Celebrated Localities. It was in Regent's Park that Cromwell was driving his coach, when he was thrown from the box, and narrowly escaped death,- an event which the old Cavalier Poet Cleveland thus commemorates: "Pride will have a fall-thus the world's course is ; He who can rule three realms can't guide four horses; The Queen and Royal Family are here more frequently than in any one spot of the metropolis. Kent and Surrey Gardens are admirable, but not equal to this. Among the remaining places of interest are Bunhill Fields, where are buried John Bunyan, Drs. Watts and Gill, with other eminent non-conformist clergy; Fleet street, in which Cowper was born; Bolt Court, in which Dr. Johnson lived; Chancery Lane where was Isaac Walton's house; Temple Bar, the only remaining gateway of the city-boundaries, and where for a long time were fixed the grisly heads of noblemen who were concerned in the great Stuart rebellion of 1745; Charing Cross, where the long funeral procession of Eleanor, the beloved wife of King Edward the Firet, who had sucked the poison from his wounded arm in the holy land, halted for the last time before it reached its final resting-place in Westminster Abbey, and hence called "La chere reine" (the dear Queen); Addle street, so called from the palace of King Athelstane, who broke down the last resistance of the British race-carried the banner of the white horse of the Saxon to the Land's End in Cornwall, and slew the last king of Cumberland, whose bones lie buried under the huge cairn between Gras-. mere and Keswick, and called from him Dunmail Raise Localities-Continued. Cripplegate Hospital, so called from its being an institution for cripples, founded by Maud, Queen of Henry the First, who also founded an institution for lepers in the parish of St. Giles, and where for a long time prevailed the singular custom of giving to each prisoner when passing on his way to Tyburn Hill for execution, a brimming cup of best ale, that he might drink and take his last refreshment in this life; the Strand, now crowded with stores and shops, but once the shore of the River Thames, and lined with the shops of the old nobility, whose beautiful gardens sloped down to the wa ter's edge; Smithfield, where Wat Tyler, the famous rebel, was killed in 1381, and Rogers, Bradford, with many devoted followers of Christ, were burned at the stake in defence of the Protestant faith; Lombard street, the birth-place of Pope, and Bread street, where Milton, and Cheapside, where Blackstone, were born; Exeter Hall, where the religious anniveraries are held; and Pater-noster-Row, so called, from the Romish beads which were once largely sold there, but in which may now be found many of the largest publishing establishments of the world; Leadenhall street, the heart of that great commercial monopoly which rules the millions of India and the East; the Horse Guards, where the troops are often reviewed by the Commander-in-Chief; Abney Cemetery, where is the seat beneath where Dr. Watts, an inmate of the family of Sir John Abney, who once owned this estate, used to sit and study, and where may be found monuments to many eminent Dissenting Divines; all which (with but few exceptions) I visited, finding great pleasure in re-calling past events and indulging in the emotions awakened by the place and its associations. Such is a rapid sketch of London, a place to be seen Summary. rather than described-a spot which rivals Rome in the eagerness with which a visit is anticipated by the foreign visitor, and which he leaves with exclamations of amazement and pleasure. In addition to these statements illustrating its early history, its religious edifices, its institutions of government, science, and amusement, much might be said of its fifty hospitals and alms-houses, leaving no class of diseases unprovided for, nor the most destitute sufferer under necessity of neglect; its score of markets supplying the three millions of dwellers with all they need for sustenance and luxury; its docks, where as on a quiet lake are lying vessels of all sizes, from the tiny brig, to the conqueror of storm and billow, perpetually engaged on errands of commerce or war; schools of learning of all grades, and upon all themes, municipal arrangements, the most perfect in the civilized world-these might engage attention, but must be foregone at present, while a few alone receive more detailed attention, to which the reader's attention is requested in the four succeeding chapters. CHAPTER VI. Christ's Hospital, or Blue-coat Boy School-London. To comfort the desponding parent with the thought that, without diminishing the stock which is imperiously demanded to furnish the more pressing and homely wants of our nature, he has disposed of one or more out of a numerous offspring, under the shelter of a care scarcely less tender than the paternal, where not only their bodily cravings shall be supplied, but that mental pabulum is also dispensed, which He hath declared to be no less necessary to our sustenance who said that 'not by bread alone can man live;' for this CHRIST'S HOSPITAL UNFOLDS HER BOUNTY.-CHARLES LAMB. In the year 1552, Ridley, Bishop of London, preached before the youthful and pious King Edward the Sixth, a discourse having for its object inciting those in authority to be mindful of the poor. His majesty was so impressed by the appeal that after the benediction he called the Prelate to him, and had an interview respecting the subject matter of his sermon. Said the king, "You willed such as are in authority to remember the poor, wherein I think you mean me, for I am in the highest place and most responsible to God for what I can do for those in whose behalf you plead." He then directed the Bishop, in the use "of his long and approved wisdom and learning," and "upon conference with others, to determine what ways were to be taken for the accomplishment of so desirable a result," pledging therewith the royal patronage and aid. In less than a week the old monastery of the Grey Friars, situated on Newgate street, and established in 1224, but suppressed as a Romish establishment by the reforming Henry the Eighth, was obtained, the royal charter secured, and the institution History. organized under the title of "Christ's Hospital," where for three centuries have been annually housed, fed, clothed and educated from five hundred to one thousand youth, averaging twelve years of age, who have thus been prepared for stations of respectability in various departments of industry and trade, while some have attained an eminence in literature and theology, which will hand down their names to the latest time. An historian of that period remarks that after the king had made a royal endowment to the Institution of four thousand marks (thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars) per year, he said in the audience of his council, "Lord, I yield thee most hearty thanks that thou hast given me life thus long to finish this work.” In two days after this event he was gathered to his royal ancestry, happily for himself, but too soon for the welfare of his realm and the advancement of evangelical truth. Waiving all description of the building, I would notice the somewhat peculiar dress, manners, and usages of the youthful inmates of this ancient school. A parent or guardian having obtained, through a lawful patron, the right of educating a lad in the Institution, brings him there on an appointed day to pass the ordeal of initiation and introduction. His name being registered, with other particulars of age, &c., he is led to the surgeon's room, and here subjected to a most searching examination in order to prevent the introduction of any infectious or cutaneous disease among the pupils. From thence he passes to another room where he undergoes that transformation which makes him a Blue-coat Boy. The "modus operandi" is this: he is divested of all the dress he wore from home, and is encased in corderoy pantaloons with buckles at the knees, yellow-worsted stockings, a |