The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

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TO ARCHITECTS

THE GUARDIANS of the PRESCOT UNION, being
about to erect a CENTRAL WORKHOUSE, on the
south side of the Turnpike-road, and nearly opposite the
Green Dragon, in Whiston, in the county of Lancaster,
hereby give Notice that they are ready to receive PLANS
and SPECIFICATIONS for the ERECTION of such
WORKHOUSE.

The Building must be calculated to hold 350 Paupers, and
the total cost, exclusive of Land, must not exceed £4OOO.

A Building having the external appearance of a Range of
Rustic Cottages will be preferred.
The Estimates must state the price in Brick and also in
Stone. _

The Plans and Specifications to be addressed " To the
Chairman of the Central Workhouse Committee", aid
transmitted to the Office of Messrs. liny-Es and PEMBER-
TON, Solicitors, Prescot, on or before the Ist day of February
next. JNO. H EYES, Clerk to the Guardians.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY

COMPANY.
N TEAR IS HEREBY GIVEN,
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TORS will be held, pursuant to Act of Parliament, on
WEDNESDAY, the sth day of January, IS-12, in the Sheriff
Court Hall, Greenock.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock.
ROBERT D. KER, Chairman.
The Transfer Books will be closed on the 3d of January,
and will remain so until after the Meeting.

(Signed) WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary
Railway Office, Greenock, 23d Dec., 1841.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
A MEETING of Merchants, Manufacturers, and others
.L 1 in Glasgow, who disapprove of Railway Travelling on
the Lord's Day, was held in the RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
Rooms, on the 14th Day of December, 1841, for the purpose
of considering what measures ought to be adopted, in conse-
quence of the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way Company having declared their opinion that there ought
to be a Train on the morning and evening of Sabbath.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Esq., in the Chair.
The Meeting having taken into their serious consideration
the subject of Railway Travelling on Sabbath, and especially
the threatened desecration of that holy day by the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway Company, unanimously adopted the
following Resolutions : . . . .

1. That this Meeting deeply regret the opinion to which
the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Com-
pany have come at a late meeting, at which, in terms of their
own Minute, they state, that " the Directors have come to
the determination of leaving, the question of Sunday travel-
ling to he decided by the Shareholders, intimating, at the
same time, their own opinion, that there ought to be a train
in the morning and evening, but under such regulations as
shall enable the servants of the Company, and all persons
travelling by the Railway, to attend Divine Service."
2. That as this Meeting regard the running of Railway
trains on Sabbath as a violation of God's law, and a desecra-
tion of God's holy day, they disapprove of that opinion, and
however desirous they are of availing themselves of the faci-
lities and conveniences which the Railway is fitted to afford,
and anxious as they are to promote the prosperity of an en-
terprise so well entitled in other respects to public approba-
tion, and of which some of them are Shareholders, yet should
that opinion be concurred in, and finally sanctioned by the
Shareholders, which they earnestly hope will not be the case,
they feel themselves constrained, by a sense of duty, to with-
hold their countenance and support from the Company, and
resolve to give a preference, both in travelling and in the
transmission of goods, to other modes of conveyance, con-
ducted by Companies who refrain from desecrating the Sab-
bath. _ . .

3. That as the final determination of the question has
been referred to the Shareholders, this Meeting resolve to
address a Memorial to them, in the earnest hope that they
will see it to be their duty to withhold their sanction from a
measure which would involve disobedience to a Divine com-
mand, do violence to the religious feelings of the people of
Scotland, and inflict a deep and lasting injury on the best in-
terests of the people in this portion of the United Kingdom.
4. That a Committee be appointed to obtain the signatures
of all those Merchants, Manufacturers, and others who con-
cur in the views of this Meeting, and who are willing to co-
operate with them in giving effect to these Resolutions.
'WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Chairman.