The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

58 i 83,0
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Oatmeal .. Loads

Flour
Ditto

3251 I 368

mg
663 2845
17;8 9335

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— qrs. ; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease
qrs. ; Oats, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal,
sacks ; Flour, 6 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 223 qrs. ; Bar.
ley, qrs.; Beans, qrs ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 3371
qrs. ; Oatmeal, 33 sks ; Flour, 269 scks 3988 brls. —Coastwise
Wheat, 256 qrs. ; Barley, -- qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, St

I, Average prices of Grain, for the week ending
Wheat 598. 3d. j Barley 425. lid. I Oats 255.10 d.
4d. j Pease.. 495. Od

Wheat

Aggregat

Nov. 21

Beans 2sOci I Pc

Rye 425. 7d

3arley 425. Ott. ) Oat
tns.. 465. 2ti. Pe

ss._6d. 1 Rye 40

2s cd j Ind. Corn Os Od I Fic

Duty on British Colonial.
Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Is. ed. I Oats, Is. od. I Rye... Is. O
Beans.. Is. Od. I Pease.. Is. Od. I Flour. 40. cwt.
Liverpool Averages, week ending Nov. 24, 1846.
Wheat, 384 qrs., price 56F. 7d; Barley, qrs., price os. Od
Oats, 14 qrs., price 30s. Id. ; Rye, qrs., price Os. ed,
Beans, qrs.. Os. Od.;; Pease, qrs., price Os. Od.

Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending Nov. 26.
Foreign.—Wheat, 2113 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ;
qrs. ; Oats, g qrs ; Rye, qrs. ; Bear
qrs.; Indian Corn, 18125 qrs
barrels

Oatmeal,

--
loads ; Flour, 8244

Colonial.—Wheat, 681 qrs.; Barley, 350 qrs.; Pease, 610 qrs
Oatmeal, 160 cwt ; Flour, 4143 brls.

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VARIETIES

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there is only one person of one hundred years of age.
The following account of the termination of a duel is
aken from an ]rich paper of last month :—" We regret
to say that the unfortunate gentleman was shot through
the chest : his antagonist fired in the air." Who shot

the wounded man ?
Music of NATURE.—Gardiner, in his Music of Na-
ture, has put into notes the songs of twenty-four birds
and twenty animals. Also about twenty expressions of
human passion and feeling, and tones of eight or ten in-
sects. The gnat gives the note A on the second space.
The death-watch calls in B fiat, and an answer in G.
The three notes of the cricket are in B. The buzz of a
beehive is in F. The wings of the house-fly are 14' in the
first space. The humble-bee is an octave lower. The
cock-chafer is F below the line.
OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S-DAY.—Mr. Raikes, in
his just published Life of Sir Jahleel Brenton, mentions
that when in Paris, in 1833, the King of the French made
an appointment with Sir Jahleel to see him on Sunday.
Sir Jahleel returned for answer that it was with great re-
gret that he could not obey the summons of his Majesty,
as that day he regard( d as sacred, and always devoted it to
other objects. Louis-Philippe returned for answer that
he appreciated the motive for declining his invitation, and
made an appointment for a week-day.
CAUSE OF MR. ROEBUCK'S FAILURES AS A SPEAKER.
As he is an intemperate man, liable to be drawn by tha
slightest interruption away from his main theme into per-
sonal altercation, he is still more open to the risk of not
being able to preserve that self-possession which is abso-
lutely te--,essary to an accomplished orator. An almost
necessary eon-equence of this reliance on resources which
are not always at command is, that Mr. Roebuck, how-
ever well informed he may be upon a subject, or however
strongly he may feel upon it, is just as likely to break
down as to achieve a success. We have known him to
rise at the most critical and exciting period of a great de-
bate, when he has intruded himself on the attention of
the House, to the displacement of the heads of either
party, when there was, perhaps, a general feeling that he
was presuming too much thus to stand in the way of a
political manifesto or of a division. But still an indul-
gence had been extended to him because of his original
position. He has availed himself of the opportunity thus
afforded him to commence a speech, in which he has,
perhps,n dashed with a bold and vigorous hand into the
very core of the subject, holding the real question at issue
np, for the first time, to the attention of his audience,
cleared of all the fallacies infused into it by previous
speakers. To all appearance he is carrying the House
with him. Repeated cheers hail his terse and well-
pointed propositions, and his presumption is forgotten in
the able exposition he makes of his case. But, suddenly,
he says something which provokes an ironical cheer, or a
sneer, from some opponent. This stings his amour
propre, and off lie starts, on the instant, into personality,
sometimes uttering, without adequate provocation, un-
endurable insults and aspersions on character. From
that moment his speech, so auspiciously commenced, be-
comes a failure. His infirmity of temper once touched,
he becomes an altered man. There is no longer vigour,
sense, argument, or even coherency, in what he pours
forth. Yet he has not the discretion to stop, but makes
a long, rambling speech, full of feeble repetitions of what
he has so forcibly put, or of offensive personalities, or
outrageous defiance of the growing disapprobation of his
hearers, until, at last, he fairly tires out their patience,
and his display, which, at his commencement, had
brought him honour and respect, ends by his being co-
vered with ridicule and contempt.—Fraser's Contem-
porary Orators.
LIVERPOOL.—i am not acquainted with any seaport
more worthy of being denominated a city than Liverpool,
London alone excepted, for the ancient city of Bristol,
the once celebrated " Queen of the West," and the
second city in England, has long since fallen into con-
tempt ; and though its port is a noble and safe one, still
its inhabitants have so befooled themselves, or allowed
their authorities to do it for them, that their trade has
been driven away, and the enterprising merchant, rather
than be fettered by and mulcted in dock dues and harbour
rates, and a variety of other vexatious and iniquitous
imposts, which the old, oppressive, selfish, and execrable
corporation managed to decree, have patronised Lives,
pool, and made that which was a very few years ago a
mere simple fishing village, the present great, powerful,
and increasing town. No one can visit Liverpool without,
at a glance during an hour's ramble through its busy and
magnificent streets, being fully convinced that British
enterprise is, above all' things, that which is most
ent tled to wonder and admiration. The skill, the
energy, the wealth, which is there so constantly visi-
ble,—the vast riches that have accumulated and are
accumulating,—the splendid edifices which it contains,
devoted to religion, benevolence, science, commerce,
&c.,—the beautiful gardens, rides, and promenades, for
the enjoyment of the living, and the chaste, classic, and
soul-inspiriting shades for the repose of the dead,—the
host of merchant princes which it boasts, and the noble
mansions which they inhabit,—the immense expenditure
that has been devoted to the docks, and the forest of roasts
that fill them,—the daily and hourly arrival of ships from
every quarter of the globe, from which articles of neces-
sity, taste, and luxury can be derived,—the sailing of ves-
sels to every point of the compass to which the produce of
British skill, labour, and excellence can be wafted,—the
flotilla of steamers that have annihilated space and brought
the whole coasts of Great Britain within its grasp and in-
fluence, and then those quays loaded with their dense and
lofty piles of merchandise, the concentration of the world's
treasures, throwing into the most abject contempt all the
accounts of the greatness of former places,—their com-
mercial character, general intellect, and capabilities, con-
vincing mankind that the thews, sinews, mind, and deter-
mination of Englishmen are of more real value than the
safe and positive possession of all the mines of Golcon",a,
or the riches of ancient Ormus. —Memoirs of Paul Swan-
ston, p. 422.
THE " EMIGRANTS' LARK."—Two emigrants, a man
and his wife, sailed from the Tower in the year 1834 on
beard a vessel bound for Quebec. A bird-catcher had
promised to give the industrious pair, for a companion in
their exile, a singing lark. The emigrants, however, had
departed. and the bird-catcher had not kept his word.
But the latter arrived with the gift at the Tower, a few
hours after the ship had sailed, and he made his way as
fast as possible to Gravesend. He overtook the ship,
handed the bird from the gangway, shook hands with his
frknds, who christened the lark " Charley," for the
os'ier's sake, In the gulf of St. Lawrence the vessel
was wrecked, and all the property on board lost except
" Charley," with whom—but with nothing in the world
besides—the emigrants landed in Canada. They settled
in Toronto, where the man, by name Patterson. gained a
subsistence as a journeyman shoemaker. Outside the
window of his small house a lark's cage was daily
hung, and from its wiry front there issued notes
that did much honour to the little throat that poured
them forth. Passengers stopped, spell-bound, to listen
to the English warbler; all men waited to listen, from the
loyal governor to the most irreclaimable reformer. Three
times was Patterson offered 100 dollars for the melodist,
three times did he refuse the bribe. An old farmer offered
100 acres of land for him. A poor Sussex carter offered
all he possessed in the world—his horse and cart. Patter-
s,n was immovable. Ile would not sell Charley. One
morning, three years after
_he had quitted England, tl

owner of the bird was accidentally sliot dead. The widow
was ruined. She sold the pretty singer, and the governor,
Francis Head, became the purchaser. Three months did
Charley hang in the conservatory of government-house,
but not once did he open his mouth there. Either he
mourned his master, or he was unhappy away from the
smell of cob6ler's wax. Leaving Canada, the governor
presented the bird to Daniel Orris, a faithful loyal man,
whose station in life was about equal to that of poor Patter-
son. Lo!—a wonder!—suspended again outside a humble
dwelling, the bird began to sing as exquisitely as enc.