The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

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The following lines are written in the visiting book at a
favourite fishing station in Derbyshire :
If fish refuse by day t o bite,
The fleas will make it up at night.

onrnonnArnY.—" John," said the schoolmaster, " you
will soon be ti num, and will have to do business. What. do
you suppose you will do when you have to write letters, un-
less you learn to spell better?"--" Oh, sir, I shall put easy
words in them."—Jamaica paper.
YANKEE Wpa.LEnisms.—" There's no place like home,"
as the loafer said when they put him into the watch-house for
the night. " See how soon you can be back again," as the
spider said to the fly, when he got. clear of his web. " Sun-
dries Dr. to cash," as the clerks said when they pocketed 100
dollars a piece, and .cleared out. " Don't move for me," as
the axe said to the chip.

' OLD `YELLER AND THE WIDOW ON THE RAILROAD.—:
" It was on the rail," said Mr. Weller, with strong em-
phasis ; " I wos a goin' down to Birmingham by the rail,
and I was locked up in a close carriage with a living widder.
Alone we wos ; the widder and me wos alone ; and I believe
it wos only because we mos alone, and there was no clergy-
man in the conwayance, that that 'ere widder didn't marry
me afore ye reached the half-way station. Ven I think how
she began a screamin' as we wos a goin' under them tunnels
in the dark—how she kept on a faintin' and ketchin' hold
o'me—and how I tried to bust open the door as was tight-
locked and prewented all escape—Ah! It was a awful thing,
most awful !"—Master Humphrey's Cluck.

4-)bipping Entelligenrc.

FRIDAY, MAY 29.

AltßlVED.—Douro, Stubbs, from St. Kitt's—Henrietta, Longford,
from New Orleans—Carl Auguste. Beilkc, from Danzic—Hopkin-
son, Stephenson, from Bombay—Denmark, Frost, from Charleston ;
sailed sth May—Oporto, Wilkie, from Faro Concordia. Strack-
holder, from Leer—Emily, Brock, from Calcutta ; left St. Helena
April—llibernia, Cobb, (sailed 12th May) ; Memphis, Nicholl,
(11th May), and Roscoe, Huttleston, from New York—Thomas,
Parry, from Cuba—and Adelaide, Davidson, from Mobile.

Hopkinson, Stephenson, from Bombay, at this port; sailed 4th
Feb. and from St. Helena 15th April. On 21st March. in lat. 32 S.
long. 26 E, spoke the Intrepid, from Calcutta for Berbice. On 22nd
March, in lat. 32 S, long. 23 E, spoke the Cornubia, from Bombay
for Liverpool
Imogen, Downes, from Calcutta, at this port : sailed 29th Jan.
and from St. Helena Bth April. On thq.Uth3larch, in lat. 31, long.
36 E, signalized the London, from Mauritius to London. and the
Ann, from China for London. The Ann telegraphed, by Marryat's
code, as follows: "64 days from China (20th January), those
vessels which had discharged cargoes, loaded Tea from foreigners ;
full ships were going to the nearest port." In reply to—" Have all
English vessels left China?"—" No."
Thomas Worthington, —, from Lima, at this port; sailed
26th Feb. has a freight of 260,000 dollars.
Clifton, Hill, from Hobart Town, at this port ; sailed 26th Jan.
On 2nd April, in lat. 20 40 S, long. 37 45 W, spoke the Eliza Kin-
caid, and Cornwall, both from Liverpool to Rio Janeiro. On 24th
April, in lat. 10 23 N, long. 34 W, spoke the Pearl, from Valparaiso
to Cadiz. On 18th May, in lat. 43, long. 17 30, spoke the Harriet,
hence to Baltimore. On 27th May, in lat. 51 26, long. 10, spoke the
Venezuela, (steamer) from Cork to Barbadoes

Eugine, Codet, hence at Havre
Dorothea, De Boer, hence at Texel
Copse, Louthean, hence, at Jamaica
Hostelina, Day, hence, at Cape Haytien.
Wanstead, Agnew, hence, at St. Thomas
Dove, Cobbe, and Kerswell, Glover, hence, at Barbados
Elizabeth, Midwinter, hence, at Grenada •
Albion, Dooley, and Wilsons, Campbell, hence, at Trinidad
Margaret, Jackson, hence, at Demerara
Vriendship, Klein, hence, at Zwolle
Augusta, De Jaghine, hence, at Ostend
Emily, Heroine, and Mary and Anne, from Valparaiso, at Iquique
Plumstead, Shnonds, from Valparaisa, at Acagetl►a, and loading
for lstappi
Brandon, from Guayaquil at ditto, and was loading for Mazatlan
troth February _

Hermes, Oliphant, hence, at Lima, and was to sail about the 7th
March for Iquique
Brilliant, Lefevre, hence, at Trinidad

Henry Bell, from London and this port, at Alexandretta
Helme Astrope, from Alexandretta, at Reiront

Palmyra, Gill: hence, at Malta, and sailed I 4th May for Alexandria
Rob Roy, Albanson, hence, at ditto

No. 292; Hibernia, A.S., from New York, was off Point Lynas at
8 a.m., with a pilot
The Sylphide, for St. Petersburgh, was run down yesterday off
the Floating Light, by the England, for Quebec ; crew saved. The
masts and sails, apparently attached to the hull, were passed by
the Actaon steamer at 6 last evening
Itetvotr. May 6.—The Lively, late Hicks, -from Liverpool to
Dordrecht. sprung a leak and sunk off the latter place
Bicanatants, 11Ay 28.—The Jane. Williamson, for Charente, is
afloat, and remains windbound in Friar's Roads