The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.--THIS DAY.
The depressed state of the Corn trade in London has had
an effect upon the market here to-day, and we quote free Wheat
and Flour rather lower, with a dull sale; and bonded Flour,
with limited transactions, partially lost the advance made at
the close of the week.

Oats and Oatmeal steady, with a fair business, at the prices
of Tuesday last.

Indian Corn very little inquired for, and fully Is. per quay.
ter lower.

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A few days since, a bridegroom at Littleworth, Leices-
tershire, astonished the clergyman, by replying to the
question whether he would take the bride for his wedded
wife, that "he would if she would give him £20." The
bride was unable to comply with the condition, and would
have been compelled to return unmarried to her home, if
her brother had not paid the necessary sum to her affec-
tionate bridegroom, who then allowed the ceremony to
proceed.

FALL OF A SUPPOSED AEROLITE.-(By Dr. Fowler,
M.D., F.R.S.)—During a storm of rain, hail, thunder,
and lightning, which occurred about eight o'clock on Fri-
day, the Ist December, a servant girl in the wash house
of Mr. Atkins, painter, plumber, and glazier, Fisherton,
was scared by a loud crash as of a heavy body having
fallen , and been broken on the pavement of the yard ad-
joining. Owing to the darkness of the night, she could
not ascertain by what the crash had been produced, but
early on the following morning she found scattered about
the yard fragments as if of an iron-stone, the external
surfaces rounded and polished, the internal radiating to
.1, I many centrE

Some of the rounded prominences of the
stone have a blistered appearance, not unlike some speci-
mens of chalcedony. None of these fragments (of which
Mr. Atkins picked up one pound twelve ounces) had the
slightest influence on a magnetic needle. Numerous
other fragments reduced to powder were not collected,
but unfortunately swept away.—Salisbury Journal.
Hew TO EARN AN HONEST SHILLING.—One morning
during the late racing meeting at Worcester a gentleman
was riding up the course, when he was accosted by a

groom looking man, " Please, sir, your horse has got a
stone in his fut, I'll pick it out if you'll 'low me." Suit-
ing the action to the word, he caught up the animal's off
hind leg, and after a minute or two spent in working about
it, produced a tolerably sized pebble, observing as he
touched his apology for a hat, and kicked out his leg by
- adding grace to his remark, " There it is yer
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ionour, 'nuff-to have lamed for life an 'under

'unter.'' His Honour, completely imposed upon, pulling
out a shilling, bestowed it on the fellow with thanks for
his timely attention, and rode off. The whole transac-
tion had taken place in the immediate presence of half-
a-dozen of the groom and ostler fraternity then looking
at the race-horses taking their exercise, and it was quite
clear that the ingenious extractor of the stone had com-
menced the operation by picking it up from the course,
and only pretended to extract it from the .horse's hoof,

which was as free from stones as last year's snow. Amazed
at the successful effrontery of their brother, one of the
fraternity ejaculated, " Well, I,m blest, if this here aint
the rummest game as ever I seed'." "Is it, spooney ?"
ork. " L s-p0e..,0u you.s -bluisialickl, and so you
may: it ud be some time afore you idle rascals there ud

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