The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

ST. SILAS CHURCH.

THIS CHURCH will be :OPENED:kr Divine Service
THIS DAY, (Friday,) the Ist instant.
Morning Service to commence atildeven o'clock.
A Sermon to be Preached by thißev. Huow
Evening Service to commence at Seven o'clock.
A Sermon to be Preached by the Rev. J. Counamm,
Incumbent of the Church.
A Collection will be made after each Service.

PARISH OF SEPHTON.
AT a MEETING of RATE-PAYERS of the above PA-
It IS H, in Vestry assembled, this 30th day of September.
1841, it having been .proposed that a Rate berwopence is
the Pound be laid for the necessary expeadea of the current
year, and an amendment carried that sfrltate of a Halfpenny
only be allowed, a POLL was demanded, which will, accord-
ingly, commence on MONDAY neat, at Nine o'clock, in the
Vestry of the Parish Church of Sepbton, to close at Four in
the Afternoon.

WILLIAM ASPINWALL, / Churchwardens.
WILLIAM SUTTON,
N.B.—The Poll will be continued Four Days, under Stairs*
Bourne's Act.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN '"that the next
GENERAL HALF-YEARLY 'MEETING of the
PROPRIETORS in this COMPANY (under the provision
of the Act of Incorporation) will be held, at the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street, Lirrpool, on THURSDAY, the
7th day of October.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely.
NVM. DIXON.
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Birkenhead, I6th September, 1841.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL,
MUNICIPAL, REVISING
THE Mayor and Revising Assessors
take FIRST the cases of Persons CI
their names inserted on the List. a.
ALL CLAIMANTS must the6itiofore be prepared to sub-
stantiate their claims at the opening of the Court, at the
Sessions-house, at Ten o'Cloek in the forenoon of Friday
next. By order,
RD. RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk.
Town-hall, 29th September, 1841.

seie determined to
AIMING to have

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
PUBLIC MEETING.
HAXING received a Requisition, as follows, moat nume-
rously and respectably signed---" We the undersigned
Inhabitants of the Borough of Liverpool and its vicinity,
considering it important for the two Houses of Parliament
not to be prorogued until full paquiry into the causes of the
present national distress has been instituted, do respectfully
request that you will convene a Town's Meeting, te effort
the Merchants, Traders and others of this great consasunity
,opposteale*--ef-eupapaiaair-easttiasepur an lb. sub.
Jed; and of almunrieliaing Her Midesty the Quante'
I do appoint Saturday next, the second day of October,
at the hour of seven o'clock iu the evening, at the Amphi-
theatre, in Great Charlotte-street, for a Meeting of the In-
habitants, to take into consideration the subject of the Re.
quisition, and to determine in favour of or against the pro-
posed petition to Her Majesty as to the Meeting shall appear
propar and expedient.

THOMAS BOLTON, Mayor.
Town-hall, 29th Sept. 1841.

COUNTY OF LANCASTER, WESTERN DIVISION.
WHEREAS, by Patent bearing date on or about the 14th
day of September, 1826, His Royal Highness Prince
Augustus Frederick of Brunswick Lunenberg, Duke of Sus.
sex, Earl of Inverness, Baron of Arklow, Knight of the
most honourable Order of the Garter, &c. &c. &c., Grand
Master of the most Ancient and honourable Fraternity of
Free and Accepted Masons of England, constituted and ap.
pointed LE GENDRE NICHOLAS STARKIE, Esquire, M.P.,
&c. &c. &c., of Huntroyde, in the said county, to be his
Provincial Grand Master for the said division ; and by virtue
of the great power, trust, and confidence reposed in me by
the said Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, Esquire, in appointing
me to be his Deputy Provincial Grand Master, I. Jour;
DRINKWATER, do hereby give Notice that a PROVINCIAL
GRAND LODGE will be held at the Adelphi Hotel, in
Liverpool, on TRURSDA.Y, the 21st day of October next, at
Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for the transaction of the An-
nual Business of the Province.

Given under my hand and seal of the P. G. Lodge, at Li-
verpool aforesaid, this 20th day of September, in the year of
Masonry 5841, and of our Lord 1841.
JOHN DRINKWATER, D.P.G.M.
JAMES NORRIS, P. G. Secretary.

LIVERPOOL MARINE SOCIETY,
T. M. GLADSTONE, ESQ., PRESTDENT.
APUBLIC MEETING of the MEMBERS of the
MARINE SOCIETY will be held at the Rooms of
the Shipmasters' Association, on SATURDAY next, the 2nd
October, at one o'Clock, to consider and approve or alum
the Rules of the said Society as revised by their Committee,
and afterwards for carrying the same into full effect by the
approval of such meeting.
By order of the President,
SAMUEL MOSS, Secretary.
A copy of the intended Rules as revised may be seen on
application to the Secretary, at the Shipmasters' Association.
Members are urgently requested to attend.
5, Old Hall-street. 28th Sept. 1841.

LIVERPOOL SOCIETY FOR THE REGISTRY 07
SHIPPING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, in consequence
of the increasing support of the Shipowners, Merchants,
and Underwriters, the Committee have appointed Mr. WM.
ASELDEN as Assistant Surveyor at this Port, in order to
afford every facility to the despatch of, the Public Business.
Applications for Surveys to be made in writing to the Sur-
veyors at the following places, viz.,—at
Liverpool... to Messrs. BAYLEY and HASELDZN.
London Messrs. RITHERDON and CARR.
Newcastle . Mr. STRA KER.
Sunderland Mr. JAMES LAING.
Belfast Mr. FITZSIMON.
Shipowners are particularly requested to take notice, tbat
this Society having obtained a Copyright, the only genuine
Certificates of Classification are those issued from the office
of the LIVERPOOL REGISTRY OY SHIPPING, with a stamped
impression of the Official Seal, and signed by the Chairman
of the General Committee, or the Chairman of the Sub-
Committee of Classification, and countersigned by the Se-
cretary.
These Certificates may be had free of charge until the
Registry is published, and will be a sufficient guarantee for
the purposes of Insurance ad interim.
Liverpool, Oct. Ist.

PRICE'S PATENT COMPOSITE, or IMITATION
SPERM CANDLES. They give a brilliant and steady
light, without requiring to be snuffed, and are equally appli.
cable for family or counting-house use, and ars now much
used in the Metropolis for Lighting Churches and Chapels,
and Public Buildings generally.
At One Shilling per lb.,
which, compared with the light given, is cheaper than the
commonest Tallow Candle.
These Candles are now supplied by most of the Chandlers
throughout the Country, but where they,cannot otherwise he
had, on remitting £5 to EDWD. Paic...e. and Co., Belmont,
Vauxhall, Surrey, any Private Customer may be supplied
with 1001bs., and no charge will be made for the box, the
value of which will, in most cases, cover the expense of
carriage. The box will be charged for any smaller quantity.
Any Person wishing to try these Candles, has only to send
E. P. and Co. a Postothee Order for Ten Shillings, and a bog
containing 91lbs. shall be immediately sent down' ; the odd
Bd. being for the box.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A LOST RING.—A gentle'
man in the East India Company's Service, some twenty years
ago, when stationed near Patna, was in the habit, by way of
pe
amusement, to turn his attention to cutting and polishing of
pebbles, consisting of agates, jasr, &c., which are to be
found profusely distributed in the bed of the Soane. Aniong
a large variety of specimens he became possessed of one In
particular, a Mood stone, which he greatly prized oinsahecee bad
account
of the intensity of the colours pervading
i!' h he deposited
afterwards set in a compact box ring, in which
a small portion of the hair of his lady. and
after it was in his possession,
4the (rlinfgor its recovery, no
although every search was instituted for
In the course of
traces of it whatever could be arrived Swoasinemliisittleed,while
and her husband was
a short time afterwards the lady
was forgotten. Years
ordered to join a distant station
circumstance connected withthe gthe country, when the
transpiring to bring back the
passed away without any event
rained to his recollection. A few
loss the gentleman bad !nswas passing down Wardour-street,
days since, however, he
identicalas ring he had lost in a shop
rdilinei
he perceived the same
iningt,
i found to his great surprise
window, and upon
preservedeau' in its snug " latebrtr," where it
that the hair ass
d for nearly twenty years before. There
had been deP°6.ltte by
which the parties who had originally
was no clue
ringleft
could be traced, as it had passed through
disposed of the _ e
th trade ; but the gentleman suspects that
bands in
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several have been stolen by a dye (a native wet-burse),
it wrist
whom be fun)
with ished zi character upon as occasion $lll4ll
,he was about to accompany au Europeau family 0 tki
vomit ry in the above capacity more than eiOteen years AP