This custom prevails generally in the Episcopalian churches in Scotland; and our congregations also stand up while the Commandments are read in course of the lessons. We have also the practice of singing, after the Gospel: "Thanks be to thee, O Lord, for this thy Holy Gospel!" BALIVUS. Edinburgh. This is the practice on the reading of this prayer in the second lesson at the parish church of Edgbaston, near Birmingham. It is probably a remanet of the ancient practice in the Church, not only to stand up during the reading of the Gospel, but throughout the whole service, as symbolic of the resurrection of Christ--the Lord's Day; which still exists in the Greek Church, and may be witnessed any Sunday in London, on visiting the recent edifice in London Wall. T. J. BUCKTON. Birmingham. The custom is observed in St. Thomas' Church. W. HAZEL. Portsmouth. At Exeter Cathedral the people _kneel_ whenever the Lord's Prayer is read in the lesson. J. W. HEWETT. _Tolling the Bell on leaving Church_ (Vol. ix., pp. 125. 311, 312.).--In this parish a bell is always rung on the conclusion of the morning service, to give notice that a sermon will be given at the evening service. This bell, which a very respectable old man, who was parish clerk here for fifty-four years, called the "sermon bell," is never tolled unless there is a second service. If at any time the morning service is not performed, the bell is tolled at twelve o'clock at noon to inform the parishioners that an evening service will take place. A bell is also rung at eight and nine o'clock on Sunday, or any other morning when morning prayer is said. The custom of ringing the church bell on Shrove Tuesday, as mentioned by NEWBURIENSIS (Vol. ix., p. 324.), is observed here too, and is generally called "the pancake bell." C. F. P. Normanton-upon-Soar, Notts. I am disposed to agree in opinion with E. W. I. as to this custom, not only as regards the priests, but the people also, for in most country parishes it is the signal for the baker--who usually cooks the Sunday's dinner of the humbler classes--to open his oven: and I have often heard old folks speak of it as "the pudding bell." G. TAYLOR. Reading. The object is to announce that another service is to follow, either in the afternoon or evening, as the case may be. Here the tolling is, not as the congregation are leaving the church, but at one o'clock. WM. HAZEL. Portsmouth. E. W. I., in his answer to this Query in Vol. ix., p. 312., refers to the custom of tolling the church bell at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, and again at nine. This custom is followed at the chapel of ease (at Maidenhead) to the parishes of Bray and Cookham. NEWBURIENSIS.