The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

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Tilt HAltft§f Ig flit NO/1711.-ITc corn ,`'B" nn-
now tolerably general throughout the trOuf tlOrtliere.co,iie
ties. On a considerableAttrnber of forward farms ins 1,,,
county of Northumberland, and in similar district.sei 4'14
adjoining counties, reaping was cornmenced on t,,i.t_iitr
instant, and as the weather was bright, warm, ant.l.ll:o
favourable for ripening, the operations of the siercbleas 80.
daily extending during the week. Much rein Li cir•
cordingly been got into stook, under as favrs.s e_bich
cumstances as could be desired ;_ and the few parce,s,7„o
have been brought to the barn floor have been satisbisTei
both as to yield and quality. In some instances theereitif
protracted and excessive drought brought on arat
maturity-, the consequence of which is, that in such_., 0
stances the ear has been imperfectly filled, The ;(14011(
a whole, in the north of England, is at least etlits'serier
to an average, and much of the grain shows sur
finality.—Newcastle Journal. • deed.0°;,,14
EFFECTS OF THE ABOLITION Or ISE here,-
LAcvs--There has recently been—and in.
.t „„e,
still going on—a very large importation of Britst.S,
rican and Baltic timber into this port, mostly on fib,
' • Wines .
bottoms, so much so, that we have been in bow
In n perhaps
inlri
timber,
b ebre, still
tn the more
,n3n
nsinfersptri
one continuous raft of timber. The public'
for a distance of at least two miles below Lilo if
bridge, on the Gloucester and Berkeley ranalth'oeferf
that sot
transatlantic neighbours, not content with bringlwiship.
willco of British b ,
owners and British sailors, are actually making ill 0t
the Baltic trade 1 an instance of which now occurs tione
port. The large importing firm of Messrs. Robert, ri Q.t.
and Co. have been discharging-4'B
l ' deals from ),_,
a tie i, Volt&
Petersburg, ex the barque Globe, of Richrnonti
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States, and there is every probability that the Am.:root
will ultimately become, to a great extent, dace,errireasos
only of British American, but of Baltic pro b.t,.. oist
of the general snperiority of their ships, not Only is
of speed, but also in delivering their cargoes in '4O
condition. We have also been informed that the ;oast
of foreign ships spend comparatively little mcceY sosseLi
the shopkeepers igen
jduryto learn :,assovero
of Gloucester, whilst with British
it is the reverse.—Gloucester Chronicle. ,;„ of 6,„e
DEFICIENT COPPER CURRENCY.--.At a tnee,-§ritta,
Sheffield town-council, last week, 31r. W• ',pod t°
moved that an address fro 1 .. i e pre--- ,-0,
m t le councu 0 lisp-
Lord John Russell, requesting him to advise ilitsttif
tuocorder a new issue of copper coinage. ils 66' rf 1t
b shopkeepers of that town, dhe believed-. of los etc'
an tf !,,
towns in the •
s kingdom, were inconveniences bh,les, ,
carcity of copper. Sometimes he was himself °41,10s
taro
still in his business until his messengers cus, tele;
am him a supply of copper, and he found it ‘5.,,32 sal tbr;a
rallya in the town. Mr. Brittain went on to per es
bo9t 25 or 30 years ago there was so inucb copper
in circulation in Sheffield that it was a perfect?, se
er
and several persons made a living by exclisel-efcoP'
gold and notes. He ascribed the present seslAclhe with'
per to the great increase ofpopulation,sn" t lider
„, had e is
drawal -
of penny and halfpenny tokens. Hie
0 10 a
v9nred to ascertain the age of the copperscel a lool(eci
circulation, and out of a certain sum that hile9oesi°ent
over he found that only 11' ent. bad " - cent'
per c i5O per rog
within the last 40
years, to supply perhap- id Inc 0
tokens withdrawn from circulation during that°Poring t 4
of population Councillor d - 00-
Devrsnap said nio 4,j,
last two *et' tI,
years the value of copper had not be abos J.
10d• per lb., while the value inpence would be. ~,,ccil ,
per lb., for it took about 17 o. P . to be.
Oat,
id pennies ~ tte. et
Mr. Atk. g• in ,aid there was l t f copper ' t psi.
pen o d of!
Mr. Britt •am was mistaken when he said ,egos 0,00
could
case
. not send to the Mint for copper coin; , gotjig
thsee which £25 worth of new farthings ws:,/ ii
Mint by a shopkeeper for the putPese "0
custom to his shop. The council resolved to

memorial.
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