N. E. corner of Bloomsbury-square: site of Lord Mansfield's house, destroyed in the riots of 1780.

Barclay's Brewhouse, Bankside, Southwark: site of Globe Theatre, in which Shakespeare played.

Statue of William IV., facing London Bridge: site of Boar's Head Tavern, immortalised by Shakespeare.

Bread-street, Cheapside, in which the Mermaid Tavern of Sir Walter Raleigh and Shakespeare stood.

Child's Banking-house, No. 1, Fleet-street: site of Devil Tavern, favourite resort of Ben Jonson and of Dr. Johnson. Ham and Beef-shop, corner of Bow-street: site of Will's Coffee-house.

Centre house on S. side of Great Russell-street, Coventgarden: site of Button's Coffee-house.

Essex Head, in Essex-street, Strand, kept in Johnson's last years by a servant of Thrale's, and where the Doctor established his last club.

Essex-street, Strand, in the house of Lady Primrose (now unknown), where the young Pretender was concealed when in London (Sept., 1750) for the first and last time.

Tower-hill, on which the scaffold stood on which, in 1747, the last person (Lord Lovat) was beheaded in this country. Pudding-lane, Monument-yard, in which the Fire of London began.

Pie-corner, in Giltspur-street, in which it ended.

Cock-lane, Giltspur-street, famous for its ghost.

Mitre Tavern, Fleet-street, where Johnson and Boswell determined on making a tour to the Hebrides.

Grub-street, Cripplegate, now Milton-street, long celebrated as the resort of poor and distressed authors.

Alsatia, or Whitefriars, immortalised by Sir Walter Scott in "The Fortunes of Nigel."

Picthatch, nearly opposite the Charter-House-end of Oldstreet-road, called by Falstaff, Pistol's "manor of Picthatch." St. James's-square, round which Johnson and Savage often walked a whole night for want of a bed.

House at the top of Crane-court, Fleet-street, now Royal Scottish Hospital, with its handsome room built by Wren, in which Sir Isaac Newton sat as President of the Royal Society. W. end of Serpentine: scene of the fatal duel between Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun.

W. side of Gateway of Inner Temple Lane, Fleet-street, where, in the shop of Robinson the bookseller, Pope and Warburton met for the first time.

No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden: the shop of Tom Davies, where Johnson and Boswell met for the first time.

Burlington House Gate, Piccadilly: subject of Hogarth's print, in which he attacks Pope for his satire on the Duke of Chandos.

Jew's-row, Chelsea: scene of Wilkie's Chelsea Pensioners reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo.

Ground between the Piazza and Bow-street: site of the two gardens which led to the memorable retort made by Dr. Radcliffe to sir Godfrey Kneller.

Howard-street, Norfolk-street, Strand: scene (before the door of Mrs. Bracegirdle) of the murder, by Lord Mohun, of Mountfort, the actor.

Fox-court, Gray's-Inn-lane: birth-place of Richard Savage. Brook-street, Holborn, where Chatterton poisoned himself. Shire-lane, Fleet-street, where the Kit-Kat Club met.

Foot of Primrose-hill, where the body of Sir Edmundsbury Godfrey was found.

Goods Station of London, Chatham, and Dover Railway on E. side of Farringdon-street: site of the Fleet Prison.

Barracks of the Foot Guards, and road leading to Pimlico Suspension Bridge, W. of Chelsea Hospital: site of Ranelagh Gardens.

House in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, in which Lord Nelson and his wife quarrelled, and saw one another for the last time.

Lansdowne House, in which Priestley was living when he discovered oxygen.

House off Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square, in which Francis Baily weighed the earth.

Homer-street, facing Cato-street: scene of the Cato Conspiracy of Thistlewood and his associates.

No. 39, Grosvenor-square (Lord Harrowby's), where his Majesty's ministers were to have been murdered as they sat at dinner, by Thistlewood and his gang.

No. 7, Connaught-place, Edgware-road, whither the Princess Charlotte hurried in a hackney coach when she quarrelled with her father and left Warwick House.

No. 49, Connaught-square, Edgeware-road: supposed site of Tyburn Gallows.

No. 77, South Audley-street (then Alderman Wood's), where Queen Caroline lodged in 1820, and in the balcony of which she would appear and bow to the mob assembled in the street.

No. 50, Albemarle-street (Mr. Murray's), where Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron met for the first time.

No. 80, Piccadilly, from whence Sir Francis Burdett was taken to the Tower.

Hall of Chelsea Hospital: scene of Whitelocke's trial, and of the Court of Inquiry into the Convention of Cintra.

At the bar of Somerset Coffee-house, Strand, E. corner of entrance to King's College, Junius directed many of his letters to be left for Woodfall.

Near the upper end of Constitution-hill, Sir Robert Peel was thrown from his horse and killed.

High-street, Borough: the house No. 119 occupies the site of the Marshalsea, where many of the Martyrs who suffered for their religion in the bloody reign of Mary were imprisoned.

XXXI.

OUT-DOOR MONUMENTS AND PUBLIC STATUES. THE MONUMENT, already described.

YORK COLUMN, CARLTON-HOUSE GARDENS. Of Scotch granite, 124 feet high, designed by B. Wyatt, erected (1830-33) by public subscription, with a bronze statue 14 ft. high by Sir Richard Westmacott, of the Duke of York, second son of George III., upon the top. There is a staircase, and gallery affording a fine view of the W. end of London and the Surrey Hills. It is open from 12 to 4, from May to Sept. 24th.

NELSON COLUMN, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. Of Portland stone, 145 feet high, designed by Railton, and erected 184043. It is surmounted by a statue of Nelson, 17 feet high, by E. H. Baily, R.A., formed of two stones from the Granton quarry; it has been styled "the beau-ideal of a Greenwich Pensioner." The capital of the column is of bronze furnished from cannon taken from the French. The bronze bas-relief of the Death of Nelson is by Carew; of the Nile, by Woodington; of Copenhagen, by Ternouth; and of St. Vincent, by Watson. To the great disgrace of the nation and the government, this monument to the noblest of our naval heroes is still unfinished. Four large lions in granite, modelled by Sir Edwin Landseer, will crouch upon the four salient pedestals at the base, and the total cost of the column will be about 33,000l. The largest individual subscription for the monument was contributed by Nicolas, Emp. of Russia (5007.).

Bronze Equestrian Statue of CHARLES I., at Charing Cross, by Hubert Le Sœur, a Frenchman and pupil of John of Bologna, cast in 1633, near the church in Covent Garden, and not being erected before the commencement of the Civil

War, sold by the Parliament to John Rivet, a brazier living at the Dial, near Holborn Conduit, with strict orders to break it to pieces. But the man produced some fragments of old brass, and concealed the statue under ground till the Restoration. The statue was set up in its present situation at the expense of the Crown, in 1676. The pedestal, generally attributed to Grinling Gibbons, was the work of Joshua Marshall, Master Mason to the Crown.

CHARLES II., at Chelsea Hospital, by Grinling Gibbons. JAMES II., bronze, by Grinling Gibbons, behind Whitehall.

Bronze Equestrian Statue of WILLIAM III., in St. James'ssquare, by Bacon, junior.

QUEEN ANNE, before the W. door of St. Paul's, by F. Bird.

Bronze Equestrian Statue of GEORGE III., Cockspurstreet, Charing Cross, by M. C. Wyatt.

Bronze Equestrian Statue of GEORGE IV., in Trafalgarsquare, by Sir F. Chantrey.

Marble Statue of QUEEN VICTORIA, in the Royal Exchange, by Lough.

Equestrian Statue of DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, the victor at Culloden, in Cavendish-square.

DUKE OF BEDFORD, Russell-sq., by Sir R. Westmacott. PITT, in Hanover-square, by Sir Francis Chantrey. FOX, in Bloomsbury-square, by Sir R. Westmacott. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK, in Cavendish-square. MEMORIAL to the Officers and Men of the three Regts. of FOOT GUARDS, who fell in the Crimea; at the bottom of Regent-street in Waterloo-place; design by Bell: three statues of Guardsmen on a pedestal of granite, surmounted by a Victory of marble. The cannon are Russian, taken at Sebastopol.

MEMORIAL to the Officers educated at WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, who fell in the Crimea; a granite column, surmounted by a statue of St. George and the Dragon, designed by G. G. Scott, architect, in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, W. end of W. Abbey.

Bronze Statue of CANNING, in Palace-yard, by Sir R. Westmacott.

Equestrian Statue of RICHARD CŒUR DE LION, by Marochetti, Palace-yard, close to H. of Lords.

Bronze Statue of ACHILLES, in Hyde Park, erected 1822, and "Inscribed by the Women of England to Arthur Duke of Wellington and his brave Companions in arms;" by Sir Richard Westmacott. See Hyde Park.

Bronze Equestrian Statue of DUKE OF WELLINGTON, in front of the Royal Exchange, by Sir Francis Chantrey. Ditto on Triumphal Arch, at Hyde-Park-corner, by M. C. Wyatt.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER, by G. G. Adams, GEN. SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, by Behnes, 1861, in Trafalgar-square. Dr. JENNER, sitting figure, by Marshall, in Kensington

Gardens.

SIR HUGH MYDDELTON, founder of the New River Company, Islington Green, N.

XXXII.-PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARES, SQUARES, LANES, &c.

THE landmarks, or central situations of London, are the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange, and the Mansion House, all three lying together in the very heart of the city ;-St. Paul's Cathedral and the General Post Office, both in the City, and within a stone's throw of one another;-Temple Bar and Somerset House, the very central points of modern London ;Charing Cross; Regent Circus, in Piccadilly; the Piccadilly end of Albemarle-street, and Apsley House at Hyde-Parkcorner, the leading points of the southern side of modern London; Tottenham Court Road, the Regent Circus in Oxford-street, and the corner of Edgware Road, the leading points of the northern line of London. (See Clue Map.)

The principal thoroughfares, or main arteries, are Regentst., Piccadilly, Park-lane, Oxford-st., Holborn, the Strand, Fleetst., Cheapside, Cannon-st., K. William-st., Cornhill, the Newroad, the City-road, Drury-lane, Chancery-lane, Gray's-Inn-lane. These are all traversed by a continuous stream of omnibuses, and are best seen from the top of an cmnibus. What Johnson called "the full tide of human existence," is to be seen at the Bank and Royal Exchange; at Charing Cross; and the Regent Circus in Oxford-street.

The streets of London are about 2800 in number; the longest street of consequence without a turning, is Sackvillestreet, Piccadilly. Cannon Street West (running from St. Paul's to London Bridge) was formed at a cost of 200,000, and opened 22nd May, 1854.