In black ware, water-bottles, elegant little table tea-kettles, spill cases, vases, and other articles are made, and are effectively decorated with dead and burnished gilding, enamelling, &c. [Illustration: Figs. 471 to 473.--1851. Exhibits of Messrs. Meigh, Old Hall Works.] In Parian, vases, groups, busts, figures, and other ornamental articles are produced; the body is of good quality, and the modelling and finish of faultless excellence. The marks of these works are the following: [Illustration: Figs. 474 to 478.] In 1851 medals were awarded to Mr. C. Meigh, of these works, who has also received medals from the Society of Arts. Figs. 465 to 468 are stoneware jugs, one of which bears a young bacchanal imbibing the juice of the grape, and Fig. 470 a candlestick adapted from a celebrated wine cup, the work of Cellini. Figs. 471, 472, 473 exhibit three admirable pieces, a clock case, a vase, and a drinking cup or tankard, all in statuary porcelain and of the finest possible style of art. The works are very extensive, including mills for grinding all descriptions of materials used in the manufacture of pottery, and are capable of supplying a large demand. The markets principally supplied are the home, French, German, Indian, American, Australian, and colonial. * * * * * _Broad Street Works._--These works are interesting as being the place where the celebrated “Mason’s Patent Ironstone China,” as well as the “Ironstone China” of the old firm of Hicks, Meigh, and Johnson, in addition to most varieties of useful earthenware, are made. Mr. Charles James Mason, the inventor of this famous “Mason’s Ironstone China,” was a potter of great taste and skill at Lane Delph (now Middle Fenton), and in 1813 took out a patent for his process. The manufacture was at that time carried on under the styles of “G. M. and C. J. Mason” and “C. J. Mason & Co.” The partners were Charles James Mason and his brother George Miles Mason (father of Mason the artist) who in 1832 unsuccessfully contested the then new district borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, his successful competitors being Josiah Wedgwood and John Davenport, both, like himself, manufacturers in the district. After a time Mr. G. Mason retired from the concern, and it was then continued by the patentee alone. The concern, however, for want of capital and from other causes, gradually dwindled down, until at length, in 1851, Mr. Francis Morley purchased the patent, the moulds, copper-plates (on which an immense amount of money had been expended), and entire business, from Mr. Mason, and removed the whole to his manufactory. Mr. Morley, who married a daughter of Mr. W. Ridgway, and was a partner in the firm of Morley, Wear & Co., succeeded to the old-established concern of Hicks, Meigh, & Johnson, which he carried on for a time under the style of “Ridgway & Co.” Afterwards Mr. Morley continued the business as F. Morley & Co. This manufactory