are devoted to “class” business.  In a large room above, children are also taught on Sundays:  the general attendance on those days throughout the place being about 450.  This school-chapel owes its existence to the cotton famine.  During that trying period, when people had nothing else to do but think, live on 2s. a week, and grow good, Messrs. Wilding and Strachan generously opened a room connected with their mill in New Hall-lane, for secular and religious instruction.  It was attended mainly by those belonging the Wesleyan persuasion; in time it became too little; and the result was the erection of a school-chapel in St. Mary’s-street.  We have never seen a better arranged nor a more commodious place of its kind than this.  Its class, and ordinary scholastic departments we have alluded to.  Let us now proceed above--into the room used for worship.  You can reach it from either the northern or the southern side, but from neither can you make headway without ascending a strong, winding series of steps, which must be trying and troublesome to heavy and asthmatic subjects, if any of that sort ever show themselves at the building.  The room is large, lofty, clean, and airy, and will hold about 400 persons.  Just within each doorway there is a box, intended for contributions on behalf of “sick and needy scholars.”  But both have been put too near the side; they often catch people’s clothes, on entering, and as everybody is not disposed to stop and exercise the organ of benevolence, whilst the remainder wish to be judicious about the business and save their dresses, it has been decided to shift them inwards a little.  From the centre of the ceiling, gas burners, in star-shaped clusters, are suspended, and when the taps are on they give good lights.

The congregation, which is generally constituted of working-class people, numbers about 350.  The people attending this place are a quiet, devoted lot, with patches of pride and self-glorification here and there about them, but, on the whole, kindly-looking and sincere.  Some of them are close-minded and intensely orthodox; but the majority are wide-awake, and won’t pray for fair weather until it has given over raining.  The members of the choir sit on the eastern side, and if not so refined and punctillious in their musical performances, they are at least pretty strong-lunged and earnest.  They are located near the wall.  The harmonium-player enjoys a closer proximity to it.  He manipulates with fair skill, has a clock right above him, and ought, therefore, to keep “good time.”  If he doesn’t, then let the clock be condemned as a deceiver and incumberer of the wall.  The pulpit is a broad, neatly-arranged affair—­fixed upon a platform at the southern end, and environed with rails of blue and gold colour.  Just within, and on its immediate left, there is a small paper nailed up with four nails, and containing, is written English, these words, as a reminder for each preacher during his “supplications”—­“Pray