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148 LIVERPOOL POST-OFFICE.

—The First Delivery commences at 8, and the Office continues open till the arrival of the London Mail, (per Grand Junction Railway,) about 11 40 The letters comprised in this delivery are those of the over-night Birmingham Mail (with a bag from Manchester and a Foreign bag from London); the Holyhead and Carlisle Mails (with bags from Edinburgh and Glasgow); and the Dublin Packet.

2nd —commences about 9, with the first Manchester Mail per Railway bringing also bags from Rochdale, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, and York.

3rd —commences about 10 45, and includes the letters by the 2nd Manchester Mail per Railway, with a bag from Newton.

4th —commences about 12 30, (and continues until about 3 40 p.m.,) in which are included Bags from Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Penkridge, Stafford, Newcastle, Nantwich, Middlewich, Northwich, Preston-Brook, Warrington, Eccleshall, Stone, Towcester, Northampton, London, Bristol, Exeter, Falmouth; and the Letters from Portugal, North and South America, and the West Indies, are also included in this Delivery.

5th —commences about ¼ past 1, and includes letters brought by the Bristol Mail.

6th —commences about 4, and includes letters brought by the 3rd Manchester Mail, per Railway.

7th —commences about 4 50, and includes Bags from Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Warrington, Prescot, and Edinburgh, Glasgow, Carlisle, Lancaster, Preston, Chorley, and Wigan.

8th —commences at 10 minutes past 6; with the letters by the Lancaster Mail, from Ormskirk and Maghull.

9th —commences at past 7 It includes the letters of the 4th Manchester Mail (per Railway), with bags from York and Leeds.

10th —commences about 7 30, and includes Bags from Bristol, Northampton, Towcester, Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Penkridge, Stafford, Newcastle, Nantwich, Middlewich, Northwich, Preston-Brook, Warrington, and Prescot.

The Delivery closes finally at 9 ; on Sundays at 8 ;

There are within the Town by Letter Carriers, every day (except Sunday); the first delivery to commence about 8 ; the second about ½ past 12; the third about 5  On Sundays, only the first, at 8

When any delay occurs in the arrival of the Mails, a corresponding delay will, of course, occur in the delivery.

The Office is closed on Sundays from 9 until 1 30, and finally at 8