The Sabbath Question in England.
FROM a return made at the request of Parliament, it appears that 542 memorials against the public performance of music on the Lord's day, have been forwarded through the Home Office, signed by 111,309 persons. Of the memorials against Sunday bands, about 20 emanated from Scotch Presbyterians, 7 from public meetings, 2 from associations, 2 from the clergy, 28 from the clergy and others, 98 from the Wesleyans, 9 from the independents, 11 from the Baptists, 1 from the Congregationalists; 2 from the Calvinists, 7 from the Protestant Dissenters, 1 from the Countess of Huntingdon's Congregation, 7 from the Sunday-school teachers, 26 from females, 311 from miscellaneous inhabitants.