The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

WORKS OF MODERN
IS NOW OPEN,
AT THE EXHIBITION ROOMS

RTISTS,

OLD POSTOFFICE-PLACI
FROM NINE

CHURCH-STRI
UNTIL DUSK.

THE MORNIN

Admission, is

Catalo

Season Tic'

DRILUANTLY ILLUMINATED WITH GAS
EVERY EVENING,
FROM SEVEN UNTIL TEN O'CLOCK,

Admission, ls.
S. EGLINGTON, Secretary

ROYAL INSTITUTION.
91HE SOIREES of this Season will be held as follov
viz.:—
The First on Tu ESD AA", 30th November instar
Second 11th January, 1842.
Third „ Bth February, „
Fourth „ 15th March, „
At Seven o'clock each Evening. The Lecture to co

at Eight o'clock

The Committee have the pleasure to announce, that they
have arranged with Mr. Haydon to give his much-admired
Lecture, on the Life of the late Sir David Wilkie, R.A., at
the first Soiree, and that they shall be able to secure the
services of eminent Lecturers, on popular subjects of Litera-
ture and Science, on the remaining evenings. Interesting
Experiments in Philosophy, as well as Works of Art and
Natural Curiosities, will also be exhibited for the gratification
of the company.
A limited number of Sets of Tickets will be issued to
Ladies and Gentlemen, residents in the town and neighbour-
hood of Liverpool, on their being introduced, either personally
or by note, by a Proprietor of a Share in the Royal Institu-
tion, or by a Member of the Literary and Philosophical and
Natural History Societies.
Terms for Gentlemen
Ladies....
And for Strangers introduced by Subscribers, 3s. 6d. for the
Evening, Refreshments included

12s. Od
6s. Od

Tickets may be had, on personal applications, at the Royal
Institution, on the 29th and 30th instant, between the hours
of Ten and Four o'clock, or may be secured any day previous
to the first Soiree, by Note, addressed to the Treasurer or
Secretary of the Soiree Committee.
GEO. FRECKLETON, M.D., President.
THOS. WINSTANLEY, Treasurer.
Colquitt-street, Nov. Sth, 1841.

NATIONAL FLOATING BREAKWATER AND
REFUGE HARBOUR COMPANY.

THE Negotiations with the Authorities at Brighton,
Lowestoff, and other Ports of the first maritime impor-
tance, being in active progress, and the Directors of this
Company having before them several applications for the
grant of Licenses to form New Harbours and for Remedying
the Defects of Old Ones, by the adoption of Captain Tayler's
Invention, have fixed the 39th instant as the last day on
which Applications for Shares can be received, immediately
after which the Allotment will be made.
JOHN CHARRETIE, Secretary.
Offices, 61, Moorgate-street.

'THE newly-invented CANDLE SPRING, together with
the PHOTOLYPON, Or SELF-ACTING EXTINGUISHER,
may be had from SAMUEL HUNT, 10, CHURCH-STREET.
S. H. has also just received a large assortment of IVORY
and PATENT HORN HANDLED TABLE CUTLERY,
which he is enabled to offer at unprecedented Low PRICES.

COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY.
THE Committee of the Colonial Church Society have
appointed, at

SWAN RIVER,

A Corresponding Committee, a Clergyman as Missionary

NOVA SCOTIA,

A. Corresponding Committee, a general Agent, a School-

_
master and Mistress.
PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.
A Corresponding Committee ; a Catechist.
CAPE TOWN, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,

A Corresponding_ComMittee, a Cl

.ei:gyman as Missionary, a

Catechist, a Schoolmaster.
WINTERBERG—CAPE,
A Clergyman as Missionary.
CUYLERVILLE—CAPE,
A Catechist and Schoolmaster.
GRAHAM'S TOWN—CAPE,
A Catechist.

They hare been instrumental in placing a clergyman on
the continent at St. Servan, Chantilly, and Malines. They
have afforded assistance to clergymen in several other con-
tinental towns ; and they hope immediately to establish
Corresponding Committees in New Brunswick, at Graham's
Town, and the Bahamas.
The Committee desire to see an efficient Pastoral Aid So-
ciety in every British colony, and for this purpose they ear-
nestly solicit pecuniary assistance from the mother country.
W. CHAVE, }Secretaries.
E. A. COTTON,

Contributions will be received at Messrs. Barclay, Bevan,
and Co.'s, Lombard-street ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.'s,
Birchin-lane ; Herries, Farquhar, and Co.'s, St. James's-
street; the Office, 5, Exeter Hall; Hatchard and Son's,
Piccadilly; Nisbet and Co.'s, Berners-street ; and Seeley's,
Fleet-street.