DIRECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. 3 Ut£oxeter is a bro.IIICh of the Great Northern railway l The following list gives the several poor law unions, wi1h through Weston-on--Trent to Stafford. The South Stafford- the places contained in each: shire communicates firom Burton, by Lichfield to Wal Burton-upon-Trent Union. sa.ll. The Great Western line from London, through Ox ford a.n.d Warwick, to Birmingham, passes th£mee to Anslow Hoon (Derby) Handsworth, "\Vest Bromwich, Swa.n. Village, Wednesbll.T"Y Ash (hamlet) (Derby) Horninglow and Bilston to Wolverhampton, and to Shrewsbury and Earton Blount (do.) lngleby (Derby) the North. From Birmimgfuam is a. branch line through Barton-under-Needwood Linton (do.) Smethwick, Rowley Regis, Old Hill and Cra.dley to Stmu Bearwardcote (Derby) Lullington (do.) bridge. The West !Midlam.d section of the Great Western Branstone Marston-upon-Dove (Derby) has om.other line from London to the North, through Ox Bretby (Derby) Mickleover (do.) ford and Woreeste.r to Stourbridge, Brierley Hill, Dudley, Burnaston (do.) Newton Solney (do.) Tipton MJd Bilston and Wolverhampton. The Midland Burton Extra Osleston & Thurvaston (do.) railwary skirts the eastern border of the county from Derby Burton-upon-Trent Outwoods by Burto:n-on-Tre.nt am.d Tamworth to Birmingham, with Castle Gresley (Derby) Radbourne tDerby) a line tJh;rough Sutton Goldfield to Wal.sall; this compaJny Catton (do.) Repton (do.) have acquired the line running through Willenhall to Wed Caudwell (do.) Rolleston nesfieM. Church Broughton (Derby) Rosliston (Derby) The hundreds a:r~e five, but each of these form two divi Church Gresley (do.) Stanton & Newhall (Derby) l!lions-r, Totmonslow, in the north, or North Totmonslow Coton-in-the-Elms (do.) Stapenhall (Derby) (Leek) and South Totmonslow (Cheadle); 2, Pirehill, in Dalbury-with-Lees (do.) Stretton the north-west, or North Pirehill (Potteries) BII!d South Drakelow (do.) Sutton-on-the-Hill (Derby) Pire.hill (Stone); 3, Offiow, in the east, or NOTth Offiow Dunstall Swadlincote (do.) (Eurton-upon-Trent) and South Offiow (Walsall); 4, Cut Egginton (Derby) Tatenhill tlestone, in the north-west, or East Cuttlestone (Rugffiey Etwall (do.) Trusley (Derby) and West Cnttlestone (Gnosall); 5, Seisdon, in the south, Find ern (do.) Tutbury m; North Seisdon (Sedgeley) a!Ild South Seisdcm (Kin Foremark (do.) Twyford & Stenson (Derlly) fare). Foston & Scropton (partly Walton-upon-Trent (do.) Many of the parishes are very lwge, but acr-e divided for Derby) Wichnor ecclesiastical purposes. There are 235 civil parishes and Hanbury Willington (Derby) parts of fourteen others. The assize town is at Stafford; llatton(Derby) Winshill (do.) the seat of the bishopric and will courts at Lichfield. Hitton & Hargate manor (do.) Staffordshire ihllls one corurt of quarter sessions, rund is Cannock Union divided into twenty petty sessional divisions ; the city of Acton Trussell and Bednall Hatherton Lichfield and the boroughs of Hanley, Newcastle-under Brewood Hilton Lyme, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton have Bushbury Huntington commissions of the peace '81Ild separate oou.rts of petty Cannock Kinvaston sessions; and the boroughs of Longton, Stafford 81Ild Tarn Cheslyn Hay Lapley and Wheaton Aston worth have commissions of the peace. Church Eaton N orton Canes Staffordshire is in the Oxford circuit, province of Can Coppenhall Penkridge tarbury and diocese of Lichfield, divided into the arch Dunston Saredon deaconries of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent; the aTCih Essington Sbareshill deaconry of Stafford is Slllb-d.ivided irnto the rural Feathers tone Stretton deaneries of Brewood,Handsworth, Himley, Lichfield,Penk Great Wyrley Teddesley Hay ridge, Rugeley, StaffO!l'd, Tamworth, Trysull, Tutbury, Walsall arn.d Wolve.r'hampton. The archdea.c