The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

CAPTAIN PIDDING'S TEAS.
THE accounts lately received from Macao, brought intelli-
gence of the English having been totally expelled from
China, and that hostilities had actually commenced between
Her Majesty's forces, directed by her Superintendent in
person, and Chinese men of war; in other words, China is
at war with England. And the questions upon which the
two countries are now at issue being of such difficult adjust-
ment as to render it almost impossible awl certainly impro-
bable, that any more teas can be obtainfOrom China for a
very considerable period, a great rise *ran descriptions of
that article has taken place. Since June last, common black
teas have risen Is. 9d., and fine green, 3s. per lb. Fine
Hyson, with duty, fetched at the late public sales, 9s. 7d. per
lb. ; fine black teas as high as 6s. 7d., whilst up to this mo-
ment, Captain Pidding has continued to allow his teas to be
sold without any advance whatever. The late great rise,
however, having caused a run upon his teas by the trade, who
found that they could purchase them cheaper retail than
they could buy inferior teas wholesale, he is compelled to
raise the price, to prevent his remaining stock being purchased
by tea dealers. For the present, Captain Pidding's How-
QUA'S MIXTURE will be sold at the rate of 6s. 9d. per lb.,
being 9s. the catty, or an advance of only 9d. per lb., when
the commonest teas, since June, have advanced Is. 9d. per lb.
HOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER Will he sold, for the
present, at 9s. 9d. per lb., when even Hyson, an inferior tea,
is fetching, wholesale, 9s. 7d. per lb. Half and quarter
catties in like proportions.
Captain Pidding thinks it right to inform the public that
his Chinese correspondent states confidently, that there is no
probability of the trade opening with that country, for, at the
least, twelve months ; and as the entire stock of consumable
tea in Great Britain will be exhausted before that period,
there is little doubt but tea will advance daily.
These Teas consist of Captain Pidding's HOWQUA'S
MIXTURE, of 40 rare Black Teas, and HOWQUA'S
SMALL LEAF GUNPO WDER,in Chinese Catty Packages.
N.B.—The signature of " Captain JOHN RHODES YID-
DING" is upon every genuine package.

GEO. CARLYLE,
for LIVERPOOLRepositor 3B B.
old-street, Sole Agent
Bolton G. J. French, Silk Mercer.
Bradford J. Pratt, Chemist.
Burnley J. Sutcliffe, Bookseller, 20, St. James'-street.
Blackburn J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church-street.
Clitheroe H. Whalley, Postmaster.
Halifax J. W. Foster, Linen Draper, 36, Crown-street.
Leeds E. Hepper, Confectioner, 39, Commercial-st.
Manchester Mirfin, Ford, and Co., St. Ann's-square.
Preston Thomas Green, Music Seller, Church-street.
J. MO N, Starap4fike.

TO THE ELECTORS OF GREAT GEORGE WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
ENCOURAGED by numerous offers of support, which
from men of all parties I have had the gratification of
receiving, as well as by the unanimous vote of a Public Meet-
ing of the Conservatives of the 'Ward, I again offer,rayself to
your notice as a CANDIDATE for the hono r- of repre-
senting you in the Town Council.
My conduct during the last three yak I trust has not
been at variance with those principles and professions which,
when first I solicited your suffrages, I hesitated not to de-
clare. I have devoted myself with diligence to your service,
unbiassed by party spirit, and influenced only by a sincere
desire to promote economy in the management of the Corpo-
rate Estate, and to render its resources as beneficial as possi-
ble to the town at large ; and if I should, for the second time,
be the object of your choice, you may rely upon a continuance
of my best exertions.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obliged Servant,
JOS. COOPER.
Great George-street, 20th October, 1840.

The COMMITTEE for securing the Return of Mr. JOS.
COOPER, as Town Councillor for the above Ward, at the
ensuing Municipal Election, on the 2d of November next,
MEET EVERY EVENING, at Seven o'clock, at No. 5,
St. James'-street, two doors above Kent-street, where every
information connected with the Election may be obtained.
G. H. LAWRENCE, Chairman.
Si. James'-street,
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Committee Room,cto 5,
ber 17,
1840.

SAINT GEORGE'S HALL./
A GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of
e
ii. the SAINT GEORGE'S HAL OMPANY will
be held in the COTTON SALES-RO in the Exchange-
buildings, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th f November, at One
o'clock, when the Committee will bmit to the Meeting,
for confirmation and adoption, the following Proposal,
agreed to at a joint Meeting of the Committee of the Council
for the Erection of the Courts of Law and of the Committee
of Saint George's Hall.
PROPOSAL.—" That the Saint George's Hall Society shall
give up the Land, voted to them by the Council, on condition
that the Erection of the Council shall comprise a Hall, as
well as the proposed Law Courts; the Saint George's Hall
Company raising, or satisfactorily securing, to the Council,
a fund, of such an amount as shall be mutually agreed on
between the Company and the Council, to defray the expense
of the erection, so far as shall extend to the fair proportion,
on account of the intended Hall."
The attendance oft Proprietors is particularly requested.
JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman.