minister, who had exchanged pulpits with the regular clergyman.  He was a cute, well-educated little party; but awfully uneasy—­was never still—­moved his head, arms, and body about at the rate of 129 times a minute (we timed him with a good centre-seconds watch), talked much out of the left corner of his mouth; was full of rough vigour and warm blood; would have been a “boy” with a shillelagh; and yet he got along with his work excellently.  We couldn’t help smiling when we saw, during the preliminary portion of the service, another surpliced gentleman join him.  Just when the lessons came on a stout, plump-featured, and most fashionably-whiskered young man stepped into the pulpit, crushed the little Oswaldtwistle party into the north-eastern Corner of it, and poured out for about twenty minutes a sharp, monotonous volume of sacred verses.  The scene underwent further development when, during the singing, both stood up side by side.  The pulpit, would hardly hold them; but they stuck well to its inner sides, cast tranquil fraternal glances at each other, once threw a Corsican brother affection into the scene, looked now and then fierce, as if feeling that each had as much right to the pulpit as the other, and finally marched off with a twinly love beaming in their eyes, to the vestry adjoining, from which in a few minutes the Oswaldtwistle minister emerged in a black gown, and entered the pulpit, whilst his companion followed, in a buttoned-up black coat, to the front of the communion rails, where he took a seat and became very quiet.  The sermon was briskly condemnatory of unbelief, for ten minutes, then got immensely pungent as to Popery, and ended in a coloured star-shower concerning the excellence of “the good old Church of England.”  We couldn’t help admiring the preacher’s eloquence; and a man who sat near us, and at the finish said, “Who is that fellow?”—­ a rather vulgar kind of query—­seemed to be fairly delighted with him.

The Church, in which the services will soon be held, stands close to the school.  It is a curious piebald-looking building; is made of brick with intervening stone bands and facings; and is something unique in this part of the country.  In the south of England—­ particularly in the metropolitan districts—­such like buildings are not uncommon; but hereabouts architecture of the Emmanuel Church type seems odd.  The edifice, although quaint, and rather poor-looking at first sight, owing to its bricky complexion, will bear close examination; indeed, the more you look at it and the better you become reconciled to its proportions.  In general contour it is symmetrical and strong; in detail it is neat and compact; and, whilst the colour of it may indicate some singularity, and strike you as being eccentrically variegated, there is nothing in any sense improper about the character of its materials, and as time goes on, and familiarity with them is increased, they will cease to look whimsical and appear just as good as anything else.  The general architecture