Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-26 00:00:00

6.6tuation.

COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, ST. PAUL'S-SQUARE, 1,
corner of East-street.— Terms moderat& 12m10
A_Young Lady, accustomed to tuition; wishes to obtain a Situation
as Daily Governess, in Liverpool or the neighbourhood.
Besides the usual branches of an English education, she is competent
to teach music, drawing, and French. Unexceptionable references
will be given. Address E. v. 26, Northern Times office; or see
reference list, with a view of personal interview.

DANCING AND EXERCISES.—The Messrs.
LOWE'S ACADEMY, 2, Islington-square, (near Shaw-
street and Brunswick-road), Liverpool. Juvenile Classes, Wed-
nesday and Saturday Afternoons ; Evening Class for Gentlemen,
Tuesdays and Fridays ; Miss Milner's Classes for Exercises and
Marching, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Schools and Families
attended in town or in the country. Terms, ece., on application.
The quarter commences when the pupils enter.

WRITING, 8008-KEEPING, &c.
GEORGE THOMPSON, 8, Clayton-square, HEAD
TEACHER IN LIVERPOOL, guarantees to every Pupil
a good Handwriting in a few lessons. Book-keeping by Double
Entry practically taught in a few days. Commercial Arithmetic,
Mental Calculations, and Short-hand. Morning Class, 10 to 11;
Evening, 6,7, and 8 o'clock. Private at any hour.
Ladies may acquire the Fashionable style of Writing- Class
3to 4. Mrs. and Miss L. Thompson assist in the Ladies Clasges,
give lessons (strictly private), in Writing, Note and Letter Writing,
Arithmetic, and Short-hand; and, to ladies whose early edwation
has been neglected, reading and spelling. •
Cards of terms at 8, Clayton-square. Established 32 years.

THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
The principles of nature appear so simple, that many, consider-
ing them acknowledged facts, or undisputed truisms, do not
deem them worthy of notice. Thus has been rejected the fun-
• dimental law, that the car alone. causes the tongue to move ;
for, had this been duly reflected upon, it must, at one period
or another, have led to the discovery of the true•method,of
teaching languages."—Dufief. •
NroNs. RAGONOT (of Paris), Author of the " Sym-
_ bolic Anglo-French 'Vocabulary," and of the "Easiest and
-Shortest Method of Learning French." The unsuccessfulness of the
prevailing mode of teaching -foreign languages is proverbial; and
what other results can be looked for, when the teacher in general
considers himself justified in disregarding the laws of nature so far
as to endeavour to impart sounds by the medium of the eyes, and
teach the science of a language.before the pupil can lisp its simplest
accents? With such a theory all human devices must necessarily
fail ; and hence the numerous complaints of wasted time and
ineffectual endeavours, from those who have laboured in vain ; and
the general notion that a language can be acquired only in the 1
country where it is spoken ; hence the despair of many students of
the French language of even understanding the rapid conversation
of natives of France.

All these deplorable consequences may be obviated by the natural
system of teaching languages adopted by Mons. Ragonot.
To carry out the system in its perfection, it is desirable that
teveral members of a family should take lessons together, mudh
advantage being derived from numbers.

FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS ATTENDED. PRIVATE LESSONS

Terms for Evening Cla

GIVEN.
;ses, El Ts. por quarter, two Lessons a week.
Payable in Advance.

Ma" The "SYMBOLIC ANGLO-FRENCH VOCABULARY,
Edition, particularly adapted for Schools, &c., approved and —,-
tioned for the use of the Institutions for the, Deaf and Dumb, in
England and France.—To be had • from the author. M. ItAGON OT,
and sold by all Booksellers.
115, Mount-pleasant, Liverpool.