The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

GRAMMAR SCHOOL, PRESTON,

First Foundation Master—The Rev. G. N. Smith, M.A.,

C.
Secondambrid Foundation Master—The Rev. E. Smith, M.A.,

Cambridge.
Senior Assistant Master—Mr. Fox.
Junior Assistant Master—Mr. Jones.
Preneli Master—Mons. Collos, a native of Paris.
Linear Drawing Master—Mr. Hill, late a Student at Rome.

THE SCHOOL is an ancient foundation, in the patronage
of the Corporation ; it has been lately rebuilt on a new
site adjoining Winckley-square, the best and most healthy
Part of the town, and has been furnished with every requisite
au elegant and commodious manner, at the expense of the
gentlemen undermentioned, some of whom have sons attend-
ing the School :
Thomas Batty Addison, Esq., Recorder of Preston.
j°l3ll Addison, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
Bairston, Esq.
Robert Brown, Esq.
Thomas German, Esq., Alderman.
ie Rev. R. Hornby, M.A., Incumbent of Walton-le-dale.
Horrocks, Esq., Alderman.
‘j/eorge Horrocks, Esq.
r. °llll Horrocks, Esq., Alderman.
eorgeJackson, Esq., Barton Lodge, Alderman.
Thomas Lowndes, Esq., M.A.
ilip Park, Esq., Treasurer of the Borough.
ldiam Shaw, Esq., Registrar of the Chancery of Lancashire.
jra,ncis Sleddon, Esq.
°„nn Stevenson, Esq.
Ile system of education pursued is as well suited to the
ants of those parents who design their sons for commerce
acid the liberal professions, as for those who intend them to
tegin raduate at the Universities. The studies of the school
with prayer, and the reading and explanation of the
°IY Scriptures form a portion of the daily duties. Instruc-
,,°n is given in the Greek and Latin Classics, English Lite-
a?titre and Composition, History, Geography, Writing,
rithmetic. and Mathematics. The French Language and
the
and Architectural Drawing are taught as part of
Lle system, without any extra charge, to all the scholars,
°8 they become sufficiently, advanced for the respective
ka!ters.

Students are constantly proceeding to the Universities,
and are prepared for their College Lectures and Degree Exa-
Initiations by a direct course of Classical and Mathematical
Reading. Per Annum.
The School charge for tuition (without any ex- £9 9 0
tras) is
.... 5
I'oard and Lodging in the First Master's House 1, 35 0 0
iu Winckley-square
4-'aY Boarders.
Preston, November 23,1812

15 15 0

For DUBLIN and BELFAST.
(r4';' ' Tin. CITY oFDUBLIN STEAM-PACKET
tithtt COMPANY,
Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
The above Company sail their Vessels, (with or without
Pilots,) taking Goods and Passengers to the following Ports,

For DUBLIN,
THIS DAY,December 20, at 10 o'clock P.M.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 21, 12 „ NOON
THURSDAY, ~ 22, 12 „ NOON,
FRIDAY, ~ 23, 1 „ P.M.
SATURDAY, ~ 24, 2 „ P.M.
MONDAY, ~ 26, 5 „ P.M.

They also despatch one of their new and splendid Vessels,
the QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE, and PRINCESS, of
600 tons burthen and 260 horses power, EVERY EVENING,
at Seven o'Clock, from George's Pierhead, LIVERPOOL,
to KINGSTOWN HARBOUR, with her Majesty's Mail
and Cabin Passengers only.

For BELFAST, the ATHLONE.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, at 12 o'clock NOON
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, at 7 o'clock P.M.

The principle of this Company is that of attaching all
Importers and Exporters,by a Division of the Profits among
them, after payment of the Dividends, thus creating a com-
munity of Intereits between the Shippers and Shareholders,
a principle which will best guarantee to its Proprietors—
certainty of their Dividends, and to Shippers of all descrip-
tions of Goods and Live Stock the having a well-supported
Establishment of first-class Steamers, and the lowest rate of
freight compatible with due attention to their maintenance.
Further information given at the Company's Office, 24,
Water-street. SAMUEL PERRY, Agent.

WHEREAS, a petition of THOMAS WOODROOFE,
at present, and for three months past, residing at No.
43, Heath-street, and upwards of nine months previous resid-
ing at No. 41, Great Orford-street, both in the parish of Liver-
pool and county of Lancaster, and previously residing in Dex-
ter-street, Toxteth-park, near Liverpool aforesaid, merchants'
clerk, previously thereto residing in Saint Jude's-place, Ju-
bilee-street, watchmaker, previously in lodgings in Saint
James's-street, then in Epworth-street, in no business, and
previously residing in Scotland-road, licensed victualler, all
in Liverpool aforesaid, having been filed in the Liverpool
District Court of Bankruptcy, and the Interim Order for
Protection from Process having been given to the said
Thomas Woodroofe, under the provisions of an act of par-
liament passed in the parliament holden in the sth and 6th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the said Thomas
Woodroofe is hereby required to appear in Court before
Walker Skirrow, Esquire, the Commissioner acting in the
matter of the said Petition, on the 14th day of January next,
at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, at the Liverpool District
Court of Bankruptcy, at Liverpool, for the purpose of being
then and there examined touching his Debts, Estate, and
Effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provi-
sions of the said Act.
All Persons indebted to the said Thomas Woodroofe, or
that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the
same but to Mr. WILLIAM BIRD, the Official Assignee,
nominated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the
matter of the said Petition.
J. B. HOSKYNS ABRAHALL, Dep. Reg.

FARMING STOCK, 4.c., IN GARSTON.
By GEORGE ASHTON,
On THURSDAY next, the 22d instant, precisely at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon, on the Premises of Mr. W. Hil-
ton, near the Salt Works, in Garston,
THE valuable STOCK of Draught and other HORSES,
Short-horned In-calf Cows, Three years old Bull, Fat
and Store Pigs, prime White Hay, compact Steam-engine,
with beaten Iron Boiler, Steaming Apparatus, &c. complete,
and in excellent condition ; the whole of the Farming Imple-
ments, Gig and Harness, Whitechapel, &c.
N.B.—Two of the Horses are young, and have been tho-
roughly broken for double or single harness.
A punctual attendance is respectfully requested, as the
whole is *tended to be sold in one day.