The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

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The Medway, West Indian steamer, brought £1,860,000
dollars of gold and silver.
The new building of the Durham Mechanics Institute
was publicly opened last Friday evening.
The London Common Council has refused to subscribe
to the female emigration scheme.
So tame did field hares become during the severe frost,
in Lincolnshire, that boys readily beat them down in
thorn hedges with long sticks, and took great numbers.
Lord Winchilsea has offered to Lord Fitzwilliam four
or five farms, free of rent, if he will only engage to cul-
tivate them.
Twelve cows have died on a farm in Glamorganshire
from eating the bulbs of waterwort, which, in cleaning a
ditch, had been thrown into a field.
An old man named Askew perished by fire in an attic in
Southwark, on Saturday, which he had caused himseif by
smoking in bed.
On Sunday, two blackbirds and a redwing were seen in
Leicester Market-place, wither they had probably re-
sorted in consequence of the severity of the weather.
THE APPROACH OF SPRlNG.—Primroses have begun
to appear in the hedges near Taunton, and on Thursday
a tortoise-shell butterfly was seen.
A man, named Roberts, was accidentally shot dead at
Ruthin, on the 11th instant, by a gun, which went off
unexpectedly in the hands of a friend.

At Carlisle, last week, a simple pair, who eight weeks
ago were married at Gretna Green, applied to the magis-
trates to " separate them."

THE DODGE OF NICHOLAS.—WhiIst the Emperor of
Russia's dodge is To Bear in one sense, it is evidently to
be For Baring in another.
The Exeter Gazette states that " change" is so scarce
that halfpence for a sixpence can hardly ever be obtained
without trouble, and that it is quite a task to get silver
fora sovereign.

A beautiful barque, of 504 tons burthen, named the
Oliver Cromwell, intended for the East India trade, was
launched from the building yard of Messrs. T. Young
and Son, South Shields, on Tuesday.
EXECIITION.—On Thursday, Mrs. Hamilton was exe-
cuted at Glasgow for murder. The wretched woman was
led to the drop in a half unconscious state, two turnkeys
assisting her. About 20,000 persons were present.
The widow of Dr. Chalmers died on Tuesday last,
having survived her distinguished husband about two
Seven daughters, two of whom are married, sur-
Dr. Chalmers never had any sons.

A boy at Barford, was shooting birds on Friday last,
when he shot a young woman, aged 19, who incautiously
stood in the way as he pointed the gun. She received the
charge in her face, and lived only three hours afterwards.
The Stamford Mercury notes that, on Tuesday, num-
bers of happy urchins were seen skating and playing on
Salding river, on large floating sheets of ice, which were
being carried seaward by the current.

Oti-Monday the bakers-throughout the metropolis reduced
the price of the 41b. loaf id. Best bread is now charged
7d. the loaf, second quality sid ; weighed on delivery.
Some, however, in the populous districts only charge sd.
A Jewish rabbi, named Bazaleel Herbestmann, has been
baptised at Edinburgh, and is said to have been converted
to Christianity by means of a tract placed in his hands by
a brother Jew.

The Doncaster Gas Company has consented to reduce
the price of gas to 4s. 2d. Cannot the Liverpool Com-
pany be induced to make a similar reduction, whilst so
many other towns are doing so ?
The Hon. Miss Campbell, eldest daughter of Lord
Campbell, is shortly to be united in marriage with the
Rev. William White, Minister of the Episcopal Chapel at
Jed b urgh.

The Hon. Member for Sunderland, George Hudson,
Esq., appeared in the House of Commons on Thursday
evening in his old place, and was accosted in the ordinary
way by members in all parts of the House.
It was understood that the High Level Bridge across
the Tyne would be opened, for passengers and general
traffic, yesterday ; the approaches having been put into a
proper state for that purpose.
Mr. Bartlett, a solicitor, was on Saturday fined 20s.
for having refused to.produce and show his "ticket" to
the guard (in charge of the train in which he was trav-
elling), when required to do so.
The gamekeeper at Forcett-hall, near Barnard Castle,
shot, a few days ago, on the fishpond in the park, a wild
swan, measuring from tip to tip of wings seven feet, and
weighing twenty-one pounds.
The Countess of Arundel and Surrey, wife of the eldest
son of the Duke of Norfolk, was received into the Roman
Catholic Church, on Sunday week, at the " Oratory,"
in King William-street, Strand.
The Standard, in giving publicity to a curious docu-
ment, circulated through the agency of the Poor Law
Commission, among Free Traders, comments severely
upon so barefaced an attempt to " cook" official evidence
against Protection. _ _

-The iron steam-ship Queen, arrived at Southampton
on Friday morning, from Oporto, with 110 oxen, and she
is to run regularly between Southampton and Oporto, in
the cattle trade, as there is expected to be a consider-
able demand for oxen from Portugal.
Two schoolmasters, the one in a town at the entrance
of the Tees, and the other in a town at the entrance of
the Tyne, have just completed their fiftieth year in
" teaching the young idea how to shoot," and are still in

le mastership of selmols numerously attended

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land had last week decreased from £16,816,330 to
£16,781,201, being a difference of £32,129. The paper
in actual circulation had increased from £20,513,864 to
£20,877,134, being a difference of £363,271.
It appears by a statement published in the Morning
Chronicle, that the average number of houseless poor in
the metropolis in each year for the last fourteen years,
was 8794. The number from Essex in 1847 was 1034;
in 1848, 567 ; in 1849, 392.

The elder Brethren of the Trinity ITouse have expressed
their opinion of the public services of the late Sir John
Barrow by the presentation of £lOO, towards the fund for
erecting the intended sea mark on Hoad Hill, near Ulver-
stone.

Accounts from Boulogne, state that on Saturday the
ship Palermo, Captain Campbell, bound from Canton to
London, was entirely wrecked off the coast near Dane,
five leagues from Boulogne. The crew, consisting of
eighteen persons, and three passengers, were saved.
An Aberdeen paper states, that the funds subscribed for
a testimonial to his Grace the Duke of Richmond are,
with his Grace's consent, to be applied to the foundation
of annuities for widows of decayed farmers, under the
management of trustees, and a committee, free of ex-
pense.

The Inverness Courier gives the history of a pair of
bagpipes which have been played in that town during
the Christmas holydays. They were made about a
hundred years ago for the Duke of Gordon, and have
been since in 32 military engagements in Canada, Egypt,
and the Continent.

Last week a poor woman was found on the moors near
Elgin, frozen and lifeless, only a few hundred yards from
a house. The bag with meal, and a pail containing gro-
ceries, &c., were lying near her. The deceased was the
only nurse of an eged and bed-rid father, and has left two
orphan children.

The parishioners of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, have
purchased the house hitherto let by the corporation at a
nominal rental to the minister ; and have presented it, with
a sufficient sum to put it in necessary repair, to the Rev.
George Hills, (late of Leeds,) and his successors, in
perpetuo.

A correspondent of the Times relates that, while tra-
velling near Andover, he observed a magpie engaged in
attacking a redwing, which he rescued from its assailant,
and then discovered that its eyes had already been pecked
out, so that it would soon have furnished a dinner to the
magpie if the latter had not been deprived of its prey.
It appears that in the counties of Northumberland and
Durham, there are no less than thirty-five furnaces for
the manufacture of iron. Of these fifteen are out of
blast, but as the prospects of the iron trade are decidedly
improving, it is expected they will be in active operation
ere loig,

THE-COPLESTON TESTIMONIAL.—The list of subscrip-
tions for the Copleston testimonial amounts to nearly
£B5O. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., has refused to subscribe
because the late Bishop of Llandaff appointed many
clergymen to Welsh livings who were unacquainted with
the language.