The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

THE CORN MARKET.-ARRIVAL OF THE
GREAT WESTERN.

Our advices per the Great Western respecting this important
staple are very interesting. The quantity of flour and Indian
corn shipped from New York up to the 26th ultimo was not
nearly so great as was expected by the trade here. Vessels
were very scarce and freights high, as much as ss. 6d. per
barrel having been paid. The shipment of grain was also very
much impeded by a new regulation of the Underwriters, who
have refused to insure any ship which is loaded with more than
half its registered tonnage of wheat, &c. This has caused a
decline in the American prices of both wheat and tiour, which,
however, is more than abstracted from the English consumer
by the advance in freights.
The effect produced upon our market by this arrival has
been to resider holders firmer and to advance prices. Bonded
dour was sold yesterday, In quantity, at 3.55. per barrel, to
arrive; and Indian corn has been sold as high as 70s. for
immediate delivery. The market is cleared of the latter grain.
The following is the resolution of the underwriters referred
to:—
" Resolved, that each company will refuse to insure vessel,
freight, or cargo, in all cases where a vessel hound to a foreig*
port (excepting only double decked vessels under 250 tons)
shall carry more than one-half her registered tonnage in grain
its bulk."

On Monday, a girl named Buckley, going down some
steps in Eaton-street, with a child in her arms, fell down,
and the child's head struck the step. It received such in-
jury that it died on Saturday. The child's father, named
Kitts, lived in Eaton-street. _ _ _

DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Friday evening, Thos.
Holman, four years old, living with his mother in Ru- -
pert-street, while playing about the fire, stumbled against
a pan of hot water that was on the fluor, and failing into
it was so severely scalded that he died the following day.
CAUTION.—The provincial papers of last week contain
a number of accidents from sliding on ice before it is
strong enough to bear. On Sunday a boy was drowned
while skating on a sheet of ice, in Price-street, Birkenhead,
where the ice was not sufficiently, strong.
DEATH FROM FMB. —On Saturday night, Jane
Roberts Alban, wife of Peter R. Alban, blacksmith, Ferry
Street, Tortetb Park, was so severely burnt, through bee
clothes accidentally catching fire, while she was tipsy,
that she died yesterday morning. Her husband had
gone to bed, but on hearing her cry out went down, and
found her in flames. He tore her clothes off, and threw
a blanket over her, and put out the fire.

SUDDEN Daarn.—An • Inquest was he
jldyn Bestreyredg.,
before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of John
aged 18. Deceased and two other boys were going with
a hand-cart to the Cattle Market, and while passing along
Lime-street, and the boys pushing behind, deceased
suddenly fell down, as if in a fit. He died almost instan-
taneously. He appeared to be quite well when he started
with the cart. His death was caused by apoplexy.
The proprietors of the cotton factory in this town have
given notice to their hands that after Christmas the time
of work will be limited to eight hours per day, until the
Present disastrous state of the spinning and manufactnr-
ing interest shall improve ; and we have reason to think
that this system will be very generally adopted, it being
ti,e only one calculated to check the wild spirit of specu-
lation at present working on the cotton market,
IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL SALE.—We have been
gratified to learn that the London and North Western
Railway Company, for the accommodation of buyers
wishful to att. nd the sale of Mr. Jauions celebrated stock
of short horns, to be held at Preston Brook, on Thursday
next, the lith instant, have kindly consented that the
train leaving Liverpool that morning at 9 15 a.m., shall
stop at the Preston Brook Station, as also the return
train leaving Birmingham at 4 15 p.m.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday a man, named Sloane,
employed in discharging the ship Egecora, lying in the
Toxteth Dock, was so severely crushed by a bate of tim-
ber, loosely left on the top of a pile, failing on him whilst
in the hold, that he died soon after. The coroner's jury
returned a verdictof accidental death ; but the foreman,
Mr. F. Jones, said there was decided negligence on the
part of the stevedore, and ordered that what was due to
him that day from the court, 10s. Gd., should be paid to
the widow. The coroner remarked that he supposed the
new Act, relative to master porters, would, when it came
into operation, require a person to be employed in super-
intend the loading and discharging of ships.
THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES OF AFRICA.—These ex-
traordinary specimens of the human race are still to be
seen at 82, Bold-street. They have been visited by thou-
sands, and are still great objects of curiosity.
OTAWHAO, A MISSIONARY STATION ON TER WAIPA,
NEW ZEALAND.—On the formation of this mission sta-
tion, nine years ago, there was nut a single Chriatian.
native in the vicinity, and after the expiration of the first
year the station was removed to a distance of 150 miles;
but dive years ago it was again re-formed at Otawhao, anal.
in a few months about two hundred natives were gathered
into a congregation. They bui,t a chapel, which was
blown down dining a gale of wind; they then completed
the present commodious place of worship, which will
comfortably contain upwards of one thousand natives ; it
measures eighty-Biz feet by forty two. The ridge•pok, a
single tree stem, eighty-six feet in length, was dragged by
the natives from the woods, a distance of three miles;

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sad all the other timber was likewise conveyed by them
from a similar distance. The rafters are all detached,
and most of the woodwork is fastened together with flax ;
the sides are beautifully worked with fern stalks, tied to-
gether in cross• stitch with aka, a species of wild climber,
which gives to it a rich and finished appearance. The
entire design originated with the natives, who formed this
spacious building without rule or scale, and with no other
tools than their adzes. a few chisels, and a couple of saws.
After the erection of the framework, the season was so far
advanced, that, fearing they should not be able to com-
plete it in time, the Otawhao people requested a party of
one hundred Manngataritari natives to assist them in its
completion ; to whom they gave the entire sum that hod
been paid them by the Missionary Society, amounting in
value to about twenty-three pounds ; they also killed a
couple cif hundred pigs, that their friends might live w... 11
during the time devoted to their assistance. the windows
which are of a Gothic shape, and thirteen in number, were
fetched from Tauranga, on the coast—a distance of
seventy-five miles from Otawhao—by fourteen men, who
carried them on their backs, over mountains and through
forests, without-any payment whatever. The whole tribtr,
amounting to about 600 or 7CO natives, are now nearly
all Christianised.—Angas' Life and Scenes in Australia
and New Zealand.

RAIIIIITS.-1 war once informed that rabbits have a
dislike to treading upon newly turned-up soil—(says a
correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle)--I thought I
would give the thing a trial. Five rows of young cauli-
flower plants were put in where rabbits were known to
be; the plants were allowed to remain undisturbed for
the first two nights after they were placed ; on the third
morning a few plants were destroyed; cn the evening of-
that day the ground was disturbed with a Dutch hoe ;
the next morning when they were examined, all the planta
were safe ; the hoeing was continued for some time, until
the plants were well taken with the ground, and when
that is the case, they are seldom eaten by rabbits, nuless
they are very numerous and provisions short. The hoe-
ing may be done in a few minutes in the evening, aid,.
is a benefit to the pla.stir
besides keeping off the rabbits,