inens and checks, then sailcloth, were its first manufactures; at
present, cotton spinning, power-loom weaving, the manufacture of glass,
machinery, and millwork, pins, nails, tools, spades, soap, hats, and
gunpowder, and many other trades, are carried on here. The markets for live
stock of the district and from Ireland are important, and market gardening is
carried on to a considerable amount in the neighbourhood of the town. The
Mersey is navigable up to Warrington at spring tides for vessels, "flats," of
from seventy to one hundred tons. A salmon and smelt fishery, which formerly
existed, has disappeared from the waters by so many manufactories.

Warrington, under the Reform Act, returns one member to Parliament. Its ale
is celebrated: it formerly returned an M.P. The inhabitants enjoy the
benefit of three endowed schools, one of them richly endowed. Howard's work
on Prisons was first printed at Warrington.

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On leaving Warrington, a few minutes bring us to Newton junction, upon the
old Manchester and Liverpool Railway, where George Stephenson established the
economy of steam locomotive conveyance twenty-one years ago.

In half an hour we are rolling down the Edgehill Tunnel into Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL.

When you land on the platform, if you can afford it, go to the Adelphi Hotel,
where the accommodation is first-rate, but the charges about the same as in
Bond Street or St. James's Street, London.

There are others to suit all purses, and plenty of dining-houses on the
London system, so that it is not absolutely necessary to submit to the dear
and often indifferent dinners which are the rule in the coffee-rooms of most
English hotels.

Liverpool has no antiquities of any mark; the public buildings and works
worth seeing are few but important, although a page might be filled with the
names of Institutions of various kinds.

By far the most interesting, original, and important, are those connected
with the commerce of the town. That is to say, the docks and the gigantic
arrangements at the railways for goods' traffic. St. George's Hall, a
splendid building in the Corinthian style, containing the Law Courts and a
hall for public meetings, as a sort of supplement to the Town-hall, meets the
view immediately on leaving the railway station. The Mechanics' Institution
in Mount Street, one of the finest establishments of the kind in the kingdom,
provides an excellent education