The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

SHARE MARKET.-LONDON.

Bristol and Gloucester, 36k, 35 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow. 59; Chester and Holyhead, 6; Great North of Eng-
land, 121 : London and Birmingham, 215 ; Great West-
ern. 137. 136; Midland. 105, 1061; South Eastern and
Dover, 421 ; York and North Midland, 110, 111, 112.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the royal
suite, arrived at the Paddington Station of the Great
Western Railway, by a special train, at a Quarter before
one o'clock yesterday, and immediately proceeded, in one
of the royal carriages and four to Buckingham Palace.

COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—The County
Palatine of which the sovereignty is in the Queen as Duke
of Lancaster, has an Equity-court of its own, which sits
alternately at Lancaster, Liverpool. and Preston, and
which, for some years past, if an Equity barrister had pre-
sided in it, would probably, from its comparative cheap-
ness and great local convenience to the suitors. have been
called upon to despatch a large portion of the business
which has been transmitted, at a vast expense, from those
populous manufacturing regions to London. The Vice-
Chancellorship of this Court having lately become vacant
by the death of Lord Granville Somerset, the Chancellor
of the Duchy, has availed himself of the opportunity for
endeavouring to make the jurisdiction practically usefu
to the wide circle it extends over, by selecting Mr. Twissl
a leading man of the Equity Bar, to he Vice-Chancellor
of the Court, and Councillor of the Duchy.

GENEROSITY OF CORNISH FISHERMEN.--In the
early part of last month the French sloop St. Louis. of
Cherbourg, Louis Basin, master, having been dismasted off
the Wolf Rock, was driven on shore near Por hleven,
where she became a total wreck. The few stores saved,
with the hull, were subsequently sold for payment of sal-
vage. Our object in reverting to this subject is to record
the praiseworthy and disinterested act of the salvos,
fishermen of Porthleven, who, after the sum awarded them
for their services had been paid to them, finding the
property belonged solely to the captain, and it was not
insured, generously took to Mr. Cudlip, merchant, the
full amount they had received, with the exception of 10
men's shares out of 103, but which was made up by other
persons, and requested him to present it in full to the cap-
tain, expressing their regret for his misfortune. The
poor Frenchman begged Mr. Cudlip gratefully to acknow-
ledge for him the generous act. We hope the example
set by these poor fishermen will be extensively followed,
and thus, in some measure, alleviate the miseries of ship.
wreck.— Western Luminary.

A CHANCELLORS ARRANGEMENT.—Lord Thurlow
upon the point of giving a clergyman a living, stated to
him, that he must desire he would continue the same cu-
rate who had been there in the time of his predecessor,
and whom he believed to be a deserving man. The cler-
gyman represented that his intended arrangements were
such that he could not do so. `• Very well," replied Lord
Thurlow, "as you will not take him for your curate, I
will make him the rector." And he did so.

THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A gentleman of the
Temple received his laundress's weekly account the other
day, made out in the style of spelling and hand-writing
peculiar to the sisters of the suds. But there was one
charge of one shilling and sixpence for "skewering the
stars!" which defied even his practised comprehension.
After wondering for some time how such a work could
have been performed, and still more wondering that it
should have been done particularly at his expense, the
debtor sent for Mrs. Pearlash, when the preceding proved
to be for " scouring the stairs !" Chambers's Journal.

EGYPTIAN ORIGIN or THE ARCH.—The researches
of modern travellers, particularly those of Sir Gardiner
Wilkinson, prove that the brick arch was known in Egypt
in the reign of Amenoiph 1, 1540 years 8.C., and the
stone arch in the time of Psameticus 11, 600 years B.C.
"The most remarkable," says Sir Gardiner Wilkinson,
"are the door-ways surrounding the tanks of Assasief,
which are composed of two or more concentric semicir-
cles of brick, as. well constructed as at the present day,
and all the bricks radiate to a common centre." Mr.
Hoskins is of opinion that arches were constructed long
anterior to the time of the Piolemies; for in the pyramids
of Gimbel Birkel and Dunkalie, which are of more ancient
date, both round and pointed stone arches were disco-
vered.

THE EMPEROR KANG-HE ON QUACKS..—It is difficult
to deceive us old men, because we have ourselves seen so
much. We meet with Tao-tsze (of the school of Lao-!sze
or Lao-kien) who boast with the utmost effrontery of
having a secret for the enjoyment of long and happy life.
Wait for some time, and you will see them undergo the
fate of other men ; their teeth fall out, t eir ha`.r whitens,
t' eir strength decreases from day to da . You may be
sure from this, that they who pretend to possess similar
secrets have no other intention than to cheat. Do real
spirits, do tree immortals condescend to descend upon
earth ? There are other impostors who keep themselves
standing for several successive years; and others who, in
the lower chambers, keep themselves for ever sitting.
But those who have learned to keep themselves erect
cannot remain seated a single moment, and those who
are always seated cannot keep themselves erect ; which
proves that their talent is pure quackery. I have often
tried them, and I know all their tricks. There are many
things which appear easy at the first glance, but vsh!ch
cease to be so at last. When they relate to me any facts
of a surprising nature, I say, in a few days I will see and
examine them. I ascended the throne at eight years old,
and during tie fifty years that I have managed the affairs
of the empire I have seen some of all sorts. Many quacks
have at first appeared to perform extraordinary feats; but
their sham( fat artifices have been discovered at last. I
do not trouble myself about publishing their impostures;
I wait till in the course of time they discover themselves.
In truth, there is no advantage in deceiving fora moment.
—Ckinese Olio.