The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

MUSIC AND DRAWING.

M-
R. SHEPPARD respectfully announces that his
Professional Duties, for the ensuing Half-Year, will be
resumed on MONDAY, the 19th instant.
MUSIC PIANOFORTE, FLUTE, AND SINGING.
DRAWlNG.—Besides instruction in the usual branches, Mr.
S. 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 copying the works of
others, but who, from being quainted with the Rules of
Perspective, are unable t ake their own Sketches from
Nature. Mr. S. conve - is instruction to these Classes in a
Course of Twenty- amiliar and Practical Lectures, for the
Illustration of which he has constructed A GREAT VARIETY OF
MODELS, 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.
116, Chatham-street, Jan. 5, 1846.

HAMILTON SQUARE SELECT ACADEMY. -
VP. RICHARDSON, A. 8., Oxford, assisted by a
I'l Resident Under-Master, educates a Limited Number of
Young Gentlemen, No. 19, HAMILTON-SQUARE, BIRKENHEAD,.
CHESHIRE.

Mr. It. undertakes to give his Pupils a sound English, Clas-
sical, Mathematical, and general Education, and to
_prepaii
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them for all the niversities, Military and Naval Colleges,
Coulmercial pursuits, and the Prof • generally. The
course of Instruction compris e English, Latin, Greek,
French, and Italian Langu , Geography, History Chrono-
logy, Arithmetic, Algebra eometry, Astronomy, and the other
branches of Natural P osophy. With a view to the formation
of gentlemanly m ers and 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, conformably to the Doctrines of the Established
("urch. At the close of every half-year there is a Public Exa-
li.ination 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
RuTTLEnoE„ Bloomfield, County Mayo, Ireland; WM. JACK-
SON, Esq., RICHARD BRYANS, Esq., and JOSEPH MALLABY,
Esq., Birkenhead.
The SCHOOL will be REOPENED on MONDAY next, the
26th instant.

An Experienced ASSISTANT WANTED,

LIVERPOOL AND LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. •
SIR,---The very important position which railways
now hold in the public mind, and the impartial manner in
which that interest has been represented in your paper, induce
me to request that you will, with the vied of preventing a de-
ception calculated to inflict great ißinry in this populous dis-
trict, place the following ques s before the public, in order
that parties who have the er to answer them may either
relieve themselves fro erious charges, or withdraw from a
hopeless contest, in w ch vast sums of money must be uselessly
expended, and m parties necessarily placed in great diffi-
culties and distress. The questions to which I refer relate to
the Live' peel mitt Lee is Direct niinvi-ay, =ITCH is stated to tie a
scheme emanating- from a solicitor in London, un engineer, and
a Mr. , all parties connected with a weekly railway news-
paper, in which paper this scheme forms the subject of a leading
article weekly, and is extolled as the most promising project of
the day. I therefore wish to know—

1. Is it true that these three parties are interested in this
railway newspaper ?
2. Do they make that publication entirely subservient to
bolstering up this scheme ?
3. D4l two of these gentlemen, at the commencement, go into
Yorkshire and Lancashire, and represent? for the purpose of
gaining local support? that they were acting in concert with
the existing railways in the district?
4. Did many gentlemen, from such representation, give their
names, and afterwards withdraw them on finding they had bees
deceived ?
5. Did they not allot the shares (that are allotted) very gene-
rally to local gentlemen who had made no application for them,
accompanied by a letter of explanation, the greater part of
which were unnoticed by the parties • and although the few
shares that were let loose on the public were, by newspaper
puffing during the height of the mania, run up to .tvs premium,
has a third of the required capital been signed for in the parlia-
mentary deed ?
6. Does not tt partial knowledge of this fact make shares
perfectly unsaleable at any price ?
7. Are there not between Littleborough and Leeds about 23
miles, with a gradient of I in 103, with 10 miles of tunnel, with
other works—in viaducts, embankments, and cuttings of six
miles—as expensive, or more so, than even tunnelling, and no
part of it more than three miles from an existing railway to the
same points, with good gradients ?
8. If such a project could ever pass through parliament, is not
the whole scheme surrounded by hostile railways?
9. Is it not without a station or communication with any
town without passing on some part of one or other of these
hostile linesy

fo. bees it not commence on the East Lancashire line, near
Bury, 30 miles from Liverpool ?
.11. Is it not now in such a position as to make it imperative
on any of the respectable men who joined it in ignorance of its
true character to withdraw, and insist upon the wreck of the
amount of deposit left, if any, being returned to the parties Alio
hold the scrip, in preference to passing into the pockets of otter
parties ?
12. How many of the provisional committee now hold any of
the scrip ? And,
13. Is it not well known that, with the exceptions here stated,
the allotments were limited until they had all sold their shares,
.anti that they will now quietly oppose the line ?
A RAILWAY SHARBLIOLpEg.

Bradford, January 9.

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