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Rh in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry; K.B. £10 19s. 7d.; patron, the Earl of Bradford. That of St. Paul's is in the Grecian style of architecture, and was erected by the Governors of the Free Grammar School, who obtained an Act of Parliament to allow them to devote a portion of their funds to this purpose; patrons, the Governors of the Grammar School. There are chapels for various denominations of dissenters. Walsall bas more than an ordinary share of charitable institutions, but our limits have been already so far trespassed on, that we can only particularise a few. The free Grammar School, richly endowed, an English school, supported from the same funds, a Blue Coat School, several Sunday Schools, Almshouses, and very numerous benefactions.

The buildings with a high chimney are Mr. Thelwall's iron-plate works, called, we believe. Wednesbury Forge. Walsall can be seen to the left, a little to the south-east. The embankment on which we are now travelling is one mile and a half in length; it is crossed by two bridges, and carries the rails over one. At this post we enter the Tame Hill Cutting, which is in some places upwards of twenty feet below the level of the fields: in this, one bridge crosses the line.

One hundred and fifty yards further, on the right, is Chorley Mount,