for the young, and for adults, at a very
cheap rate.

A Collegiate Institution, opened in 1843, for affording a first-class
education on the plan of the Durham and Marlborough Colleges, at a less
expense than at Oxford or Cambridge, is to be found at Everton in a handsome
Elizabethan building.

The Town-hall, with its auxiliary buildings, encloses the Exchange on three
sides. The vestibule contains a statue of George Canning by Chantrey: in the
centre of the Exchange stands a monument to Nelson, which we cannot admire.
On the occasion of an invitation to dinner from the Mayor, or of a grand
ball, it is worth while to penetrate beyond the vestibule, otherwise the walk
through tolerably handsome rooms is scarcely worth the trouble, although it
costs nothing.

The immense News-rooms of the Exchange, under one of the Arcades, are open to
every respectable stranger introduced,--we may almost say without
introduction. There are several other News-rooms with libraries attached.
The Lyceum in Bold Street, and the Athenaeum in Church Street, which was
founded by purchases from the library of William Roscoe, contain a number of
valuable works of reference.

The Royal Institution of Science and Literature, founded by William Roscoe in
1814, by the subscription of shareholders, contains a museum of natural
history of considerable value, some curious pictures, a set of casts from the
AEgina and Phigaleian marbles, and a collection of philosophical instruments,
with a laboratory and a theatre in which lectures are occasionally delivered.
This Institution is not flourishing. It was lately offered to the
Corporation as a free gift by the proprietors, on condition that the museum,
etc., were to be open free to the town. The offer was declined by a small
majority.

There are several cemeteries, one of which has been ingeniously arranged in
an exhausted stone quarry, and contains a marble statue of Huskisson, by
Gibson, commemorating the facts of his having represented Liverpool in
several Parliaments, and been killed on the 15th Sept., 1830, by a
locomotive, at the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. On the
last occasion of his election for Liverpool, in conjunction with the late
General Gascoigne, without opposition, the windows of Huskisson's friends
were smashed by the High Tory mob which accompanied Gascoigne's chairing
procession. Such are the changes of time. Where could a High Tory mob be
found now, or who