The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

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in no factious spirit, and certainly with. no wish
red during
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water question

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passing around

them, and especially to examine narrowly engi-

eering estimate

The Carthagena, from this port, arrived at San Fran-
cisco on the 31st of July, having on board the extensive
iron house, ordered by the Californian government, to be

used as the Custom-house for that port:
A beautiful new screw steamer named the " Nile,"
upwards of 500 tons burthen, was to be launched yesterday
from the yard of Messrs. Denny, at Dumbarton. She
_ . . _

built for the Liverpool and

Steam Shipping Csmmany, and is intended to ply between
this port, Gibraltar, Italy. and Sicily.

'om the Lakes, and has re-
The temporary relief from
the onerous duties of his office, combined with the invi-
gorating effects of the northern air has wrought a very
favourable change in the appearance of the worthy ma-

. Rushton has returned f
I his m

;isterial duties.

:istrate,

Several robberies have lately been committed at Bir-
senhead.' On Saturday morning, about three o'clock,
Mr. Gladstone, of Clifton Park, was awoke by bearing a
noise, and on going down stairs found three men, one of
nom ,he knocked down, The burglars escaped. Several
-ts have taken place.
—....i.ERMENT.—We understand that the Rev. J. Cor-
deaux, of St. Silas' Church, has been promoted to the
living of Hoylßnd, a preferment near Barnsley, in
Yorkshire. We believe that. the presentation was
unexpectedly offered to the reverend gentleman by the
noble patron, Earl Fitzwilliam, who, we are sure, by the
appointment, has conferred lasting benefits on the parish-
"rs. The trustees of St. Silas' Church, in whom the
is vested, arc, T. B. llorsfall, Esq., Adam
- R. Bickersteth, Esq., C. S. Parker, Esq.,

and W. Jones-, Esry
WELSH BisHops.—The medal, value £5, and a pre-
mium of £lO, offered by Mrs. Richards, of Freiorwerth,
Anglesey, for the best essay on " the National and Scrip-
tural Claims of the Established Church in Wales, to be

governed by Welsh Bishops," have been awarded by
John Richards, Esq., and the Venerable the Archbishop
of Cardigan, acting as adjudicators, to the Rev. D. James,
Incumbent of St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale. It is
:ted the reverend gentleman will be publicly invested
he medal at the great Bard Meeting at Rhuddlan
, this day.

st
A. RAND(

HlT.—The North British Mail says:—
Punch little thought, while describing a Premier

during the holidays, as lie is supposed to be' (viz., en.
joying himself), and contrasting it with the reality, that
the ' supposition' was the correct description ; for Lord
John Russell was one day last week observed in front of

Maule's house at Birnam, enjoying himself with his
children, in sending zip paper balloons info the air, and
them over the lawn." Punch was not so wrong

as out: contemporary supposes. Lord John has been
" sending up paper balloons into the air" all the past
session ; and that he has chased some of them pretty well
to the death, the catalogue of his extinguished bilis—we
beg pardon, his burst " paper balloons "—is a very fair

voucher,

PORTRAIT OF DR. NEWTON.—This picture, by Henry
Calvert. is exhibiting for a few days at Mr. Gregg's re-
pository, and will well repay a visit by his numerous friends
in this town. We have not sufficient personal knowledge
of the original to speak of its correctness as a likeness,
although it gives all his characteristics both in face and
figure. We learn, nevertheless, from those better able to
give an opinion than ourselves that the likeness is most
lifelike ; and as a painting it is very clever. The colour-
ing is excellent ; and the entire management of the sub-
ject is artistic and full of judgment. We observe thz.t it
is t•o be engraved by a first-rate artist, at very reasonable
prices--so reasonable indeed that, we should imagine, few
of his friends will lose this opportunity of possessing them-
selves of a copy.
SAFETY FROM RonnEns.—An interesting announce-
ment from Mr. Milner appears in our advertising columns.
We learn that a strenuous effort was made to break open
the iron safe which was sent from Mr. Milner's establish-
ment a few months since for the purpose of securely con.
veying the precious metals from the mines to Tampico.
The safe was being carried across the country when an at-
tack was made by a party of forty-five robbers, who
worked for twelve hours to open the chest, and could not
succeed. Assistance at last came up, and the owner of
the precious contents was not deprived of his valuable
property. We have on several occasions visited the ex-
tensive works of Mr. Milner, and the operations which
are there going on are well worthy of being seen, not only
by strangers but by our own townspeople.