Instruments of torture permitted by the Government to be in daily and nightly use in the streets of London.
| Organs. | Bagpipes. | ||
| Brass bands. | Accordions. | ||
| Fiddles. | Halfpenny whistles. | ||
| Harps. | Tom-toms. | ||
| Harpsichords. | Trumpets. | ||
| Hurdy-gurdies. | The human | 
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Shouting out objects for sale. |
| Flageolets | voice in | 
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Religious canting. |
| Drums. | various forms. | 
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Psalm-singing. |
I have very frequently been disturbed by such music after eleven and even after twelve o'clock at night. Upon one occasion a brass band played, with but few and short intermissions, for five hours.
Encouragers of Street Music.
| Tavern-keepers. | Ladies of doubtful virtue. |
| Public-houses. | |
| Gin-shops. | Occasionally titled ladies; but these are almost invariably of recent elevation, and deficient in that taste which their sex usually possess. |
| Beer-shops. | |
| Coffee-shops. | |
| Servants. | |
| Children. | |
| Visitors from the country. |
The habit of frequenting public-houses, and the amount of intoxication, is much augmented by these means. It therefore finds support from the whole body of licensed victuallers, and from all those who are interested, as the proprietors of public-houses.
The great encouragers of street music belong chiefly to the lower classes of society. Of these, the frequenters of public-houses and beer-shops patronize the worst and the most
