The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

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received notice of a legacy to that ch. the hit
Thomas Ansaldo 'lemon, Esq., of £l,OOO, free of daty
In Birmingham alone, out of £25,000, subscribed' by
working men for the purchase of Freeholds, not less than
£20,000, it is calculated, has been saved from the taverns
and beer shops.

Lord Willoughby D'Ereaby has, with his usual libera-
lity, hired, at his own expense, a house in London for
the accommodation of such of the tenants on his exten-
sive estates as may wish to visit the Great Exhibition..
Mr. Paxton has published a letter to Loid J. Russell,
in which he proposes that the National Exhibition, with

the exception of. the first fortnight and the Wednesday in
every week, should be thrown open to the public.
The Worcester Journal says, that the bishop of that
diocese would baptise yesterday, in the Cathedral,. the
infant child of the South African natives who are no
ited through the country.
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fe of a sailor was found strangled with a towel,
, in her house at Maryport. Her husband is
,nd the inquest has been adjourned. Foal play

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A DELICATE PAUPER.—John Smith was brought up
on Saturday week, charged by the governor of the New-
ton Abbot union, Devon, with creating a disturbance and
refusing to do his work, on the ground that it galled his
hands!
A very large block of lead ore, being upwards of 17
cwts., and of first-rate qua'ity, has lately been raised by
the Holmbush Mining Company. A large chest has

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been made for its reception, and is intended to be sent to
the Great Exhibition of 1851.

During the launching of a brig named the Isabella
:ott, at Arbroath, on Saturday last, two boys were so
.verelv injured by the fall of some logs of timber, that
ie of the lads is not expected to recover, while

apprehensions are also entertained for the other's life.
The bullion in both departments of the bank had de.
creased from £14,611,849 to £14,526,447, being a differ-
ence of £115,402. The paper in actual circulation had
increased from £21,125,108 to 21,153,456, being a differ-
ence of £28,347.
A great meeting was held in Hull, on Wednesday, the
mayor in the chair, to authorise the corporation to apply

bailiffs' dues, and other duties payable on yes

I that the commissioners have decided on fixing
.rge of admission to the Crystal Palace
The issue of monthly or family tickets,
n what days the exhibition may be viewed at a h

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rate, are points yet undecided.
The accounts of the cost of relieving the poor of the
Birmingham union during the last six months of 1850,
show a decrease of £6414, as compared with the cost
during the same period of 1849 and the number of per-
sons relieved has fallen from 26,005 to 12,264.
A number of precious stones, valued at about £2OO,
were picked from the dirt in St. Julius-street, Clerken-
well, London, on Wednesday last. No information ap-
pears to have been received as to the owner of the pro-
perty.
During the night of Saturday week, some villain so
seriously injured four cows and a pig, belonging to Mr.
Cutler, a farmer, of Dagnall, Buckinghamshire, by chop-
ping their fore legs, (apparently with a bill,) that it was
found necessary to have them killed.
A Birmingham paper says that William Laugher, a
nail-maker, of Bromsgrove, has received orders to make
1000 gold, 1000 silver, and 1000 iron " tacks" for the
great exhibition. The whole 3000 are not to weigh more
than three grains, and they will be the smallest nails ever

produced.
LONGEVITY.—There is now living at Milson, an aged
female named Penny, who has numbered 99 winters, and
is now in good health ; but more singular than this, this
aged lady has a niece now living, a Mrs. Passey, also in
good health, who has reached the pat: iarchal age of 101

years.
SINGULAR BEarEaT.—The Maidstone Gazelle states
that a lady, lately deceased, who resided at Blackheath
some years ago, has made a will in which she has provided
that £5O should be paid to her medical attendant on con-
dition of his performing decapitation at her death, owing
to a dread of being interred alive.
A Miss Gresley Jarman's bustle was exhibited at
Clerkenwell police-court, yesterday week, and contained
no less than ten pounds of feathers, which she was charged
with having stolen from her lodgings. She denied the
robbery, and declared that ten pounds of feathers was the
usual complement of the bustles she wore.
At the Queen's Printing-office, in New-street-square,
London, is a middle-aged woman, who recollects the year
and the chapter of every act of parliament upon any sub-
ject. Though she is only the forewoman of the book-
folders, many attorneys are indebted to her for informa-
tion as to the last acts bearing upon any question.
A fine turtle was caught a few days since by some
fishermen among the rocks on the coast near Exmouth,
and sold to persons who brought it to Exeter, where it
attracted a great deal of attention as an object of curio-
sity. It had evidently been washed during the late gales
from some vessel.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, in his evidence before the com-
mittee of army and ordnance expenditure, stated that the
number of candidates for commissions in the army during
the last seven years amounted to between 1000 and 1200,
and that upwards of 200 had been on the list upwards of
three years.
Considerable loss has been experienced amongst the
labouring class in Barnsley and neighbourhood by the
whole of their bacon being spoilt in the salting. It is be-
lieved that a great portion of what is sold for saltpetre is
nothing more than soda, and that that is the cause of the
misfortune.
On Tuesday information was received that a man,
named John Clark, was, whilst in a beer-house in the
township of Stourbridge, killed by a gips), of the name of
Elisha Loveridge, commonly called the " Slasher or
Tasher." After committing the deed he absconded, and
is supposed to have escaped to London.
The Norfolk News says a girl, only twelve years of
age, named Mary Anne Barnes, living with her aunt at
Hartlebury, was playing about with a female companion.
when she suddenly jumped into the Stour. It seems that
she had broken a sugar-basin and eaten some of its con-
tents, and being fearful of the consequences. plunged in-
to the river. It was two hours before the body was got
out.