gateway of a temple in Mahore; and statues of Durga, Surga, and Buddha, that deserve attention. The Society usually meets on the first and third Saturdays in every month, from November to June inclusive. Admission fee, 5 guineas; annual subscription, 3 guineas.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, South Kensington, Exhibition Road, and opposite to the South Kensington Museum, has here an Ornamental and Experimental Garden, laid out at a cost of 70,000l., including a Hall, where meetings and flower exhibitions are held. On the N. rises a great Winter Garden and other conservatories, elegant parterres varied with shrubberies, and single trees transplanted from a distance. The whole is surrounded by a colonnade and cloister of good architectural design; finished, 1861, at the cost of the Government, who agreed to expend on it 50,000l. The grounds were laid out by Nesfield; the buildings designed by Digby Wyatt. Their extent is 22 acres, forming part of the Kensington Gore estate, purchased out of the surplus fund arising from the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Society retains an Experimental Garden at Chiswick. Each Fellow can introduce personally two friends to the Garden at S. Kensington, except on Exhibition Days. Open daily 9 to dusk. Sundays from 2 p.m.

The Linnean Society (Museum), Burlington House; Royal Astronomical Society in Somerset House; the Statistical Society, 12, St. James's Square; and Ethnological Society. There are also Societies for printing books connected with particular subjects, such as the Camden, Hakluyt, and The Arundel, Old Bond Street, for engraving the works of early Italian and German masters.

At No. 12, St. James's Square, is the admirably managed London Library, a public subscription circulating_library, of valuable standard works, possessing 60,000 volumesentrance fee, 6l.; annual subscription, 27. There is a printed catalogue of the library.

XXII.-COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCA. DILLY, is a government institution, or Board of Examiners, established 1837, for conferring degrees, after careful examinations, on the graduates of University College, London; King's College, London; Stepney College, Highbury College

Homerton College, &c. ; in other words, "for the advancement of religion and morality, and the promotion of useful knowledge without distinction of rank, sect, or party." There are several scholarships attached, each with 507. a year. The salary of the Registrar and Treasurer is 500l. a year. The institute has nothing to do with the business of education, being constituted for the sole purpose of ascertaining the proficiency of candidates for academical distinctions. The examinations are half-yearly.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, on the east side of UPPER GOWER STREET. A proprietary institution, "for the general advancement of literature and science, by affording to young men adequate opportunities for obtaining literary and scientific education at a moderate expense;" founded (1828) by the exertions of Lord Brougham, Thomas Campbell, the poet, and others, and built from the designs of W. Wilkins, R.A., architect of the National Gallery and of St. George's Hospital at Hyde-Park-corner. Graduates of the

University of London from University College are entitled Doctors of Laws, Masters of Arts, Bachelors of Law, Bachelors of Medicine, and Bachelors of Art. Everything is taught in the College but divinity. The school of medicine is deservedly distinguished. The Junior School, under the government of the Council of the College, is entered by a separate entrance in Upper Gower-street. The hours of attendance are from a quarter past 9 to three-quarters past 3; in which time one hour and a quarter is allowed for recreation. The yearly payment for each pupil is 187. The subjects taught are reading, writing; the English, Latin, Greek, French, and German languages; Ancient and English history; geography; arithmetic and book-keeping, the elements of mathematics and of natural philosophy. The discipline of the school is maintained without corporal punishment. Several of the professors, and some of the masters of the Junior School receive students to reside with them; and in the office of the College there is kept a register of parties unconnected with the College who receive boarders into their families: among these are several medical gentlemen. The Registrar will afford information as to terms, and other particulars.

The Flaxman Museum.-In the hall under the cupola of the College the original models are preserved of the principal works; monuments, bas-reliefs, statues, &c., of John Flaxman, R.A., the greatest of our English sculptors. The Pastoral Apollo, the St. Michael, and some of the bas-reliefs,

are amazingly fine. The clever portrait statue in marble of Flaxman, by the late M. L. Watson, purchased by public subscription, is placed on the stairs as you enter the Flaxman Gallery. A fine collection of Flaxman's original drawings is well displayed. The whole deserves the attention of every lover of art. In the cloister below is another fine work of art, in marble niello, the outline coloured, of subjects from Homer. The artist is Baron de Triqueti, of Paris. Mr. Grote, the historian, presented this Marmor Homericum to the college.

KING'S COLLEGE AND SCHOOL. A proprietary institution, occupying the east wing of Somerset House, which was built up to receive it, having been before left incomplete. The College was founded in 1828, upon the following fundamental principle:-"That every system of general education for the youth of a Christian community ought to comprise instruction in the Christian religion as an indispensable part, without which the acquisition of other branches of knowledge will be conducive neither to the happiness of the individual nor the welfare of the state." The general education of the College is carried on in five departments:-1. Theological Department; 2. Department of General Literature and Science; 3. Department of the Applied Sciences; 4. Medical Department; 5. The School. Every person wishing to place a pupil in the school must produce, to the head-master, a certificate of good conduct, signed by his last instructor. The general age for admission is from 9 to 16 years of age. Rooms are provided within the walls of the College for the residence of a limited number of matriculated students. Each proprietor has the privilege of nominating two pupils to the School, or one to the School and one to the College at the same time. The Museum contains the Calculating Machine of Mr. Babbage, deposited by the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests; and the collection of Mechanical Models and Philosophical Instruments formed by George III., presented by Queen Victoria.

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. A celebrated school in St. Paul's Churchyard (on the east side), founded in 1512, for 153 poor men's children, by Dr. John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, the friend of Erasmus, and son of Sir Henry Colet, mercer, and Mayor of London in 1486 and 1495. The boys were to be taught, free of expense, by a master, sur-master, and chaplain, and the oversight of the school was committed by the founder to the Mercers' Company. The number (153) was chosen in allusion to the number of fishes taken by St. Peter. The school was dedicated by Colet to the Child Jesus, but

the saint, as Strype remarks, has robbed his master of his title. The lands left by Colet to support his school were estimated, in 1598, at the yearly value of about 1207. Their present value is upwards of 5000l. The education is entirely classical, and the presentations to the school are in the gift of the Master of the Mercers' Company for the time being. Scholars are admitted at the age of 15, but at present none are eligible to an exhibition if entered after 12; and none are expected to remain in the school after their nineteenth birthday, though no time for superannuation is fixed by the statutes. The head-master's salary is 6187. per annum; the sur-master's, 3077.; the under-master's, 2727.; and the assistant-master's, 2571. Lilly, the grammarian, and friend of Erasmus, was the first master, and the grammar which he compiled, Lilly's Grammar, is still used in the school. Eminent Scholars.-John Leland, our earliest English antiquary; John Milton, the great epic poet of our nation; the great Duke of Marlborough; Nelson, author of Fasts and Festivals; Edmund Halley, the astronomer; Samuel Pepys, the diarist; John Strype, the ecclesiastical historian. The present school was built in 1823, from a design by Mr. George Smith, and is the third building erected on the same site. Colet's school was destroyed in the Great Fire, “but built up again," says Strype, "much after the same manner and proportion it was before."

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, or ST. PETER'S COLLEge, Dean's YARD, WESTMINSTER, founded as "a publique schoole for Grammar, Rethoricke, Poetrie, and for the Latin and Greek languages," by Queen Elizabeth, 1560, and attached to the collegiate church of St. Peter at Westminster. The College consists of a dean, 12 prebendaries, 12 almsmen, and 40 scholars; with a master and an usher. This is the foundation, but the school consists of a larger number of masters, and of a much larger number of boys. The 40 are called Queen's scholars, and after an examination, which takes place on the first Tuesday after Rogation Sunday, 4 are elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, and 4 to Christ Church, Oxford. A parent wishing to place a boy at this school will get every necessary information from the head master; boys are not placed on the foundation under 12 or above 13 years of age. Eminent Masters.-Camden, the antiquary; Dr. Busby; Vincent Bourne; Jordan (Cowley has a copy of verses on his death). Eminent Men educated at.-Poets: Ben Jonson; George Herbert; Giles Fletcher; Jasper Mayne; William Cartwright; Cowley, who published a volume of

poems while a scholar; Dryden; Nat Lee; Rowe; Prior; Churchill; Dyer, author of Grongar Hill; Cowper; Southey. Other great Men.-Sir Harry Vane, the younger; Hakluyt, the collector of the Voyages which bear his name; Sir Christopher Wren; Locke; South; Atterbury; Warren Hastings; Gibbon, the historian; Cumberland; the elder Colman; Lord John Russell. The boys on the foundation were formerly separated from the town boys when in school by a bar or curtain. The Schoolroom was a dormitory belonging to the Abbey, and retains certain traces of its former ornaments. The College Hall, originally the Abbot's Refectory, was built by Abbot Litlington, in the reign of Edward III., and the old louvre is still used for the escape of the smoke. The Dormitory was built by the Earl of Burlington, in 1722. In conformity with the old custom, the Queen's scholars perform a play of Terence every year at Christmas, with a Latin prologue and epilogue relating to current events.

CHARTER HOUSE, (a corruption of Chartreuse,) upper end of ALDERSGATE STREET. "An hospital, chapel, and school-house," founded, 1611, by Thomas Sutton, of Camps Castle, in the county of Cambridge, for the free education of forty poor boys and for the sustenance of eighty ancient gentlemen, captains, and others, brought to distress by shipwrecks, wounds, or other reverse of fortune. It was so called from a priory of Carthusian monks, founded in 1371 on a Pest-house field by Sir Walter Manny, knight, Lord of the town of Manny, in the diocese of Cambray, and knight of the garter in the reign of Edward III. The last prior was executed at Tyburn, May 4th, 1535-his head set on London Bridge, and one of his limbs over the gateway of his own convent-the same gateway, it is said, a Perpendicular arch, surmounted by a kind of dripstone and supported by lions, which is still the entrance from CharterHouse-square. The priory thus sternly dissolved, was sold by Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, to Thomas Sutton for 13,000l., and endowed as a charity by the name of "the Hospital of King James." Sutton died before his work was complete, and was buried in the chapel of the hospital beneath a sumptuous monument, the work of Nicholas Stone and Mr. Jansen of Southwark. This "triple good," as Lord Bacon calls it. this "masterpiece of Protestant English charity," as it is called by Fuller - is under the direction of the Queen, 15 governors, selected from the great officers of state, and the master of the hospital, whose