The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

MEN DELSSMIN'S ELIJAH.

',THE Public are informed that a GRAN D CONCERT
will he given Cm WEDNESDAY EVENING. the 22d Decem-
ber instant. in the LEC tUR E HALL of the COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTION, on which occasion will he performed the late
lamented Dr. MEN DF.L.4SOHN BA RTHOLDY'S GRAND
'ORATE tltlo, " ELLI A li." with the Full Band and Chorus of
th? Liverpool Philutrinonic 7:ociety.
Tickets to he hal only at the Office of the Philharmonic So-
tiety, Exrhanfr.e.court, Exchange-street East.
Body of dye ltuotn and Reserved Gallery, 4s. each ; Upper
Gallery, 2s. 6d.

T LIE ANNUAL BALL,
BENEFIT OF THE "VrAIHTINCTON DISPENSARY,
WILL DE HELD
AT THE LION HOTEL,
• ON TUESDAY, THE 21ST OF DECEMBER, 1847.

'LADY GERARD,
Mrs. LYON,

LADY PATRONESSES:
I Mrs. LEIGH, of Belmont,
Mrs. HOSKEN HARPER.

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1847.

EX11113:TION of the WORKS of MODERN
11 ARTISTS is NOW OPEN, at the Rooms of the Academy,
Old Postoffice-place, Church-street.
Admission: One Shilling. Catalogues, Sixpence. Children
finder twelve years of age Half-price. Season Tickets : Gen-
tlemen's. rive Shillings ; Ladies', three and Sixpence; Juvenile
Tickets. Two and Sixpence. Season Tickets, for Night only,
Two and Sixpence. Open from Ten in the Morning until dusk,
and by Gas-light from Seven to Ten, every evening except Sa-
turday.
The EXHIBITION will CLOSE on FRI DAY, tte 24th instant,
It Dusk ; and wiil RE-OPEN to the IN CLASSES
on the following MONDAY. the 27th instant, at a charge of
TWOPENCE and a PENNY, for a Fortnight.
WM. GAWIN HERDMAN, Secretary.

ART UNION OF LIVERPOOL, 1847.48.
BY ROYAT, AUTHORITY'.
PRESIDENT—Toe Worshipful the MAYOR of LIVERPOOL.
THE Subscribers and the Public are respectfully
informed that the SUIVACRI PTION BOOKS are NOW
'OPEN, and are earnestly solicited to lose rio time paying their
Subscriptions to the several Members of the Committee, the
Various Agents, to the Assistant-Secretary. Mr. GREEN HER-
SERF,
Exhibition Rooms, Postofficc-place, and to Mr. JOHN K.
ISAAC, fit, Castle-street.
The time for receiving Subscriptions is limited to the 10th
•January. 1848.
The Drawing for Prizes will take 'Ace at the Exhibition
Rooms, on Tuesday, the 11th January, 1848.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN R. ISAAC, Hon. Sec.

MR. TATHAM'S PORTRAITS
OF THE
REV. RECTOR BROOKS,

JOHN BRAMLEY-MOORE, ESQ.
THESE Prints can be obtained at Mr. BURLAND'S
GALLERY OF ART, 3E. CHURCH-STREET.
The Rev. 1)r. M'NEILE'S is in progress.

BOROUGIT OP LIVIMPOOT,, to wit.
GILBERT HENDERSON, FSQ., RECORDER.
THE. COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the
r, PEACE for the BOROUGH will be held, in the Crown
1-ouri, in the Sessions-house, in Chapel-street, on MONDAY,
'ne 20th day of December instant, at Ten o'clock in the Fore-
441zin
the °,,,_Traverse win be tried unless entered on the first day of
pear.-fto sions or previously at the Office of the Clerk of the
Arid aNii° I,:.Brun,wick-street.
Innictinents for Misdemeanours found at these Ses-
slops aN
before hat persons admitted to Hail, must be entered for
Trial Twelve o'clock on the day after the discharge of
the Grand Jury, or the Trial will stand over.
WRIGHT, Clerk of the Peace.
Clerk of the Peace's Office, 6th December, 1&17.

En.IDGEWATER TRUST.

PASSENGER AND GOODS BOATS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after
WEDNESDAY, December I, 1847, all BOATS belonging to
the Bridgewater Trust, for the Conveyance of Goods or I'assen-
-gers, will start by GREENWICH TIME.
Duke's Dock, Liverpool, Nov. 30,1847.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

OPENING OF THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY, FOR
THROUGH TRAFFIC.
THE Public is requested to take NOTICE, that on
and after Ist December, the MAILS AND OTHER
_TRAINS, between LONDON and LIVERPOOL,-MANCHES-
_TER, and the. NORTH, will be transferred to the TRENT
VALLEY RAILWAY, and that from that (late the Clocks at
every Station on the London and North Western Railway, will
be set to Greenwich Time.
New TIME BILLS for the LINE and its various BRANCHES,
tufty be had at any of the Stations on and after the 25th day of
the present month.
By order of the Board,
MARK HUISH.

General Manager's Office, E'iston Station,
15th November, 1847.

NOM—Greenwich Time is
Before Birmingham Clocks
, Liverpool Clocks
, Manchester Clocks
„ Preston Clocks
„ Chester Clocks

.. 7 Minutes.
..12 „
..10 2,
..10 „
..12 „

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON
RAILWAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS cf this
COMPANY will be held, within the Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo-
plr.ce, Edinburgh, upon Mummy, the 20th day of December
next... Two o'clock Afternoon, for the purpose of considering
a RePOrt or the Directors as to the Position of this Company
with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company, under
their Act of Amalgamation of last Session, and fur giving in-
StrUctionS in regard thereto.
By order of the Directors,
ALLEN GEO. FIELD, Secretary.
Rdinburgh, November 22, 1847.