The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

that their exact value for steamers

The guardians of the West of London Union haVe.of-
' a reward of £2O for the apprehension of Mrs.

fered
Sloane

The proprietor of the Star and Garter, at Richmond,
has given a positive contradiction to the report that that
T.,
peror of Russia during

the Exhibition

A monster church organ is to be shown at the Exhibi-
on, containing 80 stops, end valued at many thousand
The space allowed for musical instruments is

400 feet

The splendid Rotton Park estate, near Birmingham,
for a long period the property of the Noels, of Worcester..
shire, has just been purchased by Mr. Gillott, the steel-
pen maker, for £95,000.

Among the things for the Exhibition in London is a
very magnificent bookcase in carved wood, intended as a
present from the Emperor of Austria to the Queen. It is
the work of an artist named Leistler, and is very beautiful.
A new daily London newspaper, to be called The Pro-
teatant , has been announced, the publication of which is
expected to commence shortly before the assembling of
parliament.

Some stabling, cow-houses, and poultry stores, at
Wandsworth, belonging to Mr. Bell, the new M.P. for
St. Alban's, were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
Thursday morning
At the Warwic
in the gaol of C

s, on Thursday, a turnkey,
)und guilty of aiding a pri-
soner to escape, and sentenced to fourteen years' trans-
portation.

- The other day the Duke and Duchess of Northumber-
land, driving at a smart pace into Berwick•on-Tweed,
were solicited by a wedding touter for the job of making
them man and wife.

The total number of applications to Parliament for the
ensuing session for all classes of bills amounts to 216,
about one-half for railways, and the other half for miscel-

Three vagiibonds were on Thursday committed for trial
from the Southwark police-court, for the unheard-of
offence of having broken into the Bermondsey workhouse
and plundered the store-root

lie average price of wheat for last week has fallen to
38s. 10d. per quarter. Immense importations of grain
A 13 • .

and flour continue to pour in upon us from abroad, and
there seems to be little prospect of relief to the hard-used
home grower.

At Berwick, sixty nine " meadows," the old rents of
which amounted to £432 193. 6d., are now let at sums
amounting to £334 155., being a difference of £9B 4s. 6d.,
or a reduction of 23 per cent. per annum ; and this near a
large and populous town.

A bridge near Penrith: on the Lancaster and Carlisle

Hallway, was almost carried away on Thursday by the
floods. A luggage train fell into the river with the bridge,
but the engineer and stoker escaped, and there were no
other persons on the train.

Two foreigners have been living for the last few months
in Sheffield, in good style. They have obtained large
-•.•

quantitie
tradesme

s of goods, under false pretences, from various

:We since

The Cape of Good Hope mail screw steam-ship Pro-
pontis, Captain Glover, will leave London on Friday, with
cargo, and Plymouth on the 15th instant, with mails and
passengers, for Cape Town and Sierra Leone. She will be
the second departure on the service.

The Rev. P. Oakeley makes an appeal to the readers
of the Tablet, in its last number, for help "towards mak-
ing up a little sum for the bare maintenance of a person,
who, by the prospect of downright destitution, is tempted
to renounce the faith."

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Enz..
land had decreased from £15,359,376 to £14,963,681,
being a difference of £395.695. The paper in actual cir-
culation had increased from £19,715,187 to £19,825,001,
being a difference of £'

395,695

A little boy of the name of Robson, while playing with
a bow and arrow, at North Shields, on Monday week, put
out one of the eyes of a companion of the name of Reay,
by hitting him with an arrow, which haka nail at the end
of it.

A young lad was detected, on Wc

acks, in a village in Cambr

geshire ; and it now

appears that, through their wantonness, this young rascal
and another young fellow were the authors of several

One of the Holywell-street publishers, in London, is
said to be making the coin of the realm a medium for his

side, and on the other an invite

rchase " No. 1"

of a certain penn

3ublication

The Sheffield papers contain an account of the capture
of Mr. John Hyde, of Norfolk-street, Sheffield, estate
agent, collector, &c., who absconded early last week,
leaving his wife and family behind him. When caught,
in the city of Glasgow, he had in his possession £3OO.
The American ship Roman. of 774 tons burden, has ar-
rived in the London Docks from Canton, with an entire
cargo consisting of nearly 10,00 u packages of tea, con-
signed to order, which is admissible by virtue of the re-
laxed laws of navigation.

The receipt of ;letter from the President of the United
States precludes a hope which had been entertained that
London would, during the coming Exhibition, be gratified
by the presence of the executive head of the gr'eat
Republic.
At Westminster Police-court, on Wednesday, a person

case was c

s a specimen o

.ds of justice

Liered from the hec

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