“as an affectionate tribute to the memory of Thomas German, Esq.”  About five years since, two class-rooms were attached to it, at the expense of J. Bairstow, J. Horrocks, R. Newsham, and T. Miller, Esqrs.  The other school, set apart for the girls, was erected after that built by Captain German.  Both of the schools are very good ones—­are large, lofty, and commodious.  That used for the boys is, scholastically, in a superior condition.  The master is sharp, fully up to his duties; and, according to a report by the government inspector, his school is one of the best in the district.  The average day attendance at the boys’ school is 150; whilst at the girls school the regular attendance may be set down at 330.  The schools are used on Sundays, and their average attendance then is 800.  Much might be written concerning them; but we must close; we have said enough; and can only add that if all are not saints who go to All Saints’ they are about as good as the rest of people.

UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH AND POLE-STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL.

We have two places of worship to struggle with “on the present occasion,” and shall take the freest yet most methodistical of them first.  The United Methodist Free Church—­that is a rather long and imposing name—­is generally called “Orchard Chapel.”  The “poetry of the thing” may suffer somewhat by this deviation; but the building appears to smell as sweetly under the shorter as the longer name, so that we shall not enter into any Criticism condemnatory of the change.  This chapel is the successor, in a direct line, of the first building ever erected in the Orchard.  Its ancestor was placed on precisely the same spot, in 1831.  Those who raised it seceded from the Wesleyan community, in sympathy with the individuals who retired from the “old body” at Leeds, in 1828, and who adopted the name of “Protestant Methodists.”  For a short time the Preston branch of these Methodists worshipped in that mystic nursery of germinating “isms” called Vauxhall-road Chapel; and in the year named they erected in the Orchard a building for their own spiritual improvement.  It was a plain chapel outside, and mortally ugly within.  Amongst the preaching confraternity in the connexion it used to be known as “the ugliest Chapel in Great Britain and Ireland.”  In 1834 a further secession of upwards of 20,000 from the Wesleyans took place, under the leadership of the late Dr. Warren, of Manchester.  These secessionists called themselves the “Wesleyan Association,” and with them the “Protestant Methodists,” including those meeting in the Orchard Chapel, Preston, amalgamated.  They also adopted the name of their new companions.  In 1857 the “Wesleyan Association” coalesced with another large body of persons, who seceded from the original Wesleyans in 1849, under the leadership of the Rev. James Everett and others, and the two conjoined sections termed themselves the “United Methodist Free Church.”  None of the separations recorded were occasioned by any theological difference with the parent society, but through disagreement on matters of “government.”