The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-05-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.—The new duties on coffee and timber have already commenced ; they came into operation on the 15th of April, and goods in ware-. hnuses on the 16th ultimo are to be subjected to the new duties. On coffee the new duty is 3d., and on kiln-dried, roasted, or ground, 6d. per lb. A publican, called Merriman, falsified his name by committing suicide a few days ago near Sunderland. He was addicted to hard drinking, and had been robbed of £l5O. His body was found in a shockingly mutilated state at the bottom of a coalpit, into which he is believed to have plunged. A few daysago, some men were holdingan immense sheet of glass on the footwalk of a street in Glasgow, preparatory to placing it in a cart, when a young urchin came running along, and without observing that anything intervened, dashed through the glass and shivered it to atoms. He fell but soon gathered himself up and scampered off. The Morning Advertiser gives the actual terms of a resolution which Mr. T. Duncombe, it is asserted, has consented to move, by way of amendment to the Papal Aggression Bill. The resolution seeks to pledge the House of Commons to suspend all proceedings against the emissaries of the Pope. A letter to the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, by Viscount Feilding, has been written from Rome, to correct the erroneous impressions of any persons who "in their simplicity" might suppose that Lord Feilding's continuance in the Roman Schism depended upon the result of an approaching discussion between his father's Chaplain (Mr. Baylee) and Bishop Brown. On Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, a fellow of gentlemanly exterior, walked into the Royal Hotel, at Birmingham, and proceeded up stairs to a bedroom in which a gentleman was in bed. Having taken £3O in gold and notes from a drawer, he coolly walked off. The gentleman was awake, and thought it was his servant who had entered the room !  At the Middlesex sessions a cabman, charged with stealing £lO in gold from the pocket of a sailor, was acquitted because the prosecutor could not state whether they were all sovereigns or half-sovereigns. The law, as it now stands, requires that the particular coins stolen shall be specified. This absurdity will be corrected by Lord Campbell's bill. _ _  Mr. John Simeon, M.P. for the Isle of Wight, who has recently joined the Church of Rome, is the eldest son of Sir Richard Simeon, Bart„ the first representative for the island in the reformed parliament,—a fine old English gentleman, a liberal in politics, but a warm friend of the Protestant Church. The Rev. R. Sumner, son of the Bishop of Winchester, married Sir R. Simeon's second daughter.  On Tuesday and Wednesday, a collection of interesting autograph letters were sold by auction in London. A letter of Robert Burns to Mrs. M'Clehose sold for £3los. ; one of Lord Byron's for £3 ; some short letters of Chas. I. and 11. for £2 ss. each ; a letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. of France, £5 12s. 6d. ; and one of the Duke of Wellington, in which he says, " The_ fact is, that no individual can do all that is required of the Duke of Wellington," produced 7s.