The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-15 00:00:00

London

In small Bvo, price ss. 6d.,
1%/1 EMOIR OF THE CHISHOLM, late M.P. for In-
11Y1 verness-shire. By the Rev. JAMES S. M. ANDER-
SON, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, Chaplain
to the Queen Dowager, and Perpetual Curate of St. George's
Chapel, Brighton.

Rivi NGToNs, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo-place,
London ; BELL and BRADFUTE, Edinburgh ; SMITH, In-
verness ; and the Booksellers in Brighton.

HOMER'S ILIAD, WITH ENGLISH NOTES.
Second Edition, improved, in Bvo. price 18s.,
OMERI ILIAS ; chiefly from the Text of Heyne, with
11 copious ENGLISH NOTES, illustrating the Grammatical
Construction ; the Manners and Customs, the Mythology.
and Antiquities of the Heroic Ages; and Preliminary Ob-
servations on Points of Classical Interest and Importance
connected with Homer and his Writings.
~By the Rev. WILLIAM TROLLOPE, M.A.,
Of Pembroke College, Cambridge ; and formerly one of the
-Masters of Christ's Hospital.
RIVINGTONS LONGMAN and Co.; HAMILTON and Co. ;
,DuNcAN and Co. ; WHITTAxEa and Co.; SIMPHIN and
Co. ; B. FELLOWES; and E. P. WILLIAMS, London.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON RAILWAYS.
Just published, in royal octavo, 3s. 6d. cloth, lettered, with

four engravings,
TELEGRAPHIC RAILWAYS; or,Txl. SINGLE WAY,
recommended by Safety, Economy, and Efficiency, un-
der the safeguard and control of the Electric Telegraph ;
with particular reference to Railway Communication with
Scotland and to Irish Railways.

By WILLIAM FOTHERGILL COOKE,Esq.

CONTENTS : - Objects of the Treatise— Distingiiishing
Characteristics of present Railways—Evidence before Select
Committee—Advantages of Telegraphic Communication—
Mode of Working the Blackwall Railway by the Electric
Telegraph—Description of the Electric Telegraph—Plan for
a "Telegraphic" Railway—Course of an Express Train—
Ballast Waggons—Permanent Obstruction—Crossing of two
Trains—Description of Signals—Concluding Remarks on
Single Way—Mixed Lines—Scottish Junction Line—lrish
Railways—Advantages common to Single, Mixed, and Dou-
ble Lines—Public Confidence—Reduction of Stock=—lncome
from Telegraph—Alertness—Adaptation to Wants of country
population—Conclusion.
London : Sinvkin, Marshall, and Co.

DAWBARN AND DAVIS,
110, BOLD-STREET,
BEG leave to call the attention of the Fashionable World
to their SPLENDID Assemblage of
FULL-DRESS VESTINGS,
in the richest and most novel designs, express!y adapted for
the forthcoming WELSH BALL, in honour of the Prince of
Wales.
110, BOLD-STREET,
DAWBARN AND DAVIS,
TAILORS and DRAPERS.

BANKRUPT'S STOCK
OF LINEN DRAPERY, SILKS, SHAWLS, DE

vy
LAINES, c. ,
AT WILLIAMS BROTHERS, WATERLOO HOUSE,
Waterloo-place, top of Church-street.
WILLIAMS BROTHERS have the pleasure of an-
nouncing to their Friends, and the Public in general,
that they will be enabled to offer to their notice the remaining
and most valuable part of
M`PHEARSON AND CO.'S STOCK
THIS DAY, (TUESDAY,) THE 15TH INSTANT.
The former part having given so much satisfaction to those
who have been fortunate enough to purchase, renders an
early application desirable.

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
THE PATENT FELTED CARPETING & DRUGGETS,
(IVIADE WITHOUT SPINNING OR WEAVING.)
►IIHE Public are respectfully informed that there is now, at
No. 10, SOUTH JOHN-STREET, Canning Buildings,
Four doors front Lord-street, •
An Establishment for the Sale of the
PATENT FELTED CARPETS AND DRUGGETS,

which, on account of their Durability and Economy, when
compared with other Manufactures, have lately engrossed so
much of public attention.
STAIR CARPETINGS and TABLE COVERS in great
variety.