• B l{NLEY . THIS populous manufacturing town is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Brun, at its confluence with the Calder, and is an im­ portant station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line of railway. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes through the town, which is dis­ tant 6 miles from Accrington, lit E.N.E. from Blackburn, 5t S.S.W. :from Colne, 28t N. from Manchester, 43! from Leeds, 47 N.E. from Liverpool, 22-i from Preston, and 217 N. W. from London. !rhe ~own is abundantly supplied with coal, stone, and water, and ita manu­ factures and commerce have advanced with rapid strides during tht last forty years. The cotton trade is carried on very extensively. both in the town and neighbourhood, and there are also iron foundries, machine and loom makers, collieries, a paper mill, stone quarries, brick and tile manufactories, &c. · Burnley is a county, parliamentary, municipal and quarter sessions borough, a market town, parish and poor law union of 30 townships. Its first representative in Parliament was Richard Shaw, Esq., who was returned in 1868. At his death, in 1876, Peter Rylandli, Esq., was elected as his successor; on the death of Mr. Rylands, in 1887, John Slagg, Esq., was returned, who resigned on account of ill-health, in February, 1889, shortly after which he died. On the resignation, in January, 1893, of J. S. Balfour, Esq., the Hon. Philip Stanhope was elected in his stead, and he was again re-elected in July, 1895. The population of the township of Burnley in 1801, was 3,305; 1811, 4,368 ; 1821, 6,387; 1831, 7,551 ; 1841, 10,699. In 1851, the population of the township was 14,706, and that of Habergham Eaves, 12,549. In 1861, a Charter of Incorporation was granted, the popu­ lation of the newly constituted borough being 28,700; in 1871, it had advanced to 40,858. In 1881, the population of the parliamentary borough was 63,502, and of the municipal borough, 58,882 ; and in 1891 the figures were 86,000 and 87,058 respectively. The borough was enlarged in 1889 by including portions of Reedley Hallows, Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Briercliffe, and Ightenhill Park, but these .portions of townships have now, by the operation of "The Local Government Act, 1894," and of orders of the Corporation and County Council and the Local Government Board, been amalgamated in t\1-e township of Burnley, which embraces the whole of the munic)pal borough. It now covers an area of 4,015 acres, and its populatioD is estimated at upwards of 95,000, and the rateable value is £320,000. The corporation have taken precautions against the pollution of the river Calder by sewage, by the construction of sewage disposal works at Duekpits for the treatment of the sewage from about 76,0JO of the population,. and separate works at Altham for the treatment of the sewage from the remainder of the population are in course of construction. The system of sewage disposal adopted is that krtown as precipitation, with subsequent intermittent downward filtration. The total area of land at Duckpits is about 70 acres, and that of the Altham works 15 acres. The extensions of the borough necessitated A .