The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1854.

FRANCE.

The market to-day was moderately well attended, but
owing to the abundant supplies of wheat and flour, trade
was dull, and, in order to effect sales, lower prices had to
be submitted to. Wheat may be quoted 3d per 701 b., and
flour is to is 6d per barrel below the rates of this day
week. Indian corn in fair request, at prices the turn
lower. In oatmeal and other articles not much doing,
and prices the turn in favour of the buyer.

LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—Tars DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Tn E FUN DS.—Consols tor Account, 92„ 3i ; ditto for Money,
931 2;; ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent., ; Bank Stock,
2181:

RAILWAY SHARES.—London and North-Western, 102*1 2 ;
Midland, 6j ; Caledonian, 53 21; Eastern Counties, 13i 13 ;
Great Western, 82; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 634 4; London
and South-Western, 76; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 2i2; North British, 314; York and North Midland,
454 si.
FOREIGN STOCK.—Mexican, 23k.
LAND SHARES.—PeeI River, 54.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—This DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Blackburns, si; East Lancashire, 132; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 63J ¢ ; Midland, 61.

FEMALE COURAGE.—A house on the Lincoln-road
where an invalid lady and her female servant resided, was
attacked by a burglar, on Friday morning, but the servant
attacked the intruder with such vigour that he was glad
to flee.

DESTRUCTION OP OLD ST. PAUL'S—Early in the year
1674, the workmen began to clear away the ruins of the
ancient cathedral, preparatory to laying the new founda-
tions. The pulling down of the old walls, which were in
many places 80 feet high and 6 feet in thickness, was an
arduous undertaking. At first the men stood above,
working them down with pickaxes ; while labourers
below cleared away the rubbish, part of which was applied
to the path.. of the streets, and part to the building of
the parish churches. The work proceeded in this fashion
until the workmen c.ime to the middle tower, which
carried the lofty spire : but they quailed before the danger-
ous task of mounting 200 feet to east down this ruin.
The inventive genius of Wren immediately conceived the
idea of attaining the end by means of gunpowder, which
was done accordingly with the desired effect. From au
accident which happened at a subsequent blast, the
architect was prevented from employing gunpowder; and
his ne:t great device consisted of the ancient. battering.:
ram. This machine he suspended from a triangle, and
kept thirty men constantly beating with it on one part of
a wall for a whole day,—an operation which seemed to the
workmen marvellously like an utter waste of time. But
the great architect knew better. He knew the effect of
concussion ; he encouraged them to persevere ; and at
length, on the second day, the wall began to tremble at the
top, and fell in a few hours. The first stone of the new
cathedral was laid on the 21st June, 1675.—The Builder.

rietcw, ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of No. 7, Percy-street,
Ireorge's Crescent, Liverpool.—Tuesday, January 17,1854.

PARIS, MONDAY.—Bourse again feeble, although no
news arrived to affect it, Threes closed 71.60; Four-and-
Halves, 99.50.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Trus DA.Y.
The arrivals during the week of wheat and flour have
been small, both coastwise and from Ireland, but of
foreign very large, amounting to 65,638 quarters of wheat,
and 2,595 sacks, and 140,735 barrels of flour. Of Indian
corn the arrivals were 36,062 quarters, and 2,850 barrels
of meal.