The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

SHARES,

RAILWAYS.
floltoii and Bury
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, new, issued at dis. j
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter

Birmingham and Derby
Ditto One-eighth Shares
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Wrexham
Caledonian
Dublih and Belfast .......
Dublin and Cashel .....
Dover. new..
01d...
Eastern Counties
Created at £l6 13s. 4d. .

Perpetual
Eastern Coanties, Registered
dinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Qr..... ..

Ditto Leith, &c. praerer.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 iVestern
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 quarter shares ..

Ditto new
London and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto shares
London tc Brighton

Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western
Ditto. toth shares
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and
Ditto quarter
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter slim es ...
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
i-Sth Shares
Norch Midland
Ditto new
Ditto ,613 6s 8d
North Union
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter slim, s
Newcastle and Darlington June.
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
Sonth Western

Ditto shares
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction.
Scarborough
Tceurs and Bourdeaux
Trent Valley
Ulster
York and London
Half Shares
Bank of Liverpool
- Borough Bank
- Commercial of Liverpool
- East of England
- M'clrester & L'pool Dsct
- Northern and Central
••••NulLb 41141 &tab Wales
- Royal of Liverpool
- South Lancashire
- Liverpool Union
- Liverpool Banking Co
- Wilts and Dorset
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Water }
Works
Bootle Ditto
I,'pool New Gas & Coke Co.
L'tiool Gas Light Company
Ditto new shares.
Liverpool Marine Assurance.. s,
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
Wehester Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company
Harringto❑ Docks
AndertonCarrying Company
Kock Ferry
Steam To; Company

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50
10
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13s 4d

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TIIE ORIGIN OR FOGS.—The very common but mi.-
t dten idea, that the fog which we see of on evening bang-
ing over low meadows, and by the sides of streams, is r s-
coting, arises very naturally from our first observing t
in low places, and as the cool of the evening advances,
marking that it ascends to higher land : the fact is, how-
ever, not that the damp is ascending, but that from the
coldness of those situations they are the first places which
condense the before invisible vapour, and as the cold of
the evening advances, this conden±ation takes place at a
higher level. A large portion of the vapour ascends to
the upper regions of the atmosphere, where it cools, and
becomes visible to us in the form of clouds; and increas-
ing in density by cooling, they gradually descend nearer
to the earth, until at last becoming too condensed by the
loss of heat, they fall in rain, to be again returned in end-
less succession.—Scientific Phenomena.

LONDON ROAD.—The following auction announce-
ment, dated 1776, will show the state of this road at the
close of the last century, " To be Sold by Auction, at Ec-
cleston's Mill House, near Low-hill, on Wednesday, Aug.
7, at five a.m. The present prime crop of early white oats
growing on a close of land belonging to the Water Works
at: Low-hill near Liverpool." An old lady lately living,
stated that she could recollect afield being between Lime-
s'reet and Seymour-street, which was surrounded by a
deep trench, probably dug by Prince Rupert's soldiers
during the siege. Prince Rupert's trenches were disco,
vered in 1805. They were thus described at the time.
‘• They are situated about twenty yards from the present
London-road, opposite the end of St. Anne-street, on the
east side of the road (Seymour-street) recently cut lead-
ing to Rodney-street. Here the rock has been widely
excavated and filled up again with loose earth. Other
traces are discernible in a field above, as well as on the
other side of a lane nearer the town at the top of a new
street now planned, to be called Gloucester-street, and at
the commencement of an intended street to be denomi-
nated Silver-street, all just below the Copperas Works,
and on the site of the old mill, blown down in the year
1795. There has likewise been traced, and may now be
seen as the workmen are removing the earth, the situation
or the Fort or Battery ; in the trenches have been found
broken glass, bones, the remains of a wall, and leaden
balls. The lower trenches were discovered about sixty
years ego, when the foundation of the Infirmary was dug,
and in them Guard•de•vin bottles, and cartouche boxes,
were found as left by the besiegers ; at the upper end, a
high mound was raised, probably the remains of a battery.
In the trenches, tradition says, the bodies of the rebels,
executed in 1745, were buried."—Lacey's Handbook.
A HINT FOR TILE LADIES.—Look here—twenty-seven
a lvertisements from persons wanting pupils. The greatest
drug in the advertiing world is education. We are too
clever by half now-a-days; everybody, in their own opi-
nion, can teach anybody. Here's a lot of knowledge for
twenty guineas a-year, extras included. French, Ger-
man, washing, board, lodging, tousle, drawing, calisthers: a
—what's that ?—geometry, arithmetic, and the use of the
globes ? Why, it's dog cheap: too much by half for the
money. Old Peachem, in The Beggar's Opera, who
wondered how any man alive should rear a daughter, must,
with respect, have been a fool; when daughters can be in-
structed in everything for nothing, we wonder who
wouldn't rear scores of daughters, if he could get them off
his hands. But there's the difficulty ; for when a man
comes to choose a wife in this work-day world, his object,
in nine cases out of ten, is to get a woman who will strive
to make a shilling do duty for eighteenpence, who will at-
tend to her household, watch over her family, and not be
above doing her duty ; and we think we can see in these
multifarious accomplishments of the present day, and the
necessary neglect of that, solid practical education which
gives woman a position of utility. the reason why daugh-
ters now-a-clays are stock, slow of sale, and apt to hang
heavily on hand. Who on earth, unless he be a fool, or a
man of fortune, can abide to sit down to an ill-dressed
dinner, in a slatternly house, with the better relish for his
victuals from a knowledge that his " lady," at a five•and-
twenty pound boarding-school, has acquired an inappre-
ciable quantity of French, Italian, German, calisthenics
(which, I suppose, is some other outlandish lingo), geo-
metry, or globes? Pickling, prwerving, cooking, making
and repairing her children's dresses and her own, and a
- ,tV.tigs a
knowledge of the use and economy of montrite-,,
marrying man can understand and aptisei: jlll4rlk..,llY
if he is under the necessity, as mostrflte ittei.:rxeea.kng
his own bread ; and this, I think, islgleneenn.khat-ittn.-
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dry friends of ours, despising boardieePts • '. ' 140161 OE4_ t...)‹
. ments, airs, and graces, have gone P t ...9,4k1e tolpit4-. A'llf
and brought up wives v, Ito had learned Ztcfp)itelialltitf 4
their respectable mother the art of prwelding Ov•gp, -,.. •,,
fortable home," and who, to their sicediObel,Zp4 •• ,>•
• don't know the ditiereece between to 'las. .
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ceuld distinguish calisthenics frolle R• 4 t.: Or
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