Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-29 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS MUSICAL PRESENTS

AT
W .
. P. DREAPER & -SONS,
56, BOLD:Sn'iEET.

L s. d.
D'ALBERT'S ALBUM (Dance)
OPERATIC ALBUM (Piano-forte) 1 1 ,0
BALFE'S VOCAL ALBUM 1 1 0
LAURENT'S .ALBUM (Dance)
CHRISTY MINSTREL ALBUM (Vocal)
VERDI ALBUM (Vocal)
JUVENILE PIANO-FORTE ALBUM 0 5 .0
MOORE'S MELODIES (Balfe) 1 5 .0
MOORE'S MELODIES ,(Glover)
BEETHOVEN'S SONATAS, 2 vols, each 0 15 0
MOZART'S 12rn MASS (Piano-forte)
MOORE'S 72 MELODIES (Piano-forte)
WEBER'S SONATAS, 2 vols, each 0 15 0
MOZART'S SONATAS, 2.v015, each
MENDELSSOHN'S LIEDER OHNE WORTE 0 7 6
BACH'S WORRS, 4 vols., from
All the Newest Music, Vocal, Piano-forte, Dance, ke.,
AT RA.LF-PRICE.
Music forwarded to all parts of the Country, 'on receipt of
Postage Stamps.
Just unpacked, a splendid Stock of New PIANO-FORTES,
by all the lira London makers, in handsome WalnutwoOd and
Rosewood Cases, from 25 to 100 Guineas.

SECOND-HAND PIANO-FORTES taken in Exchange.
t'its..no-rorta-re 7,...pd and RePaired by experienced Lon-
don workmen, at
W. P. DREAPER Sr SONS, •

PATENT PIANO-FORTE MAKERS,
56, BOLD-STRtET, LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS.
THE EXHIBITION
IN THE
QUEEN'S-HALL, BOLD-STREET,
WILL
SHORTLY CLOSE.

Day Admission, Ten W Six, One Shilling.
Evening Ditto, Six to Ten, Twopence.
Children under Twelve Years of Age, Half-price. Season
Tickets, Half-a-Crown.

THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBITION
OF
WORKS OF LIVING ARTISTS,
OLD POST-OFFICE PLACE,
IS NOW OPEN
From Ten until Four. Admission. Is. Day and Evening
Season Tickets ; Gentlemen, 56. ; Ladies' Ditto, 3s, 6d. Even-
ing Season Tickets, 2s. 6d.
EVERY EVENING FROM SIX TO TEN TO THE
WORKING CLASSES.
ADMISSION, TWOPENCE.
Brilliantly Illuminated with Gas.
JAMES PELHAM, Secretary.

PLATE, WATCHES, JEWELLERY, AND GENERAL
ORNAMENTAL ENGRAIrNG.
aVE.NRY ROBERTS, No. 24, Tarleton-street, con-
tinues to execute all orders entrusted to hint in the
ye branches in first-rate style, and at the lowest possible
remunerating charges.
Ships' Plate, Mottoes, &c. Country orders attended to. d

WAITER.
FRIIiATE FAMILIES ONLY.
129,• rA R K-R 0A D, •
(OPPOSITE BT. JOON TIIE BAPTISTS ciaußcu.)
WEDDING BREAKFASTS, DlNNEisaisrp 'EVENING
PARTIES ATTENDED. 217. 1

J. L 0 A D'E R,

34, ERVNSWIC'K-ROAD, LIVERPOOL,

WAITER,,
Wedding Breakfasts, Dinner' and Evening Parties
attended.

ADAMS'S. One Shilling PURSE, with elastic

band, neat, convenient, and durable, is 12 patterns: at
s..^' S. ADAMS'S,
; -63, CillaßCH STREET, LIVERPOOL,
TIMER LOOM )PLOW FAMILY* BTAIIIIT,

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RESERTE FORCEOF ROYAL NAVAL
VOLUNTEERS.
HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT having, with
the sanction of Parliament, determined on esta-
blishing a RESERVE VOLUNTEER FORCE of
SEAMEN trained to the Use of Arms,
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE,
That any. Seaman possessing the following qualifications
may be moiled as a Royal Naval Volunteer in the
Reserve Force, and will thereupon be entitled to the
advantages and be subject to the obligationsinentioned
below :
QtrALIFICATIONS FOR THE RESERVE.

1. A Volunteer must be a British subject.
2. He must be free from infirmity.
3. He must not be over thirty-five years of age.
4. He must within the ten years previous to his
joining the Reserve have been five years at sea, one
year of that time as au A.B.
AD' '

/VANTAGES OF _E RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer will at once receive an annual pay-
ment or retainer of £6, payable quarterly.
2. He will, if he fulfils his obligations and is in the
Reserve the requisite time, receive a pension of not less
than £l2 a year whenever he becomes incapacitated
from earning a livelihood, or at sixty years of age if not
previously incapacitated.
3. He may elect either to take the. whole pension
himself, or to take a smaller pension for himself during
his life, and to allow his wife a pension after his death,
for the remainder of her life.
4. He will not, on account of belonging to the
Reserve, forfeit any interest in any Friendly or Berefit
Society.
5. His travelling expenses to and from the place of
drill will, when necessary, be provided.
6. He will, during drill, receive, in addition to the
retaining fee, the same pays victualling, and allowances
as a seaman of the fleet.
7. He will, if called out on actual service, receive the
same pay, allowances, "and victuals, and have the same.,
prospect.of promotion and prize money, as a continuous-
service seaman of the fleet, and he will on joining
receive the same clothing, bedding, and mess. traps. -
8. He will, if wounded or injured in actual service,
`receive the same pension as' a, seaman in the Navy of
'the same rating.
9. He will be eligible to the Coast. Guard Service and
Greenwich Hospital.
10. He may quit the reserve, if not at the time called
out for actual service,. at the end of every five years; he
may also quit it, when not called out, on paying back
the retainers he has received; or, without payment, if
he passes an examinstion as a master er mate, and ob-
tains kW fide employment as master or mate.

OBLIGATIONS OF vin RESILTIVB,
1. A Volunteer must attend drill for twenty-eight.
days each year; he may do so, so far as the convenience •
of the public service will permit, at a time and place
convenient to himself; but he cannot, in any ease, take
less than seven days' drill at any one time.
2. Be must not, without special permission, proceed
on a Voyage that will occupy more than six months.
3. He lust appear 'before some shipping master once
in every six months, unless he has leave to. be abroad
longer, and he must report every change "ef residence
and employment.

4. In eider to earn a pension, he must continue, in
the reserve as long as he is physically competent to
serve, and he must also have been in the force fifteen
years if engaged above thirty, or twenty years if engaged
under thirty. In reckoning this' time, actual service in
the fleet. will taunt double.
Volunteers-may be called upon -for actual- service'
in the navy by Royal' Proclamation. It is intended to
exercise this power only when an emergency
M r a.
requires
sudden inoreane-.the.naval force of the country.
6. A Volunteer may, in the first instance, be called-
out for three years. If there is then actual war, and he
is then serving in one of her Majesty's ships, he may be
required to serve for two years longer; but for the ad-
ditaonal•two years 'he will receive 2d. a day additional
pay. , • •
7. Voluntsers when on drill or actual service will be
subject to naval discipline.
8. A Volunteer who fails. to fulfil the obligations:of..,
the Reserve, will. forfeit his claim to retainer and pensi;ba
and if he fails to join when called out for actual tervicei !
may be; treated as a straggler or deserter from the navy.

The Inrolment will commence on Ist January, 1860.
Fill informatiOn and detailed conditions may be
obtained on Application to the Shipping Master at any 1
Port in the -United Kingdom, or to the Officers of eta-
tow in the Channel Islands mail Isle of Man, d 29