The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

RIGHT HON. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY
POTTINGER, BART., G.C.B.
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TN order to prevent disappointm , e
sired to make IMMEDI
their TICKETS to the
1, Exchange-buildin .
91h December, 1 4

i-ontlemen are de-
_ APPLICATION for
tretary, Mr. T. M. MYERS,

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.
N THURSDAY MORNING next, the 12th instant,
a SERMON will be Preached (D. V.) by the
LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, at ST. PETER'S
CHURCH, after which a COLLECTION will be made
in aid of the Funds of the SOUTH and TOXTETH
HOSPITAL.
Divine Service to co ce at Eleven o'clock.
His Worship th ayor, and several of the Members
of the Corporation are expected to attend.

APUBLIC MEETING of the RATE-PAYERS and
other INHABITANTS of TOXTETH-PARK wilt
be held in the Public Office, Park-place, on MoNDAT
next, the 16th instant, at Twelve o'cl. Noon, for the
purpose of receiving the Repor the Committee, and
adopting Resolutions on the .ject of Landing-Slips, and
increased Market acco •..dation at the South end of
the town.
H. G. HARBO • , Chairman of the Provisional
Committee.

DUBLIN AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-SHIP
BUILDING COMPANY.
IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
will be held, at the Company's Office, on THURSDAY, the
19:h December, 1844, at One o'clock eceive the Re-
port of the Directors for the -year ending the Ist
November last, pursuant to eed of Settlement.
By order,
INEAS HOWELL, Agent.
Office, 17, Eden Quay, Dublin,
28th November, 1844.

LYNN AND DEREHAM RAILWAY.
DEPOSIT, -Clio.. Gd. PER SHARE.
AFEW SHARES in this COM NY are still to be
Allotted.
Immediate application a made at my Office, No.
10, Exchange-alley, erpool,
RICHD. I'SON, Stock and Share Broker.

TO THE CHARITABLE.
THE ADVERTISER, who is now in his sixty-eighth
year, and has been twenty years resident in Liverpool,
having been unfortunate in business, (which he conducted
in this town for a considerable period,) through circum-
stances which he could not provide agai st, is no v with his
Family, amongst whom he has eickness for upwards
of fifteen years, reduced to greatest distress and suf-
fering extreme privation that, though painful to his
feelings, he is oblige o appeal to the charitable and
humane.
Any small sum eft for him at the Standard-office will
be most thankfully received.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
Lord Viscount SANDON, M.P., and
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Bart., M.P.
A FEW VACANCIES having occurred in this SO-
CIETY, in consequence of the Removal and Death
of some of its Members, Persons of the Protestant faith,
and of good character, of the ages fro to 35, are ad-
missible.
Terms, with other particular
Monday in each Month, a •
or at the House of the r
Edwin-street.

,ay be known, on the first
..rist Church School Rooms,
rcretary, Hanover-square, Prince

By order of the Committee,
JOHN CROSSLEY, Secretary.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
GILBERT HENDERSON. Esq., Recorder.
THE. COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the
PEACE for the BOROUGH will be held, in the
Sessions-house, in Chapel-street, on MONDAY, the 16th
day of December instant, at Ten o'clock in the Fore-
noon.

No TRAVERSE will be Tried
first day of the Sessions, in tl
viously, at the Office of t,
Brunswick-street.

entered on the

fissions-!louse, or, pre-
:lerk of the Peace, No. 6,

And all IndictmenK or Misdemeanours found at these
Sessions against p ons admitted to Bail, must be entered
for Trial before welve o'clock on the day after the dis-
charge of the Grand Jury, or the Trial will stand over.
WRIGHT, Clerk of the Peace.
No. 6, Brunswick-street, 3d December, 1844.

CAUTION.
CELLARS.
WEI F REAS it has come to the knowledge of the Com-
missioners for the better Paving and Sewerage of
the Town, that several instances have occurred of Owners
of Property within the Town having gone to considerable
expense in altering their Houses in or o convert the
Cellars thereof into separate Dwe -places, and who
being unable to comply with the ovisions of the Health
of the Town Act, with refere to the width of Area re-
quired to entitle such C rs to be used as separate
Dwelling-places have s ained serious loss and inconve-
nience, the COMMI ONERS therefore, to prevent
similar loss and inc venience to other parties, HEREBY
CAUTION all Persons, Owners of Property within the
Town, intending to convert the Cellars of their Houses
into separate Dwelling-places, and for that purpose to en-
croach on the Footways of the Streets, to abstain from
making such Alterations until they have ascertained, by
application to the said Commissioners, whether permis-
sion can be granted to take from the street the width of
Area required by the provisions of the said act.
By order of the Commissioners.
EDWD. G. DEANE, Clerk.
Liverpool, slh December, 1841.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
THE AUDIT COMMISSIONERS appointed by vir-
tue of the several Acts of Parliam elating to the
Liverpool Docks, are required t ET, at the Dock-
office, on MONDAY nest, 6th instant, at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoo INSPECT, AUDIT, and
ADJUST the ACCO 'TS of the DOCK ESTATE.
G ORGE WITHERS, Treasurer.
Dock Office, Liverpool, 9th December, 1844.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
ATA T a MEETING of the COMMITTEE for the AF-
FAIRS of the ESTATE of the TRUSTEES of the
LIVERPOOL DOCKS, held this Fourteenth day of
November, 1844,

PRESENT :
J. BRAMLEY-MOORE, Esq., Chairman, &c.
The Committee for the Affairs of j„be—Estate of the
Trustees of the Liverpool Dock ving taken into con-
sideration the Rates and Du • now payable upon the
Tonnage of Vessels, and the Rates and Duties now
payable in support of e Light-houses and Floating
L'ghts, &c.,
It is Resolved d Ordered,—That the Collector or
Receiver of th ock Bates and Duties be, and he is
hereby, authorised to take and collect the several Rates
and Duties upon the Tonnage Burthen of Vessels, herein.
after mentioned, in lieu of the Rates and Duties now
payable thereon, namely :
TONNAGE DUTIES.
CLASS 7TH.—AII parts in South America, to the
Southward of the Rio La Plata, in the Pacific Ocean; in
Africa and Asia, to the Eastward of the Cape of Good
Hope, the Sum of One Shilling and Sixpence•per Ton.
LIGHT-HOUSE DUTIES.
For every Ship or other Vessel, trading or sailing to or
from the said Port of Liverpool, and any other port or
place, not being within the kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, or the adjacent Islands, the Sum of One Penny
per Ton.

FLOATING LIGHTS DUTIES.
All Vessels sailing to or from Liverpool to any port or
place to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, and the
Westward of Cape Horn, One Halfpenny per Ton.
And it is also Resolved and Ordered,—That the Rates
and Duties so hereby authorized to be collected and taken
as aforesaid, shall be so collected and taken upon all
Vessels arriving in the Port of Liverpool, on and after the
9th day of December, 1844 ; but that such alterations and
reductions shall not be, or be considered as, a relinquish-
ment or abandonment of the right of the Trustees of the
Liverpool Docks, to revive, at any time hereafter, the full
amount, or any part, of the Rates and Duties now paya-
ble upon the Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and also in
support of the Light-houses and Floating Lights.
By order cf the Committee,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, Revenue-buildings,
4th December, 1814.