The Library, the Churches, extinct Monasteries, and other religious edifices, the remedial institutions, and the county and other public buildings, we have not space to notice, although they are, nearly all of them, of a superior order, and well deserve a place in our pages. Its history we gladly omit, for it is stained with the records, from time immemorial, of deadly feuds and bloody wars: of wars between the Irish chieftains themselves; of wars between the Irish and the Danes; and, afterwards, of wars between the natives and the Scotch and English invaders, especially in the turbulent times of Elizabeth. It was repeatedly plundered, burnt, and strewed with the desolation of warfare. No fewer than seventeen burnings of the city are recorded. These calamities reduced the city, which, as we have seen, King Alfred called "the splendid," to a place of insignificance; and Armagh was little better than a collection of cabins, when Dr. Robinson was translated from the see of Kildare to this archiepiscopal see

The retail trade of the town is very great. Its staple trade is the linen. It is surrounded by a fine flax-growing country; and large quantities of that article, together with butter of a superior quality, and a great supply of other agricultural produce, is disposed of at the weekly market on Tuesday. The railway from Newry to Enniskillen, which is to pass through Armagh, will be of material service to that town, as it carries on all its import and export trade via the port of Newry. The Ulster Railway, now rapidly approaching it, will connect it with Belfast. There are five banks in the town.

There are several good inns in Armagh. Wiltshire's, Keenan's, and Roger's, are very well ordered and comfortable, with good posting establishments. Several coaches, caravans, and other public vehicles, pass through the town, connecting it with Dublin, Newry, Belfast, Dungannon, Monaghan, &c.

The town, which is the capital of the county, has assizes twice a year. It is well lighted with gas. In 1841 it had a population of 10,245; houses, 1,493. It sent two members to the Irish Parliament, and sends one to the Imperial Parliament. Present Member, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Dawson Rawdon; born 1804; married 1828, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq. (by Lady Anne Meade, eldest daughter of John, first Earl Clanwilliam), Dowager Lady of Richard Thomas, second Baron Cremorne, and mother of Richard, present and third Baron; a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, and Captain in the Coldstream Guards; first elected in 1840, vice W. Curry, Esq.; appointed a Master in Chancery. Residence-Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair.

Clerk of the Crown and Peace.-L. Dobbin, Esq.
Deputy Clerk of the Peace.-John M'Kinstry, Esq.

Sessional Crown Solicitor.-James T. Bell, Esq.

Magistrates.-William W. Algeo, William Blacker, Thomas Dobbin, Thomas Kidd, Lee M'Kinstry, William Paton, George Robinson. Clerk of Petty Sessions.—Mr. William Barnes.

Police Commissioners.-George Armstrong, Robert Barnes, James Bennett, Jun., William Boyd, John Corry, Thomas Dobbin, Thomas K. Evans, Philip Keenan, Thomas Kidd, Thomas M'Cann, Francis M‘Kee, Lee M'Kinstry, John M'Parlan, William M'Williams, William Paton, George Robinson, William Rogers, George Scott, James Stanley, Hugh Trenor. Chairman, William Paton, Esq.; Treasurer, Samuel Gardiner, Esq.; Superintendent of Works and Clerk, Mr. Robert Cochran. Excise Office-Collector, Thomas Rowland, Esq.

Stamp Office.-Distributer, Thomas A. Prentice, Esq.
Post Office.-Postmaster, Mr. R. Birch.

Local Law Courts.-Court House, College Street. Presiding Barrister at Quarter Sessions, Edward Tickell, Esq., Q.C., 10 Clare Street, Dublin. Manor Court.-Seneschal, William Paton, Esq. Gaol.-Governor, Mr. John Turner.

Police Barracks.-County Inspector, Louis Anderson, Esq.; Sub-Inspector, W. Kelly, Esq.; Head Constable, Mr. John Lodge.

Literary and Scientific Institutions.—Observatory. Erected A.D. 1793. Astronomer, Rev. Thomas Romney Robinson, D.D., M.R.I.A.; Assistant Astronomer, Mr. Neil M Neil Edmondson. Public Library.—Librarian, Rev. J. F. Flaville; Deputy Librarian, Mr. Edward Rogers.

Institutions.-County Infirmary. Surgeon, Alexander Robinson, M.B. Fever Hospital.-Physician, John Colvan, M.D.

District Lunatic Asylum.-Governors and Directors, The Lord Primate, Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, R. C. Archbishop, Viscount Acheson, M.P., Colonel Sir William Verner, M.P., E. P. Shirley, Esq., M.P., C. P. Leslie, Esq., M.P., Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., M.P., Captain M. Archdall, M.P., Honourable J. P. Maxwell, M.P., John Young, Esq., M.P., Rev. Dr. Elrington, W. W. Algeo, Esq., Rev. Dr. Blacker, Sir James M. Stronge, Bart., R. J. Thornton, Esq., Rev. J. Jones, Sir George Molyneux, Bart., and William Paton, Esq.-Manager, Thomas Jackson, Esq.; Physician, W. L. Kidd, Esq., M.D.

Banks.-Bank of Ireland (Branch).-Agent, Thomas Dobbin, Esq.; Manager, Wm. Bredwin, Esq. Provincial.-Manager, J. Bowman, Esq. Belfast.-Manager, Thomas Kidd, Esq., J.P. Ulster.-Manager, A. J. Mulligan, Esq. Northern.Managers, William Kirk, Esq., J.P, and W. C. Gage, Esq. Savings Bank.-Actuary, Mr. William Christian.

Metropolitan Registry Office.-Registrar, G. Scott, Esq.; Deputy Registrar, Mr. Robert Riddell.

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Union Workhouse.--Chairman, Sir George K. Molyneux, Bart.; Vice-Chairman, William Paton, Esq.; Deputy ViceChairman, W. W. Algeo, Esq.; Clerk and Returning Officer, Mr. Malcolm M'Neale Johnston; Chaplains, Established Church, Rev. R. Haig; Presbyterian, Rev. J. R. M'Allister; Roman Catholic, Rev. M. O'Brien; Medical Attendant, John Leslie, Esq., M.D.

Hotels.-Wiltshire's Beresford Arms, Keenan's Royal Hotel, Burlinson's Hotel, Fegan's Albert Hotel, Browne's Commercial Hotel, Hughes's Victoria Hotel.

Mails and Stages.-Dublin (via Newry)-from Wiltshire's Hotel, at 9 A.M., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; and via Castleblaney and Carrickmacross, at 8 P.M., on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, arriving in Drogheda at a quarter past 3, to reach Dublin, by mail train, at 30 minutes past 4 o'clock, P.M. Mail (via Newry) from Wiltshire's, at 8 o'clock P.M.-Agent, Mr. Malcolm M'Neale Johnston, 41 Abbey Street; Office in English Street.

Newry.-Vans from Fegan's (mail) and Keenan's, every morning at 8; and cars from Keenan's and M'Parlan's, at 4 P.M. Monaghan.-Van from Hughes's Hotel, every morning at 6, proceeding to Clonos; also coach from same place every evening at 8; and a mail car leaves M'Parlan's every morning at a quarter past 5.

Enniskillen via Monaghan.-Mail from Wiltshire's, every night, at half-past 11.

Belfast-Mail from Wiltshire's, at half-past 12 A.M. every day; also conveyances from Keenan's, Burlinson's, M'Parlan's, and Curran's, to the terminus of the Ulster Railway at Portadown. Aughnacloy.-Van every morning, from Keenan's, at 6. Dungannon.-Mail from Wiltshire's, every morning at halfpast 4; and from Fegan's, Keenan's, and Burlinson's, cars every evening at half-past 6.

Leaving Armagh for Markethill, 5 miles, we pass, far on our left, Castledillon, the magnificent seat of Sir George King Aldercorn Molyneux, Bart., D.L.; and Hockley Lodge, the residence of the Honourable Henry Caulfield, D L., brother and heir-presumptive of the Earl of Charlemont. We next reach GOSFORD CASTLE, the splendid residence of the Earl of Gosford.

Archibald Acheson, son of the first Earl, by the daughter of Lieutenant-General Edward Pole; married, 1805, only daughter of Robert Sparrow, Esq., of Worlingham Hall, Suffolk (she died 1841); succeeded his father in 1807; was elected one of the representative Peers of Ireland in 1811, and has since obtained a Barony of the United Kingdom; is Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Armagh; has been Governor in

Canada; is Patron of seven Livings; was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, in 1835. The first Baronet was Solicitor-Gene

ral, and many years Secretary of State for Scotland. SeatsGosford Castle, Armagh; Worlingham Hall, Suffolk Heir, his son Archibald, Viscount Acheson, M.P.; born 1806; married 1832, only daughter of the tenth Earl of Meath (she was born 1808); is a Deputy-Lieutenant of Armagh, and Colonel of the Militia; has represented the county in Parliament since 1830.

GOSFORD CASTLE.

Gosford Castle is a modern mansion, only five or six years completed, and is of the early style of castellated baronial architecture. The handsome and well planted demesne, shelters, on the north, the neat little town of

MARKETHILL.

The town has a bridewell, a neat court-house, a dispensary, an inn, and several well-built houses. Markethill is the station of the County Militia Staff, of which Archibald Viscount Acheson, M.P. (eldest son of Lord Gosford), is Colonel, and William Blacker, Esq., J.P., of Carrick House (the eminent agricultural philosopher), is Lieutenant-Colonel. The town consisted, in 1841, of a population of 1,424; houses, 276.

The Farmers' Association is of inestimable utility to the whole district.

We now return to Newry. No house of note, except Loughgilly glebe, the residence of the Rev. William Henry Forster, rector, attracts our notice. To the right is Mountnorris, which gives the title of Baron to Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia. The fortress has been swept away by "Time's effacing fingers." There is no mount, nor ever was there, at the place; but tradition accounts for its name, thus: during the brief campaign of Sir John Norreys against Hugh O'Neill, the English general was suddenly surprised here, and his wife exclaimed, "Mount, Norreys, and flee, for the O'Neills are upon thee!" The fine agricultural district between this and Newry is minutely subdivided into small holdings, but is remarkable for the comfortable appearance of its cottages, the snug condition of its little farms, and the improved state of its agriculture.

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AVING now, gentle reader, conducted you once more to our head-quarters, Newry, nothing remains but to bid you farewell! Before we part, we would beseech you, who have accompanied us in our wanderings, "if in your memories dwell a thought that once was ours," that you would not criticise with too severe a nicety the various faults incidental to a work written under many serious disadvantages. Our materials having swelled far beyond the dimensions we originally proposed, the necessity of compression has caused the latter part to be sadly curtailed of its fair proportions." We regret that this is inevitable; for, while we have, still untouched, abundance of historical, legendary, antiquarian, topographical, and commercial data of the various places in that interesting route, we have fallen short of one object of our original aim, which was fully to point out the great natural resources and capabilities of the district we visited; and at the same time, without overlaying the subject with statistics, to give such scenic descriptions as might attract the attention of the tourist to the most interesting features of this part of the country. We would earnestly urge strangers, who visit more fashionable watering-places, to go forth into the country, with our Hand-book" as their guide, and traverse the routes we have attempted to depict. Such a series of excursions could be accomplished by any visitor at Rosstrevor or Warrenpoint in ten days, at a cost of less than as many pounds, and the expenditure will be repaid him tenfold in a thousand different ways.

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Probably next year we shall present ourselves in more imposing guise, and with enlarged pretensions to public support. However imperfect our performances, we trust that our attempt has not been wholly unworthy of the subject; and we also believe, all things considered, that the "Hand-book to Carlingford Bay and the Watering-Places in its Vicinity" will be found one of the very cheapest of the cheap issues that distinguish this age of economic literature. If, through its humble instrumentality, the beautiful district it treats of should attain inereased popularity in Ireland, and become at all known as it deserves in England, we shall be satisfied. We hope that all residents within the sphere of our circulation will aid, each as he best may, in the fulfilment of our design.