stand re-painting.  There are about 400 free seats in the building, and they are pretty well patronised.  The general attendance is tolerably large; between 700 and 800 people frequent the church on the average; but the congregation seems to be of a floating character, is constantly changing, and embraces few “old stagers.”  Formerly, many who had been at the church from the first might be seen at it; numerous persons recognised as “fixtures” were there; but they have either gone to other churches or died off, and there is now a strong ebb and flow of new material at the place.

The congregation is of a complex description; you may see in it the “Grecian bend” and the coal scuttle hood, the buff waistcoat and the dark moleskin coat; but in the main the worshippers are of a quiet well-assorted character—­partly working class, partly middle-class, with a sprinkling of folk above and below both.  The humble minded and the ancient appear to have a liking for the left side range of seats; the swellishly-young and the substantially-middle class take up a central position; people of a fair habilimental stamp occupy the bulk of the seats on the other side; whilst the select and the specially virtuous approximate the pulpit—­one or two in the excelsior category get even beyond it, and like both the quietude and the dignity of the position.  The galleries are used by a promiscuous company of worshippers, who keep good order and make no undue noises.  The tale-tellers and the gossips—­for they exist here as in the generality of sacred places—­are distributed in various directions.  It would be advantageous if they were all put in one separate part; for then their influence would not be so ramified, and they might in the end get up a small Kilkenny affair and mutually finish off one another.  Late attendance does not seem to be so fashionable at All Saints’ as at some churches; still it exists; things would look as if they were getting wrong if somebody didn’t come late and make everybody turn their heads.  When we visited the church, the great mass were present at the right time; but a few dropped in after the stipulated period; one put in an appearance 30 minutes late; and another sauntered serenely into the region of the ancient people just 65 minutes after the proceedings had commenced.  At a distance, the reading desk and the pulpit look oddly mixed up; but a close inspection shows that they are but fairly associated, stand closely together, the pulpit, which is the higher, being in the rear.  There is no decoration of any sort in the body of the church; everything appears tranquil, serious, straightforward, and respectable.  The singing is of a very poor character,—­is slow, weak, and calculated at times to make you ill.  Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, says—­

Some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.