The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

AND

INDIA
BEER,
are prepared to supply the Trade upon the most moderate
terms. These articles will be found very excellent, both
in quality and flavour ; and the Bitter Beer has lone been
recommended by the Faculty for the use of Invalids.
Their WELSH ALE continues to he much prized by
Connoisseurs; and their BURTON ALE is in the high-
est possible condition.
Orders for the Consumption of this district, or for
Exportation, executively attended to.
JOHN EVANS and CO.,
Ale, Porter, and Provision Merchants,
Mersey-court, Old Church-yard,
Liverpool.

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 (3k) 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, 20th June, 1844.

MANCHESTER, BURY, AND ROSSENDALE
RAILWAY.
rr HE Shareholders are requested to forward their Scrip
1. to the Company's Offices, Market-street, Bury, in
the county of Lancaster, on or before the 10th day of
August next, for Registration, and in order that the Scrip
may be exchanged for the Company's Certificates.
Shares in respect of which no application shall be made
before the said 10th day of August next, will be registered
in the name of the original Shareholders.

By order of the Di;iitor;,--
JAMES SMITHELLS, Secretary.
Bury, 23d July, 1844.

EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY COMPANY.
NSIXTEENTH GENERAL MEETING.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance
of the Act of Incorporation, the HALF-
GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS
of this COMPANY will be held at the LONDON TAVERN,
Bishopgate-street, London, on THURSDAY the Bth day
of August next, at One o'clock precisely,for the purpose
of receiving a Report from the Directors of the progress
of the undertaking, and fur the transaction of other basi.
ness.

The transfer books of the Company will be closed on
Monday, the 29th instant, and will not be opened until
Friday, the 9th August next.
And Notice is hereby also Given, that the said Meeting
is made Special, for the purpose of the Proprietors de-
termining upon the propriety of converting or consolidating
the shares of the Company, or some of them, into capital
stock, and for adopting all necessary measures for that
purpoasied M . And notice is hereby further given, that
the seeting is also made Special, for the pur-
pose of the Proprietors considering and deciding upon
the plans to be then brought forward by the Direc-
tors, for deviating the line of this Company between
Ely and Peterborough, through March, and for construct-
ing such branch to the eastward of March, as the pro-
prietors shall agree upon, it being proposed that such line
shall at March meet an intended direct extension line
from York by Doncaster, Lincoln, Boston, and Spalding,
to be constructed by the Midland, and York
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haeordebNyofurtrh.
Midland Railway Companies. And Not
ther given, that at suchrneetinogittw..ieltliohnefourthheerpprroojpeoesteedd
by the Directors to limit the construction
line from Hertford to Hitchin and Bedford, to Ilitchin
only ; and it will be proposed to adopt such measures as
may be necessary for applying all or any portion of the
Extension Stock, No. 2, to the construction of such ex-
tension line or lines, or branches, as the proprietors at
such meeting shall determine.
H ENRY BOSANQUET, Chairman,
THEODORE W. RATHBONE, Dep.-Chairman.
offices, Shoreditelz Station, July 18, 1844.
N.B.—The dividend for the half-year ending the 4th
instant will be payable to those parties who, on the 29th
instant, shall be the registered Proprietors in the Com-
pany's books.

'ELIZABETH IVIETCALF, at present, and for up-
, wards of twelve months past, residing at Number 7 Upper Pitt-street, and previously residing in Great Cross-
,
hall- street, both in the parish of Liverpool, and county of
Lancaster, and being part of the time a leather dealer, but
latterly in no business, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE,
that I intend to present a Petition to the Commissioner of
the Court of Bankruptcy, of the Liverpool District, pray-
ing to be examined touching my debts, estate hod effects,
and to be protected from all process, upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects, for
payment of my just and lawful debts; and I HEREBY
FURTHER GIVE NOTICE, that the time when the
matter of the said Petition shall be heard is to be adver-
tised in the London Gazette, and in the Liverpool Stan-
dard newspaper, one month, at the least, after the date
hereof. As witness my hand, this twenty-seventh day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-four,

ELIZABETH METCALF.
Wm. DAVENPORT, Attorney.