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like the Graham, Victoria, and Albert Roads, with splendid mansions, have been completed - new hotels, churches, railway stations, new schools, dissenting chapels, and houses of refreshment - rows of new and handsome shops, and other institutions which mark the town as one of the most thriving and well-cared for places in her Majesty's dominions. By and by the entire hills, seven or eight miles long, will be surrounded by a zone of houses, and for natural beauty and many other advantages will eclipse all other inland watering-places. The hotels are numerous; the two new ones recently erected at the railway stations are really palatial, and were far too expensively constructed for the pecuniary welfare of the proprietors. That at the Link was built, among other purposes, to accommodate the many railway trips which pour in here in the season; but these visitors so misbehaved themselves on frequent occasions that the inhabitants petitioned the railway companies against the nuisance. Certain days were then fixed for trips, during which ladies and the more timid residents remained at home. When will John Bull learn his manners abroad?

A large proportion of the inhabitants let lodgings, and at exorbitant rates, owing to the high rents injudiciously exacted of them by the landlords. This will ultimately cure itself by the extension of bricks and mortar. But now let us see what are the other institutions of the place. There is a fine old priory church (recently restored by Mr. Scott, at a cost of upwards of £10,000), arid a gateway, the only remains of the monastic establishment of Malvern; churches at the top and bottom of the Link (a name given to a row of villas lining the road on the common as you approach the town from Worcester); a church at Malvern Wells, and the remains of a monastic church at Little Malvern; a church on the west side of the hills, and another recently consecrated at Cowleigh Park, north of the town. Newland Church, two miles on the Worcester road, was formerly a chapelry to Malvern, as also was that at Barnard's Green, but the