METHODIST (Wesleyan) CHAPELS, High street, Ketley, and Pains lane METHODIST (Primitive) CHAPEL, Oakengale POOR LAW UNION. WORKHOUSE, Horse fair, _Governor_—George Bailey _Matron_—Elizabeth Bailey _Schoolmistress_—Ann Maria Thomason _Chaplain_—Rev. Henry Cunliffe _Clerk to the Board of Guardians and Superintendent Registrar_—Peter Osborne _Relieving Officer_—Henry Thomason OMNIBUS. To IRONBRIDGE, an _Omnibus_, from Shiffnall, twice a day (Sun. excepted). CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY. ON THE SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM LINE. _Station_, Market place; SHIFFNALL. There are Conveyances from the Station to Ironbridge, Broseley, Bridgenorth, &c. on the arrival of the trains. CARRIERS. To ALL PARIS OF THE KINGDOM, Crowley, Hicklin & Co. daily—Robert Williams, agent SHREWSBURY, WITH THE VILLAGE OF PONTESBURY AND NEIGHBOURHOODS. SHREWSBURY is a market town and ancient borough, both corporate and parliamentary, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the liberties to which it gives name; 153 miles N.W. from London, 40 S. from Chester, the like distance W. from Lichfield, 44 W.N.W. from Birmingham, 48 N.N.W. from Worcester, 53 N. from Hereford, 58 S. from Liverpool, 70 S. by W. from Manchester, 109 N. from Bristol. 76 N.E. from Aberystwith, and 108 S.E. from Holyhead. The town is pleasantly seated on two eminences, rising gently from the Severn, which river, by its windings, forms a peninsula. Although no doubt can be entertained of the great antiquity of Shrewsbury, it being frequently mentioned by our earliest historians, there is no authentic record of its origin. Conjecture, however, has assigned that event to the fifth century, when the Britons were forced by the Saxons to abandon all the country to the eastward of the river Severn; and this proposition is well supported from its name, which is, apparently, of Saxon derivation. In that language it is called _Scrobbesbyrig_, or _Scrobbesbyri_; and in the ancient British tongue _Pengwern_; all signifying ‘the head of the alder groves.’ Shrewsbury being esteemed the most important town and fortress on the marches of Wales, continued during several centuries to be one of the principal places of rendezvous for the English armies,—and hence it was often visited by royalty. Through the eventful period which marked the contentions of the houses of York and Lancaster, as well as when the parliamentary war broke out, this town and neighbourhood were the scenes of sieges and conflicts. In Cromwell’s life-time, and also immediately after his death, two attempts were made to gain possession of Shrewsbury, in favour of Charles II, but both of them were frustrated. The last circumstance which history records, worthy of notice, occurred in August, 1687, when James II held his court here: on this occasion the sentiments of loyal attachment, for which Shrewsbury has ever been conspicuous, burst forth enthusiastically. Shrewsbury, from its lofty and peninsular