Liverpool

(livŭr-pool,) an important fortified seaport, borough, and commercial emporium of England, co. Lancaster, on the estuary of the Mersey, 32 m. W. by S. of Manchester. This place constitutes the grand entrepôt of the trade with the U. States, and po e es shipping interests on a gigantic scale. The famous docks here, 9 m. in length, and unsurpa ed with regard to ma ivene of construction and extent of accommodation, were constructed at a cost of$65,000,000. L. is the main channel of intercommunication by steam between England and the U. States. Pop. 1876, 521,544. Liverpool, a sen port of Nova Scotia, C. of Queens co., s on the Liverpool R.. 75 m. S.W. of Halifax. The harbor isa spacious one, and is furnished with ar evolving light. Pop. 3,104. Liv'erwort, (-würt.) (Bot.) The popular name of the HEPATICEE, q. v. Livery, (liv'ür-e.) [From Fr. livrer, to surrender.] In its most usual sense, the distinctive dre worn by the under male servants in great households, families of distinction, .-(Eng. Hist.) A term which embraces the 91 guilds or " companies " of the city of London:derived from the circumstance that members of the same formerly woro robes similar to those worn by the Lord Mayor and sheriffs. Livings ton, EDWARD, (living-stun,) an American jurist and statesman, B. in Columbia co., N. Y., 1764, after acquiring great eminence as an advocate in New York city, was sent to Congre by the Democratic party in 1794, and again in 1796 and 1798. Afterwards he served the offices of District Attorney of the U. States and Mayor of New York, and acted as aid-de-camp to Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans; and in 1821 revised the penal code of Louisiana. After sitting as representative in Congre from that State, 1823-9, he entered the Senate; became in 1831 secretary of state, and two years later minister-plenipotentiary to France. D. 1836. His great work, System of Penal Law, or Criminal Codes (1833), in which he opposes the infliction of the death penalty, has been much eulogized by European jurists.-L., PHILIP, B. at Albany, 1716, while a member of Congre , 1774-6, signed the Declaration of Independence. D. 1813. - D., KoBERT, an American statesman, brother of Edward L., above mentioned, B. in N. Y., 1746, sat in Congre in 1776, and a isted in drawing up the Declaration of National Independence. In the following year he became chancellor of his native State; in 1781-3, secretary of state for foreign affairs; and in 1801, minister to France, where he shared in the negotiations carried on for the purchase of Louisiana. D. 1813.. [s. 549]