BEVERLEY, a market and borough town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about a mile from the River Hull, with which it communicates by means of a canal called the Beverley Beck It consists principally of one long wide street, upwards of a mile in length, and terminated by an ancient gateway The magnificent collegiate church of St John is in size and splendour superior to many cathedrals. Having been erected at different times it exhibits various styles of Gothic architecture. The west front is said by Rickman to be the finest of its kind in England. It is 334 feet in length from east to west; the breadth of the nave and side aisles is 64 feet; the transept is 167 feet long; and the two towers at the west end are 200 feet in height. One of its most remarkable monuments is the Percy shrine. St Mary’s church is also an exceedingly handsome and spacious Gothic building. The market-place, which comprises an area of nearly 4 acres, is ornamented with an octangular market-cross. The grammar school is of great antiquity, and has two fellowships, six scholarships, and three exhibitions at St John’s College, Cambridge. There are several national and two infant schools, a blue-coat school, a mechanics’ institute, a news-room, several banks, a theatre, a jail, and a cattle-market. There is a large trade in grain, timber, and coal The tanning of leather is the principal industry; but there are also several important manufactories of agricultural implements and of artificial manures, as well as whiting-factories, corn and linseed mills, and breweries and malt-kilna. It formerly retuπ ed two members to parliament, but was disfranchised in 1870. Population of municipal borough in 1871, 10,218....