The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

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DEATH OF MR. W

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ARC Fl I TE CT.-Mr

Pugin, the celebrated architect, whose name is identified
with the revival of Gothic architecture in England, and
the extension of the Roman Catholic religion in this
country, died on Thursday evening, at his residence on
the West Cliff, after a few hours' illness. The deceased
gentleman was removed a few months since to Bethlern
Hospital, under circumstances which gave rise to some

controversy in the public journals, and thence he was
subsequently removed to a private asylum. The skill and
care of his medical attendants were attended with success,
and on Saturday last he returned to his residence, on the
West Cliff, in this town, where he has built a large church,
monastery, and other builings, fronting the sea, at his
On Monday he appeared in excellent

own expense.

and rode as far as Broadstairs. n the evening
he was taking exercise on Ramsgate pier and harbour,
and on his return home appeared very cheerful. At an
early hour the next morning he was seized with a fit, and
his medical attendants were sent for. He continued to
get worse until the evening, when he expired. Mr. Pugin
was thrice married ; his third wife survives him. The
deceased gentleman expended upwards of £20,000 of his
private fortune on the church and adjacent buildings at
Ramsgate. The spire forming part of the design is not
yet completed, but the tower which intersects the nave
and church is about 70 feet in height, and upon it has
been erected a curious kind of scaffolding, with a small
chamber at the top, a conspicuous land-mark, and known
as Pugin's Tower.—Morning Advertiser.

GREAT SCARCITY OF SILVER COINAGE.—There
never was known for many years so great a scarcity of the
silver currency as at present, in consequence of the very
large exportations of silver that have recently taken place
to Port Philip, Melbourne, Geelong. Sydney, and other
ports of our Australian colonies, for the convenience of
the adventurers at the "gold diggings." Not a vessel
leaves the port of London, Plymouth, Bristol, Liverpool,
&c., but takes out a considerable amount both of gold and
silver specie, either by speculators who are proceeding to
the above colonies for the purpose of making large pur-
chases of gold from the emigrants now working at the dig.
gings, or consigned by capitalists and bullion dealers to
their agents at Port Philip, &c., for the same specific
It is with much difficulty that the bankers in
,ie city and west-end can obtain silver currency to any
amount either at the Bank of England or the Royal Mint
to accommodate their correspondents in the different parts
of the United Kingdom with silver coinage. At Bir-
mingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and other large com-
mercial towns, the demand at the various banks for silver
is so great that they are unable to supply parties with
more than £lOO to £2OO, as not only is a vast quantity
being shipped off to Australia and India, but the demands
for silver bullion and specie for France, Belgium, Hol.
land, Hamburgh, and the continent are also very exten-
sive. In consequence of this immense call for silver, it
eppears that the authorities at the Mint intend having a
considerable amount immediately coined into specie, and
likewise gold currency of half-sovereigns and sovereigns
for the convenience of the emigrants, who are placed in
great difficulties from the want of a small circulating me-
dium in exchange for their gold.—Tinzes.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS HAVE EFFECTED
A WONDERFUL CURE OF RHEUMATISM.Mr. Donate
M`Kellar, of Murrumbidge, New South *ales, writes t
Professor Holloway as follows :—,YA man about f
years of age, employed by JohnzPeter, Esq., Juo'"
the Peace in this colony, suffered for twelve mor'
hn attack of rheumatism, bratight on by exp-
and cold. He was so paiyrfully afflicted tI•
nearly bent double ; inXhis deplorable
menced using HolbAay's Ointrr-
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