The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

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THE CATASTROPHE AT ROUEN.
The consequences of this disaster are truly lamentable.
The whirlwind arose in the valley beyond Deville, com-
mencing at Houtme. It first carried away a part of the
roof of the factory of M. Rouff, then gaining force as it
proceeded, it overthrew several small buildings, broke
down trees and hedges, and dtstroyed crops. Further
off, buildings were unroofed, and others were literally
crushed in. The scourge, moving with the speed of
lightning, carried to a distance some parts of the ruing,
then uprooted the highest end largest trees, and at last
struck three of the principal factories of the valley. The
destruction is so complete that the imagination cannot

conceive it and no description could give an idea of it.
They have been literally reduced to crumbs. To crown
the fatality, the event took place at an hour when the
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. activity is going on, and the hands are most
numerous. Of the three establishments which have been
destroyed, one •is in the commune of Malaunay—viz.,
that of M. Bailleul, and which was carried on by M.
Neveu ; the two others were situated near Monville—viz.,
those of Mr. Picquot and M. Mare. At M. Neveu's
120 persons were at work, the roof fell in, and the walls
gave way before any person could escape. At M. Mare's,
the number of ham's at work was 70. At M. Picquot's
not less than 180. The roof being first carried away, all
those within rushed to the doors, and they became so
crowded that only a few comparatively could get out.
The chimney, which was 150 feet high, was thrown across
the river. The third floor was also carried into the
water. The two other stories next gave way, and at last
the ground floor was so completely demolished that
scarcely two bricks remained in their places. All this
was accomplished in less than two minutes : people from
all ports hurried to render assistance; all the manufacto-
ries and workshops in the neighbourhood sent out their
men, and at once began to clear the ruins to save those
under them who might yet be alive. Machinery-looms,
bars of iron were fractured, and enormous pieces of tim-
ber were broken as if they were straws, and all lying
together in one confused mass. Torn fragments of
clothing were seen among flocks of cotton wool, with
arms and legs protruding from the heap; pieces of flesh
were adhering to the irons, and many parts were dyed
with blood. Now and then deep groans were heard;
some men and children, preserved as if it were miracu-
lously, by an overhanging beam, were taken out unin-

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so mutilated that death WOuldhave been preferable to the
torture it endured. On the road nothing was to be seen
but litters or carts, carrying away the dead or wounded.
Temporary hospitals were promptly established. Men,
women, and children, were weeping over their relations,
many of whom were expiring in the most cruel agonies.
At the guard house at Monville were placed all the bodies
taken out of the factory of M. Picquot. We have seen
17. Two were those of young girls, one that of a wo-
man, and the rest of men and boys. Among these last
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several flan been taken out of the river, into which they
had been precipitated from the third floor. Some were
entirely crushed, others had their heads and chests driven
flat, and some had their heads s

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more than 50 wounded, part of ;thorn could not be ex-
pected to live throughout the night. It was believed that
there were ten victims still under the ruins. Out of
three foremen, one was killed, the two others saved alive,
but severely injured. The loss in money is estimated at

n wounded

, but how many remained under the ruins

was not known. His loss is estimated at 120,000 f. In
all, 40 dead and 100 wounded, many of these mortally.
The aggregate loss is computed to amount to 620,000 f.,
for these three establishments only. The effects of the
hurricane extended upwards of a league and a half in
lee gth. Roads are rendered impassable by trees. Carts,
waggons, and other carriages have been blown over, and
many persons carried far away out of their paths. M.
Picquot was on his way to his factory when the storm
came on and stopped, and before he could recover his
road the ruins of the factory alone were to be discerned.
The mutilated remains of two young girls had just been
taken from the ruins at M. Mare's, when a woman, who
was watching what was going on, recognised them as her
daughters. She immediately gave way to the wildest
grief, and rushing to the river threw herself in, and was
drowned.—Rouen paper.

The Rev. Doctor Joseph Wolff has taken up his resi-
dence at Malines, and has accepted the chaplaincy of the
English Protestant Chapel there, where he will perform
Divine service every Sunday.—Bruisels Gazette.
SOMEWHAT NOVEL.—A gallant officer of the 42d Royal
Highlanders at Malta is about retiring from military life,
and seeking retirement in the cloister as a barefooted Car-
melite.

CONFLAGRATION AT BORDEAUX.—A telegraphic de-
spatch was received at Paris on Saturday, announcing a
dreadful fire at Bordeaux, which destroyed property to
the amount of three millions of francs. The fire broke
out in the house of M. Taslet. The wall of one of the
houses burnt fell upon the commandant, the adjutant, a
lieutenant, and three pompiers, who were killed on the
spot. Three other persons were severely wounded.
INDIA AND CHINA.—By the overland mail advices
have been received from Calcutta to the Ste of July. A
correspondent at Ferozepore states, that, at Lahore,
JOwahir Singh, having attempted to seize Gbolab Singh,
had been defeated after a sanguinary battle, in which t,e
lost 3,000 men. The cholera continued to rage, particu-
larly in Sc ude. The mortality at Sukkur was so great
that the bizaars were deserted. From Affghanistan we
have no news of interest. The notorious Mohammed
Akhbar Khan had expressed his intention of performing
a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Prophet at Mecca.
Private letters froo Mauritius, of 28th May, state, that,
in consequence of the scarcity of rice at Bourbon, the
government had offered a premium on the importation of
that article. By the China mail, of the 15th May, it
appears that Keying, who had been degraded last yerr,
bad received a seat in the Cabinet as Assistant-Minister,
an honour which his predecessor Keshen bad,

EMEUTE IN MAIDRID.—The Minister of Finance hav-
ing recently refused to accede to the wishes of the mer-
chants of Madrid, who had demanded soave modification
in the new tributary system, great agitation ensued. The
troops were called out. Several charges of cavalry, and a
discharge of musketry had been necessary to disperse the
crowd. Several have been killed and wounded. The
Madrid papers give various accounts of it, either more or
less exaggerated. On the evening of the 20th inst.,
however, they agree in stating, the evening passed of tran-
quilly. One man was killed in the Calle Toledo. The
shop doors were forced open with muskets and axes in
the Calle Toledo. It is rumoured that Burgos, Saragossa,
Toledo, and Seville have also resisted in the same man-

ner as Madrid. Considerable severities appear to have
ken used by the authorities to compel the shopkeepers to
open their shops. A court martial was held on the per-
sons arrested on the 19th, but only one, who had killed
an officer, was condemned to death. The Clamour Pub-
lico and Eepectador newspapers of the 20th were seized
at the Post-office.

THE NEW REFORMATION.—The Elberlield Gazette
states that the conversion of Roman Catholic priests to
the German Catholic church is increasing daily. At
Sarbruck a converted priest has been installed pastor.
From Manheim, we learn that the German Catholics had
invited the celebrated preacher Loose to preach to them ;
the authorities interfered, but as the law was agai3st
them, the congregation assembled to the number of nearly
300. The censor prohibited the local journal to put in
even an advertisement of the arrival of Mr. Loose. The
Frankfort Journal notices the arrival of Mr. Loose in
that town. He had hardly commenced his address to a
large congregation, to which he was presented by Dr.
Hammer, when a police agent interfered, and ordered the
assembly to disperse; the order was at once obeyed, but
when a gendarme laid his hands on Mr. Loose, the people
interfered and secured him. Mr. Loose then presented
himself to the chief magistrate of that town. The Catho-
lics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse are about to address
to the reigning Prince a petition to allow them to hold
public worship in the evangelical churches offered to them
by their Protestant brethren.

THE COURT FASHIONABLE WORLD,

THE QUEEN IN GERMANY

On the 21st, her Majesty held a levee at the Royal
Palace, or residence in Coburg. There were presented to
her Majesty the Grand Duke of Baden and his son, the
Dowager Ducbess of Coburg, the Princess Reuss, Count
Mensdorf and his three sons, Prince Ferdinand and Prince
Leopold of Coburg. Her Majesty returned to Rosenau
in good time in the evening.
On Friday the Queen and Prince Albert attended a spe-
cies of juvenile festival,—a procession of the children at-
tending the different schools in Coburg, which annually
takes place upon the twenty-second of August, and which
went off with great eclat. The royal party lingered long
upon the ground. and when they departed for the " resi-
dence," the children song the national anthem, with gond
effect. In the evening a ball was given in the principal
ball of the palace.
On Saturday night her Majesty again visited the thea-
tre, which, in form and size, somewhat resembles the
Haymarket ' • but it is much better furnished with scenery,
&c. The play selected was Schiller's Bride of Messina.
It was a singular circumstance, perhaps it is a point of
etiquette, that none but reigning Princes and Princesses
sat in the frorit seats of the royal box. Even Prince Al-
bert sat in the ordinary dress circle with the Duchess of
Kent. The Queens of England and of Belgium sat in
the centre, and on their right and left the King of the
Belgians and the Grand Duke of Baden. Coffee and ices
were brought into the box in profusion, and eaten with
the most perfect ease and nonchalance before the audience.
There is the same absence of ceremony and exclusiveness
in the theatre here, that has been stated to exist in the
palaces. Every thing seems open to the public eye : even
the private houses and villas on the road-side have no
fences or railings round them.
On Sunday morning the royal party attended divine
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service—at the Churcii of St. Maurice, in Coburg—a
structure of unpretending character, whitewashed in the
interior, and presenting a very bare and common-place,
but no doubt a very good Protestant, contrast to the gor-
geous splendour of the churches and cathedrals in RE:latish
countries. The church is of very plain construction,
without transepts, and the only appearance of ornament
about it consists in a stupendous monument to three de-
ceased Dukes of Saxe Coburg. Her Majesty and the
Prince, the Coburg Princes, the King and Queen of the
Belgians, and the suite, arrived at the church a little be-
fore eleven. They were received by the clergymen in
their robes, and conducted over a carpeted way to the
royal pew. The service then commenced, the church
being crowded with people. The service began with the
chanting of a few verses by the clergymen standing at the
Communion-table, to which there were responses from
the choir. Then the congregation generally joined in a
hymn ; then portions of Scripture were read, then another
hymn and a short prayer, and then followed the sermon;
after which there was a blessing from the Communion-
table, as in a Roman Catholic church. A military brass
band was stationed in the theatre, and accompanied with
their music the chanting of a Te Deum—not the Te Deum
of our churches, but a sort of hymn in rhyme. This
was sung by the choir alone. The effect of this
hymn, and of the fine volume of sound rolling through
the church, was magnificently grand. In certain parts of
the service the congregaticn also sung, and in a manner
which evidenced sound musical training, producing an ef-
fect very different from that of our English psalmody.
The service lasted till 12 o'clock, and the royal party left
the church to return to Rosenau. From the foregoing
sketch it will be seen that there was much in this per-
formance of divine worship quite different from our
English custom. Still more strange was it to see a great
part of the congregation adjourn to the outskirts of the
town, where, in the course of half an hour, many were
riding on hobby-horses, or witnessing the exploits of con-
jurors, while the little boys and girls were waltzing away
in happy ignorance that there could be any impropriety in
that sort of enjoyment.
On Tuesday last, being Prince Albert's birth-day, a
rustic festival was held which is not uncommon in Ger-
many. On an extensive lawn in front of the royal palace
a gay troop of villagers, all in their best bolliday dresses,
appeared. Each man led a peasant girl, and, at a signal
from the Duke of Coburg, the whole of the gay party
were whirling round the lawn in the gayest possible waltz.
Every one enjoyed it •, not the people only, but also a
long list of Queens, Kings, Dukes, Duchesses, &c., of
whom our own Queen was most delighted of all. The
highest and the lowest mingled trustfully in one mutual
enjoyment, and groups of people were to be seen at dif-
ferent angles of the lawn not twenty yards from the
Queen, or under the windows of the palace. In the
evening a grand ball took place.

The royal party left Coburg on Wednesday morning,
and reached Reinartsbrunn the same evening, and re-
mained there all night, and were to start for Gotha on
Thursday.

INTERESTING SPECTACLE.—On the 22d ultimo, her
Majesty and Prince Albert were present, at Coburg, at
the annual festival of the " Feast of Gregorius," which
has lasted for several hundred years. In a spacious
meadow in one of the suburbs of Coburg, pavilions were
erected, and a portion of the ground opposite these pavi-
lions was fenced in with festoons and garlands. In the
pavilions tables were laid for dinner, of which the royal
visitors were to be the partakers. Besides the pavilions
there were also many other booths, a travelling theatre,

and a most grotesque roundabout, with hobby horses and
sledges, mounted on which were musicians playing a most
musical polka, and the girls and boys in fantastic dresses.
This was the preparation on the ground. The festival was
of a different kind. All the children of the town schools,
girls and boys. formed, according to custom, in proces-
sion, to the number of 600 or 700. The girls were all
dressed in white, their heads adorned with ivy wreaths,
and their dresses festooned in like manner. Some wore
fancy costumes—the Highland dress, the Greek dress
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there were flocks of the prettiest little shepherdesses
le world. The greater number of the boys also wore
fancy costumes. On the arrival of the distinguished visi-
tors the children set up several sharp shrill cheers, and
waved their handkerchiefs and caps. The whole royal
party sat down to dinner in the pavilion, which lasted up-

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wards of an hour. In the meanwhile the children were
allowed to drink beer at a neighbouring gasthaus, and af-
ter dinner there was a dance, the Quren and the rest of
the royal party looking on. The charm of the whole af-
fair was the utter absence of all ceremony. The same
scene takes place every vear, so that what appears so

strange and striking to an English eye is here looked on
as a matter of course. The Queen took a most lively in-
terest in the festival, particularly in the dancing of the
children and their merry games at romp and play. The
whole wound up with " God save the Queen," sung ad
mirably by the children ; and after a final cheer the Royal
party left.

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The civic procession at Bonn, to receive Queen Victo-
ria, was headed by the chief magistrate, arrayed in his
robes of office, and smoking his pipe !

FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.
(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")
Coutil is much used for dresses intended for country
wear; those with green or blue stripes on an ecru ground
are embroidered with very narrow braid, and are often
made with corsages a basques, with pockets. Robes
peignoirs, in Miles de Chine, Bros de Naples striped
lengthways, or foulards in horizontal stripes, are also
fashionable.

Narrow fringes are in great request, and made in every
variety, as is also the dentelle de Grenade, which forms a
pretty contrast on satins and watered silks; gimps ajours
are much used on shot silks. Some autumnal dresses are
trimmed with four rows of fringe of gradual widths.
Toilettes entirely of black have been fashionable last
month in Paris for visiting dresses ; they are much re-
lieved by the quantity of lace used on them, such as four
rows of narrow lace en tablier ; large lace sleeves, and
lace scarf, and black lace bonnet ornamented with a co-
loured flower, also five and six flounces of black lace and
cannezous, with sleeves of black lace, are worn ; some
redingotes are made this season with the pointed backs
ala grand' mere. The prettiest form of corsage for tar-
latanne, and materials of clear transparent texture, is that
a la vierge ; the fullness confined round the top in a band,
with square shoulder-strap ; this style revives the narrow
ceinture. with small buckle.
Slight taffetas, in all light colours, are worn for evening
dress, with trimmings of flounces, cut in deep festons,
and edged with narrow fringe, or a narrow blonde neige;
the corsage pointed with berthe of the same ; sometimes
on these large berthes narrow lace is laid, but they are
usually plain. Pretty travelling cloaks are made of grey
levantine, lined with flannel or merino, checked in dark
blue, green, or red. Scarfs with hoods are also worn.
Bonnets a la Suisse, chevriere, or glaneuse, accompany
all toilettes de campagne, ornamented with field flowers ;
they are sometimes lined with coloured silk, and trimmed
with black velvet. For pailles de riz, Legliorns, &c.,
plumes of small feathers are very fashionable. Saules
marabouts, pink and black, are used on black lace bon-
nets.