The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS

WE beg to notify to all RAILWAY COMPANIES,
that having secured LETTERS PATENT in all park of
Europe, as well as America, for our

ELECTRO-TELEGRAPHIC CONVERSER,"
We shall, on and after the. 12th thtrlfionth (August), be
ready to exhibit its advant over all other TELEGRAPHS,
and to demonstrate its c inty, power, and simplicity, with a
THOUSAND MILES IRE, and through a LARGER NUMBER
Of INSTRUMENT an can be used under any existing principle.
After which e shall be happy to treat liberally for its adop-
tion, and to GRANT LICENSES, without control or restriction
as to its uses.

TTLE, Furnival's Inn, London.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that henceforward
her MAJESTY'S LIVERPOOL MAIL STEAM-PACK-
ETS will exhibit the following NIGHT LIGHTS, namely,
Masthead, a CLEAR WHITE LIGHT;
Starboard Bow GREEN • _
Port Bow, RED.
The same Lights will als used by her Majesty's Holyhead
Packets, on and after t st day of August next.
_

The Only ehatnafein the old system being from N'Vhite to
Green on the S oard Bow.

THOMAS BEVIS, Commander.
Her Majesty's Packet-office, Liverpool,
20th July, 1847.

NOTICE

HERETOFORE there has been no definite system
of LIGHTS for STEAMERS from the Port of Liverpool ;
but the Admiralty having lately-given notice that Pier Majesty's
Steam Vessels from Liverpool, for th -future, are to carry the
following, namely, _

masthead, aCL WHITE LIGHT,
Starboard , GREEN,
Port Bos D,
We HEREBY 'E NOTICE of our intention to adopt the
said Rule of th Admiralty, and that on and after the 30th of
September, the Steamers under our control, sailing from
Liverpool, will exhibit the same description of Lights as the
Admiralty Steamers.

D. and C. MACIVER, ) Belonging to the
For the Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston British and North.
Steam-ships, American Royal
For the Liverpool and New York Steam- Mail Steam-
ships, packet Company-.
DAVID MACIVER and Co., for the City of Glasgow

TO MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, & OTHERS.
PORT OF RUNCORN.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
PRIVILEGE OF BONDING GOODS in general has
been extended to the Port of Runcorn, situate on the River
Mersey, in the county of Chester, about eighteen miles above
Liverpool.
Docks are already provided at Runcorn, and there is Wharf
Room sufficient for the accommodation of a large Business.
Warehouse accommodation ha n prepared for the reception
of Bonded Goods!, and a Y or Bonding Timber of all kinds
has been completed; t is also large provision for Merchan-
dise not for Bond.
The Warehon- eing immediately contiguous to the Docks,
there will be expense of Cartage of Goods to them from the
vessels.

IPowerful Steamers ply twice every day between Liverpool
and Runcorn, and Ships with Cargoes for or from these Docks

Under proper regulations, Fires and Lights arc anowea tto
Vessels while- in the Docks.
'The proximity of Runcorn to the Manufacturing Districts of
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, the Potteries.
and Iron Districts of Staffordshire, Woherhampton, Birming-
ham, &c., and their vicinities, and to the inland towns of the

midlana and northern counties of England, renders the port
Ls
especially for all purposes of traffic in connexion with
these places. The coal fields of Lancashire, the salt works of
Cheshire, together with the usual exports of the manufacturing-
and trading towns, give facilities for ships procuring export
cargoes with the least possible delay. Ready and economical.

communication exists with all these districts, by which floods
are speedily forwarded to their destination. Information wilt
be obtained by applying to
Mr. I_yII.LIAM HOWARTH,

Duke's Dock, or Old Quay Dock, Runcorn ;
Mr. JAMES PENDLEBURY,
Duke's Dock, or Old Quay Dock, Liverpool.
Runcorn, August, 1847,