established in the year 1823, and is supported by subscription.

THE LADIES' CHARITY.

This charity was formed in the year 1796, for the purpose of affording assistance to poor married women in child-bed, by providing them with medical assistance, nourishment, bed-linen, and such necessaries as their situation may require. Many ladies of the highest respectability superintend its concerns, and contribute to its support. This institution is supported by donations, subscriptions, and the profits arising from an annual ball which is held in the Town Hall. The affairs of this charitable establishment are managed by a committee of ladies.

THE FEMALE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.

The design of this institution which was established in the year 1809, is to give to poor female children, such moral and religious instruction, besides reading, writing, and arithmetic, with knitting, sewing, and spinning, as may enable them to become useful servants, and thereby be qualified to earn a creditable livelihood. The concerns of this charity are under the guidance of a committee of ladies, who are assisted by another committee of gentlemen. The institution is situate in Heathfied-street, and the pupils

wear uniform dresses, which are furnished to them at prime cost.

LIVERPOOL FAMALE PENITENTIARY.

This laudable institution is situate in Crabtreelane, and was formed on the 25th of October, 1809, for the purpose of reclaiming a class of unfortunate females whose misconduct has rendered them outcasts of society. By means of this charitable asylum several of them have been restored to their friends and to a respectable rank in life.

THE WELSH CHARITABLE SOCIETY.

This charity was commenced in the year 1804, and is supported by subscription, being designed to educate, clothe, and apprentice the poor childern of Welsh parents born in Liverpool, or the vicinity. An extensive school belonging to this institution is situate in Russell-street, where about 320 boys and 90 girls are taught on the Madras system.

INSTITUTION FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF

AND DUMB.

This school was instituted by Mr. William Comer, and is situate in Wood-street. It is designed to give gratuitous instruction to the mute childern of poor parents; but a due remuneration is required for those whose parents are qualified

to pay. The pupils attend during the same hours that are usually allotted to seminaries where children are taught who are blessed with the power of speech, and the rest of the time they spend with their parents. Visiters are allowed to see the institution every Tuesday forenoon, from ten to twelve o'clock, and a public examination is held once a quarter.

A commodious house adjoining the school is appropriated to the board and lodging of those pupils whose parents are in respectable circumstances, but who reside at a distance.

INFANTS' SCHOOL.

These useful institutions are of very recent origin, and were established for the purpose of imbuing the infantile mind with such preparatory information as may fit it for the more ready acquiring of those branches of knowledge taught in the several free day schools. Of these institutions there is one in Circus-street, having about 150 infants; one in Duncan-street, under the direction of the Society of Friends; another connected with the Jordan-street school, in which there are about 230 children; a fourth in Stanhope-street, belonging to the Harrington school, containing about 100 infants; a fifth connected with the Brunswick chapel; and a sixth belonging to Leeds-street chapel. In all these schools instruction and amusement are combined, and

doubtless great good must accrue to the rising generation from this improvement in early education.

CHARITY SCHOOLS.

At the present time there are upwards of twenty free day-schools in this town, in which the children of the poor are taught gratuitously, or for the mere pittance of a penny or twopence per week. All these institutions are supported by individual subscription except five, which are endowed. Moorfield's school has about 200 boys and 120 girls, and was established in the year 1789. Two spacious schools, with neat stone fronts, were erected a few years ago by the corporation. One is situate in Bevington Bush, and admits 350 boys and 250 girls; the other is in Park-lane, where an equal number of pupils are taught. These two schools are supported by the corporation.-St. James's school, situate in St. James's Road, admits nearly 200 boys and about 100 girls. This charity was founded by the late Moses Benson, Esq.-Hunter-street school was founded in the year 1792, by Mr. Stephen Waterworth, and was supported by subscription until 1803, at which period his sister (Mrs. Frances Waterworth) died and bequeathed £4000, to be appropriated to the support of this institution. 180 boys and 120 girls are instructed here.— St. Mathew's school, situate in Hackin's Hey,

receives about 120 boys and 130 girls, and was commenced in the year 1822.-St. Mark's school was founded in the year 1813, and has 150 boys and 140 girls. St. Andrew's school, Slater-street, admits 150 boys and 130 girls, and was opened in 1818.-The Welsh school is in Russell-street, and educates about 314 boys and 100 girls. In the above mentioned schools the children are instructed in the tenets of the established church. The following are composed chiefly of dissenters:-Mount Pleasant school was established in the year 1790, and is maintained by subscription raised by the Unitarian congregation, whose chapel is situate in Renshaw-street. About 80 boys and 60 girls are educated by this charity.Manesty-lane free-school is supported by the subscription of the congregation of the Unitarian chapel in Paradise street. 150 boys and 100 girls are insructed here.-Circus-street school admits 180 boys and 130 girls, and was opened in the year 1803. The children attend divine service in the Baptist chapel, Byrom-street.Bethesda school, situate in Duncan-street East, educates 190 boys and 100 girls. This charity was established in the year 1809.-The benevolent Society of St. Patrick. This school is situate in Pleasant-street and receives poor Irish children of every religious denomination. About 250 boys and 150 girls are educated by this charity, which was founded in the year 1807.-Harrington school