In transcribing the following passage from the Internet Archive online version I have expanded abbreviations and added paragraphing, links, and illustrations. — George P. Landow
Customhouse and Old Dock. Water-colour drawing by W. G. Herdman.
Post Offices and Mail Service
The head post-office is at the Custom-house, in Canning-place; district post-offices are in Scotland-road, Park-place, and Pembroke-place; receiving post-offices are in Canning-street, Castle-street, Dale-street, Derby-road, Edge-hill, Everton, Great George-street, Kirkdale, Oxford-street, Ranelagh-place, Regent's-road, Richmond-row, and Upper Parliament-street; other receiving post-officest are at Breck-road, Kensington, Netherfield-road, Oldhall-street, Park-road, St. James'-street, VauxhaU-road, Walton-road, and West-Derby-road; and pillar letter-boxes, or subsidiary receiving offices, are in about thirty other places.
Hotels
The railway stations, the telegraph-offices, and the banking-offices have already been indicated in our notices of the railway works and the public buildings. Some of the chief hotels are the Adelphi, the Queen's, the Washington, and the Royal Railway, in Lime-street; the Angel, the Bull, the Commercial, the George, the Royal, the Alexandra, the Saddle, and the White Bear, in Dale-street; the Neptune and the Feathers in Clayton-square; the Stork, in Queen-square; the Union, in Parker-street; the Victoria, in St. John's-lane; the Waterloo, in Ranelagh-street; and Brotherston's Commercial, in Wood-street and Hanover-street.
Newspapers
The first Liverpool newspaper was published in 1756; and the first Liverpool directory in 1766. Three daily newspapers and four weekly ones are now published, besides various sheets on shipiping and mercantile matters, and some weekly periodicals. Provision markets are held daily; general markets, on Wednesday and Saturday; the corn-market, on Tuesday and Friday; and fairs for horses and cattle, on 25 July and 11 November. The provision-markets are remarkably well-supplied ; not only commanding a great sweep of country, for all sorts of produce, by railway and by canal, but also commanding vast imports of poultry, eggs, butter, and general farm-produce from Cheshire, North Wales, and the Isle of JIau, and of live stock, bacon, grain, and butter, from Ireland and Scotland, by constantly plying steamers.
Manufacturing
Manufactures are, in a chief degree, either repelled by commerce or subsidiary to it; they can ill thrive on so stupendous a scene of shipping and transit, where the labouring classes meet ready and sufficient employment in ways more congenial to them than under the confinement and restraints of factories; they are mainly driven off to more inland towns, where they receive imported raw materials from Liverpool, aud whence they send back to it the manufactured articles for exportation; yet, in such departments as are immediately required for shipping interests, and even in some not much or at all connected with these, they are great and flourishing.
Ship-building is carried on to a large extent; and it has produced, not only multitudes of first-class merchant vessels, and multitudes of merchant steamers, both of timber and iron, but also many large war-vessels for the Government. Steam-engincs and other machinery, including engines of the best and most powerful kind for the largest steam-ships, are made in many extensive factories. The making of chain-cables and anchors, the working of iron and brass, rope-making, sail-making, and employments akin to these, also are carried on in large establishments. Soap-making is so extensive that, according to an official return for 1839, the quantity made here, in that year, was 49,927,039 lbs., while the quantity made in London was only 33,885,053 lbs., and the excise duty on it was £320,000, while the total excise Juty on all articles whatever, including this, was no more than £6222,935. There are likewise several large sugar refineries, breweries, glaas-staining works, alkali-works, tar and turpentine distilleries, a large cotton factory, and a number of corn, rice, colour, and other mills. The making of chronometers, watches, and watch-move-ments also is very largely carried on.
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Bibliography
Wilson, John M. (John Marius). The imperial gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs: general statistics: postal arrangements: railway systems, &c.; and forming a complete description of the country. 8 vols. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1870.Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Web. 17 September 2022.
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