who have butter, poultry, &c. for sale; while the upper portion is appropriated to public meetings and occasional assemblies. The principal trade of Ellesmere is malting; the barley of the neighbourhood being remarkably good, a corresponding demand for the malt is generally experienced; and the butter and cheese produced in this part of the country are of the finest description. There are several excellent inns, the chief of which is the Bridgewater Arms. This place is in some measure benefited by a navigation, called the Ellesmere canal, which forms a communication between the river Dee at Chester and the Severn at Shrewsbury, and by collateral branches to all parts of the kingdom. The canal was constructed, in pursuance of an act of parliament, in the 34th of George III. The parish church of St. Mary is an ancient structure, in the decorative style of English architecture, with a lofty square tower in the centre, wherein is a ring of eight bells: the east window is a fine composition in the later style. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of Lord Alford; the present vicar is the Rev. John David Day. The other places of worship are for Independents, and Primitive, Association, and Wesleyan Methodists. The chapelries of COCKSHUT, DUDLASTON, and PENLEY (the last-named in the county of Flint), belonging to this parish, are all perpetual curacies. There are two schools for children of either sex, conducted upon the National plan. Ellesmere is the centre of an Union under the new Poor-Law, consisting of seventeen parishes, nine of which are in Salop, and the remainder in Flintshire. The population of the Union, at the last census, amounted to 15,226. The market is held on Tuesday, and the fairs on the Tuesday after the 2nd of February, the third Tuesday in April, Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the first Tuesday in July, the last Tuesday in August, the first Tuesday in October, the third Tuesday in November, and the first Tuesday in December. Ellesmere parish contained (including the chapelries before mentioned), in 1841, 6,603 inhabitants, and in 1851, 6,940. POST OFFICE, Scotland-street, Andrew Bickley, _Post Master_.—Letters from all parts arrive (from SHREWSBURY) every morning at ten minutes before seven, and are despatched at a quarter before six in the evening. NOBILITY, GENTRY AND CLERGY. Bayley Samuel, Esq. the Avenue Bayley Mr. Thomas, Spare Bridge st Bennett —, Esq. Sodyllt Hall Birds Rev. David, St. John’s Hill Blackburne Mrs. Jane, Trimpley Burrows Rev. Samuel Hollinshed, Church st Cust Captain —, Church st Davies Mr. John, Dudlaston Hall Day Rev. John David, Vicarage Deighton Mrs. Jane, Church st Dymock Rev. Edward, Penley Hall Dymock Mrs. Mary, the Mount Edwards Miss Mary, Church st Edwards Miss Mary Ann, Trimpley Evans Richard, Esq. Watergate st Fallowes Mrs. Mary, Watergate st Ferrell Lovett, Esq. the Grange Founereau Philip, Esq. Overton Farmston Miss Margaret, Trimpley