We passed the evening with this gentleman at the house of Mr.Wood, of the firm of Walker and Wood, to whom also we had letters from Lord Shaftesbury.

He, like our host, was an ardent advocate of the ten hours' bill, but unlike him, had very little hope of legislative interference.Messrs.Walker and Wood employed three thousand hands.

At a sacrifice of some thousands per annum, they worked their hands an hour less than any of their neighbours, which left the hours, as Mr.Wood strongly declared, still too long.

Those gentlemen had built and endowed a church and a school for their hands, and everything was done in their mill which could humanise and improve the lot of the men, women, and children.

Mr.Bull, who was to be the incumbent of the new church, then not quite finished, was far less hopeful than his patron.