The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

HEALTH OF_TOWIS ASSOCIATION,

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

LECTURE on the HEALTH OF TOWNS, with
11_ especial reference to the HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL, will
be delivered in the CONCERT HALL, Lord Nelson-street, on
FRIDAY next, the 21st instant, at Half-past Seven P.M., by W.
A. GUY, Esq., M.D., Professor in King's College, London and
Physician to King's College Hospital. ,
ADAM HODGSON, Esq., in the Chair.
1-a-r-g-e" Admission—FßEE.

JOHN A. TINNE, 1 Honorary
W. H. DUNCAN, ➢I.D., I Secretaries
Fentoic7c-cfranzbers, 14th August, 1846.

the usual formali

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL,
ASPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the SUB-
SCRIBERS to this CHARITY will be held on THURSDAY
next, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, in the Board-room of
the Hospital, for the purpose of considering the state of the
Finances, and of adopting
.the means of raising an amount
adequate to its stated requirements, and to the extinction of
the heavy debt by which it is now burthened.

THE GRAND JURY.
Wm. Entwistle, Esq , M.P., Rusbolme Hall,
ter, Foreman.
Peter Ainsworth, Esq., M.P
Thos. Thornelv, Esq., M.P,

Smithills Hall, Bolton

JOS. B. YATES, President,

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
11 HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held, in pursuance of
the Act of Parliament, at the WHITE LION HOTEL, in the City
of BRISTOL, 'OD THURSDAY, the 3d of September, 1846 at
Twelve o'clock. ,
The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
JAMES GIBBS, Chairman.
The Transfer Books will be Closed on Monday, the 24th of
August, and not be reopened until after the said General Meet-
ing on the 3d of September.
By order of the Board of Directors,
J. B. BADHAM, Secretary.
Bristol, Office Broad-street, 31st July, 1846.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
A GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLD-
ERS in this COMPANY, resident in and near Liverpool,
will take place at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street,
This DAY, (Tuesday.) the 18th instant, at Twelve o'clock, when
a Deputation from the Manchester Committee will attend, for
the purpose of 'affording every information, on the subject of
the Report recently published by them, and for adopting such
measures as may be deemed necessary to secure a more effi-
Cient Board of Directors, to protect the real interests of the
Shareholders in this valuable concern. Your attendance there-
fore is most earnestly requested.

•
By °Mei of the Committee,
tk. F. JONES, Chairman

Liverpool, August, 1&46

THE DERBY. UITOXETER. AND STAFFORD

RAILWAY COMPANY

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THIS Company having been Dissolved on the 21st
I ultimo, as duly advertised, and the , Committee having,
since that date, given every facility for the Scripholders to
receive the First Instalment of-et 12s. Gd. per Share, HEREBY
GIVE NOTICE, .that unless the few remaining unpaid.
in their Scrip before the Ist of September they will not
until the Ist of November, as the Books will be closed. ~.
that time. Scrip may safely be forwarded to the Secretary, n
registered letters, (and if 'sent by post, to be cancelled," be
written on the face of each, they cannot be misappropriated,)
in exchange for which a check for the amount, and a Certificate,
entitling the holder to any further division, will be transmitted
by the next post. BOYMAN BOYMAN, Secretary.
62, Moorgate-street, London, 14th August, 1846.

SHREWS3URY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
3, Moorgata-street, London, 4th August, 1846.
REGISTRATION OF SHARES.
IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Act
N
authorising the construction of this Line having received
the Royal assent, all persons holding SCRIP CERTIFICATES
for SHARES in this COMPANY are requested to transmit the
same for REGISTRATION to the Secretary, at the Company's
Offices, 3, Moorgate-street, London, on or before SATURDAY,
the sth September

In consequence of the subscribed Capital having been reduced
by the Act incorporating the Company, Shareholders will only
be entitled to receive for every five Shares now held by them,
(having a deposit of £2 10s. per Share,) four Shares with a de-
posit paid o £3 per Share, and a return of the surplus of 2s.
per Share : interest, at the rate of four per cent., will also be
paid from the date of Registration.

All-Shares not claimed 'by the actual holders of the Scrip on
or before the sth September, will be liable to be registered as
the property of the persons to whom they were originally
allotted.

In order that the Register of Proprietors may be correctly
prepared, the Scrip must be accompanied by an application in
the annexed form, copies of which may be had on request. As
a precaution, parties transmitting Scrips by post, are recom-
mended to write across the face of each certificate, "Forwarded
for Registration." An acknowledgment of the receipt of the
Scrip will be given, and notice will be issued of the time at
which sealed certificates may be obtained, when the return of
25. per Share will also be made.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, Chairman.
GEORGE KNOX, Secretary.

To the Chairman of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Company.

SIR,
As the Holder of Scrip for Shares in the above Corn
pany, sent herewith, I hereby claim to be entered on the regis
ter of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company, of
the proprietor of my proportion of the Stock of that Company
under the provisions of the Act incorporating the same.
No. of Shares.
• .• -

Scrip for 1 Share, No.
Scrip for 5 Shares, Nos.
Scrip for 10 Shares, Nos.
Scrip for 20 Shares, Nos

Name in full

Address

Profession or Business

NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN, that under the
authority of an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-fifth
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third,
for enabling spiritual persons to exchange their Parsonage
Houses or Glebe Lands, and for other purposes, as altered by
another Act of Parliament passed in the sixth year of the reign
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for amendine and

by the circumstance of having lent himself to the purpose,
of a combination which never could be too much repre•
The commission of assize for the southern division of hended. It was not to be endured in this country, that
the county of Lancaster was opened on Saturday, the any man, or set of men, should arrogate the right of pre.
Judges being Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and Mr. Justice venting other men working for who they pleased, for what
CRESSWELL. Yesterday the former took his seat in the they pleased, and when they pleased, in order to oblige
Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Cresawell in the Nisi them to enter into unions. That the prisoner appeared to
Prius Court. have been perfectly ready to execute any act, however

The Crown Court was, opened at eleven o'clock with atrocious, with th

men were

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