Ackers, Esqrs., is placed here as a testimony of regard, for the ability and zeal with which he has uniformly promoted the Commercial Interests of this town during eight successive Parliaments.-1809."

Nearly adjoining the Commercial Rooms is the Post Office, which produces a very large revenue; Manchester being amongst all other towns only inferior in population to London and Glasgow, and still in a state of rapid progress. The trade of Manchester extends through every part of Europe. The rivers Irk, Medlock, and Irwell, together with several canals, afford prodigious advantages of communication with all the towns and ports of Great Britain, and particularly with Liverpool, Hull, and London.

The intercourse between Manchester and Liverpool has been greatly increased by the rail-way, which has recently been completed between these two great commercial cities.

Besides its consequence in the commercial world, Manchester has been hardly less distinguished by its Literary and Philosophical Society, established in 1781. The Memoirs, or Transactions, of which body, hold a high rank in literature.