In 1874, Mr. W. E. Withinshaw entered upon the Churchyard Works, and since then has greatly improved them, and raised their productions to a high order of merit. His productions consist of dinner, tea, toilet, and other services; vases, jugs, tea-pots, kettles, and jug stands; trinket and fancy articles; candlesticks, and all the usual varieties of useful and ornamental goods, both plain, printed, painted, enamelled, and gilt. In toilet designs Mr. Withinshaw is particularly successful, many of the designs being novel in character, striking in conception, and beautiful in point of manipulative decoration. Notably among these is a service in which the head of the elephant is utilised in a very pleasing manner to form the handle of the ewer; the head itself forming the top of the handle, and the trunk the part for grasping. This is, in some of the services, produced in mass gold, with a rich and striking, but at the same time simple and elegant, effect. Other designs of this firm are of equal excellence. In vases, Mr. Withinshaw produces some admirable designs, the outlines of which are faultless, and the decoration well and judiciously managed. The quality of the ware is far above the average, and gives the productions a high standing among those of the locality. In jet ware, all the usual articles--tea-pots, kettles, jugs, spill cases, &c.--are made, and in endless variety of style; all being equally good in body, in glaze, and in decoration. Another speciality of these works is now, as in former days, door furniture. The plates are remarkable for their evenness and flatness of surface, and for the taste displayed in the patterns which adorn them; they are made both in white and in black, and of every possible style of decoration. Umbrella, walking-stick, kettle, machine, and every other kind of handles, as well as other china articles used by cabinet brassfitters, are made. The mark, impressed in the body of the ware, is W. E. WITHINSHAW. On the dinner ware the name of the pattern is given on printed marks, with the initials W. E. W. * * * * *