Preston support from this district.  Lastly, we may remark that there is a good staff of tract distributors, supervised by a ladies’ committee, in connection with St. Paul’s.  The distributors are chiefly young women belonging the schools.  Owing to the vastness of the district it is contemplated to erect as early as possible a school chapel as an auxiliary of the church.  It will be built near the railway bridge in St. Paul’s-road.  R. Newsham, Esq., has offered to give a handsome sum towards the edifice, which is much needed.  When opened a second curate will be required, and towards the stipend of such gentleman, E. Hermon, Esq., M.P., has offered to contribute liberally.  The salary of the incumbent is about 280 pounds per annum.  The generality of the officials connected with the church and schools have been long at their posts—­a proof of even action and good harmony; everything seems to be progressing steadily in the district; and if St. Paul himself had to give it a visit he would shake hands warmly with Mr. Myres, the incumbent, praise Mrs. Myres and the baby, and throw up his hat gleefully at the good work which is being done amongst the people.

ST. MARY’S-STREET AND MARSH-END WESLEYAN CHAPELS, AND THE TABERNACLE OF THE REVIVALISTS.

“When shall we three meet again?” We can’t tell—­don’t care about knowing; you have met now; and keep quiet, if possible, whilst being vivisected.  There are worse companions, so shake hands, and sigh for universal bliss.  We shall use the dissecting knife with a kindly sharpness.  The first of the places named is situated in St. Mary’s-street, opposite a very high wall, which we believe is intended to prevent men from scaling it, and is closely associated with the arrangements of the House of Correction.  One hundred yards off, it looks like a high, modernised, seaside hotel; fifty yards off, it seems like a well-arranged gentleman’s residence, in the wrong place; two yards off, it indicates its own mission, and clearly shows that something embracing both education and religion is carried on within it.  It is a large, well-built, quadrangular building, with two round-headed ranges of windows in front, and a good roof above, surmounted with an iron rail, put up apparently for imaginary purposes.  Nobody has yet got over that rail so far as we have heard; and if the job is ever attempted, nothing will be found on the other side worth carrying home.  The foundation stone of this building—­it is really a school chapel—­was laid on Good Friday, 1866, and the place was opened in the same year.  The place cost 2,500 pounds, and it is nearly out of debt.  Internally, it is full of rooms.  On the ground floor there are nine apartments—­all well disposed, appropriately fit up, and set apart for general scholastic and class purposes.  On week days, some of them are used as school-rooms, the average attendance of pupils, who are carefully looked after, being about 120; and on Sundays they