The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

Just Published, Pric
A SECOND EDITION of NEILL'S REPORT upon
DEAFNESS, with the MODERN METHODS of
CURE.
1810: WAratsz.nr, Church-street, Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL UNION BANK. --
1 IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, on and after the
-LI 10th instant, the BUSINESS of the BANK will be
transacted at the now Premises, Brunswick-street.
By Order of the Board,
JAMES LISTER, Manager.
Water-street, Bth Febrvary, 1840.

NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.
PRE DIRECTORS do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that
a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Seven
per Cent. per Annum, on the Capital Stock of the Company,
to 31st December, 1839, will be paid (out of the nett profits)
on and after the 11th March next, at the head Office of the
Bank, in Liverpool, and at the respective Branches.
No Transfer of Shares can be made between the 22d Fe-
bruary and,thc said 11th March, as the Books roust be closed
during that period.

By order of the Board,
THOMAS A. CORLIITT,
Liverpool, 14th February, 1840. General Manager.
Each Proprietor will be expected, on applying for his Di
yjdend, to produce (if required) his Certificate. of Shares.

LIVERPOOL AND HARRINGTON WATER-WORKS
Hof .4(11)1-s:tree( , January 28, 1840.
PERSONS desirous of CONTRACTING, for a period of
One or Three Years, to supply these Water-works with
CAST-IRON PIPES, f the best quality and manufacture,
and of the dimensions, &c. following, viz. : •
3 in. diameter, 9 ft. long, 7-16 thick, and weizhing 4216. per yd.
4 ditto, 9 ditto, 8-16 ditto, ditto,- 56 ditto.
5 ditto, 9 ditto, 10-16 ditto, ditto, 73 ditto.
6 ditto, 9 ditto, 12-16 ditto, ditto, 112 ditto.
7 ditto, 9 ditto, 12-16 ditto, ditto, 150 ditto.
8 ditto, 9 ditto, 12-16 ditto, • ditto, 175 ditto.
9 ditto, 9in proportion,
and able to sustain a pressure equal to 100Ibs. on each square
inch, are requested to communicate their respective Tenders
(under seal) to the Chairman of Directors, at the Works, in
Hotham.street, on or before FRIDAY, the 28th day of
February next.
The Pipes must be delivered at the Works as above.
By order; • - • •
THOMAS THOMPSON, Manager.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next HALF,
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIE-
TORS of this COMPANY will be held, in pursuance of the
Act of Parliament, at the MERCHANTS' HALL, in the City
of Bristol, on TUESDAY, the 3d of March next, at Twelve
o'Clock, for the ELECTION of FOUR DIRECTORS, in
the room of those who retire by ballot, and for other affairs.
The Chair will be taken at ncelve o' Clock precisely.
FREDERICK .RICKETTS, Chairman.
The retiring Directors are eligible for Re-Election.
Shares in Arrear. do not. entitle the Holder to Vole.
The Transfer Books will be closed on Saturday, the 2al
of February, and not he re-opened until after the said Half-
Yearly General Meeting, on the 3d of March.
By order of the. Board of Directors,
. . J. B. BADHAM, Secretary.
Bristol, ith February, 1840. •
OFFICE, 30, BROAD-STREET.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
'THE Quarter of the LOWER SCHOOL commenced
on the Ist February.

'TERMS.
To Sons of Members.. 12s. 6J. per quarter.—To Others.. 15s.
Preparatory Department is. 6d.—To Others .... 10s.
DANCING.
A Class has now been opened for Instruction in Dancing,
under the superintendence of MR. ST. ALBIN. This Class,
which meets every SATURDAY, at Two, p.m., is open to all
Pupils and Members of the Institution.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.—This Class meets every
FRIDAY EVENING, under Mr. M. L. PHILLIPS. Last
FRIDAY was commenced a course of Lectures on ELEC-
TRICITY. Terms, ss. per Annum.
LECTURES.
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,). at Half-past_Seven
EDWARD.FORBES, Esq., 114.W.5., will deliver the Third
of a Course of Eight Lectures on the ZOOLOGY of the
BRITISH SEAS, illustrated by numerous Diagrams and
Specimens.
LIBRARY.—The new Catalogue is now ready for deli-
very. In consequence of the numerous additions recently
maae; members will henceforward be allowed three volumes
of a single work, but not two works at one time. The Di-
rectors have resolved to add to the Library the following
Periodicals regularly as they are published :—Thc Repertory
of Arts, Mechanics' Magazine, Edinburgh, QUarterly, Lon-
don and Westminster, British and Foreign, and Foreign
Quarterly Reviews, Tait s, Blackwood's, and Fraser's Ma-
gazines, the Monthly Chronicle, and the Colonial Magazine.
A Donation of Ten Guineas or upwards constitutes the
Contributor a Life Member. Annuli Subicription, One
Guinea ; Ladies, Half-a-Guinea ; Sons or Apprentices of
Members, Five Shillings. Admission to single Lectures,
One Shilling.

W. B. HODGSON, Secretary

AT a PUBLIC MEETING of Owners of Land and
Warehouses, and others opposed to the Plan of the
Dock Trustees for Building Warehouses on the Dock Quays,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool, 13th Feb. 1840,
JOHN MONTGOMERY, Esq. in the Chair,
It was moved by WILLIAM EARLS, Esq. seconded by
JOHN DRINYWATER, Esq. and
Resolved unanimously,—That this meeting views with great
regret the recent decision of the Town Council sanctioning
the proceeding, by the Dock Committee, in the present session
of parliament, with the bill empowering themselves' to erect
and manage warehouses on the dock quays—a decision con-
trary, in the opinion of the meeting, to justice and sound po-
licy, and the evidence on which it purports to be founded, and
tending ruinously to depress the value of private property in
the town, in which some millions of money have been invested
by purchasers and mortgagees, on the security of the existing
laws. That the measure is called for by no necessity or desire
on the part of the public, there being already a great super-
abundance of warehouse room, and is opposed to the expressed
opinion of most of the commercial associations. 'That it was
not included in the recommendations of a body of nearly 3CO
merchants lately united for the purpose of enquiring into the
best mode of managing the docks and facilitating business ;
has been expressly petitioned against by 6000 inhabitants of
the port ; and in the opinion of this meeting, approves itself
in no single feature to the impartial inquirer into facts. That
it has been persevered in, and, for the present, been carried in
furtherance of the views of a few individuals only, against the
wishes of the community at large, and also against the reso-
lution (not twelve months ago) of the Town Council itself,
founded upon the disapproval of its own Finance Committee,
after a laborious investigation, and without any circumstance
having occurred iu the interim to account for so strange a va-
cillation of purpose on the part of that body.
Moved by W. P. Bustinv, Esq. seconded by JOHN
FLETcrusit, I?,sq. and
• Resolved unanimously—That the Land and Warehouse
Owners of Liverpool, are as, anxious for, and as much in-
terested in the improvement of the port as the most
vehement advocates of this measure profess to he, and admit
as freely the evil of delay in the loading and discharge of
ships, and the necessity of some effectual remedy, but they
maintain that this remedy will not be found in the erection
of warehouses, and is at all events attainable with infinitely
less expense and no injustice, by other means, upon the ne-
cessity and propriety of which the whole commercial com-
munity are agreed, that is to say, by the construction of
transit sheds, and the adoption of various improvements
lately recommended by the body of merchants already alluded
to, and by the said Finance Committee, in their report to the
Town Council.
Moved by JOHN CROSTHWAITE, Esq., seconded by
THOMAS MURRAY, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously—That even admitting for the sake
of argument, (though denying the fact of,) the expediency
of dock warehouses, the proposal that they shall be erected
and managed by the Dock Trustees, is a monstrous in-
justice, altogether unprecedented in this country, as it would
enable that body, building at the public expense upon land
costing them nothing, and therefore requiring no return in
the form of rent, and without personal responsibility, or any
other stimulus to good management, to compete with, or
rather ruinously to depreciate the property of persons who
have bought land from these same Dock Trustees (the Cor-
poration) at very high prices, and under ea-press restrictions
to build warehouses only thereon, and with various en-
couragements to landowners generally so to build, held out
by the Corporation, amounting to a moral pledge that that
body would never themselves become warehouse holders;
and because, also, the establishment of such a monopoly aas
this, is opposed to every sound principle of policy; and mast,
for obvious reasons, encumber and harass, rather than relieve
the shipowner and merchant, and necessarily increase
of the
present very high dock rates, by the enormous expense •
project.

. gloved by JAMES BRANCKER, Esq., seconded by WIL-
LIAM MCIVER, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously—That the very essence and vital
principle of the London Dock Warehouse system, with which
(as an argument for the present scheme) that of Liverpool is
often disadvantageously compared, consist in the fact that
the London Docks and Warehouses are private, nut public
property, purchased and erected by the Owners with their
own money, and managed, therefore, at their OVVTI risk, and
so far are
O
in daily
th compeetiLand and tion with
Wpoarehousewerful and vigilant rivals; and
from being adverse to the intruduetion friers of Liverpool this system, that
of
they court such fair competition of inter this
and would ne-
ver have opposed the construction of Dock Warehouses here,
if it were part of the plan that they should be erected and
managed, as in London, by individuals or compani s t loin
Trustees should sell the land for that epu'ro7se, at
the Dock
its full and fair value, and at properly extended periods, as
an adequate demand arose, in the same manner as the exist-
ing warehouse property Of
withthe town has been purchased and
built, and they anticipate
Parliament of this confidence the affirmation by
Plain and undeniable principle of common
justice.
Moved by JOHN
Js Esq.. SRANV LEIGH Esq., seconded by J. A.
reasons not Resolved unanimously—That for these and many other
compressible into the form of resolutions, the
committee are hereby authorized to take the most effective
measures for opposing the bill in both Houses of Parliament,
and that for this purpose the residue uncollected of the rate
of three per cent. on the annual value of the warehouse pro-
perty of the town, agreed to be raised at the last general
meeting, to be forthwith collected by the Treasurer, with the
assistance of the Committee. • ,
Resolved also—That a Petition, embodying the substance
of these resolutions, be forthwith presented to both Houses
of Parliament, and that these Resolutions be published at
the discretionof the Committee. .

jouN7gQNTilowiltY, arata,

THE Firm of WRENSHALL nod SONS having been
dissolved by the withdrawal of WILLIANt WRENSHALL,
Jun., the business will be carried on as usual, at the
ACADEMY, ISLINGTON-SQUARE, by WILLIAM WREN-
SHALL, Sen. and CHARLES LEWIS WRENSHALL.
Liverpool, February 15, 1840.