The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

TO 'BUILDERS.

PERSONS willing to CONTRACT for the EREC-
TION of the NEW BUILDINGS at KIRKDALE HOUSE
OF CORRECTION, may see the Drawings and Specifications
on application to the Governor of the Gaol, from MONDAY, the
15th March, to SATURDAY, the 10th April, inclusive.
Sealed Tenders, addressed to the "Magistrates, Kirkdale
Gaol," to be deposited with the G or, on or before Eleven
o'clock on MONDAY, the 12t April, and marked "Tender
for Buildings."
By orde the Magistrates,
ARTHUR H. HOLME, Architect.
March 9fh, 1947.
N.B.—The different departments may be tendered for sepa-
rately, btft the Magistrates do not bind themselves to accept
the lowest Tender.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
2'o CONTRACTORS FOR TUNNELLING, MASONRY,

AND EARTHWORK.
IHE Directors are ready to receive TENDERS for
the EXECUTION of the WORKS of the intended Branch
Railway from Patricroft (on the Liverpool and Manchester
tine) to join the Bury and Rdssendale Railway at Clifton, about
32 Miles.
Plans and Specifications of the cs m be seen on and
after WEDNESDAY, the 10th i nt, by application to EDWARD
Woo ns, Esq., at the Corn S Office, Edge-hill, where Printed
Forms of Tender ma e o tained ; and no proposals can be
accepted which are t made in the prescribed form.
Sealed Tenders are to be addressed to the undersigned, and
left at die Company's Office, Lime-street, Liverpool, on or be-
fore SATURDAY, the 27th day of March. By order of the Com-
mittee of Works. (Signed) HENRY BOOTH.
Railway-office, Lime-street, Liverpool,
March 2, 1847.

HEATH'S ILLUSTRATED NEW TESTAMENT.

On the 31st of March. 1847, will be published, the FIRST PART

of a lkliw Enriiox of
MITE NEW TESTAMENT,
Superbly Embellished with a Series of beautiful Vignette
Illustrations, and each Page surrounded by an elaborate Deco-
rative Border, Drawn by the First Artists, and Engraved in the
highest style of the Art on Wood, under the superintendence of
Mr. CHARLES HEATH.

To be published in Monthly Parts of Sixteen Pages, elegantly
printed in small folio, price Two SHILLINGS ; or, on large
paper, THREE SH imallos each.—Specimens may be seen at all
Booksellers. •

NEW SERIES OF MAPS,

On the Thirty-first of March, 1847 wilrb-6-published, to be
'completed in Twenty-seven Mo y Parts, each containing
Two Maps in a Wrapper, pri ightpence plain, or One Shil-
ling Coloured, Part I. o SERIES OF MODERN MAPS,
constructed upon a Sy of Scale and Proportion, from the
most Recent Autho ' es, by JOHN SHARPE, and Engraved
on Steel by J. W , ON LOWRY.
The object of this undertaking is to produce a Series of Maps
which shall combine NEW AND IMPORTANT MEANS OF FACI-
LITATING GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY with just accuracy and
skilful execution, and at an unexampled LOWNESS OF PRICE,
namely, at FOURPENCE per Sheet Plain, or SIXPENCE Colour-
ed.—Specimens may be seen at all Booksellers.
London: CHAPMAN and HALL, 186, Strand.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE RAILWAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an EXTRAORDINARY
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the MANCHESTER,
SHEFFIELD, and LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY
will be held, at the Company's Offices, at the London-road Sta-
tion, in Manchester, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of March
next, at One o'clock in the day, for urpose of increasing
the number of the Board of D' tors of the said Company,
from sixteen to eighteen, an appointing the two additional
Directors, and of deter! ' ng the oraer of rotation in which
the increased Boards go out of office, and what number
shall constitute a rum at their Meetings.
YARBOROUGH, Chairman.
JOHN CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
JAMES MEADOWS, Secretary,
Manchester, 24th February, 1847.