for God’s ancient people of Israel.”  “Does this mean the Jews?” said we to an elderly man near us, whilst we were scrutinizing with a plaintive eye, the pulpit, and he replied, “Bleeve it does.”  That, we thought, was a bad speculation for a chapel containing two subscription boxes for “sick and needy scholars.”  The man who wrote out that exhortation in the interests of Petticoat-lane men and their kindred, and the patriot who drove with a fierce virtue the four nails into it didn’t, we are afraid, know clearly how much it costs to convert a genuine Jew, else more caution would have been exercised by each of them.  A Jew’s eye is a costly thing; but a Jew’s conversion is much more expensive; you can’t get at the thing fairly for less than 10,000 pounds; and as five good Wesleyan Chapels could be built, in ordinary districts, for that sum, we advise Wesleyans to go in for chapels and not for Jews.

If the pulpit had not been a broad and accommodating one, in St. Mary’s-street Chapel, we should have been inclined to think that the parson might have had a “walk round.”  There is just space enough in front of the pulpit for a medium-sized gentleman to pass between it and the front rails.  In a moment of high dudgeon, a thin preacher with a passion for “action” might easily flank off and traverse it frontally; but an easy-minded individual would find plenty of room in the pulpit, and if he did not, presuming he were stout, he would have to “crush” considerably in order to accomplish a full circular route.  Beyond and in the immediate front of the pulpit rails there is a circular seat.  This we fancied, during our inspection, was the “penitent form”—­it seemed close and handy during a season of stern excitement and warm eruption; but in a moment we were told it was for “sacrament people,” who patronise it in turns, on particular Sundays.  Two services are conducted on Sundays here by regular and itinerent preachers; the former coming from Lune-street Chapel, and the latter being furnished out of the general lay body.  Nearly every night throughout the week, class meetings, &c., are held in the building, and they are conducted with much rapture and peacefulness.  How the Jew-converting business gets on we cannot tell—­badly, we imagine; but in respect to the ordinary operations of the place they are successful and promise to be still more so.  A chapel whose members branched off from this place has been established at Walton.  About 12 months ago it was opened.  A cottage situated on the road side leading to the church constitutes the walhallah of Methodism there, and the support accorded to it is increasing.  We have no more to say as to the St. Mary’s-street mission.  We hope it will go on and agreeably grapple with the people in its own district whatever may become of the Jews.