The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

SHARES

East Anglian
Great Western .. 95- 6
Lane.S.LYorkshire. 84} 5
Do. Fifths ......
London, Brighton,

& South Coast.. 1071 8/
Lond.&S.Western 90 91
York, Newcastle,

& Berwick

Do. Extension ..
Do. Preference .. --
York &N.Alidland 59 CO
Norfolks ..
Leeds Northern .. 17 181.
Caley Preference
North British .
Do. Preference
Shrewsbury, A„

39 40
102 3

MINING
2pm

fpm
ri
apm

2} Pm

LAND !
280

HARES

A. Californian
Australian ...
Freehold .....
B. Australian .
Colonial
1.1.1-ariposa

;HAREs.
Van Diemau's

MARKET

The supplies of English Wheat are moderate, and
trade is steady at Monday's currency. Foreign fully as
dear. Fine Fresh Flour sold in some instances ls. per
sack higher. Barley, Beans, and Peas steady, at full terms.
Oats Gd. to Is. per quarter dearer. Seeds unchanged.

Wheat,

_barley
Oats .

Beans

ARRIVALS.
English
.... 3892

Irish. Foreign
13431
6,210

520sks
& 5760 brls

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE

Cluing quotationsz—District -Bank 7.1- pm ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 841 ; Midland, 791 ; North Western,
81; South Eastern and Dover, 25.

AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT THE CAPE.-'The
follow-
ing circumstance is mentioned in the last received Graaf-
Reba Herald:—" On Sunday last a singular duel came
off in the outskirts of the town. Two young Fiugoes, it
appears, had been quarrelling for a week, and at length
worked themselves up to such a pitch that they resolved
to fight it out. The combatants stripped, and arming
themselves with a neck-strop apiece, the battle com-
menced. A powerful Fingo, with a double waggon-whip,
acted as second, or ' bottle-hoPer,' to both parties, and
when he perceived either of them in the least degree
flagging, a judicious application of the doubled waggon-
whip was had recourse to. The fight lasted nearly three
quarters of an hour, at the end of which time of the lads
was quite exhausted and cave in. Both of them were
covered with blood fro.n head to foot, and it was evident
they had received a wholesome lesson. The bottle-holder,
in reply to a question from the only white spectator, ob-
served that they would not quarrel again, and that this
was the Fingo method of putting a speedy end to all
quarrels."

CURIOSITIES IN THE BERLIN LIBRARY.—During my
sojourn at Berlin, I spent a morning in the library, and
was much gratified by the examination of its principal
curiosities. Amongst them the thble of COar!es 1.. which
he bore with him to the scaffold, possesses to an English-
man great interest. It is a small volume, bound in black
leather, and bears evident signs of having been much used.
It was lying open, appropriately enough, at the 7th chapter
of Job, which commences, " Is there not an appointed
time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the
days of an hireling ?" By the side of this interesting
relic, which should be in our national collection, lies
Luther's original manuscript translation of the Holy
Scriptures. Turning over the leaves, it was very apparent
from the vast number of corrections and alterations in the
mysterious Book of Job, as compared to the other books
of the Old Testament, that it was to Luther, as it has
been to many other learned divines, full of difficulties-
Some of the chapters present a tangled mass of additions,
erasures, and amendments, showing clearly that Luther
was puzzled by the original. Another interesting NI S. is
Goethe's " Faust," which is very clear and legible—SO
Clear, indeed, and free from alterations, that I cannot
think it is the original draft of that immortal work.
Close to these literary curiosities is preserved Otto von
Guerick's original air-exhausting apparatus, consisting of
two hemispheres, which when placed in juxta-position,
and the air exhausted between them, couid not be detached
by the strength of thirty horses.—Correspondent of the
Literary Gazette.

TisdpdntaeahapwrnneittirycwrhdhngdoAthhbeee.tson: AND NIGHT IN THE TROPlCS.—Scarcely has
o'clock,caamsirtooi commenced
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alinrelneenelemi
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humming-birds,
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atmosphere trembles from the excessive heat, and the
thermometer of Fahrenheit, when exposed to the full
chattinginfluenceemhmerry
eirgnwrhievening
gohfc
maalol
tunes,2nyl f4sdr the scorching
drhesue cfenshosifieenr.
less oppressive, breezes spring up, and the cool air of the
The forests are now glitter-
ingstcherleivcr
eakse.
arets a
But
groups
toc lulanp uso nt
oht ifi un gg peopleth e r
can
exceed the beauty of the scene when the full moon rises,
shedding its silvery light over the broad foliage of the
tropics. Whatever may have been the fatigue of the day,
whatever the body may have suffered from heat and lan-
gour, all is forgotten when this spectacle presents itself.
Such a night baffles description, it is the quintessence of
equinoctial life.—Voyage in the Tropics.
SMART PRACTICE.—A week or two ago four creditors
started from Boston in the same train of cars, for the pur-
pose of attaching the property of a certain debtor in Far-
mington, in the state of Maine. He owed each one sepa-
rately, and they each were suspicious of the object of the
other, but dared not say a word about it. So they, ac-
quaintances all, talked upon everything but what they had
most at heart, When they arrived at the depot at Far-
mington, which was three miles from where the debtor
did business, they found nothing to " put 'em over the
road" but a solitary cab, towards which they all rushed:
Three got in and refused admittance to the fourth, and
the cab started off. The fourth ran after and got upon
the outside with the driver. He asked the driver if he
wanted to sell his horse. He replied, that he did not
want to ; that be was not worth more than 50 dols.,
would not sell him for that. He asked him if he would
take 100 dols. for him. " Yes," said he. The " fourth_
man" quickly paid over the money, took the reins and
hacked the cab up to a bank, slipped it from the harness
and tipped-it up so that the door could not be op
t
jumped upon the horse's back and rode off "
switch," while the "insiders" were looking out of the
window, feeling like singed cats. He rode to a lawyer s'
got a writ made and served, and his debt secure, and got
faonrdso doi
s.
back to the hotel just as the " insiders" came uP Tu""
blowing.ThTehe"that s y
if the fortunate one, who found property sufficient to.P:z
his own debt, would not tell of it in Boston.—Americ
paper.
cabmanaold mensoon
offered
ttboapcaky his hoursoei
wrrcceeh.lif
fire-flies,
geet.dshmr:a

MERCHANTS' DIVING-ROOKS.—From advertisements
in this day's Standard, it will be seen that the Merchants'
Dining-rooms, in the neighbourhood of the Exchange, are
henceforth to be carried un by Mr. F. E. Morris'', lately
a partner in the same establishment with Mr. Jose")
Feeny. Mr. Morrish intends, on Friday, to ,vied up th 3
year by setting before his friends a baron of beef—a truly
seasonable and thoroughly English dish, redolent of the
loin
nd
mchuesetr ayniedldthpernenoebdloenhceo. Harespitaliti soup,
esofaristocratic halls
in the olden time, to which of necessity the knightly sir-
:
creg and ox-tail, dalenish the boarc
d
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periey nced caterer, andily arere tp any
oo well-known to need o
eulogy.
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LIVERPOOL:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28,

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED
EVERY TUESDAY MORNING,
By THE PROPRIETOR, ROBERT PEARSON THACEER,
OF No. 7, PERCY-STREET, AT THE
STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE
ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL.

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