The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL EISTEDDFOD.
fHE SECOND LIVERPOOL EISTEDDFOD or
CONGRESS of BARDS and FRIENDS of WELSH
LITERATURE, for 1839.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF

Lord DINORBEN, Sir J. J. GUEST, BART., M.P.,
and the Society of Ancient Britons,
JOSEPH JONES, Esq., of Caernarvon, in the Chair,
will be held at the MUSIC-HALL, Bold-street, on the Ist of
March next,.(ST. DAVID'S DAY.)
The following Premiums will be distributed on the
occasion :

1. For the best Ode (Awdl) on Haman and Mordecai a
Silver Medal, value £3, and £2 in money.
2. For the best Pbem (Cywydd) on Social Union, (Undeb
Cymdeithas,) £2 10s.
3. For the best Essay (Traethawd) on Morality (Moesol-
deb) £2 10s.
4. For the best Six Stanzas (Englynion) on the Society of
Ancient Britons (Cymdeithas yr Hen Frython) £1 10s.
5. For the best Six Stanzas (Englynion) to the Vine (17
Winwydden) £1 ss.
6. For the best Stanzas (Englynion) on the Slanderer (yr
Enllibiwr) 10s.
7. To the best player on the Welsh Harp (under eighteen
years of age) a silver medal, value £l, and 10s. in money.
8. To the best Singer (Datganydd) a silver medal.
9. To the best reader 10s.
.0. To the second•best a Welsh Bible.
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11. To the best player on the Welsh Harp, (not limited to
any age), a Silver Harp, value £3 35., or £3 3s. in money.
The competitors for the 9th and 10th premiums must be
under twelve years of age.
JUDGES OF THE COMPOSITION :—Rev. W. Williams,
Caernarvon, Gwilym Caledfryn; Rev. Daniel Jones, Liver-
pool ; Rev. Mr. Parry, Conway, (Bardd Mon;) Joseph
Jones, Esq., Caernarvon ; and Mr. I. Lloyd, (Cynddelw.)
The compositions must be forwarded, under feigned sig-
natures, and free,qf postage, to the Honorary Secretary,
(STANDARD OFFICE, Liverpool,) 'on or before the 24th
February; and those persons who intend to become com-
petitors for the 7th, Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th Premiums must
also send in their names and respective ages before the 26th
of February.
Tickets of Admission to the Meeting, 2s. Od. ; Lady's
Ticket, ls.

Tickets may be 'obtained at the STANDARD, Chronicle,
Mercury, Courier, Times, and Albion offices, and of Mr.
PUGHE, Welsh Bookseller, Marybone.

I. LLOYD, Hon. Sec.
N.B.—The Rev. W. W. will deliver an address on the
Bardic Rules.

ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON,
INSTITUTED 1808.
DIRECTORS.
Sir Thomas Turton, Bart. Chairman.
J. D. Hume, Esq. Deputy Chairman.
The Hon. Sir C. Boyle, Emanuel Pacifico, M.D.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Wm. George Prescott, Esq.
William Laforest, Esq. Joseph Pulley, Esq.
Moses Mocatta, Esq. John Peter Pasch, Esq.
James William Ogle, Esq. I John Woolley, Esq.
Charles Ansell, Esq. Actuary.

LIFE DEPARTMENT'.
PERSONS assured for the whole term of Life in Great
Britain or Ireland respectively, will have an ADDITION
made to their Policies every seventh year, or an equivalent
REDUCTION will be made in the future payments of Premium,
at the option of the Assured.
The THIRD SEPTENNIAL VALUATION up to Christmas,
1837, is now completed, and the Directors have great satis-
faction in stating its result.
The following' TABLE tows the TOTAL ADDITIONS made to Poli-
cies for £lOOO effected in London, or through an :Agent in Great

Gin, which Cad been in force
.11;r the

21 years ending 1837.

BONUS