death of Mr. Boteler.
At the Arches Court, on Wednesday, Sir H. J. Fust de-
livered judgment in the case of the Bishop of Lincoln,
against the Rev. W. Day, rector of Hawbridge, Bucks,
who was charged with drunkenness, and bad been con-
victed of an assault at Aylesbury Assizes, and sentenced
him to pay costs, and to be suspended for three years, and
until be produces a certificate of good behaviour.
CRAM. CON.—SPENCER V. 1116 DONALD.—This action
was brought by the plaintiff, a tradesman, carrying on the
business of a straw bonnet maker, in High-street, Shore-
dit:th, against the defendant, a comedian, who, at the
time of the transaction, was performing at the City of
London Theatre, for criminal conversation with the wife
of the plaintiff. The plaintiff's wife was thirty-four years
of age, and it was proved that they had lived happily to-
gether. The jury gave the plaintiff £lOO damages. The
action was tried in the Common Pleas on Saturday.
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION.—CLARK V. DURNSFORD.
—ln this action, the plaintiff, a solicitor of eminence in
extensive practice at Bristol, sought to recover damages
against the defendant, a practising surgeon, of the same
place, as a compensation for the injury sustained by rea-
son of a criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
The case was beard in the Court of Common Pleas, be-
fore Mr. Justice Cresswell and a special jury, on Tuesday
and Wednesday last. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £5OOO.
A CURIOUS CASE.—A trial in the literary world will
take place in the court of Exchequer, either in the present
or the early part of the nsuing term, which will excite
some interest. It is an action brought by Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, against the trustees of the British Mu-
seum, for their possession of a manuscript alleged to have
been stolen from the library of the former. They have
been intermediately in the possession of Mr. J. 0. Hal-
liwell, F.R.S., whose suspension from the library of the
Museum has recently caused a painful interest in literary
circles.

LIVERPOOL HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC . SOCIETY.—
It will be seen, that the friends and subscribers to the
above institution will hold their annual dinner, at the
Angel Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23rd instant. The sup-
porters of this charity, which is for the relief of the re-
sident Hebrew poor during the winter months, have hi-
therto held rather aloof from their Christian friends, but
the sensitiveness which bas prevented them from appealing
boldly to the general public is no longer to stand in the
way of the institution.
MR. HADDOCK'S GRAND CONCERT THIS EVENING.
—Many of our most distinguished musical families have
eagerly come forward in support of this stirring event,
and few, if any tickets remain unsold. This will no
doubt embolden our highly gifted and spirited townsman
to give many similar concerts. In our next, we shall
haue the pleasing duty of presenting our musical friends
with a correct report of the whole, and we are sure that
many will be the gems of so truly classical and intellec-
tual a performance,—See Advt.
CHANGE OF HAIR.—The following observations re-
lative to the hair we copy from an essay on that subject,
written by Mr, Ayres, of whose successful treatment we
have before spoken. Our readers will perceive his
address in another part of our paper. "In the convales-
cence of our fevers and recovery to health after a long-
coutinued indisposition, the hair invariably indicates
considerable change. The changes presented are various.
With some a loss of colour is observed, the, heir first
assuming a lighter appearance, which continues to
dr crease in shade until actual grayness supervenes.
Probably the change most generally perceived is a gradual
falling off of the hair, extending frequently so rapidly
that unless arrested in time it is sure to be followed by
partial baldness or its entire loss."