The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

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 he 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
pointed out by one on assistant engineers, It 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 representatives, attend personally, and produce an
undertaking (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 re-
spective proposals.

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The Ardwick Contract commences at the Junction with the
Manchester and Birmingham Railway, near Blind-lane, Ard-
wick, at the outskirts of the eastern side of Manchester, and
extends to near the Gorton Resorvoir, opposite the Fairfield
walls, on the new road to Ashton-under-Lyne, a distance of
two and three quarter miles. The works consist of about
twenty Bridges, several Culverts, an Aqueduct for the Stock-
port branch of the Ashton Canal, a great extent of retaining
walls, and about 180,000 cubic yards of excavation.
The Hattertley Contract extends from the gravel pit, near
the turn-pike road from Mottram, in Longendale, 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. This 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. _ _

The Gamesley Contract extends from the east end of the
Etherow Viaduct to the west end of the great Viaduct at
Dinting Vale, on the turn-pike road, a mile below Glossop,
and about twelve miles from Manchester. This work con-
tains 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 and Manchester ; or at the office
of Mr. VIGNOLES, the Company's Engineer, No. 4, Trafal-
gar-square, London ; at Mottram and at Tintwistle, in Che-
shire, on the road to Sheffield. By order of the Directors,
CHAS. THOMPSON, Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, 24th April, 1839.

THE MERCHANT'S TEA COMPANY,
89, GREAT GEORGE-STREET,
NEAR SAINT JAMES'S MARKET, LIVERPOOL.
EDWARD GILBERT and CO. most respectfully take
leave to intimate to the Gentry, Clergy, and Families in
Liverpool, and throughout the Northern Counties, that their
chief study will be to maintain that superiority which Public
Opinion and patronage have long since conceded to their
Establishment ; at the same time, they beg to offer their sin-
cere thanks for the liberal support already bestowed upon
them during the period they have occupied the above Pre-
mises.
E. G. and Co. have now completed such alterations and
improvements as they considered necessary to conduct the
business on a more convenient and extensive scale, enabling
them to execute all orders on the shortest notice, and under
their own immediate inspection:
They especially invite attention to the following list of
Qualities and Prices:
HOWQUA'S celebrated MIXTURE, at the reduced price
of
HONG MIXTURE, Ditto at Os. Od.
LAPSANG, of the hest kind 4s. 4d. 7t
Good CONGOU, at 3s. Bd.
Very Good DITTO, at 4s. Od.
Fine Pekoe-flavoured SOUCHONG ss. Od.
Finest Imported

GREEN TEAS.
TWANKAY 4s. Od. ',
HYSON Kind
HYSON ss. Od. ~
Finest Young HYSON
GUNPOWDER ' 6s. 6d. ~
Finest DITTO
MERCHANT'S TEA COMPANY,
87, GREAT GEORGE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
EDWARD GILBERT & CO., Proprietors.