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THE SEASONS. By JAMES THOMSON. Edited by
BOLTON CORNEY, Esq•, with the Life of the Author,
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THE AMERICAN in PARIS ; being a Picture of Pari-
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VII.

POPULAR CONCHOLOGY ; or the Shell Cabinet
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A.NDERION CARRYING COMPANY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing session,
for an Act to Incorporate a certain Joint Stock Company or
Copartnership, called or known by the name of the " Ander-
ton Carrying Company," established as Carriers of Goods
between Liverpool and the Potteries, or to enable the said
Company to sue and be sued in the name of some one of
their Directors or Officers; and also to confer on the said
Company summary powers of levying and recovering Tolls
and Charges in respect of the business conducted by them ;
and other powers and privileges. Dated this second day of
November, 1842.
LACES, MYERS, and RIGGE, Solicitors.
THE LIVERPOOL NEW GAS AND COKE
COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
Itin-
tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Ses-
sion for leave to brine in a Bill to alter, amend, and enlarge
the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the 4th year of
the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled " An act for
Lighting with Oil Gas the Town of Liverpool and certain
places adjacent thereto;" and of another act passed in the
Session of Parliament held in the 4th and sth years of the
reign of King William the; Fourth, intituled An act to
empower the Liverpool Oil Gas-Light Company to produce
Gas from Coal and other materials, and to amend the act re-
lating to the said Company."
And it is intended by the said Bill to empower " The Li-
verpool New Gas and Coke Company," incorporated by the
said two several recited Acts, to Light with Gas the several
Townships and Places of Walton-on-the-Hill and Bootle-
cum-Linacre, respectively, in the Parish of Walton-on-the-
Hill, in the County Palatine of Lancaster ; and the several
Townships or Places of Litherland and Great Crosby, in the
Parish of Sephton, in the said County ; and the several
Townships and Places of Childwall, Much 'Wootton, Little
Wootton, Wavertree, Allerton, and Garston, in the Parish
of Childwall, in the said County, or some of them, and to
make and levy Rates, Rents, or Charges for the furnishing
of such Light. And, generally, to exercise sucli powers,
rights, and privileges, within the said Townships and Places,
asthe said Company is or may he empowered to exercise
within the Town and Parish of Liverpool, in the said County,
and the several Townships or Places of Toxteth-park,
Everton, Kirkdale, and West Derby, in the said Parish of
Walton-on-the-Hill. And further, it is intended to insert
in the said Bill provisions enabling the said Company to
raise a further Sum of Money, and to increase their present
Capital by the creation of New Shares, or by such other means
as may be deemed expedient.
Dated this 26th day of October, 1842.
JOHN BUCK LLOYD,
Solicitor to the said Company,