The Religious Census of London. Reprinted from the British Weekly.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume contains, we
need hardly say, some interesting figures. The census was taken on October 24th, 1886, and gave a morning attendance of 269,799 in Church of England churches and chapels, and 197,421 of all other places of worship (including Roman Catholics, 26,090). This last figure does not represent the total number of worshippers, on account of the multiplicity of services. The same may be said, in some degree, of the Church of England. Altogether, one gets rather less than half-a-million worshippers out of a population of four millions and more. The figures for the evening service appear to be more favourable for the dissident bodies. On the other band, it must be remembered that no account is taken of afternoon service in the Church of England. Taking the evening services, the Nonconformist and Roman Catholic together have a majority in St. Giles-in-the-Fields (47), Westminster (10(i),
Holborn (430), Lambeth (4,353), St. Saviour's, Southwark (398), St. Olave's, Southwark (2,736), Bethnal Green (1,351), Mile End Old Town (3,765), St. George's-in-the-East (518), Poplar (2,557), Hackney (551), St. Pancras (720), Islington (5,729), Woolwich (758). In the sixteen other districts, the Church of England has a majority. Among these are : City of London (4,850), Marylebone (5,280), St. George's, Hanover Square (12,491), Shoreditch (3,319), Kensington (11,563), and Lewisham (6,339). The morning re-
turns are more favourable. An evening attendance of 132,949 must be credited to "mission halls" of all kinds.
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