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Rh LIVERPOOL. 622 LIVERPOOL. the top of Bold-street, two ours., val. 254 each the church was built in 1811 by Foster, and is the hand- somest in the town ; St. Martin's, Great Oxford-street, Vauxhall-road, val. 530, built in 1828 by Foster, with a spire of 198 feet ; Trinity, St. Anne-street, val. 270, built in 1792 ; St. Andrew, Renshaw-street, built by Sir J. Gladstone, Bart., in 1815, val. 295 ; St. Bridget's, Catharine- street, val. 305, in the patron, of trustees ; St. Catharine's, Abercrombie-square, built by Foster, val. 250 ; Christ Church, Hunter-street, built by gift of Mr. Houghton, val. 105, in the patron, of trustees ; St. David's, Brownlow Hill, val. 203, in the patron, of trustees ; St. Mark's, Upper Duke-street, val. 380, in the patron, of trustees ; St. Matthew's, Hill-street, val. 107, in the patron, of trustees ; St. Stephen's, Old Haymarket, val. 300, in the patron, of the rector ; St. Philip's, Hardman-street, built in 1822 by J. Cragg, Esq., two curs., val. 200 each. Other churches are: St. Barnabas, Parliament-street, St. Silas, Pem- broke-place, St. Bartholomew, Naylor-street, curs., in the patron, of trustees ; St. Matthias, Great Howard- street, a cur., val. 300, in the patron, of the rector ; St. Simon, near Copperas Hill, a cur., val. 150, All Saints, Great Nelson-street North, a cur., val. 130, both in the patron, of the crown and bishop. Also All Souls, Eaton-street, Vauxhall-road ; St. Aidan's, Victoria-road, Kirkdale ; St. Alban's, Lime- kiln-lane ; St. Augustine's, Shaw-street, Everton ; Christ Church, Great Homer-street ; St. Chrysostom, Audley-street, Everton; St. Clement's, Stanhope -street, Toxteth Park ; St. George's, Everton ; Holy Innocents', Myrtle-street South ; Holy Trinity, Walton Breck ; St. James's, Parliament-street ; St. John the Baptist, Park- road, Toxteth Park ; St. Jude's, Everton ; St. Mark's district, Leveson-street ; St. Mary's, Edgehill ; St. Mary's, Kirkdale ; St. Mary's, for the blind, Hope- street ; St. Matthew's, Scotland-road ; North Shore Chapel, Derby-road ; St. Paul's, Prince's Park ; St. Peter's, Johnson-street, Everton ; St. Saviour's, Hus- kisson-street ; St. Stephen Martyr's, Crown- street ; and St. Thomas-in-the-Fields, Grafton-street. There is also a church for mariners, a cur. in the patron, of trustees, held in the Tees man-of-war, in George's Dock. There are 14 Roman Catholic chapels, the principal ones being St. Anne's, Edgehill; St. An- thony's, Scotland-road ; St. Francis Xavier's, Salisbury- street ; St. Nicholas's, Copperas Hill, and St. Patrick's, Park-place. There are 8 Independent chapels, the principal one being in Great George-street. It was built in 1811, and rebuilt in a more commodious and handsome style for Dr. Raffles in 1841. There are Baptist chapels in Myrtle-street and Pembroke-place, and 7 others of less size. The Presbyterians have 9 places of worship in Oldham-street, Rodney-street, Myrtle-street, and elsewhere. The Unitarians have 3 in Hope-street, Renshaw-street, and Toxteth Park- joad. The Wesleyan Methodists have 20 places of worship in Moss-street, Mount Pleasant, Pitt-street, Grove-street, &c. ; the Primitive Methodists 3, in Ma- guire-street, Prince William-street, and Walnut-street. There are 14 Welsh chapels, belonging to the Baptists, Independents, and Methodists. The chapels of the first- named sect are situated in Athol-street, Great Cross- hall-street, Great Howard-street, and Stanhope-street ; those of the Independents in Bedford-street and Great Crosshall-street ; and the Methodist places in Bedford- street, Burlington-street, and elsewhere. There is a German church in Sir Thomas's Buildings, Dale-street ; Jewish synagogues in Seel-street and Hope-place ; a Friends' meeting-house in Hunter-street ; and a few other miscellaneous places of worship. More than half of the population of the town are said to belong to the Roman Catholic and other Dissenting bodies. Liverpool possesses the following educational institutions : The Collegiate Institution, in Shaw-street, a building in the Tudor style, from the designs of Lonsdale Elmes, the architect of St. George's Hall. The front, including the wings, measures 280 feet. The porch in the centre is beneath a lofty arch, and above it rise oriel windows, which are continued through two stories. The statues of Lord Derby and the late Earl of Ellcsmere stand ia niches on each side. The building contains 48 school- rooms, a museum, library, picture and sculpture gallery, 218 feet in length, a laboratory, an octagonal lecture-hall, which will hold 2,300 persons, and a music-room, open- ing from the lecturer's platform, fitted with rising seats for 300 performers, and containing a fine organ. The first stone was laid in 1840, and the college was opened in January, 1843. Three distinct day-schools for the upper, middle, and lower classes are held here, as well as eveninj classes for adults. The Historical Society of Lancashir and Cheshire meets in the lecture-room. The Bishop o Chester is the visitor. The Queen's College, in Mount- street, is under the control of the Council of the Liver- pool Institute, and was founded in connection with the University of London. The deaf and dumb school, ia Oxford-street East, was founded in Wood-street,-, near Slater-street, in 1825, to give gratuitous instruction to the poor thus afflicted ; but there are many pupils who pay for their education. The blind school was founded in 1791, at the corner of Duncan-street, in the London- road ; but within the last few years has been transferred to Hardman-street. It has room for over 100 pupils, who are taught spinning and the manufacture of baskets, floor-cloth, mats, hearthrugs, sash-line, and other goods, which bring in nearly 2,000 annually to the institution. Music also is taught, and several pupils have been trained for and obtained situations as organists. Tha chapel of the school was built by Foster, and contains a painting by Hilton of " Christ giving Sight to the Blind." The blue-coat school, in School-lane and Hanover- street, was founded in 1709 as a charity day-school for the education of 40 boys and 10 girls; but in 1726 the present school was built, with sufficient room for the boarding of 250 boys and 150 girls. With a few excep- tions the children are fatherless. They are received at I nine years of age, and on leaving the school are either apprenticed to some trade or placed out at service. The I school is open to inspection by strangers on Sun- day afternoons. There is also an orphan school ia Myrtle-street, for children of both sexes, founded by I the late Mr. Harmood Banner. Among other schools may be mentioned the two corporation free schools, founded in 1827 ; two Church free schools, founded in [ 1837 ; two Old Church schools, founded in 1789 ; i Waterworth's school, in Hunter-street ; the Welsh school, founded in 1804 ; and an industrial school at Kirkdale. Besides these most of the churches and chapels have Sunday-schools, and many have day- schools in connection with them. The Royal Institu- tion, in Colquitt-street, was set on foot by Roscoe in 1814, and incorporated by royal charter in 1822. It is conducted by a president and committee elected an- nually. The building contains a laboratory, lecture- , rooms, class-rooms for classical, commercial, and medical ' schools, and a museum celebrated for its collection of British birds, to which visitors are admitted daily for l.s. each. The Academy of Design, the Literary and Philosophic, Natural History, Philomathic, andPolytaoh- nic Societies hold their meetings in the lecture-rooms. The Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1825 ; and ti-n years after Lord Brougham laid the foundation-stone of a new building which, however, was burnt soon after its completion. It was quickly rebuilt in the Ionic style, covering about an acre of land, presented by th corporation. It contains a lecture-room, holding 1. persons, a sculpture-gallery, a museum, a library of 6,000 volumes, which are lent out to read, and school- rooms for the " lower day," or commercial school, and the " high school," where a good classical education is given. Evening classes in almost every subject for both sexes are also held in the institute. The Medical Insti- tution, at the corner of Hope-street and Oxford-street South, was built by subscription, the corporation con- tributing 1,000. It contains a lecture-room in tho shape of a fan, capable of holding about 400 persons, and a library of medical works. There is also a medical school in Dover-street. Other educational