The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-07 00:00:00

BRITISH SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.
NEWCASTLE MEETING, 1838.

FREPORTS of the PROCEEDINGS of this
I! MEETING, to assemble on the 20th August, with
ABSTRACTS of the more important P ERS read in the
SECTIONS, will be given in
THE ATHENYEU I.

The Report of the BI istol Meeting, 1836, occupied above
149 Columns (three double numbers being given;) that of
the Liverpool Meeting,lB37, above 200 Columns (four double
numbers t) and such arrangements have been made as to
induce a hope that the present will be equally full and satis-
factory.
Persons desirous of possessing the Report should give
orders immediately to their respective Booksellers for the
MONTHLY PARTS of the ATHENIEUM, that copies
may be received with the monthly parcels.
THE ATHENEUM LONDON JOURNAL OF LITERA-
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Stamped Edition to go free by Post. Fivepence,) is the
LARGEST LITERARY PAPER; (Sixteen, occasionally
Twenty-four, large Quarto Pages.) It contains—
REVIEWS, with copious Extracts, of all important
NEW WORKS, both English and Foreign.
REPORTS (some exclusively and by authority,) of all
that is interesting in the Proceedings of the LEARNED
AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES; with Abstracts of the
snore Important Papers. Also, the METEOROLOGICAL
TABLE kept by Order of the President and Council of the
Royal Society, and furnished exclusiveln to this Journal.
AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF ALL SCIENTIFIC VOYAGES AND
EXPEDITIONS. CRITICISMS ON ART, Critical Notices of
Exhibitions, New Prints, New Music, the Opera, Concerts,
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MEN. ORIGINAL PAPERS AND POEMS. With Miscellanea
—including all that is likely to interest the informed and
intelligent.
*,„. The ATHENEUM is published every Saturday, price
Fourpence, but is also reissued each Month, neatly stitched
in a wrapper.

GOADSBY, PRINTSELLER, CARVER AND GILDER,
kJ. and COLOURMAN TO ARTISTS, in announcing the
publication of the following SPLENDID WORKS OF
ART, respectfully solicits the patronage of the Not,ility and
Gentry of this Town and Neighbourhood. and begs_to draw
their attention to the extensive and valuable Collection of
Modern Engravings, at his New Establishment, No. 85,
BOLD-STREET; among which are some fine early proofs,
many of them extremely scarce. Also, a/faluable Collection
of WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS, by the most cele-
brated Artists, viz. Stothard, R.A. Austin, Vickers, Prout,
Harding, Cox, Bentley, Cooper, Pritchett, Chambers, toge-
ther with several others. Also, a variety of Illustrated
Works, &c., including Retzsch's Outlines to Shakspeare,
viz. Hamlet, 3facbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear,
JUST PUBLISHED.

Dedicated, by special permission, to HER M AJESTY,
THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE, .
Engraved in the most highly-finished line manner, on copper,
by WILLIAM MILLER, from the splendid Picture painted by
J. M. W. Turner, R.A.
Prints, £1 lls. 6d. ; Proofs, £3 35.; India Proofs, £4 45.;
India Proofs before Letters, h 6s.

Dedicated to the Right Hon. the Marquis of Abercorn,
THE CHILDREN OF THE MARQUIS OF ABER-

CORN.
Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., from the very fas-
cinating picture painted by Edwin Landseer, R.A.
Prints £1 Ils. 6d.; Proofs £3 35.; Proofs before letters
£5 ss.

Under the especial patronage of Hart MAJESTY.
WORKS OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A.
Just published, Part V,
Containing the COUNTESS OF WILTON, engraved by
G. H. Phillips; EARL OF DURHAM, by C. E. Wagstaff;
LADY.DOVER, by G. H. Phillips.
Prints, 125.; Proofs, £1 Is.; Proofs before Letters,
£1 lls. 6d.

C. G. begs leave to announce that he has Etchings of the
following Engravings, which arc nearly ready for publica-
tion, and would wish those gentlemen who are desirous of
having brilliant impressions, to favour him with their names
as early- as possible.
HIGHLAND DROVERS DEPARTING ItOR THE
SOUTH. Engraving in the line manner by J. H. Watt, from
the splendid picture painted by Edwin Landseer, R.A., for J.
Sheepshanks, Esq., and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
This plate is engraving upon a scale commensurate with
the interest of the picture. The etching is now finished, and
it is expected that the plate will be completed by the end of
this year.

Prints, £3 35.; Proofs, £6 65.; India Proofs, £lO 10s.;
Before letters, £l2 12s.

MEETING OF HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS
ON ASCOT HEATH. ,
Engraving in the finest style of Mezzotinto, by F. Bromley,
from the much-admired Picture by F. Grant. Esq., exhibited
at the Royal Academy, and painted for the Earl of Chester-
field.

Prints, £3 3s. ; Proofs, £5 ss. ; Proofs before Letters,
£6 6s.

THE CARD•FLAYRRS.

Engraving in the finest style of Mezzotinto, by Chas. Lewis,
from the beautiful Cabinet Picture painted by Sir David
Wilkie, R.A. for his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
Prints, £1 lls. 6d.; Plods, £3 3s. ; before Letters, £5 ss.

THE BATTLE OF THE COVENANTERS, AT
DRUMCLOG,
Engraving' in Mezzotinto, by C. E. Wagstaff, from the cele-
brated picture painted by George Harvey, S.A.
Prints, £2 25.; Proofs, £3 3s. ; before Letter's, £4 4s.