The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

SUB➢TARINE AND EUROPEAN
TELEGRAPH.

OPENING TO BIRMINGHAM,
AND GREAT REDUCTION OF TARIFF

BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON.

On and after THIS DAY, MESSAGES of Twenty
Words between Birmingham and London, will be forwarded
for One Shilling ; and Sixpence additional will be charged for
each 10 words or fraction of 10 words above 20.—Porterage
Sixpence for the first half mile, and Sixpence per mile beyond
the first half mile.—Continental Messages from Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, &c., sent to the Submarine Office
at Birmingham, will save Is. 6d. in telegraphic charge between
London and Birmingham, will proceed direct through one set
of Instruments, errors of frequent copying will be obviated,
the Messages will remain under one management, and all
delay between Lothbury and Cornhill will be avoided. _

Birmingham,O ces, 104, New-street, and 30, Cornbill,
London.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—NORTHERN DIVISION.
SUMMER EXCURSIONS.
On and after MONDAY next, the Ist of August, RETURN
TICKETS between LIVERPOOL and FURNESS ABBEY,
available for Fourteen Days, may he bad at the Lime-street
Station, Liverpool, at the following Rates :—First Class,
198. 6d. ; Second Class, 15s. 6d. These Tickets are only issued
for the Train leaving Liverpool at 7 15 A.M.-BY ORDER.
General Manager's Office, Liverpool, July 28, 1853.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.- NORTHERN DIVISION.
ALTERATIONS FOR AUGUST.
The 6 45, a.m., Train from Liverpool to Manchester will
discontinue to carry passengers to Preston and the North.
A Train of First and Second-class Carriages will be despatched
from Liverpool to Preston at 7 15 a.m.
The 9 10 A.M. Train from Liverpool, for Preston and the
North, will convey Third-class passengers.
The 6 50 A.m. Train from Manchester to Preston and the
North will be discontinued.
A Train of First, Second, and Third-class Carriages will leave
Manchester for stations on the North Union line at 9 20 a.m.
The 7 10 p.m. Third-class Train from Preston to Liverpool
will be despatched at 8 16 p.m.
The 8 33 P.M. Mail from Preston to Liverpool will be
despatched at 9 p.m.
The Mail Train, now leaving Liverpool for London at 8 52
p.m., will be despatched at 9 26 p.m. BY ORDER.
General 3lanager's Office, July, 1853.

IVERPOOL EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
—The COMMITTEE having resolved to recommend
to a Special General Meeting of the Governors of the Charity
that a third HONORARY SURGEON be appointed, Gentle-
men desirous of becoming CANDIDATES are requested to
announce their intentions to the Committee, on or before the
24th inst. _ _ _

RULE.—" No Gentleman is eligible to the office of Surgeon
who is not a member of the College of Surgeons of London,
Dublin, Edinburgh, or Glasgow, and who has not attended
some Ophthalmic Institution for a period of six months."
The Committee has also concluded to appoint a duly quali-
fied person as PAID ASSISTANT SURGEON. The testi-
monials of any one desirous of the appointment to be sent to
the Infirmary, on or before the lith inst.
HENRY CROSFIELD, Treasurer.
JOSEPH HADWELL, Hon. Sec.
y, Mount Pleasant, 6th August, 1853.

Eye and Ear Infirtnar.

MCI THE GOVERNORS AND SUBSCRIBERS
OF THE LIVERPOOL EYEA ND EAR INFIRMARY.
—MY LORDS, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN,—The Committee
of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Mount-pleasant, having de-
cided on recommending. at a General Meeting of the Sub-
scribers, the addition of another HONORARY SURGEON,
I beg to offer myself as a CANDIDATE; and trust that my
having been for the last year and a half honorary Assistant-
Surgeon to the Institution, together with my previous con-
nexion with one of the largest Eye Ilospitals in London, from
the Surgeons of whom I possess the highest testimonials, will
secure me the honour of your support, in the event of such
an appointment taking place.
I beg to remain, my Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, your
very obedient Servant,

ROBERT HAMILTON, Jun
14, Great George-square, Bth August, 1853.

o THE GOVERNORS, SUBSCRIBERS, &c.,
TTO THE EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.—My LORDS,
LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN,—The Committee of the Eye and
Year Infirmary having resolved to reco:nmend to a General
Meeting of the Subscribers the addition of another SURGEON
to their Medical Staff, I beg to propose myself as a CANDI-
DATE for
-the appointment. _

In proof of qUalification for the office, permit me to refer to
the testimonial of Dr. Mackenzie, of Glasgow, now in your
hands ; and also to the fact of my having conducted a Dis-
pensary for Diseases of the Eye in this town during the last
thirteen years, at which upwards of 17,000 new cases have
been treated with a very gratifying amount of success.
If elected to the office, it will be my endeavour heartily to
co-operate with my brother officers in promoting the efficiency
of the Infirmary, and in maintaining it in the honourable
position which it has hitherto occupied amoqg the charitable
irstitutions of the town.

I am, my Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, respectfully, your
obedient servant,
It. HIBBERT TAYLOR, M.D.,
Lecturer on Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery to
the Royal Infirmary Medical School.
1, Percy-street, 9th August, 1853.