The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

OCEAN ASSURANCE COMPANY.

THE DIRECTORS having received a REQUISITION
1 requiring them to calla SPECIAL: GENE RA L
MEETING of the Company, for the purposes therein spe.
cified, do hereby appoint such Meeting to be held on WED.:
NESDAY, the 2d October next, in the Cotton Sales Room,
at One o'clock in the afternoon.
By order of the Directors,
RICHARD RAWSON, Manager.
Liverpool, 16th Sept., 1839.

MODERN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, WEST
DERBY-STREET.
By Mr. BYFORD,
On FRIDAY next, October 4, punctually at Eleven o'clock,
upon the Premises, West Derby-street, opposite Mount
Vernon-street,
TH E • remaining part of the excellent and modern
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Mangle, and Effects
of a Gentleman deceased.

The Mahogany Furniture comprises Pedestal Sideboard,
twelve Chairs, covered with Hair Seating, set handsome
Dining Tables, Pembroke and Card Ditto, Reclining Chair,
covered in Morocco Leather, Secretaire and Bookcase,
Bookcase 'kith Glazed Doors and Drawers under, Wardrobe,
Hatstand, and Chest of Drawers.
The Drawing-room Furniture includes ten Stained Rose-
wood Chairs, antique shape, covered in Stripe Silk Tabanet,
Sofa, upholstered in ditto, handsome Loo and Card Tables,
&c.

Bed-room Furniture, &0., lofty Four-post and Camp Bed-
steads, Feather Beds and Bedding, Painted Chamber Arti-
cles and Toilet Ware, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets,
Fenders and Fire-irons, Chimney and Dressing Glasses,
Mangle, Kitchen Requisites, and other Effects.
May be viewed on THURSDAY preceding the Sale, when
Catalogues may be had on the Premises, or of Mr. BYFORD,
at his Rooms, Clayton-square.

This day is published, price-6d.,
1)14 EMARKS in REPLY to a PAMPHLET entitled,
" WAREHOUSES upon the DOCK QUAYS."
Printed and Sold by Thos. KATE, Castle-street.

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In the press, and shortly will be published, with four beauti-
ful Lithographic Drawings.
A N ACCOUNT of the EARTHQ(TAKE of JUAN
11l FERNANDEZ, in 1835. Also,l,'a Brief Account of
the INSURRECTION there in August, 1835. By the
retired Governor of those Islands.

TRASER'S MAGAZINE for OCTOBER, price 2s. 6d.,
contains :
The Knights of Aristophanes. 'Noat.—The Legend of
Becket. Part I.—The Elder Sacred Poets—Some Recollec-
tions of James Hogg. No. I.—The Church—The French
Plutarch ; I. Cartouche's Highways and Byways. 11. Little
Poinsinet—The Youth of Julia Howard—Continuation of
Dr. Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare. By
William Maginn, LL.D.—Don Carlos, Christina, and the
Spanish Question—The Last Eve of St. John ! A Lay of
the Scottish Mist—A Passage in the Second Year of the
Reign of Queen Victoria—Two Sonnets on a late Soaring
Expedition to the Lords. By Sir Morgan O'Doherty.
JAMES FRASER, London ; and W. GRAPEL, Church-
street, Liverpool.

FOREIGN & BRITISH LACE, BLONDE, RIBBON,
SILK, FRENCH EMBROIDERY,
AND
GENERAL FANCY DRESS ESTABLISHMENT,
58, BOLD-STREET,
OPPOSITE NEWINGTON.
JOHN LANGDALE respectfully announces to the Ladies
tj of Liverpool and its vicinity, his return from the Lon-
don and Paris markets, where he has purchased every novelty
peculiar to his Establishment, celebrated either for beauty
of design or usefulness of fabric. Amongst the novelties
will he found an endless variety of Foreign and British real
Pouint and Brussels Laces, Blondes, &c. of the most antique
designs, Embroidered Muslin, Lace, and Brussels Shawls,
Capes, Collars, Scarfs, Handkerchiefs, &c.
The DRESS DEPARTMENT comprises the greatest
variety for the present and approaching season, in Printed
and Plain French Merinos, French and BritishMousselines
de Laine, Chilis, Cashmeres, Neapolitans, French and Spi-
talfields Silk, Sattins, Sattin Tures, French Muslins, Lace
Dresses, &c.

Milliners are invited to inspect the departmeht, comprising
every new colour in Velvets, Corded Silks, Sattins, with
beautiful Flowers and Ribbons to match, for Bonnets, the
whole being of the most tasteful designs, and of the very
best qualities, and offered for the very smallest profit.