The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR BOOTS

BOROUGU OF LIVERPOOL.
THE WATCH COMMITTEE hereby gi • notice, that
they are ready to receive TENDERS supplying, by
Contract, the following Article for the ' STABULARY
FORCE, viz.-
540 Pairs of LEATHER OOTS.

To be Tendered for in one Lot, or two Lots of 270 Pairs
each.

The Sample Pattern may be inspected any day, between
the hours of Nine and Twelve o'clock in the Forenoon, at
the Office of the 1-lead Constable.

The Parties whose Tender shall be accepted will have to
enter into the usual Contract with the Watch Committee for
the due fulfilment thereof ; arid, also, engage to complete
and deliver the Goods on the 20th day of April next. To
be paid for, on approval, in cash, at the expiration of -one
month-fromthe delivery.

The Committee will not pay for any Sample-patterns sent
for inspection, except those they approve of for the Contract.
Sealed Tenders, separate from the Sample-patterns, must
be left at the Secretary's Office, not later Phan FRIDAY, the
18th instant, addressed to the Chairman of the Watch Com-
mittee, and marked " Tender for Boots."
By order,
CAPES ASHLIN, Secretary.
Watch-office, No. 1, Fenwicic-street,

Feb. 1, 1842

Pau Vitbittations.
SMOKE NUISANCE.
Shortly will be Published,

A n Account of the Patent and other Modes of Preventing
or Consuming SMOKE. Drawn up, by desire of the
Leeds Smoke Committee, by WILLIAM WEST, Professional
Chemist, Leeds.
The work will contain a brief a , • nt of every plan sub-
mitted to the London Common • .r.ncil, the Leeds Meeting,
and other public bodies, and of ''veral not before published,
and will give information at once clear, concise, and impar-
tial, showing in how many ways this important object may
be effected, and enabling parties about to erect or alter En-
gines or Furnaces, to choose the construction best fitted for
their locality and purposes.
Price, without Plates, One Shilling; or for distribution,
per Dozen, 9s. ; per Hundred, 70s. With Lithographic
Plates and Explanations, Two Shillings, with a proportionate
reduction for quantities.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON RAILWAYS.
Just published, in royal octavo, 3s. 6d. cloth, lettered, with

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four engravings,
TELEGRAPHIC RAILWAYS; or, THE SINGLE WAY,
recommended by Safety, Economy, and Efficiency, un-
der the safeguard and control of the Electric Telegraph ;
with particular reference to Railway Commu?kation with
Scotland and to Irish Railways. ..k
,
By WILLIAM FOTHERGILL C
iv E, Esq.
CONTENTS : - Objects of the Tree —Distinguishing
Characteristics of present Railways—E dente before Select
Committee—Advantages of Telegraphic Communication—
Mode of Working the Blackwell 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 : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

ROYAL INSTITUTION SOIREES.
THE COMMITTEE beg to announce that the THIRD
SOIREE will be held Tins EVENING, the Bth
instant, when ROBERT ADDAMS, Esq., of London, is
engaged to deliver a LECTURE on the LAWS of SOUND,
with numerous Illustrations.

The Worshipful the MAYOR will preside on this evening.
And at the FOURTH and LAST SOIREE, which is
fixed for TUESDAY, the 15th of March, MONTAGU L.
PHILLIPS, Esq.,-of Manchester, wiil give,i LECTURE
on ELECTRO-MAGNETISM, which will be Illustrated
by Models of the Electro-Telegrapb, aigidvanic Apparatus
for taking Soundings at Sea, and 4c -Magnetic Clock,
&c., &c., &c.

. _ .
GEORGE FRECKLETON, Esif M.D., will take the
Chair.

The Committee have further to announce that, in com-
pliance with what limy believe to be a general wish, they have
resolved to issue SINGLE TICKETS, under the usual regula-
tions,for anyone Stkiree, which, as well as TICKETS for the
two, may be had on application at the Royal lnstitttion, This
DAY, (Tuesday,) the Bth inst., between the hours of Ten
and Four.

TERMS OF ADMISSION.
For Gentlemen 7s. Od. 1 For the two remaining
For Ladies 3s. 6d. I Soirees.
SINGLE TICKETS for the Evening, 3s. 6d.
GEO. FRECKLETON. M.D., President.
THOS. WINSTANLEY, Treasurer.

NOTICE TO ELECTORS.
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
j JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esquire, Mayor of the 801 l
ll roggh of Liverpool, in pursuance of her Majesty's
Writ, and by virtue of a Precept thers*Pon of the Sheriff of
the Comity of Lancaster, have appobted TUESDAY, the
Eighth day of February instant, at the hour of Nine o'clock
in the Forenoon of the aame day, at the Town-hall, to pro-
ceed to the ELECTION of a fit and discreet BURGESS to
serve for this Borough in Parliament.
J. S. LEIGH, Mayor.
Town-hall, 4th February, 1842.