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London, England, 1836-02-25 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE.

THE NEW LIVERPOOL, BRITISH, and
FOREIGN TRADING COMPANY.

Capital, £250,000 ;
In 500 Shares of 5001. each ' • Deposit 5/.
The Preston and Wyre Railway and Harbour Company being
incorporated, and the Directors having announced that their un-
dertaking, with all necessary accommodation for vessels, will be
complete by the early part of the ensuing year, an advantageous
opening arises for the formation, at the Harbour of Wyre, of a
British and Foreign Trading-Company. This Port, which the
Preston and Wyre Railway and Harbour Company have named
" New Liverpool" is situated at the mouth of the River Wyre, 30
miles north of Liverpool, and whilst it rivals that town in its
proximity and ready access to Preston, Manchester, Blackburne,
Bolton, and other large manufacturing districts, it far surpasses it
in its Harbour, which is readily made, safe without bar or shifting
sand, and within, commodious and sheltered from every wind.
The following difference in the respective port dues will appear
incredibly great, but may be relied upon as correct, and will afford
a fair data to go by. It is calculated on an American vessel of 300
tons, with ordinary inward and outward cargoes, making two
voyages in the year, viz.:—
Liverpool.
New Liverpool.
£224 19s. Od. I ,Ell ss. Od.
The dues on larger vessels would be proportionably greater, ac-
cording to their tonnage.
The principal objects to which this Company will direct their
attention will be the executing orders on commission (making the
usual advances) or making Shipments on their own account, and
with the advantage of peculiar privileges to be granted to them by
the Preston and Wyre Railway and Harbour Port, a leading and
most extensive Trade, and secure to themselves profits far surpass-
ing the most prosperous of any similar Establishments at Liverpool,
and at the same time incur trifling, if any, risk.
The Company will be placed under the superintendence of 12
Directors, four of whom are to be practical mercantile men, and
to be appointed Managing Directors, with such adequate salaries
as will remunerate them for their residing on the spot, and for the
exclusive devotion of their time to the interests of the Company.
It is intended to confine the allotment of Shares, as much as prac-
ticable, to commercial men, conversant with the business of the
Company, and 100 Shares will be reserved for the Merchants
of the principal Shipping Ports in America, the East and West
Indies, Mediterranean, Baltic, &c., who will act as agents at their
respective ports.
Public Meetings will be called at Preston, Manchester, and
Liverpool, in furtherance of the object of this Company as soon
as all necessary arrangements have been made.
Applications for Shares to be made (post paid) to
OWEN T. ALGER, Sec. pro tern.
37, Bedford-row.

THE GENERAL REVERSIONARY and IN-
VESTMENT COMPANY,
(Capital 500,000/. in 5,000/. shares of 100/. each.)
For the Purchase of Reversions and Policies, and for the Sale of
Purchase of Immediate Contingent, or Deferred Life Annuities ;
also for Loans upon Life Interests, whether in possession or expec-
tation.

Chairman—JOHN RICHARDS, Esq.
Deputy Chairman—The Right Hon. Sir GORE OUSELEY,
Bart., G. C. 11. F. R. S.
DIRECTORS.

The Right Hon. Thos. Pere- Charles T. Holcombe, Esq.
grins Courteney. Sir J. Macgrigor, Bart., F. R. S.
The Hon. Randall Edward Plun- Major-General Sir Lewis Grant,
kett, P. K. C. H.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq. Lieut-Colonel Merrick Shawe
S. Birch, Esq., and Alderman. William Wybrow, Esq.
Colonel Sir R. J. Harvey, C. B.
Auditor—Robert Hazell, Esq.
Bankers—The Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, London ; the
Messrs. Fuller, Cornhill, London ; Sir Claude Scott and Co., Ca-
vendish-square, London.
Solicitor—Edward Richardson, Esq.
Offices, 25, Charles-street, St. James'-square.
The still crowded state of the reversionary market, and the diffi-
culty of equitably disposing of distant and contingent life interests,
have led the Directors of this Society to the conviction that this
great city still presents ample and unoccupied space for another
establishment of this nature. The prosperity of similar institutions,
the substantial character of the business to be transacted, and the
more recent and accurate observations on the duration of human life,
place the future success of this Society beyond all reasonable doubt.
All the purchases will be of real or personal property, and their
realization dependent on the extinction of human life, whose fluc-
tuations, proverbially uncertain in individual instances, are on an
extensive average smaller and better known than those of any other
natural law on which financial enterprise can be based. Hence
Reversionary Societies have no speculative character, but take
their station among those less brilliant but more solid securities
which prudent men select. as growing property in which to make
fixed investments for themselves and their children after them.
Their advance commences cautiously until the purchases are re-
alized, and the powers of compound interest felt, and then the
Shareholders by means of their co-operative capital, rise steadily
into the participation of acquisitions which would have been too
great in amount, or too distant in time, for any single purchaser to
have adventured upon.
The offices of the Company are at No. 25, Charles-street, St.
James's-square, where personal applications respecting shares and
general business must be made, between the hours of 10 and 4,
and where letters (post paid) should be addressed.

TITHOTRIPTICK HOSPITAL, for the cure
A of the Stone, without incision, under the Patronage of his
Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX.
Of all the diseases with Which the human frame can be afflicted,
there is none, perhaps, so excruciating as Calculus. Its agonies
can be conceived by those only who have known them by expe-
rience. They are, moreover, aggravated by the distressing con-
viction, that there is left to the patient no medium between the said
alternatives of either a life of intense suffering, or of submission to
an operation, at the bare idea of which imagination itself recoils with
horror. Whether then we contemplate the tortures of the disease
itself, or the appalling nature of the operation, by which the cure
has hitherto been attempted, or the hazard that necessarily attends it,
every friend to humanity must rejoice that a metkoci has been invented
for removing calculus, not only with efficacy, but also with comparo_
tire ease and safety. For this invaluable invention we are indebted to
the ingenuity of Baron Heurteloup. The cure, however, at present is
accessible only to the rich. In order, therefore, to extend its bene-
fit to the poor, and also to furnish young practitioners in surgery
with an opportunity of acquiring that knowledge and that practice
which may enable them to exercise the new art, and promote its
extension, it is proposed to establish an Hospital, to be called the
Lithotriptick Hospital. under the charge of Baron Heurteloup, who
has liberally proffered his gratuitous services. To dilate on the ob-
vious utility of such an Institution, for two such important purposes,
cannot be necessary. We leave it to the judgment and feelings of
an intelligent and benevolent public, well assured that no one,
one ever pleaded in behalf of suffering humanity to the breasts of
Englishmen, and pleaded in vain. It is, however, with some
feelings of regret and disappointment that the Provisional Com-
mittee have to state that their funds are as yet inadequate to the
establishment of the Hospital. But, while they have the satis-
faction to find that their resources are gradually increasing, they
feel also the highest gratification in being able to inform the pub-
lic that poor patients in the meantime, coming to the Baron, by
the recommendation of subscribers, have all been operated upon at
the Baron's house, and that not a single instance has occurred in
which the patient has not received immediate and complete relief,
and, by his own acknowledgment, with little or no pain. This
fact speaks for itself—this fact sets calumny at defiance, and this
fact, we the undersigned, acting as a Provisional Committee, are
prepared to attest.
London, February 22, 1836.
His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX Patron.
JOHN IRELAND, D.D., Dean of Westminster, President.
Sir C. R. BLUNT, Bart., M.P., Vice-President.
John Bowden George Goodwin
Benjamin Branfill General Morris
Timothy Bramah Charles Morris, jun.
C. Bairy Baldwin, Treasurer Cosby Nesbitt
Sir Richard Dobson, M.D. Jeremiah Olive

Rev. Dr. Crombie, LL.D.
F. R. S.

Michael Shepley.

Subscriptions received for the Hospital by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. Strand; Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., Lothbury ; Messrs.
Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street ; Sir Samuel Scott,
Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square ; and Messrs. Wright and
Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
All communications to be addressed (post paid) to Mr. T. Biggs,
Hon. Secretary, No. 4, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square.

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