The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

T ECTURES on ISRAEL and the ENGLISH NATION;
ALI tracing their identity, and exhibiting the purposes of
God with regard to his peculiar people. By-J. WILSON.
thc rNsTti iviount-pletu3ant, on nioNr-
DAY and WEDNESDAY Evenings, at Seven o'clock ; COM-
mencing MONDAY first, 27th April.
" And his seed shall become a multitude of nations."—
Gen. xlviii. 19.

Tickets for the Course, ss: ; Family Tickets, 13s. ; Single
Admissions, is.

17, Sydny-place, Edge-hill.

TO EXCAVATORS AND BRICKLAYERS.
DERSONS willing to CONTRACT for EXCAVATING
and for the BRICKWORK required to be performed in
the ERECTION of a SEWER, in Union=street, Edmond-
street, and Earle-street, and all the necessary Shafts, Eyes,
Cesspools, &c., for and under the direction of " The Com-
missioners for the better Paving and Sewerage of the Town
of Liverpool," may see the respective Plans and Specifica-
tions on application at the Office of the Commissioners, No.
1, Parish Offices, Fenwick-street, where sealed Tenders,
signed by the parties tendering, and containing the names of
two persons as Sureties •for the due performance of the
Works, addressed to "The Commissioners for the better
Paving and Sewerage of the Town of Liverpool," must be
left on or before WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of April in-
stant.

N.B.—Printed forms of Tenders may be had at the said
Office, and none other will be received.
By order of the Commissioners,
EDWD. G. DEANE, Clerk.
Liverpool, 16th April, 1840.

TO THE SHIP-OWNERS, BROKERS, AND SHIP-
MASTERS FREQUENTING THE PORT OF LI-
VERPOOL, &c. &c.
THE HUMBLE PETITION of the undersigned OLD
and DISABLED SEAMEN of the said Port, being
unable to obtain a living by going to sea, or working at any
laborious employment, representeth that there is a good deal
of Watching on board of American and other Ships con-
signed to Merchants and Brokers of this Port, and as the
said vessels are generally watched by people who are not
Seamen, and young men without any Bodily Infirmity, your
petitioners beg your interference on their behalf, so far as is
consistent with reason and humanity, as it is a well-known
fact that the seafaring people have been a great means of
raising the town of Liverpool to its present state of opu-
lence, many of whom now have to sustain the storms of ad-
versity in their old age ; and any means in your power, Gen-
tlemen, to alter the difficulty without any expense to your-
selves, will be duly appreciated, which might be done by em-
ploying " Old Seamen" in place of " Young Men," when
nothing but watching is wanted. And your petitioners will
ever pray, &c. &c.

It is not intended by the foregoing application to attempt
unfairly to bias the body of Gentlemen whom we address,
who they shall or shall not employ, or who they should think
proper to employ ; but as many depredations are committed
by men following that occupation, as will fully appear by a
reference to the records of the police courts, and the whcle
is often tarnished with a bad name in consequence, it being
the present intention of the applicants to put a stop to such
proceedings, and to assist, as far as lies in their power, to
detect, and bring to light and punishment, all such persons,
and to prevent them from being any more employed in the
capacity of Shipkeepers or Watchmen on board of ships fre-
quenting the port of Liverpool ; and further, Gentlemen, as
many of the present applicants have received ' hurts and
wounds in the merchant's service, their being employed might
be a means of keeping them out of the workhouse, or in any
way becoming burthensome to the parish.