The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

CARPETS, FLOOR CLOTHS, MOREENS,

DAMASKS, CHINTZES, are., (c:,
SELLING OFF,

STOCK OF

THE ENTIRE
ADELPHI HOUSE,

21, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

BEING THE

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LARGEST and BEST Assorted STOCK or CARPETS,
DRUGGETS,FLOORCLOTHS,MOREENS,DAMASKS,
CHINTZES, BLANKETS, QUILTS, FRINGES, LACES,
GIMPS, HEARTH RUGS, DOOR MATS, 6.c., ever of-
fered in Liverpool.

GEORGE WOODS begs to inform the .Public,
that, in consequence of EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS
about to be made in his Premises to accommodate his in-
creasing Trade, the whole of his STOCK will be offered at
prices to ensure a SPEEDY CLEARANCE.

He also begs to add, that the character of his Goods is too
well known to require the extraordinary puffing so generally
resorted to under similar circumstances.

The Sale will.continue for a short time only

ADELPHI. HOUSE,

21, BOLD-STREET.

CHEAP FOOD.
HOMINY, A SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES,7AND
INDIAN CORN MEAL.
ni GIBBONS. No. 9, and 11, LONDON-ROAD,
n . begs to inform the Public that he has contracted for a
large supply of HOMINY, and is prepared to sell at 245. per
cwt., in Packages of not less than 56Ibs. ' • Retail price, 3d. per lb.
The Hominy and Indian Meal are of the best qualities and
fresh from the manufacturers.
Printed Receipts for Hominy, &c., may be had for Id. each
copy

R. GIBBONS,
9 and 11, L O N D 0 N-R 0 A D

(Opposite Blind Asylum.)

If€- .s.)

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S. BOWER,
ENGRAVER, PRINTER, BRASS AND WHITE METAL
WINDOW PLATE MANUFACTURER,
NO. 4, LEIGH-STREET, (Two Doors from Whitechapel,) and
NO. 7, WILLIAMSON STREET, LIVERPOOL,
D ETURNS his sincere thanks to his numerous
it Friends and the Public for past favours during the last
thirty years, and feels particularly grateful to the Shopkeepers,
&c., for the decided preferencewhich they are daily giving him
in the Manufacturing and Engraving of Window, Side, Office,
and Door Plates, &c., made complete on his own Premises,
which, for cheapness, durability. and workmanship, cannot.be
excelled by any house in the trade.

Merchants',, Brokers', and Tradesmen's Cards and Bills
Engraved and Printed with neatness and despatch.
WANTED, two respectable YOUTHS as APPRENTICES to
the ENGRAVING BUSINESS.

GREAT WINTER SALE;

J. SEARLE'S
SHAWL HOUSES,
130, TOP OF BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

AND
44, WATERGATE-ROW, CHESTER,

TO THE INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL, CHESTER,
AND SUBURBS.

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T SEARLE begs respectfully to intimate, that he
t) • purposes, FOR A LIMITED PERIOD,
SELLING OFF, AT MATERIALLY REDUCED PRICES,
A considerable moiety of the Rich, Fashionable, and exten-
sively-assorted STOCK on hand, consisting of
PAISLEY, FRENCH, AND NORWICH FILLED SHAWLS.
All the choice Clan and Fancy TARTANS, in Shawls and
Scarfs, Dresses, Mantles, Travelling Cloaks, Gala Plaids, &c.
A tof Black Satin and Velvet SHAWLS and SCARFS.
Also, Two Cases of Watered SILK, SATIN, and VELVET,
VISITES, &c.

JNO. SEARLE,
• PROPRIETOR,
130, TOP OF BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOO,
AND
44, WATERGATE-ROW, CHESTER.

RETIRING FROM BUSINESS

HOUSE AND SHOP TO BE LET.

STAIR KERR
Bees to announce that he has commenced
SELLING OFF THE REMAINDER OF HIS STOCK

AT A FURTHER
GREAT REDUCTION,
In order to clear out the whole with the least possible delay.
4'2,000 worth of rich Plain and Fancy SILKS, at little more
than Half Price.
VELVETS, FURS, BLANKETS, FLANNELS, LINENS,
SHAWLS, HANDERCHIEFS,
RIBBONS, PRINTS, , DE LAINES,
MERINOES, COBURG CLOTHS,CASHMERES PARAMATTAS, CRAPES,
HOSIERY, GLOVES. &c., all equally cheap.

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Though having had numerous applications for the Premises,
they are still to Dispose Of, and should they not be Let in the
course of a few weeks, the House, Shop, Fixtures, and Shop
Furniture will be Disposed Of by Public Competition, as the
engagements of the Proprietor will shortly require his removal.
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30, BOLD-STREET.

N.B.—Business hours from Ten to Six,

HENRY CROSFIELD, Treasurer,
Liverpool, January 9, 1847.

JOSEPH DA VI S,

(LATE DAWBARN AND DAVIS,)
TAILOR AND DR AP_ER,

14, COLQUITT-STREET

THE Newest LONDON and PARISIAN STYLES,
combining Elegance with Economy, supplied by
JOSEPH DAVIS,
TAILOR AND- DRAPER,
14, COLQUITT-STREET,

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LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.
NINETEENTH DIVIDEND.
A DIVIDEND, for the Half Year ending the 31st
I-1 uwill ltitnbeo, after the rate of Eight Pounds r Cent. An-
num, paid to the Proprietors, on apppelicationper at the
Bank, on or after Monday next, the 18th instant.
By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager.

BANK OF LIVERPOOL.
TWENTY-NINTH DIVIDEND.
THE DIRECTORS of the BANK of LIArPOOL
DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to the PR lETORS,
that they have declared a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the
rate of 10 per Cent. per Annum, on the increased paid-up Ca-
pital of the Company, (being 12s. fid. per Share,) from the Ist
of July to the 31st December, 1846; and that such Dividend
will be payable at the Bank of the Company, in Water-street,
on and after FRIDAY, the sth day of February next, between
the hours of ten and three on each day.
Dated at Liverpool, this sth day or January, 1847.
By order of the Board,
JOSEPH LANGTON, Manager.
Each Proprietor will be expected,- (if required,) on applying
for his Dividend, to produce the Certificate or Certificates of
his Shares.
The Transfer Books will be closed to the sth of February
inclusive.

LIVERPOOL UNION BANK.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND
of FOUR PER CENT. on the Capital Stock of the Com-
pany, for the Half Year ending 31st December last, (being at
the rate of Eight per Cent. per Annum,) will be paid to the
Proprietors on and after the 14th instant.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 6th to the 14th
instant inclusive.
The ANNUAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS will be
held, in the Clarendon Rooms, on THURSDAY, the 4th February,
at One o'clock.

By order of the Board,
Brumnrick-street, 4th JanuaryJAM ES LISTER, Manager.
January, 184

(SEVENTH DOOR FROM BOLD-STREET)
LIVERPOOL.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a STATED HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of the EDINBURGH, LEITH, and GRANTON RAILWAY
COMPANY will be held, within their Office, 8, Ambercromby-
place, Edinburgh, on FRI D AY, the 29th instant, at Two o'clock,
Afternoon, in terms of and for the purposes mentioned in the
Company's Acts.
No Proprietor who is in arrest- is entiled to attend or vote.
By order of the Board,

A. G. FIELD, Secretary
Railway.
Office, 8, Abercromb-place, Edinburgh,
9th January, 1847.

LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.

NOTICE

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The Public are requested to take Notice, that on and after
the Ist of January, 1847, the PARKSIDE NEW BRANCH
will be OPEN, and the following CHANGES will take place:—
PRESTON AND PARKSIDE SECTION.
The Times of STARTING of the Trains will be as follow :
From Preston to Birmingham and London.—At 510 a.m.;
10 30 a.m. ; 3 50 p.m. ; and 7 53 p.m.
From Preston to Liverpool and Manchester.—At 730 a.m. ;
9 0 a.m.,• 10 35 a.m.; 1 0 p.m. ; 4 0 p.m.; and
970
From Liverpool to Preston.—At 730 a.m. ;
a.m. ; 1 30 p.m. ; 3 50 p.m.; and 7 0 p.m.
From Manchester to Preston.—At 740 a.m.; 910 a.m.
10 35 a.m. ; 1 40 p.m. • 4 0 p.m. ; and 7 10 p.m. ;
In consequence of ihe above Alterations, the detention at
Parkside of Trains, proceeding north and south, will be entirely
avoided.

The following CHANGES will take place in the Times of
Starting of the Trains from
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER,
NAMELY:
The Trains now leaving Liverpool for Manchester and the
North at 8 0 a.m. • 10 I?a.m. ; 3 35 p.m. ; and 6 0 p.m., re-
spectively on week days, will be despatched at 7 30 a.m. ;
10 25 a.m. ; 3 50 p.m.; and 7 0 p.m. And the Trains now
leaving Liverpool on Sundays at 7 15 a.m., and 4 45 p.m., will
be despatched at 7 45 a.m., and 6 0 p.m.
An Additional Train will also leave Liverpool for Preston
Daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 0 a.m.
The Trains now leaving Manchester for Liverpool and the
North at 815 a.m. ;10 30 a.m. • 45 p.m. •3 50 p.m.; and
6 15 p.m., respectively on week' days, will 'be despatched at
7 40 a.m. ; 10 35 a.m. ; 1 40 p.m. ; 4 0 p.m. ; and p 7 10 p.m.
And the Trains now leaving Manchester on Sundays at 7 30 a.m.,
and 5 0 p.m., will be despatched at 7 35 a.m., and 6 10 p.m.
An Additional Train will also leave Manchester for Preston
Daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 10 a.m.
The Train now leaving Warrington for Manchester at 4 19
p.m., will be despatched at 4 30 p.m.
The Train now leaving Manchester for Warrington at 8 15
p.m., will be despatched at 7 0 p.m., and the Train now leav-
ing Manchester for Warrington at 1 0 p.m., will be discon-
tinued for the present.

LIVERPOOL AND BIRMINGHAM SECTION.
The 4 15 p.m. Train from Birmingham to Liverpool will stop
at the Basford Station.
The Short Mixed Train now leaving Birmingham for Star-
ford daily at 9 0 a.m., and Stafford for Birmingham at 6 45p.m.,
will be discontinued during the Winter Months.

N.B.—Time-bills, with the above alterations, may be had at
the Company's Stations on and after the 31st instant.
By order,
MARK HUISH, General Manager.
Lime-street, December 24, 1846.

HAYDOCK LODGE,
ASHTON, NEAR WARRINGTON.
THE INSANE.—ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODA-
TIONhas been made in this beautiful. salubrious, and RIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION
comfortable Residence. There are now VACANCIES for Two
Ladies and One Gentleman, in detached rooms, with separate a
Mh
RAILWAY.
The Shareholders in this Company are aware, from the course
service ; for Three Ladies and for Two Gentlemen the First which was adopted at the General Meetings, held in November
Class, and for Five Patients in the Second and Third Classes. and December last, of the strong dissatisfaction entertained by
GRIFFITH JONES, Secretary. an influential body of their brother Shareholders with the pro-
ceedings of the Directors, both as regards the proposed amal-
gamation with the Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton
Line, and the proposed sale of the two undertakings conjointly
to the Great Western Company.
At both Meetins distinct notice was given, in the most for-
mal manner, thatg these questions would be submitted for the
reconsideration of the Proprietors, so soon as those then enti-
tled to hold Shares were enabled, by obtaining the transfer and
symbol of their property, to give their votes upon subjects of
such vital importance to the Shareholders.
Upon general principles the dissenting Shareholders are o-
posed to anything that wonld bear the character of repudiatiopn,
but the unprecedented circumstances connected with this case
(amongst which the following are most prominent) fully war-
rant them in the course they have adopted.
The non-issue of the certificates for the shares for upwards of
four months; the consequent impossibility of obtaining legal
transfers; the admission by the Chairman himself of the fact
of a refusal to register transfers; the extraordinary circum-
stances that before the certificates were issued, and when
therefore none of the changes of property which had taken
place since the passing of the act could be recognised, and the
real owners of the shares were thus precluded from expressing
their opinion at to the disposition of their ownoperty, the
Directors call a Special Meeting, for no less an object than to
alter the nature of the property, by an amalgamation with an-
other undertaking, (not being authorised to do so by any power
their act, owing to which, most in \te t-- if
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C HESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
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HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING.
The HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING of the
SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY will be held, at the
Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, London, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 10th day of February next, at One o'clock precisely.

, maaeua— .:erms were oi
fered for the Birmingham and Oxford Lines itself,) and then to
sell the line so amalgamated, (a proceeding equally unautho-
rised by their act,) clearly justify the holders of the shares in
the Birmingham and Oxford Railway, who are dissatisfied with
the result of these irregular proceedings, in resisting to the ut-
most of their power the accomplishment of the objects 80 pro-
posed, and in protecting their property and interests by those
means which the law has provided. The dissentient share-
holders were satisfied, that as soon as the opinions of the real
holders of the shares could be ascertained these views would
be readily responded to; and all doubt upon the subject is now
removed by the large measure of support which they have
&ready ieceived, placing betond a 91.iestion the fact that a con-
Ridprahlia nneinAttr ..a 44. 0

ny tit iue anarmiciers are decidedly opposed
to the arrangements proposed by the Directors, and are deter-
mined to annul them. anti to

Lo becure ror tne Birmingham and
Oxford Company at least as good terms as thos,e offered by the
London and North-Western Company—.-15 per sha re premium.
The Shareholders are well aware of the argument which has
been adduced by the Directors to justify their proceedings—
that in consequence of the views entertained by Parliament on
the subject of competition, there was no alternative but to dis-
pose of this line to the Great Western Company, although the
result might be that they must have it on their own terms. To
this it is replied—firstly, that the Directors in making terms
were at least bound (as trustees for the proprietors) to obtain a
full value for their property ; and the universal admission that
the Birminghom and Oxford is a ten per cent. line, (more was
originally stated,) sufficiently indicates, withoutfTarther refe-
rence to the offer of the London and North-Western Company,
that the price offered by the Great Western is inadequate. Se-
condly, as the dissenting Shareholders consider that the only
result which can be expected from competition is to secure
(nitimately) the lowest charges to the public consistent with
safety, they contend that this would have been more certainly
and readily accomplished by an arrangement with the London
and North-Western Company, who, while they are ready to
give increased terms to the Birmingham and Oxford proprie-
tors, are alsoprepared to secure to the public a scale of charges
lower than those provided for by the Birmingham and Oxford
act-, and considerably lower than those of the Great Western
Railway.

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As the dissentient Shareholders are now desirous of at once
completing their arrangements for effecting the
a oNeets above
.anti no al.nn

,
ledge of the entire support they may rely upon, they request
that theirbrother Shareholders who concur with them-in Opi-
nion will transmit their names with the number ofshares held
by them, without delay, to the following parties:—Mr. E J.
MOZLEY, Liverpool; Mr, THOMAS GASQUOINE, 15, New
Market-buildings, Manchester; Messrs. CoLmoalt, and BEALE,
Solicitors, Birmingham—by whom any necessary information
will be furnished, and all Shareholders are particular! . e-
quested to retain their proxies until applied to ipt t '
mittee of the dissentient Shareholders. ~
Signed on behalf of the Dissentients, 1„/ ..-..,:-, •
January 5, 1847. E. J.. 41 Y. .-

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412, EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
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THE ANNUAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS
to the above CHARITY will be held, at the Clarendon-
rooms, on MONDAY, the 18th instant, at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely. (Signed)

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.
THE Treasurer gratefully acknowledges the receipt
of the following additional DONATIONS :
Thos. Bolton and John Orostield, Esqrs., s. d.
Treasurers, part of an unappropriated
Fund for distribution to the Poor of
Castle-street ard...
James Lawrence, Esq ........
George Holt, Esq
Thomas Sands, Esq
William Hope, Esq.
Joseph Hornby, Esq
Seacombe Ellison, Esq,
Richard Alison, Esq...
Miss E. R. Heath
Miss Colquitt
Thomas Avison, Esq
T. P
Miss Margaret Rathbone
Mr. T. Wren .

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the
LIVERPOOL NEW GAS and COKE COMPANY will be held,
pursuant to the Acts of Incorporation, on WEDNESDAY, the
27th instant, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, at the Office,
Newington.
N.B.—The Books for the Transfer of Shares will be Closed
from the 25th instant, and until the 7th of February.
By order of the Committee,
W. .
Gas-office, Newington, Liverpool,F ARNITT, Chief Clerk.
12th January, 1847.