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order," and filled with a staff of skilled workmen, than all 

 were fully employed; and it is pleasant to add, that from 

 the day of their opening down to the present hour in 

 midst of all the many changes which have taken place 

 around them they remain as they were, fully occupied and 

 fully employed in the production of both the staple branches 

 for which they were founded the " ornamental ware" and 

 the " useful ware." 



The building of the manufactory and the residence for 

 himself was not, however, sufficient for Wedgwood to do. 

 To be comfortable himself, he must know that those around 

 him were comfortable also ; to be happy, he must impart 

 happiness to others, even the most lowly of his employes ; 

 to sit at ease in his own new home, he must know that 

 those he employed were well and cosily housed. He there- 

 fore set about building a village for his workmen and their 

 families, and it is pleasant to add that of late years, since 

 the establishment of locomotives, this village, formed for the 

 workpeople of one establishment, has -its station on the main 

 line of the North Staffordshire Railway. The works, which 

 are enclosed in walls on all sides, except where bounded 

 by the canal, which parts them from the lawn of the hall, 

 occupy about seven acres of ground. The village, at its 

 upper end, closely adjoins the manufactory, and consists 

 principally of one long straight street, reaching down to 

 the railway bridge. Etruria contains, I believe, one hundred 

 and twenty-five numbered houses, and about half as many 

 unnumbered ones, and of course a proportionate number of 

 inhabitants, nearly the whole of whom are employed by the 

 Wedgwoods ; as were their predecessors in numberless 

 instances their fathers or grandfathers by Josiah Wedgwood, 

 its founder and builder. Of its present state, however, I 

 shall have more to say anon. 



With Bentley now fairly joined with him in business, 

 Wedgwood had more leisure to apply himself undividedly to 

 his favourite projects for improvement of the Ceramic Arts ; 

 and his successes were rapid, as they were varied and 



