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 LIVERPOOL 539 for the corn trade in Brunswick street. The most celebrated public building in Liverpool is St. George's hall, opened in 1851 ; it is a com- manding edifice in the Corinthian style, with St. George's Hall, Liverpool. columns 45 ft. high, and having two large rooms for the holding of assizes, and the great hall 161 ft. long and 75 in width and height, used for public meetings, concerts, &c. In 1872 there were 100 places of worship be- longing to the established church, and 139 to other denominations. A Catholic bishopric was founded at Liverpool by Pope Pius IX. in 1850. The principal educational institu- tion is the elegant Church of England college, fronting Shaw street, with ample provision for many branches of _.*- instruction, a sculp- ture gallery, a music hall, a laboratory, and a lecture hall holding over 2,000 persons. It is in the Tudor style from a design of Mr. Elmes, the architect of St. George's hall. The foundation stone was laid in 1840. It com- prises three distinct day schools, and even- ing schools for adults. There are many oth- er schools, several of which are attached to the mechanics' insti- tution and to the royal institution. There are also schools for the deaf and dumb and the blind, and numerous charitable schools. The royal institution has a museum of natural his- tory and collections of fine arts, mineralogy, &c. There are associations for the promotion of the various branches of science, literature, and art, and a flourishing philharmonic socie- ty. The foundation stone of a free library and museum, to which Mr. William Brown con- tributed 30,000, was laid in 1857; and Mr. Joseph Mayer presented to it his extensive collection of Egyptian and other antiquities Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool. and articles of vertu, the money value of which is estimated at nearly 40,000. The new mu<