The following heights of places above the sea, either near or in sight of the Great Western Railway (Birmingham, Shrewsbury, and Chester Sections,) taken by the Rev. T. E. Evans, of Trinity College, Cambridge, are “facts worth knowing:”—Hawkstone, 834 feet; Grinshill, 696; Nesscliff, 630; Llanymynech church, 246; Breiddin, 1,236; Wrekin, 1,494.; Cyrn Moelfre, 1,746; Cader Ferwyn, 2,826; Cern-y-Bwch, 1,206. By Mr. Murchison:—Oswestry, 460; plan of Shrewsbury, 97; surface of the Ellesmere canal under Heathhouse bridge, 260 feet. The canal at Chirk is the height of two locks more than the canal near Whittington. Allowing 24 feet for the rise, it would make the surface of the canal at Chirk, 334 feet. The late Rev. Walter Davies, rector of Manafon, in his Historical notice of Llansilin, published in the first volume of the _Cambro-Briton_, says, “In 1699 there was a well in the parish of Oswestry, called _Ffynnon Maen Tysilio_, where the inhabitants resorted to celebrate their annual Wake.” _Oswestry Show_, long since discontinued, was generally held on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday. As a pageant it bore no comparison with Shrewsbury Show. The incorporated companies of the town walked in procession, preceded with flags, bands of music, &c. “There was formerly,” says the _Oswestry Herald_, “a castle at Maesbury, in that township, as we find from Domesday Book. Rainald the Sheriff (all whose estates devolved on the Fitz-Alans,) held Maesburie under Roger et ibi fecit Rainaldus Castellum Lvvre.” No mention of this castle is made by Pennant, Bingley, or any subsequent historian or tourist. Poor Rate Return. OSWESTRY TOWN AND PARISH (1855.) Town and Parish. Acreage Gross Rental Rateable value assessed to the Relief of poor. A. R. P. £ S. D. £ S. D. Oswestry Town & Liberties. 1753 2 24 16604 18 6 14933 13 0 Ditto Parish 13911 1 31 22280 0 0 20052 10 3 Sketches OF The Environs of Oswestry.