The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of
Fashion."

The winter season has again brought into favour the
soft and warm douillettes, which are made of levantine or
satin, with small square collar, wadded throughout and
trimmed with gimp. Dresses of pekin damassel are made
with tight high bodies, very open in front, forming (Tear,
lengthened to a sharp point nearly to the waist, and often
laced across a la Bearnaise : the edges may remain un-.
ornamented or have a revers of velvet or very narrow
band of fur ; the ceinture is round, and chemisettes with
or without collars, formed of inlets of lace or work, are
worn inside these corsages, which are the most novel of
the season. Revers and facings of satin quilted are very
much in use on peignoirs. Dresses of plain cachemire
are ornamented with bands of velvet on the bodies, high
sleeves a la religieuse. and large pelerines. In ball dresses.
the double and triple skirts continue in undiminished
favour in all transparent materials for young people;
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Dresses of isrlatane with double skirts are pretty,
trimmed with narrow gold fringe, the bertite to match.
The most elegant dresses for court, worn at the Tuilleries,
were of whtie satin, ornamented with silver scarfs. Some
velvet dresses are made open in front, with an under
breadth of white satin ribbon crossing over it from side
to side. A pretty novelty is the deep mantille of lace
falling below the waist, and rounded in front so as to
show the corsage. Black lace scarfs are also made so
wide as to permit converting them into tunics ; the den-
telle de vdours is much approved for full dress toilettes,
manteaux, and satin pelisses; they may match the ma-
terial in colour. The hair is worn rather raised and in
ringlets, though bandeaux ate always seen. Coifnres
are rather rather wide in front, some are raised in the
centre a la Norma, others have a simple wreath in foliage,
and touffes at the side a I'ABpasie; detached flowers are
also much worn, they are generally large ones, dahlias,
roses, chrysanthemums. Bonnets are a little more open,
particularly for dress ones, which are of satin or velvet,
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feathers. Capotes of satin, with wide runners, are
trimmed with lace for morning wear. Manteaux and
pardeusses are often finished with revers of satin of
velvet quilted ; the Polonaises of black satin are not very
full, and do not reach lower than the knee. Paletots of
ecru cachemire are bordered with velvet.

CHILD FOUND IN A PEW.-011 Tuesday the dead
body of a full grown child was found in a box, snugly de-
posited in a pew of St. Martin's Church, Birmingham.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF INCLNDIARISM.—At the
Eton Petty Sessions on Monday, two men, named Ed-
ward Langley and Alfred Amsden, the former keeping a
petty chandler's shop, and the other a shoemaker lodging
in the same house, were brought in custody, charged with
arson. It appeared, from the evidence of the several wit-
nesses who were examined, that a strong light was ob-
served in two or three rooms in the house between five
and six o'clock on Sunday morning by some person who
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tiwnlearmsinepeltishastie house of the prisoner Langley, it was found to
be entirely stript of its furniture, with the exception of
part of a bedstead, which was tied up behind a door.
Upon going upstairs a large fire was found burning in the
grate, with a bed post, one end resting on the grate and
the other resting on the floor, in flames, and also piled up
by the side of the fire-place, and likewise burning, an old
picture-frame and a boot-tree, partly consumed, and se-
veral pieces of dry wood. The mantel-piece, composed
of wood, had also caught fire. A large fire was also found
in the grate in the back room on the ground floor, the
chimney in flames, and upwards of two bushels of ignited
soot on the floor. In the front room on the same floor
there was likewise a fire in the grate, but not a single per-
son was found in the house. By the aid of the neighbours
and the police, the fire was fortunately got under before
much damage had been done to the premises. The pri-
soners, having merely stated in their defence that. as they'
bad no candles, they set fire to the wood to give them
light, were fully committed to Aylesbury gaol to take their
trial for arson at the ensuing assizes.

HORRIBLE
of a
horrible and unnatural crime. No doubt is entertained
that a gentleman of highly respectable family connections
in the country, and holding an important office connected
with the government, in execution of which he has tem-
porarily resided there, is inculpated. The offence was at-
tempted to be committed on Tuesday evening week, on a
soldier belonging to an artillery regiment stationed there ;
who suspected the object of the gentleman, and named it
to a policeman, who watched the parties and took the
gentleman into custody, but he subsequently managed,
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belief that Carter had wilfully assisted in the escape of
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the prisoner, but that the chain of circumstances was not
yet in that conclusive which he had no doubt it would
eventually assume. Carter was remanded, the magistrates
refusing the prisoner's offer to put in bail. The indi-
vidual charged with the offence is a man about 45 years of
age, and he is supposed to reside in a large town in one
of the midland counties, where he has a wife and family-
The Gateshead Observer says, that on Tuesday night an
individual, described to us as " George Louis, a barrister
and assistant tithe-commissioner," was apprehended by
the Newcastle police, on the charge of tempting a private
soldier to the commission of a revolting offence. He was
locked up in a cell at the Manors police-office, for safe
custody until the meeting of the borough magistrates ;
but in the morning, at twenty-minutes past five o'clock,
James Carter, a turhkey, reported to the sub-inspector
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the turnkey reported his absence ! Inspectors Little and
Crake were dispatched in pursuit of the fugitive in dif-
ferent directions. Hitherto, however, no intelligence
has been received of him, nor is his recapture very pro-
bable.