The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-05 00:00:00

ASTRONOMY.

it/rR. WALKER respectfully informs the Nobility,
Gentry, Parents, the Heads of Schools, and the Inha-
bitants generally of Liverpool and its Vicinity, that intends
delivering a COURSE of THREE LEC RES on
ASTRONOMY, at the LIVER THEATRE OR MONDAY
next, the Bth, TUESDAY, the 9th, and DNESDAY, the
10th of June instant, illustrated by hi ovel and splendid
CONCAVE ORRERY, 42 feet in circur renee, the only one
ever constructed, with a variety of auxiliary Apparatus ;
altogether rendering the subject so plain as to be easily
understood by every capacity.
Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls., each Lecture. Youths
under fourteen years of age and Schools, to the BoxeS and
Pit, half-price. Doors to open at half-yast seven o'clock,
and the Lectures to commence at eight.
The same Course will be repeated on THURSDAY, the 11th,
PRIDAY, the 12th, and SATURDAY, the 13th June. •
In these Lectures, subjects will be introduced which have
never been grak)pled with by any other public Lecturer.
LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
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THE SIXTEENTH EXHIBITION of the WOR
MODERN ARTISTS WILL OPEN in
NEXT.
All Works of Art intended for Exhibition e received
from the 27th of July to the Bth of Angu nclusive, and
must be addressed to the Secretary, ibition Rooms,
Church-street, accompanied with a Note escribing them as-
intended to be inserted in the Catalogue. (No unnecessary
quotation or narrative can be admitted.)
At the back of each frame must be written the Name of
the Artist, and the Subject.
No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Gilt
Frame.

of
rGUST

No Copies, except Enamels, or Water Colours after known
celebrated Pictures, nor Wprks which have been publicly
Exhibited ill Liverpool, can Be-received.
Amateur Exhibitors are limited to one work of art.
SAML. EGJANGTON,
Secretary to the Liverpool Academy of Art.
June 51h, 1840.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.
CAPITAL. £2,120,000, IN £2O SHARES.

NO SUBSCRIBER LIABLE FOR MORE THAN THE AMOUNT OF

HIS SUBSCRIPTION.
DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND.

LONDON. LIVERPOOL/
John Easthope, Esq., M.P., I John Moss, Esq,'
William Chaplin, Esq. Charles Lawrence, Esq.
DIRECTORS IN FRANV.
Mons. Jacques Laffitte, Compte Parles de Kersaint,
Mons. Charles Laffitte, Mons. Casimir de L'Espee,
Mons. Edward Blount, jun., Vicomte Alban de Villeneuve.
Vicompte Denys Benoist,
ENGINEER.—JOSEPH LOCKE, Esq.,
Who, after full and carefully repeated surveys of the Line,
has reported the cost of construction as under £22,000 per
Mile—the tine traversing the Valley of the Seine, and with
no worse gradient than 1 in 330, in its whole length of
eighty miles.
TT commences by a junction with the Paris and St. Ger-
i. main's Railway, at a point four miles from Paris ; and a
satisfactory arrangement has been made with the Proprietors
of that Line for this Company's use of it, and of the Sta-
tions, &c.

The Government of France has agreed to lend to the Com-
pany who construct this Line One-Seventh of the Total
Capital, at £4 per cent. interest, and repayable in thirty
years, commencing the third year from the period fixed for
completion of the Line; and the Government, moreover,
subscribe another Seventh of the Capital, taking in respect
of the latter Seventh no Divideed until the other Share-
holders receive £4 per cent., and then only One-Eighth of
the annually divided Profits, in respect of their Seventh of
the Capital.

The Amount of Capital, in Shares, at the disposal of the
English Directors, is £720,000, upon which payment will be
required as follows, viz.:—

A Deposit of £2 per Share at the time of allotment; £2
within two months after the French Legislature shall have
confirmed the already declared views of their Government by
passing a law for the construction of the Line ; and £2 per
Share within every succeeding three months until the whole
£2O is paid up.
According to the Estimates of Traffic made by gentlemen
who are now and have been long connected with Railways in
this country, and who have personally availed themselves of
the means of testing repeatedly the accuracy of these Esti-
mates, there is the best reason to anticipate a much greater
revenue from this Line than from any which has been made
or projected in England.
The appropriation of Profits will be as follows :—(After
£5 per cent. interest to the Shareholders at large, and a Con-
tribution towards a Sinking Fund for the ultimate benefit of
the Company of £1 per cent.) 17-20ths amongst the Share-
holders equally, 1-20th for the Expenses of Management,
and the remaining 2-20ths to the Projectors of the under-
taking.
The return of the whole deposit money is guaranteed by
the Projectors in case the sanction of the French Legislature
e
e not obtained as desired.
Although the Shares will be transferable immediately after
6 passing of the law, the original Subscriber is to remain
liable to the Company to the extent of the first £6 per Share ;
after Calls to this extent have been paid, the original Sub-
scriber's liability will cease upon his transferring his Shares.
And when the full sum of £2O is paid up, the Shares will be -t
transferrable to bearer, (like English Exchequer Bills.)
Further information may be obtained by application to
Messrs. CLAY and SWIFT, Solicitors, Liverpool.
Liverpool, May 28, 1840.