The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-04 00:00:00

WILL SHORTLY•CLOSE.
THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXH ITION.
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EX BITION of the
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WO KS of MODERN
ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the S son, from Nine until
Dusk. Admission, ls. Catalogues s. Season Ticket, ss.
Also, every Evening, BRILLIAN LY ILLUMINATED
BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, Is.
SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy.
Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place.

THE THREE CARACCI

THE celebrated PAINTINGS of Subjects from igious
History, by ANNIBAL, AGOSTINO, and UDOVICO
CARACCI, are NOW •ON VIEW at the UNI GALLERY,
Slater-street, (out of Bold-street,) from Te I Four o'clock
by daylight, and again from Six till Ten ' ock in the Even-
ing by gaslight.

'/he sum of £8,500 has lately BEEN REFUSED for these
Pictures. The Ex-Queen of Etruria paid Three Hundred
Thousand Francs for them to Lucien Buonaparte, being at
the rate of £4,000 for each Picture ; and they are now con-
sidered by all Connoisseurs as worth a much larger sum.
They will remain on view at the Union Gallery, for a short
time only.

ADMITTANCE—ONE SHILLING.
JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper

LECTURES ON GERMAN LITERATURE,
LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET.

PROFESSOR W. J. SCHWEITZER,VA., of Bres .
has the honour to announce that, under the patro eof
The Worshipful the MAYOR of LIVERPOOL,
The Right Hon. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON. .P.,
he proposes to deliver, in the LECTURE Ro , LYCEUM,
80ld-street, on the TUESDAYS, THURSDA • , and SATUR-
DAYS of the second and third weeks December, a
COURSE of SIX LECTURES, in R ish, on the LAN-
GUAGE and LITERATURE of GE • MANY, illustrated
by Specimens, original and translated, from the Works of
some of the most celebrated Authors.
The first Lecture will be delivered upon TUESDAY next,
the Bth instant, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, and be
repeated at Eight o'clock of the same Evening ; and the re-
mainder of the Course will be delivered, at the same hours,
on_the successive days named.

Syllabuses and Tickets for the Course, at Half-a-Guinea
each, may be bad at Messrs. GEORGE and Jos. ROBINSON,
43, Castle--street; Messrs. WILLAN and Co., Bold-street;
Mr. GRAPEL'S, Church-street; Messrs. TURNER and ROSE,
South Castle-street; and at the Bar of the Liverpool Library,
Lyceum.

Admission to a Single Lecture, Two Shillings and Six-

Liverpool, Ist December, 1840

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

" The President."—This noble ship will not sail, we are in-
formed, until the 10th of February. The vessel and
engines are to be over-hauled, and improvements made in
the latter to give adequate propulsive power. A corres-
pondent suggests the application of the Archimedean
screw, with the same engines, in lieu of the paddle wheels,
and the rigging of the vessel in full, as " a steam-sailing-
ship," particularly as she is known to be very fast under
canvas. A question, however, arises whether her stern
would not require to be reconstructed to admit of that
mode of propulsion, even were it approved of by nautical
men for so bulky a vessel.
Our correspondents must excuse us inserting any communi-
cations which would have the effect of bringing us into a
collision with a contemporary rather than of advancing
the interests of the society, whose motives and conduct
they approve. This to " Laicus" and others, with refer-
ence to their letters in defence of the Pastoral Aid Society.
We acknowledge the receipt of two shillings and sixpence for
the " case of distress" mentioned in our last.
The letter of " Pacianus" shall appear on Tuesday.
" Pro Bono Publico" asks whether we have heard that Mr.
Thornhill and other liberal town councillors are actually
canvassing for Mr. Highton, who is a candidate for the
governorship of the Borough Gaol ? We have heard such
a rumour, and we believe that it is true.

Just Published, Price 45.,
POLL BOOK

FOR THE LAST
MUNICIPAL ELECTION ;

Shelving the Duplicate Qualifications of the VOTERS,
and the WARDS in which they poll . The Lists
have been examined with the Polli Papers in the
possession of the Mayor. This blication, which
has been compiled with the Wm care, will be found
of great utility as.

Et BOOK OF REFERENCE

and will be found of service to the several Ward
Committees in carrying on the Canvass for the ensu-

ing year

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