The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YEsTEnnAy.

The weather continues most splendid for the growing Wheat,
but spring Corn would be henefitted by rain.
At this day's market, although the supply of English Wheat
was short, it met a dull sale at barely the currency of this day
week. In foreign only a retail business was transacted, and the
turn in price in favour of buyers. Indian Corn is., barrel 6d.
to is. deare. , and in good request.
Malting and distilling Barley without change. Grinding
rather higher. Malt, Peas, and Beans sell steadily at former
rates. Our arrivals of Oats being so limited, buyers had to
pay an advance of 6d. to Is. per quarter.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTEUDAY.
Beef trade steady, at an advance of quite 2d. per 8 lbs. over
Monday.
Sheep moved off at an advance of 2d. per 8 lbs.
• Calves at late rates. Little w•as doing in pigs.

A CHANCE FOR ASPIRANTS TO LITERARY
RENOWN.

The London Times contains the following announce-
ment, addressed to literary gentlemen, lecturers, &c. :
" A reviewer and classical scholar, of considerable experience,
the author of well reputed and successful works, on the parent-
age of which the seal of secresy is imposed but whose acknow-
ledged productions will furnish incontestible evidence of his
competence, undertakes the CRITICAL REVISION and COL-
LECTION of MANUSCRIPTS or will make the reputation of
a literary aspirant in any branch of the belles lettres, by
wholly executing the contemplated work"
After this revelation, as to the mode in which people
become authors by purchase, who would give a button
for a Literary Reputation ? For anything that the world
knows to the contrary, this very literary hack, whose
address is to his bootmaker, and who is perhaps at this
moment starving in some miserable attic, is the author of
works, on the credit of which noble lords and bon. gentle-
men are listened to with deference in the Senate, and
countesses and untitled blue-stockings are lionized in
their various corteries ? Verily the world is full of decep-
tion and false pretences.

On Saturday afternoon, the soldier, Michael Stokes,
was executed at York, for the murder of Mary Garrad,
wife of one of his comrades in Leeds barracks.

All our readers who have not seen the Antiphonel,
should lose no time in paying a visit to our enterprising
friend Mr. Jas. Smith, of Lord-street, where they will have
an opportunity of witnessing the extraordinary perform-
ances of this wonderful piece of mechanism.
COMMITMENTS AT THE POLICE COURT YESTERDAY.—
Bridget Sweeny, charged by E. Spencer with stealing
wearing apparel, was committed for two months. William
Harper, charged by William Smith with breaking into
his stable a fortnight ago, and abstracting several articles,
—three months.

ASSAULTS ON POLICE-OFFICERS.—At the police-court
yesterday, a respectably-dressed man, named Birtenshaw,
(who was out on bail) and a rough youth, named Peter
Armstrong, who was in the dock, were charged by two
police-officers, the first with his obstructing them in the
performance of their duty in taking some parties into
custody, during a street row, and the other for violent
conduct and assault upon the complainants. The first
prisoner, who was also charged with being drunk, denied
both charges, and said he had done nothing but endeavour
to induce the officers from violently maltreating the other
prisoner. The evidence, however, was too strong on the
other side, and it appeared that the boy had severely
assaulted the officers. The elder prisoner was required
to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, or ten days, and the youth
to pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two months.—
Another prisoner was sent for trial at the Sessions, for a
violent attack, on Saturday night, on a police-officer.—
Four men, John Jones, Robert Jones, James Warburton,
and James Gudgeon, were each fined £5 for a violent
street disturbance in Warwick-street, and throwing bricks
and stones at the officers who were endeavouring to ap-
prehend some of the aggressors. One of the officers was
so severely hurt that he had since been unable to attend
to his duties.—Another man, named Daniel Peacock, was
remanded for violence to the officers in the streets, and
for having nearly bitten off the end of the thumb of
police-officer 443.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The mercantile articles
in the daily press usually commence with—" We have re-
ceived papers from Paris." Since the suspension of cash
payments, it is useless to expect anything else.—Punch.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PARIS PENNY-A-LINER.—
In a budget of small news forwarded to us by a Parisian
" penny-a-liner," the " liner" gives the following curious
account of himself:—" This day (26th April) 16 years
ago I commenced the profession of news collector. Dur-
ing all this period I have never been unwell a single day,
and, except on the four great yearly fgles,l have never
failed to write and distribute my correspondence to the
journals of Paris and the departments, The working year
leaving for me 360 days, I have, up to this date, laboured
5760 days for the daily press, and have made 5760 collec-
tions of news. On an average, each collection contained
20 facts or miscellaneous pieces of news. I have thus
made the world acquainted with 115,200 different pieces
of information. Every day, in order to collect and distri-
bute this news, I have walked 10 leagues on an average.
This amounts in a year to 3600 leagues, and in 16 years
to 57,600 leagues. The circumference of the globe being
nearly 9000 leagues, it results that I have walked in 16
years, in order to collect my 115,200 pieces of news, a dis-
tance equal to 6- times the circumference of the globe. I
declare, on my honour, that I have never had the least
touch of the gout, from which I conclude that the citizens
who should, like me, walk ten leagues a day, would not
suffer from it either. Lastly, my quintuple occupation of
traveller, observer, news-writer, printer, and distributor,
has brought me, on an average, 1800 f. (X 72) per annum,
without ever doing injury to any one, if not to the late
government, which I opposed to the utmost of my small
ability during 16 years all but two months, without truce
or relaxation. The editors of newspapers have thus been
the means of my gaining 28,800 f., of which sum there only
remains to me to-day 12f. 503. (103.), which will servo
me, I hope, to the end of the month."—The London
Telegraph.