The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-THIS DAY

Of any kind of Grain, either British or foreign, the
arrivals into this port during the past week have been
light, except Indian Corn, of which, and also of Flour and
Indian Meal we have to note further large supplies in-
wards, and considerable exports of each, chiefly to Ireland.

The market opened with considerable excitement, influenced
by the accounts from London, and holders commenced by
asking extravagant prices for both Wheat and Flour, which
not being responded to by the buyers, the amount of business
done was to a moderate extent only at the closing prices of
yesterday, making the advance from this day week Gd. to Bd.
per bushel on Wheat, and 3s. to 3s. 6d. per barrel for Flour.
Barley and Oats were in increased demand, at 3d. per bushel

higher.
There was also an improvement in Beans and Pease of 2s

per quarter.
Indian Corn met with less inquiry, at an advance of Is. per

this day week

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Amongst the Esquimaux, according to Sir John Ross,
the crime of murder very rarely occurs; When it does,
the murderer's punishment consists in being banished to
perpetual solitude, or to be shunned by every individual
of his tribe; insomuch, that even the sight of him is
avoided by all who may inadvertently meet him. One
being asked why his life is not taken in return, it was re-
plied, "that this would be to make themselves equally
bad; that the loss of his life would not restore the other;
and that he who should commit such an act would be
equally guilty."

CAUSiOF A.NOM ALOUSNOISES IN" HAUNTED HOUSES"
—Mr. Poynter states, that at a parsonage-house in the
country known to him, a knocking, which was heard at
certain times, and could not be explained, and had ob
tamed for the house the reputation of being haunted, was
found to be caused by the baker at the opposite end of the
village chopping his wood. The sound, it was thought,
was reproduced in an old well opposite the parsonage.
Mr. J. A. Picton, of Liverpool, instanced a case where
similar sounds, heard in a house, were found to proceed
from a steam-engine at a very considerable distance, and
not audible elsewhere.—The Builder.
THE WITCHERY OF THE VOICE.—A voice which, though
somewhat low, was of that organ that at once arrests at-
tention ; a voice that comes alike from the brain and from
the heart, and seems made to convey both profound
thought and deep emotion. There is no index of charac-
ter so sure as the voice. There are tones, tones brilliant
and gushing, which impart a quick and pathetic sensi-
bility ; there are others that, deep, and yet calm, seem the
just interpreters of a serene and exalted intellect. But the
rarest and most precious of all voices is that which com-
bines passion and repose ; and those rich and restrained
tones exercise, perhaps, on the human frame, a stronger
spell than even the fascination of the eye, or that bewitch-
ing influence of the hand, which is the privilege of the
higher races of Asia.—D' Tancred.
CHILDREN SOLD TO THEIR MOTHER.—With regard to
mulattoes, I have seen individuals sold at Vendue, who
were two or three shades whiter than mulattoes—whiter,
indeed, than many native Carolinians ; but who had, as it
was expressed by their proprietors, " a drop of the devil's
blood in them." I saw a little boy and girl of nine or
ten years of age, sold one day, who were exceeding fair
and beautiful ; they might, indeed, have travelled through
old England without suspicion of being allied to Satan by
blood. They were purchased by their own mother ; and
in this one case I was much gratified to observe that in-
tending purchasers who were present, on being apprised
of the state of the matter, kept aloof, and offered no op-
position to the poor mother, who, consequently, obtained
her own children at a very moderate price.—Life of a
Slave.

SINGULAR ANECDOTE.—SeveraI years ago, a charity
sermon was preached in a dissenting chapel in the west of
England. When the preacher ascended the pulpit, he thus
addressed the hearers :—" My brethren, before proceeding

to the duties of this evening, allow me to relate a short
anecdote. Many years have elapsed since I was last within
the walls of this house. Upon that evening, among the
hearers came three men, with the intention of not only
scoffing at the minister, but with their pockets filled with
stones for the purpose of assaulting him. After he had
spoken a few sentences, one said, D—n him, let us be
at him now ;' but the second replied, No, stop till we
hear what he makes of this point.' The minister went on,
when the second said, We've heard enough now—throw !'
but the third interfered, saying, He's not so foolish as I
expected—let us hear him out.' The preacher concluded
without being interrupted. Now, mark me, my brethren
—of these three men, one was executed three months ago
at Newgate, for forgery ; the second, at this moment, lies
under the sentence of death, in the gaol of this city, for
murder—the other (continued the minister with great
emotion)—the third, through the infinite goodness of God,
is even nom about to address you—listen to him !"
IMITATIVE POWER IN BIRDS.—So strong is the imita-
tive power of birds, that a canary who has been taught to
pipe, having heard a chaffinch that daily sung in a tree
near the window where the cage was hung, learnt his note
in a few days, omitting at that time the air he had been
accustomed to sing. At the end of the spring, after hav-
ing been removed from the neighbourhood of the chaffinch,
he resumed the air as before. A nestling nightingale also
learnt the notes of a hedge-sparrow that sung near it, for
want of other sounds to imitate, and it was extraordinary
to hear the gentle, although agreeable warble of the lat-
ter, attuned to the full compass and power of the nightin-
gale. The effect was most pleasing, although, of course,
not equal to the natural notes of this bird, not one of
which he retained. Indeed, many birds are almost, if not
entirely, imitative, and, in default of hearing the parent
bird, borrow the notes of others ; soft-billed birds always
prefer the song of soft-billed birds, and vice versa. It is
hoped, from what has been said on the above subject, that
persons who are in the habit of keeping caged birds will
be induced to educate them in the manner suggested.
Then, instead of hearing the shrill, deafening natural
notes of the canary, they will be delighted with those of
the nightingale, the black cap, and other warblers.
" They will then breathe such sweet music out of their
little instrumental throats, that it may make mankind
think that miracles are not ceased." • So said the good
Izaak Walton.—Jesse's Favourite Haunts.
THE RURAL POPULATION OF CHINA.—The farms are
small, each consisting of from one to four or fiv acres ;
indeed, every cottager has his own little tea garden, the
produce of which supplies the wants of his family, and
the surplus brings him in a few dollars, which are spent
on the other necessaries of life. The same system is
practised in everything relating to Chinese agriculture.
The cotton, silk, and rice farms, are generally all
small, and managed upon the same plan. .
There are
few sights more pleasing than a Chinese family the in-
terior engaged in gathering the tea-leaves, or, indeed,
in
any of their other agricultural pursuits. There is the old
man, it may be the grandfather, or even the great-grand-
father, patriarch-like, directing his descendants, many of
whom are in their youth and prime, while others are in
their childhood, in the labours of the field. He stands in
the midst of them, bowed down with age ; but to the ho-
nour of the Chinese as* nation, he is always looked up to
by all with pride and affection, and his old age and grey
hairs are honoured, revered, and loved. When, after the
labours of the day are over, they return to their humble
and happy homes, their fare consists chiefly of rice, fish,
and vegetables, which they enjoy with great zest, and are
happy and contented. I really believe that there is no
country in the world where the agricultural population are
better off than they are in the north of China. Labour
with them is pleasure, for its fruits are eaten by them-
selves, and the rod of the oppressor is unfelt and unknown.
—Fortune's Three Years' Wanderings in China.

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.