The tunnel is 180 yards in length, and the effect of a long train of carriages passing rapidly under, is novel and grand, nor less so the appearance of their emerging from the dark archway, to the expectant spectators at the WOLVERHAMPTON STATION. Distance to Birmingham, 14¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 83¼ miles. DISTANCES BY ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES:— _Places W. of Station_. _Places E. of Station_. WOLVERHAMPTON (Town) 1 mile. Bushbury 1¾ mile. Tettenhall 2 miles. Wednesfield 1¾ — Upper Penn 3½ — Codsall 4½ — Wombourne 5¼ — Himley 6 — Trysull 6 — Pattingham 6½ — Albrighton 7 — Donington 7½ — King Swinford 7½ — Bonningale 8 — BRIDGENORTH 14 — SHIFFNAL 14 — THE panting and smoking engine, like a huge beast, rushing along with fiery jaws, and “such a length of tail behind,” might, in a dark night, be easily suspected of being “no canny.” Divers kinds of vehicles, from post-chaises and landaus, to caravans and _omnibii_ (as a refined friend of ours pluralizes these universal conveyances) are in attendance at this station, to convey passengers to the town of Wolverhampton, one mile distant, or to their future destination. WOLVERHAMPTON is a place of considerable antiquity, and was called Hanton or Hampton prior to the year 996, when Wulfrana, sister of King Edgar, and widow of Aldhelm, Duke of Northampton, founded a college here, endowing it with so many privileges that the town was called in her honour, _Wulfranis Hampton_, of which its present name is evidently a corruption. The College continued till the year 1200, when Petrus Blesensis, who was then dean, after fruitless attempts to reform the dissolute lives of the brethren, surrendered the establishment to Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, and it was subsequently annexed to the deanery of Windsor. In 1590, the greater part of the town was destroyed by a fire, which continued burning for five days. In the parliamentary war, Wolverhampton aided the royalists, and Prince Rupert fixed his head-quarters here, while the king was encamped at Bushbury.