The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

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The lead mines of North. Derbyshire, after being for
some time partially neglected, are now Lilly worked.
A cottager living at Stickney, Lincolnshire, possesses a
sow which in three years has farrowed 92 pigs.
On Friday, a clergyman named Brown, aged 80 years,
dic d of cholera at Stamford.

A white sparrow was shot last week in the neighbour-
hood of Kirkby Ireleth, Westmoreland.
The receipts at the Birmingham Festival amounted to
£lO,OOO. In 1846 they were £11,638, and in 1843 £8,822.
Major-General Ellis has received orders to assume the
government of Malta for the present.
The projected Anglo-Saxon festival has been aban-
doned.

Lord Albert Connyngham has obtained the royal license
to use only the surname of his maternal uncle, Denison,
in lieu of Conyngham.
The number of applications for the office vacant by the
death of the late Mr. Cottingham, the police magistrate,
amounts to nearly five hundred.
It is stated that contracts have been made, within these
five days, for American wheat, to be landed in London,
free of all charges, at 28s. per quarter !
Mr; Craven, of Horbury, has been committed for trial,
charged with the concealment of the birth of the child of
which it was supposed his daughter was delivered.
Good wheat was sold in Canterbury market last week at
365. per quarter. This is about the point to which the
Cobdenites have desired to bring us.
Among the victims of cholera is mentioned Mr. Thomas
Inskip, of Shefford, known as a poet, more particularly in
association with the name of Robert Bloomfield.

On the 27th ult. a keeper in the Kensington (London)
Workhouse lunatic asylum was killed by a pauper lunatic,
who overpowered him and fractured his skull.
Within the last twelve months, Mr. Lewis, butcher, of
Pontypool, has had no less than one hundred sheep stolen
from meadows in the neighbourhood.
A movement has been commenced by the Farmers'
Committee of Chipping Campdcn, to obtain the abolition
of the Gloucester county police.

Captain W. P. Hamilto.n, R.N., has been discovered
dead in a field at Littlehampton. He is supposed to have
had a fit of apoplexy.
The churches in the metropolis were densely thronged
on Sunday, and a more than usual solemnity was ob-
served. The Bishop of London had requested that the
day might be set apart as a day of humiliation.
Joseph Williams, the well-known chartist, who was
sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treasonable
conspiracy, has died of cholera in the Westminster House
of Correction.
The Times emphatically warns the public against em-
barking their persons or money in any of the gold mining
companies evoked in the city by the recent accounts from
St. Francisco.

PRODIGIOUS CROP.—A letter from a gentleman in
Kent states that the wheat crop this year, in the Isle of
Thanet, has yielded from sixty to sixty-five bushels per
acre.

It will hardly be believed that the whole quantity of
gold currency in the world, taking it at its usual estimate
of 150 millions, would only weigh 1150 tons, and than in
bulk a room 20+feet 10ng,.12 feet wide, and 10 feet high,.
would hold