The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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IVERPOOL CORPORATION LAN

STAGE

The CORPORATION of LIVERPOOL are, prepared to re-
ceive TENDERS from Parties willing to undertake to CON-
STRUCT, FIX IN PLACE, and COMPLETE ready for
Public Use, a NEW FLOATING LANDING-STAGE, to be
moored in the River Mersey, in front and parallel to the
Prince's Dock Parade or Quay Wall.

The Contract will comprise 63 Floating Pontoons, of the
very best boiler work, in length varying from SO to 100 feet,
and weighing 1,200
_tont, or thereabouts; 5 Wrought-iron

Kelsons,or Hollow Rectangular Beams, each 1,000 feet long,
from 4 to 5 feet in depth, and 2 feet in thickness, the gross
weight of which will be about 1,200 tons ; 8 other Hollow
Beams of Wrought Iron, forming the girders of four bridges
connecting the stage with the shore, and weighing about 260
tons ; 60 Tons, snore or less, of Cast Iron ; and about 170 Tons
of Smith's Work, in knees, straps, bolts, spikes, mooring-
chains, &c. &c.; together with about 95,000 Cubic Feet of
Timber, in deck beams, decks, &c., Wrought, Fixed in Place,
and Painted.

A Specification of the Works, and Conditions of Contract,
with Thiplicate Schedules of quantities, for the parties to
tender upon, together with an Atlas of Detailed Drawings,
will be supplied to any party making application for the same
at the Office of the Surveyor, Town-hall, Liverpool, between
the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, on and after the Ist day of
September next. No Copies of the Specification and Draw-
ings will be allowed to be made, but a payment of Ten Gui-
neas will be required for the whole set.
Sealed Tenders for the above Works, on the Duplicate Sche-
dule of Quantities which accompanies each Specification, are
to be delivered at the Town-hall, Liverpool, in sealed covers,
addressed to the Finance Committee, (and marked on the
outside "Tender for Landing-stage,") on or before the 13th
day of October, by Eleven o'clock A.M., after which hour on
that day no Tender will be received. Parties or their Agents
to be in attendance on that day at Twelve o'clock.
Each Tender must rontain a Sealed Letter, with the names
of two responsible Parties who are willing to become bound,
jointly and severally, with the parties tendering for the Con-
tract, in the sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, for the due
performance thereof.
The Corporation will not be bound to accept the lowest
Tender.

WILLIAM SHUTTLE WORTH, Town Clerk
Town hall, August 18, 1854.

Nth) ipublications.

Just published, price One Shilling, by post Fourteenpence,
THE CLAIMS OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR :
with a Sketch of Practical Measures for their Concilia-
tion. A Paper read before the Dublin Statistical Society, by
WILLIAM PARE, of Seville Iron Works, Dublin.
London : WARD and Locx, 158, Fleet-street; and all Book-
sellers, and at the Railway Stations.

Published this day, extra cloth boards and lettered, with 141
Illustrations. price 88.,
THE COMBUSTION OF COAL AND PRE-
VENTION OF SMOKE, chemically and practically
considered.

By CHARLES WYE WILLIAMS, Assoc. Inst. C.E.
Containing the Chemistry of Combustion, the Construction
of Marine and Land Boilers, the Tubular and Flue Systems
compared, and the Economic Abatement of the Smoke
Nuisance.
IA London : Jot' WEALS, 59, High Holborn.

GRAND AMERICAN NUMBER OF CAS-
NJ. SELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER.—No. 36,
to appear To-morrow (Wednesday), will contain a large
double-page Engraving, a View of New York from the River;
New York from Union-square; Sleigh Omnibus and Steam-
boat ; Plan of New York and Brooklyn ; and 44 The Negro
Punished," a beautiful Illustration of the Tale of " Amy
Moss."—Price One Penny. Order of all Booksellers.

In the press, and will be published shortly,

IVERPOOL. CHURCHES and CHAPELS ;
THEIR DESTRUCTION, REMOVAL, OR ALTERA-
TION. By DAVID THOM, DD., Ph.D., %.
Late Vice-president of the Historic Society of Lancashire and