The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-08-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NEWMAN AND THE POPE.—The Pope, to express his sense of Mr. Nt wman's services in the cause of theology, has conferred on him the degree of Doctor in Divinity by diploma.  Lord Lincoln has arrived at Portsmouth, in his yacht the Gitana, from a lengthened cruise in the Mediterranean, and a journey through Egypt, Arabia, and Pales During a fire which consumed the buildings of Parsonage Farm, near Newport, Essex, on Monday week, two cart horses, a sow and pigs, and some pigeons and fowls, perished in the flames.  A girl named Morgan, about six years old, was killed at Swansea on Monday week, by a large stone striking her forehead in its descent from a wall on which she had been climbing in company with other children.  At Marlborough Police-court, London, on Friday, three notorious dog-stealers were sent to the House of Correction for six months, with hard labour, for stealing a Scotch terrier and 13 spaniel dog.  Pot-ash Farm, Norftilk, is announced for sale. its former owner was Mr. Isaac Jermy, who, with his son, was murdered by the tenant of the farm, James Blomfield Rtish.  A flock of twenty-three sheep. sheltering under a tree at Upper St. Leonard's, near Gloucester, on Thursday evening, during a thunderstorm, was struck by lightning and killed.  Fourteen hundred Parisians arrived, on Monday, in London, on a pleasure excursion. Some difficulty was experienced in finding lodgings for so many. The majority being of the working class, en blouse, and wearing beards, they attracted much curiosity. The thriving town of Seaham Harbour was all bustle and animation, on Saturday week, in consequence of the arrival of its noble founder, the Marquess of Londonderry, accompanied by the Marchioness and other members of the family, at Seaham-hall.  On Tuesday Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders, was partially destroyed by fire. One of the wards three stories high was levelled to the ground. The loss is £3,000. The prisoners had a narrow escape. Thirty of the prisoners were in custody for setting the place on fire. Prince Albert has fixed the day for the banquet to the Lord Mayor of London, at York; it is to be on the 25th of October. The Lord Mayor of London has fixed the 25th instant for the civic banquet to his lordship at Southampton. Ernest Jones, who has just completed two years' imprisonment for the share he had in the seditious movement of 1848, was feted last week at Halifax. He has received a purse of fifty sovereigns to set him up in Iwitsktinn  -On Saturday, the La Clarata, from New Providence, arrived at the St. Katherine's Docks, with no less than 30,000 pine apples and 600 Queen conch shells, which are used in the making of beautiful cameos. The remainder of the cargo consisted of rich dye woods. A man at Weston-super-Mare, a few days since. disposed of a considerable quantity of pieces of old iron, casually picked up, at a shilling each, which he assured the purchasers were fragments obtained from the ill-fated Red Rover, after the explosion. At the Exeter assizes, Robert and Sarah Bird, who, it will be remembered, were acquitted of the murder of Mary Anne Parsons, by brutally ill-treating her, were found guilty on the minor charge of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. A law point, raised in this case, has been reserved for the decision of the judges. During the sitting of the House of Commons on Saturday week, a stranger was observed behind the bar, to whom several members paid marked attention. On inquiry we were informed that it was the Rev. Geo. Copway, otherwise Kah-ge.ga Gab Bouch, an Indian chieftain.  There was a total eclipse of the sun on Wednesday afternoon, but it was invisible to any part of England. The penumbra first touched our globe at 56 minutes past six in the afternoon, and left the same at 11 minutes after midnight. The eclipse was central and total over a large extent of the Pacific Ocean.  At the Dundyven Ironworks, Glasgow, a new furnace has been erected, which heats its own blast upon an improved principle, and effects a great saving of futl. This furnace produced upwards of 245 tons of cast-iron in the week before last, and it is fully expected to yield a still greater produce. _ _  - The balance sheet of the income and expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year ending July the sth, 1850, has just been published. The income is stated at £53,429,672 10s., the expenditure at £49,991,313 12s. Bd., leaving an excess of income over expenditure amounting to £3,438,358 17s. 4d.