The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

BEST HATS

TWENTY SHILLINGS.
WARRANTED NOT TO WEAR WHITE ON THE ' ;IJARE.
Q BIRT and CO. having recently visited tt London and
ki • Paris Markets, can now offer to ie • üblic the most
prevailing shapes of the present day. It: • would endeavour
to avoid that unfair system of puffing, so much resorted
to by Persons in the Hat Trade, who hol t tut advantages which
they cannot realize, and whose only reliance for the favours
of the Public is dependent on their offering wonderful bar-
gains, which, when sought after, are found not to be in ex- ),
istence.

Being Manufacturers, and owing to their connexion with
one of the principal London Houses for the last Six Years,
and also possessing a thorough knowledge of the different
qualities of Furs, and the best Market for buying them,
S. B. and Co. are thereby enabled to offer the best Beaver
Hats which can be made for 20s. cash, warranted equal to
any that can be bought for 2Gs. to 285., effecting a saving to
purchasers of 6s. or Bs. per Hat, which a single trial will prove.
Prime Paris Silk Hat, particularly recommended, war-
ranted not to spot with rain, or be discoloured with sea air,
only Gs. 9d. ; very best ditto, Short Nap, 10s.
S. BIRT AND CO.
GO, LORD-STREET,
Next Door to the Civet Cat,

LIGIBLE BUILDING LAND, si ated between
Childwall Church and Gateacre, to b SOLD, in Lots.
Apply to Messrs. EDEN and S•rANi EET, Royal Bank
'uildings, Dale-street.

TO PARENTS AND GUARDI S.
WANTED immediately, an APPREN CE to a CHE-
MIST, DRUGGIST, &c. He be treated in
every respect as one of the Family, an ust be a Member
of the Established Church.
Apply for terms to Messrs. EVANS, Sow, and Co., Whole-
sale Druggists, Liverpool; or to Mr. T. WArtiaurtTow, 134,
Bradshawgate, Bolton.

GRAND SUBSCRIPTION BALL.
THE usual WHITSUNTIDE BALL will e place at
the TEMPLARS' HALL, OR TUESDAY t, the 9th
instant. Doors to be opened at Nine o'cloe
A Professional Gentleman will officiat Master of the
Ceremonies.
An efficient Quadrille Band will be in attendance.
Tickets—Double, ss. ; Single, 3s. ; to be had at the prin-
cipal Music Shops ; the Templars' Hall, Great George-street ;
Mr. R. CULVERWELL, Derby Arms, Tithebarn-street ; and
at the Standard-office.

RESTRAINTS ON MARRIAGE.
AT a MEETING of PARTIES AGGRIEVED by the
EXISTING RESTRICTIONS upon MARRIAGE,
held at the Office of Messrs. CROWDER and MAYNARD,
No. 3, Mansion-House Place, London, on Thirsday, the
21st of May, a Committee, consisting of severtof the gentle-
men present, was appointed (with power to dd to their mum-il
ber), to take the necessary steps for obtai ng a repeal of the
OBJECTIONABLE restrictions upon Mart ge, and more par-
ticularly that which prohibits marriage with a deeeand
Wife's Sister; and it was resolved, that the objects of the
meeting should be forthwith published in such of the London
and Provincial papers as the Committee might think proper,
with a view to obtain the active co-operation of all partits
interested. —Communications to be addressed to Messrs.
CROWDER and MAYNARD, as above.

rIHE Commissioners in a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing
date the twenty-first day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine, awarded and issued forth
against JOHN EDWARDS, of Parker-street, in Liver-
pool, in the county of Lancaster, Cabinet Maker, dealer and
chapman, intend to meet on the ELEVENT day of JUNE
next, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, a he Clarendon-
rooms, in South John-street, in Liverp foresaid, in order
to audit the accounts of the Assignees he Estate and Ef-
fects of the said Bankrupt, under the id Fiat, pursuant to
an Act of Parliament made and passed in the sixth year of
the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, inti-
tuled, " An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts."

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
CARRIAGE OF GOODS TO AND FROM LONDON.
rll IIE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY
inform the Public, that, in order to ensure t he Lon-
don Trade the same advantage of moderate d uniform
Charges for the Carriage of Merchandise as • now afforded
by the Grand Junction Line between Birmi Mil and Liver-
pool and Manchester, they have, in co& •tion with Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, of London, made angements whereby
the Public who may be disposed to a ail themselves of this
means of conveyance will obtain a considerable reduction in
the Rates, and avoid all uncertain or extra Charges, under
the head of Cartage and Porterage, on the delivery of the
Goods in London, or the forwarding of the Goods front
thence.

The Rates fixed will include all Charges of Delivery to the
receiver of the Goods in London, if resident within the limits
of the London Porterage Act, as also the Cartage and Por-
terage in London, on all Goods forwarded, with the excep-
tion of the Booking, when required, of Goods forwarded
from London.
Tne Scale of Rates will be as follows, including Delivery,
&c., in London :
For Iron and other Metals, Castings, raw
Sugar, Tallow, Lead, and other Coarse
Goods
For Packs, Drapery Trusses, Hardware
Packed, Butter, General Groceries, Pro-
visions. Oils, &c. &c.
For Glass in Crates, Indigo, Loose Hides,
Spirits, Wines, &c., Tea, Manufactured
Tobacco, Woollen Yarns, &c.
For Plate and Crown Glass in Cases, Lug-
gage, Poultry Dead, Raw and Manufac-
tured Silk Woolpacks 79s. Bd. „
Light and hazardous Articles, such as Hats, Furniture,
Pictures, Light Glass Shades, &c., and single articles weigh-
ing less than 1 Cwt. will be charged at proportionately higher
rates.

&4s. Bd.

Further particulars may be learned on application to the
Company's Agent, at the Wapping Station, Liverpool ; or
at the Manchester Station, Liverpool-road, Manchester; or
at Vauxhall, Birmingham ; as also at the following Offices
and Receiving Houses of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, in
London :

Swan with Two Necks Lad-lane.
Spread Eagle Grace Church-st.
Cross Keys Wood-street. •
George and Blue Boar Holborn.
Golden Cross Charing Cross.
Universal Office, Regent Circus Piccadilly.
Triffin's Green Man and Still Oxford-street.
In order to prevent misconception, it is proper to state,
that the Company undertake, with respect to all Goods for-
warded by them as Carriers, all the responsibilities custom-
arily undertaken by other Carriers ; and that all communi-
cations on the subject of the Merchandise Business will be
promptly attended to by the Agents, at the Offices above-
mentioned.

The business, on the terms now advertised, will commence
on the Bth June next, on and after which time Goods will be,
forwarded at the rates in question from Liverpool, Manches-
ter, and London ; as also at proportionately lower rates from
the Company's Merchandise Stations, at Warrington, Staf-
ford, and Wolverhampton, to London, or from London to
the said Stations.
By order of the Directors.
Liverpool, May 30, 1840.