The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 6.

Wind at Holyhead. West, moderate in the morning, and blowing
fresh at noon ; W.N.W. light breeze in the evening.
Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 12 no p.m. No. 1256, Ellen, B.Bk.
from Demerara, and 1672, Copeland, D.Bk. at 1 30 p.m. from Lon-
don.

A baeque, outward bound, at 6 p.m. with B. in her foretopsail.
Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 7 a.m. (has a pilot,) No. 1294.
Ann Mary,.ship, from Newport, R.I.

OR Great Ormshead, inward bound, At 1 p.m. No. 672, Jame:,
Ray, 11.8. from Demerara, at 12 at noon, and 1204, Harriet & Jessie,
A.S from Charleston.

In the Victoria Channel, No. 745, Herculean. B.Bk. at 10 20 R.lll.
from• Bombay.-287, Ann Paley, 8.8. from Cork ; e 530, Highlander;
B.Bk. (by Maryatt's code,) ; 710, Heywood, B.S. from Bombay ;
and 13, Helen Jane, B.Bk. from Mauritius, at 11 a.m.

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PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 6.
Prices. This day Last
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices.
Birmingham and Gloucester .. 80 paid 65 o o ....
Ditto and Derby go . ....
Birkenhead and Chester
Bolton and Leigh lOO paid ..
Bolton and Preston 3O .. ....
Bristol and Exeter 25 . •• •
Chester and Crewe 4O .... 43 15 0 ...„
Dublin and Drogheda
Eastern Comities
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid ....
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 16 15 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1
Greenock, and Ayr :10 paid ••••
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares 30 ... 89 0 0 ....
Great Western 6s • 67 10 0..
Ditto new shares 30 . 31 I.i 0 .. ,
Hull and Selby 35 paid 26 15 0.. . .
Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 o 0 0.. ..
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares

Ditto half shares 5O . . 85 10 0
London and Birmingham 9O .... 158 0 0 .... 1:9 0 0
Ditto new shares
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto aria Southampton 5O .... 42 5 0 ...
Ditto & Brighton
London and Croydon
Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 73 10 0 ....
Ditto half shares
Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 ....
Ditto, (new) 30 paid 49 10 0 ....
Manchester, Bolton, & Bub*
Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 11 0 o ...„. 10 17'. r,
Ditto and Ditto Extension
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .. .. - - • '', ' • '.' .. . ;
Ditto quarter shares
North Midland lOO •.... 96-19 0 .... 96 10 0
New North Midland lO .... 19 . 6 0.. ~ . : •
South Eastern and Dover
North Union
St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid o o 0 ....
York and North Midland 4O paid 50 15 0 ....
Great North of England
BANKS.
Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .... ;65 0 uexdiv
Bank of Liverpool £l2 1 Ospaid 21 0 oex div.2l 0 0
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 16 15 0 ....
- Liverpool Union lll .... 12 10 0 ....
- Northern and Central
- Albion
- North and South Wales iv .... 617 6 .
- of Manchester lO
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 ...
- South Lancashire
Liverpool Banking Company
Borough Bank lO ....
Commercial Bank of England 5 ....
East of England lO ....
Phcenix Bank
Wilts and Dorset 7 10s.
GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Buildings 4lOO paid 163 0 o .
L'pool and Harrington Water } _
350 .... 4„ _ 10 0 .
Works
Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0..
L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0 ..
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. elOO .... 191 0 0..
Ditto new shares are now paid up.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Liverpool Marine Assurance
Company
Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... g 5 0 ....
Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 113 oex div.
DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c.
Anderton Carrying Company l5 ....
Woodside Ferry
Egremont Ferry l2 10s.
Rock Ferry
Monks Ferry
Steam Tug Company lO . .
Harrington Docks 100
Apothecaries' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool;
(Poloncean) 2

42 5 0

9 17 6.

14 17 6 ..:.

7 17 6

5 7 6.::

7 0 0.
O 0 0.
O 0 0.
O 14 6.
O 15 0.

BIRTH.
On the 2nd instant, the lady of ROBERTSON GLADSTONE,
Esq. of a daughter.

MARRIED.

On the 30th ult. ANDREW TAYLOR, Esq. formerly of Glasgow,
to Miss MARY MOSSMAN, St. Anne-street.
On the Ist instant, !at St. Bride's Church, Mr. JOHN COLBURI•4
master-mariner, to MARGARET, eldest daughter of Mr. WILLIAM
PRIOR, Parliament-street.

On the 2nd instant, at Paradise-street Chapel, by the Rev. Jame!
Maztineau, Mr. WILLIAM KNIGHT to MARY ANN, second
daughter of Mr JABEZ DUNSFORD.

Same day, at Birkenhead Ciiureh, by the Rev. A. Knox, A.M•
THOMAS TATTERSALL, Esq. of Halt-hill, to ANNE SWINNER,
TON, the daughter of WILLIAM VAUGHAN, Esq. Landfall',
Cheshire.

Same day, at St. John's Church, Manchester, by the Rev. Vinl;
Huntingdon, WILLIAM HAMPSON, Esq. of Salford, to MARL'
ANN, eldest daughter of JAMES WORRALL, Esq. of the cue
place.

On the 3rd instant, at Runcorn, Mr. JOHN LINDOP, Wrexharo
coach-maker, to REBECCA JONES ; also, Mr. WM. EVANS, 01
Denbigh, draper, to SARAH JONES, both daughters of Mr. Thos'
Jones, Runcorn, formerly of Chester, ship-carpenter.
On the sth instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bovi-
stead, Mr. JOHN BATE to Miss MARY J ANION, both of this toWli°