The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-19 00:00:00

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
NINTH CALL OF £5 PER SHARE.
THE DIRECTORS of the GREAT NORTH OF ENG-
LAND RAILWAY COMPANY, HEREBY GIVE
e
NOTICE, that a CALL of FIVE POUN per SHARE,
on each of the Shares in the said Co ny, r, has this day
been made, which is to be paid oil or efore MONDAY, the
25th day of March now next ensuing, to the credit of Joseph
Pease, jun., Esq., M.P., the Company's Treasurer, with
any of the following Bankers, namely,
In London, Messrs. Drewett and Fowler.
At Liverpool, The Commercial Bank of Liverpool.
„ York, The City and County Banking Company.
„ Newcastle
The Northumberland and Durham Dis.
„ Shields
„ Sunderland trict Banking Company.
„ Durham 1
„ Darlington
„ Stockton
„ Thirsk
„ Northallerton
„ Bishop Auckland
~ Barnard Castle
Or the Amount may be remitted through any Country
Banker, to Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, as above. Interest,
at Five per Cent., will be charged on Instalments not duly
paid.

To Messrs. Backhouse and Corn
pany, or their Agents.

FRA. NEWBURN, Clerk to the Company,
Great North of England Railway Office,
Darlington, 19th February, 1839.

LONDON AND PRESTON MAILS.

(From the votes and proceedings of the House of Commons
of Wednesday night.)
On the motion of Mr. Wallace, the following returns were
ordered :
" Of the hours of departure and arrival of the morning and
evening mails from London to Birmingham, and from Bir-
mingham to Warrington, and from Warrington to Preston,
fixed by the post-master-general ; and the hours at which
they did actually depart and arrive each day, as exhibited by
the time bills, since the opening of the North Union Railway,
to the Ist day of this instant March."
" Of the average speed of travelling required by the post-
master-general for the mail trains on the London and Bir-
mingham, the Grand Junction, and the North Union Ral-
ways, respectively."
" Of any fines or penalties which the above-named railroad
companies have incurred, and what have actually been levied
by the postmaster-general under the powers vested in him by
the act Ist and 2d Vic. c. 98.

THE NEW BEER BILL.

Abstract of a Bill to alter and amend the laws relating to

the sale of Beer.
This bill enacts that a person applying for a license•must
produce a certificate that the house is of the value of £lO
per annum, and is rated at the sum at least, and has been in
the applicant's occupation for twelve months.
Any overseer neglecting to give such certificate, shall forfeit
£5.

Any person making or using a false certificate, shall forfeit
£lO ; and licenses obtained by such shall be void.
That after the 10th of October, 1840, the present duty pay-
able on excise licenses for the retail of beer to be drunk on
the premises shall cease, and that the sum of £5 ss. shall be
levied upon each house, in lieu thereof.
Houses in London or Westminster, or in or within a mile
of any city, town, or polling place for elections, for which
licenses are required, must be of the annual value of £l5,
and have beenin the applicant's occupation for twelve months
previous.

PIN MAKING.—In the course of examination, respecting
the patent right to a pin-making machine, spine curious facts
came out, for it appears that the average weight, of pins each
day manufactured is two tons ; and one house has a contract
each year for pins to the amount of six hundred and fifty
millions.