The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

ROSCOE CLUB.

THE MEMBERS are informed that in anticipation
of the immediate opening of the DISCUSSION CLASS,
arrangements have been made with R. WALDO EMERSON,
Esq., of Mass., who will deliver an a proprlife LECTURE on
A COURSE OF READING, in t eatre of the Royal Insti-
tution, Colquitt-street, Tgl VENING, (Tuesday,) the 30th
instant, at Eight o'clock cisely.
Each Member is re ted to show his ticket at the door, and
will be allowed to int oduce a Lady.
JOSEPH BOULT,
CHARLES REDISH, Hon. Secs.

THE LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.
THE PROPRIETORS are requested to TAKE NO
TICE, that the Directors have ordered a CALL of TWO
POUNDS per SHARE upon each of the Shares of the LIVER-
POOL BANKING COMPANY, payable at the Bank, in South
Castle-street, on or before the 20th December proximo.
And further, that a GENERAL NIEETINCT_of the PROPRIE-
TORS will be held at the Claren oms; in South John-
street, Liverpool, THIS DAY, esday,) the 30th instant, at
One o'clock. By order of irectors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager.

I-1A Tan ADJOURNED MEETING of the LIVER-
POOL BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION, convened by Adver-
tisement, at the Brunswick Hotel, on the Evening of the 26th
November, Mr. Thom PSON in the Chair, the following Resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted :
That the Rules which have now been read be approved of,
and adopted by this Meeting as the constitution of this Society.
That Mr. Joseph Gardner be the President of the Society for
the ensuing twelve months, and that Mr. Thomas Hughes be
the Treasurer of the Society for the ensuing twelve months.
That the following Gentlemen be members of the Committee
of Management for the ensuing twelve months :—Mr. Richard
Newell, Mr. William Duckworth, senior, Mr. James Thomp-
son, Mr. Thomas Stanley, Mr. Owen rts, Mr. Alexander
Miller, Mr. John Jones, Mr. Da • renal, Mr. Joseph Boult.
That the Committee meet or before FRIDAY, the 3d De-
cember next, to make a cements for carrying out the objects
of the Association.
That the Liverpoo Dock Trustees havinggiven notice of their
intention to apply for a Bill to enable them to erect Warehouses
round the Docks, in which bill there are no clauses subjecting
such Warehouses to be rated for the Parish and other Local
Rates, the Committee of this Association he instructed to take
the necessary steps for having the required clauses inserted.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman for his able con-
duct, the meeting was adjourned.
WM. DUCKWORTH, Sen., Secretary, pro. tem

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON
RAILWAY.

NToTicE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
L GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS cf this
COMPANY will be held, within the Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo-
place, Edinburgh, upon MONDAY, the 20th day of December
next, at Two o'clock Afternoon, for the purpose of considering
a Report of the Directors as to the P ition of this Company
with the Edinburgh and North ilway Company, under
their Act of Amalgamation o st Session, and for giving in-
structions in regard they
By ord the Directors,
ALLEN GEO. FIELD, Secretary.
.mber 22, 1847.

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LIVERPOOL SPECIAL COMMISSION, 1847.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
COMMISSION of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL
DELIVERY for the County Palatine of Lancaster, will be
opened at the Court House In Liverpool on SATURDAY, the
11th day of December, 1847, for the trial of persons who shall
have been committed to the House of Correction at Kirkdale,
for trial at the Assizes or General Gaol Delivery, or with respect
to whom Recognizances shall have been entered into to appear
and answer at the Assizes or General Gaol Delivery to be held
at Liverpool.
The Calendar will be classed as follows :

1. Cases from the Boroughs of Manchester W_Liverpool.
2. All other Cases : the first Class of B'6 being taken by
14,7- ii stice COLTMAN, and second Class by Mr.
Bai , ALDERSON, so lo as that arrangement will
affo a sufficient sup of business for each Judge ;
and the Bills of Ind* lent against persons comprised in
the Second Class eto be preferred to the Grand Jury
alternately wi the Bills against persons comprised in
the First C s.
The names of,t e Prisoners, and of persons committed and
subsequently hailed, will be arranged in each Class according
to the dates of their respective Commitments, except that pri-
ority will in general be given to Cases where the attendance of
Medical or Surgical Witnesses is required; and the Bills of
Indictment are to be preferred and the Trials are to proceed in
the same order unless the Court shall otherwise direct.
The Prosecutors and Witnesses are required to be in attend-
ance on Monday, the 13th December, at eleven o'clock in the
,
forenoon, except in cases of Murder, Rape, and Misdemeanour,
in which their attendance is required on Tuesday, the 14th De-
cember, at nine o'clock in the forenoon.
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The Court will sit for the dispatch of business each day at
nine o'cloct in the forenoon, except on Monday, the 13th De-
cember, and on that day at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
The foregoing Regulations will be strictly observed, and no
Costs will be allowed to persons making default in the observ-
ance of them. _ _ _ _

By order of the Hon. Mr. Baron ALDERSON and ➢ir. Justice
COLTMAN,
T. S. SHUTTLEWORTH, Clerk of the Crown.
Crown Office, Preston, November 17, 1847.