bricks and two stones, and on the eastern by four stones, one brick, and a piece of rod-iron tacked on to keep a contiguous chimney straight.  The chapel has a somewhat spacious interior; and has a large gallery fixed on six rather slender iron pillars.  The pews have at some time had one or more coats of light delicate green paint—­the worst colour which could be chosen for endurance—­put upon them, and many are now curiously black at the rear, through people leaning back against them.  A glance round shows the various sombre places, and their relative darkness gives a fair clue as to the extent of their use.

At one end there is a small gallery for the choir and the organ, and in front of it the pulpit, a plain moderately-subtantial affair, is located.  The organ is a very poor one.  It has a tolerably good appearance; but it is a serious sinner with reference to its internal arrangements.  We quietly examined it very recently, and should have gone away with a determination not to be comforted if an intimation had not been made to the effect that “the organist was organising a plan for a new organ,” and that there was some probability of a better instrument being fit up before very long.  The members of the choir are of a brisk, warbling turn of mind, and can push through their work blithely.  The singing is thoroughly congregational—­permeates the whole place, is shot out in a quick, cheerful strain, is always strong and merry, is periodically excellent, is often jolly and funny, has sometimes a sort of chorus to it, and altogether is a strong, virtuously-jocund, free and easy piece of ecstacy which the people enjoy much.  It would stagger a man fond of “linked sweetness long drawn out,” it might superinduce a mortal ague in one too enamoured of Handel and Mozart; but to those who regularly attend the place, who have got fairly upon the lines of Primitive action, it is a simple process of pious refreshment and exhileration.

The chapel will hold between 700 and 800 persons; if hydraulicised 1000 might be got into it; but such a number is rarely seen in the place; and the average attendance may be set down at about 600.  There are about 400 members in connection with the place, and they respectively contribute 1d. per week towards the expenses.  We may here remark that in Preston there are two Primitive Methodist chapels, that in Saul-street being the principal one.  The “circuit” runs mainly westward, its utmost limit in that direction being Fleetwood.  Formerly three ministers were stationed at Saul-street chapel; but two are now considered sufficient; and they are, as a rule, married men, the circuit being considered sufficiently large to keep parties in the “olive branch” category.  In the whole circuit there are between 700 and 800 “members.”  The congregation of Saul-street chapel is almost entirely of a working-class character.  In the front and on each side of the body of the building there are a few free seats, which are mainly used by very poor humble-looking people.