The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET

child that Moved my knocker. Take, for instant..,
accursed tax-collector ; he would have given a 5nea..,.,,
shambling sort of a knock, which would have made th
knocker say, as plain as if it had a tongue, "Not at home,
and I should have been on my guard, and dodged hin
Then the postman, what a jolly bang he used to give !
first one blow and then another, as much as to say,
then letters ! —don't keep us waiting." Who ever miE
took a postman's knock ?—who now never mistook a post
man's ring ? Servants and mechanics understood place!
and never exceeded a single knock. The footman mine
a succession of rat-tat-tats ! that said "My lady's at th
door in the carriage." The half-gentleman always betraye
himself by commencing with an effort at a well-bred an
self-assured summons of two strokes, which invariably
died away in a timid, feeble rattle, as if the knocker fell
from his hand by accident, and so you had no difficulty in
knowing your man, and desiring yourself to be denied to
him. But, above all, your friends were sure to be known
by their knocks. Every one in the world has a Peculiar
distinctive mode of performing on a door, as he has a pe-
culiar voice, or cough, or whistle; and after a little time
people become acquainted with it. 'What was more com-
mon, I appeal to every one's experience, than to hear the
remark, " There's my husband"—or, " There '6 Tom," or
"Billy ; I know his knock ?" But who, pray, would yen
tune to assert—" Bless my heart, that's my wife come
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Tallow, business limited. Stock, 29,012 casks, against
33,605 casks same time last year. Deliveries, 2,2lB,casks,
against 2,277 casks same time last year.

GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.
Market very quiet. Closed sellers, 695. 3d.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.
Bast Lancashire, 17 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 701 1 ;
London and North-western, 981 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 211 ; Midland, 67i 1; Bank of Manchester, 2.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 70.

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT,

London, wind N.N.E., fine, cold ; Yarmouth, E.N.E., rain ;
Manchester, Bristol, E.. Hague, N. frosty; Plymouth,
Taunton, E., Lancaster, Clie,terfield, Nottingham, N., Glou-
cester, Poole, N.E., Wakefield, N.W., fine; Dover, E., Car-
lisle, N., Whitehaven, Maryport, Southampton, Portsmouth,
Cowes, Stamford, N.E., Ipswich, N.X.E., Leicester, Haver-
fordwest, N.W., cloudy.

A DELICATE SEARCH .—A young lady, "of most un-
doubted respectability," entered a store in this city and
asked to be shown some gaiter boots. A number were
shown to her, which she examined and tried on. While
the attention of the store-keeper was occupied with another
customer, several pairs of gaiters disappeared. The lady
concluding not to purchase, he was compelled to accuse
her of secreting his shoes. She denied it, and he insisted,
and proceeded to search, and found several pairs suspended
by hooks which were attached to the lady's garters. He
took from their hooks those belonging to him, and left
there several others, which had. no doubt been taken from
stores. She was allow to depart.-- St. Louis Herald.
THE ANDALUSIAN PEASANTRY.—The Andalusian
peasant is a model of temperance ; he eats very little meat,
and scarcely drinks any wine. After a hard day's labour,
instead of resorting to the glass or jug for refreshment an,
ie man, woman, or ref"

.axation, he tunes his guitar, an exercises his voice
.Might comes on, and the song begins. He and his com-
panions in toil form a circle, and at the head place the
orchestra, that is, the Spanish national instrument ; each
of the assembly sings a couplet, always to the same air;
sometimes they improvise, and if there be among them any

who can sing a romance (which is not uncommon,) he is
listened to with religious silence. The music of the national
romances, though melodious, is a recitative rather than a
song, and very much partakes of the style of performance
supposed to have been practised by the ancient jongleurs.
ENORMOUS FLIGHT OF WILD Fowl..—Just before four
o'clock, a waterspout, or what
,seemed to be one, was

reported ahead, at about nine or tel
hands remained admiring the him
dark appearance of the phenomenon
to the south._ _ But our wonder and

which i

misliment we

was not a waterspout, but a flight of wild ducks i
less myriads. The great mass, like a dark dc
situate at an immense altitud

rds the sea in a poin

perfect was the resemblance to
scale, that had we not been nea
Fhed the birds plainly, we she

the impression that we

After this many flight;
s, and starlings passed over the ships, all goi
Routh, and some covering the sky like black cl
none flying in the extraordinary and remark:lbl
I hoYe notged.--ketterfront the Euxines