The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRIC

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Banbridge ...... 96 00 98 0
Waterford, new.• 96 0,-102 0
Colerain 94 0 .. 96 01
Carlow,
Limerick ......
Belfast 99 0 ..102 0
Derry
Cork, 2ds,
Newry.
Dundalk 0 .. 0
Sligo 93 0..102 0

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, OCT. 11.—Noon, Wind N.W.—Fair.
(High Water 11h 53m.)
ARRIVED—The Traveller, Pellott, from Paraiba—Sheffield, Allen,
from New York.

Corsair, Irwin; Victoria, M'Alpine ; and Arethusa, Whyte, hence,
at Barbados.
The Ocean, Briggs, hence,at New Orleans.
Victoria, Candler; and Martha, Greaton, hence, at Charleston.
Ganges, Jones, hence, at Virginia.
Colossus, Wiley ; Alleghany, Michaels ; North America; and Benj
Morgan, Snow, hence, at Philadelphia.
Platina, Bosworth ; and Colchis, Knight, hence, at Baltimore.
Rome, Davis ; and Nimrod, Patterson, hence, Boston.
Pennsylvania. Smith, 21st Sept. ; South America, Waterman, 21st ;
Carroll of Carrollton, Bird, 21st ; Oceanus, Prince, 22d ; Alfred, Chet-
ver, 22d ; and Michigan, Badger, hence, at New York.
Philadelphia, Morgan, from London at ditto.
Yazoo, Eldridge, from New Orleans at ditto.
Oxford, Minot, hence, at Portland.
Robert Watt, Dallemore, hence, at St. Andrew's.
Emerald, Campbell, hence, at St. John, N.B.
Lady Dunmore, Pentreath, hence, at Liverpool, N.S.
Sir Walter Scott, Young ; Bradshaw, Milroy ; Syllerie, M'Clelland ;
John and Robert, M'Kechnie ; Margaret, Weakner ; Ann, Cape ;
Anne Eliza and Jane, Newtrop ; Alcyne, Muir • Volum', Seaton,
hence, and Lockwoods, M'Kie, from New York, at Quebec.
Ellen German, Blundell, hence, at Leghorn.
Arethusa, Turner, hence, at Marseilles.

LONGEVITY.—Ann Mitcnell, a widow, died a few days ago,
at Bosham, near Chichester, at the age of 100 years. The old
lady retained her faculties to the last, and onlast Easter Sun-
day walked to church attired in the wedding gown in which she
had been married 80 years before.—Times.
The papers from the Windward Islands do not contain muck
of importance; the princiyal subject alluded to them is emigra
tier), not from Europe, but the several islands to British Guiana,
and it is expected to Trinidad and this island. The importation
of liberated Africans—the reduction of military garrisons in
some of the islands, as preparatory, no doubt, to a general

change in that department.
A dinner to Lord Brougham is getting up in Edinburgh.
A requisition has been signed by many hundreds of the citizens
and Liberals of all shades; and we understand that to-morrow
morning a deputation leaves Edinburgh for Brougham Hall,
to present the same to his Lordship. The deputation named
consists of Bailie Macfarlane, Mr. W. Tait, Mr. A. Millar,
(late) and Mr. A. Thompson (present) Master of the Merchant
Company.—Caledonian Mercury.
In the kitchen garden of Earl Stanhope, at Cbevening, in
Kent, is a muscadine vine, which was reared from a cutting 34
years ago by his present gardiner, Mr. George Fender. It now
extends over a space of 158 feet in length, and bears this year
2,040 bunches of grapes. Another vine of the same sort, and
planted at the same time, a short distance from it, is only of the
ordinary size.— Ti 17113-
EXAMPLE To Wivas.—There is something very manly (says
a Canadian :paper) about the following advertisement, pub-
lished lately in Portland by one of the fair sex :—" This is to
certify, that I, Elizabeth Wright, wife of George Wright, have
left his bed and board on account of his misconduct. I do,
therefore, give up all right and title to him for life, as I flatter
myself that I can take care of myself, Ls I have always done,
same and before marriage.
MAN AN ORGAN.—If I were to compare the human ma-
chine to a contrivance of art, I should choose for my foundation
a large organ, wherein the bellows answer to the animal circu-
lation, the pipes to the organs of sensation and reflection, and
the organist to the mind. But the organist here does not make
all the music, for the pipes are so contrived as to sound with
the striking of things external upon them, or by the mere
working of the bellows, which plays as it were by clock-work
without a blower.— Tucker's Light of Nature pursued.
CLIMATE OF THE CAPE.—In a recent letter from Sir John
Herschel, full of astronomical investigations, the learned phi-
losopher says—" You may form some idea of this climate, as
regards clearness of sky, from what was told me by our profes-
sional governor, Colonel Bell—viz., that out of 42 successive
days he had been only three times disappointed in finding Venus
with the naked eye in broad sunshine. At 9 p.m. I read with
ease, a few nights ago, the most involved parts of a lady's
closely-crossed letter by the light of an eclipsed moon, then near
the zenith."— Times.
SPINNERS' STRIKE.—We are happy to have to state, that the
dispute between the principal master spinners of Bolton, and
their journeymen spinners has been amicably adjusted. The
men requested 123/4 per cent. advance on the present prices for
spinning, and the masters have handsomely conceded 5 per
cent., and to abolish the payment for roving winding, which will
make a difference of about 73/4 per cent. in favour of the men.
We hope the workmen will duly appreciate the kindness of their
employers in the present instance, and that the most perfect
unanimity will be produced.—Bolton Chronicle.
The following curious experiment has been tried with success
on a mountain called Teufelsberg, near the village of Philipps
sthal, within the Prussian States. It became desirable to get
rid of a large rock, and in order to avoid the immense expense
of the ordinary means, it was resolved to try the effect of at-
mospheric electricity. To this end a deep bole was made in the
rock, and from it was raised a bar of iron 28 feet high. At the
first thunder-storm that ensued, the lightning was attracted by
the iron bar, conducted in the rock, which it shattered to pieces,
and•was afterwards easily carried away.—German paper.
GIN-DRINKING IN THE METRoPOLIS.--From the foot of
Pentonville-hill to King's-cross, a distance of about 10
ni 0 yardast
s,
there are three first-rate gin-palaces. On Sunday morng l
a gentleman took the trouble of ascertaining the numbers which
were "turned out" from each gin-shop at the hour of closing,
eleven o'clock. From the gin-shop known as the Maidenhead,
93, including women; from the White Hart, 76; and from the
Bell Tavern, at the foot of Pentonville-hill, 127 ! Out of the
296 thus vomited forth, 100 were quite drunk; another hundred
stupid; and the remaining 96 had scarcely sufficient brains left
to enable them to stagger home. What a sweet picture of " the
Age of Intellect !"—Standard. •
SEA ts.—The seal of the Begs of Moldavia and Wallachia,
on their decrees and letters, and the arms placed over the gates
of their palaces, churches, and peculiar, covenants, is simply a
bull's head, said to be in honour of St. Mark the Evangelist.
The seal of the Cral of the Poles, impressed on their battle-
axes, Sc.,, is an eagle with two heads ; and the seal of the Mus-•
covite Emperor is the same, said to be in honour of St. John
the Evangelist. The impression on the gold, iilver, and cop-
per coins, is, on one side, an eagle with two heads, and, on the
other, the Emperor riding on a horse, under the feet of which
is a kind of dragon, which the Emperor is sticking with a spear,
after the manner of St. George.—Mirror.
THE WOMEN OF THE LEGION.—The specimens of the British
"fair sex" brought over by the Legion, were certainly not cal-
culated to impress the Spaniards with high notions of our female
beauty, and their tattered appearance, with dirty straw bonnets
and blowsy mob-caps, was enough to astonish the trim senoras,
and put into their mouths the often repeated question, " Whe-
ther all women in England were like these ?"The tribes of
shoeless Moll Flaggons from the Green Isle, who came over
with our Irish regiments, are past all description, and the figure
they cut in the rear of a battalion on march, with a pyramid of
babes on their backs, and a couple trotting on each side, was
singularly. marvellous in the eyes of the natives, who at last
looked upon them as a regular and necessary adjunct to the
British Legion,.or as a supernumerary company of wives and
washerwomen to each regiment. How the numbers that came
up with the convoy contrived to subsist on the march, I never
could divine; for as their presence with the troops, at that pe-
riod, was contrary to orders, they were allowed not
ratio
of are nd
were totally without money, haying had no opportunity d-
ceiving any from their husbands fur the last six weeks. An
vet they trudged along through dust and mire, in fair weatherre
and in 'foul, for many a weary league, with light hearts amp red
cheeks, bidding defiance alike to the order of the Gaenter
d besets-,
the accumulating hardships of the road, until the
Weal pie," said Mr.
fLaecsiti
joonn.of passing the gates of Vittoria.—Twelve)Alhonths in the
PARTICULARS OF PIE-MAKING.— the
rgy
pie-
men Weller, soliloquising, as he arrangedt
hens)
on't they,
" Wery good thing is a weal pie,
• and alter all, though,
spiaNsly.Vspgbll oea.
5' tAn. n.aoahtunbe: ? ‘r:s.ia6st
‘ha,
sy s
hhee
That
ti nrisle anseovne
made it, and is quite sure it an' t,
the same
where's the odds, when they're
plied Mr. Weller, touchingr,
themselves don't knowinhtlisserkoni
using,dait frneel rhwgee ',ne eat: a‘el,lat
oN:ktd:nogi e:tet:vd; )ntnehy r re-
Sam?"said Mr. Pickwick,ii
house with a pieman
toonoce•lvake
-tane."'d. a wery nice man he was—
pies out anything he could_
reg'lar clever chap:
cats)hmou, keep, Mr. Broofts,' says I, when
Ah, says he, lido a good many,'
y must be wery fond o' cats, says I. Other
says he: ,
says he, a winkin at me; they an' tin season till the
beapairty to than
winter, thou h,
•. „ ' says I. No,'
r
fruits is in, cats is out.' Why, what do von mean?'
irk nation o' the butchers to keep up the price o' meat,' says
saga hie,
a-
he. ' Mr. Weller, says he, squeezing my hand wery hard, and
vispering in my ear—' don't mention this here agin, but it's the
seasonin' as does it. They're all made o' them noble animals,'
says he, a pointing to wery nice little tabby kitten, and I sea-
son 'em for beef steak, weal, or kidney 'cordin to the demand; and
more than that,' says he, I can make a weal a beef stake, or a
beef steak a kidney, or any onen
notice, just as the market eh ,
must have been a very ingeniousa n'ne
eos)a,oudm a mutton,na e
gp
mpatni
t
e at a
,tswary
at,r y v
sam
.7e He
said
•
Mr. Pickwick,
with a alight shudder.—Pickwick papers. I atts