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 town are places of worship for various classes of Dissenters, a free endowed Grammar School; a School conducted on the national plan; several bequests for clothing the poor; and an apprenticeship fund.

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This excavation now becomes very deep, and is in some places between 50 and 60 feet below the fields.

Swinnerton Park, the seat of Mr. Charbutt, lord of the manor, is to the left; the grounds are said to be seven miles in circumference. A pack of hounds is, we believe, kept there.

About two miles more to the left or eastward, is Trentham, the magnificent seat of the Duke of Sutherland; this mansion is built on the plan of the late Buckingham-house (now the Queen's palace); the grounds are very extensive, and highly ornamented with hill and valley, wood and water; the latter is abundantly supplied by the river Trent, which, in its course through the grounds, has been converted into artificial lakes. A handsome, but somewhat heavy family mausoleum, bas been erected on the east side of the road, near the grounds; this seat, being situated in a valley, at the foot of four high hills, cannot be seen from the Railroad, particularly as this part of the Line is is in a deep cutting; but the stranger,