The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

Xth Vublirationo.

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CHEMICAL NUISA.NCE.—DR, EPP!),4' LECTURES.
rill-1E LECTURES delivered in the Marne last.-April,
by Dr. EPP'S, on the Alkali Woks, .in which the real
merits of the question are detailed, will to'publit,hed kby autho-
rity) in the July number of the ANTHROPOLOGIOAL
MAGAZINE and CHRISTIAN PRYSICIAN.. - • •
Publii:hed by Sherwood & Co,, pate,„„ter Row,
Bu„kselier..
,and may he,obtained by order.o,any

Just published, with Plates, r *
PRISON SCENES, AND NARRATIVE F ESCAPE
FROM FRANCE DURING THE L WAR. By
SEACOME ELLISON.
Whittaker.and Marples: d Co. Li'verpool.
" The book is full of facts and of strange realities; and the
narrative of the author's:adventures, escapes, and journeyings
is highly, interesting.".—SpcOntor,
"A work containing much that is both interesting and use-
ful ; the reader who peruses it expecting instruction blended
with amusement will nut he disappointed. '--Liverp,”l Albion.

PORTRAIT AND MEMOIR •OF THE BISHOP OF-
- EXETER.
f HE CHURCHMAN,- with 'Eriiravings„ price 6d.,, with
Jl . One exception, has for the last •Ihree.years bad the-largest
jcirculation of the Church•Mag,azioes;'ariti rt,is hoped will exceed
in numbers the Methodixt Magazine (17,000),amoNrtresleyaus,
land the•Ecatigelical Magazine (14,000) einong,-kiugregational
and other ,Dissenters.• Advertisements of Islvings, Coracles,
New .Churches, Institutions, Anniversarfei,; New , Books,
'Schools, Situations, Medicines, Sales, my! Miscellanies, for the
C HURCH MAN for July, must be sent to, Paibter's,Priptiog
and Publishing Office, '342, 'Strand; by the 22d • instant, where
may be had, just published by W: E. PAINTER,
FAMILY AND PAROCHIAL SERMONS, by the Rev,
W. Shepherd, 8.D., 10s. 64.
SERMONS 14 the Rev. T. H. Day,,LL.8.,.55.
• SABBATH SANCTIFICATION AND ITS I3LESSED-
NESS. •By the itev.'.l. Allpoit. • 44t.
FAIIOItTATION TO THE BELIEF AND PRACTICE
OF It E:11. RELIGION, with eariti•ms against seine Mistakes
about•it. • 13v the Rev. T. Horn, hI.A. 2i.
TRACTS OF Tll/4.: ANGLICAN ',ATI' El3s ::.N0.,.1.
Craniner's Holy Baptism: 2 Cratner'sApostolical fiticcessiuti
and the.Povet of 'the 'Keys. 3,1.; or 20s. per hundred: •
DAILY •DIALOGU ES 'BETWEEN :A CLERGYMAN
AND,IIIS PA ItISHIONERS. :Mos.. I; 2;.3. 4d., or 6s. per
hundred. • . •

LETTER TO SIR ROBERT INGLIS,. M.P., on Relative
Nuirtbers Influence, and Benevolence 'of Dissenters.
YtUNG MAN'S PERPETUAL ALMANAC.
Printed and published by W. E. Painter, 342 Strand;' and
sold by Sherwood, and Siinpkin, 'Marshall,' and 'Co. ; and all
other Booksellers.' Give orders by the 23d of this ,month
Agents for Iri;land, Curry uud Co., Dublin. .Agauts for Scot-
land, Grant and Co„ Edinburgh.'
. .

CHESTER AND. BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.

rinHE DIRECTORS OF THE 'CHESTER AN,D- BIR-
KENHEAD RAILWAY. COMPANY' will meet at
their Office, No. 24. Fp:WICK-STREET, LiVerPOW4.OII MONDAY,
the' 24 dav o .f J next, at Twelve o'r. nonu precisely,
to ree,elve 'FENDERS for the following Wtilliji4<—;
First.—Toe' SUTTON ,cioNTRAC'r, egientling from the
north side of Plyniyard Brook, .in the 'Fowl-Ishii) of East ham, to
.a Stake about seven chains north of the occupation,lape, at the
southern boundary of the Towuship„of,.Ledsham, being a dis-
tance of 3 miles and 17 chains, or thereabouts.
• Second.—The MOSTON CONTRACT, extending from the
termination of the preceding; contract.to the north side id Brook.
street, Chester, being a distance of 4 miles and 39 chains, or
thereabouts. . „ •

The Contracts to comprise the,making of the Railway( with
all the Excavations, Embankments' Bridges, Culverts, Peaces,
,Gates, and Drains, and other Worlcs, complete; including-the
Laying and Ballasting of the Permanent Way, and providing
all, necessary Materials. ra the same, (except the Iron Rails.
Chairs, an and to keen the whole of the \
,in good repair fur one year afier completiop...„
A draft of the contract, with plaits ;and apecifications of the
Works, will be ready 'for inspection at the Office of Mr. JOHN
DixoN, the resident Engineer of the Company. at. the Town-
hall, Birkenhead, on and after MONDAY, the 18th ..?..ay of June
next.

Printed forms of tenders may he had at the same place, and
no others will be. attended to. The, tenders ,must.be. dolivbred
(sealed) at the Company's (Alice, N 0.2 , Fenwick-sq eet, Liver-
pool. on or before .111,)ND.sv;, the 2d daN of July,,-and-the parties
tendering Joust attend the meeting at:Twelve u,eluck oa, the,
day followinl4,.
,••, • • .
The parties v.,:h.)se tenders, are accepted vrill :be required tot
enter inv. a baud,with the sureties. for ,the due performance of
the contract, io,a pe.no.lty, of not le*s-th4so-ten per cent.iupon the
gross sum contracted f,,r, and the natriee.;ot the proposed sure-
ties are to he,F,pecified in the tendet.:
Tho Directors will out hinti themselves to accept the lowest
tener. , , WILMA. M• DIXON, C;hairsuan.
2`.?il, May, IMB