In fine, the beautiful trees and shrubs, the serpentine walks, the rustic bridges, the isle-dotted lake, the ivied rock-work, the modest chapels, and, above all, the tombstones of chaste and mostly appropriate design which meet us at every turn—all point out the Chester Cemetery as a fitting refuge for all, who in serious mood would “commune with their own hearts, and be still.” But we must not longer linger here, save to cast a look towards the ancient city, the river, Castle, and the New and Old Bridges, which from the north side of the Cemetery present to the eye a varied and truly interesting panorama. Opposite to the Cemetery, reached from the Grosvenor Road by a pretty little suspension bridge, is CURZON PARK, the property of Earl Howe, and upon which some handsome, aristocratic villas have been erected. It is from Curzon Park whence that view of the city is obtained which figures as the frontispiece of this “Guide,” and certainly from no point is old Chester seen to greater advantage than from this elevated and commanding locality. Continuing our course from the Cemetery, we come to what we who live in towns and travel only by rail, so seldom meet with—a turnpike-gate,—through which we see the _Grosvenor Gateway_, to be noticed more particularly hereafter. A road upon the left leads to HANDBRIDGE and QUEEN’S PARK, and that upon the right to one of the most thriving suburbs of Chester, HOUGH GREEN, and SALTNEY. Now, _we_ are not troubled with a superfluity of grey hairs, yet do we well remember SALTNEY when but two houses occupied the site of the present little town. There was nothing heard _then_ of the _Port_ and _trade of Saltney_! But since the cutting of the two great Railways which form a junction, though not an alliance, at this spot, SALTNEY has rapidly risen in importance and population. A large Ironworks and coal trade have been established, new streets have sprung up, yclept severally Cable Street, Curzon Street, Wood Street, &c., and the number of inhabitants is now computed at about 3000. The new Church, erected in 1854–5, comes scarcely within our province, standing just beyond the boundaries of the city, which is here separated only by a narrow lane from the Principality of WALES. Looking at the rapidity with which building is going on at SALTNEY, and at the causes which have induced it, we shall not go far wrong in predicting for this ‘child of the old city’ a long future of commercial health and prosperity.