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Liverpool Guide.
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lower end of Bold-street. It has an extensive library and reading-room.

Law Library is situated in Clarendon-buildings.

Union News-room, founded in 1811, is situated in Duke-street.

The Public Library, for the use of Male and Female Apprentices; the former founded in 1822, the latter in 1824.

The Philosophical and Literary Society, founded in 1812.

Newspapers.

We give our readers a slight description of the character of each Paper, that they may choose for themselves.

Monday.. Albion (The). Acute, pointed, and Whiggish.

Advertiser (Myers's Mercantile). Devoted to Commercial Information

Tuesday.. Standard (The Liverpool). Talented, rather sophistical, and quite Tory.

Times (The Liverpool). Whig in principle.

Mail. By the late Editor of the Standard.

Wednesday. Courier (The Liverpool). It is Tory in principle.

Telegraph. By the Editor of the Chronicle.

Thursday. Advertiser (Gore's General). Principally devoted to Commercial information.

Mail. See Tuesday.

Friday....Mercury (The Liverpool). A strong partisan, and Whig in principle.

Standard (The Liverpool). See Tuesday.

Saturday..Chronicle (The Liverpool). Sensible always—occasionally brilliant.—Whig in politics.

Journal (The Liverpool). Radical in politics.

Mail. See Tuesday.