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780 140,000. Birkenhead Cemetery, on Flaybrick Hill, occupies 20| acres of ground, and cost about 40,000.

 BIRMINGHAM, the fourth town in size and population in England, and the fifth in the United Kingdom, is situated at the extreme north-west of the county of Warwick, in 52 59 N. lat. and 1 18 W. long. It is 102 miles in a straight line N.W. of London, from which it is distant 112 miles by the North-Western Railway. The Roman Road, known as the Ikenield Street, runs through the town. On the north Birmingham touches Staffordshire, and on the south and west Worcestershire, the suburbs of the town extending largely into both these counties Har- borne and Handsworth being in the former and Balsall. 