The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
MR. WALTHEW having Resigned the Situation of
COLLECTOR OF RATES, I again respectfully offer
myself to your notice as a CANDIDATE to undertake that
Situation.
Should I be so fortunate as to meet with your approval, I
assure you it will be my most earnest wish, by endeavouring
with zeal and integrity, to fulfil the onerous duties of that
office, to merit your approbation.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Yours obediently and respectfully,
JOSEPH ROBINSON.
55, Fleet-street, 15th October.

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS or THE LADIES' CHARITY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
UNDERSTANDING that a VACANCY is about to
t-) occur in the office of ACCOUCHEUR to your excellent
Charity, by the intended Resignation of Mr. BEVAN, who is
removing to Aigburth, I beg respectfully to offer myself as a
CANDIDATE for the Situation.
Having already had a practice of more than fourteen years
in this particular branch of the Profession, I venture with
more confidence to solicit the favor of your vote, and to
assure you, that if honoured by your support on the occasion,
nothing on my part shall be wanting to forward the benevo-
lent object of your Institution.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servant,
W. H. BAINBRIGGE,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London,
and Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company.
68, Upper Mount Pleasant, Liverpool,
22d October, 1839.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
To the ORIGINAL SHAREHOLDERS, or SCRIP-
HOLDERS, in the IMPERIAL BANK.

Ladies and Gentlemen,—Deeply impressed, as I feel, with
a conviction that a state of things, in every account to be de-
precated, is impending over you, and sincerely anxious to
ward off from those amongst you, who were not amongst the
concoctors of this project, the effects of a blow, which would
fall most deservedly on those who originated and profited by
it, permit me to trespass for a few moments on your atten-
tion, before you are led to errors yourselves in any of those
clubs which are forming, for the avowed purpose of mutual
defence, and trying the queston of liability. Allow me to
ask you to consider, whether the end of such associations
must not, most inevitably, be interminable litigation and law
charges, much more burdensome to each of you than a mo-
derate contribution from each to the common loss, according
to the number of shares to which your name is appended.
Were such a sum to be paid, under a protest against your li-
ability, into a bank, approved by yourselves, in the names of
trustees chosm by you, and to be applied, if a sufficient sum
be thus raised to meet the deficiencies caused by the misma-
nagement of the bank ; or, if an adequate amount be not thus
contributed, then after payment of expenses, and after aid-
ing, so far as you may think proper, the inspecting commit-
tee in enforcing the claims of justice on bond fide scriphold-
ers, unwilling to bear any proportion of the common burden,
if the residue be returnable to you ; or be disposable by your
decision at a meeting to be convened for the express purpose
of its application ; there will, as appears to me, be a speedy,
cheap, and effectual stop to ruin, bearing its own guarantee,
that no unequal burden shall be borne by any. lamin no
way connected with shareholders or scripholders, as any rela-
tive or clients ; but I represent, as many of you may be aware,
a very large body of depositors in the most prosperous of your
branches. On their behalf, I tender for your acceptance this
olive branch. I have, in the last few days, taken some pains
to confer with the principal solicitors in the same position as
myself, and with some who are largely concerned for share-
holders and scripholders, with a wish to obtain their sanction
of a meeting, at the York Hotel, in a short time, to take
such propositions into the consideration of the scripholders,
and their legal advisers. I have great hopes that some, whose
names will be to von a pledge of the propriety and practicabi-
lity or the prupuseu course, Lillis sat-Mat/II it. nut i tear
that, before these arrangements can be completed, many of
you may have been induced to pledge yourselves to support
measures which you may afterwards regret, as having invol-
ved, not yourselves and your families only, bnt as having di-
minished the support of the widow, the orphan the sick, and
the infirm. For their sakes, as well as far your own, pause,
I beseech you, before -ou combine. Pause and consider
whether we do not submit to you that whieh is the best and
most safe and speedy mode you can adopt, to rid yourselves
of the pest which, under the sanction of most respectable and
Influential names, used in many cases, doubtless, without the
slightest authority, has done more, in a few months, to tar-
nish the fair fame of Manchester men, than any commercial
speculation, I can remember, since I was born among you.—
I have the honour to be, ladies and gentlemen, yours res-
pectfully, GEORGE TAYLOR.
York Hotel, Manchester, 0ct.:17, 1839.