What friendly forms in social pomp draw near, With thankful smiles to bless the bounteous year! In glad procession, brotherhood, and bloom, (Like _Flora’s_ festals near thy walls, oh Rome,) The bands distinguished, yet harmonious move, Their ensigns concord, and their leaders love; To KINGSLAND’S Arbours once a year they go, In ordered elegance serene and slow; The Bodies Corporate in classes bright— In different classes, but in one delight; There blend with mutual hands the friendly bowls, There blend their wishes and there blend their souls; The yearly _Archon_ {111} over all presides, Their state he governs, and their joy he guides, There mixing jovial with each jovial band, To each he gives his heart—to each his hand; With each he quaffs the invigorating cheer, To friendship sacred, and the hallow’d year; There union, brotherhood, and mirth combine, In every face these vital virtues shine. The sun would gladly in his course delay, And stretch beyond its lengthened bound the day, To gaze with rapture, as each bosom glows, On these rich blessings which his beam bestows; His prone career, his cadence they behold, His western stage in crimson clad, and gold, They see his orb reluctant now go down, Then march in happy order back to town; There polish’d pleasures teem with new delight, And balls and banquets crown the genial night. THE COUNTY HALL. [Picture: The County Hall] Architectural excellence has been said to consist in the judicious and skilful adaptation of an edifice to its specific destination, and in the appropriate and tasteful display of its interior and exterior ornaments, and that public buildings should be distinguished by decisive and apposite characteristic features of their purpose. How far this has been exemplified in the Salop County Hall, the foregoing illustrative vignette will in a great measure decide. The design is by Sir Robert Smirke, and the style Italian; the main feature of the elevation being a bold cornice resting on sculptured modillons. The principal front is divided into three divisions by projecting string courses, and is 112½ feet in length; the portion facing High-street, 58 feet; height to the top of parapet 54 feet. On examining the interior of the structure, it will be evident that the architect has made the most of a very limited space of ground: the different apartments are convenient, lofty, and well adapted to the various purposes for which they are intended. The offices in particular, although plain, are fitted up in a most substantial manner.