Market- Town.-There is no market-town in the parish; and the several large villages of Carronshore, Stenhousemuir, Cuttyfleld, Quarol, Larbert, are parts of the Carron Iron works, or its dependent collieries, all of which places are supplied with butcher-meat from Falkirk, at a distance of three miles, or by butcher-carts, which weekly visit the parish.

Means of Communication.-There is a penny-post at Carron and another at Larbert. The mail and a daily coach pass through Larbert, and coaches twice a-day pass through Carronshore, affording conveyance to either Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Ecclesiastical State.- The parish church is most incommodiously situated at the extreme west end of the parish. It contains sittings for 1200 persons, all of which are free except those appropriated to the heritors and their tenants. The manse was built in the year 1790, and in 1828, a large addition was made to it. The glebe consists of four acres of good land, and of a grass glebe of five acres. The stipend is sixteen chalders and a-half of oatmeal and barley. A helper is employed for the united parishes, who receives from the heritors L. 60 yearly. On the whole, the church is well filled; in the very cold weather, many of the workmen who are employed during the week over large fires, are unwilling to expose themselves to the cold of the church. There are in the parish about 1200 Dissenters; but there is no place of worship but the church. The Dissenters, i.e. the Seceders, &c. go to public worship in the Seceders churches at Falkirk, &c.

Education.- There are in the parish seven schools, viz. the parish school, one endowed and five unendowed schools, at which 518 children are regularly taught. This is a smaller number, with reference to the population, than could be desired, and it arises in a great measure from the circumstance that the colliers, moulders, and others, are enabled to turn their children's labour to profitable account at the age of twelve years. The style of teaching is extremely good. The explanatory system is adopted, and in many instances is successfully pursued.

English grammar, geography, writing, and arithmetic, are generally taught. Latin is also professed in several of the schools; but here, as elsewhere, the taste for the study of dead languages is on the wane.

The parochial schoolmaster has the maximum salary, and the school fees are worth about L. 60 per annum. The usual charge for teaching the ordinary branches, is three pence a week for each child.

There is a school within a reasonable distance of every house in the parish.

Library.-There is a parish library under the care of the minister.

Friendly Society.-There is no savings bank in the parish, but there is a Friendly Society at Carron, which is managed with great ability, and which has a most advantageous effect. There are also several dead funds for defraying the funeral expenses of the subscribers or their families.

Poor and Parochial Funds.-The management of the poor is entirely in the hands of the minister and kirk-session, who attend most carefully to their duties in this respect, as well as to the more direct duties of their sacred office. The number of persons on the poor roll is, on an average, 86. The following is a statement of the usual funds to meet the expense incurred.

Annual subscription from the heritors, being at the rate of L.4 Sterling on the L.I00 Scots valuation,	L. 26
Collection at the church door	L. 70
Donation	L 8
Total.......	L.104

In addition to the above, there is a sum of L. 500 given to the poor by the late Colonel Simpson of Plean, the yearly interest of which is expended in coal and food for the poor during the severest weather. Many of the resident heritors have a list of pensioners whom they relieve weekly.

Fairs.-The tryst of Falkirk is held within the parish of Larbert, (on a dry sandy level moor or heath, the property of Sir Michael Bruce,) on the second Tuesday of the month of August, September, and October. The first market is only for black-cattle. The two last are much more numerously attended. At each of these markets, there are about, 1st tryst, 4000 black-cattle, 400 horses and ponies; 2d and 3d trysts, 17,000 black cattle, 20,000 sheep, 700 horses and ponies. The tryst is of considerable advantage to the country, as it occasions a demand for grass and foggage. The second crop of clover is generally let for the two last markets, at the rate of L. 2 per acre; and a great deal of money is also circulated among the keepers of public-houses.

It is much to be lamented, that the number of houses licensed for the sale of spirits is so great; and there can de no doubt that the habitual use of ardent spirits has had a most injurious effect upon the morals of the people. The magistrates have endeavoured to check the increase of these houses; but the use of this alcoholic spirit, namely, whisky, is by no means diminished. The parish is well supplied with coal, and at a cheap rate.

There are several vessels belonging to Carronshore, but these all belong to the Carron Company, who have also a small dry-dock at the same place, where these vessels are repaired.