CUMBERLAND MARKET,

York Square, Albany Street. A market for Hay, Straw, and other articles, removed from the Haymarket, pursuant to an Act II. George IV., cap. 14.

NEWPORT MARKET,

A narrow and inconveniently crowded avenue, leading from Newport Street to Grafton Street, Soho. Here are between forty and fifty butchers, with slaughtermen and dressers, who kill, on an average, from 300 to 400 bullocks, 500 to 700 sheep, and from 50 to 100 calves, weekly. Upwards of 1000 sheep have been known to be killed here in a week.

WHITECHAPEL MARKET,

High Street, Whitechapel. Its principal traffic is in hay, corn, and provender. There is also an extensive range of shambles for the display and sale of meat.

TATTERSALL'S,

Grosvenor Place, approached by a narrow lane, at the side of St. George's Hospital. This celebrated mart for the sale of horses, derives its name from its founder, Richard Tattersall, originally a training groom to the second and last Duke of Kingston, and afterwards owner of the famous race horse, Highflier, the purchase of which laid the foundation of his future fortune. All horses intended for sale must be sent here on the Friday before the day of sale, which is on Mondays throughout the year, and on Thursdays during the height of the London season; Sunday afternoon being the fashionable time for visiting the stables, which are kept in the most admirable order.

Here is a subscription room, attended by all the patrons of the turf; the betting at which regulates the prices throughout the country. Annual subscription, two guineas. Days of meeting, Mondays and Thursdays, throughout the year

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE RAILWAY TERMINL

We have spoken of the magnitude of the metropolis, of its importance, of its population, and its wealth; but all these give not so vivid. an idea of what London truly is, as is furnished by its Railway Termini-those gates of the world!

Euston Square. This stupendous undertaking, originally called the London and Birmingham Railway, was the first railway station erected in the metropolis, having been completed in 1838. The extensive range of buildings for the immense passenger traffic, is approached through a noble Propyleum, or architectural gateway, having four lodges connected with it, intermediate to which, and in connection with the whole, are large, lofty, and ornamental gates, east by J. J. Bramah. The Propyleum is from the designs of Philip

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Hardwicke, Esq., and is a most successful adaptation of the Grecian Doric. The extreme length of the entrance is upwards of three hundred feet, and its total cost was £35,000. The columns of the main entrance are higher than those of any other building in London, measuring from the pavement to the top of the columns, forty-four feet two inches; the diameter at the base being eight feet six inches. The public hall, erected in 1849, is also from designs by Philip Hardwicke, Esq., and is a noble apartment, one hundred and twentyfive feet six inches in length, sixty-one feet four inches in breadth, and sixty feet in height, having a gallery all round it. The walls are in imitation of granite; the ceiling is panneled, deeply recessed, fully enriched, and connected with the walls by boldly designed ornamented consoles. At the northern end of the hall, a bold flight of steps, ornamented with large columns in imitation of red granite, leads to the general meeting room, over the door of which is a sculptured group, by Mr. John Thomas, representing Britannia, with Mercury and Science, on either side. In the angles are eight altorelievos, by the same artist, symbolizing London, Birmingham, Manchester, Chester, Northampton, Carlisle, Nottingham and Liverpool. On the right of the hall, is the Lost Luggage Office, doorways of the various waiting rooms, and in the centre, a circular refreshment counter.

The general meeting room, is a handsome saloon, forty-five feet wide, and forty feet high, having a coved and panneled ceiling. It is calculated to accommodate four hundred persons comfortably.

The board room, adjoining, is thirty-four feet six inches long, by twenty-seven feet two inches wide, wainscotted, adorned with Corinthian columns, and contains an immense map of all the railways under the control of the board. The entire cost of these buildings, was £125,000.

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The Booking Offices are on either side of the hall, one fifty-six feet by thirty-nine feet ten inches; the other, sixty feet by forty feet six inches, each having a domical sky-light, twenty-eight feet in diameter. There is a gallery round each office.

The extensive station at Camden Town, one mile from Euston Square, is used for the accommodation of the heavy goods traffic, as also for coals and cattle. Here, likewise, are immense ranges of buildings, used for stabling the numerous locomotive engines, used on this portion of the line.

This company, which is interested, either directly or indirectly, in more than twelve hundred miles of railway, has stations at every place of importance between London and Aberdeen; the most noticeable are Harrow, Wolverton, Rugby, Coventry, Birmingham, Crewe, Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,

Praed Street, Paddington, about five miles from the Bank. This grand undertaking, projected by Mr. Brunel, on the principle of the broad guage, to form a communication with the great towns of the west of England, was opened, for short distances, in June, 1838; and to Bristol in January, 1841. From the magnitude of the engineering operations, and the great breadth of roadway, the expense of its construction was enormous; a circumstance that may probably account for the insignificant appearance of their London terminus, which is totally beneath the pretensions of this large and powerful company, in marked contrast with the noble and important buildings of their great rival the North Western.

The principal stations of this company, and those in connection with it, are Windsor, Oxford, Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bath, Bristol, and Exeter.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY,

Maiden Lane, King's Cross. This highly important line, originally projected as a direct communication between London and York, and the most considerble towns on the Great North Road, after surmounting the most determined opposition from the old established companies, is now rapidly approaching completion. That portion of the way between London and Peterborough, was opened in 1850, and the site for the terminus at King's Cross, cleared for the erection of the necessary offices. At present the trains depart from a temporary station, in Maiden Lane, which on the completion of the intended buildings, will be used as the Goods Station.

The principal stations on this line, are those of Royston, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Boston, and Lincoln; and in connection with other lines, all the most important towns of the north.

EASTERN AND NORTH-EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY,

Shoreditch. The spacious and handsome terminus of these companies, in the Italian style of architecture, was erected in 1843, and is an important ornament to this portion of the metropolis.

These lines, which have obtained an unenviable notoriety, are connected at starting from Shoreditch, but on reaching Stratford, diverge, the one proceeding to Colchester and Ipswich, the other to Cambridge and Norwich. They are now under one management, although originally two distinct lines.

The most important stations are those of Newmarket, Cambridge, Wisbeach, Peterborough, Ely, Norwich, and Yarmouth.

BLACKWALL RAILWAY,

London Street, Fenchurch Street. This railway, projected for the purpose of affording quick and easy access to the East and West India Docks, and the densely populated eastern districts of London, is four and a half miles in length, having its terminus at Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall; it is built upon brick arches, the greater portion of the way, and was remarkable until within a very recent period, from the fact of the carriages being propelled by an endless metal-wire rope, worked by means of stationary engines, at the Minories and Blackwall. This mode of transit being found too expensive, and liable to constant interruptions from breakage, it was abandoned in 1849, and the trains are now worked by ordinary locomotive engines.

Some idea may be formed of the value of the property through which this line passes, from the circumstance that the portion between Fenchurch Street and the Minories, four hundred and fifty yards in length, cost £250,000.

Steam Boats in connection with this line, leave the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, for Woolwich and Gravesend, every half hour, or oftener, during the summer season.

GREENWICH RAILWAY,

Tooley Street, London Bridge. This line, the construction of which was commenced in 1834, is remarkable as standing upon one continuous series of brick arches, extending in a direct line to High Street, Deptford, from which place it is continued, with a slight curve, across the Ravensbourne river, to its terminus, a short distance from the church of St. Alphage, Greenwich.

Since its original formation, the viaduct has been considerably increased in width, for the purpose of affording accommodation to the Brighton, Dover, and North Kent lines, which use that portion of the