WALSALL, Staffordshire, a market-town, municipal and parlia mentary borough, and the neat of a Poor-Law Union, in the parish of Walsall, is situated in 52° 35' N. lat., 58' W. long., distant 17 miles S.S.E. from Stafford, 121 miles N.W. from London by road, and 128 zuilea by the London and North-Western and South Staffordshire railways. The population of the municipal and tho parliamentary boroughs, which are co-extensive, was 25,680 in 1851. The borough is governed by 6 aldermen and 18 councillors, of whom one is mayor ; and returns one member to the Imperial Parliament. The living is a vicarage, in the arebdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. Walsall roor-Law Union contains eight parishes and townships, with an area of 21,603 acres, and a population in 1851 of 43,041.
The town of Walsall is irregularly laid out, but contains numerous good houses. The parish church of St. Matthew is in the centre and highest part of tho town. The tower is of fine proportions, and is surmounted with a lofty spire. St. Paul's chapel, n handsome Grecian
building, was erected by tho trustees of the grammar school.t There are chapels for Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists, lndepeudents, and Roman Catholics, Free Grammar school, National schools, and an Infant school. There are an old town-bnll, a small borough jail, and a handsome public library and newsroom, with a Doric colonnade. Walsall is situated on the eastern border of the South Stafford shire coal-field, and of the Warwickshire and Staffordshire iron district. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of gnus, gas-tubes, chains, locks, keys, spades, shovels, hinges, screws, files, edge tools, buckles, stirrup-irons, bridle-bits, and machinery. There are brass- and iron-foundries; and in the vicinity are coal-pits and free stone quarries. A market is held on Tuesday. There are three yearly fairs. A county court is held. Races are held about Michaelmas. WALSHAM. [NORFOLK.]