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1S7 Advertisements.
GOODS, PARCELS, ANB LUGGAGE BESPATCHED IN ALL DIRECTIONS
FROM THE
GUSGOW PARCEL DELIVERY COMPANY'S OFFICE,
13 MILLER STREET,
D AILT, AT 121, 4, AND >j O'CLOCK;
From their various Receiving Houses twice, and from several of them thrice a-day ;
or called for, and removed to other parts of the City, when desired to do so.
Borrowed Articles, Presents, Goods, or Luggage of whatever kind, may thus be
cheaply and safely transmitted by all members of the community, to and from all
parts of the City and suburbs, threugh the Company's arrangements.
CH A£6£S
AH under 41b., Id. ; 41b. to 141b. 2d. ; 14lb. to 281b,, 3d. ; 28 lb. to 56lb., 4d. ;
661b. to 1 cwt., 6d. One Penny extra if to pay on delivery.
Parcels bulky in proportion to weight charged extra.
Parcels sent to Beuxjeton aad Hillhead at 7 o'clock only, and a rather a higher
charge.
Despatches made up for Edinbui-gh, Dundee, Cupar, Kirkaldy, and the East and
North of Scotland every evening at 6 o'clock (Saturdays at 4) ; and for
LONDON
and the South of England every Wednesday and Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock,
at rates lower, and on a system safer, than by any other Office in town.
Office in London, Messrs Crouch, 5 Tudor Street, Blackfriars ; in Edinburgh, IS
Calton Street ; in Dundee, 1 South Union Street.
EATES.
To Edinburgh 4d. and upwards I To Cupar 8d. and upwards.
Kirkaldy 6d. „ f Dundee ....9d.
To London, Is 3d. and upwai-ds.
The Company undertake to forward Parcels and Packages to all parts of the world :
thus saving a vast deal of trouble to parties unacquainted with the various forma
and modes of Conveyance. ^
Head Office — 13 Miller Street.
JOHN MILLER, Manager.
PENIAISHIP m UPWARDS OF THIRTY DIFFERENT STYLES;
ALSO
Book-keeping^ and the Shortest Methods of Calculation^
m PROFESSOR LONG, OF THE ANDERSONIAN UNIVERSITY.
Gentlemen are taught to write Current-Hand, and Ladies an improved style of
Italian Running-Hand, possessing all that beauty, freedom, and elegance so much
admired in the notes and correspondence of the fashionable world. Book-keeping and
Calculations expeditiously taught upon sound and practical principles.
Separate Rooms for Ladies.
Andersonian University, June 8th, 1847.
~ LUIGI PEDRESCHI^
Y6 NELSON STREET,
STATUARY MOULDER, AND FIGURE MAKER,
Begs leave to return thanks to his Friends, and the Public in general, for the liberal
encouragement he has received from them for many years; and, by strict attention
to business, hopes still to merit a share of their I'atronage.
L. P. has on hand a Large and Splendid Assortment of FIGURES, from the
Ancient and Modern Masters, for decorating Houses, Libraries, Lobbys, Staircases,
and Gardens; Candelabras, for Gas or Lamps; also, ANATOMICAL FIGURES
for Surgeons-r- Hands and Feet from Nature for Artists ; Superfine Plaster of Paris
for Dentists, Lithographers, &c. ; Masks taken from living and dead. All sorts of
Marble and Alabaster Ornaments repaired and cleaned ; Busts Modelled on mo-
derate Terms.— Cwnfrj? Orders punctually attended to.