The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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FURNISHED HOUSE
WANTED for Six Months, containing two Parlours
and four good Bed-rooms, with Servants' Rooms, Etc.
situated in an open airy situation, and not more than one ana
a half mile from the Exchange.
Apply to Messrs. BENSON and THOMSON, 34, Castle-street.

CURATE.
WILL be disengaged, and would undertake a Town
Duty in the Diocese of Chester, after the 10th instant.
The neighbourhood of Liverpool preferred.
Address, A. M., Standard-office, Liverpool.

TO ENGINEERS AND OTHERS.
WANTED to PURCHASE, a STATIONARY
ENGINE, of from Sixty to Seventy Horses-power. If
with Pumping Gear attached, would be preferred.
Address, stating particulars, X. L., Standard Office, Liver-
pool.

Rttu Vitbitratfons.

JENNY LIND,

THE LANGUAGE OF SONG. The celebrated CANZONA, sung with so much eclat by
Jennny Lind, in Donizetti's Opera, " La Figlia del Reggimento,"
with an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte, by Charles H.
Purday, and embellished with the only correct Likeness of that
celebrated Vocalist. Price 2s.

" An adaptation of the celebrated Melody sung by Mdlle.
Lind in 'La Figlia del Reggimento,' and conveys the best idea
of her style of singing that has yet come under our notice.
The portrait is a most faithful image of the fair cantatrice."—
London Mercury.

London : Z. T. PURDAY, 45, High Holborn, and all Music.
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