The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

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The list of subscriptions to Mr. Sidney Herbert's Emi-
gration Fund already amounts to £ll,OOO.
The West Indian steamer Avon brought £244,540
specie on freight.

- The Post-Master General has issued an order that after
the 13th instant every postoffice in England shall, after ten
o'clock on Sunday mornings, be closed for the day.
The Chimney in which damaged tobacco is burned in
the London Docks is known by the name of " Queen's
pipe•"

The East India Company has contributed the sum of
.£3OO towards Mr. Sidney Herbert's fund for the promo-
tion of female emigration.

It appears that during the ensuing quarter, ending
April 5, the sum of 0302,961 will be appropriated to the
purchase of stock for the reduction of the national debt.
A correspondent of a morning paper calls attention to
the case of Madame Belzoni, who is living in very reduced
circumstances. She is the widow of the celebrated tra-
veller, and accompanied him to Egypt.
During the snow storm of Friday night (week) a middle
aged woman, named Mary Jamieson, servant to Mrs.
Wright, of Careston, while on her way home from Bre-
chin, perished amongst the snow, on the turnpike-road.
On Friday week a poor woman was delivered of a child
in the open street at Hull. She had been some time
knocking at the door of the workhouse, but could get no
admission, on account of the deafness of the porter.
On Tuesday eveninga respectable looking young woman,
about 18 years of age, committed suicide by jumping from
Blackfriars-bridge. The drags were immediately got from
the adjoining pier, but the body was not discovered.
A correspondent of the Exeter Gazette states that " a
few years since the font belonging to the parish church of
Milton Dameral, Devon, was removed to a farm-yard to
meat pigs in !"
The friends of Viscount Seaham will be gratified to learn
that his lordship's sad accident has not interfered with his
general health. The inflammatory action in the vessels of
the eye is subsiding.

On the 2nd instant, a respectable tradesman of Oxford,
named Hounslow was skating, when he accidentally fell,
and alighted on a aimblet which he carried in his pocket
for fastening on his skates. The instillment was driven
into his back, and he died of the injuries on Wednesday.
ANOTHER GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday, William
Thorpe, gamekeeper to the Rev. F. Snarpe, of Tibshelf.
Derbyshire, was shot dead by a party of poachers on game
preserves belonging to the above rev. gentleman. Six
men are in custody.

PERVERT.—The Rev. Alfred Drayman, late curate of
St. John the Baptist's, Wasperton, whose license was
lately withdrawn by the Bishop of Worcester, on account
of the Popish doctrines inculcated in his sermons, has gone
over to the Church of Rome.

The directors of the Scorch banks have just issued a
notice to their depositors, that henceforth the interest
allowed to them will be calculated on the minimum
balance at their credit in each calendar month, instead of
on the daily balance.

During the first four days, three thousand of Dr. Chal-
mers' " Life" were sold—so extraordinary has been the
curiosity to know the particulars of Chaltneys' life. We
are not aware that Sir Walter Scott's Biography, by Lock-
hart, had such a run.

The trial of Andrew Forest, charged with the murder of
Joseph Herbert, gamekeeper, at Gilbertfield Castle, parish
of Cambuslang, took place on Saturday, in the High
Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, and resulted in a verdict of
" not proven."

Margaret Lidgate has been sent to gaol for thirty days
at Edinburgh, and ordered to find bail, for mischievously
calling at the houses of medical men, and stating that
their professional services were required by persons whose
names she gave at the time.

On Tueicinv, Bridget Tamevey, a pauper in the War-
wick Union Workhouse, was committed, on the verdict of
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uvrtnier s iiiquesc, for toe wilful murder 01 her child,
an infant two days' old, by giving it a quantity of sul-
phate of copper, commonly called bluestone, or blue
v triol.

The sale of the Queen Dowager's stud took place on
Monday, and fetched good prices. There were forty-two
horses, the majority of which were nearly seventeen► hands
high. The carriages were sold on Tuesday. and one of
the state vehicles was bought for exhibition for 100
guineas.

- NEW HOSPITAL YOR BRISTOL.—The liberal and muni-
ficent offer of £5,000 towards the erection of a new gene-
ral hospital at Bristol, made some short time since, has
been nobly responded to by a gentleman noted for his
" alms deedsr" by a further donation of £l,OOO for the
proposed object.
CHLOROFORM.—Dr.Webster, at a meeting of the West-
minster Medical Society, related the case of a lady who
became insane, and continued for some months, from the
administration of chloroform in her confinement; only
only one drachm of the medicine, sprinkled on a handker-
chief, was used. It did not procure immunity from pain.
One of those rare birds, named by Bewick the great
ash-coloured shrike-murdering pie, or great butcher bird,
was last week shot by a youth named Whitfield, on the
west side of the town of Keswick. It is a remarkably fine
specimen, and has been presented to Mr. Selby, of TwizEl
House, the celebrated ornithologist.
SPOT ON TIIE SUN.—An immense spot, plainly visible
to the naked eye, was seen yesterday week upon the face
of the sun. It is situated a little above tl.e centre of the
disk. As such a sight is not very common, and may pro-
bably remain visible for a few days longer, perhaps some
of our readers may be glad to verity it with their own
eyes.

MADAME SONTAG.—Wo regret to state that this dis-
tinguished artiste has not recovered from the effects of the
cold she received by being exposed for some hours to the
inclemency of the weather, in Scotland, about a fortnight
ago. In consequence of her illness concerts at York and
other towns have been postponed.. She is at present, we
believe, in York.

The magistrates of Buckinghamshire have resolved not
to entertain a memorial of the Rev. Mr. Cox, late chap-
lain of the county gaol of Aylesbury, who was recently
compelled to retire from the office in consequence of re-
fus'ng to divulge the particulars of the contession made
by the quaker Tawell. The rev. gentleman wished for au
annuity.

On Saturday week a fire broke out on board of the
Ganges, a fine Indianian, upwards of 1,000 tons burden,
lying in a dry dock at Blackwall. The fire originated
from igniting, on the lower decks,a quantity of sulphur
and damp straw for the purpose of getting rid of a num-
ber of beetles and other insects. The damage is said to
exceed £/,C130

On Monday last, as a woman who.subsisted by begging
was proceeding from Upton to Gloucester, she was seized
with the pains of labour and delivered of a mail child in
the public road. Assistance was presently procured, and
the woman and child were, after some delay, removed to
an inn, but the child died from want of attention and
exposure to the cold.

On Wednesday week a married female named Hamilton,
at Glasgow, who was slightly the worse for liquor, was.
endeavouring to swallow a mouthful of black pudding..
The food, however, stuck in her throat, and the poor
woman, notwithstanding the assistance which was imme-
diately rendered to her, expired in the course of a few
minutes after enduring all the agonies of suffocation.
A GENTLEMAN DROWNED.—Peter Fell, Esq., of Bal-
connel and Birkhill, was drowned in the South Esk, on
Taursday evening, while crossing that river in his gig, by
the Careston Ford. The empty gig, with the horse
attached, was accidentally seen in the river next day, a
shortway down, and led to the discovery of the melan-
choly catastrophe.—Glasgow Mail.
On Sunday, the first building erected in England, in
connexion with the Greek Church, was consecrated with
unusual ceremony. The edifice is situated in London-
wall, opposite All-Hallows Church, and is designed for the
accommodation of the Greek merchants resident in Lon-
don, and has been erected at a cost of nearly £lO,OOO.
The interior is richly ornamented, and in general appear-
ance is not unlike the chapels of the Roman Catholic body
At a meeting of the vestry of St. Martin's parish,
London, on Friday, a resolution was brought forward by
one of the guardians, that an addition of id. in the pound
be made to the rate proposed, for the purpose of promot-
inp emigration. The chairman declined to put the motion
as the meeting was called for a specific purpose, but there
seemed a strong opinion in favour of the motion among
the guardians.

AV FACT FUR NATURALISTS.—Mr. Bentley, of Ply-
mouth Grove, has now in his possession a robin redbreast,
which has been reared in a cage. The little warbler
seems happy in its home, and as soon as the lamp is
lighted in the evening be sings most sweetly until the
family retire for the night; in addition to which he inva-
riably " tunes up" during the time the family are at
breakfast and dinner.

On Monday morning, the wife of a labourer living at
Chelmsford, Essex, who had been in a desponding state
of mind for some time, heard that her husband's wages
had been reduced, and fearing that she should come to
want, she, in her husband's absence, nearly severed the
head from the body of her infant child, only five weeks
old,' with a razor, and immediately after told a person
next door that she had killed her child.