laurel, below which are three bronze figures of Guards. At the west end of Pall Mall is the Gallery of the Institution of Painters in Water Colours, and nearly opposite is Marlborough House, restored from Wren's design of 1710, as a town residence for the Prince of Wales. Marl borough died here. The Vernon collection of pictures and the Schools of Design, now removed to South Kensington Museum, were first shown here.

THE CHARTER HOUSE is a little to the north-east of Smithfield. It was formerly a Carthusian Monastery, and was converted in 1611 into a school for forty boys, and an asylum for "80 indigent and deserving gentlemen.' The school has been removed to the country, and the site has been purchased by the Merchant Tailor's Company, and a large school-house has been erected. The buildings of the Charter House are extensive. The Great Chamber is well worth a visit.

A little to the west of the Charter House in St John's Lane, is ST JOHN'S GATE, belonging to the supposed priory of the Knights of St John, an interesting relic. The rooms above the gate contain many interesting historic relics, including Dr Johnson's Chair. A little to the east of the Charter House adjoining Bunhill Row is the old CEMETERY of BUNHILL FIELDS. It is always open to visitors, but is no longer used as a burial place. It contains among other interesting tombs, those of JOHN BUNYAN, DANIEL DEFOE, and DR ISAAC WATTS. Across the street is the house once occupied by JOHN CALVIN.

LAW COURTS. The principal courts are the Courts of Chancery, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, Probate and Matrimonial Causes, and High Court of

Admiralty. When the new Law Courts are finished, these will all be housed in one building, instead of being held, as they are now, at Westminster, at Lincoln's Inn, and at Guildhall. The Central Criminal Court is at the Old Bailey, near Newgate. The Bankruptcy Court is at Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

THE INNS OF COURT AND OF CHANCERY are as follows:-The Inner and Middle Temple in Fleet Street, near Temple Bar, on the site of a preceptory of the Knights Templars, of which the Norman Round Church, built in 1185, remains. In the grounds and gardens are the Judges' Lodgings, Inner and Middle Temple Halls and Libraries, including the new Gothic library, opened by the Prince of Wales, in 1861. Clifford's, Lyon's, Clement's, and the New Inns of Chancery, are members of the Temple. Lincoln's Inn, between Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields, includes the Lord Chancellor's and Vice-Chancellor's Courts, a hall restored in the Tudor style, library, and chapel. Furnival's and Thavie's Inns of Chancery are members of Lincoln's Inn. Gray's Inn, Holborn, includes a hall and chapel, and has Barnard's and Staple's Inns of Chancery for its members.

STATUES AND PUBLIC MONUMENTS. The Monument, Fish Street Hill, built 1677, by Wren, after the great fire-a Doric column 202 feet high; Edward VI., at Christ's Hospital; Queen Elizabeth, St Dunstan's, Fleet Street; William III., in the Bank; Queen Anne, St Paul's Church Yard, and Queen's Square, Bloomsbury; William IV., King William Street, London Bridge; Queen Victoria, in the Exchange; Duke of Wellington, opposite the Exchange and in the Tower. At the West End are Charles I.,

Exhibitions from Easter to the end of July (open 9-7; admission 1s.), and from 1st December to end of February (10-4; admission 1s.)

DORE GALLERY, 35 New Bond Street. Open daily from 10 to 6; admission ls.

DUDLEY GALLERY, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Water-colours, middle of January to May; Black and White Exhibition (drawings, &c.), June to end of August; admission 1s.

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, 6 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. Exhibitions from 1st April to 1st August (9-6), and from 1st Dec. to 1st March (9-5). Admission 1s.

BRITISH GALLERY OF ART, 57 Pall Mall. Summer and winter exhibitions. Admission 1s. GROSVENOR GALLERY, 137 New Bond Street. Summer and winter exhibitions. Admission 1s.

DULWICH GALLERY.- In this connection we may mention Dulwich College and Gallery (5 miles from London), easily reached by railway from Victoria or Ludgate Hill stations. The college is chiefly famous for the gallery, which contains one of the best collections of pictures of the old masters. Admission free, by ticket, obtainable of almost any printseller. The Gallery is open from ten to five. In 1811 Sir Francis Bourgeois bequeathed 354 pictures, and £10,000 to build a gallery for their reception, besides £2000 to provide for their proper care and repair. Here are fine specimens of Murillo, Cuyp, Teniers, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ostade, Salvator Rosa, Paul Veronese, Claude, and Poussin; besides single pictures by Gainsborough, Opie, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. The gallery is open every week day from 10 to 5 in summer, and 10 to 4 in winter.

MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN MARKET, for fruit, flowers, shrubs, seeds, and vegetables, was constructed from designs by Mr Fowler, at a cost of £50,000. It consists of three sides of a quadrangle surrounded by a Doric colonnade of granite pillars. The wings have shops facing the square, and others looking towards the open market. In the centre is an avenue, with shops on each side. The flower market is on the west side. The present market was built at the expense of the Duke of Bedford, on whose estate it stands. Market days, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Billingsgate is the great fish market of London. It is a little below London Bridge. It was made a fish market in 1699, and is the largest devoted to that single traffic in the world.

The new Metropolitan Meat Market, Smithfield, a handsome building in the style of the Renaissance, is 630 feet long by 246 wide, and covers three acres. It connects with the Underground Railway.

The principal Docks are the London Docks at Wapping, 1 mile below London Bridge, covering 28 acres, the West India Docks, 4 miles down the river, occupying, with the warehouses, 295 acres; the East India Docks, with an area of 30 acres; the Commercial Docks, on the south side of the Thames, covering 49 acres; St Katherine's Docks, just below the Tower, and near the Custom House, covering, with their buildings, 24 acres.

THE HOLBORN VIADUCT -a remarkable engineering achievement by William Haywood, engineer, by which Holborn Hill is avoided-is 1400 feet long from Hatton Garden to Newgate Street, and 80 feet wide. The bridge over Farringdon Street is