The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.
PRESIDENT :

The Right H

nAY next, the 22d instant, SERMONS

ramencing at a Quarter

aaa "ay 12.1, .11116, aL 01A IrCIUCZ4. 111 01. 111-Art.l '0 1...11U zt,n,
Birkenhead, by the Rev. RICHD. S. BROOKE, A.M., of
the Mariner's Episcopal Church, Kingstown, (Diocese of Dublin.)
In the MORNING, at a Quarter before Eleven o'clock, in:
ST MATTHEW'S CHURCH, Key-street, by the Rev. GEO.
CUTHBERT, A.B. ; and Collections made in aid of the ex-
hausted Funds of the above Society.

*** This Institution, which has at present in connexion with
it about 3000 Schools, is solely supported by Collections and
the voluntary contributions of the public.

ALL Persons having Claims against the late Mr.
THOMAS CRAWFORD, Accountant in Liverpool, and
formerly residing in Edinburgh, are requested to lodge the
same with ALEXANDER JAMES, 33, York•place, Edinburgh,
within one month from this date ; and all Persons indebted to
Mr. Crawford are requested immediately to make payment to
Mr. James.
Edinburgh, 6th August. IS44_

CONSUMPTION OF

TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY-
GENTLEMEN,
A S. has been recorded in your journal of Tuesday, a
/IL meeting of manufacturers, boiler makers, engine makers,
&c., was held in the Clarendon-rooms, on Monday evening ;
and it appears that the feeling of the meeting was, that no ap-
paratus that had yet been applied by the several inventors bad
been efficient; and that, moreover, the effect had been to burst
out the boilers and furnace bars, with the expense, too, of much
additional fuel; we beg leave to state, (and we respectfully
address ourselves, through your columns, to the Town Council
of Liverpool.) that we are prepared to undertake the consii.--
ti'

on or suppression of all annoy
other chimneys, on shore or aflof
ciple, vfe shall be proud to apply t

g smoke from furnace-6
i• and that to test our prin-
t principle, without fee or
or steam boat flue which

leward, to t

they may be ple
upon.

I to point of

.nd permit us to operate

llmeant-street, Liverpool,
August 12th, 1847,

HERCULANEUM DOCK COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALP-
IN YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the HERCULA_
NEUM DOCK COMPANY will be held on TUESDAY, the
Thirty-first day of August instant, at Twelve o'clock, at No. 1 1p
Tower Chambers, Liverpool, for the usual purposes.

1y order

AIACaREGOR LAIRD, Secretary.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COMPANY..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIE—
TORS of this COMPANY will be held (in pursuance of the Act
of Parliament) at the White Lion Hotel, in the city of Bristol*
on WEDNESDAY, the Ist of September, at Twelve o'clock.
The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
JAMES W. BULLER, Chairman.
The Transfer Books will be closed on Saturday, the 21st of
August, and not be rennpn.d

nig-on the Ist of SePie7; er
UILCI Lue saw urenerat meet-
Shares in arrear do not entitle the holder's to vote, nor are
Proxies valid unless lodged with the Secretary five days at the
least before the Meeting.
- By order of the Directors,

uly, 1847

AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON
AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.

HALF-YEARLY GENERAL M.

ER TING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLD-
ERS of the above COMPANY will be held, at the Exchange
Hall, in the town of Nottingham, on TUESDAY, the twenty-
fou-th day of August instant. at (Ma eoninnv +ha Afe