The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

ST. HELEN'S CANAL & RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE OF THIRD CALL ON £25 SHARES.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors,
11 in execution of the Acts of Parliament relating to the
said Company, have made a CALL of .t'i ss. Od. PER SHARE,
on each of the £25 Shares which «•ere created under the Act
passed in the Session of Parliament of 1847, and have ordered
that such Call be paid to Messrs. .YON, and Co., Ban
hers, Warrington, or Mess • . . BARNEO and Co., Bankers,
Liverpool, on or befo.e tl .enty•tiifth day of October instant,
and the several Prop_ rs of such Shares are required to pay
such Call accordin,
)UN WHITLEY, Clerk to the Company.
Liverpool, October, 1848.

SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE WIDOW AND SEVEN
CHILDREN
OF THE LATE
MR. W. J. HAMMOND,

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LATE LESSEE OF THE LIVERPOOL THE,,TRE-ROYAL,
THE LIVER, AND ALSO OF T 1 E THEATRE-ROYAL,
DRURY-LANE.

A MEETING orille-frierias of the late Mr, NAT.
J. HAMMOND, cif the Liverpool Theatres, and late of
the Theatre-royal, Drury-lane, was held at the Brunswick
Hotel. Liverpool, on Saturday, the 16th of Set fiber, 1818,
Mr. L. T. GASKILL, in the .
when the circumstances of his Pam were taken into consi-
deration by his Friends there pr t. it appeared, from in-
formation received, that the idow -of Mr. Hammond, with
seven Children, was left a ely destitute, his decease having
taken place at a perio( en the brightest prospect appeared
to be dawning upon , in his profession as a Comedian, in
America.
It was resolved at this meeting that Subscriptions should be
entered into for the benefit of the Widow end Seven Children,
and the following Gentlemen kindly offered to become Members
of a Preliminary Committee in furtherance of that object.
The Chairman then announced that upwards of Forty Gen-
tlemen had sent in their names to the Preliminary Committee
requesting their names to be enrolled on the General Com-
mittee, and that they would undertake the collection of Sub-
scriptions.
At this Meeting it was resolved that Dr. Jeffery be the Trea-
surer to the Fund for the benefit of Mrs. Hammond and Fa-
mily, and that Mr. S. Day be the Secretary.
Mr. Day, at this Meeting, read a letter from Mr. J. H. Ball,
of New York. a friend of the decased, addressed to Mrs: Ham-
mond, announcing the melancholy ;ntelligence of her husband's
sudden death in New York, he having performed only two
nights after his arrival in the States.
In narrating the circumstances of Mr. Hammond's decease,
the writer staled that the utmost respect had been paid to his
remains; not only did every Actor and Manager of the Thea-
tres in New York attend the Funeral, but the body of Free-
masons, of which ancient Society the late Mr. Hammond was
a respected member, were pall-bearers and mourners.
This Meeting expressed a due sense of the good feeling
evinced to Mr. Hammond by the citizens of New York, and
warmly appreciated the Christian conduct of Mr. J. H. Ball
and Mr. and Mrs. Manvers, who had paid him the greatest
attention during his illness, and who, after death, undertook
the lest sad obsequies.
It was resolved that this Meeting be adjourned to Monday,
the 18th instant, at the Brunswick Hotel, at Eight o'clock in
the Evening.
L. T. GASKILL, Chairman.
S. DAY, Secretary.

A numerous Meeting of Mrs. llammond's Friends was held
by adjournment, on Monday, the 18th instant, whem the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously carried :
It was proposedby Mr. Bum° KS, and secondedby Mr. Wu ITE-
MAN,
That a Sub-committee should be appointel to carry into
effect the intentions of the General Committee, and that each
Member of the Committee be furnished with a Subscription
Book. - -

It was proposed by Mr. LYNN, and seconded by Mr. SPEN-
CER,
That the Sub-committee be requested to obtain the names of
the most influential of the bite Mr. Hammond's Friends, in the
different Towns in the 'United Kingdom in which he was
known, and that Books of Subscription be forwarded to them.
It was proposed by Mr. LYNN, and-seconded by GASEILL,
That Books of Subscription be left with the leading Trades-
men in Liverpool, and also at the various Newspaper Offices
and News-rooms.
It was proposed by Dr. JEFFERY, and seconded by Mr. DAY,
That the Treasurer be requested to pay the Subscriptions,
to be called
.the t 0 Hammond Relief Fond," into the Bank of
Messrs. Boned and Company, in the name of himself and
three Members of the Sub-committee. _ . _

It Ives moved by Mr. GAS LL, and seconded by Mr. DAY,
That the three Members of the Committe in whose names
the Funds should be placed in the Bank should be those of Mr.
William Lynn, Mr. W. E. Whiteman, and Mr. John Brooks
It was moved by Mr. D. H. HENRY, and seconded by Mr.
TicomAs WELSti, Barrister-at-law,
That a Sub-committee, consisting of the following Gentle-
men., should be formed to meet on any day for the transaction
of business when the Secretary shall deem it necessary to call

Mr. WILLIAM LYNN, Waterloo Hotel,
Mr. JOHN BROOKS, Great George-street,
Mr. T. SPENCER,
Mr. L. T. CAsKILL, Bedford-street,
Mr. JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Lord-street.
Mr. W. F.. WHITEMAN, Brunswick Hotel,
Mr. D. H. HENRY, Low-hill,
Dr JEFFERY, Queen-square.
With power to add to their number.
L. T. GASKILL, Chairman.