The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

Silver, combined r

Protoxide of iron Or
Residue, consisting c

peroxide of iron

(From the St.
Yesterday morning, Dr. J

this city, whence he arrived e few
California and the gold " diggins."
sence, has explored the most of Or

bled to Impart a great dear(
pense for transporti
la r per 100Ibs., 24
water

lies of ivt

ma, it is imnossibl

dation under four dollars
quently, do well to take t

them. A steamer makes
cisco in from ten to twelr
be no risk of any very gi
from Chagres to Panama
four hour,, and without t
it is very unhealthy.

dred miles from the ems'
the ysssage in which is si

reach Suter

you are withir

which every man I

Panama, for dollars a c

make-h

JP
to which a price can be affixed.
The doctor inf,:rms us that i
for simply setting his wagon t.
left, were plenty in the count
and very little fruit. There w

on band at Suter's, and trio
The doctor says he has read
the United States that exam
lity of the gold. lie furthi
dry ravines as well as thos

A party of some twenty
that led to a mountain su
ore; when near its base,

dust aril me, caused by the washing
an instant every man threw himself
lay scattered the treasure, and spr
legs, claimed a preemption to the si
in this way. The title was regarded
average yield to the whole party in
wards of three hundred dollars.

WRITING.-Mr. Thompson, in c
increase of pupils the popularity of
has gained, has, it will be seen, ap

fullyconversant. with the

ure of inspecting some
tured of

LAVA.--We have had the plea
specimens of articles of taste and vertue man,
Lava, at Frankfort, in Germany. They are in
sharp and perfect; in design more than ordinary beau-
tiful, and certainly promise to far exceed our usual basket

Loulding

chinaware. The -nianufact-ures are of various colours, and.
May be seen at Messrs. Luckyn and Co.'s, Bold-street.
THE MANCHESTER ART-UNION.—The distribution in
this art-union will take place on the 31st instant. We
',aye had the pleasure of seeing some of the prizes,_(and

;Ome of' the

two,) which disol
rite I

they number seventy-
best of talent. The pr curt, valued at a low esti-
mate at £4OO, is on view at Mr. Richardson's, T
street, and a more beautiful work of art has s^'
exhibited.
RAILWAY DIVIDENDS.-79-
and North-Western,
will be, at the rate of 7
£BO,OOO. The dividend of
will be 6 per cent., that of

)m been

of the London

to be declared at the next meeting,
r 1., leaving a surplus of
t' Lancashire and Yorkshire
ierwick 7 per cent., with a
The York and North Mid-

los of nearly £lO

JEAlplUlr.
land, 7

The Eastern (

r cent

nties is variously reported from

ss. upwards.--Railway Journal_
ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF D
—My grandfather, who became an English denizen in
1748, was an Italian descendant from ore of those Hebrew
families whom the Inquisition forced to emigrate fag° the
Spanish peninsula at the end of
who found a refuge in the more
Venetian Republic. His
Gothic surname on t'

IsaAELT

it ories of

ettleinent in the 1

throUgh un precedentei,

pped their

unheard-of.perils, t

name never before borne before or since
Nulty, in order that their race might be
Undisturbed and unmolested, the

(rough

protec-