The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

SCHOOLBOY DAYS OF LORD ELDON.— -His lordship
once said to Mr. Surtees, " When your fathe r and I were
boys (and that is now a long time ago), I clew rIY remem-
ber our stealing down the Side, and along the Sand-hill,
,ek, p.m. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne,) and creeping into every shop,
where we blew out the candles. We crept in a long the
counter, then popped our heads up, out went the , •andles,
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THIS DAY. and away went we. We escaped detection." T, tie fol-
Our share market is to-day much as at the close of yesterday.
lowing is quite delectable in its way :—" Between sk 11001-
At the opening there were symptoms of an advance but the hours" (Eldon is still the narrator) "we used to a, muse
,
telegraph having brought news considered less peaceable from ourselves at playing at what we called ' cock-nibs,'— that
the continent, the rise was checked. Our private telegraph from was riding on the grave-stones in St. Paul's churchya rd,
London reports "markets as at the close of last evening—but which, you know, vas close to the school. Well, one d, 3'
little doing." The quotations here to one o'clock are as follow: one of the lads came shouting, ' Here comes Moises,
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—Birkenhead and Chester. 153; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 421; (the schoolmaster)—that was what we always called him,
London new quarters. 34 pm ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 143 dis. ; Midland stock, 65; Do. £so's, 12k I; North Union B, 152 • Moises—so away we all ran as hard as we could, and I
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Dover 4, 6 13/9; Newcastle preference,l3/9 dis. ; Royal lost my hat. Now, if you remember, there were four or 1
Assurance much asked for, but no sellers. five steps going down to the school, a sort of passage.
Unfortunately a servant was coming along with a pudding
for the bakehouse; and in my hurry, when Moises was
coming, I jumped these steps, and into the n,--1"
What - q to be (' ? Il'

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m

lARKET,

-TFIIS DAY

the week, a

he preva

was . sorrowed another boy's great
coat, and buttoned it on, over my own coat, waistcoat,
pudding and all ; and so we went into school. Now
when I came out. I was in an unforeseen dilemma; for
this great coat bad stuck to my own : another boy's coat
_
stickinv to me, anc'

paratively

117 qrs. of
)f the latter

-6 to my own hat lost !—here was 'a
situa-
tion ! With great difficulty the coat was pulled off; but
my father was very angry at my losing my hat, and he
made me go without one till the usual time of taking my
best into every-day wear." Mrs. Forster states that the
unlucky wight went no less than three months without
his hat.

at was only
acted, a de-

y week was

SL AVERY IN AMERICA.—One of the first incidents of
the bloodless struggle for freedom may serve as an exem
plification of the whole. A young lady

who k

Miss Crandallwas- remonstrated with
by the parents of her pupils, for admitting to her school
a little girl of light mulatto complexion. Miss Crandall
was struck with a sense of the tyranny of refusing educa-
tion to children on account of their colour; and she re-
solved to pay no heed to that sort of objection. She re-
ceived the pupils that offered, and allowed the whites to
depart if they chose. They not only did so, but the pa-
rents called a town meeting, and the town meeting ob-
tained from the legislature a law, finally pronounced un-
constitutional, by which Miss Crandall's school of co-
loured pupils was to be put down. She had quietly pro-
ceeded, in the face of a town meeting, called to condemn
her ; and she now quietly proceeded in the face of the
new law, having sound legal assurance of its unconstitu-
tional character. When her neighbours had pulled down
her fences she had built them up again. When they had
filled up her well she sent further for water. When the
neighbouring tradesmen dared not deal with her. she nh-
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mnect

now, when she was arrested under the new law, she went
quietly to gaol. The sight of good Miss Crandall going
to gaol did more for human rights than a city full of
barricades, and the longest row of bayonets. A pro-
tracted series of prosecutions gave time for action else;
where ; and by the time Miss Crandall was entirely
ruined, there were twenty-six periodicals circulating in
advocacy of the rights of the negro, and now, as was
indeed needed, of the whites in regard to negro affairs.
When Miss Crandall and her pupils were denied admission
to any church— vhen her windows were nightly broken,
and the lives of her pupils and herself placed in actual
danger—the educational interprise was stopped per
force. But the victory was fatal to the party of brute
force.

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE ARK.—The Great Ararat—
which, for sublimite of traditional association and impos-
ing grandeur of form, has scarcely its equal in the world—
stands as a mighty pillar on the frontier of three empires
—those of Russia, Persia, and Turkey. " Although,
(says Dr. Wagner) not more than 16,000 feet high, it
rises immediately 13,000 feet above the