The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

S. RICHARDSON,
(LATE WOOD BROTIIERS,)
4, LORD-STREET, (Six Doors from Paradise-street,)

Begs to announce to the Public, that he is now
SELLING OFF
HIS
STOCK OF HATS, CAPS, &c.,
At very Reduced Prices, previous to extensive Alterations.

EXCHANGE HOUSE
DINING AND COFFEE ROOMS.
No. IS, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
LATE BURDY's GLASS WAREHOUSE.
DI HARRIS begs to inform the Inhabitants and Visitors
ito of Liverpool and its Vicinity, that he has fitted up the
above Establishment in a superior style,-which be is deter-
mined to conduct .in a most respectable manner, with every
article of the best quality, on reasonable terms, and respect-
fully solicits their patronage and support.
• DINNERS ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
JOINTS, SOUPS OF EXCELLENT QUALITY, STEAKS, CHOPS, &C
Teas and Coffees:ready at Six o'clock in the Morning.
HOT VEAL, CHICKEN. AND PORK PIES,
From Eight o'clock until Eleven in the Evening.
• CONFECTIONARY, SODA WATER, LEMONADE,
GINGER DEER, &C. &C.
This establishment will be open every day, Sundays excepted.

Contrarts.

CONTRACTS FOR CLOTHING.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
THE WATCH COMMITTEE hereby give Notice, that
they are willing to receive TENDERS for supplying,
by Contract, the following Articles of CLOTHING for the
Constabulary Force, viz.:—

• 490. Uniform BODY COATS and PANTA-
No. 1. LOONS, for Constables, and
64 Uniform FROCK COATS and PANTA-
LOONS, for Firemen.
2. -10 FROCK COATS and PANTALOONS, for
Inspectors.
3. 30 BODY COATS, VESTS, and PANTA-
. LOONS, lot Bridewell Keepers. •
4. • 70 Plain Felt H NTS, for Inspectors.
• •• 5. 550 Uniform Felt HATS.
or
6. 550 Pairs of Leather BOOTS.
Consftab'es
7. 1200 Pairs White Cotton GLOVES, ' •

The Committee reserve to themselves the option of dividing
any one of the ContraCts, as above numbered, into two lots
of equal proportions. Persons, therefore; sending in Tenders
are requested to ; tate their prices for the whole of any one
lot, -or for one half.
Sample Patterns may be inspected, any day between the
hours of Nine and Twelve o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the
Office of the Head Constable, until the Sth day of October
next. •

The whole of the Cloth to be Wool-dyed, and of one
quality and description, for the Articles named in Lot No. 1.
The Uniform Buttons for the Coats and Vests are pro-
vided by the Committee.
The Committee will not pay for any Sample Patterns sent for
inspection, except those they approve of for the Contracts.
The Parties whose Tenders shall he accepted will have to
enter into the usual contract with the Watch. Committee for
the due fulfilment thereof ; and, also, engage to complete and
deliver the Goods on the 20th day of April, 1843, to be paid
for, on approval, in Cash, at the expiration of One Month
from the delivery.
• Sealed Tenders, separate from the Sample Patterns, must
be left at the Secretary's Office not later than FP-LOAV, the
14th day of October next, addressed to the Chairman of the
Watch Committee, and marked " Tender for Clothing," and
any Person offering-Tenders for one or more of the aforesaid
Articles must send Samples and Tenders for each separate,
and numbered on the outside as described.

(By order) CAPES ASH LIN, Secretary.
Watch-office, No. 1, Fenwick-street,
10th September. 1842.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of a
Resolution of the last General Meeting of Proprietors,
the Directors of this Company are ready to receive TEN-
DERS of LOANS OF MONEY, in Sums of not less than
£2OO, and for Terms of not less than Three, nor more than
Seven Years, on Security of LOAN NOTES under the
Corporate Seal of the Company, bearing Interest at the rate
of 44 per Cent. per Annum, payable Half-yearly.
Tenders, expressing the Sum, the Term of Years, and the
Residence of the Lender, to be addressed to the Secretary.
By order of the Board of Directors,
J. B. BADHAM, Secretary.
Bristol' Office, 30, Broad-street, 2d Sept.. 1842.
Interest Warrants will accompany the Loan Notes.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
THE Directors of this Undertaking will receive Proposals
for LOANS OF MONEY ON' DEBENTURES, to
be issued under the provisions of the acts of Parliament, in
the month of OCTOBER next, in sums of not less than
.4.:200, for terms of three, five, seven, 'or ten years, on Interest
at the rate of £5 per Cent. per Annum, payable Half-yearly,
at the Banks of Messrs. MILES, HAIWORD, and Co., Corn-
street, Bristol, and Messrs. BARNETT, HOARE, and Co.,
Lombard-street, London.
For Moneys immediately advanced the security of Loan
Notes under the Seal of the Company will be given, which
may be exchanged for Debentures in the said month of Oc-
tober.

Tenders, expressing the Sums and Terms of Years' to be
addressed to the undersigned, at the Company's Office,
Exchange Buildings, Bristol.
By order of the Committee of Management,
ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary.
Office, Exchange Buildings, Bristol,
301 h May, 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
EXTENSION OF TIME.
THE Directors of this Company having been applied to
by several Contractors for an Extension of Time, to
enable them to copy the Plans, Specifications, &c., of the
Dinting Vale Viaduct, No. 6, and the Lon,Tendale Contracts,
Nos. 7 and S, have agreed to POSTPONE 'TH E LETTING
of the above named WORKS till the 28th instant, at the
Company's Office, 15, Piccadilly, Manchester, where Ten-
ders are to be delivered not later than Twelve o'clock at
Noon on that day.
By order,
JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
Manchester, 15, Piccadilly, 14th Sept., 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
rr HE Directors are now ready to receive TENDERS for
the following WORKS :
CONTRACT No. 6, OR DINTING VALE VIADUCT CON,-
TRACT.—To commence at the termination of the Gamesley
Contract, in a field No. 226 on the plan, in the parish of
Glossop, and to terminate in the field No. 209 on the plan,
in the said parish ; the length of the viadyct being 481 yards
or thereabouts.
CONTRACTS Nos. 7 & 8, OR LONGENDALE CONTRACTS.—
To commence at the termination of the Dint*. Vale Viaduct
Contract, and to terminate in a field No. 2 on the Plan, in
the Parish of Glossop, near to the entrance of the Summit
Tunnel ; the length being six miles and 73 chains or there-
abouts.

These Contracts to comprise the whole of the Works
necessary for the completion of the lengths of the Railway
herein mentioned, including the ballasting and laying of the
permanent road, except the rails and chairs, which will be
found by the company. The contract is also to include the
maintenance of the works for twelve months after their
entire completion.—Plans, sections, specifications, and draft
forms of contract may be seen on application to the Secretary,
at the Railway Office, 15, Piccadilly, Manchester.
Sealed tenders, addressed to the Secretary, and endorsed
" Tenders for Works," to be sent in on or before Twelve
o'clock at Noon on Wednesday, the 28th September instant,
after which day no tender will be received.
Printed forms of tender may be obtained at the office,
and no others will be attended to.—The Directors will not
consider themselves bound to accept the lowest offer.—By
order of the Board,

JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
Manchester, 15, Picadilly, 14M September, 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
FORFEITED SHARES.
BY a Resolution passed at a SPECIAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Shareholders, held at Sheffield on
the 12th day of January last,—lnterest at a rate not ex-
ceeding Five per Cent. per annum will be paid on all Shares
on which the full amount of Calls has been paid, until such
time as the Railway shall have been opened six ;months
throughout.

The Directors are now prepared to RECEIVE TEN-
DERS for any portion of the 1419 SHARES which were
forfeited at the last Half-yearly General Meeting, on the
31st of August last, and which will be sold as having the full
amount of Calls now made paid up (viz., £B2 10s. per share.)
Purchasers will be entitled to Interest at 5 per cent on that
amount from the date of purchase, until six months after
the Railway shall have been opened throughout.
These shares now offer to capitalists great advantages as
an investment—the Treasury having granted their first loan
of £50,000. The line will be further opened to Glossop early
in November next.

All the shafts of the Summit Tunnel are now clown, and
1601 yards of the double line of driftway have been driven
within the last six months—making 3129 yards now driven ;
and before the lst of March next lt is now ascertained they will
be opened throughout, and the undertaking placed in the
position to which its advantages so strongly entitle it.
Any further information may be obtained on application
to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 15, Piccadilly,
Manchester; or at the chainbers of Joseph Locke, Esq.,
engineer to the company, Adam-street, Adelphi, London.
Sealed Tenders for the purchase of Shares to be addressed
to the Secretary on or before the 27th day of September
instatt, endorsed " Tender for Shares."
By order, __ _

JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, Sept. 14, 1842.,