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Liverpool Guide.
  • Female Penitentiary Crabtree-lane.
  • House of Recovery, Workhouse.
  • Infirmary, Brownlow-Street,
  • Institution for Diseases of the Ear, Duke-street.
  • Infants' Schools, several of them.
  • Lunatic Asylum, Ashton-street, Brownlow-hill.
  • Marine Society Mariners' Church,
  • Marine Humane Society.
  • Mariners' Church Society, Ship in St. George's Dock.
  • Naval Bible Society, Mariners' Church.
  • Ophthalmic Institutions; one in Slater's-court.
  • Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor; Savings Bank, Bold-street.
  • Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Ranelagh-street
  • Strangers' Friend Society.
  • School for the Deaf and Dumb, Wood street.
  • Theatrical Fund, Theatre Royal Office.
  • Welsh Charitable Society, Russel-place.

Literary and Scientific Institutions.

The Royal Institution is situated in Colquitt-street. Its portico has been much admired. We need hardly add, that the objects of the Society are the diffusion and advancement of Literature and the Fine Arts. There are some good Paintings, a Museum, and a Statue Gallery, connected with the Institution.

Apothecaries' Hall

is situated in Colquitt-street; it is one of the handsomest buildings in the town.

Mechanics' Institution,

situated in Mount-street, is, perhaps, the handsomest and most commodious building of the kind in England.

Libraries and News-Rooms.

The Athenæum, established in 1779, is situated in Church-street. It is a library and news-room, and is supported by 500 subscribers of £2 2s. each. It has many valuable books.

The Lyceum is a fine building, entrance at the