The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS

Of the Liverpool Society for the Encouragement of Useful
Arts and Inventions, to be called the
LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY,
Instituted October, 1838.
The object of the Society is to promote the useful and
ingenious arts in Liverpool, by securing to their inventors
those advantages which, in every department of science, have
been found to result from mutual encouragement and co-
operation, and from the interchange of ideas in unreserved
discussion.

Liverpool has taken a prominent part in the establishment
of those wonderful exhibitions of mechanical power which
are to be found in the working of modern Railways; and
there is every probability that, in a few years, this port will
be no less distinguished as the great centre of Steam Navi-
gation.
In a community so favourably circumstanced, comprising a
population of tvio hundred thousand souls, mostly engaged
in the varied pursuits Of active life, a Society like the present
seems peculiarly called fur. itruund us, and amongst us,
there must exist, in abundance, the elements of success to
an Association, through the Medium of which, by inter-
communication and mutual encouragement, inventive skill
and ingenuity may be fostered and matured, which would
otherwise remain undeveloped and unknown.
Throughout the kingdom, the establishment of Railways
has brought into intimate communion the most distant places,
and vast are the moral and social influences to be anticipated
in consequence. On a still wider field, our magnificent
Steam Ships traversing the Western Ocean have linked to-
gether the Old and the New World. Profiting by the facili-
ties of the modern system of locomotion, the British Asso-
elation for the Advancement of Science collects together
annually, into one focus, the rays of intellectual light from
the wide area of the Civilized globe. More limited in their
sphere, and humbler in their operation, but similar in princi-
ple, and equally essential to complete the harmony of the
whole, societies like the present afford the means of friendly
union and communication between minds of kindred tastes
existing in large and populous cities; locally, in close prox-
imity with each other, but, in effect, estranged and distant ;
separated by repulsive circumstances and artificial distinc-
tions, unless a link be supplied which, with magnetic power,
shall bring the whole under one common influence. It will

be the object of this society to supply the connecting chain,
to remove existing barriers, and, as far as may he, to bring
together into one centre the inventive talent uf this great
community:
It is proposed that the Society shall embrace a wide and
varied range. It will not comprise the fine arts of Painting
and Sculpture; but while it will have principally in view the
useful mechanical arts, and those ingenious Inventions which
may be classed in some department of Natural Philosophy,
it will not neglect the ornamental arts by which our habita-
tions are embellished—which refine taste and stimulate inge-
nuity, and, by a gentle and unobtrusive influence, contribute
their part to individual and social happiness.
The following are the Laws of the Society, which will fur-
ther explain its nature and objects :
LAWS OF THE SOCIETY.

1. The Society shall hold their annual meeting in January
of each year, when the members shall elect for the ensuing
twelve months a Managing Council, consisting of a Presi-
dent, two Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, and ten
Committee-men ;—tive members of the Council being a quo-
rum, and all being re•eligible.
2. The ordinary meetings of the Society shall be held on
the second Tuesday in every month, at seven o'clock in the
evening.

3. The business of these meetings will consist in receiving
reports from the Council—in hearing and discussing papers
and communications by members, and in examining models
or drawings of new inventions or improvements in the arts.
The subjects will comprise every contrivance by which labour
may be abridged, or rendered more effectual; by which eco-
nomy may be promoted in the use of fuel, in its various ap-
plications; improvements in the warming and ventilating of
buildings or mines—in civil or mechanical engineering—in
the various departments of architecture—in bydraulic, pneu-
matic, or elect ro-magnetic combinations, as affording sources
of mechanical power—in chemical or geological science, es-
pecially it applicable to agriculture, the preservation of tim-
ber, or any important manufacturing process.
4. All questions brought under the consideration of the
Society (not otherwise provided for) shall be decided by a
majority of the members present, the Chairman of the meet-
ing having a double or casting voice, in case of an equality
of votes.

5. In respect of papers proposed to be read, or subjects
to be discussed at the ordinary meetings of the Society,
notice must be given at some previous meeting, and the pa-
pers or subject must be severally brought forward in the
order in which the notices shall have been entered iti the
secretary's minut es.

6. The Society, at its annual meeting, shall vote a sum to
be disposed of in prizes, and the Council, from time to time,
shall submit for the approval of the Society a list of prizes,
to be awarded to successtul competitors, in such departments
of art us may have been so specified and approved.
7. The prizes shall be adjudged at the annual meeting, by
committees of five, previously appointed tur the purpose at
some ordinary meeting; and all members of the Society shall
be eligible on these committees, equally with members of the
Council; and the Society, if it shall see fit, may appoint a
separate committee for each prize to be awarded.
The Council shall undertake the financial and general
arrangements of the Society. with power to remunerate a
Secretary and assistants.—They shall provide a suitable
place for the meetings of the Society, and shall hold their
own meetings at such times and places as they may find con-
venient.

9. The Contribution requisite 'to. constitute a member of
this society. shall not be less than ten shillings annually—us
be due on the first of January, in advance for the current
3 ear ; and new members of the society must be proposed
and seconded at an ordinary meeting, and be ballotted tor, at
the next ensuing meeting, and the favourable vote of four-
fifths of the members present shall be necessary to ensure
admission into the Society.
10. The Mayor, and the Presidents of the Royal Instil,

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tion and the MecjAktnics' Institute, fur the time being, shall
be invited to become honorary members of the Society, and
as such shall be entitled to attend the ordinary meetings.
All other honorary members must be proposed and balloted
for as ordinary members. (See Rule 9.)
11. Every member shall have the right to introduce, per-
sonally, two visitors to the ordinary meetings; but visitors
shall not take part in the proceedings er discussions, unless
invited to do so by the chairman of the meet !og.
12. Any tuember wishing to make an alteration, or addi-
tion to the laws of the Society, must give notice of the altera-
tion he intends to propose, at the meeting previous to the one
at which it is to be discussed; and no alteration or addition
to the laws shall take place unless sanctioned by at least
three•fourths of the members present when the alteration is
proposed.

A discussion afterwards took place as to the election of the
Committee and Officers of the Society; and it was resolved
that in the first instance, as in future, the election should be
by Ballot. The Provisional Committee was requested to
prepare and distribute printed Lists or the Members, out of
which the officers were to be chosen; and it was understood
and agreed, that parties entering their names as Members,
or making application to that effect before the election of
Officeis shall take place, should be declared Members of the
Society without the process or the BalL.t.
The Meeting was then adjourned till Seven o'clock on the
evening of Tuesday, the 151 h instant„when Members and
Friends to the Institution are. requested to attend, at the
Medical Flall, to proceed at once to. the election of the Com-
mittee anti-Officers of the Society.

HENRY BOOTH; Chairtnav
Liverpool, January 4, 1839.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
LORD DINORBEN,
SIR J. J. GUEST, BART. M.P.
J. B. CLOUGH. ESQ. &C.
AND THE SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.
()N the Ist of March next, (ST. DAVID'S DAY,) will be
held the Second LIVERPOOL EISTEDDFOD, or BARDIC
CONGRESS.
The following PREMIUMS will be distributed on the occa-
SlOrl

I.—For the best Ode, (Awdl,) 'on Mordecai, a Silver
Medal, value £3. and £2. in money.
2.—For the best Poem, (Cywydd,) on Social Union, (Un-
deb Cymdeithas,) £2. 10s.
3.—For the best Essay, (Traethawd,) on Morality, (Moes-
oldeb,) £2. 10s.
-I.—For the best Six Stanzas, (Englynion,) on the Society
of Ancient Britons, (Cymdeithas yr Hen Frython,)
£l. 10s.
s.—For the best Six Stanzas, (Englynion,) to the Vine,
(Y Winwydden,) £1 ss.
6.—For the best Stanza, (Englyn,) on the Slanderer, (yr
Enitibiwr,) 10s.
7.—To the best player on the Welsh Hatp, (under eighteen
years of age,) a silver medal, value El, and 10s. in

money.
B.—To the best singer, ( Datganydd,) a silver medal.
9.—To the best reader, 10s.
10.—To the second best, a Bible.
The competitors for the 9th and 10th premiums must be
under twelve years of age.
The compositions must be forwarded, under feigned signa-
tures, and free of postage, to the Honorary Secretary,
(STANDARD-OFFICE, Liverpool,) on or before the 24th of
February ; and those persons who intend to become com-
petitors for the 7th, Bth, 9th, and lOth Premiums, must also
send in their names and respective ages before the 26th -4 . •
February.
Further particulars will appear in future advertisements. 47:51"r',
I. LLOYD, Hon. Sec.

TO THE GOVERNORS OF., THE LIVERPOOL
- DISPENSARIES.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
XBEG leave'to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the
Office of SURGEON to the SOUTH DISPENSARY,
which has become vacant by the resigir,t)en of Mr. James
Cooper.
Havinir been a Pupil of the Infirmaif, and for a period of
more than three years one of the Visiting House-Surgeons
at the North Dispensary, I trust I may be considered to have
some claim to your support.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. C. SHEPHERD.
46, Soho-street, 4th January, 1839.

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE LIVERPOOL

DISPENSARIES.
LADIES AND GENTLEME.N, 1;4I '
BEG leave to offer myself a CANDIDATE for the
Appointent of HO :\ ORARY SILItGEON to the
SOUTH DISPENSARY.
Having been engaged for more than eleven years in my
profession, and for the last five in London and Paris, I feel
confident in being able to fulfil the duties of the situation,
not only with care and attention, but also with experience.
If I am so fortunate as to be elected, I assure you that no
exertion on my part shall be wanting to prove myself deserv-
ing of your choice.
I subscribe myself,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your devoted humble Servant,
HENRY THORP.
48, Pembroke-place, 4th January, 1839.

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE LIVERPOOL
DISPENSARIES.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
rHE Vacancy for SURGEON at present- existing for
I the SOUTH DISPENSARY induces 'me promptly,
but most respectfully, to beg the favour of your support.
Having had the experience of eight years of unremitting
practice in the London Hospitals, and seven years of exten-
sive Private practice subsequently;Yl have confidence in
hoping that I should fulfil the duties which devolve upon the
appointment, with satisfaction both to myself and you.
I have the honour to be,
• Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
THOMAS WILLIAM CATTELL.
29, Seymour-street, Jan. 4, 1839.

CABINET AND UPHOLSTERY MANUFACTORY,
25. RANELAGH-STREET.

TORN AVALISTER begs leave most respectfully to offer
cl his thanks to his numerous Friends and the Public, for
the extensive and unceasing patronage conferred upon him
since he first entered.upon these Premises, and further avails
himself of this opportunity, by intiithating that he has, in
consequence of a recent and salisfaetoty increase in his Busi-
ness, taken those more commodious6Prenaises,
25, BOLD-STUEET,
which he purposes opening with an ENTIRE NEW STOCK
of CABINET GOODS. Meanwhile his present Stock is
SELLING OFF. An excellent Assortment of FANCY
PAPER HANGINGS, at Reduced Prices.

PROFESSOR SWEDOUR,'S HYGEIAN HERB
PILLS, for the effectual extirpation of every species
and symptom of the SYPHILITIC DISEASE, and the
disorders arising from ithpr.per treatment.

Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, at
No. 42, SEEL-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
In boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each.

Warranted not to contain COPAIBA, CUBEBS, or any

deleterious ingredient.

..** With each Box is given a Treatise on Venereal
and Syphilitic Diseases, with observations on seminal weak-
ness &c. &c., containing hints worth knowing by those who
are, or have been sufferers to this d►eadful and devastating
malady.
Dr. DAVIESON continues to direct his attention to those
disorders arising from• the too free and indiscr►minate 'in-
dulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numer-
ous train of nervous affections, but also entails on its votaries
all the enervating imbecilities of old age. In that distressing
state of debility and deficiency, whether the consequence of
baneful habits, excessive drinking, or any other cause by
which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, he
offers a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigor-
ous health.
It is a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to the
venereafdisease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men,
who, by the use of that deadly poison, Mercury, ruin the con-
stitution. When the great Doctor Sscedour became Pro-
fessor at Leyden University, he conferred an invaluable be-
nefit upon mankind by the discovery of his grand Panacea,
for the cure of this deplorable complaint. Never did a dis-
covery excite a greater sensation, it was sought after with
avidity, and used with undeviating success in the most
minute and intricate cases of the delicate coinnlaint, for the
cure of which they have been so long celebrated. The fame
of these Pills throughout Germany, caused their speedy in-
troduction into almost every country. The certainty with
which they were continually administered can be attested by
many thousands. In fact, during the long continental war
they were the inseparable companion and safeguard of the
soldier, in r lI cases where the slightest suspicion or infection
was enterta'ned. What medicine-can be more appropriate
than that which has given strcl► general satisraction ? The
H v•reian Herb Pill', root out every particle of insidious poison,
purifying in their progress the whole mass of fluids. They
not only remove the disease, but renovate by their action

the different ;'unctions of the body expelling the grosser hu-
mour:, and in a manner so mild and imperceptible as to
convince the most sceptical of their astonishing and un-
equalled powers. They neither contain mercury norany other
mineral, and may be taken without the slightest suspicion
of discovery—they require no restraint of diet, loss of time,
or hindrance of business, but effect a complete cure, without

the least exposure to the patient. At any period when the
slightest suspicion may exist, it will be well to have recourse
to the Hygeian Herb Pills, for when taken before the disease
has made its appearance it acts as a certain preventive, by
moving the complaint effectually and secretly. The deplor-
able state in which many persons have been when visiting
the proprietor, from the use of mercury, renders it impera-
tively necessary to caution the public against that dangerous
mineral when injudiciously administered.
These Pills should form a portion of all Medicine Chests,
by sea and land, and ought never to be omitted by any person
going a long voyage or journey, their properties are such
that neither heat nor cold will injure their quality, or pre-
vent the due effects on the constitution.

Dr. Davieson will attend daily at his residence, from Eight
in the morning until Ten at night, (on Sundays from Nina
till Two,) where he gives advice to all applicants taking any
of his preparations, WITHOUT A FEE.
Letters (post-paid) enclosing a remittance, answered by
return and Medicines punctually transmitted to any ad-
dress either by initials or name.
No. 42, SEEL-ATR EEr, LIVERPOOL.

THE SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY.--We
Understand the last week has exceeded all preceding ones in
amount of business done, more than 20,0()0 persons having
been conveyed on the line, in about five days.
IMPORTANT TO BooKsmAans.—Mr. Gale. Bookseller, o
Gnswell-road, has written a letter to the Times to say that an
informer has proceeded against him for selling the Church of
England Magaz;ne, without the printer's name at the begin-
' rung as well as at the end of the periodical in question. As
very many works are daily issuing from the press, liable, in
like manner, to the same objection, it would be well for the
booksellers at large to watch narrowly the result of this case,
pERILs of HORSEMANSIIIP.—Last week T. Chamberlain,
Esq., of Cranbury, arid P. Holland, of Dumbleton, near Eve.
sham, late M.P. for Worcestershire, suffered severe falls while
taking dangerous leaps, by which the former broke his collar.
bone and dislovated his shoulder, and the latter experienced
a fracture of the jaw-bone, accompanied by -severe bruises.
Both gentlemen are, however, in a fair way of recovery.
IMPORTS TO PRESTON.—The imports to Preston from Ire-
land' have tor sotne time past been very large, a circumstance
which must be exceedingly encouraging to the parties con-
cerned in the improvement of the Navigation-of the Ribble,
and the Wyre Railway. In the current week the following
is the summary of this department of traffic at our port:-
6765 barrels of oats • 4817 loads of meal; 935 barrels of
wheat ; 102 firkins and 7 crocks of butter.—Preston Pilot.

In several departments of the goVernment our intelligent
Ministers are busily engaged in repairing the mischiefs
which, under the specious pretext of economy they have,
from time to time, committed. A Whig Admiralty abolished
that most valuable institution, the Naval College in Ports-
mouth Dock-yard, and disbanded the Marine Artillery. It
is now proposed to revive the one, and will, we have' little
doubt, ere long, see it expedient to reorganize the other. An
Order in Council has passed for the re-establishment of the
Naval College.—United Service Gazette.
SOLAR SPOTS.—There is now on the eastern Lint) of the
sun a very fine spot, nearly large enough to be seen without a
glass. • With a pOwer of 150 to 200, it appears nearly oval,
of a dark black, and separated by two bright lines from the
northern side,—the one to the northwest, extending. to the
centre, and there forming a bright spot of considerable size,
equal in brightness to the rest of the sun. By the angle this
spot subtens, it cannot be much inferior in size to the whole
earth. There are likew.se more than twenty other small
spots on various parts of his disc, all of which seem to be
confined to within thirty degrees of the sun's equator.
DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM BRIGHTON.—With
much regret we have to communicate the intelligence that
the stay of the court at Brighton will be unexpectedly
brought to a close, and that. her Majesty will take her de-
parture for Beckingham Palace in the course of the ensuing.
week. Tuesday is the day at present fixed upon; and lire'
:
'wallops
.have already commenced .for the removal, It is
said that reasons of state render it desirable that•the queen
should return to the metropolis: be this as if may; we cannot
but remark, that her Majesty seems to have spent a very
quiet, if not a dull, Christmas.—Brighton guardian.