species push it towards consummation-like ease, and therefore are the owners of good cushions.  Very few cushions can be seen in St. Walburge’s; those noticeable are at the higher end; and the logical inference, therefore, is that not many superb people attend the place, and that those who do go sit just in the quarter mentioned.  At the doors of this church, as at those of other Catholic places of worship in the town, you may see men standing with boxes, asking for alms.  These are brothers of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.  The object of this society is to visit and relieve the sick and the poor.  The brothers are excellent auxiliaries of the clergy; and, further, do the work of the mendicity societies, like those now being established in London, by examing applications for relief, and so disappointing impostors.  The conference of St. Vincent attached to St. Walburge’s Church numbers 16 active members, who collected and distributed in food and clothing during last year 112 pounds.  The brothers are deserving of all praise for spending their evenings in visiting the sick and distressed, in courts and alleys, after their day’s work.

The singers at this church occupy a small balcony on the south side.  They are a pretty musical body—­got through their business ever so creditably; but they are rather short of that which most choirs are deficient in—­tenor power.  They would be heard far better if placed at the western end but a good deal of expense would have to be incurred in making orchestral arrangements for them there; so that for some time, at least, they will have to be content with their grated and curtained musical hoist on the southern side, singing right out as hard as they can at the pulpit, which exactly faces them, and at the preacher, if they like, when he gets into it.  The organ, which is placed above the singers, and would crush them into irrecoverable atoms if it fell, is a fine instrument; but it is pushed too far into the wall, into the tower which backs it, and if there are any holes above, much of its music must necessarily escape up the steeple.  The organ is played with taste and precision.  The members of the choir sing gratuitously.

Since the opening of St. Walburge’s there have been twelve different priests at it.  Three are in charge of it now.  Father Weston was the first priest, and, as already stated, was the mainspring of the church.  He died on the 14th of November, 1867, and to his memory a stained glass window will by and bye be fixed in the church.  This window is in Preston now; we have seen it—­it is a most beautiful piece of workmanship; and as soon as the requisite money is “resubscribed,” the original contributions having, through unfortunate financial circumstances, been more than half sacrificed, it will be fixed.  Father Henry, late rector of Stonyhurst College, was for some time at St. Walburge’s, and during his stay the work begun by Father Weston, and pushed on considerably by successive priests,