The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

On TUESDAY next, the sth September, at Twelve o'clock,
at the Brokers' Office,
4,943 Salted OX HIDES,
2,792 Salted HORSE HIDES,
Ex Australia, from Monte Video.
JNO. and SAML. BECKWITH, Brokers.

On THURSDAY, the 28th September next, at the Brokers'
Sale Room, Walmer-buildings, Water-street (unless pre-
viously disposed of by Private contract),

. .
The Paddle-wheel Steamer
BEN MY CHREE ;
."Ff . Built on the Clyde, in 1845. Tonnage 399,
' jidif blUbb,. and registers 158 tons. Length for measure-
- ment 152 feet ; seven feet draft of water ;
flush deck; excellent accommodation for passengers; two
engines sixty-five horse power each ; cylinders forty inches,
four feet stroke ; speed eleven to twelve knots ; had new
tubular boilers last year; is in excellent condition, and well
supplied with ship's stores and steward's furnishings. The
property of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, and to
be sold to make room for a larger boat ; is employed in the
conveyance of the mails, &c., between Liverpool and Douglas;
can be viewed on and after the 20th of September, in the
Sandon Dock.—Any further information may be obtained on
application to the Company's agents, at Liverpool, or Douglas,
or to TONGE, CURRY, and CO., Brokers.

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ETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW,

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Glasgow and Liverpool Royal Steam-
packet Company's powerful Steam-ship
PRINCESS ROYAL,
Captain CUMIN
Is intended to sail as under, from CLAmRE°'
NCE DOCK,
LIVERPOOL:—

PRINCESS.. Wednesday. Aug. 30, at 3 o'clock, Afternoon
PRINCESS.. Tuesday .... Sept. 5, at 8 o'clock, Evening.
PRINCESS.. Saturday .. Sept. 9, at *2i o'clock, Afternoon
PRINCESS.. Thursday .. Sept. 14, at 3} o'clock, Afternoon
PRINCESS.. Wednesday—Sept. 20, at 8} o'clock, Evening.
PRINCESS.. Tuesday.... Sept. 26, at *3 o'clock, Afternoon
PRINCESS.. Saturday .. Sept. 30, at 3i o'clock, Afternoon
* From Clarence Pierhead.
(including Steward's Fee). 158. ; Steerage, 6s.
Servants in Cabin, Full Fare.
_

Fare—c

Freight of Bale and Case Goods, 20s. per ton of 20 cwt
Goods from Manchester and the Manufacturing Districts; 15s
per for

ROBERT LAMONT, 21, Water-street, Liverpool

Tontratts.

LIVERPOOL CORPORATION LANDING-
STAGE.
TO CONTRACTORS, SHIPBUILDERS (WOOD & IRON),

IRONFOUNISERS, BOILER MAKERS, &c.

The CORPORATION orLIVERPOOL 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 80 to 100 feet,
and weighing 1,200 tone, 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, an4l weighing about 260
tons ; 60 Tons, more 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 95,600 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 Duplicate 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-
tugs 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 lath
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 contain 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.