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 the right of returning one member. The electors are householders of from £10 upwards; of these there are about 800. The returning officer is appointed by the Sheriff of the county.

Dudley possesses many charitable institutions, among which are three endowed charity schools; one for clothing and educating 50 boys, one for clothing and educating 40 girls, and the Blue Coat School, which is, we believe, under the management of the Unitarians. Here is also a Free Grammar School, endowed to the amount of between £300 and £400 per annum. The celebrated James Baxter lived here for some time. Dudley confers the title of Earl on the family of Ward.

WALSALL is a market town, parish, and borough, in the south division of the hundred of Offlow, county of Stafford. Pop. 15,006; An. As. Val. 26,692. Markets on Tuesday; fairs. Feb. 24. Whit Tuesday, and Tuesday before Michaelmas Day, chiefly for horses, cattle, and cheese. The derivation of the name is evidently from the word Waleshall and Walshale, from its situation having been near a Druidical forest, in which the Saxons afterwards erected a temple to. Queen Elizabeth visited the town of "Walshale," as did. Queen of Charles the First. The former, however, visited as a patron; the latter to await the event of the first battle between the people and their sovereign-the former on the 13th of June, a harbinger of prosperity, anticipating summer; the other on the 23rd of October,