The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

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PRICE H A LF-A-CROWN.

13APHAEL'S PROPHETIC MESSENGER AL
MANACK AND EPHEMERIS FOR 1 shewin;
the Events, Predictions, and the Weather that will occu
during each Month in 1842; with the floaplicoPEs OF THJ
QUEEN, the NATIVITY OF THE PRINCE OWALES, MEL
BOURNE, WELLINGTON, PEEL, &C., sh ing the Influenc
of the Planets on their Lives and Actions in 1842. MA
GICAL EVENINGS' and CHRISTMAS AMUSE
MENTS.

N.B. Great Success has caused a Second Plate to be given,
and a more copious Variety of Poetry, Tales, suil amusing
Articles, particularly the Laughable WHEEL of Pyrn AGORAS
and the CABILISTIC NUMBERS, SO IS to place it more com-
pletely at THE HEAD of the smaller Annuals.
London : Published on the First of every October by
WILLIAM CIIARLTON WRIGHT, of No. 4. Paternoster-row,
Cheapside, the 22d Year of Publication.—H ALF-A-CROWN.

132, Fleet-street, London.
PICTORIAL TOPOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND.

Messrs. HOW and PARSONS will commence publishing,

on January Ist, a new work, entitled

T'NGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,
Two Parts, at 2s. 6d. each, will then be issued, viz.:7:

NORTHERN DIVISION, Part 1., commencing LAN.
CASHIRE.

SOUTHERN DIVISION, Part. if., commencing
CORNWALL. ti - _

The work now proposed will constitiV a body of pictorial
topography, on a novel and interesting plan, combining views
and description of the picturesque in nature with the won-
drous in att, and exhibiting England as it is, under its several
aspects of natural scenery, historic memorials, and productive
industry. _

Each county will be personally visited, and the illustrations
drawn on the spot. Local customs, legends, and peculiari-
ties, the old halls and battle fields, the varied systems of
agriculture, and the great branches of our national industry,
will be carefully noticed ; and at the end of each county will
be presented, in a tabular form, topographical and statistical
information which is now spread over many volumes, em-
bracing the Population Returns (1841), Benefices, Names of
Incumbents, Tithe Commutations, Poor-Law Unions, an
Abstract of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Charities,
Schools, Places of Worship, Savings' Banks It eturns, Turn-
pike Trusts, Parliamentary Representation, Names of the
Magistracy, Accounts of the Canals and Railroads, &c.,
&c., &c.
he editorship of the work is committed to Mr. REDDING :
Cornwall will be the production of his pen ; the manufactur-
ing details of Lancashire will be written by W. C. TAYLOR,
LL.D., and the remaining portion by Mr. Redding.
The work will be issued in half-crown parts, each to contain
48 pages of letter-press, in imperial octavo, and above twenty
superior woodcuts ; with one engraving on steel of an attrac-
tive landscape, from a subject by Mr.Creswick. An accu-
rate map of every county will be given. Two parts will
appear every month—one belonging to a county principally
noted for its natural beauties, the other for some branch of
national manufacture. Cornwall will be comprised in four or
five parts, and Lancashire in six.
*** Prospectuses may be had through any bookseller.