The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

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WANTED, in a Ladies' School, ne -"Liverpool, an
ASSISTANT, competent to In ct in the usual
branches of an English Education, a o superintend the
younger pupils in Music. She mus e a Member of the
Established Church.

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Apply to W. N. S., No. 4, India Buildings, Water-street,
Liverpool.

WANTED, for a Merchant's Officie, a respectable
YOUTH, of about eighteen yeatrrif age. None need
apply without unexceptionable referen sas to character.
Address, Box T 38, Postoflice.

WANTED, respectable, persevering /MEN, of good
V V character, to SOLICIT ORDER or a NEW PUB-
LICATION.
Apply by letter, pre-paid, F. S. J. care of Mr. J. ED-
WARDS, Dyer, 64, Richmond-row.

EXTENSIVE
CARPET AND FURNITURE WA HOUSE,

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HANOVER-STREET, LIVERI6OI

THOMAS BRANAI

Respectfully announces, that he ONSTANTLY ON SALE,
lfe
At the HANOVE OOMS,
lv extensive and valua le Stock of El

A particular

Of eve

Fashionable

CABINET

:pant and

URNITURE,

description, manufactured in the first style of ex-
cellence, from the best Materials,
INCLUDING _ _

DRAWING-ROOM SUITES, of Real and Imitation

Rosewood

IN CIRCULAR AND OBLONG LOO,
Work, Flower, Card, Occasional, Writino., Sofa, and Fancy
Tables, What Nots, Chairs, Couches, *Sofas, Tea Poys,
Cheffoniers, Canterburies, Fire Screens, &c.
MAHOGANY FURNITURE,
In Sliding-frame and other forms of Dining Tables, Pedestal
and Cellaret Sideboards, Single and Winged Bookcases,
Secretaires, Cheval and other Screens, Single and Double
Wardrobes, Ladies' Wardrobes, with brass rods and arms,
for Dresies, Trafalgar and Balloon-formed Chairs, Card,
Library, Loo, Invalid, Sofa, Snap, Pembroke, Ladies' Work
and Screen Tables, Running Side-tables, Couches, Sofas,
Children's Chairs, Cots, and Cribs, Chests of Drawers,
Night Commodes, Bedsteps, Bidets, Hat Stands, Boot Racks,
Music Standsand Stools, Canterburies, Hall Chairs, Butler's
Trays, with Stands, Foot Stools, Cheffoniers, Quartetto-
tables, Dressing-tables and Basin-stands, Rising Sideboard
Tables, Gentlemen's Library or Office Tables, Double and
Single Knife Boxes, &c.
RECUMBENT INVALID CHAIRS
Elegant Lounging, Library. and Deicititona
FOLDING SOFA AND CHAIR BEDS,
JAPANNED. STAINED. AND FANCY CHAIRS,

1 CIIAIRS,

In the greatest variety

Four-post, Cottage, Conopy, French, Dome, Camp, Nursery,
and Press BEDSTEADS, of every form,
In Mahogany, Birch, and Painted Woods ;
Feather BEDS, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES,
PAINTED CHAMBER REQUISITES,
Of all descriptions,
In Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Tables, Basin-

,
stands, Towel Airers, &c.
Elegant CHIMNEY and DRESSING GLASSES,
A VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL
ITALIAN SCULPTURED ORNAMENTAL FIGURES
VASES, URNS, EWERS, &c.,
Also, a very diversified Stock of
BRUSSELS, DAMASK, VENETIAN, KIDDERMINSTER, and
JUTE CARPETING,
Embracing the most Modem Patterns, of excellent
Manufacture ;
TURKEY AND BRITISH HEARTH RUGS,
A great variety of beautiful PRINTED DRUGGETS,
In the newest and most admired taste ;

Crimson, Drab, Green, and Mixture DRUGGETS,
BLANKETS,
Figured FLOOR and LOBBY CLOTHS,
Of all dimensions, for cutting to fit Rooms, Halls, Lobbies

Shops, and Ships' Cabins,
INDIA AND ENGLISH MATTING,
Black Hair Seatings, of all Widths, &c. &c.
INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS ;
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, &C.

JUST ARRIVED

,0 Barrels of SHADDOCKS

K-FOithIDDEN FRUIT,

j MIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WARE- '
0 • HOUSE, 6, PARKER-STREET, near/Church-street.
J. M. recommends an early application for e Fruit selected
for Preserving, &c. H e has also just reeeiv a fresh supply of
the fine high-flavoured American Pippins hick he will sell in
Barrels, Halves, and Quarters ; also, quantity of Sweet
Pot, or Summer Oranges, Pomegr ates, Tafilat Dates,
Spanish Melons, &c. ; and is consta y supplied with Kent
Walnuts, Filberts, and Cob Nuts ; h Raisins, in boxes and
cartoons, will be found of very superior quality ; new Jordan
and Shell Almonds, French ani Portugal Plums, new Figs,
with every Fruit in season, of the best quality ; Spanish and
Portugal Grapes, in large and small packages, in the best
preservation for keeping ; also, Hambro Ditto, for Desserts ;
Preserved Quinces, Pears, &c. &c. ; with an assortment of
Marmalades, Jams and Jellies, Olives, Pickles, Sauces, &c. ;
also, a few Boxes of fine Portugal Onions.
A great variety of French PEARS, arrived this day.
J. M. will pledge himself to sell every choice Fruit under
any Establishment in Town ; and he also engages to supply,
from his own Establishment, every Article in his advertise-
ment—an unusual thing with advertisers. The Public are
aware his Family Fruit Warehouse has been established for
the sale of choice Fruits, and Patronised by the Nobility
generally in the surrounding Counties, for upwards of thirty

years.
East India Preserved Ginger, in original packages; best
Jamaica Ditto and Limes, in jars lib. and upwards.
J. M. begs to observe, his Forbidden Fruit are selected
from the same gardens as those he had the honour of sup-
plying her Majesty with last season.
Private Families supplied, as usual, to any extent, and at
any distance, on receipt of Post-office or other remittances.
N.B.—The Trade supplied on liberal terms.

TO MARKET GARDENERS AND OTHERS, AND
FOR EXPORTATION.
FOR7'Y TO FIFTY TrIOUSAND GOOSEBERRY
AND CURRANT TREES FOR SALE.
WILLIAM MAY, HOPE NURSERY, Leeming-lane,
near Bedale, Yorkshire, begs to call the attention of
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Planters to the above, which are of ver fine quality, two and
three years old, comprising all the m strapproved sorts in
cultivation, by name, at 10s. per h fired, or £1 4s. per
thousand. Large Red Antwerp Roops £4 per thousand.
Also, an extensive Stock of Forest and Fruit Trees, Quick-
wood, Evergreen and Deciduous Shrubs, Hardy, Herbaceous,
and Greenhouse Plants, &c.
The above will be securely Packed for Exportation, at the
Nursery, if requested.
N.B.—Direct Land and Water Carriage to all parts of the
Kingdom.
j A Remittance or Reference is respectfully solicited.

VTR. E. HARRISON, SEN., begs to inform the Gentle-
ita. men of Liverpool that be intends haiing a
GRAND FENCING EXHIBITION,
ON MONDAY NEXT, THE lid JANUARY,
AT THE SHOOTING GALLEI,Y yYORK HOTEL,

when several of his Pupils will go titrough the various Exer-
cises in the Science.
Admission, 2s. Gd., and Young Gentlemen under Fourteen,
Is. Gd. _

A Military Band will be in attendance.
Tickets may be had from Mr. E. HARRISON, 52, Walnut-
street; Mr. J. HARRISON, 50, Great Newton-street; at the
York Hotel Shooting Gallery ; and at the Academy, Col-

quitt-street

ROYAL INSTITUTION SOIREES.
rp HE COMMITTEE beg to announce that the SECOND
-1L SOIREE will take place on TUESDAY, the llth of
January next, 1842, when P. F. WHITE, Esq., will deliver
a LECTURE on MUSIC, with Vocal and Instrumental
Illustrations.
The Chair will be taken by the Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL,
President of the Literary and Philosophical Society.
At the THIRD SOIREE, which will be held on TUES-
DAY, the Bth February next, ROBERT ADDAMS, Esq., of
London, is engaged to deliver a LECTURE on the LAWS
of SOUND, with numerous Illustrations.
The Worshipful the MAYOR will preside on this evening.
And at the FOURTH and LAST SOIREE, which is
fixed for TUESDAY, the 15th of March, MONTAGU L.
PHILLIPS, Esq., of Manchester, will give a LECTURE
on ELECTRO-MAGNETISM, which will be illustrated try
Models of the Electro-Telegraph, a Galvanic Apparatus for
taking Soundings at Sea, an Electra-Magnetic Clock,
&c., &c., &c.
GEORGE FRECKLETON, Esq., M.D., will take the
Chair.
The Committee have further to announce that, in compli-
ance with what they believe to be a general wish, they have
resolved to issue SINGLE TICKETS, under the usual regu-
lations, for any one Soirée, which, as well as SETS for the
three, may be had on application at the Royal Institution,
on Monday and Tuesday, the 10th and 11th of January next,
between the hours of Ten and Four, or may be secured any
day previously by a note addressed to the Treasurer or Secre-
tary of the Soiree Committee, Royal Institution.

For Gentlemen
For Ladies....

TEEMS OF ADMISSION.
10s. Od' 1 the Set
is. Od.

SINGLE TICKETS 3s. Gd.
GEO. FRECKLETON, M.D., President
THOS. WINSTANLEY, Treasurer.
Colquitt-street, Dec. 23, 1841.

GRAND TREAT for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
lUr R. D. ANDERSON, in tendering his sincere thanks
.1.11- to the Public of Liverpool for the pat:linage he has
received sicce be came to town, begs respectfully to inform
them, that his celebrated
EXHIBITION OF STMARY,

CONSISTING OF
0' SHANTER, HIS MARE. & CUTTY SARK,
THE DE'IL AND THE EXCISEMAN,
AND

WATTY AND MEG, or the HENPECKED HUSBAND,
Will only remain open during the ensuing Christmas Holi-
days, in order that Juvenile Parties may have an opportunity
of viewing these Figures, in favour of which the Press has
spoken in the warmest terms in every town where they have
been exhibited.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Dusk.—Admission
Gd. ; working people, 3d.
It-ir THE FIGURES ARE ON SALE.

LIVERPOOL MARINE SOCIETY.
ESTABLISHED 13TH FEBRUARY, 1789.
WILLIAM POTTER, Esq., President.
ALEXANDER SMITII7JUN., ESQ., 1 vice-Presidents.
WILLIAM ROWETT, Esq 7.,
JOSEPH GIBBON'S, Esq., Treasurer. f
THE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the MEM-
BERS of this SOCIETY will beteld, at the Rooms of
the Shipmasters' Association, on TUESDAY, the 4th January
next, at Two o'clock.
The Rules and Regulations, as amended at a Public Meet-
ing held 16th October last, are now published, and may be
obtained on application to SAMUEL MOSS, Secretary.
Shipmasters' Association, December, 1841.

SMOKE NUISANCE.
ENGINEERS, Architects, Chemists, Patentees of In-
ventions for Consuming or Preventing Smoke, and other
Persons wishing to EXHIBIT MODELS, PLANS, &c., at
the MEETING to be held at the Music HALL, ALBION-
STREET, LEEDS, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of January
next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the purpose of showing
that Smoke can be Prevented, with a Saving of Fuel, are
requested to have them at the Music Hall, not later than
Ten o'clock in the Morning, on Monday, the 10th January,
in order that they may be inspected ou that and the following
day, prior to the Meeting on the 12th, which is for Explana-
tion and Discussion.
Tickets for Admission to see the Models and Plans, and to
attend the Meeting, may be had GRATIS, on application at
the Music Hall, on the 10th and 11th of January, between
the hours of Ten and Twelve in the Mornings.
It is very desirable that all Patentees should attend in
Person ; but if, from distance or other cause, they cannot
come, their communications will be read to the Meeting.
EDWIN EDDISON.
L SS, Albion-street, Leeds,l6th Dec., 1841.

LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONDERTS

_FOURTH SRRIES.
rpHE FIRST CONCERT of the SEASON will be given,
.1. at the THEATRE-ROYAL, on TUIMAY, January
lth, 1842, to commence at Eight o'clock.
PRINCICIPAL PERFORMERS :
MADAME CARADORI ALLAN,
MISS BASSANO,
MISS WHITNALL,
MR. CROUCH,
MONS. BARRET, (Oboe,)
MR. E. W. THOMAS, (Violin,)
HERR K(ENIG, (Cornet x Piston.)
Mr. HERRMANN.

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