A Temperance Society, established in the year 1838, has been the means of considerable good, reclaiming several persons who were reduced to a state of poverty and ruin, restoring and elevating them to comfort and respectability. The pledge-book gives the numbers at the present time as 450; they circulate tracts and advance their views by occasionally holding meetings. Reading-rooms are open for the accommodation of subscribers, where the daily and weekly papers with other works are supplied; and where, during the winter months, lectures are occasionally delivered upon literary and scientific subjects: they are situated in the middle of the town, just below the Market-place. An Horticultural Society has lately sprung up for encouraging the cultivation of fruits and vegetables. Prizes are awarded to the successful competitors at the annual exhibition, which is held in the grounds of the president, Charles Hitchcock, Esq., at Fiddington. Watson Taylor, Esq., of Urchfont, patron: Mr. H. Gauntlett, secretary. It has 156 members. The facilities for intercommunication are good. A coach from Salisbury to Chippenham passes through West Lavington, distant one mile, every alternate day, returning the following; and one recently started leaves here for the Hungerford extension line each alternate day in time for the up train, and leaves on its return on the following, upon the arrival of the down train. There is also a daily carrier to Devizes, and two to Salisbury weekly. A small stream rises at the farther end of Easterton, and supplies the sheet of water in the grounds at Fiddington (where there is a pleasant and comfortable asylum for lunatics),—winds to Northbrook—passes on through the meads at Ladywood to Russell mill, where it joins another stream (which rises at Newlam, a mile from West Lavington; this formerly covered a space of seven acres, but is now reduced to very narrow limits)—united in one it pursues its way towards Bath and Bristol, where it falls into the Avon and Severn. A branch which turns off towards Devizes empties itself into the Avon and Kennet canal; in its progress it forms the moving power to several mills, and imparts fertility to the various meads in its course.