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The Royal Manchester Institution,
for the encouragement of Arts and Sciences, is situated in Mosley-street. It is a splendid erection, and in it is held an exhibition of Paintings. Manchester has also an Agricultural and a Horticultural Society, and a Natural History Society.
The Mechanics' Institution
is a noble building, situated in Cooper-street. Re-gular courses of Lectures are delivered, syllabuses of which may be there gratuitously obtained.
Charitable Institutions.
- Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensaries, and Lunatic Assylum; Piccadilly, Salford, and Pendleton Dispensary, 19, Bank Parade.
- House of Recovery,—Aytown-street.
- Lying-in Hospital,—Stanley-street, Salford.
- Sick Hospital,—16, Bond-street.
- Female Penitentiary—Rasliolm-road.
- Institution for curing Diseases in the Eye—35, Fanlkner-street.
- The Humane Society's Receiving Houses are four in number, viz.—Lying-in Hospital, Stanley-street; the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary; the Lying-in Hospital, Salford; and the Salford and Pendleton Dispensary.
- The Chorlton and Medlock Dispensary.
- The Workhouse,—Strangeways.
- The Vagrant Office,—Do.
- The Salford Workhouse,—Green-gate,
- The Pendleton Workhouse,—Ford-lanc,
- Manchester and Salford District Provident Society,—Office, 11, St. James's-square.
Besides the above, there are various sums bequeathed for purposes of charity, amounting to the annual income of upwards of $5,000.
The Repository
is situated in St. Anne's-square. It is an excellent
