The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY

THE Directors are prepared to receive TENDERS
for BUILDING NEW PASSENGER OFFICES at the
Eccles, Weasel-lane, and Newton-bridge Stations, on the Li-
verpool and Manchester Line, according to Plans and Specifi-
cations, which may be seen at the Office of the Resident En-
gineer, at Warrington. _ _ _

Teniters to be sent in on or before the 15th of January, to the
undersigned.

The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest
offer. By order, MARK HUISH.
Liverpool, let .Tanuary, 1846.

TO ARCHITECTS.
BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL

THE COMMITTEE for promoting the projected
HOSPITAL at BIRKENHEAD, hereby give NOTICE,
that they are willing to receive from Architects DESIGNS and
ESTIMATES for such BUILDING, in accordance with parti-
CUlars to hp fornialwri on wrinlimtion. A Premium of &RI will

be given to the Architect w ose Design shall be most approved
by the Committee, „t'3o for the second in estimation, and .t2O
for the third; but case an Architect entitled to a Premium
shall be entrusted with the superintendence of the Works,
then such employ to be considered as in lieu of Premium. '
The Designs must be sent in, free of 'expense, to the SECRE-
TARY, at Birkenhead, on or before the FIRST day of APRIL
next, with a motto attached, accompanied by a sealed letter
containing the name and address of the Architect, and super-
scribed similarly to the Design to 'which it belongs.
A lithographic Plan of the Site;with the necessary particu-
lars, will be furnished to any Architect, on his making appli-
cation to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. THOMAS FRY, Birken-
head

Birkenhead, Jan. sth, 186.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH PRISON

PERSONS willing to CONTRACT for supplying the
~_ LIVERPOOL BOROUGH PRISON with BUTCHER'S
MEAT, and with BREAD,
MEAL, and PEAS from the let of
January next, to the 30th of June next, both inclusive, are re-
quested to send Tenders, under cover, to the Town-clerk, at the
Town-hall, immediately.
The several Articles, above specified, are to be delivered from
time to time in such quantities and manner as the Governor of
the Prison may direct, and subject to his approval of the
quality, &c.

Information as to the probable consumption of the respective
Articles, and further particulars, may be obtained from the
Governor, at the Prison. _ _

Each Tender must specify the names of Two Sureties for the
due performance of the Contract.

Toion-iall, 26th December, 184

flehl Vubltrations.

Just -Published, Price Sixpence,
THE MANIFESTED ONENESS OF THE
CHURCH OF CHRIST; with some
,Re_asons_f9r not

Joining the proposed Eva
REV. HUGH APNEILE
Incumbent of St. Jude's,

,11. A., Hon. Canon of Chester,- ar
Liverpool. (Published by request.)

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In the Press, Price 6d.,
-El A SERMON UPON BROTHERLY LOVE, Preach-
ed at St. Bride's Church, Liverpool, upon the day set
Vpart for Prayer for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, by the
. JAMES HALDANE STEWART? M.A.
London : HATCHARD and SON ; Liverpool : W. K. and J.
114YTH ; Edinburgh : OLIPHANT and SON, and WHYTE and
SON ; Dublin : CURRIE and SON.

4 years

Now Publishing, Price One Guinea,
SERMONS, Dedicated by.permission to the Right
Honourable the Earl and Countess of Sefton, &c., &c., by
the Rev. ROBERT MARTINDALE, Minister oSt. James's,
Kennington.
As the number of Copies will be limited, Subscribers'are re-
quested to furnish their Names as quickly as possible to the
uthor, at Kennington, Surrey ; Messrs. LACE and ADDISON,
Standard-otlice, Liverpool, or to Messrs. HATCHARD, Picca-
dilly, London.

TICAL

THE LITERARY GAZETTE, Greatly and Perma-
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Is. 4d. to Is. Rd., as they contain Four or Five Numbers, com-
mences with the First Number of 1845, (January 3d,) and may
be ordered of all Booksellers and Newsvenders in Town or
Country. To insure -the possession of complete Sets early or-
ders are respectfully solicited. W. A. SCRIPPS.
Literary Gazette Office, 7, Wellington-street,
strand, London.

VINDEN'S ROYAL GALLERY OF BRITISH
ART, dedicated by special permission to Her Majesty, and
published under the immediate patronage of the President and
and Council of the Royal Academy, PART XII. of the First
Edition, and PART VI. of the Second Edition, will be ready on
the 1- ,f • "` Sick- Heai"- Nr•

.at co January, containing ,xness anu IN E.
Gwynne," and " The Old Temeraire," Engraved, in the high-
est style of the Art, by FINDEN, STOCKS, and WILLIAMS,
after Pictures painted by WEBSTER, LANDSEER, and ThaivEit.
Published by J. HOGARTH, opposite the Opera House, Hay-
market, London.

lIESHIRE

SECOND VOLUME OF MR. EVANS'S SERMONS.
In small Bvo. price 65., the Second Volume of
PAROCHIAL SERMONS, preached in the Parish
Church of Hcversham, Westmoreland.
By the Rev. ROBERT WILSON EVANS, 8.D., Vicar ;
Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Author of "The

Rectory of Vafehead,''' '''BishopriC of Souls," &c.
RIVINOTONS, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo-place

Of whom may be had,
VOLUME the FIRST. Second Edition. 6s.
Also, by the same Author,
1. The BISHOPRIC of SOULS. Third Edition. 6s
2. A DAY in the SANCTUARY. 45. 6d.

sIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE FOR
JANUARY, 1846, (Price 2s. 6d.,) being the commence-
ment of the Seventh Volume, contains--

I. The Settlement of Nelson, New Zealand.
The Prince Edward District, Canada.
3• The Liberated African Establishment, St. Helena. By Di
111'Henry.

4• vn the Abolition of the t;eyio
b• The Indian Voyager. By 11. H. Breen, Esq
s• The Shipping of the Colonies in 1844.
7• Evidences of the Growing Prosperity of South Australia

TARVIN

._,
~ . .
he Editor.
8. The Mahogany Trade of Honduras. .
9. The Indian Girl's Burial.
10. Australian Sketchesi_No. 4, Description of Melbourne and

New Town, Port By Thos. M`Combie, Esq.
11. Relics of the Charihs in Grenada.
12. Notes on the Sandwich Islands. By R. C. Wyllie, Esq.
13. Sketches of Santa Cruz and St. 'Mamas. Ily Thurlow

. Weed, Es.
14. A Visit to theq Indians of Orialla, Guiana. By the Rev. H

Blood.
15. The Emigrant ; a Tale of Australia. By W. H. Leigh, Esq
16. Reminiscences of Cuba. By C. F. Ellerman, F
17. Editor's Note-Book.
18. :Colonial Intelligence
19. Births, Marri

.nd Deaths.

LONDON:' SIMMONDS & WARD,
6, BARGE YARD, BUCKLERSBURY

FRENCH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES

PROFESSOR DE LA CLAVERIE'S French and
Italian Educational Works.

DRAWING
Music MAR,

Choir, Chester.
DANCING MASTER•

,--I.—MODELS OF MODERN FRENCH CONVERSATION ;
1 vol. 12m0., bound in cloth, ss.
"These models of French Conversation are excellent; we
know of nonewhich can at all compete with them."—Metropo-
Wan Magazine.
2.—THE FRENCH READER'S GUIDE; 1 vol. 12m0.,
bound in cloth, 6s.
"The selections are made with much taste, and illustrated
With considerable skill."—Athentrum.
3.—MODELS OF JUVENILE FRENCH CONVERSATION;
I voL royal 18mo., neatly bound in cloth, and lettered, 3s. 6d.
"These Conversations, both French and English, are not
only accurate and elegant, but are so select as to be very useful
to Young persons."—Court Journal.
4.—'FHE ITALIAN READER'S GUIDE; I vol. post Bvo.,
bound in cloth, ss.
!! Much as the study of Italian prevails . we have no work like
this to accompany with accent and quantity the earliest lessons
oi the language' at the same time selecting examples, in prose
and verse, of the purest style, for reading lessons."—Atlas.
The above Works, which are used by a great number of Pri-
vate Families, and adapted as Standard School Books in many
of the first-rate Establishments, may be had of Mr. GRAPELt
Bookseller, Church-etreet ; and at M. DE LA CLAVEKIE'S
residence, No. 17, Great Orford-street, Mount Pleasant.

VISITING SURGEON-

receives Separate Classes for the exclusive study of PER-
SPECTIVE, including general instruction in SKETCHING FROM
NATURE, a branch of study peculiarly suitable to those who
already possess a free use of the pencil in copying the works of
others, but who, from being unacquainted with the Rules of
Perspective, are unable to make their own Sketches from
, Nature. Mr. S. conveys his instruction to these Classes in a
I Course of Tweety-one Familiar and Practical Lectures, for the

Illustration of which he nas constructea A GREAT VARIETY OF
MOriELS, and an EXTENSIVE SET OF DIAGRAMS, by which he
is enabled to impart, in the above Course, all the information
requisite for the general student.
A Syllabus, with a Statement of Terms, may be had on appli-
cation.
Schools and Private Classes attended.

THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL of HEVERSHAM
near Mt LNTHORPE, will be REOPENED on the 26th inst.

HEAD MASTER—Rev. J. H. SHARPLES, M.A., late S
St. John's College, Cambridge.
TERMS:
For Boarders above 14 years.. x'4o per annum

This School has Two Exhibidons, of £44 per annum each, to
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Queen's College, Oxford ; Two
of smaller value. Four Exhibitions of i'Bo each, at Magdalen
College, Cambridge, are appropriated to Scholars from Hever-
sham School, Leeds, or Halifax. It has also the privilege of
nominating Candidates for Lady Betty Hastings' Five Exhibi-
tions of £lOO a year each.

CLASSICAL, COMMERCIAL, AND MATHEMA-

ACADEMY,

2, CORNIVALLIS-STREEI, CORNER of DUKE-STREET

LIVERPOOL. -
MR. RICHARD HOUGHTON, M.A., Successor to
Mr. JouN SORLEY, respectfully intimates, that he will
RE-OPEN the SCHOOL on MONDAY next, the 12th January
instant, and hopes, by continuing diligently and faithfully to
carry on the same plans so successfully pursued by Mr. S., to
secure the continuance of the support which has been so long
and liberally extended to the Establishment.
Mr. H. will receive into his Family a limited number of
Boarders, to whose best interests he will apply himself with
unremitting attention. The domestic arrangements will he
superintended by Mrs. and Miss HououTox. The House is in
an open and healthy situation, and is replete with every conve-
nience which can contribute to the comfort of a Family; and in
the Play-ground, which is extensive and strictly private, an ex-
cellent Gymnasium has been erected.
Prospectuses and printed Testimonials from the Professors
of various branches of Literature in the University, may be
had at the Academy ; and reference is kindly permitted to the
following Clergymen :—The Rev. T. Tattershall, D.D. ; Rev. J.
Jones, M.A. ; Rev. T. Ould, M.A. ; Rev. C. G. T. Driffield, M.A.,
Vicar of Prescot ; Rev. T. Raffles, D.D., LL.D. ; Rev. Joseph
R. Welsh, A.M
•

HAMILTON SQUARE SELECT ACADEMY.
MR. RICHARDSON, A. 8., Oxford, assisted by a
Resident Under-Master, educates a Limited Number of
Young Gentlemen, N 0.19, HAMILTON-SQUARE, BIRKENHEAD,

Mr. R. undertakes to give his Pupils a sound English, Clas-
sical, Mathematical, and general Education, and to
_prepare
them for all the Universities, Military. and Naval Colleges,
Commercial pursuits, and the Professions generally. The
course of Instruction comprises the English, Latin, Greek,
French, and Italian Languages, Geography, History, Chrono-
logy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy, and the other

of gentlemanly manners ana correct habits in his pupils, they
are permitted to mix in the domestic circle, and treated in
every respect as members of his own family. The religious and
moral part of their Education receives his daily and most care-
ful attention, c2,lfonnably to the Doctrines of the Established
Ci,urch. At th7.--dose of every half-year there is a Public Exa-
ii.iLation of the pupils. The house is large and commodious,
and Birkenhead is one of the finest and healthiest situations in
this part of England.
Reference permitted to the Rev. JOSEPH BAYLEE, Incum-
bent of Trinity Church, and the following Parents of Pupils :
Rev. G. VERNON, Euston-place, Leamington; Rev. FRANCIS
RurmEncE, Bloomfield, County Mayo, Ireland; Viie. JACK-
SON, Esq., RICHARD BRYANS, Esq., and JOSEPH MALLABY,
Esq., Birkenhead.
The SCHOOL will be REOPENED 011 MONDAY, the 26th
instant.

HALL
NEAR CHESTER,
For the Education of One Hundred resident Pupils.
under the superintendence quid tuitioh of the
following resident Masters:
PRINCIPAL—JOHN BRINDLEY, •of Magdalen Colleg„
bridge; M.A. of the University of Giessen; formerly Seconc
Master of the Grammar School, Brigg, and Head Master o:
the Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School, Worcestershire.
AssrsTANT—CHARLES JONES, Trinity College, Dublin. •
FIRST CLASSICAL MASTER—E. S. CROOKE, 8.A,, Pembroke
College, Cambridge, in double honours.
FIRST MATHEMATICAL MASTEIt—THOS. WADDINGHAM
8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, in double honours.
FRENCH MASTER—MOUSIeUr BOIN, B.A. of the University o
Paris.

SCHOOL

GERMAN MASTER—JOSEPH DEMPSEY.
ENGLISH MASTER—Vacant.
JUNIOR MASTER—W. MILNER.
DRILL MASTER and PLAYGROUND SUPERINTENDENT
DEMPSEY, late of the 48th Regiment.

'lAsTEn—Mr. T. BAILEY.
Mr. R. SCARISBRICK, of the Cathedr

Mr. EDGAR WEBSTER, Chester.
Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, Chester

THE OBJECTS AIMED AT IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT ARE
I.—To insure a thoroughly Scriptural and Gentlemanly Edna
tion, under Masters of high Classical and Mathematical at
taitunent. _ _

2. To provide a sound Classical and Mathematical Education
for Pupils preparing for the 'Uniyersities, Military Colleges,
and Learned Professions ; and an equally sound course of
Business Instruction, with daily practice in the modern
Continental Languages, for those who are intended for Pub-
lic Appointments and Mercantile pursuits.
3.—To maintain in every Department the strictest Discipline,
united with kindness and moderation, and the absence of
corporal punishment= except an extreme cases, and then to
be inflicted by the Principal only.

4.—To treat the Pupils as Nienribers of the Family, providing
them liberally with domestic comforts at the aame table with
the Principal and Masters.
s.—To inclade under one charge every expense both in the
Educational and Domestic Departments, that there may be
no extras whatever.