The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

!LINE IN THE VALUE OF GOLD,

Our boasted "

unchangeable" measure of value—the

t length be

!ling ,to itu

the foreigner being daily more and-more indisposed to
give " change"—twenty shillings for it. The following
extract from the City article of the:runes of Saturday
ought to convince the most sceptical of the fact :
•`T}he advices from Brussels this afterslom announce that,

contrary

have voted
both r
monies.
at about .46

. withdrawal of the gold -coinage in d
Belgium,
e respects the national currency ar-ail foreign gold
The quantity at present in circulation is estimated
t 1ei.000,000 sterling of Belgian prices issued in 1848,
A 461,500,050 of Dutch 10-guilder pieces. The men-

considerable excitement, at
tie price of gold had take'

sure had ca
to 1 percent. it

"the letters from Paris state that the 1
the subject of auost active discussion.
probable decision of the French CommisA
was known. The matter continues to be.t
in the Debate *ad other papers. _ _

iaiin resolution was
With regard to the

"Fran Berlin the accounts of the 24th state thrt the price of I
gold was still declining, a further fall of I per cent. having just

triesihire

The silver ?received in England by the 4ast

South Amer

was sold to-day-for shim

it to India at 611t1

per ounce,

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FRANCONI4S CIRQUE NATIONAL At THE
ROXAL AMPHITHEATRE.

,musement was opened on Thursday
3 sieur BastienFranconi,

This place of a
night, for a short season,
with his celebrated equestrian company, and a most.eplen-
did stud of bighly-trained horses. The theatre has been
newly and veil prettily decorated for the occasion, the

coloured muslin, and -additional el
round the circle, a
tient light

performers a bril-

The orthostra has been erected at the.back
ement of Monsieur Adolphe
a number of stalls occsapq the
The audience was an excel-

.4 the stage, during the erga

Franconi's company; and
other

portion of the sta,g

Lent one, the galleries especially being crammed. From
the first opening of the arena, introducing a brilliant
irrench cavalcade, the manwuvres of which are performed
by the leading members of the company, male and female,
their very superior excellence, and the splendour and

perfectness of all the arrangements, dresses,anduppt)iut

manta was at one

ell as the excel

with .which the whole performances aro directed, the usual
vaulting which takes place amongst English equestrian
corps .being made to give way to feats of a more classical
character, and an admixture of equestrian petite come.
die:ties and spectacles. The characteristic of the company
is the grace and finish of the various riders, and the
absence of everything repulsive or calculated to shock the
most sensitive taste. Two very amusing English clowns
are attached to the company, with a French one in addi-
tion, a very ;clever and mercurial little fellow. We shall
take further opportunities of giving our opinion of the
merits of the respective artistes when we have had suffi-
cient time and leisdre to pay further visits to the establish-

Meantime, we cordially reconiw.end it to the
notice of our plav-going readers.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

William Evans and Robert Evans, father and eon, who
had been remanded until Tuesday, at the Police-covq,
for stealing poultry from Mr. Curfey and four other par-
ties resident in Exchange-street, Toxteth-paA, and com-
mitting a violent assault upon Inspector Hough, who had
been confined to the house until that day fcom the injiries
he received, were, committed for trial,
IRISH RIOT IN SCOTLAND-ROAD.—On Tuesday Mi-
ehael Freeney, Charles Sweeney, Thomas Walsh, Francis
Dowd, and Mary Carregan were committed for trial for
riotous conduct, and brutally assaulting the police on
Monday evening. Ohe officer was severely injured, and
the others dreadfully beaten with sticks and stones.
Freeney made himself a most conspicuous character in the
affray, haring become possessed of the stick of one of the
officers, and laid about him right and left, exclaiming,
" Come on, boys we were licked in Birkenhead, but we
won't be licked here !"

YESTERDAY

A still was found in full operation by a party of officers
of the Inland Revenue, in a cellar in Oriel-street. on
Saturday. On knocking at the door, which was locked,
they were admitted by a lad, whom they apprehended.
Before the magistrate he gave his name as George Shaw,
and pleaded ignorance of the existence of the still. A fine
of £3O was imposed. or, hi default of payment, to be
imprisoned three months.
SUSPECTED ROBBERY OP GUNPOWDER.—On Saturday
night, Michael Chadwick, an officer of the Inland Reve-
nue service, stopped a man and a boy in Marybone, and
desired to know the contents of two large bottles they
Carried. Instead of whisky the contents proved to be
gunpowder. Mr. Chadwick immediately gave the parties
in charge, Their names are George Hayes and Joseph
German. They stated that they were in the service of
Mr. Colburne, of the Egremont Ferry, and that the gun-
powder, which weighs nearly 401b5., had been picked up
on the beach at Egremont. They were remanded, end
instructiou3 were given to the policp to institute ' •
into the case.

quirils

day,-at Holyweli, Mr. WILLIAM LLOYI.,
to Miss ELWABETH STEALEY. of Pen-yrAnyylfa, Holyvrell_
On the 24th instant, at St. Mark's Church, Mr. JOHN
BREMNER,,painter, to Miss SARAH SAVAGE.
ng further Same day, at the Scotch Church, Rodney-street, hy,t
al controversy M. Brow n,

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