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former is now made parochial, and the latter is a district church, having been munificently endowed hy Earl Beauchamp with the great tithes of Malvern (some £300 per annum), and is now called Guarlford Rectory. There are chapels for Roman Catholics, Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Lady Huntingdon's. A magnificent new college, and schools of all kinds; two banks, two dispensaries, and a rural hospital; public fountains or tanks, at St. Ann's Well, for the gratuitous drinking of perhaps the purest water in the kingdom; a chalybeate spring, a District Visiting Society and Lying-in Charity, a Horticultural Society, a Library and Mechanics' Institute, a Naturalists' Field Club, a Rifle Corps, a Magistrates' Office, and Police Station attached, a Town Commissioners' Office, a Small Debts Court, and innumerable charities, both public and private.

The first Act constituting the village of Great Malvern a town was passed in 1851, and the Amendment Act in 1858; and now the town, by Sir Henry Lambert's advice, has availed itself of a Local Government Act, passed last session, by which important changes will be effected in the constitution and proceedings of the governing body. The Board of Commissioners have had their share of trials and difficulties, arising from the initiation of expensive new works, and from fraudulent clerks or collectors abstracting their money. In the last case of fraud, I am told, the accounts had been audited by the finance committee and found correct to within 24d., while at the same time the collector was nearly £1,000 in arrears! The Market-place, provided for in the last Act of Parliament, has not been built, and the funds are all spent. The Local Board are adopting measures to make the drainage complete and effective. There is plenty of water for all purposes, but the tanks are not sufficiently large. In fact, the town, being in a stage of rapid transition, must be content for some time to bear the burdens and inconveniences arising from its own very prosperous growth.

Lady Emily Foley is lady of the manor, and the other