The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET:—This DAY

NOON QUOTATIONS

THE FUNDS.—Consols for Money, 94 ; ditto for
Account, 944 ; Three per cents. (new), 93# -8- I; Exche-
quer-bills, L., 6 ; ditto, S., 6 9.
FOREIGN STOCK.—Turkish, 14.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonians, 61i I 1; Great
Northern, A, 77 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 73 21 ; Leeds
Northern, 14k; London and North-Western, 102 ; London
and South-Western, 82; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
coln, 238 ; Midland, 701 70 2 ; South-Eastern, 62.
Agricultural, 401. English and S. Bank, 14 t.
Crystal Palace, 38.

MANCHESTER STOCK MARKET.—Tms DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Blackburn, 54 ; East Lancashire, 174 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 73*; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 234;
Midland, 701 4it; South-Eastern, 18t ; District Bank,
94 pm.

A FAST NAG.—A gentleman well known in a cele-
brated sporting circle, more for good humour than straight
riding, arrived home a short time since, in a plight which
would lead to the conclusion that he had something better
than a "good thing." " What sport !" asked a friend.
" C-a-pital !" replied our friend emphatically. " Never
had a better run in the whole course of my life ! Was
thrown into the first ditch, and it took me three hours to
catch my horse I"
ANGLo-SAXON ENERGY.—Not many months ago, at a
dinner-table at Melton, a wealthy but somewhat blasé
sportsman was complaining of the contemptible character
of all field-sports in England, as contrasted with those in
countries where game of every kind was to be found
worthy of the prowess of the assailant. " True enough,"
said a neighbour at his elbow, " true enough : there is no
place in the world now left for sport but the Himalayas !"
" Say you so ?" replied the other ; " the Himalayas ! are
they far off? I think I'll try them." Ringing the bell,
he desired his servant to pack up forthwith two double
guns, a few rifles, an ample supply of lead and powder,
and at five o'clock on the following afternoon he and his
valet were steaming down Channel on their way to the
aforesaid Himalayas !—New Quarterly Review.
A GERMAN PHILOSOPMER ON FEMALE STUDENTS.—
Kant, the German philosopher, says :—"lt is a peculiar
characteristic of beautiful actions that they appear to be
accomplished without effect. Great exertions and difficul-
ties surmounted, on the contrary, excite admiration, and
properly belong to the sublime. Deep reflection, long and
continued meditation, are noble but difficult, and do not
properly belong to those whose natural charms for the
most part excite in us no other idea than that of beauty
Exhausting studies and painful researches, to whatever
extent a woman may pursue them, have a tendency to
efface the advantages, which are peculiarly her own. She
may, indeed, on account of the rarity of the fact, become
an object of cold admiration, but she thereby compromises
the charms which give her so much power over the other
sex. A woman who has had her head full of Greek, like
Madame Dacier, or who writes learned dissertations on
mechanics, like La Marquise du Chatelet, would do well
to wear a beard, for that would, perhaps, express better
the profound knowledgein_which it is her ambition to
excel. The elegant mind chooses objects which touch the
most delicate of the feelings and emotions, and leaves
abstract speculations and useful but dry studies to the
laborious, solid, and profound mind of man. Thus woman
never need study geometry, and need no more of the
sufficient reason,' or of the nature of monads, than would
be necessary to feel the attic salt that spices the satires of
the small critics of our sex. The fair sex may safely neg-
lect the vortices of Descartes, even when the able Fon-
tenelle offers to accompany them in the starry regions of
space."