The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

RANTED,

D. M. particularly solicits the attention of Gentlemen who
find it difficult to procure an easy and good-fitting Trousers,
as a Foreman is employed for this branch only, and whose
attention is entirely given to this important part of Gentle-
men's Dress ; and as every branch of this Establishment is
carried on by separate Foremen, due and proper attention is
given to all orders.

- D. MYERS respectfully subm
Prices for the ensuing Season
Gentlemen' Travelling
Coats
Waterproof Top Coats 2 0 0
Superfine Waterproof
Top Corts, Velvet
Collars and Cuffs
Best Waterproof Bea-
ver Top Coat, Velvet
Collar, Cuffs, and
Facings.. £3 0 0 to 4 4 0
A full-sized Spanish Cloak of S__
Superfine Cloth, measuring from
seven to nine yards round the
bottom, from ...
Superfine Dress Coats .
Ditto, best quality, West of Eng-
land Cloth, wool-dye 0 0 0 „ 3 0 0
Superfine Frocks, Silk Lined .... 210 0 „ 3 0 0
The Best, any of the most Fashion-
able Colours, or Blacks 0 0 0 , 310 0
Good Winter Trousers, all Wool 0 0 0 ~ 015 0
Plaid &other Fancy Trousers, from 017 0 „ 1 4 0
The best Dress Trousers, of Doe-
skins, Diagonals, waterproof,
fancy materials, and superfine
Kerseymeres
Shawl Vests
French. German, and Turkey Pat-
tern, ditto OIS 0 „ 1 5 0
The very best Genoa Velvet Vests 1 6 0 „ 110 0
Elegant figured, or embroidered
ditto. most beautiful designs 1 8 0 „ 210 0
Rich Silk Flushes, in every colour
—best quality
The largest assortment in Liver-
pool of French, German, and
English figured and embroidered
Satins, from Ol6 0 ~ 116 0
Young Gentlemen's Spencer Suits
(Jacket, Vest, and Trousers) of
the best quality
Tunic Dresses, elegantly made.... 2 2 PI 210 0
A Plain Suit of Livery complete at 4 0. 0 „ 0 0 0
D. M. being a pupil of her Majesty the Queen's Habit
Maker, Ladies requiring Riding Habits will find this estab-
lishment equal to any in London, and which are made in the
most elegant style, from IA 4s. Od. to £8 Bs. Od.
Gentlemen contracted with by the Year upon the following
terms : _ _ _

is tho.lollowing List of his

In Taglioni,
D,Orsay,
or
Chesterfield
style.

2 10 0

3 Suits per Year.... z£ll 14 0
4 Ditto ditto .... 15 4 0 Best Quality
5 Ditto ditto .... 18 10 0
6 Ditto ditto .... 21 10 0

By returning the Clothes after the usual time of wearing.
NAVAL AND MILITARY UNIFORM EXACT TO

REGULATION.

A choice selection of Gold Epaulette, Swords, Belts, Gold
Lace, &c., is kept in the Stock of this Establishment.
Merchants and Captains supplied) with every article of
Dress, suitable for all climates, at wholesale terms, not to be
rivalled by any House in the Kingdom.
The greatest variety of Macintosh's India Rubber Fa-
brics, and of Patent Waterproof Cloths, Cashmeres, &c.
This Establishment is Closed on Saturdays.
THE CIVET CAT,
72, LOAD-STREET.

"YANG,"
THE CENTRAL FIRE,

WHEN Ire-shin, or " The Dreaded Hour," as appoint-
1V ed Commissioner at Canton, and every J rnal headed
the intelligence then received with" Settlem tof the Chi-
nese Dispute—Three Millions to be paid the nglish—Trade
resumed at Canton," &c., CAPTAIN IDDING'S 18
years' experience of the Chinese told hi •that his country-
men had been duped ; and he predicted at, " though ICe-
shin might promise millions, he wou never pay a dollar ;
that, instead of resuming trade, he w Id enforce its stop-
page, to keep the English without tea , " and that " Elliot
would rue the hour" when he first relied on Ke-shin's pro-
mises. The public now know whose judgment of the Chi-
nese has proved correct, CAPTAIN ELLIOT'S Or CAPTAIN
PIDDING'S ; and they see that CAPTAIN PIDDING'S predic-
tion has been verified to the letter. " YANG," the Chinese
definition of whose name is " The Central Fire," has suc-
ceeded Ke-shin. " YANG " has officially recommended
" the withholding all tea from the English, until their sup-
ply is quite exhausted," when he foretels that " they will
become reverently submissive, and give gold for the precious
leaf." Commodore Bremer's despatch mentions that " the
Chinese had removed all the tea from Canton," and the
statement that " 200,000 Chinese were ready to sack and
burn the city," is singularly prophetic of Yang's name.
CAPTAIN PIDDING still thinks that the force sent out will
be found insufficient to coerce China, that no tea will come
out whilst bullets pour in, and that " teas will be dearer
than ever." CAPTAIN PIDDING'S Teas were formerly sold
under the title of " Howqua's Mixture," and ".Howqua's
Small Leaf Gunpowder' ; but hundreds of Grocers and Tea-
dealers, anxious to profit by the celebrity of tea which he
aloneimports, and which they found it impossible to procure,
have given the same title to rubbish of their own mixing, so
that there is now scarce one but has his " Howqua's,'
" Blowgun's," " Saoqua's," or some other mixture. Agains
such imposition, the only security is
" CAPTAIN PIDDING'S NAME."
This they have not yet forged, and his signature is on every
really genuine package. For country agencies, address Cap-
taiGnEPOidodiGng,E
C2214C 1.1
yl e gLeE, - h ill, Lonßepository,don. 38 Bold-street, Sole
Agent for Liverpool.
3. li, ?YES, Confectioner, 32, Great Homer-street, for
,Bookseller, 20, St. James's-street.
French. Draper.
B on
Li
trlnev7eLGt. °in.
jasnu. dt
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01 eo.
Blip,lra--J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church. street.
Blip
Ba --John Pratt, Chemist, 33, Ivegate.
.....j. W. Foster, 36, Crown-street.
Leo g.—C. Lawson, Confectioner, 39, Commercial-street.
Manchester—John Ford and Co., St. Ann's-square.
Preston—Thos. Green, Music-seller, Church-street.
Wshefield—J. Stanfield and Co., Booksellers.

NOTICE.
TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, (S.c. c.
EXTENSIVE PRISON AT BELFAST.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a presentment for
Building a 13ridewell and House of Correction at Bel-
fast, in the county of Antrim, having been made by the Grand
Jury of the said county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended
at Spring Assizes, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis-
sioners therein appointed now to CONTRACT for By ILD-
ING the said PRISON.

Persons desirous olContracting for the same nary see the
Plans and Specifications relating thereto at the Office of Mr.
CHARLES LANYON, County Surveyor for Antriin, Donegan-
square, Belfast, on or after the 12th day of April, 1842.
In order to facilitate the proceedings of parties intending
to Tender for the abovementioned Work, they are requested
to attend at the Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above-
mentioned, for the purpose of nominating or appointing a
Measurer to take out the quantities of Work in said proposed

A similar Person will be appointed on the part of the Com-
missioners, so as that each may be a check on the other.

A Copy of " the quantities"r'so ascertained will be giren to
each Person intending to Tender.

The Person whose Tender shall be accepted will be required
to pay the charges of the Measurer appointed as abovetuen-
tioned.

Sealed Tenders, for the execution of the above Work, to be
forwarded on or before the 24th May, undercover, addressed
" To the Clerk to the Commissioners of Belfast Bridewell
and House of Correction, Carrickfergus."
Sufficient Security will be required.
(Signed, by order,) JOHN COATES.
16th March, 1842.

SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT,
1,101? PRESEI?VING, MARMALADE, .^c.

TN addition to the 16. Barrels per the Liniena, J. Al IDDLE-
-1. WOOD has received several small lots which will be sold,
Wholesale and Retail, at unprecedented low prices'. For-
bidden Fruit, 375. per barrel, and 3s. to 6s. per dozen ; Shad-
docks, 50s. per barrel, and 12s. to 18s. `per dozen. This
Fruit has arrived in excellent condition, will keep, and is
little inferior for Preserving to the gardtp, or first quality
fruit, and at half the price.
FOR DESSERTS, INVALIDS, S,-e.

J. M. has 50 Barrels of SHADDOCKS & FORBIDDEN
FRUIT, selected from the same gardens as those sent from
his establishment to her Majesty the Queen, and so highly
appreciated at the Royal Table; being produced from grafted
trees, is the earliest fruit imported, and arrived in the Sisters,
from Nassau, in December . it is now in high perfection, and
not inferior for Desserts to any Fruit grown in or imported.
into England. Forbidden Fruit, Is. to 2s. 6d. each ; Shad-
docks, 3s. to ss. each.
J. M. is constantly supplied with first-quality St. Michael's
Oranges, American Apples, Grapes, Chesnuts, Walnuts,
large Filberts or Cob Nuts, Raisins, Almonds, fine Nonpareil
Figs, Portuguese and French Plums, Pines, and every choice
Fruit in season. Fine Orange and Shaddock Marmalade,
East and West India Preset ved Ginger, Tamarinds, &c. &c.,
AT
J. NIIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE,
6, PARKER-STREET,

ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS, AND NOTED
FOR SUPPLYING THE BEST FRUITS IN THE KINGDOM.
BOTANIC OIL, for the growth and embellishoent of the
human hair. J. M. is the sole proprietor of this inestimable
Oil ; and, in addition to the many proofs of,its superior effi-
cacy, he begs to observe he has used it thirty years, and his
hair has not experienced the least declino during that period,
and is now more healthy than for a consitlerabla time previous
to its use. J. M. can with contidence'recommend the Bota-
nic Oil for clearing and rendering the hair and scalp cool,
soft, and healthy. Sold in pot boxes, 25., 3s. 6d., and 55.,
and fourteen for a dozen.

NEW TEA WAREHOUSE,
34, RANELAGH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
JAM ES COOPER begs to return his gratefulacknow-
ledgements to the numerous friends who have patronised
his TEA ESTABLISHMENT during the loui period he has
been in Ranelagh-street, and particularly stisince the intro-
duction of his present system, adopted )iy him when Free
Trade Tea was first brought into the I,Aierpool Market; on
which occasion, now seven years ago,the inspected the first
cargo of Free Trade Tea on its arrival in this port, and
purchased with all the advantages afforded by paying duty on
Teas at the Liverpool Custom House, instead of getting them
from the London Market.

The system then adopted by him, and since then uniformly
conducted with the greatest satisfaction to his wholesale
country friends and the Public of Liverpool, he still continues
to act upon ; and by selecting his own Teas here in bond, and
paying his own duties, thereby saving brokerage, commission,
&c., and selling at the lowest remunerating profit, both in
the Wholesale and Retail Business, he is enabled to give to
the Retailer and to the Public the full benefit of his services,
and all the advantages of his system, which, although he has
acted upon it for the last seven years, competitors commenc-
ing business are now claiming to themselves as new. But he
trusts a discerning public will see through the pretentions,
however plausible, of inexperienced young houses endeavour-
ing to palm off their goods, and claiming to themselves
superior judgment over parties of known character in the
Trade, with practical experience, cash to purchase, and every
other qualification necessary to guarantee advantages which
inexperienced young men can hardly be expected to possess.
COMPARISON IS THE BEST CRITERION, and without offer-
ing his Goods to the Public through EXPENSIVE PARADE,
which must eventually fall upon the Consumer, or by an
exposition of extraordinary Low Prices, merely inserted to
catch the attention, J. C. respectfully solicits a continuation
of those favours which have been so liberally bestowed upon
him, and begs to assure his friends that it shall, at all times,
be his study to supply them with an Article (according to
price) that no House in the Trade, to do justice to them-
selves as well as to the Public, can surpass ; and he takes
this opportunity of guarding his friends against being led
away by the specious gilding of every Ephemeral Establish-
ment offering this important Household Beverage to their
notice.

The Article of COFFEE be still continues to have Roasted
daily on his own Premises, by an improved method, (which
can be inspected by any person,) thereby retaining all the
beautiful Aroma and fullness of flavour which is so desirable,
and so much appreciated, by all connoisseurs in that Article.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY

TO THE EDITORS OF THE 3IANCHESTER TIMES

GENTLEMEN.—A letter having appeared in your last
paper, signed " John Platford, secretary," in reference
to some remarks made by the directors of the Manchester
and Leeds Company in their " Reply " to the Liverpool
board, I am instructed to submit to the public the following
vindication of their statements. The paragraph alluded to
is as follows :
" The most important misrepresentation however consists
in the statement of relative distances to Sheffield, Leeds,
Hull, York, &c., by the route of the Sheffield railway. It
is no where stated in that plan that this railway is yet incom-
plete, and persons ignorant of the facts would certainly be.
led to conclude, that, if not open, it-was at least in an ad-
vanced state, and would probably open as early as the junction
line could be made. 'Without at all seeking to disparage that
undertaking, the Manchester and Leeds directors feel it due
to themselves and the public to say that such is decidedly not
the case, as that company are at present inreircurnstances of
almost unparalleled difficulty, so that it appears extremely
doubtful whether their gigantic works can ever be executed;
their capital being exhausted, more than half their shares
forfeited, and the remainder at 60 per cent. discount."
Some of these facts are disputed in Mr. Platford's letter ;
but it is reported in the Sun newspaper of the 7th inst., that
Mr. Wilson Patten presented a petition relative to the Shef-
field railway to the House of Commons on that day, in which
the petitioners state, " That in consequence of the depressed
state of the times there was great danger of the undertaking
falling to the ground, and praying that parliament would
be pleased to devise some remedy to get them out of' their
difficulties."
Again, the following is an extract from the statement re-
cently made by the Sheffield directors, with the view of ob-
taining the suspension of the standing orders of the House,
of Commons, so that they may be enabled to apply for new
powers in the present session

"The act authorizing the formation of the railway was
passed in 1837, and the capital authorized to be raised by
that act was £700,000 ; the length of the railway is forty
' miles.

" Since the passing of the act the directors have been in-
` volved in a series of financial difficulties in consequence of
the inability of a large portion of the shareholders to make
4 good their subscriptions ; and although calls to the extent
of £B2los. per share have been made, they hare only pro_
duced a sum qf £300,000, which has been principally rx-
"B pended in the formation of about eight miles of the line
" now opened to the public, and of four miles in extension
'4 which are nearly completed, and will shortly be opened to
the public.

" The most important works on other parts of the line are
" also under contract ; but from the difficulties experienced
" in providing the money requisite to meet the expense of
" these works, they must inevitably be stopped, unless some
" facilities are afforded of obtaining the capital requisite for
" their completion.

; The commercial distress in the neighbourhood, and the
" consequent insolvency which it has entailed on a large
" proportion of the shareholders, will sufficiently account for
" the difficulties which the directors have had to contend
" with in the undertaking, and the same causes have led to
" the forfeiture of a great number of shares, which shares,
owing to the enormous depreciation of the company's
stock, and the insufficiency of the provisions in the COM-
" pany's acts, the directors have been unable to re-issue.
• It had been fully anticipated that the opening of a por-
tion of the line, which took place in November last, would
"have had the effect of improving the value of the shares
" and rendering the forfeited shares marketable, and would
" thus have enabled the company to provide funds for con-
" tinning the works without appealing to parliament ; but
" this opening has not had the effect anticipated, and the
" Directors, finding no other resource left for them than the
" course they now seek to adopt by the bill which they have
" prayed leave to bring in, caused notices of the intended
" application for such bill to be inserted in the Gazette and
" county papers three times in the month of January last.
" No less a suns than .1,:200,000 is now due from the calm-
" pasty to contractors, landowners, and others, which they
have no means of paging unless they obtain the fac,,u.
itth
" which they seek by their hill, inasmuch as the calls
%%pith
" they have the power of snaking could not be made
and
" sufficient rapidity to meet their outstandingai debts
I due; nor
" growing payments on the work as they
facilities are
" would such calls be sufficient in amount
" gagenaents of the company, unless
se°sn, and borrowing
" afforded of re-issuing the forfeited shares,
" money in the manner proposed by tthcbeill
b powers proposed
to meet the
"The Directors firmly believe that
by
a general
meeting
" by the bill (which has been approved
are indebted, ji•oui
" piny, and the contractors to wh
COMPLETION OE THE UN
' ' of the proprietors) would have
" ruin, and of ENSURING THtE
important to the manufac-
" DERTAKI:sIG, which is molre,
b Cheshire, and Yorkshire,
" wring districts of Lances . c
passing
of
the bill has
: the
on/fiat of saving the e„,,,-
" and already the anticipation t the
1 improving the value of the
" had the effect of materially
" stock of the company.
have called £B2 10s. per share
Ybas yielded them only £300,000,
~. , therefore, nopower to borrow on mortgage.
they have as
'et
Of the Manchester and Leeds Company con-
The Directors
on the
haivaeivery much understated rather than over-
etl
xleiSoohesffih:lrcels Coihni_cpahn
embarrassments of the Sheffield
consideredCorn-
it " due to themsel,and
• and they _, t . . tes the
pany ~,
allude to the present position of the Sheffield
public to
ssiidaeterdthtahtetlanc
ComPanY• "
account of the exaggerated statements which
.
had been circulated of the advantages, in points of distance,
of
wardthe Sheffield
n over the Leeds line, for traffic passing east-
from Max (See a map which was distributed
at the late half-yearly general meeting of the Liverpool Com-
pany.)
The number of shares actually declared forfeited by the
alltebe only 900 ; but it was admitted by one of
Times, 1841, page 914) that of the 7,000
mayight be fully and fairly calculated on ; of
shares,
rrt (n.ecs
(t, os
er;
Rail 3 m,
" the remainder some
MIGHT be good, but they were not
competent to say how many."
The plain inference to be drawn from this is—that the re.
maining 3,300 are held by persons from whom no further
payments in respect of calls could be reasonably expected ;
han
and at the last meeting it was stated that not more
.t .
1,517 had paid the last call, so that 5,483 shares are still in
arrear, and liable to forfeiture.
At the time when that " Reply " was written, the price o f
the Sheffield shares was q
uoted at about £32 er share on
£B2. 10s. paid up, so that they were at rather more than 60
per cent. discount.--I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Huoit's Bank JOHN JELLICORSE, Secretary.
, Manchester, March 18th, 1841.