The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
are ready to receive TENDERS for a LOAN of
MONEY, at the rate of THREE POUNDS TEN
SHILLINGS (34) per Centum per Annum Interest, for
a period of not less than Seven Years. All letters, stating
the amount parties are willing to lend, to be addressed to
GEORGE 'WITHERS, Esq., Dock-office, Liverpool.
The interest will be paid half-yearly, either in Liver-
pool or in London, or remitted to the parties, at the option
of the lenders.

By order,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, Liverpool, Thursday, 201 h June, 1844.

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BANK OF LIVERPOOL.
T W RATTY -PO URTH DIVIDEND.
TDIRECTORS'of the BANK of LIVERPOOL
1. DO HEREBY,GWE NOTICE to the Proprietors,
that they have declared a'HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND,
at the rate of .£lO per Cent. per Annum, on the increased
paid-up Capital of the Company, (being 12s. 6d. per Share,)
from the Isf of January to the 30th of June, 1844 ; and
that such Dividend will be payable at the Bank of the
Company, in Water-street, on and after FRIDAY, the 2d
day of August next, between the hours of Ten and Three
on each day.
Dated at Liverpool, this Ninth day of July, 1844.
By order of the Board,
JOSEPH LANGTON, Manager.
Each Proprietor will be expected, (if required,) on ap-
plying for his Dividend, to produce the Certificate or
Certificates of his Shares.

The Transfer Books will be closed until the 2d of
August inclusive.

PRESTON AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
11 intended to be made in the next session of Parlia-
ment, for An Act to construct a Railway to form a direct
line of communication between Preston and Liverpool,
to commence at Preston, and pass by, through, or near
to the Hundred of Leyland, Scarisbrick, Oroaskirk,
Southport, Sefton, Linacre, Bootle, and other places,
and to terminate at Liverpool, with all the usual pciwers.
Dated this 10th day of July, 1844,
LAWRANCE and PLEWS,
Bucklersbury, London, Joint
WILLIAM HEATH, Solicitors.
Gracechurch-street, London,

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
COMPANY.

THE Act of Parliament for the Incorporation of this
Company being obtained, Shareholders will be im-
mediately registered.
Parties, on application, will be furnished with aForm
of Letter, which is required to be filled up and sent in,
together with the Subscription Vouchers, to the Com-
pany's Office, 62, vloorgate-street, London, on or before
the 20th of July, on which day the Registration will be
completed.
By order,
Bth July, 1844.

GEORGE KING, Secretary.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN
RAILWAY.

TAKE NOTICE, that a stated HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING of the EDINBURGH,
LEITH, and NEWHAVEN RAILWAY COMPANY
is to be held within the Company's Office, 35, Scotland.
street, Edinburgh, on TUESDAY, the 30th current, at
Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, in terms of, and for the
purposes mentioned in the Act.

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By order, ALLEN G. FIELD, Secretary.
Railway Office, 35, Scotland-street, Edinburgh,
10th July, 1844.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING of the EDINBURGH,
LEITH, and GRANTON RAILWAY COMPANY, is
to be held within the Company's Office, 35, Scotland-
street, Edinburgh, on TUESDAY, the 30th current, at
THREE o'clock Afternoon, in terms of, and for the
purposes mentioned in, the Act.
By order, ALLEN G. FIELD, Secretary.
Railway Office, 35, Scotland-street, Edinburgh,
10th July, 1844.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY.
TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS.
THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, and GRANTON
RAILWAY COMPANY are prepared to Contract
for the execution of the Branch to Granton Pier.
The works consist of an alteration of the Turnpike Road,
Road-Bridges, Retaining-Wall., rtulwarkr, and other
Masonry, with tho Earthwork, laying of Rails, and other
flushing of the way. It will also include the maintenance
of the way for one year after the Line is opened.
Plans, Sections, and Specification of the Work may be
seen at the Railway Office here from Monday the 22d to
Saturday the 27th current ; and sealed Tenders, addressed
to the Directors, will be received until the evening of
Monday the 29th current.
Further particulars may be learned at Messrs. GRAIN-
GER and MILLER'S Office, 16, Castle-street.
By order of the Directors,
5, Scotland-street, Edinburgh, A.G.G FIELD, Secy.
12th July, 1844.

NAVIGATION FROM THE TRENT TO THE
MERSEY.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after
-LI the Nineteenth day of August next, the Rate, Toll,
or Duty, authorised to be demanded and taken by the
Company of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent
to the Mersey, (by virtue of an Act passed in the first
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Toll, or Duty authorised by the said Act to be demanded
and taken in respect of Salt which shall be conveyed
through or along the Branch Cut or Canal from Wardle
Green to Middlewich, and which shall pass or be brought
into or from the said Navigation from the Trent to the
Mersey, or which shall be conveyed through or along that
part of the Macclesfield Canal made by the said Company.
HENRY MOORE,
Principal Agent to the said Company.
Navigation Office, Stone, 10th July, 1844.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
A PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the CoMMiR.
CIAL-HALL, GLOUCESTER-STREET, TO-MORROW
EVENING (Wednesday), the 17th instant,
The Rev. I. EDGAR, D.D., Professor of Theology,
Royal College, Belfast; Rev. JOSIAS WILSON, A.M.,
Belfast; Rev. VERNER M. WHYTE, A. 8., T.C.D. ;
Rev. MOORE, A.M., Donaghadee ; and other emi-
nent Ministers, will bring before the Meeting important
snbjects connected with the newly-organised Congregatiou
worshipping in the above place.
The Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock.