is buried under the N. gallery. A good specimen of his talents as a sculptor may be seen in a bas-relief in this chapel.

ROWLAND HILL'S CHAPEL, or "SURREY CHAPEL,” is in the BLACKFRIARS ROAD. Hill was a distinguished follower of Whitefield. The chapel was built for Hill himself in 1782-3, and here he preached for nearly 50 years.

SCOTTISH CHURCHES.

NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, CROWN COURT, LONG ACRE. Dr. Cumming (minister).

SWALLOW ST., PICCADILLY.

CROSS ST., HATTON GARDEN. This was Irving's first place of preaching in London, and here he drew crowded and delighted congregations.

SCOTTISH (FREE) CHURCH, Regent-square. Built for Rev. Edward Irving, and where the unknown tongues he believed in were first heard.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL AND CHAPELS.

The principal Roman Catholic Edifices in London are:ST. GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL, at the angle of the St. George's and Westminster Roads, in the so-called Roman Catholic diocese of Southwark (the largest Roman Catholic church erected in this country since the Reformation), built, 1840-48, from the designs of A. W. Pugin. It is without galleries, will hold 3000 people, and is said to have cost 30,000l. The style is decorated or middle pointed Gothic, and the material used hard yellow brick with dressings of Caen stone. The Petre Chantry, founded for the repose of the soul of the Hon. Edward Petre (d. 1848), the High Altar, the Pulpit, and the Font are all excellent in their architectural details. The tower is still unfinished. Here is the throne of Cardinal Wiseman.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL (ST. MARY'S), in Bloomfieldstreet, Moorfields (East-street, Finsbury-circus). Here Weber was buried till the removal of his remains to Dresden, in 1844.

BAVARIAN CHAPEL, Warwick-street, Regent-street, occupying the site of the Roman Catholic chapel, destroyed in the riots of 1780.

SARDINIAN CHAPEL, Duke-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields.
SPANISH CHAPEL, Spanish-place, Manchester-square.

In York-street, St. James's-square, is the Chapel of former

Embassies, with the arms of Castile still remaining on the building.

FRENCH CHAPEL, Little George-street, King-street, Portman, square.

High Mass begins generally at 11 A.M. and Vespers at 6 P.M. Extra full Masses are performed on the first Sunday in the month, on High Feasts and Festivals, Christmas-day, Easterday, etc. To secure a sitting, it is necessary to pay a shilling and attend about an hour before the service begins. In most of the Chapels, the music is very grand and impressive, and finely performed by eminent professional characters, the members of the Italian Opera Company assisting at their grand festivals. For further information, see "The Catholic Directory and Ecclesiastical Register for 1851," published by Dolman, 61, New Bond-street, price 18. Cardinal Wiseman (when in town) is at home (35, Golden-square) every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, between 11 and 2 o'clock: Tuesday being specially devoted to the clergy.

GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH is in the Savoy, off the Strand.

GERMAN LUTHERAN CHAPEL, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, between it and Marlborough House.

FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH, formerly in the Savoy, is now in Bloomsbury-street, Bloomsbury. Built by Ambrose Poynter, architect, in 1845.

FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH, founded by Edward VI., and formerly in Threadneedle-street, on the site of the Hall of Commerce, is now in St. Martin's-le-grand, over against the General Post Office.

The SWEDISH CHURCH, in PRINCE'S SQUARE, RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY. Here Baron Swedenborg (d. 1772), founder of the sect of Swedenborgians, is buried.

The DANISH CHURCH is in WELLCLOSE SQUARE, WHITECHAPEL, now the British and Foreign Sailors' Church. It was built in 1696, by Caius Gabriel Cibber, the sculptor, at the expense of Christian V., king of Denmark, as appears by the inscription over the entrance, who gave it for the use of his subjects, merchants, and seamen, accustomed to visit the port of London. Within the church is a tablet, the second on your right hand as you enter, to the wife of Caius Gabriel Cibber (Jane Colley), the mother of Colley Cibber. The father and

son are both interred in the vaults of this church. Attached to the pulpit is a handsome frame of brass with four sandglasses, and immediately opposite is the "Royal Pew," in which Christian VII., King of Denmark, sat, when on a visit to this country, in 1768.

JEWS' SYNAGOGUE, GREAT ST. HELEN'S, ST. MARY AXE, LEADENHALL STREET. Divine service here begins an hour before sunset every Friday. The most imposing ceremonies take place at the time of the Passover (Easter time). In the Jews' Burial Ground, in Whitechapel-road, a continuation of Whitechapel High-street, N. M. Rothschild (d. 1836), long the leading stock-broker of Europe, and the founder of the Rothschild family, was buried.

For further information, see Low's Handbook to the places of Public Worship in London, price 1s. 6d.

CEMETERIES.

THE principal places of sepulture are our churches and churchyards. St. George's Chapel, in the Bayswater-road, contains as many as 1120 coffins beneath its pavement and the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields a still greater number. The sexton at Bayswater admitted, in 1850, that it was only by boring in the burial-ground that a spot for a new grave could be found, and that for several years prior to 1848 there had been upwards of 1000 burials a year within its precinct. Yet this great nuisance is situated in the very heart of the new and expensive houses in Hyde-Parkgardens. The Norman vault of St. Mary-le-Bow, in Cheapside (the great thoroughfare of London), is literally crammed with leaden coffins piled 30 feet high, all on the lean from their own immense weight, and covered with cobwebs and fungi. The churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, (another central cemetery), is a plague-spot of decayed human flesh and human remains; the narrow place of sepulture of two centuries of the inhabitants of this parish. At the burialground in Bethnal-green (a private pauper cemetery of about 2 acres, surrounded by small dwellings, opened in 1746, and said to contain the remains of 56,000 persons), the nuisance, only a year since, was still worse from the putrid effluvia, when hot weather followed rain. Corpses were constantly detained above-ground, as the funeral service was read but three days a week, the clergymen officiating being

obliged to stand on windward sides of graves. At St. Bennet's, Gracechurch-street, the only access, in 1850, to a crowded vault was by lifting the stones in the aisle. At St. Andrew'sin-the-Wardrobe (close to St. Paul's), graves as late as 1850 were actually dug in the vault beneath the church. At St. Mary-at-Hill, between London Bridge and the Tower, the vaults were, in 1850, in a still worse condition. No one dared to enter one of these vaults, unless the large trapdoor had been opened many hours. Certain of the more obnoxious graveyards were closed by order of the General Board of Health, pursuant to 12 & 13 Vict., cap. 3, but the abolition of the whole of them cannot be effected too quickly.

KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY is on the HARROW ROAD, about 2 miles from the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway. There is an omnibus to the Cemetery Gates, leaving the Oxford and Cambridge Terrace portion of the Edgeware-road, three times a day. Remember that the cemetery is closed on Sundays till morning service is over. It was formed by a joint-stock company in 1832, and is the only one of the suburban cemeteries yielding a good dividend to the proprietors. There is much bad taste in art exhibited in this cemetery, and four of the most conspicuous tombs are to St. John Long, the quack doctor; Ducrow, the rider; Mor rison, the pill-man; and George Robins, the auctioneer. Eminent Persons interred in.-Duke of Sussex, son of George III. (d. 1843), and the Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. (d. 1848). The whole of the Royal Family had been previously interred in the royal vault at Windsor, but the Duke of Sussex left particular directions that he should be buried in the cemetery at Kensal Green. The duke's grave is near the chapel, and is marked by an enormous granite tomb. Anne Scott and Sophia Lockhart, daughters of the Author of Waverley, and John Hugh Lockhart, the "Hugh Littlejohn" of the Tales of a Grandfather; monument in inner circle. Allan Cunningham (d. 1842), author of the Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, &c.; monument in the N.W. corner of the cemetery. John Murray, of Albemarle-street, the publisher, and friend of Lord Byron (d. 1843); monument in inner circle. Rev. Sydney Smith, in the public vault, catacomb B. Thomas Barnes (d. 1841), for many years editor of "The Times" newspaper; altar-tomb. Tom Hood, the poet and wit (d. 1845), buried near Ducrow's monument. John Liston, the actor, the original Paul Pry (d. 1846); altar-tomb, surmounted by an urn, on the left of

the chapel. J. C. Loudon (d. 1843), celebrated for his works on gardening; altar-tomb. George Dyer, the historian of Cambridge, editor of Valpy's Delphin Classics, and the "G. D." of Charles Lamb (d. 1841). Sir Augustus Callcott, the painter (d. 1844); flat stone. Dr. Birkbeck, the promoter of Mechanics' Institutions (d. 1841). Sir William Beatty (d. 1842), Nelson's surgeon at the battle of Trafalgar; tablet in colonnade. Thomas Daniell, R.A., the landscape painter (d. 1840); altar-tomb; the inscription was written by Allan Cunningham at the request of Sir David Wilkie. Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, Engineer of the Thames Tunnel, inventor of Block Machines, &c., on left of the main avenue.

The Government Board of Health has recommended the extension of Kensal Green as a great West-end place of burial, and the formation of an enormous Cemetery for the whole of London, at Erith, on the Thames, near Gravesend. The recommendation deserves adoption.

The other modern Cemeteries are- -HIGHGATE, beautifully situated: fine view of London. ABNEY PARK, 34 miles from Post-office, containing a statue, by Baily, of Dr. Isaac Watts, erected to commemorate the residence of Watts at Abney Park, Stoke Newington, the seat of Sir Thomas Abney. The site of the house is included in the cemetery. BROMPTON, 2 miles from Hyde-Park-corner, on the road to Fulham. VICTORIA CEMETERY, in the east of London. TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY, in the east of London. NUNHEAD CEMETERY, and NORWOOD CEMETERY, both on the Surrey side. Of these cemeteries, Highgate and Norwood will alone repay a visit. The others are poorly situated, without graves or monuments of any interest.

BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND, near FINSBURY SQUARE, called by Southey "the Campo Santo of the Dissenters," was first made use of as a pest-field or common place of interment during the Great Plague of London in 1665. It then lay open to the fields, and is the "great pit in Finsbury" of De Foe's narrative. When the Plague was over, the pit was inclosed with a brick wall, "at the sole charges of the City of London," and subsequently leased by several of the great Dissenting sects, who conscientiously objected to the burial-service in the Book of Common Prayer. What stipulation was made with the City is unknown, but here all the interments of the Dissenters from this time forward took place. Eminent Persons interred in.-Dr. Thomas Goodwin (d. 1679), (altar-tomb, east end of ground,) the Independent preacher who attended Oliver Cromwell on his