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

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
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THE Directors of this Undertaking will receive Proposals
for LOANS OF MONEY ON DEBENTURES, to
be issued under the provisions of the acts of pirliament, in
the month of OCTOBER next, in sums op,not less than
£2OO, for terms of three, five, seven, or ten years, on Interest
at the rate of £5 per Cent. per Annum, payfible Half-yearly,
at the Banks of Messrs. MILES, HAI:Yoe)), and Co., Corn-
street, Bristol, and Messrs. BARNETT;jIIOARE, 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,
30th May, 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
ONTRACTS FOR WORK S.
EXTENSION OF TIME.
THE Directors of this Company having peen applied to
by several Contractors for an Extensi6n of Time, to
enable them to copy the Plans, Specificat!ons &c., of the
Dinting Vale Viaduct, No. 6, and the Longendale Contracts,
Nos. 7 and 8, have agreed to POSTPON I:I4TH 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., 1812.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
rPHE Directors'are now ready to receive TENDERS for
the following WORKS :
CONTRACT No. 6, OR DINTING VALE ATIADUCT CON-
TRACT.—To commence at the terminatiorvof 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 v. pet being 484 yards
or thereabouts.
CONTRACTS Nos. 7&8, OR LONGS. ALE CONTRACTS.—
To commence at the termination of the inting 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, 14th September, 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASEITON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
FORFEITED SHARES.
13 Y a Resolution passed at a SPECIAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Shareholders, held at Sheffield on
the 12th day of January last,--Interest at a rate not ex-
ceeding Five per Cent. per annum will be paid on all Shares
on which the full amount of Calls ha been paid, until such
time as the Railway shall have bp opened six months
throughout.
The Directors are now prepare a :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 down, and
1601 yards of the double :ine of driftway have been driven
within the last six months—making 3129 yards now driven ;
and before the I st of March next it 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 chambers 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
instant, endorse d "order, Tender for Shares."
JOHN PLATFORD Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, Sept. 14, 1842.

THE INCOME TAX. -
PAPERS correctly FILLED UP:by.Mr. LIGHTFOOT, at
No. 23, North John-street, Surveyor of Government
Taxes under the late Income Tax.

LONDON NATIVE OYSTERS
RECEIVED DAILY
At E. MARCI?OFT' S LONDON' OYSTER ROOMS,
70, H ANOVc.R-STREET,
(THREE DOORS FROM CHURCH-STREET.)
Families and Hotels Supplied either by the Barrel, or in
smaller quantities.
N.B.—Oysters sent to all parts of the Town or Country
on the shortest notice.

FIRE IN TOBIN'S WAREHOUSE.
GLASGOW-STRE4T-
A LL PERSONS having GOODS In the above Ware-
la. house at the time of the Fire, are requested to IDEN-
TIFY and CLAIM such Goods as have been saved, on or
before Tests DAY, (Friday,) otherwise they will be sold to
pay the expenses.
The Goods may be seen on application to N. D. BOLD,
Sun Fire-office.

HARMONIC MEETING EVERY EVENING.
DICK'S COFFEE HOUSE,
MURRAY-STREET, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.
NEWTON informs his Friends and numerous Visi-
Xi to tors he has completed a comfortable, commodious, and
highly-decorated SALOON, which he has NOW OPENED
for the purpo,e of affording a MUSICAL TREAT, consisting
of Glees, Solos, &c., in the London style, with Piano-forte
accompaniments ; and hopes, by keeping the company strictly
aelect,ihtroducing a •succession•of novelty, good cheer, and
every attention to the comforts of his guests, to secure a
remunerating patronage.
SLIPPERS, CHOPS, STEAKS, KIDNEYS, &C.
Wines and Spirits of the best quality.

THE MISSORIUM THERISTROCAULODON.
WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE NEXT WEEK.
THIS unparelleled gigantic SKELETON of an ANTE-
DILUVIAN BEAST, between whose legs the Mam-
moth and the mighty Iguanodon might easik'have crept, is
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NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION i ,ithe LYCEUM,
BOLD-STREET. This most gigantic St eton is 30 feet in
length, and near 15 feet high; tusks, orn point to point,
21-feet.

There will also be exhibited Specimens of Three Species of
GENUS TETRACAULODON,
with Microscopical Section of their Tusks; also, Three

Species of the GENUS MASTODON.

Admission, from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., One Shilling ; and from
7 to 30 P.M., Sixpence.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
EXTENSION LINE. fF
CALL OF £lO PER CENT., BEING £5 PER SHARE.
THE Committee of Management of t 10( Undertaking
1 having resolved, at a Meeting in By(stol this day, to
CALL, under the Provisions of the ikets of Parliament
relative to the said Undertaking, for an INSTALMENT of
£5 PER SHARE, Notice is Hereby Given, that the Sub-
scribers to the said Undertaking, and Proprietors of Shares
therein, are required to pay, on or before the 24th day of
September instant, to any one of the under-mentioned
Bankers, the sum of £5 on each of their respective Shares,
viz. :
London Messrs. BAR NETT, HOARE, and Co.
iMessrs. MILES, HARFORD, and Co.
Messrs. BAILLIE, AMES, and Co.
Bristol Messrs. STUCKEY'S BANKING COMPANY.

1 THE WEST OF ENGLAND & SOUTH WALES

DISTRICT BANR
Gloucester .. The GLOUCESTERSHIRE BANKIN G COMPANY.
Manchester.. Messrs. JNNES, LOYD, and Co.
By order of the Committee of Management,
GEORGE JONES, Chairman.
ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary.
Interest at the rate of .£5 per Ceut. per Annum will be
charged to all Parties who remain in arrear for this Call after
the above-named 24th day of September.
sth September, 1842.
Office, Exchange-buildings, Bristol.

UNRIVALLED DISTRIBUTION !-8,200 MONEY
DIVIDENDS will be divided in November next,
amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the eOAN negotiated
in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED y the GOVERN-
MENT and his Royal Highness the RAND DUKE of
BADEN.
1 Dividend 50,000 Florins .t: 50,000 Florins.
1 do. 25,000 do. ..... 25,000 do.
1 do. 12,000 do.
1 do. 10,000 do.
1 do. 5,000 do 5.000 do.
8 do. 1,000 do. ..
10 do. 500 do. 5,000 do.
10 do. 200 do. 2,000 do.
200 do. 110 do.
200 do. 105 do. 21,000 do.
467 do. 100 do.
7,300 do. 91 do. 686,299 do.

8,200 Money Diiiidends, amounting to 892,900 Florins,
or .f.;7-1,400 Sterling Money.
8,200 SELECTED Bonds, EACH of which obtains
ONE of the above Dividends. •
Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4
Smallest Dividend 7 16 8
12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per
the day's exchange. All the Dividends payable without any
deduction whatever.
Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITH-
OUT DELAY, to
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH.
Bonds are on sale now at £l3. AFTER 30th Instant,
if not earlier, A HIGHER RATE WILL BE ESTA-
BLISHED, should the stock not suffice for the orders.
Those, who remit £l5 BEFORE A RISE IN PRICE
WILL HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, will receive an
order for the surplus of £2, together with a warranted
SELECTED Bond. To those whose order reaches us too
late for being attended to their remittances, will be returned
by first post. HEINE BROTHERS.
Hamburyh, Ist September, 1842.