made it a polling station at the election of representatives for South Shropshire. About ten miles distant from the town are some considerable lead mines; but those works have no influence upon the trade or prosperity of the place—the former being entirely of a local nature, without manufacturing establishments of any kind. The parish church of Saint John the Baptist, is a fine old structure, principally in the Norman style, with a square embattled tower, crowned with pinnacles; it was burnt by Cromwell in the parliamentary war, and was re-built without a due regard to the original style of its architecture. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Earl Powis and Rev. William Morgan Rowlands is the present vicar. There are places of worship for Independents and Primitive Methodists. The free school here was founded in 1737 by Mrs. Mary Morris, and endowed with £1,000. in the three per cents., for the instruction of twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls in reading, writing and arithmetic, and the girls also in plain sewing. There are some handsome seats within a few miles of Bishop’s Castle—Walcott, the property of the Earl Powis, is about four miles distant; Linley Hall, the seat of Thomas Frederick More Esq. is about the same distance, and nearer the town is Oakeley, belonging to the family of that name. The market is held on Friday; and the fairs on March 26th, and 27th, the first Friday after May 13th, the second Monday in June, July 5th, Friday before July 13th, September 9th, and November 13th. By the government returns for 1841 the borough and parish contained 1,781 inhabitants, and by those for 1851, 1,961 POST OFFICE, Market cross, Edward Griffiths, _Post Master_.—Letters from LONDON, LIVERPOOL, BRISTOL and all parts, arrive every morning at eight, and are despatched thereto every evening at six. NOBILITY, GENTRY AND CLERGY. Beddoes Mr. John, Greenfields Bright Rev. John B. Totterton Bright Mrs. —, Totterton Downes Mrs. Sarah, Castle st Gellion Miss Mary, Welch st Gilliard Mr. —, Ivy House Griffithes Miss Fanny, Church st Griffithes Thomas Jones, Esq. near the Church Hamar Mr. William, Church st Hammond the Misses Martha and Sarah, Welch street Luther Mr. Robert, Acton More Rev. Frederick, Linley More Thos. Frederick, Linley Hall Oakeley Rev. Arthur, Oakeley Owen Rev. Richard, Slanner Owen John, Esq. Broadway Powis the Honble. Earl, Walcott Rogers Rev. John, Home Rowlands Rev. Wm. Morgan, Vicarage Sayce Miss Elizabeth, Castle st Wellings Mrs. My. Ann, School House White Robert More, Church stoke Williams Rev. George, Welch st ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. Bright Mary, (boarding), Church st Griffiths Sarah, (day), Market cross Meridith Richd. (boardng), Castle grn NATIONAL SCHOOL, Back lane,—James Fulcher, master ATTORNEYS. Griffiths Thomas, Welch st Pardoe Frederick, Market cross BAKERS & FLOUR DEALERS. Gough Jno. (& confctionr.), Church st Richards Mary, Church st