The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

TO BE SOLD OR LET.
'FO be LET, One splendid HOUSE, Walton-lane;
One Ditto, Claughton, Cheshire ; One Ditto, Plump-
ton-terrace, Everton ; One Ditto, West Derby; One Ditto,
Aigburth i • One Ditto, Mosley-vale •, One Ditto, Clare;
terrace, Edge-hill ; One Ditto, called " Green House,'
Rainhill; One Ditto, Brougham-terrace, Low-hill; One
Ditto, Lingham-lane, Liscard ; One Ditto, Marsh-lane,
Linacre ; One Ditto, Spring-view, ',card ; One Ditto,
Bootle-road ,• One Ditto, Smi own-lane; One Ditto,
Edge-lane ; One Ditto, Seaco e, One Ditto, Wavertree;
One Ditto, Rodney-street.; One Ditto, St. Anne-street ;
One Ditto, Grinfield-street; One Ditto, Grove-street;
One Ditto, Chathatestreet ; One Ditto, Myrtle-street;
One Ditto, Queer Anne-street ; One Ditto, Cambridge-
street ; One Ditto, Finch-street ; One Ditto, Mount-
pleasant •, One HOUSE and SHOP, Great George-
street ; One Ditto, Elliott-street ; One Ditto, Rich-
mond-row ; One Ditto, Vauxhall-road ; One Ditto,
Scotland-road ; with several excellent SPIRIT VAULTS;
a PEW, St. Mark's Church ; a FIELD, Breckfield-lane,
Everton.

TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY,
Five excellent HOUSES, with Coach-houses, Stables,
&c., and 15,000 yards of Land, Seaforth ; One Ditto, With
4500 yards of Land, Aigburth ; Three Ditto, Rock Ferry;
One Ditto, West Derby; One Ditto, Edge-lane; Two
Ditto. Mosley-vale ; Four Ditto, Great George-street;
Five Ditto, Oxford-street ; One Ditto, Nile-street ;
Four Ditto, Prince Edwin-street; Two Ditto, Bootle-
road; with several others. Also some very eligible cot-
tage Property ; 70 Acres of LAND, in lots, Cheshire ;
59 Ditto, Bootle and Crosby ; 45 Ditto, K est Derby; 10
Aigburth ; 10 Ditto, Everton ; with several other lots
near the North Docks, and other parts of the Town.--
Apply to

WM. WILLIAMS, 57, Ranelagla-'street.
P.S.—Central Coal Office for Messrs. Tayleur, Wa
ley, and Co.

TO DRAPERS, HOSIERS, LACEMEN, &C.
%/[ESSRS. QUILTER and BALL are directed to
OFFER for SALE, by TENDER, in One Lot, the
entire STOCK- IN-TRA DE of Mr. THOS. DAVISON,
of No. 36, Whitechapel, Liverpool, consisting of HO-
SIERY, GLOVES, LACE, HABERDASHERY, &el
and amounting, at Cost Prices, J0eV.034 ss. Od., enu
which will be Sold at a Disco nrtherefrom.
The Stock to be view on the Premises, 36, White-
chapel; until the day sale, where the Tenders will be
received and open , and the Purchaser declared, on SA-
TURDAY next, the 21st instant, at Twelve o'clock pre-
citely.

Further particulars may be had by applying on the
Premises; or of Messrs. QUILTER and BALL, 57, cote-
man-street, London.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

ON SALE, at JOHNSON'S CHEAP BOOK ESTA..
dast
...ix?. BLISH M ENT, 48, CHURL &TREET, LIVERPOOL,
a large and handsome COL TION of BOOKS, suit-
able for CHRISTMAS P ENTS, at very Reduced Prices.
Catalogues may b ad gratis.
Schools supplied on liberal terms.

PO be SOLD by PRIVATE TREATY, a desirable Free-
hold-11- and Modern-built VILLA, replete with every
accommodation for a respectable family, pleasantly situ-
ated in Beech-lane, Aigburth, about three and a half miles
from Liverpool, and two minutes walk_tz the Omnibus,
which runs almost every half hou ring The day. The
premises are particularly well ined, and occupy a space
of about 3,500 yards of, , with an abundant supply of
spring and rain Water, d Force-pump to the upper cis-
tern. If required by, urchaser, more Land adjoining
will be disposed of at a moderate price.
For particulars apply to Mr. WILLIAM CIILSHAW,
Architect, Rumford-place, Liverpool.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSSURANCE
CORPORATION,
(ESTABLISHED BY ROYAL CHARTER, A.D. 1720.)

FIRE INSURANCES.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen day; allowed for payment
of Premiums falling due at CHRISTMAS will expire on the
9th day of. January next.
It has been determined by this Corpocation.towithdravr
from Condition No. X. in their P. les the words which
require "a Certificate under e hands of the Minister,
" Churchwardens, and so.. other reputable Inhabitants
" of the parish where su.. fire shall have happened."
Holders of Policies ,ate accordingly requested to consi-
der this part of thsdroresaid condition► ac

cng4loresaid condition as cance,
LIFE INSURANCES.
A BONUS equal to TWO-THIRDS OF TEI
PROFIT on the Company's Life Business, since Decem
ber, 1841, will be apportioned periodically, among the
Policies effected for Life, either
BY ADDITION TO THE SUM ASSURED, OR IN REDUC.
TION OF THE PREMIUM ;
OR THE VALUE OF THE BONUS MAYBE RECEIVED IN
CASE!.
The following features particularly distinguish the ComPa
ny's present system of Lite Insurance, viz.
The Security of a large Capital, for which no viz.,
is
made;
The exemption of the Assured from all liability of Part—
nership ;
And the Gurantee which the character, success, and long
experience of the Company afford to the Policy-holders
against all the dangers which might result from inexpe-
rience or improvidence in management.
THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Governor.
WILLIAM SAMPSON, Esq., Sub-Governor.

Hon. J. T. LESLIE MELVILLE, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Geo. Pearkes Barclay, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
Alex. Colvin, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
John Deacon, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell,Esq.
William T. Hibbert,'Esq.
Lancelot Holland, E.q.
Sir George Larpent, Bart.
John Chr. Lochner, Esq.
Sir J. Wm. Lubbock, Bart.

Chas. John Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edw. Howley Palmer, Esq.
John Henry Pelly, Esq.
Abraham G. Robarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
William oltau, Esq.
Robert Thorley, Esq.
Henry Warre, Esq.
Octavius Wigram, Esq.
C. Baring Young, Esq.

AGENTS.
{Mr. GEORGE LOCH rnl Mr. CHAS
LIVERPOOL.. INMAN, 4, Water-street.
Mr. J. PRYCE, Tithebarn-street.
Ashton-under-Lyne Isaac Watt Boulton.
Blackburn James Gillies.
801t0n.... ...... Robert Barlow and Son.

Burnley ..
Bury John Moscrop.
Chorley
Fleetwood
Kirkham...... Richard Hodson.
Lancaster George Jackson and Son.
Manchester.... ..... -
Oldham
Preston ...
Rochdale Richard Stott.
Warrington Thomas Geddes.
Wigan
The Agents for the County of Chester are :
BIRKENHEAD .. Mr. JOSEPH ASPINALL.
Chester
Congleton
Macclesfield
Nantwich Thomas Derriemer.
Northwich .
Sandbach ........ --
Stockport . John Vaughan.
County of Westmoreland :
Kendal Joseph Garnett.
Milnthorpe ...

RAILWAYS IN LANCASHIRE.
(From a Correspondent.)
NOVEMBER having passed, the Public are enabled
to form some idea of the parties who are seriousl3;
bent on attempting to obtain the sanction of Parham°
to the execution of their schemes—much speculation ha!:
ing been afloat lately, as to whether some of tie new
companies would not at the last be either wilfully or ini"
avoidably found wanting.
The Bolton and Wigan, bringing two important mane
facturing towns into more immediate connection with tu`_,.'
port of Liverpool, -have certainly claims on the attentio;
of Parliament ; hut their extension to Heywood, by PlO%l
them in a position of a competing line with the Livereoat
and Manchester, must bring them into collision with P.
al
body, and would, in all probability, have proved prejudici:,
to their interests, had the Liverpool and Manchester Colt
tinned their independence. As matters now stand, 0.
seems questionable whether the great amalgamations 110 s,
in course of negociation, may not rather incline the leg'
lature to encourage the forncation of competing lines' bet
The Euxton and Southport branch, as also the brane.r.i.
from St. Helen's to Rufford, and from Rainford to ,tt"
verpool, are rather abstruse in their character.
penetration, however, is required to see in their tortnoet
course a desperate effort to overthrow one of the 01,e,
legitimate schemes of the day—" The Liverpool, On,
kirk, and Preston,"—a line which, impartiallyvievideer,
must be admitted to present advantages of the first or
eeo
reducing, as it will, the present railway distance bet and
Liverpool and the important towns of Blackburn teat
Preston by 12 miles, and diminishing to the same eid b 9
the communization between Liverpool and Scotian the
the Carlisle line,—advantages which, according °mere
great Napoleon of the North, would in themselves f the
than justify the making of the line, independentt°o this
stream of traffic which may be expected to flog, its di'
channel by judicious management on the part oL,.twardl
rectors and those of other projected lines to the ens and
and
independent also of the traffic between Liverpool hot
Preston not at present conveyed by railway', "%ent of
been very much underrated ; moreover, indepenteti on
the right which the town of Ormskirk, once se.,a2 wiles
the great thoroughfare to the North, but nove",,sla-
distant from any railway, has to demand from thnii
tore its just share in the advantages of railway c.,1;: end
cation, which may now be said to be indespens 7)i last
which have been already extended to many towns
importance. tbersitT.
The inhabitants of towns in tbis couutry, 'e, expot
ated on a railway or not, have acquired sufficient
twofold
ence to know that a railway increases in ,_ which
ratio the wealth and traffic of the district througu
• tice
barrassed in its course, the weight and justice
claims must eventually prevail.
the
B a
In the constitutional check imposed by
country
ito ipma ssskeisr,ka,nadnhdopwreavaetronloncen
mthpeaennytemr enterprise sbeeoifmt hpee.dLeicle,nrrPtineloi'r:
Trade, there is every reason to believe the
nd
to their
sesses the surest safeguard against monopoly',
for approval and protection.
however sahnodrtjuindgtmheeinrtc,
audrirseec,t
maanyd
Ininnkdewpeanlidnennnt
confidence

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