The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

Wheat .. ON.
Barley Qrs.
Malt Qrs.
Oats Qrs.
Bye
Beans Qrs.
Pease Qrs.
Shelled BarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads
Flour. .... Sacks
Ditto Brls.

270 I 80
S

Into Runcorn.—lreland and Coastwise.—Oats, 326 qrs.; Oat-

meal, 228 Ids ; flour, 40 sacks,

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Beans, qrs. ; Oats, 507 qrs. ; Flour,
brls. ; Oatmeal. 2 loads.—lreland. Wheat, 159 qrs. ; Bar-
ley, qr= ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 110 sacks r 5 brls.—
Coastwise. Wheat, 399 qrs. ; Malt, 8 qrs. ; Oats. 24 qrs. ;
Pease, qrs, ; Oatmeal, 10 loads ; Flour, 130 sacks 225
barrels.

Avera,re prices of Grain, for the week ending Juiy 22. 1941.
Wheat 545. 2d. I Barley 2gs.lod. I Oats 20s. 0,1. I Rye 375. 5d
Beans.. 30s. sd. I Pease.. 333. I Id.

Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat ps 1 Barley 28s 4d Oats Igs 4d. Rye 32s 6d
Beans.. 295. 4d. Pease.. 31s. gd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat 20s011 I Barley gs Od I Oats .. . 7s Od I Rye.. 10s. 6d.
Beans Ils6a I Pease.. es 6,1 Ind. Corn es Od Flour 12,04 d

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. Ss. od. I Parley.. 2s. Od. I Oats .. 2s. od. I Rye.. ts. 6d.
Beans 3s. ed I Pease 2s. Od. I Indian Corn Os. Od. I Flour 3s Od

Liverpool Averages, week ending July 25, 1843
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. l Beans. I Pease
39 43 10
545. Od. Os. Od. 16s. 10d. 355. Od

TRUE BREEDING.—Lord Chatham, ,vho was almost
as remarkable for his manners as for his eloquence and
public spirit, has defined good -breeding—" Benevolence
in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in the
little daily occurrences of life."—Sharp's Letters and
Essays.
EDUCATION THE BEST POOR LAW.—I believe that a
good education would be found the cheapest and best
system of poor laws : for in Ireland we all know that pre-
vention is better that cure; that it is far better to prevent
the mind from being contaminated. than to restore it from
its pollution ; and that it is infinitely better to prevent the
humbler classes from falling into want and destitution
through vice and improvidence, than to afford them succour
in the midst of their destitution.—Rev. D. Montgomery.
CROMWELL'S BONES.—Mr. Carlyle in his " Past and
Present " says:—Oliver Cromweliquitted his farming, and
undertook a Hercules' labour and lifelong wrestle. His
leitigeE, US I Utiklus
near Tyburn Turnpike, with his head on the gable of
Westminster Hall, and two centuries now of mixed cur-
sing and ridicule from all manner of men. His du-t lies
under the Edgeware road, near Tyburn turnpike, at this
hour. We believe there is no Tyburn turnpike now, but
the bones of Oliver rest beneath the mile-post on the
Park-side of the way, which serves as the Lord Protector's
tombstone.

BURNS, THE SCOTTISH POET.—The genius of Burns
resembled the pearl of Cleopatra, both in its worth and
in its fortune; the one was moulded by nature in secret,
beneath the depths of the ocean ; the other was produced
and perfected by the same hand, in equal obscurity, on
the banks of the Ayr. The former was suddenly brought
to light, and shone for a season on the forehead of im-
perial beauty; the latter, not less unexpectedly, emerged
from the shade, and dazzled and delighted an admiring
nation, in the keeping of a Scottish peasant. The fate of
both was the same ; each was wantonly dissolved in the
cup of pleasure, and quaffed by its possessor at one in-
temperate draught.—James Montgomery.

CHEERFULNESS IN WANT.—There iS much variety
even in creatures of the same kinds. See there are two
snails ; ore bath a house, the other wants it : yet both are
snails, and it it is a question whether case is the better;
that which bath a house hath more shelter, but that which
wants it bath more freedom ; the privilege of that cover
is but a burden ; you see, if it has but a stone to climb
over, with what stress it draws up that beneficial load ;
and if the passage proves straight. finds no entrance ;
whereas the empty snail makes no difference of way.
Surely it is always an ease, and sometimes a happiness, to
have nothing ; no man is so worthy of envy as he that
can be cheerful in want.—Bishop Hall.

An INFALLIBLE REMEDY.—Of the simplicity and su-
perstition of his honest piper, John Bruce, Sir Walter
Scott relates the following instance, in a letter to the
Duke of Buccleugh :—" The most extraordinary receipe
(for his severe illness, in 1819) was that of my Highly nd
piper, who spent a whole Sunday in selecting twelve
stones from twelve South-running streams, with the pur-
pose that I should sleep upon them and be whole. I
caused him to be told, that the receipe was infallible, but
that it was absolutely necessary to success, that the stones
should be wrapped up in the petticoat of a widow who had
never wished to marry again ; upon which the piper re-
nounced all hope of completing the charm."
LIBERALITY.—" I know this, if a feller talks very
liberal in politics, put him into office, and see what a
tyrant he'll make. If he talks very liberal in religion, it's
because he hante got none at all. If he talks very liberal
to the poor, talk is all the poor will ever get out of him.
If he talks very liberal about corn-law, it ante to feed the
lumpy but to lower wages; and so on in everything
a'most. None is so liberal as those as hante got nothinu.
The most liberal feller I know on is ' Old Scratch' him.
self. If ever the liberals come in they should make him
prime minister. He is very liberal in religion and would
jine them in excludin' the Bible from common schools I
know. He is very liberal about the criminal code, for he
can't bear to see criminals punished. He is very liberal
in politics, for he don't approbate restraint, and likes to
let every critter 'go to the devil his own way. Oh, he
should be head spy and prime minister that feller. Sam
Slick in England.
A DOLLAR A DAY AND FOUND.—We cant' keep our
hands off a story told by Col. Greene, in a late number
of the Boston Post. It is told of a gentleman residing in
the vicinity of that city, who needed some assistance in
cultivating his garden. Seeing a good-looking Irishman
passing his gate, he accosted him with the inquiry if he
" would like a job" ? " Shure, sir, and it 's that same
I'm looking afther," said Paddy in a rich brogue, which
won upon the heart of him by whom he was addressed,
and who immediately replied, " I shall want you four days
—w
whssotn'good' Why, sir," returned
bit away from this,
wagesar Erin, do you
asa
livefor
a?
and my going home for males will bother me day's work,
while an exthra mouth at yer honour's kitchen table is
nothin' at all, I'll just come for a dollar a-day, and you
shall find me ! " This was agreed to ; and as Pat had
his rent to pay the next day, and wanted something for
the childers, the gentleman paid him four dollars on the
spot, and the work was to commence the next day. The
next day, however, and the next, and then the whole four
day s passed by, arid Pat was never seen at the garden or
the gate! It might have been a month after the occur-
rence above related took place, when, the parties meeting
by accident in the street, Pat was accosted by his former
employer, in an angry tone, with—" Well, sir ! and why
the devil did you not conic to work for me, according to
your agreement?" " Shun., sir," said the Irishman,
(with a respectful twitch at the rim of his wellworn tile,)
" it's meself that was ready to do my part of the bargain;
but yer honour 'a at fault this time, any how." Any!
I,r.ty how ? " a,ked the other. " It's yours 11 'ill riot
deny yer honour agreed to give me a dollar a dau anfi
find me " And didn't I give you a dollar a day, am
pay y. u beforehar,d, too ? " " Thrue for you ; yer ho
'tour did that carne—ye did give me the dollar a day—bu
ye didn't find ne ! " " Find you, you scoundrel !
ransacked every street in town ; but where the devil were
you ? " " Shoot ng at Muddy Pond Woods, yer ho
nour I" The gentleman gave Pat a dollar, and told bin,
to calf at the garden when he wanted to work—but to be
sure to find himself :—New Orleans Picayune.