The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

Qi7 o n trarts.

.BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
PROPOSED FLOATING DOCK AND HARBOUR
IMPROVEMENT AT LIMERICK.
TO CONTRACTORS.
THE Commissioners of Pubiic Works will be pre-
pared to receive PROPOSALS (from competent persons
only) for CONSTRUCTING the intended FLOATING DOCK
and ENTRANCE LOCKS on the South-Eastern Bank of the
River Shannon, in the City of Limerick.
•

a wok
be seen at this Office, on and after
the 17th instant, an~Ten-
Twelve o'clock

on the sth of April next
The Board do not hold themselves bound to accept thelowest
Tender.

Sealed Tenders to be
supplied on application

rit in on printed forms, which will be

(By order,)
JOS. C. WALKER, Secretary.

Office of Public Works, Duilit
March 12, 1847.

Rely Vublirattens.

Will be published on the 31st of March, (to be continued
Monthly.) Part I. of
T)ICTURES OF THE PEOPLE,
from the Prince to the Peasant, each Part to consist of
Four Coloured Plates, in Lithography, with descriptive Letter-
press by ALEXANDER BLACKLEY. Price Is. 6d.
Contents of Part I. :—Her Majesty the Queen, H. R. H.
Prince Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the Commander-in-Chief.
C. WI LsoN, 37, Wigmore street, Cavendish-square, London ;
Erlinhilrgh F_ G_ CA 1.12 M.-• 1. -

JOHN BARNETT'S NEW BALLAD
Price 25.,
cc LIGHT OF HEART
CAVATINA

AM II"

The Poetry from t.

Forget Me Not.'

ritten by CHARLES SWAIN, Esq.,Composed for and Sung
by MISS BIRCH, to whom it is respectfully dedicated by

JOHN BARNEtf

London : Z. T. PiTRDAY, 45, High Holborn, London; and
Sold by all Music Sellers.

On Saturday next, the 27th instant, will be Published, the
Sample Number of

rr HE SPIRIT OF TILE TIMES ; OR, THE SOCIAL
REFORMER, a New Weekly Journal.
DIVISION I.
Part 1. The Condition of the People.
2. Principles of Social Happiness or Misery.
3. The Labourers' Journal.
4. The Farmers' Journal. .
5. The Manufacturers' Journal.
6. The Merchants' Journal.
7. Social Movements and Impulses. •

9. Social Progre

DIVISION 11.
Part 10. The Family Home and Pacificator.
11. The Proceedings of Government.
12. The Proceedings of the Courts of Law,
13. Gaols and Prisoners.
14. Charitable Institutions.
_ 15.. The goyernrup.kkt.Suppocter.

16.' The Unbierigal RegeLe-rator of Mankind.
The Entire Publication, in Two Parts, ad. each. The Sepa-
rate Publieation, in Sixteen Parts, 3d. each.
All Communications for the Editor to be addressed to No•
Old Palace-yard, Westminster.

Publishing Office, 13, Wellington-street, Strand.

Le 31st of March. 1817, will be published, the FIRST PART

DITION Of

HE NEW TESTAMENT,
T
Superbly Embellished with a Series of beautiful Vignette
Illustrations, and each Page surrounded by an elaborate Deco-
rative Border, Drawn by the First Artists, and Engraved in the
highest style of the Art on Wood, under the superintendence of
Mr. CHARLES HEATH.
To be published in Monthly Parts of Sixteen Pages, elegantly

Printed in .small folio. price Two SHILLINGS; or, on large
paper, THREE SHILLINGS each.—Specimens may be seen at all
Booksellers.

NEW SERIES OF MAPS,

On the Thirty-first e March, 1847, will be published, to be
completed in Twenty-seven Monthly Parts, each containing
Two Maps in a Wrapper, price Eightpence plain, or One Shil-
ling Coloured, Part I. of a SERIES OF MODERN MAPS,
constructed upon a System of Scale and Proportion, from the
most Recent Authorities, by JOHN SHARPE, and Engraved
on Steel by J. WILSON LOWRY.
The object of this undertaking is to produce a Series of Maps
which shall combine NEW AND IMPORTANT MEANS OF FACI-
LITATING GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY with just accuracy and

skiitul execution, and at an unexampled LOWNESS OF PRICE
namely, at FOURPENCE per Sheet Plain, or SIXPENCE Colour
ed.—Specimens may be seen at all Booksellers.
London: CHAPMAN and HALL, 186, Strand.

)RKS OF MR. CHARLES

DICKENS

ON SATURDAY, the 27th of MARCH, Will commence,
in WEEKLY NUMBERS, containing Sixteen clear and
handsomely printed paces, small flvo, double columns, Price
Tam c-lIALy PEN CH each,
and in Monthly Parts, Sewed in a
Wrapper, price Sevenpenee, a CHEAP EDITION OF THE
WORKS OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS.
The Works to be comprised in this Cheap Edition will by
. A

THE PICKWICK PAPERS, which completed
in about 32 Numbers, will cost
NICHOLAS NICKLERY. a 9.

SKETCHES BY " BOZ," 20 Numbers
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, 24 Numbers
BA RNA BY RUDG I
AMERICAN NOI

24 Numb

12 Numbers

.11J isrrt 20 Numbers
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT 32 Numbers
Al New Preface to each Tale will be published on its conclu:

Wood from -a 1

ign by some

iiinent Artist, will also be

A and corrected throughout, by the Author.
rospectuses, with specimen Page, may be had from all

Bookse;llers.
London: CHAPMAN and 11..a.L, TRG, Strand; J. MuNztas,
Edinburgh; ComMINO and FERGUSON,eII?e Dublin
in T
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tn.....nw! and sold by all Books

Co untry

TEIE PATENT JOURNAL AND INVENTORS' MAGAZINE.
lIIIE PATENT JOURNAL, Weekly, price 3d.,
34 pages Bvo, Illustrated with Engravings; contains much
valuable information for all classes, but more especially for
of I Eng' neers, and Atecb.,,;,...

rcbitects, Surveyors, Che-
anics. Its chief features

are the Specification's or Descriiitions of Patent Inven-
tions, Illustrated with Engravings, Descriptions of ReLS-
trations, Articles on Scientific Subjects, Recipes, Varieties,
Correspondence, &c., with a Weekly List of Patents and
Registrat'ons granted, anti of expired Patents. The Volume,
price ss. CA., is ready, and contains upwards of 170 Potent De

ratent
with nearly 500 Engravings, with a mass of valuable

N.B.—Order THE PATENT JOURNAL of your Bookseller,
who can procure it through any London Wholesale House.
Publishei by BARLOW and LE CAPELAIN,The Patent Office
89, Chancery-lade, London. Sold in Liverpool, Wholesale and
Retail. by WlLLsaxa and SMITH.

ANT DISCOVERY OF A CURE FOR NERVOUS
OR MINI) COUP! kINTS

Just Published, Fifth Thousand, and may be had
FOR NOTHING, a PAMPHLET, on MIND and
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS, and on the new and only
successful means of curing those obstinate maladies, as disco-
vered and employed by Mr. WM. ADAMS, 23, Doughty-street,
Mecklenburgh-square, London.
There are hundreds of persons who, in the midst of plenty,
are harrassed and annoyed by an endless variety of anomalous

and painful feelings, w

h embitter existence, render life

of ntioti and pique.

Such are solicited to read the above Pamphlet. In it they
will perceive the necessity for and the advanta&es of immediate
recourse to the treatment, sanctioned by experience and by the
testimonials of the cured.

Will be sent to any address, post paid, on receipt of two

Tiaras.—The means of Cure can be sent to all parts of the
;rid, with full directions, and the patient cured at home, or