The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-02 00:00:00

TO TIE CURIOUS I

11i/FR. J. COLLES, (formerly of 49, Bathbone--plate,
IVII Oxford-street, London,) with a graleful recollection of
the patronage so liberally bestowed upohlilm by the Nobility
and Gentry of Liverpool and its Vicinity, during his-former
visit, nine years since, respectfully anndunces, that he has
returned for a short period, to take a farewell of this town,
previous to his retiring from a profession which, he trusts,
has afforded many pleasurable moments to both old ant
young. During his absence he has added largely to his
STOCK of CURIOSITIES, so that his former patrons will
find, in addition to those (then) Novelties, at that time
offered to their notice, a variety, consisting of 250 different,
curious, and amusing Articles, not to be met with elsewhere.
Having found, in other towns, when the admission was
gratuitous, that numbers have called at his Apartments
without the most remote intention of expending a single
shilling, to the exclusion of those who had every inclination
to become purchasers, he has felt himself under the necessity
of making a charge of
HALF-A-CROWN FOR EACH PERSON,

,
which will be allowed in the purchase of any article ainount-
ting to ss. or upwards. Children, if accompanied by their
friends, One Shilling each. This arrangement will make no,
difference whatever to those who really have a desire to Make
purchases, whilst it will have the effect of excluding those
who never think of gratifying their curiosity, so long as it
was attended with any expense. Parties who have once been
purchasers, or paid for admission, are at liberty to re-visit
Mr. C.'s apartments as often as they please without further
expense ; for which purpose, Ladies and Gentlemen, ou their
first visit, are required to send up their cards.

MR. COtLES
has taken apartments at Mr. CHAPMAN'S, Laceman, 106,
(late 62, BOLD-STREET, (within two doors of his
.former
lodgings,) where he will, until SATURDAY, August 10th, at
which time his apartments will be closed for a fortnight, in
consequence of having been previously engaged for the assizes,
OFFER FOR EXHIBITION AND SALE,

AMONG OTIIER ARTICLES,

,
THE MAGICAL DISSOLVING BALL,
decidedly the most successful deception Mr. C. has produced
for some years; price, in painted box, ls., in boxwood
boxes, 4:1 Bs.
THE MAGIC CIGAR CASES;
ENTHUSIASTIC VIOLONCELLO PLAYERS ;
CHANGEABLE CARDS;
MAGICAL DANCING FIGURES ;
And 230 other ingenious experiments and puzzles, vary in,::
in price from ss. to 30 guineas.
Please to observe, the above are not mere children's toys.
Hours of Business, from Eleven to Five each day.

Evening Parties attended. Terms,Five Guineas in town.
Mr. C.'s Aparttnents are-now open : note the address.

PRIESTLEY'S S EIDIATZ POWDERS.
fPRIESTLEY, CHEMIST, Lord-street, Liverpool,-begs
• particularly to call the attention Of his Friends and the
Public to his improved Preparation of the very justly-cele-
brated article SEIDLITZ POWDERS, to forinthe SEID-
LITZ WATERS, which approach nearer than anything yet
discovered to the Chalybeate Waters of Germany. The style
of preparing PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS is peculiar to
himself, and combines scientific skill With great accuracy,
and although numbers of peorla acquainted with the business,
and others, have of late years attempted imitations, they have
invariably been found to be spurious compounds, neither pos
sessing the agreeable flavour nor the medicinal properties of
the Seidlitz tVaters.
Sold in boxes 2s. each, containing twen -four poWders, to
make one dozen tumbler glasseS, and in n cases 10s..each.
The latter are put up in a very eligible form for exportation,
or to use at sea, and will keep any length of.time in all cli-
mates. Prepared and sold only by JOHN PRIESTLEY,_ No.
64, Lord-street, where also may be had Seidlitz Powders in
Packets.

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Just published, dedicated to her Majesty, price, large paper,
cloth extra, £2 12s. 6d. ; or, in morocco extra, £1 10s. ;
small paper, cloth extra, 31s. 6d. ; or, Morocco extra, £3.
THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE, in one ele-
gant volume, small folio, comprising also " A COM-
PLETE CONCORDANCE of the OLD and NEW
TESTAMENTS," is strongly recommended as decidedly
most appropriate and best adapted as a present to a new
married couple; as a token of remembrance to a distant
friend, or on birth days or other occasions ; as testified by
the following extracts from a considerable list of critical
notices :

Copy of a letter from the Rev. Di•. RAFFLES.
Edge-hill, February, 1839.
" Gentlemen, —I am exceedingly obliged to you for having
• afforded me a sight of the elegant volumes you sent for my
inspection. Your edition of the Bible, in the beauty of its
typography, and the taste displayed in its decorations, is
certainly unique; and
.I trust that many will be induced to
make a book, so precious as to its contents, and so graceful
in its ornaments, the medium of expressing their regard for
those relations and friends to whom they desire to present
some token of their esteem.

" I am, Gentlemen, yours very truly,
" THOMAS RAFFLES.

" Mess. Fisher, Son, and Co,, London.

1 7 ••
" This is an age of wonders as it respects the efforts of the
Press. Never was the art of printing so well understood as
it is in the present day. ' The illustrated Family Bible' is a
striking proof of the truth of these remarks. As a specimen
of typography it will be regarded by the best judges as unri-
valled in taste and beauty ; and in economy to the public it
i; no less remarkable. With pictorial illustrations, eminent
for their skill and adaptation, a Commentary long established
in the public confidence, and a Concordance written on a new
and improved principle, it is offered to families at an incon-
ceivably moderate sum. As a present to a newly-married
couple, just entering on the responsibilities of domestic life,
it may prove the means of extensive good to generations yet
unborn."—Evangelical Magazine, February, 1839.
*** The ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE is also pub-
lished in TWENTY PARTS, at 2s. 6d. large, or Is. 6d.
small paper.
Published for the Proprietor, by FISHER, SONand CO.,
London and Paris, and may be procured through all respect-
able booksellers in the kingdom.
Sold in Parts by AINSWORTH and Solvs, Nos. 1 and 2,
Custom-house Buildings, Liverpool.

COMMUTATION OF TITHES.
xthe Undersigned, being .the duly-authorised Agent of
9 the Provost and Scholars of King's College; .in • Cam-
bridge, and also of the Rev. Charles George Thomas Driffield;
Clerk, who are the Sole Titheowners within the Township of
Ditton, and Parish of Present, in the
.Counts Palatine of
Lancaster, do, by this Notice in writin under mY hand, call
a TOWNSHIP MEETING of LANDOWNERS, within
the limits of the said Township, for the purpose of Making'
an AGREEMENT for-the GENERAL COMMUTATION
of TITHES • within the limits of the said Township; purs-tant
to the provisions of an Act passed in the sixth and seventh
years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the
the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for the Commutation of Tithes
in England and Wales." And Ido hereby also give Notice,
that-such MEETING will be held at the House of John
Ramsay, the Golden Ball, in the said Township, on MON.:
DAY, the twelfth day of August next. at the hour of Eleven
in the Forenoon. Given under my hand, this eleventh day
of July, 1839,
The Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge,
C. G. T. Driflield,
By JOHN HOUGHTON, their Attorney.