The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-16 00:00:00

CANVAS AND BLOCKS.

GREGSON and Co. tiTeaTtieiiiiOn of Merchants,
Owners, and Captains of Vessels to their BLOCKS and
CANVAS, both of which will be found of the best quality, at
Prices very much below-any other house, and can be supplied
in any quantities at a moment's warning; as a specimen of their
charges they add a list of their Bushed Blocks.

Size in
Inches.

Price of
Metal Bushed,

' Size in
Inches.

Price of
Metal Bushed,

4....
5...
6...
7...
8....

10....
11....
12....
13....
14....

10d.
....1 01
....1 3
....1 51
....2

....2
....3 64,
....3 161
....4 3 •
....5
....5

17....

22....
23....
24....

.... Bs. lid.
.... 8 8

"12 31
....12 11
....16 71
....17 5
....18 21
....19 0

REED'S PATENT CANVAS, sold by GREGSON and Co.,
is made expressly for the Liverpool Market, and will be found
on inspection to be of the very best quality and manufacture.
The superiority of their Blocks will also appear on investigation,
to which they invite the public.
Gregson and Co. dispose of Ships, and every description of
their materials, by public auction or private contract, and at-
tend Wrecks in any part of the kingdom.
Queen's Duck, Liverpool, corner qt. Kitchen-street.

MONUMENT in EDINBURGH to 'SIR WAtiLTER
SCOTT.—The Committee appointed to irgetire Plans
for a Memorial to be erected in Edinburgh to S ' 'WALTER
SCOTT, will now receive Designs for tha ,eject, in which
the combination of a Statute with Architect eis indispensible,
to be accompanied with an accurate es ...ate of the total ex-
pense, distinguishing the architectu part from the Statue;
the cost of the whole not to exceed £OlJa
Information may be obtained from the Secratary as to the
sites which have been more immediately under the considera-
tion of the Committee, but it will be open to Artists to suggest
any other. . _

The Ist September next is the latest date for the reception of
Designs, which are to be addressed to Mr. Sic EN li, the Secretary,
at the Trustees' Office, 128, George street, Edinburgh, marked
" Sir Walter Scott's Monument."

LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY CO 'ANY.
ATRAIN of the COMPAN Y'SCARRIAG I start daily,
at the following hours, until further n. ce. Fares, 6d.
each. From Deptford to the Spa Road, t • ,ondsey, at Eivht,
Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve. One, Two, '.ree, Four, and Five
o'clock.
From Bermondsey to Deptford, at Half-past Eight, Half-past
Nine, Half-past Ten, Half-past Eleven, Half-past Twelve,
Half-past One, Half-past Two, Half-past Three, Half-past
Four, and Half-past Five o'clock.
GEORGE WALTER, Resident-Director.

CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-BRISTOL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors w
receive at their Office in Bristol, on or before thf-Ist
March next, at Twelve o'clock, Tenders for the e
the following Contracts:—
CONTRACT No. I. B.
The formation of that portion of the R w , extending from
the Feeder of the Bristol Docks to a fie the Western side
of the Parish of Keynsham, a distance about 2 miles and 3
quarters, including a Stone Bridge over the River Avon, and
all other Masonry, Tunnelling, and Earthwork generally, and
the entire completion of all the Works necessary for that por-
tion of the Railway, excepting the laying of the rails and for-
mation of the permanent road.
Drawings and Specifications of the above Works are now
exhibited at the Company's Office, Corn-street, Bristol, and
printed forms of Tender may be had on application at the
same Office.

For the convenience of Contractors, the Drawings and Spe-
cifications of this Contract will also be exhibited at the Com-
pany's Office, at Hanwell, on and after the 22nd instant., where,
as well as at the Office, No. 17, Cornhill, London, printed
forms of Tender may be had on application.
The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept
the lowest Tender, and they expect the several parties to attend
at the Office, aLOne o'clock on the Ist of March.
I. J. CHAPMAN, Secretaries.
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, S

MERCHANTS' HALL, BRISTOL,
10th February, 1836.
TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the SOCIETY of MERCHANT
VENTURERS OF EIRISTOL are ready to receive Tenders for
the Work to be done in altering and enlarging their Graving
Dock at the Hotwells.—viz.
CONTRACT No. 1.

For taking up and rebuilding the said Dock—and for all Ex.
cavating, Masonry, and other Work connected therewith.
CONTRACT No 2.
For making a Pair of new Dock Gates—and for
and Iron Work connected therewith; and other
in the Specification.
Drawings and Specifications of the e Works will be ex.
hibited by the Soctety's 'Agent, Mr. TEEL, at their Office at
the Floating Dock Yard, at the Hotwells, every day after Mon-
day next, (Sundays excepted) between the hours of Ten o'clock
in the Morning and Four o'clock in to the Afternoon.
The Tenders are to be for the Work in separate Divisions as
above; and to be addressed under Seal to " THE SOCIETY OF
MERCHANT VENTURERS OF BRIS roL," at the Offices of Messrs.
OSBORNE'S and WARD,Broad-street, Bristol; and respect-
ively marked on the Envelope, if for No. I, "Tender for Exca-
vating and Masonry Work"—if for No. 2, " Tender for New
Gates."

_imher
"(irk as stated

• No Tender will be received after Eleven o'clock on Tuesday,
the let of March next. The Committee will meet at the above
Offices at 12 o'clock on that day, when persons tendering must
be prepared to name their Sureties for the due fulfilment of the
Contract ; and ready Co sign an Agreement for carrying the
Works into effect. ,
The Society do not pledge themselve to accept the lowest
Tender unless it be considered in every respect satisfactory.
JELL OSBORNE, Clerk.

DISASTROUS TS S R
HIPWECK.
K ---L
ILKEE. OSS OF THE "IN.
AT

The following are the details of the loss of this vessel, from
Liverpool to New Orleans :
KILKEE, Feb. 4.—She was first seen on Saturday morning,
about seven o'clock, dismasted, within pistol shot of the high
deer-park cliff of Kilke, in a lithe bite; she was then at anchor,
and had to contend not only with the storm and swell from the
north-west, (which was dreadful,) but also with the back surge
from the cliffs. The coast-guard and the people here were most
anxious to render every assistance to save the crew, if time had
allowed them, but before they could go back to Kilkee for ropes
she filled through her hatches, about eight o'clock, and went
down. ne number of persons seen were about nine. Nothing
but the unlimited power of God could save a single person, as
the sea was breaking over the cliffs, which were one hundred
yards high. She shortly after totally broke up, and for twenty-
four hours se could not even surmise what her cargo was; after
that time small portions of cotton goods, as small as ribands,
were driven in, in the sea-weed; and the wind having shifted,
portions of the wreck were driven to the north, and ultimately
driven on shore from this to Seafield ; very little here of the
lighter material. The body of a man has been washed on shore,
without clothes; he seems to have been of the better class. I
got a coffin made for him, and assisted by the coast-guard and
police he has been interred in consecrated ground. His age
was about fifty, rather bald and grey, a powerful, large, rather
corpulent man. There is a report here that he was stripped by
two of the country people, and again thrown into the sea, where
I believe I was the first to see him, early on Monday, the sea
then running high—so high that no boat could go for him.
However, about one o'clock the body was washed near the
strand, and two of the country people, John Kennedy and Mar-
tin Moran, both rather in liquor, rushed into the water; the
returning wave brought the body back quickly into deep water,
and they continued to follow, until caught by the fresh wave ;
both were drowned, and if the report be true, Moran was one of
those who stripped the body. None of the other bodies found—
nor those of Kennedy or Moran.—Newry Telegraph.
[A subscription, we understand, has been entered into at the
Exchange News-room, for the relief of two widows who are left
destitute by the death of their husbands.]