The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

Office of Ordnance, 12th August, 1844.
THE Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, do
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are prepared
to DISPOSE OF, by PUBLIC TENDER, a Quantity of
SOLDIERS' OLD GREAT COATS, in Store, at the
Tower, and at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, which have
been divided into Lots, and may be viewed upon applica-
tion at the Principal Storekeeper's Office at the Tower,
and at the Office of the Storekeeper at the Royal Arsenal,
,Woolwich, any day after the 20th instant, (Sunday ex-
cepted,) between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock_
Catalogues of the several Lots may be obtained, either
at the Offices of the Secretary to the Board, in Pall-mall ;
of the Principal Storekeeper at the Tower; or of the
Storekeeper at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
Sealed Tenders, for the whole or any number of the said
Lots, from Persons desirous of becoming Purchasers,
must be delivered on or before SATURDAY, the 31st in-
stant, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ord-
nance, in Pall-mall, and described on the envelope " Ten-
der for Old Great Coats."
By order of the Board,
R. BYHAM, Secretary.

VALUABLE & EXTENSIVE SLATE QUARRIES,
IN MERIONETHSHIRE, NORTH WALES.
A CAPITAL AND PERFECTLY SECURE IN-
VESTMENT.
MO he DISPOSED OF, the extensive SLATE
QUARRIES, upon which a considerable capital
has been expended in arriving at the present favourable
state. This Property has capability to carry it out to an
extent almost indefinite. The royalty is very low, and
the terms of the lease are unusually favourable. It will
afford to a company or a few capitalists an opportunity of
investing
FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS,
with a prospective view most encouraging, and the op-
portunity to purchase the fee-simple on very advantageous
terms, is amongst the most prominent of its numberless
advantages.

This Quarry (in Merionethshire, close to Carnarvon-
shire) is identically the same vein of Slate as the three
large quarries on Mrs. Oakeley's property, which are the
most extensive slate quarries now worked in Merioneth-
shire. It is situated upon the opposite side of the same
hill, the summit of which is the boundary between the
Cwmorthin and Oakeley properties ; and the vein, which
in the latter estate is divided into three extensive quarries,
has an extent on the Cwmorthin side equal to all three to-
gether, and capable of being made the largest quarry in
Merionethshire ; and, after Bangor and Llanberris, the
largest Slate Quarry in Wales. A disagreement in the
partnership, arising out of a difference of opinion as to the
best mode of working the quarry, was terminated by the
common consent of all the parties, and this is the sole
reason why this valuable property is now to be disposed
of. The present tenants hold under a forty years' lease,
dated 20th March, 1842, which in all its conditions is
more favourable to the capitalist undertaking to work the
quarry, than those of any of their competitors in the mar-
ket. But the fee-simple can he bought upon terms which
would enable the purchaser to secure large profits, where
the quarries paying heavy royalties merely enrich the
landlords ; independently of being able to work the quar-
ries wholly without interference, and to such extent, and
in such manner, as to obtain the greatest possible profit
from a property which, properly managed, increases in
value the longer it is worked, since more Slate is conti-
nually opened, and which will not be exhausted in many
generations. The present openings are so made as to be
capable of indefinite extension--a small outlay would
bring an immediate return of Slate, which might be in-
creased at the discretion of the proprietor. The metal is
of the purest Port-madoc blue Slate, easily worked, dura-
ble, and free from spot, stain, or blemish. Though the
vein is barely opened in the top (as shown in the plan,)
above eight hundred tons of Slates have already been
made, of a quality in every way satisfactory, and it conti-
nues to improve, the deeper the rock is gone into. An
extensive farm, with about two hundred acres of land,
available for various purposes, is included in the property
—it will be of great value to the party working the quarry.
A fall of water gives all the power needed for machinery
to saw and plane slate ; the use of which in articles of
furniture and in house building is rapidly and daily ex-
tending. There is cheap and easy carriage by the Ffesti-
niog Railway to Portmadoc. And when the increasing
demand at home and on the continent for Portmadoc blue
Slate, the extensive progress of buildings throughout the
kingdom, and the peculiar advantages offered by the
Cwmorthin Quarry are considered, it will be found that a
more favourable opportunity is seldom met with for the
investment of capital with large immediate profit, and con-
tinued accumulation of the value of the principal in per-
spective.
There are many admirable sites in the vicinity for the
erection of an abode suited to the proprietor of these
works. The situation is well known to be one of the most
beautiful in North Wales, with capital sporting and the
best salmon and trout fishing in the country.
Principals only will make application at Mr. GEORGE
ROBINS'S Offices, Covent-garden, who takes this oppor-
tunity to call the attention of the moneyed world to this
valuable undertaking.