The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

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• CHANTREY'S STATUE OF ROSCOE.
H E PUBLIC will be ADMITTED to VIEW this
STATUE in the GALLERY or ART, Colquitt-street, on
MONDAY, the 18th, TUESDAY, the 19th, and WEDNESDAY,
tte 20th,:between the hours of Ten and Four.
By order bf the Committee,
J. Royal Institution, April, 1842. B. YATES, President.

LAST WEEK
OF THE
A.ND DIORAMA

pANORAMA

NOW EXHIBITING AT -
THE PORTICO, NEWINGTON.
Admission, SIXPENCE ; Reserved Seats, ONE SHIL-
LING. Children under twelve years of age, Half-price to
the Reserved Seats.
!Hours of Exhibiting
:Tree; Evening, Eight

Morning, Twelve ; Afternoon,

TO EDITORS.
A LL Persons to whomCß the late JOHN BARKER, of
1,- Northwich, in the county of Chester, Solicitor, deceased,
stood indebted at the time of his decease, are required to
seed in their claims to me. within one month from this date,
or they will be excluded from any benefit arising under his
estate. By order of the Executor,
W. S. .BRADBURNE, Solicitor to the Estate.
Northwich, April 13th, 1842.

TO THE TRUSTEES AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE
LADIES' CHARITY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
CIRCUMSTANCES having induced me to withdraw
from the contest for the Surgeoncy of the Northern
Hospital, I beg respectfully to inform you that should a Va-
cancy occur in the office of Surgeon to your valuable Charity,
I shall take the earliest opportunity of soliciting your Votes
and Interest in my behalf.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.,
HENRY GORDON HARBORD.
4, Upper Parliament -street, April 14, lB=l2.

NOTICE.
TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, &e. &v.
EXTENSIVE PRISON AT BELFAST.
ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a presentm-mt for
Building a Bridewell and House of Correction at Bel-
fast, in the county of Antrim, having been made by the Grand
Jury of the said county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended
at Spring Assizes, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis-
sioners therein appointed now to CONTRACT for BUILD-
ING the said PRISON.
Persons desirous of Contracting for the same may see the
Plans and Specifications relating thereto at the Office of Mr.
CHARLES LANyoN, County Surveyor for Antrim, Donegan-
square, Belfast, on or after the 12th day of April, 1842.
In order to facilitate the proceedings of parties intending
to Tender for the abovementioned Work, they are requested
to attend at the Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above-
mentioned, for the purpose of nominating orappointing a
Measurer to take out the quantities of Work in said proposed
Building.
A

milar Person will be appointed on the part of the COM-
missioners, so as that each may be a check on the other.
A Copy of " the quantities" so ascertained will be given to
each Person intending to Tender.
The Person whose Tender shall be accepted will be required
to pay the charges of the Measurer appointed as abovemen-
tioned.

Sealed Tenders, for the execution of the above Work, to be
forwarded on or before the 24th May, under cover, addressed
" To the Clerk to the Commissioners of Belfast Bridewell
and House of Correction, Carrickfergus."
Sufficient Security will be required.
(Signed, by order,) JOHN COATES.
16th March, 1842.

MR. JOSEPH HUME AND THE MONTROSE
BURGHS. '

(From the Edinburgh Standard.)
The anxiety of Mr. Joseph Hume to get into Parliament
s only surpassed by his intense regard for the " sinew's," by
which such an honour is usually accomplished by men of his
The conflicting operations of Mr. Hume's ambition
avarice, have been seldom more strikingly and amusingly
exhibited than in the correspondence which has passed be-
tween him and certain partiei in the Montrose burghs, and
which the honourable gentleman, with marvellous self-sacri-
fice, has just given to the public. It would be an unwar-
rantable waste of room to insert these documents at length ;
but we cannot resist the temptation of stating their course
and purport, as affording a new arid characteristic illustration
of this luminary of the radicals.
Hr. Hume appears to have been the first person to whom
Mr. Chalmers communicated his intention of resigning his
seat, and the electors were ignorant of this fact for some
days after Mr. Horne was aware of it. The object with which
Mr. Chalmers gave this information cannot be doubted, for
Mr. Hume immediately proceeded to act upon it, with his
characteristic caution however. By the way of a feeler,
Joseph addressed the following curious epistle to Mr. Car-
negy, of Craigo, the most influential man amongst the
liberals in the district :

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