The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
eat 48s. sd. I Barley 275. 7d. I Oats.. 17s. 7d. ! Rye.. 30
Beans.. 30s. I Id. Pease.. 335. 2d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
I Barley gs. Od. I I
Oats .. . Bs. Od. Rye.. Ios. 6d.
id. I Pease.. gs. 6d. Ind. Corn es. Od. Flour 126.00

Wheat 205.0

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
..ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.... 2s. 6d.
:s. 6d I Pease.. Is. Od. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s Cd
Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec. 20, 1842.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. I Pease,
715 —1 844
448. Od. Os. Cd. j 16s. 4d. lOs

od. I Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK.

Owing to yesterday being a holiday, our market opened
with a good inquiry for Cotton, and fully 3,500 bales have
been sold at the full prices of last week, and the market

closes with firmness.

He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man,
you may be sure is himself a knave.—Btshop Berkeley.
"I can't be beet," remarked a poor carrot to a sympa-
thising onion.

If you wish to avoid quarrelling, stop short, and do not
begin again until you have well considered the subject in
debate.

CURIOUS FACT.—After a hurricane which we witnessed
at the Mauritius, we found every river, brook, and pond in
the island to have a salt taste. We had observed also that
during the hurricane the rain which fell was salt.—Mag. of
Domestic Economy.

On the application of the Prince Regent to parliament for
a grant to pay off his debts, being talked of one evening in a
company, an old Scotch lady, whose ideas were all of a homely
character, exclaimed, " Debt ! how can he be in debt ?
doesna he get his meat at his fayther's ? "

A lady, who was formerly governess to some of the royal
family at St. Petersburgh, lately died in London, and left
amongst other relics, a curiously wrought mattress, com-
posed of genuine Russian leather and buckskin, and stuffed
with hair from the manes and tails of horses that perished at
Moscow, when Buonaparte and his army invaded Russia.

CHINESE PLUCK.—When we went along a certain street
in Nankin, says one of the curious letters of that city (of
which there will be a hundred accounts published within the
next two years.) the whole of the open shops at both sides
we:e occupied by persons picking out the feathers from edi-
ble birds' nests with pincers. " That," observed J----,
" was the greatest pluck they displayed on the conquest of
the province."

A JUDICIOUS LOVER.—The subjoined extract is literal
and verbatim, from a letter bearing the Wigan postmark,
picked up in one of the principal streets of Dewsbury. It
may induce the damsels both of Yorkshire and the neigh-
bouring counties to be chary of boasting to their swains that
they have other strings to their bow, or beaux to their
strings :—" Wigan, Sept. 24th, 1842.—Dear Elizabeth, I
ham Sorrie to ear that you are so unhesy in your Mind But
you say you have the Chance of 3 Men and I think you had
better take the Chance Not that I find aney fault with you
No far from it But I Dont think of Marrieing yet awhile
and there is an old Sweethart here of Mine and my affection
seems to warm up again Not that I ham thinking anay warse
of You But I think You had better think no more about me
but tak the other Perhaps the.), are better than I * * *
So fareweel and bless you is the wish of—Yours," &c.—
Leeds. Times.

RUSSIA AND SERVIA.—The National publishes an extract
from the Augsburg Gazette, stating that M. Boutenieff, the
Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, had announced to
the Divan, that unless Prince Michael was restored to the

government of Servia, he, M. de Boutenieff would quit Con-
stantinople, which fact was published exclusively in The
Times of Thursday last, and observes, that what is more
strange than the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas on the
occasion, is the position of the French Ambassador at Con-
stantinople. "It appears to us," says the National, " that
he ought to have seized the opportunity afforded by the hos-
tile declaration of Russia to recover our diminished influence
with the Porte. When the Divan, however, in its distress
appealed to the European power, M. de Bourqueney, taken
by surprise, was obliged to reply that he was without in-
structions on the subject, and should apply to his Cabinet.
Thus our foreign affairs are conducted with so much impro-
vidence that the eventuality of a rupture between Russia and
Turkey was not foreseen. The fact is sufficient to prove with
what intelligence and what skill M. Guizot directs his dip-
lomacy. The consequence will be, that before instructions
from Paris can reach M. de Bourqueney, the Porte will have
yielded to Russia, or taken 4sotte middle course to appease
her. At all events we shall arrive too late, and the opportu-
nity will have been lost."

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the meeting of
this society a few evenings since a letter was read from the
British Consul at Panama, containing some highly interest-
ing particulars regarding a communication being opened
across the Isthmus of Panama for an intercourse with
Australia, New Zealand, and China, the latter of which was
likely to be very important. There exists in the Isthmus a
tribe of Indians, who say that they can cross from one sea
to the other in the course of one day, who are described as
an industrious and harmless race, who do not like inter.
course with foreigners, although many of them can speak
the English language. The chairman read a letter from Sir
W. Parish, giving a description of a map of Pekin, given to
him by a relative who accompanied the expedition of Lord
Macartney into China, He had forwarded the map for pre-
sentation to the society, but it had been shown to Lord
Stanley, who had taken it to her Majesty at Windsor.
There are some young Chinese at Rome, who are educating
as missionaries, by whom the map was translated, although
some difficulty was met in the reduction of Chinese to Italian
miles. The whole circumference of the city might, however,
might be stated as 26 miles; and the mar) was very full, con-
taining the names of all the streets, public offices, gardens,
canals, treasuries, &c., being complete in every respect. It
was stated by a member that a similar map at St. Peters-
burg, in which the circumference of the city, which had
nine gates, was stated at 23 miles. An interesting paper was
also read from Dr. Beke, giving the details of a journey
which he had lately undertaken in Abyssinia, and where he
had met with a chief of the Selahulla tribe, who professed
himself a Christian, in token of which, as was the custom in
the country, he wore a blue ribbon round his neck. Both
chieftains and people are represented by the doctor as living
upon terms of perfect equality, the latter being Kept in order
only by the discipline of a "stick," which the chieftains ad-
minister freely.

MISS EDGEWORTH'S LIBRARY AT HOME.--The library
at Edgeworthstown is by no means the reserved and solitary
room that libraries are in general. It is large and spacious
and lofty; well stored with books, and embellished with
those most valuable of all classes of prints—the suggestive;
it is also picturesque, having been added to so as to increase
its breadth : the addition is supported by square pillars ; and
the beautiful lawn seen through the windows, embellished
and varied by clumps of trees, judiciously planted, imparts
much cheerfulness to the exterior. An oblong table in the
centre is a sort of rallying point for the family, who group
around it, reading, writing, or working; while Miss Edge-
worth, only anxious upon one point—that all in the house
should do exactly as they like without reference to her—sits
quietly and abstractedly in her own peculiar corner, on the
sofa ; her desk, upon which lies Sir Walter Scott's pen,
given to her by him when in Ireland, placed before her upon
a little quaint table, as unassuming as possible. Miss Edge-
worth's abstractedness would puzzle the philosophers. In
that same corner, upon that table, she has written nearly all
that enlightened and delighted the world ; there she writes
as eloquently as ever, wrapped up, to all appearance, in her
subject, yet knowing by a sort of instinct when she is really
wanted in dialogue; and without laying down her pen, hardly
looking up from her page, she will by a judicious sentence,
alsely and kindly spoken, explain and elucidate in a few
vords, so as to clear up any difficulty, or turn the conversa-
tion into a new and more pleasing current. She has the
most harmonious way of throwing in explanations,—inform-
.ng without embarrassing. A very large family party assem-
,de daily in this charming room, young and old, bound alike
o the spot by the strong cords of memory and love. Mr.
Francis Edgeworth, the youngest son of the present Mrs.
Edgeworth, and of course Miss Edgeworth's youngest bro-
,her, has a family of little ones, who seem to enjoy the
reedom of the library as much as their elders. To set these
little people right, if they are wrong—to rise from her table
Ind fetch a toy, or even to save a servant a journey—to
mount the steps and find a volume that has escaped all eyes
nit her own, and having done so, to find exactly the passage
.canted—are hourly the employments of this most unspoiled
Ind admirable woman. She will then resume her pn; and,
chat is more extraordinary, hardly seemed to have even
rayed the thread of her ideas. Her mnd is so rightly

ialanced, ev( ry thing is so honestly weighed, that eh.: suffers
no inconvede4ce from what would disturb an ordinary
writer.—Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland.