The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

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Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, new,issued at dis
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby
Ditto One-eighth Shares
Bristol and Gloucester ......
Chester and Holyhead
Caledonian
Dublih and Belfast
Dublin and Cashel
Dover, new..
old
Eastern Counties
Created at £l6 13s. 4d.
Perpetual
Eastern Counties, Registered
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Qr.
Ditto Leith, &c. prcfere! ce .
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock
New

Ditto 6 per cent. interest
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire
Greenock, preference
,rand Junction
Ditto half shares
Quarter
One-eighth
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England
Holyhead
Hull and Selby (paid up)
Leicester and Swannington
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto three-quarter shares
Ditto and Carlisle
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto half shares
Ditto new
l.ondon and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto shares
London & Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western
Ditto, I nth shares
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester, Bolton, C. Bury
Manchester and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Manchester and Leeds
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Ditto quarter shares ...
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
.sth Shares
Korth Midland
Ditto new
Ditto 433 6s 8d
worth Union
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter shams
Newcastle and Darlington Junej
Preston and Wyre
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Lyons
Lyons and Avignon
Runcorn Gap
Boulogne and Amiens
Rouen and Havre
Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter
South Eastern and Dover
New shares
South Western
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Shrewsbury and Grand Junction.
Scarborough
Toeurs and Bourdeaux ..
Trent Valley..
Ulster
Fork and N rth Midland..
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Bank of Liverpool
Borough Bank
Commercial of Liverpool
East of England
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North and South Wales....
Royal of Liverpool
South Lancashire .
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Liverpool Banking Co
Wilts and Dorset..
Exchange Buildings
L'pool aria Harrington Water
Works
Bootle Ditto
I.'pool New Gas R Coke Co.
L'pool Gas Light Company
Ditto new shares.
Liverpool Marine Asstirance..
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
M'chester Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company
Harrington Docks
Andertonearrying Company
Rock Ferry
Steam Tug Company

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China
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Malta. Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Cons',litinople
Malaga . .
Madeira
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FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning week, Mr.
James Stanbury, grocer, of Bristol, went out for a stroll
on Clifton Down, and incautiously ventured too close to
the edge of the St. Vincent's rocks to look at the steam-
ers. He i believed to have lost his balaece, and fell over
the fearful precipice 1 'When taken up he was quite dead,
ani frigh,fally injured.
A STRONG ARGUMENT.—The late Dr. Mason once
said to an infidel who was scoffing at Christianity, because
of the misconduct of its professors—" Did you ever know -
an uproar to be made because an infidel went astray from
the path of morality ?" The infidel admitted that he did
not. "Then don't you see (said Dr. Mason) that by ex-
pecting the professors of Christianity to be holy, you ad-
mit it to be a holy religion, and thus pay it the highest
compliment in your power ?" The young man was silent.
THE HARVEST Moo:sr.—. As there is an erroneous
opinion prevailing amongst many persons unacquainted
with astronomy, who are in the habit of denominating
that the harvest moon which occurs at the time of harvest,
g may not prove
ulentatcheaetpttplepetr
to when
such oi moauyr,rtehaedeforsll. Towinho moon, during
the week in which she is full, about the time of harvest,
rises sooner after sun-setting, and with less difference
between the times of two successive risings than she does
in; any other full-moon week in the year. By these
means she affords an almost immediate supply of light
after sun-set, which is very beneficial for gathering in the
harvest and fruits of the earth; hence this full moon is
distinguished from all others in the year by the appellation
of the harvest-moon. To conceive the reason of this, it
may first be considered that the moon is always opposite
to the sun when she is full ; that she is full in the signs
Pisces and Aries in our harvest months, those being the
signs opposite to Virgo Libra, the slim occupied by the
sun in that season ; and that those parts of the ecliptic
(in which the moon then is) rise from the horizon in
northern latitudes in a smaller angle, and, of course,
equal spaces, in shorter intervals of time than any other
points, as may be easily shorn by the celestial globe;
consequently, since the moon's orbit deviates not much
from the ecliptic, she rises with less difference of time,
and more immediately after sun set about harvest than
when she is full at other seasons of the year. The sun
enters Libra on September 23, and the full moon which is
nearest that day is, properly sneaking, the harvest moon.
CHINESE METHOD OF INSPIRITINGTROOPS.—Watch
with the greatest vigilance that no one spreads false
reports; cut up all complaints and murmurs by the rooti:
do not allow any one to draw evil omens from any extra-
ordinary occurrence : love your troops, and procure them
' every assistance, every henefit, every convenience which
they may stand in need of. If they undergo severe fa-
tigue, it- is not because they take pleasure in rt: if they
endure hunger, it is not because they are indifferent to
food : if they expose themselves to death, itis not because
they do not love life. When you have disposed of every
thing in your army, and all your orders have been given,
if it should happen that your troops stationed carelessly
betray signs of grief--if they go so. far even as to shed
tears—draw them quickly from their lethargy, give them
banquets,. make them bear the sound of the drum and
other military instruments, exercise them, make them
perform their evolutions, change their situations, even lead
them into difficult countries, where they will haire to
work and to suffer. Imitate the conduct of Tcbouan-
tchou and Tsau-kouei : you will change your soldiers'
hearts; you will accustom them to labour—they will
grow hardened in it—nothing will seem hard to them
in future. Quadrupeds wince when they are too much
loaded they become useless when they are over-urged.
Birds, on the contrary, must be forced to be any service.
Men hold a medium between both : they must be loaded,
but not overwhelmed ; they may even be forced, but with
discretion and moderation. If you wish to derive full ad-
vantage from your army—if you wish it to be invincible,make it resemble the Chouai-jen. The ChotTi-jen is a
long serpent that is fonnd upon the mountain of Tehang.
chat). If you strike the serpent on the head, its tail leaps
to its assistance, and bends itself towards the head ; strike
it on the tail, the head instantly flies to its defence : strike
it in the middle, or on some part of its body, its bead and
its tail immediately are found united at the point attacked.
But can that be practised_ by an army, you will ask?
,Yes, it can; it ought, and,it mint.—From the"Artof
i War," its Captain Piddiny s Chinese Olio and Tea Talk.