The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

ST. GEORGE'S HALL

AT a MEETING of the PROPRIETORS in the ST.
GEORGE'S HALL COMPANY, held in the Cotton
Sales' Room, on Tuesday, the 25th day of August, 1840,
The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS in the Chair,
The following Report of the Committee to the Proprietors
was read :

It will be in the recollection of the Meeting, that this Co
pany was formed at a Public Meeting of the Si
held after 1013 Shares had been taken, amounti
per Share, to £25,325. The Committee, elected in manner
prescribed at that Meeting, made, in February, 1837, an
application to the Council of the Borough for a Grant of part
of the site of the Old Infirmary, on which to erect St.
George's Hall ; and in June, 1838, the Council, having first
obtained an Act of Parliament for the purpose, made an
appropriation of that site, on proper Trusts being declared,
defining the purposes to which the Building should be
applied.

Che mercantile embarrassments of 1837, unfortunately
: a stop to all further progress in the undertaking ; bu

after the improvement which-took place in tl
1838, the Committee made a fresh appeal to t
was attended with success, and tl
scribed for was increased to 1043.
On the 28th of June, 1838, the occasion of her Maj
Coronation, the first stone of the Hall was laid ; and i
diately afterwards, your Committee made a Call upon tl
Subscribers of a first Instalment of £5 per Share, payable
August, 1838. This Call on the 1043 Shares subscribed f
would, if fully paid, have produced £5215; but on 289 Share
amounting to £1445, the Call was not paid. The Membe
of the Committee, however, undertook to wait personally (
the Subscribers, and the result was, that there was collected
in the whole, up to January, 1839, the £5 Call on 860 Shares
amounting to £4300 ; being equivalent to a subscribed Ca
pital of £21,500, if the remaining £2O per Share were paid
up on the Shares.
The Committee then advertised for Plans for the Hall,
and, in the meantime, entered into treaty with the Finance

Public, which
number of Shares sub-

Committee, for arranging the terms and coinlitions upOn
which the Council should make the grant of the site ; and
these were, at length, arranged. The principal of them was,
that power was given to the Council to appoint, out of its
own body, six Members of the Committee, the Subscribers
appointing fifteen ; making in all a Committee of twenty-one,
the number originally fixed upon.
On the sth of June, 1839, six Committee-men were named
on the part of the Council ; and of these, four had been pre-
viously members of the Committee, two only being new
Members.

Much pains were bestowed by the Committee on the in-
spection of the numerous designs sent in by the competing
Architects ; and one was fixed upon in June, 1839, which
proved to be that of Mr. Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. Fortu-
nately, your Committee's choice met with the general—
indeed, almost universal—apprebation of the Public.
Mr. Elmes, after carefully revising his estimates, at the
request of your Committee, stated, that £30,000 would be
the maximum of the cost of erecting a Hall according to his
Plans.

The Council having determined on the erection of Law-
courts on another portion of the Old Infirmary Ground, and
not having fixed the precise site of them, your Committee
await the determination of the Council on that point, and,
having at length ascertained that the site originally appro-
priated to St. George's Hall would not be interfered with,
your Committee have, within a few days past, had an inter-
view with Mr. Elmes, and have fully arranged the general
plan of the Hall.
There is to be accommodation in the main Hall for 3000

persons ; and there is also to be a Concert-room, capa
accommodating 1000 persons—applicable to other par]
such as Lectures and smaller Meetings.
As the cost of the Building will be £35.000. incl

. ,
£5OOO for an Organ and Fuiniture, the number of Share;
required to make up that sum will be 1400. The number of

Shares subscribed for was 1043. Of these, the Call was paid
on 860 only ; and from the latter number, 120 Shares must
be deducted, owing to death, removal from Liverpool, o
misfortune in Business, of Subscribers . and it is gi
to find that this class is so small. Your Committee

fore, think they can rely on 740 Shares as the number on
which the Calls will be paid; and, consequently, it will be
proper to procure Subscriptions for 660 additional Shares.
The Funds in the Bank are.now £3950.

(Signed)

JONA. BROOKS, Chairma

It was then resolved unanimously, on the motion of J. H
TURNER, Esq., seconded by HENRY HOLMES, Esu..

That, the Council having definitively fixed upon the site
of the intended Law-courts, it is desirable that the Committee
of St. George's Hall should make early arrangements for
erecting the Hall, according to the design fixed upon ; which
is calculated, in its extent and arrangements, to afford the
desired accommodation to the inhabitants, and, in its archi-
tectural beauty, to be an ornament to the town.
Resolved unanimously, on the motion of T. B. BARCLAY,
Esq. seconded by JAMES MooN, Esq.,
That the mode, adopted in an early stage of this under-
taking, of personally soliciting the inhabitants to subscribe
for Shares, be now renewed ; and that a public appeal be also
made to them on the subject. That, with the above view,
these Resolutions, and the Report read to this Meeting, be
advertised in the Newspapers.
(Signed) JONA. BROOKS, Chairman.
Books of Subscription lie at the Offices of the Secretaries,
Mr. E. G. DEANE, No. 2, Harrington Chambers, North
John-street, and Mr. THOMAS HARVEY, No. 1, Exchange
Buildings.

MONS. LE DRAY, SURGEON-DENTIST, from the
Firm of LE DRAY and CO., London.
A NEW DISCOVERY IN ARTIFICIAL TEETH,
FIXED WITHOUT WIRES, SPRINGS, OR LIGATURES.

SCURVY in the GUMS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED.
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And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Marmoratunz.
MoNs. LE DRAY and CO., Surgeon-Dentists, respect
fully inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Liver
pool and its vicinity, that they have opened Establishment
permanently at No. 70, SEEL-STREET, Liverpool, (eigh
doors from Berry-street,) and No. 52, GEORGE-STREEI
Manchester.

They continue to fill up the cavities of Decayed Teeth
with their Mineral Marmoratum, without the least pain,
heat, or pressure ; it is placed into the cavity in an almost
liquid state, and in a few seconds gets hard, preventing
and curing the Tooth-ache. arresting all further nro-

gress of decay, andrendering the operation of extras
unnecessary. The Mineral not only converts a mere
into a sound and useful tooth, but, by completely stop
up the cavity, prevents effectually that unpleasant tair
the breath which invariably accompanies a decayed toot
Among the various disorders of the Teeth and Gums. t

are none more destructive in their effects, or more g(
prevalent, than Scurvy ; and it is well known that tht
of Teeth arises more from this cause than any other
affects individuals of all ages and of all constitutions, a
is the primary cause of Tooth-ache and decay. To the
affected, Mons. La DRAY and Co. have to inform t
that they can effectually remove this destructive conmi
by a single application, without the slightest pain
Mons. La DRAY begs to introduce to the ni
Patients and the Public, an entire new descript__
CORRODIBLE ARTIFICIAL TEETH, and can
confidence guarantee them to answer every purpose of M
tication and Articulation, and defy detection from the cloy
observer. They never change colour or break, as those II
used, are fixed without wires or ligatures, and have uo
pleasant odour or unnatural gloss. This me•thnii fines

following Fitiris charges :
A single Artificial Tooth

£0 10 0

A complete Set .......
A complete Set of Natural Teeth, on fine
gold plate
An entire Set of Natural or Terro Metal
lic Teeth, highly finished, in the fin t
style, with fine gold sockets, usually
charged 40 Pilinpaa

5 5 0

15 0 0

Loose Teeth fastened, arising either from age, disease, or
mercury, and deficiencies of palate effectually remedied.
Artificial Teeth out of repair, remodelled to fit the mouth,
and restored equal in beauty and durability to their original
state. Attendance from Nine till Seven, and on Sundays
troth Nine till Two.
For the convenience of country patients. Monsieur
LE DRAY and Co. are enabled to fix a partial or complete
set of Teeth at one sitting, without he least pain or incon•

venience.
0, SEEL-STREET, LIVERPOOL, AND 52, GEORG
STREET, MANCHESTER.