The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY,

tiNntic THE PATRONAGE OF THE MEMBERS FOR THE
_ _

BOROIJGH

THE ANNUAL DINNER of the Members and Friends
of this Society takes place on THURSDAY next, the 23d
instant, at the Georze and Vulture Hotel, Houghton-street,
JOSEPH. COOPER, Esq.; in the Chair.
Dinner on the table at Four o'clock. Tickets 3s. 6d.
each, to be had at the STANDARD and Courier Offices ; Mr.
WKELVEY' Stationer, 4, Tithebarn-street ; and at the Bar
of the Hotel.

WM. NIMMO, President

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK
RAILWAY COMPANY. -

NOTICE ,IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of Proprietors
will be held, pursuant to Act of Parliament, on FRIDAY, the
Ist day of July, 1842, in the Sheriff Court Hall, Greenock.
The Chair will be taken at 12 o'clock.
ROBERT'D. KER, Chairman.
The TRANSFER BOOKS will be Closed on the 27th in-
stant, and will remain so until after the Meeting.
(Signed) WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary
Railway-office. Greenock, 16th .June,' 1842
DUBLIN

AND LIVERPOOL. STEAM-SHIP BUILD

ING COMPANY.
NOTICE .IS HEREBY GIVEN, that ovmd after the
Ist of July next, between the hours- Of Twelve and
Three o'clock, a DIVIDEND of Three ,tier Cent. for the
half-year ending Ist May, 1842, will te paid to the PRO-
PRIETORS qualified to receive the same, and whose names
are now registered in the Company's Books.
By order,
PHINEAS HOWELL, Agent.
Dublin, June 16, 1842.1
pfilFe, 17, Eden Quay. 1

IsEß.—The Books for the Transfer of the Company's
Stock will be closed from the 16th instant to the Ist July
next.

TO THE TRUSTEES AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE
LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
PERMIT me to remind you that the ELECTION for the
Vacant Office of PHYSICIAN will take:-place at the
Infirmary, on MONDAY next, the 27th instetii, between the
Hours of Ten and Three, when I shall feel deeply obliged by
your early attendance and support.-
With grateful thanks for the kind and flattering reception
I have generally met with during my canvass, which induces
me confidently to anticipate success.
I have the honour to remain,
Your obliged and obedient servant,
THOMAS GOUTHWAITE, M.D.,
Physician to the Workhouse and Fever Hospital.
Richmond-row, June 20th, 1842.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET.
THE EXHIBITION of Paintings, Busts, Statues, En-
gravings, Manufactures, Machinery, Philosophical Ap-
paratus, Autographs, Articles of Natural History, Antiqui-
ties, Curiosities, &c., &c., is now OPEN to the Public, and
will remain Open every lawful day, from. Ten, a.m., to Ten,
p.m., till SATURDAY, the 20th".< on which day it will
certainly close.

This EXHIBITION far sasses that of June and
July, 1810, in extent and variety many improvements have
been introduced into the general arrangements, and every
effort has been made at once to render the Exhibition wor-
thy of public notice and to promote the comfort of visitors.
In addition to the general Gallery of Paintings, a separate
Room has been fitted up with the Works of Liverpool Artists
and the Portraits of Liverpool Men. Dr. Raffles has kindly
lent a new series of selections from his curious and valuable
Collection of Autographs. A Room has been fitted with
Phrenological Casts and Diograms, and Mr. Bally, of Man-
chester, will be occasionally in attendance for the purpose of
taking Developments and Casts. Messrs. Woollright and
Chidson have lent several of their Looms and Specimens of
their Fringe and other Manufactures. The Departments of
Bookbinding, Printing, Engraving, Lithographing, and Glass
Blowing will be superintended, respectively, by Messrs.
Winstanley, Mitchell, Heaton, and Mitchell, Isaacs,
M`Donald and Co., M`Gahey, and M'Cauley. A Canal,
40 feet long, has been erected; with a Railroad round it, on
which a Locomotive and Train will run at intervals. Cotton
Spinning and other Machinery will be driven by a Steam
Engine, kindly lent by Robert Preston, Esq. In the Sculp-
ture Gallery, a Fountain, with jets d'eau, has been fitted up.
Exhibitions of various kinds, with explanatory Remarks,
will be held in the Lecture Room every day at one and eight
p.m. Mr. James Robinson has been engaged to exhibit his
large Collection of Dissolving Views and Microscopic Objects,
by the Oxy-Hydrogen Light. Self-acting Organs and other
Musical Instruments will be placed in the several Rooms.
and Refreshments will be provided by Mr. Horsfall at a mo-
derate cost. A Potter's Wheel and a Stocking Frame will
be wrought in one of the rooms. _ _ _

Admission from Ten to Four, One Shilling; from Four to
Ten, Sixpence._ Children at all times Sixpence, _

CATLIN'S MUSEUM of NORTH AMERICAN
INDIAN CURIOSITIES, which contains 560 PAINTINGS,
(exhibited with great success in London for the last three
years,) made by Mr. Catlin among the wildest Tribes of the
RED INDIANS in NORTH AMERICA, with whom Mr.
C. lived eight years, and several thousand specimens of their
Manufactures, with Costumes, Weapons, Pipes, Scalps, &c.,
&c., IS NOW OPEN in the Large Shed, 90 feet long and
50 feet broad, built expressly for their reception. Living
Figures, in full Indian Costume, will be constantly in the
Ryom. . .

The Collection contains, further, a large and perfect
MODEL OF THE FALLS OF NIAGARA, which was
lately viewed and approved by her most gracious Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. This Model exhibits
every House, Tree, Rock, &c., in the vicinity of the Falls,
in due proportion and colour, . _

... .
The Exhibition is open from Ten, a.m., to Ten. P•m• Ad-
mission, ONE SHILLING ; to those who pass through the
general Exhibition, SIXPENCE.
N.B.—Season Tickets to the General Exhibition admit to
Mr. Catlin's Collection, at the reduced price of Sixpence.
These may be obtained by Members of the Institution and
their Families, Pupils in the Schools, and Depositors of Ar-
ticles, for 2s. Gd., by the general public for ss. each.

. _
TICKETS NOT TRANSFERABLE.
W. B. HODGSON, Secretary

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a second Bill has
been brought into the honourable the House of Commons
for better Paving and Improving the Streets and Highways
within the extra parochial place of Toxteth-park, in the
county palatine of Lancaster ; and for the Sewerage of
tain parts of the said place ; which Bill contains all the pro-
visions included in a former Bill for the like purposes, which
passed through the House of Commons, and also a clause
inserted by the House of Lords for granting to the coin_
missioners under the said Bill, if passed into an act, all the
powers now vested in the Board of Surveyors of the said
place for the recovery of Rates made by such Surveyors.
Dated the 16th day of June, 1842.
LACES, MYERS, and RIGGE, Solicitors.

date
hmidsasyionoefrspienceamfibaetri, in bankruptcy, rauvrpatcr-------%abeaafirdinigssued
filorthl-lagtheaE cion3tmst TIMOTHY BOURNE, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, cotton broker, dealer and chapman (now or lately carrying on business at Liverpool aforesaid
, a tfio
firm
ot the e , .
younger, a and Edwrd
in
Bourne, Paton, and
Roberts,cmopoarrretnllershi
Company,") intend to meet owthe twelfth day of July next,
P withu
npdaevri dt
hPe
at two oClook in the afternoon, at the Clarendon-rooms, in
South John-street, in Liverpool aforesaid, in order to make
a dividend of the estate and effects of the said bankrupt;
when and where the creditors, who have not already proved
their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they
will he excluded the benefit of the said dividend, and all
claims not then proved will be disallowed.

IN CHANCERY.
Di UR SUANT to a Decree of Her Majesty's Court of 2.1;
1 chequer made in a cause " Bloor
and others I""c-
Bloor and others," the creditors and legatees of TllO A—
BLOOR, of Frankby, in the county of Chester', fanner.;
deceased, (who died in the month of August, 1838Irenro. on
or before the first day of July, 1840, to come in ries o'ne of
their debts before RICHARD ittcHARDs,
:chambers, in
the Masters of the said Court of ExcheqtEzers?
the Masters of this Honourable Court, at hidon;
or, in de-
Southampton Buildings, Chancery-lane, q
"'clouded the benefit
fault thereof, they will be peremptorily ex one of
of the said Decree oinrte,n.iv

J. VAUGHAN HORNE, Denbigh,
Plaintiffs' Solicitor.
JOHN PEACOCK, Liverpool,
Defendants' Solicitor.

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Roofing, Verandahs, Plats, Paper
of Zink .... . ziislik, for Ships.
in Weight,
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for Engravers, Lithographers, Galvanic
Saving
tug, S'e•
APParav- SASH BARS, for Window Frames, Hothouses,
ZIN.u- Frames,
Pressg,
PLATE
AEEE Plates.ET' r LINK,z,:
'LINK,
,
bts Garden &c.
Fanlights, 'NAILS, TACKS, and SPRIGS, for Ships' Use,
and Outside Work.
zINK RAIN WATER PIPING GUTTERING,
BErawnLL by Machine-TUBING,
rMy.OULDINGS, LAMP BARS, &c., all
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PERFORATED ZINK, for Window Blinds, Meat Safes,
Dairies, Strainers, for Ventilation, &c.
W. LAIRD, Derby Buildings, Fenwick-street.
TO be LET, 0-- ----

9 0 0

—FFICES on the Ground, First, and Second
CELLAR and a
Floors, in Derby Buildings. Also a large Well-lighted
WAREHOUSE ROOM.
Apply to W. LAIRD, Derby Buildings, Fenwiek-street.

( One interest)

MISS COMPTON. 'S ESTABLISHMENT FOP.
YOUNG LADIES,
HAMILTON-SQUARE, .BIRKENHEAD, Cheshire,
(FORMERLY CONDUCTED BY MISS II ARRISON,)
WILL REOPEN ON THE IST OF AUGUST.
MISS COMPTON, in naming herself as Successor to
Miss Harrison, is permitted to offer the following

Stuart Hall, Stuart Town, County

References
Countess CASTLESTUART,
Tyrone.
Honourable Dowager Lady GREY, Eaton-place, Pimlico
Lady ISABELLA KING.
The Honourable Mrs. KING, Angley, near Cranbrook, Kent
The Venerable Archdeacon MoNsEt.L.
The Rev. S. G\VYNNE, the Rector of Agherton, Coleraine.
The Rev. WILLIAM MARSH, D.D., Rector of St. Thomas

Birmingham.
The Rev. W. LANGFORD, Rector, Wallington, Oxon.
Rev. F. OULD, Incumbent of Christ Church, Liverpool.
Rev. A. KNox, Incumbent of Birkenhead, Cheshire.
Rev. W. CLEAVER, Rector of Delgany, county Wicklow.
Rev. J. N. DAVIDSON, Vicar of East Harptree, near Bristol.
Rev. R. GUINNESS, Dublin.
GEORGE BARTTELOT, Esq., Stopham House, near Petworth,
Sussex.

Mr. and Mrs. CRONfIE, Cromore, near Portstewart

—FRENCH LANGUAGE BY CONVERSAVION.
IUrONS. L. J. HUBERT, of Paris, Seven years resident
1.V.1. in Liverpool, will continue, as usual, his INSTRUC-
TION in the FRENCH LANGUAGE during the Holydays.

Governesses will find his Course of Fifteen Lessons advan-
tageous to perfect themselves, and obtain an easy Method
for Teaching. Mons. H. will be happy to attend Families,
Schools, and Classes.