"So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion, shall signify their names to the Curate at least some time the day before." On this Bishop Wilson remarks: "It is with great reason that the Church has given this order; wherefore do not neglect it." "You will have the comfort of knowing, either that your Pastor hath nothing to say against you, or, if he has, you will have the benefit of his advice: and a good blessing will attend your obedience to the Church's orders." GEORGE E. FRERE. _Reverence to the Altar_ (Vol. vi., p. 182.).--Statute XI. Such obeisance was always made in the college to which I belonged, at Oxford, to the Provost by every scholar, and by the Bible clerks when they proceeded from their seats to the eagle lectern, to read the lessons of the day. I. R. R. _Separation of the Sexes in Church._--It was the custom a few years ago (and I have every reason {567} to believe it to be so at present), for the men to sit on one side of the aisle, and the women on the other, in the church of Grange, near Armagh, in the north of Ireland. No one remembered the introduction of the custom. ABHBA. _Standing while the Lord's Prayer is read_ (Vol. ix., pp. 127. 257.).--The congregation of the English Episcopal Chapel at Dundee stood during the reading of the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Song of the Angels at the birth of Christ, when these occur in the order of morning lessons. This congregation joined that of the Scottish Episcopalians several years ago, and whether the practice is continued in the present congregation I cannot say. In St. Paul's Chapel, Edinburgh, York Place, the congregation stand at the reading of the Ten Commandments in the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy, and they chant "Glory be to thee, O God," on the giving out of the Gospel, and "Thanks be to thee, O God," &c., after the reading of it. In the Communion they sit during the reading of the Exhortation, "Dearly Beloved in the Lord;" and it is but very lately that they have stood when repeating "Glory be to God on high," &c., in the Post Communion. HENRY STEPHENS. In Durham Cathedral, on Sept. 5, 1850, at the Anniversary of the Sons of the Clergy, the congregation rose simultaneously on the occurrence of the Lord's Prayer in the lesson. I remember also that the same custom was observed at Trinity Church, Chelsea, during the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Blunt. Where the Bidding Prayer enjoined by the 55th Canon is used (that, by-the-way, being the only authorised pulpit prayer), it is usual I believe for the people to stand during the Lord's Prayer; the preacher then teaching us to pray as our Lord taught His disciples. The short doxology at the end of the Gospel, to which MR. ELLACOMBE refers at p. 257., is common in the north of England. E. H. A.