Two or three “classes” meet every Sunday for instruction in the church.  Formerly, owing to defective accomodation, the members of them had to assemble in two public-house rooms, where the education was in one sense of the “mixed” kind, for whilst virtue was being inculcated above, where the members met, the elegant war-whooping of pagans below, given over to beer, tobacco, and blasphemy, could be heard.  This wasn’t a thing to be desired, and as soon as ever the church was ready, a removal to it was effected.  Educational business in connection with St. Saviour’s is carried on in various parts of the district.  In Vauxhall-road there are day schools with an average attendance of 220.  On Sundays, the work of education is carried on here; also at the Parsonage-house (which adjoins Lark-hill convent), where a mother’s class is taught by Mrs. Thompson; in Shepherd-street, where a number of poor ragged children meet; and likewise, as before stated, in the church; the aggregate attendance being about 900.  The Parsonage-house was purchased and presented to St. Saviour’s by the late J. Bairstow, Esq.  Handsome new schools are being built (entirely at the expense of R. Newsham, Esq., who has been a most admirable friend to St. Saviour’s) near the church.  They will accommodate about 400 scholars, and will, it is expected, be ready by the end of the present year.  The entire cost of the church, parsonage house, &c., has been about 10,000 pounds; and not more than 50 pounds will be required to clear off all the liabilities thus far incurred.

The incumbent of St. Saviour’s is plain, unpoetical, strong-looking, and practical.  He was reared under the shadow of Ingleborough.  We have known him for 30 years.  On coming to Preston he was for sometime a mechanic; then he became missioner in connection with the Protestant Reformation Society, first at St. Peter’s in this town,—­ and next at St. Mary’s.  Afterwards he left, studied for the ministry, and six years since, as already intimated, came to St. Saviour’s as its incumbent.  For a time after the church was erected, he had nothing to depend upon but the pew rents, which realised about 70 pounds a year:  but fortune favours parsons:  the Ecclesiastical Commissioners subsequently increased his stipend, then 1,000 pounds was left by J. Bairstow, Esq., and the income is now equal to about 300 pounds per annum.  Mr. Thompson is not a brilliant man, and never will be.  He is close-shaven, full-featured, heavily-set, slow is his mental processes, but earnest, pushing, and enduring.  He is an industrious parson, a striving, persevering, roughly-hewn, hard-working man—­a good visitor, a willing worker, free and kindly disposed towards poor people, and the exact man for such a district as that in which he is located.  If a smart, highly-drawn, classical gentleman were fixed as minister in the region of St. Saviour’s, the people would neither understand him nor care for him.  If he talked learnedly, discussed old cosmogonies,