The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

PATRoNS :

The Right Honourable the Flit! /WIRY.
The Right linnourahle the Ear! or NIEXBOROUGH,
Y.G.M. West Riding of Yorkshire.

The Right Honourable Lord itI;;AY
The Right Honourable Lord SA LTOUN.
The Rilrht Hononrable. CHI% 121,1,13 TENNYSON
D'EYNCOURT, of Lio4-5100,;,..._
General Sir JOSEPH O'HALLORAN, K.C.B.
nfRICTO S:

Colonel HENRY DUN DAS CA M PBE L elmirman.
William Cumming. Esq. I Geo. Goldsmith Kirby, E,q.
Frederick Dodsworth, Eq. ! Richard Alex. Pt-ire. E‘q.
,James .Tenlison. Esq. .I,lllles Stephenson, E.g.
William King, Esq. Cant. Win. Spence' Webb,
H.E.I.C.S.
Auditor.—Josbua King, LL.D., F.O P.S., &c. &c.,
President of Queen's College, Cambridge,
Bankers :—The London and Westminster Bank.
MEDICA I. Anvishns:

1. U. Thomson, Esq., M D. I This. King, Esq. Maddox-st.

LEGAf, ADVISERS:

Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. Heyes,
The advantages of this Company are as follow :-
1. To the assured seeking profits.—The whole of the profits
of their own class will be triennialll divided amongst them-
selves.

11. The option of taking these profits in cash—adding to
'he policy--diminishing the premium—or effecting an annuity
for the remainder of life at a certain age.

111. To the assured not seeking profits.—Premiums much
ielnw those of most other offices.

IV. Facilities for effecting loans'on security of the policies,
without the heavy annual payment in addition to the interest
charged by other offices.
V. To both Classes.—lncreasing or decreasing premiums
at their option.
VI. Half the amount of premiums may remain owing, at
5 per cent. interest, on the security of the Policies for the
first five years.
VII. Policies not forfeited if Premium unpaid at the sti-
pulated period, but may be received if health the same.
VIII. No error, but only fraud to vitiate a Policy.
IX. Policies and Premiums may be reduced if circum-
stances require it, and the overplus paid to be considered as
paid in advance to the reduced Policy.
X. All claims to be settled within three months, or imme-
diately on allowance of discount.
XI. The advantages 'to Shareholders are, a guaranteed
dividend of 5 per cent. interest on their shares.
XI I. The whole of the profits arising from the proprietary
. _ _

XIII. The %Thole of the profits arising from the purchase
of reversions. .
_

XIV. The whole of the profits arising from the grantinc,
of annuities.

Application for Shares to be made to an►y of the Branches
of the London and Westminster Bank, or for Shares, or
Policies, or Annuities, to G. G. Kirby, Esq., Managing
Director, 11, Waterloo place.
District Boards will he formed by the Brethren of Lodges,
who wilt superintend the Business for the benefit of Masonry
and the Institution. Agents, being Shareholders, will be
speedily appointed.

By 08888 of THE ASSIGNEE.
BANKRUPT'S PROPERTY.
By Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
On FRIDAY next, the instant, et One o'clock in the
Afternoon, at the Clarendon.rooms,
APIECE of FREEHOLD LAND, situate on the south
side of Dexter-street, in Toxteth-park, near Liverpool,
and containing a frontage next the said street of five yards,
abutting east on land belonging to Messrs. Henderson and
Burgess twenty yards, west on lands of Mr. Adamson twenty-
one yards, and south on a cotnmon passage five yards, be the
same dimensions more or less.

For further particulars apply to Mr. HiNnit, Solicitor,
John-street; or Messrs. HARSIOOD BANNER and SON, Ac-
countants, John-street.

AYRES,
(Punta LONDON,)
LATE BARBER AND SON,
BEGS most respectfully to call the attention of the No-
bility, Gentry, and the Public of Liverpool and its
Vicinity to his
CLOTH-NAPE: l BEAVER HATS,
they being of a superior Tiality to any yet offered to the
Public,' manufactured solely fur him, and nut to be procured
at any other House in England, the price of which is 30s.
CASH. The above will be, r.iund a most desirable Article to
those Gentlemen to whom shortness of nap is a recommenda-

3, St. George's Crescent.

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
SECOND HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETIVG.
rullE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of
IL the PROPRIETORS was held. on W EDN ESDA y, the
sth day of September instant, at Twelve o'clock in the Fore-
noon. at the Y,ok Hotel, in ?Winchester.

ROBERT BARBOUR, Esq.. in she Chair; when the fol-
lowing Resolutions were un.intinow,'y passed ;
On the motion'of David Pace, Esq., seconded by Samuel
Alcock, Esq.;
That the seal of the company be affixed to the register of
proptletors now produced.
On the motion or Edward Davies Davenport, Esq., se-
conded by the Rev. William Gaskell;
That the reports, with the aecompanying statement of ac-
counts now, read,* be adopted and printed, and a copy seat to
each proprietor.
On the motion of Cooke, ''sq., seconded by David
Dorkray, Esq.;
That Messrs. Sharp, Westhead, Tootal, Frost and Swan-
wick, who this iLy retire by ballot from she Board of Direc-
tors, be, and they are hereby re-elected Directors of the Coin-
.
pany.

On the motion of Francis Parker, Esq., seconded by Wm.
Henry Wilson, Esq.;
That the thanks of the Proprietors be hereby given to the
Board of Directors for their uniform attention to the interests
of the Company. s s

. .
ROBERT BARBOUR, Chairman.
Mr. Barb,uir having left the chair, and Edward Davies
Davenport, Esq , having been called thereto, it Was unani-
mously.—That the best thanks of the meeting, are due to the
Chairman for the manner in which he has cohducted the bu-
siness of the day.

E. D. DAVENPORT.

It B PO Wl'.

At a meeting of proprietors i❑ April last, the directors,
deeming it their duty on the first occasion that offered to sub-
mit the undertaking to a searching inquiry, entered at length
into a history of the company, its objects, its then condition,
and its prospects. On this occasion their duty will be limited
to a summary of the more important facts and proceedings
which have since trap-pared; and they are happy to intimate
that their report, though mote brief than its predecessor, will,
as they hope and believe, be quite satisfactory to the propri-
etors.

THE LINE FROM MANCHESTER To STOCKPORT.
The directors stated in their former report that the plans
for the line from Manchester to Stockport were in an ad-
vanced state, and were expected to be ready fir the contrac-
tors in six weeks from that period. They further stated that
in the opinion of the engineer this portio❑ of the line might
be completed in two years from the letting of the works.
The plans iv question, which comprise the entire line be-
tween the two towns, excepting that part of it which passes
from Store-street to Fail fiidd-street, were completed by the
time named, and on the 19th May last, tenders forthecxeett-
lion of the works were advertised for in the usual way. The
contracts, four in number, have since been let, and the direc-
tors are happy to say, in every instance, to respectable and
responsible contractors, who have entered into engagements,
under which the line connecting Manchester to Stockport is
to be completed and prepared fur the public in May, 1810.
There we two cheering circumstances to be communicated
in reference to this portion of the railway. The one is, that
by a variation of section effected without detriment to the line
in an enginee►ing point of view, and assented to wherever
necessary under the act of the landowners interestt 41 a saving
trill be scented in the construction, of £50,090, in addition to
which the further result has been attained, that the period for
completion of the works nit! be brought within a limn of time
less, as the directors are advised, by upwards of a year, than
the period necessary to execute Inc lineaccording to the Par-
liamentary section.

The other circumstance to be referred to is, that the con-
tractsimve been let within the estimate=, and thus whilst the
cost aconstruction has in the first place been diminished by
the change of section, a saving has secondly been eff.cted in
the cost at which the line has been undertaken as compared
with the cost at which its cons;ruction was estimated.
PURCHASES OF LAND AND POSSESSION By CoNTRACTORS•
'the purchases of land upon the line are proceeding upon
the whole satisfa( torilv. The directors do not di.guise that
they have had many difficulties to contend with in this depart-
ment of their duty, owing to the liwe demands in.,de upon
them by cei rain laiolowners, and to corims arising. 'ail of ii her
circumstances, but th,y are happy Io be able to state that
those difficulties ale being rapidly oveicoine. It is but just
to the landed propriettirs as a body to add, that in vety many
in.tatices the overtures of the company have been met in a
spirit of fairness ;old candour; and the directors lake this op-
portanity ofavowirig their an xiouswish to clitivate the best
ng
understindi istth the landnwileis whom the railway nay
affect, awl of meeting their views to the utmost extent coin-
pati 1e with the paramount claims of the country.
The contractors have been severally put in II lI,ISS“'SSIOU of
such part of the lanai as was immediately needful to them,
awl the wo. ks upon the line are now activulv commenced
The directors will make it their special cat e to an,iFipate
the wants of the contractors with to the possession of
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tiou and timely complettou of the radwa) in this important

V I GTO RIA PAT E N pLAT E.
m7.--r-rteinrw
the many Patterns .f Plain and Shell Silvo SPOONS tad
FOlt he has finished this very elegy It New Pattern,
after the admired style of Louis XIV. The following are
the usual wei,nts r eemn mended, but the Articles may he had
lighter or heavies to suit the convenience of purchasers : _

.
oz s. d. £ s d
D,,zen Victoria Pattern Silver Table Spenns..4o at 7 6..15 0
Dozen Ditto Table Forks ..40 —7 6..15 0 0
Dozen Ditto D,sqert,-zooons 25 7 ti.. 9 7 6
,ozen Ditto Dessert Forks..:3s 7 6.. 9 7 6
Pair. Ditto Gravy c" ins .13-7 6.. 417 6
1 Ditto Soup.L.sii", —.ll-7 6.. 4 2 6
4 Ditto SUMP i.du{, a... 12 8 0.. 4 16 0
4 Ditto Salt ',miles (gilt b0w15).... 2 2 0

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1 Dlt Ditto Fish Slice piereestrong) 3 10 0
1 Dozen Di to Tea 5p.0n5....14 —8 0 5 12 0
1 Pair Ditto Sugar Tens
Fiddle, Pattern Silver Spoons and Forks, 7s. 2d. per ounce ;
Kitites Pattern Silver Spoons and Forks, 7s. 4d. per ounce.