occasionally retire, and adjoining it is the room where the grand jury assemble.  The quarter sessions for the county are also held in this hall, and in it all county meetings are convened.  During the races there is a temporary boarded floor laid down, and the hall is converted into a ball-room, the two recesses being fitted up for card parties:  the pillars with which it is ornamented are encircled with wreaths of lamps, and what was before the solemn court of justice, is now converted into a brilliant and sportive scene, where gaiety and fashion take place of their predecessors.

The Court House.

This spacious and elegant pile of building is appropriated to the use of the body corporate, there being two rooms on the ground floor; that on the right is where the mayor and aldermen hold their assemblies, and the other is fitted up as a court, where the sessions are held for the borough.  On the second floor, there is a commodious, well-proportioned apartment, sixty feet by twenty-seven, which is fitted up in an elegant manner with superb cut-glass chandeliers of large dimensions, at one end of which is an orchestra and also a card room adjoining.  In this room annual entertainments are given by the mayor, and public meetings for the borough are convened.  In it public lectures upon any particular subject are occasionally delivered, and it is also sometimes used as a ballroom.

The Market House.

This substantial building does credit to the town; it being very convenient for those who bring the produce of their farms to market.  The upper apartments are made use of as store-rooms for the arms and accoutrements of the military within the county.  From its summit there is a fine view of the town, and also a prospect of the surrounding country.

The Stone Bridge.

This elegant structure, which is erected across the river Avon, consists of one arch, measuring 105 feet in the span, at the expense of four thousand pounds:  one thousand was contributed by the corporation, and the remainder was defrayed by the Earl of Warwick.

The Iron Bridge.

The rock whereon this town is erected being cut away, to make a road into it twenty-four feet wide, Charles Mills, Esq. one of the members for the borough, caused an iron bridge to be erected at his expense, across this road, and thereby formed a junction between the marketplace and the Saltsford.

The Theatre.

The town not being very extensive, this building was erected to correspond with the population:  it is no ways remarkable in its external appearance, but it is fitted up in a neat and convenient manner within, and is always opened during the races.

College School.