The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE SALE OF FURNITURE,
WINSTANLEYS' ROOMS.
MESSRS. THOMAS WINSTANLEY and SONS re-
spectfully announce that they will SELL by AUC-
TION, at their Rooms, Church-street, on TUESDAY, the 28th
instant, and three following days, at Eleven o'clock precisely
each day,
An EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT Of MODERN and EXCELLENT
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Large LIBRARY BOOK-
CASE, SIDEBOARD OF PLATE, PLATED ARTICLES, Table,
Tea, and Dessert Service of CHINA, Cut GLASS, Fine Six-
octave Horizontal Grand PIANO-FORTE, by Broadwood and
Sons, several CABINET and SQUARE DITTO, by favourite
makers, a VALUABLE CHAMBER ORGAN, modern Paintings
and Framed Prints, Chimney. and Pier Glasses, and other
Articles, removedfor the convenience of Sale.
The MAHOGANY ARTICLES consist of a set of modern
Dining Tables, on Pillars and Telescope Frames, Pedestal
and Celleret Sideboards, Chiffonniers, Cabinet sets of
Dining-room and Parlour Chairs, Grecian Couches and
Sofas, Circular and Elliptic Loo Tables, Card Ditto, and
Sofa Tables, Reclining Chairs, Secretaires, Wardrobes,
Chests of Drawers, Toilette Tables and Washstands, with
Marble Tops, &c.
The CHAMBER FURNITURE Comprises modern and ele-
gant Four-post French and Camp Bedsteads, with Morine
and Printed Calico hangings, well-seasoned Feather Beds,
Hair Mattresses and Bedding, Painted Winged and other
Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables,Washstanda,
and- Chairs, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets, Fenders
and Fire-irons. _ _

A variety of Rosewood Dressing-room Furniture, in Loo
and Card Tables, of Rosewood, Couches, Sofas, and Sets of
Chairs, of Imitation Rosewood, handsome Brussels Carpets,
Fenders and Fire-irons.

Shower Baths, Office Fixtures, Kitchen Requisites, &c.
The whole to be viewed on MONDAY next, the 27th instant,
when Catalogus may be had at the Rooms.

By Messrs. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
On SATURDAY, the lith June next, (instead of Wednesday,
the 22d instant, as before advertised,) at One o'clock in
the Afternoon, at the Clarendon Rooms, South John-
street, Liverpool,
ALL that Piece or Parcel of LAND, with the MESSUAGE
or DWELLING-HOUSE, OFFICES, and PRE-
MISES (lately occupied as a Brewery) thereon erected,
situate in the township of West Derby, on the south side of
the public highway leading from Liverpool towards Prescot,
called Prescot-street, containing in front thereto 8 yards 1
foot and 6 inches, and running in depth backwards on the
east side 10 yards 10 inches, then turning east at a right
angle and running 11 yards 2 feet, and then turning south
at a right angle and running in further depth backwards
, and running in depth backwards on the west
side 19 yards 2 feet and 9 inches, and being in breadth at the
back yards, be the several dimensions thereof a little
more or less, bounded on the north by Prescot-street, on
the east by land belonging to Thomas Wainwright and by
other land late of Joseph Clarkson, and on the west by a
boundary road, and at the back by land belonging to Isaac
Harrison.

The above is Freehold of Inheritance.

For further particulars apply to Messrs. LACES, CLAY,
and MyEus, Castle-street; or to Messrs. CROOK and SON,
Accountants, 19, Exchange-street East.

CABINET MAKER'S AND UPHOLSTERER'S
STOCK.
By Mr. WALKER,
On FRIDAY next, the 24th instant, at Eleven o'clock pre-
cisely, at his Rooms, 31, Church-street,
THE remaining STOCK of a cabinet-maker and uphol-
sterer, comprising sets of Mahogany and Rosewood
Chairs, Lounging Chairs, Sofas, Mahogany Pedestal Side-
boards, Loo and Pembroke Tables, winged and other Ward-
robes, sets of lofty Four-post Bedsteads, with Mahogany
Foot-posts and Foot-boards, Night-Commode, Hat-Stands,
Chimney Glass, &c. ; also upwards of
FOUR HUNDRED DOZEN ROOM PAPERS,
and seven Pieces of 3-4ths and 4-4ths London Floor-Cloth,
in lots to suit the trade, or private purchasers. Also the
Office Desk, with Iron Safe.
May be viewed on Thursday, the 23rd, when Catalogues
may be had of Mr. WALKER, 31, Church-street.

CARPET WAREHOUSE,
FRINGE MANUFACTORY,
AND GENERAL

FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT,
ADELPHI HOUSE,
21, BOLD-STREET, OPPOSITE CONCERT-STREET,LIVERPOOL
GWOODS and CO% having just returned from London
• and the Provincial Markets, their STOCK is now
replete with every novelty in Carpets, Hearth-rugs, Floor
and Lobby Cloths, Moreens, Damasks, Furniture Chintzes,
Quilts, Blankets, Window Muslins, and every article requi-
site in Furnishing. Also, a very large assortment of French
Embossed Table Covers, and a great variety of German
Painted Oil Baize Covers. bearing a most excellent Likeness
of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, and several other
very elegant and chaste designs.
Fringes, Laces, Gimps, Bell-ropes, Tassels, and every
description of Upholsterers' Trimmings, manufactured on
the Premises.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
CONTRACTS.
THE following CONTRACTS on the above line will be
LET from sealed proposals in the order hereinafter
stated.
The Plans, Sections, Working Drawings, Specifications,
and also the Drafts and Contracts, may be seen and copied,
and printed forms of Tender obtained, at the Offices of the
Company, or of the Engineer.
The line is distinctly trigged out on the ground, and branded
pegs set down at every chain length, and will be pointed out
by one of the Assistant-Engineers, if required.
The Tenders are to be delivered in sealed, and addressed
to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company only.
No Tender will be entertained unless made and filled up on
one of the printed forms, nor unless the parties proposing, or
their representative, attend personally, and produce an un-
dertaking (on a form of letter which will be supplied, to be
properly filled up and) signed by two responsible parties,
engaging to become sureties, in the event of the Tender being
accepted.
The Directors will meet at Twelve o'clock at Noon, to
open the Tenders, and declare the lettings, upon each of the
days following those appointed for the delivery of the
respective proposals.

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N.B.—The remainder of the Contracts between the Sum-
mit Tunnel and Manchester will be ready for letting before
Midsummer.
The TUNNEL commences near Audenshaw Clough, about
a mile above Woodhead, on the Saltersbrook road to Sheffield,
and eighteen miles from Manchester, and extends into York-
shire to near Dunford Bridge, over the River Dun, six miles
above Peniston. The strata in the tunnel are presumed to
alternate in rock and shale. The shafts and boreholes will
be let singly or otherwise.
The ARDWICK CONTRACT commences at the Junc-
tion with the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, near
Blind-lane, Ardwick, at the outskirts of the eastern side of
Manchester,tand extends to near Gorton Reservoir, opposite
the Fairfield Walls, on the new road to Ashton-under-Lyne,
a distance of two and three-quarter miles. The work con-
sists of about twenty bridges, several culverts, an aqueduct
for the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal, a great extent
of retaining walls, and about 180,000 cubic yards of excava-
tion.

The CARLCOATES CONTRACT extends from the
eastern face of the tunnel, near Dunford Bridge, about a
mile down the valley of the river Dun. The work includes
some bridges and culverts, and the diversion of the river Dun
and the adjacent brooks. The excavation will go partly to
spoil. The above contract is situated six miles west of
Peniston, and about eight miles south of Huddersfield.
The HATTERSLEY CONTRACT extends from the
gravel pit near the turnpike road from Mottram, in Long-
dendale, towards Stockport, to the west end of the Etherow
Viaduct at Old Broadbottom Brow, on the river Etherow,
dividing Cheshire and Derbyshire, and opposite Best Hill
Mill, being a distance of about one mile and fourteen chains.
The work includes several bridges, a short viaduct, and a
considerable extent of retaining walls, and about 300,000
yards of earthwork, some of which will go to spoil. The
above is situated nine or ten miles east of Manchester, and
about a mile south of Mottram.

By order of the Directors,
CHARLLS THOMSON, Secretary,
15, Piccalilli, Manchester; 24th 1839.

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The GAMESLEY CONTRACT extends from the east
end of the Etherow Viaduct to the west end of the great
viaduct at Duffing Vale, on the turnpike road, a mile below
Glossop, and about twelve miles from Manchester. This
work contains several bridges and culverts, and about 480,000
cubic yards of excavation. _ _ _

Any further information may be obtained at the Offices of
the Company in Sheffield or Manchester ; or at the Office of
Mr. VlGwoLts, the Company's Engineer, No. 4, Trafalgar-
square, London ; at Mottram and at Tintwistle, in Cheshire,
on the road to Sheffield.