The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

TO SHIP-MASTERS AND OTHERS.

• LIVERPOOL SHIP-MASTERS' ASSOCIATION.
THE READING ROOMS of the above Society will be
OPENED, 'to Subicribers, on THURSDAY, the 18th
June instant. Terms of Membership, and other particulars,
may be known at the Rooms, 2, Oldhall-street, near the
Exchange.
The advantage, which this Association holds out to Mas-
ters of Vessels, and to mercantile men generally, are such as
can be found in no other Institution in Liverpool, andcannot
fail to secure the hearty co-operation of all who wish well to
the maritime interests of this port.
G. J. DUNCAN, Secretary.
Bth June, 1840.

ANATOMICAL VENUS.
IT has already been announced, that TUESDAY and FRI-
DAYSI are exclusively for LADIES. A wish having been
expressed by several Ladies, for a longer explanation of this
truly wonderful production of Art, the Proprietor announces,
that a competent person will deliver a LEaru RE, provided
he obtains a sufficient number of names for the purpose, .on
FRIDAY next, June 12th. The Lecture commences (for
Ladies only) precisely at Half-past Seven.
Admittance, as usual, Is. ; for the Lecture, 2s. Gd.
53, Bold-street.

LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
THE SIXTEENTH EXHIBITION of the WORKS of
MODERN ARTISTS WILL OPEN in AUGUST

NEXT.
All Works of Art intended for Exhibitiop4ll be received
from the 27th of July to the Bth of Ausc inclusive, and
must be addressed to the Secretary, xhibition Rooms,
Church-street, accompanied with a Note describing them as
intended to be inserted in the Catalogue. (No unnecessary
quotation or narrative can be admitted.)
At the back of each frame must be written the Name of
the Artist, and the Subject.
No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Gilt
Frame.
No Copies, except Enamels, or Water Colours after known
celebrated Pictures, nor Works which bare been publicly
Exhibited in Liverpool, can be received.
Amateur Exhibitors are limited to one work of art.
SAML. EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Liverpool Academy of Art.
June sth, 1840.

MOW OPEN, for PUBLIC INSPECTION, at the Exhi-
lr Rooms, Postoffice-place. Liverpool, a Splendid,
Extensive, and highly-interesting COLLECTION of PIC-
TURES, the production of the most celebrated Masters of the
Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and English Schools,
in subjects from Sacred and Profane History, Landscapes,
Domestic Scenes, Game, and Flower Pieces, a great variety
of Interesting Portraits and Fancy Heads •a series of Cabinet
Copies, from the celebrated LOXEMIIOU*G GALLERY, con-
sisting of twenty-one highly-finished Pictures, by a French
Artist ; a Splendid Picture of the Marriage of George she IV.
with Princess Caroline of Brunswick, displaying numerous
Portraits of the Royal Family, Ladies of the Court, and
Officers of State, all taken from the Life ; with other fine
Productions of Art ; the whole having been selected in various
parts of the Old and New Continents, by the Agent of a
Gentleman of Fortune, who has kindly consented to their
being exhibited in Liverpool for a Short Time only, under
the Direction of Messrs. T. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
who have arranged them as above for that purpose.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Dusk.
ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING EACH.
. .

Descriptive Catalogues (oue Shilling each) may be had at
the Rooms.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.

AS the EXHIBITION of OBJECTS illustrative of the
FINE ARTS, NATURAL HISTORY, EXPERI-
MENTAL PHILOSOPHY, MACHINERY, MANU-
FACTURE, ANTIQUITY, &c., will OPEN in about a
week from this time, it is earnestly requested that all Per-
sons intending to send Articles, either as Donations or Loans,
will, as early as possible, give notice th the Secretary.
As similar Exhibitions, which have been recently held at
Manchester, Leeds, Derby, and other plaCes, have been at-
tended with many excellent results, the Directors confidently
expect that their endeavours to render this Exhibition as
various and useful as possible will be warmly seconded by
the public generally, and especially by those who possess
articles of interest in any of the departments above enume-
rated.

All expenses of carriage and removal will be paid, and the
greatest care will be taken of all the objects lent, which will
be returned immediately after the closing of the Exhibition.
For the information of those who may wish to contribute
either Gifts or Loans, a list is subjoined of articles desirable
to form the Exhibition.
NATURAL HISTORY.

Botanical Specimens, Woods, Foreign Fruits, Flowers,
Minerals, Fossils, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects,
Shells, Eggs, &c.
MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES.

Specimens of Glass, Spar, Earthenware, Porcelain, Silk,
Cotton, Woollen ; ewellery, Clocks, Stoves, Grates ;
Cooking Apparatus, Musical Instruments ; Models of
Steam Engines, Marine, Stationary, and Locomotive ; Fire
Engines, Boilers, Smelting and other Furnaces; Windmills,
Mill Work ; Mines, Roofs, Buildings, Bridges, Canal Locks,
Railroads, Ships, Boats, Life Boats, Fire scapes, Water
Wheels, Pumps ; Steam, Lithographic, and other Printing
Presses, Hydrostatic Press and Balance, Apparatus illustra-
tive of the Mechanical Powers, &c.