The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.

£l5 PREFERENCE SHARES, MAKING THE AMOUNT
CALLED £l2 PER SHARE.

TN accordance with the terms on which these Prefer-
encel Shares were issued, HO Hof these SHARES are
required to PAY, on or e NIONDA , the 10th January,
1848, a CALL of FOU UNDS per SHARE, to either of the
undermentioned B ers :
LONDON .. Messrs. Glyn and Co., Lombard-street.
LIVERPOOL Liverpool Borough Bank.
BANGOR Messrs. Williams and Co.
Interest at the rate of Five per'Cent. per Annum, will be
charged on all Calls remaining unpaid on the said 10th January.
By order, GEORGE KING. Secretary.
61, Moorgate-street, London, 12th Dec., 1847- _

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY
POSTPONEMENT OF MEETING:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GlVEN,that,in consequence
of pending Negotiations with the Edinburgh and North-
ern Railway Company, the MEETING of the SHAREHOL-
DERS of this COMPANY is H )STPONED from
Monday, the 20th, to TuEs ,t le 28th instant.
- - Ry-ortle -Board...
LLEN GEORGE FIELD, Secretary.
Edinburgh, L h, and Gronton Railway Office,
1, Abercrombie-place, Edinburgh,
11th December, 1847.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Landon. 345, strand, Neptember 18t, 1847.
COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPH.

The works of the lines for commercial communications, be-
tween the places enumerated below, embracinc, a system of
telegraphs for commercial purposes only, and distinct from
that reserved for the special use of railways, being so far ad-
vanced as to admit of their completion by the commencement
of the coming year. the directors think that the time has now
arrived when it becomes their duty to make known the ar-
rangaments which they contemplate for the accommodation of
the public.
Stations will he opened in central situations in the principal
towns, whence messages and dispatch • orwarded to,
and received from all the other ons of the Electric Tele-
graph Company.
In order to give to me nts, bankers, manufacturers, and
all connected with t e, the greatest possible amount of in-
formation, a roo vilt be reserved in each of the company's
stations for s cribers; in which will be rcceived, tabulated,
and exhibited, all intelligence of commercial or public interest ;
for instance— . .

Ship Lists from the various ports.
Share Lists from the various exchanges,
Prices Current.
Stock Exchange Lists.
Corn Marketsarkets from the various towns.
Prices of Live Stock, &c. &c. &c.

In London, a Central Station; suited to the importance of the
Metropolis, is in course of erection in the Immediate vicinity of
the Bank and Royal. Exchange; in this station the whole tele-
graphic news of the country will be concentrated and forwarded
in every direction ; and here, as in other towns, a roo will be
reserved for subscribers. _ .

The subscription to these rooms will be two guineas per
annum, paid in advance, which will entitle subscribers to the
right of entrance to all the subscription rooms of the company,
including the central station at London.
The foregoing details some of the advantages of the commer-
cial telegraph to subscribers, but the requirements of the public
in general will be provided for by the establishment of offices
which will at all times be open for the-reception and transmis-
sion of messages and dispatches, while messengers will be kept
at the various stations, by whom dispatches may be Sent to any
part of the town where the communication has been received
by telegraph at the company's station.
Subscribers' names are received at the Commercial Telegraph
Office, where any farther information may be obtained.
The following are the towns to which the commercial tele-
graph will be first extended :

London Barnsley Peterborough Chelmsford
Margate Wakefield Yarmouth Ipswich
Ramsgate Leeds Huntingdon York
Deal Halifax Hertford Darlington
Dover Rochdale Manchester Newcastle
Folkestone Hull Leicester Berwick
Canterbury Maidstone Derby . Edinburgh

Northampton Tonbridge Nottingham Glasgow..,
Coventry Gosport Lincoln Scarborough
Birmingham Southampton Chesterfield Bridlington
Wolverhampton Winchester Sheffield Stamford
Stafford Dorchester Bradford Norwich
Chester Bristol. Wisbeach St. Ives

Liverpool Gloucester Lowestoff Ware
Rotherham Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester.
J. LEWIS RICARDO, Chairman

TARIFF OF THE ORIENTAL DIVAN

CLAM TON SQUARI

INCE- the opening oi tnis rflstriblisliment, the
LI Proprietor, founding his knowledge on the past, has created
a complete revolution—the ordinary cook has been changed for
the London professor—the wines of usual vintages have been
rixth Amnntilladn_ and fine full-flavonred Ports

agnes, too, are of the choicest brands-
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—the Brandiei