The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-12-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. •  The Oxford class-lists have been published, and it is discovered that not one man has distinguished himself sufficiently to be placed in the first class. The convict Smith, now under sentence of death in Newgate for the murder of the infant, child of a woman with whom he cohabited, is to be hanged on Monday, the 22d inst.  So large is the importation of raisins and currants this year, that the prices are lower than ever known. The selling retail price of good currants in London is now 24d. per lb. ! The Montrose Standard states that the brig Centurion, while on her passage from St. Petersburgh to that port, was driven ashore on the Russian coast during a snow storm, and all on hoard perished. The Morning Chronicle stated, on Wednesday, that, were it not for the coup d' ilea of the French President. it would have been their duty to have announced the resignation of the Russell Ministry. This statement has received some credence.  Jenny Lind, at Pittsburgh, U.S., the other day, received a pair of splendid diamond bracelets, as a present from some one of her ardent admirers there, which she re. turned, with information that she never received presents from gentlern n,  It is generally stated that the Rev. Mr. M`Dougall, the senior missionary at Sarawak, will be appointed first bishop of the proposed new diocese of Borneo, Sir James Brooke beinz strongly in favour of the appointment.— Morning Chronicle.  On Sunday morning the jubilee of the establishment of the German Lutheran Church, in London, was celebrated at the church in the precinct of the Savoy, the first German mission in London having been established there fifty years ago, by the present minister, the Rev. Dr. Steinkopff. On Thursday, a meeting of the friends of the Irish Church Mission,Society took place in the Great Room, Hanover-square, London, which was crowded on the occasion. The Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair, and on the platform were the Duke of Manchester, Mr. Colquhoun, and other influential friends of the society. The Art Journal gives the following list of the number of paintings imported during the past year :—Hanseatic towns, 1,100; Holland, 1,518; Belgium, 2,286; France, 2,982 ; Italy—Duchy of Tuscany, 1,045 ; other parts of Italy, 362 ; Portugal, 147 ; Spain, 197 ; Malta, 231 ; all other countries, 1,340 ' • total, 11,217. At an early hour on Wednesday morning, a rick of hay, situate at Grafton, about three miles from Hereford, was discovered to be on fire. The rick was the property of Mr. Lloyd, landlord of the Brick-kiln Inn, at Grafton, and contained about 15 tons, only three or four of which were saved. There is little doubt of the fire being occasioned by an incendiary. Lately, at Leicester, a horse fell down in the street, and was thought to have broken its thigh; but it was found  that the pelvis and not the thigh was broken. The animal, worth £2OO, died, and on apost mortem examination the pelvis wrs found broken in several pieces; the fractured ends had punctured the bladder, and also one of the large intestines. It is considered very extraordinary that a horse going at a walking pace should receive such extensive injuries from a simple fall. The testimonial in favour of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, from Garret Foster Gill, Esq„ concludes by saying, " Whenever I feel any symptome—crf - the diseask approaching, I have instant recours'r to this medicine, which to me is so valuable that;-re it not that the days of magic have ceased, 1..450u1d certainly attribute the relief I obtain to the use. Moreover, I rejoice to say, that my health h not in any degree suffered ; but, on the contrary, elieve the tendency of Blair's Pills is towards its provement." Sold by all medicine vendors, price 2s. . per box.  a'~~l~3~ili~  TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2  11PI 11g£IICt  S.S.W., moderate  ARRIVi:I3.=--John Henry, from Callao--William Fishier, Jones, Madras—Auckland, and Bombay Packet, Thompson, Africa—Otterburn, Alasterman, Demerara—Amelia, Vanberg, Wilmington—Tancred, Prince Edward Island—Augusta, Alexandria—Calleo, Wildfang, Anenrade—Mischief, Cephalonia—  Augusta, Thurdine, Aleiandria—Snake, Wills, 'Seville—Lucia, Switmemunde—Wasp, Symonds; Isabella; and Lucy L. Hall, St. Petersburg—Carl Johanna, Hamburg.