The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

WHO WOULD WRITE AN INDIFFERENT HAND,

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When a beautifully free and flowing Style of -Penmanship can
be acquired in a tew Easy Lessons,
AT MR. AND MRS. THOMPSON'S
. PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISA3IENT,
8, CLAYTON-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL.

MR. THOMPSON, who has been established at
No. 8, Clayton-square, upwards of seventeen years, sole
Inventor and Head Teacher of a new and superior system of
Writing, enables bad writers to acquire a free, expeditious,
and commanding style of Penmanship, in a few easy Lessons
of one hour each, private, or in class.
LADIES, in Class, meet at Tlrce-olciock-on Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, anj.are completed in a remarkably free
and lady-like Handwritiit, the only fashionable one of the day.
GENTLEMEN meet in the Evening of the above days, First
Class at Seven, Strcond Class at Eight o'clock, and are com-
pleted in a good, bold, free, and expeditious business hand.
Lessons given strictly private at any hour, to suit the conve-
nience of the Pupil.
MR.. THOMPSON
GIVES LESSONS IN THE USEFUL ART OF
BOOK-KEEPING
BY DOUBLE ENTRY,
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containing the general principles and particular rules now used
in the mercantile houses in Liverpool.
The Pupil is thoroughly instructed in a variety of extensive
and diversified transactions, including Purchases and Sales,
Goods on Consignment, Shipments Abroad, Joint Adventuies,
Making Insurances, Partnership, Posting and Balancing the
Ledger, Balance Sheet, &c.
Commercial Arithmetic, Mental Calculation, and Short-hand
taught in a few Lessons. _ _

F-Or Cards of Terms apply at No. 8, Clayton-square.

ROYAL BANK OF LIVERPOOL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS will be
held at the BANK, on MONDAY, the 29th day of November,
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon,
To receive the Report of the Committee and Directors, which
will bepresented to the Meeting, recommending the Re-opening
of the Bank on Wednesday, the Ist day of December next.
To take into consideration the alterations in the Deed of Set-
tlement of the Company, which will be submitted to the Pro-
prietors as necessary for their security in future.
To take into consideration the Call of .elOO per Share made
upon the Proprietors, and to determine upon and confirm the
acts ot-the Committee of Shareholders and Directors in the
recommendation of Preference Shares of £lOO each, bearing
Interest at .41 per Cent., in lieu of the Call ; and on the reduc-
tion of the Original Shares, from Shares of .el,OOO -500
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paid up, to Shares of £2OO each—
Topaid- receivethe resignation of the-tad Directors, and to appoint
Five Directors in their stead.
JOHN HIG y-FiELD, Chairman of the Directors.
JOSIAS of the Committee
_ .B6OKER, 1 of Shareholders.

Liverpool, November 13th, 1847..._
P. S.—Depositors and others suffering inconvenience from
the delay in re-opening the Bank, in consequence of thevneces-
sary preliminary arrangements, may 'have their requirements
answered by applying at the Bank in the mean time.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
fHE ALDERMEN and ASSESSORS of No. 6,
or CASTLE-STREET WARD, of No, 9, or GREAT
GEORGE WARD, of No. 10, or RODNEY-STREET WARD,
and of No. 11, or ABERCROMBY WARD, do hereby make the
followinr, RETURN of COUNCILLORS, elected for the said
Wards byb the Burgesses thereof, respectively, on the Seven-
teenth day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Forty Seven, to • supply the vacancies occasioned by John
Holmes, Joseph Cooper, John Nelson Wood, and James Proc-
ter, Esquires, having been, on the Ninth day of November
instant, elected Aldermen of the Borough, and to continue in
office so long as the said John Holmes, Joseph Cooper, John
NelSon Wood, and James Procter, resnectively, would have
continued to serve, that is to say, for No. 6,' or Castle-street
Ward, in the room of the said John Holmes, until the First
November, 1850, for No. 9, or Great George Ward, in the room
of the said Joseph Cooper, until the First November, 1849, for
No. 10, or Rodney-street Ward, in the room of the said John
Nelson Wood, until the First November, 1848, and for No. 11,
or Abercromby Ward, in the room of the said •James Procter,
until the First November, 1850:
Councillors Elected. men. Assessors.
No. 6, OR CAS -STREET WARD.
George Holt Thos. Brancker. {Anthony Barns
1 Thomas Mayer.
N . , OR GREAT GEORGE WARD._

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John Rogers Joseph Cooper . Robert Taylor.
Henry Rooke.
No. 10, OR ROONEV-STREET

Thos. Walker.
J. Nelson Woodi John Mellor.
George Booker..
No. 11, OR ABERCROMBY WARD.

Richard Cardwell Gardner.. James Procter.. •{ Johnn ti;liirsioc::
Published by me, pursuant to 5 and 6 William IV., c. 76. sec.
35. THOMAS B. HORSFALL, Mayor.

Town-hall, 17th November, 1847.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE,. AND CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY, COMPANY.
FIFTH CALL OF .E 3 UPON EACH OF THE X 22 SHARES
(LATE CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD ..e2O SHARES),
MAKING --13 108. PER SHARE CALLED UP.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, -that the Directors
_l_lll of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Company have, under the provisionsof that Company's
Act of Parliament, passed a Resolution calling upon the PRO-
PRIETORS FOR AN INSTALMENT • OF .t. 3 PER SHARE
UPON THE £22 SHARES, (late Chester and Birkenhead .e2O
Shares,) payable on or before the 15th day of December, 1847,
at one of the undermentioned Bankers :
London Messrs.Crurfr, HALIFAX, and Co.
Liverpool THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.
Manchester MCSSCS.'CUNLIFFE,,BROOKS and Co.
aiester Messrs. DIXGNIffId WARDELL.
Messrs,YitatAms and Co.
Warrington MesirC PARR, LYOZI, and Co.
Macclesfield ,Dhelsrs. BROCKLEHURST and Co.
The Bankers arg..ifistructed to charge. Interest at the rate of
£5 per cent. perannum upon. all Calls paid subsequent to the
above-mentioned date.
By order, E. P. CHARLEWOOD, Secretary.
Company's Offices, Argyle-street, Birkenhead,
November 23, 1847.