interment. Here is buried, John Bunyan, the well known author of the " Pilgrim's Progress" (d. 1688); George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends (d. 1690); Daniel De Foe (d. 1731); Isaac Watts (d. 1748); and Blake (d. 1828), and Stothard (d. 1834), the painters, besides others, who, like those we have recorded, have left a reputation as well as a name behind them. In ARTILLERY WALK adjoining, Milton finished his "Paradise Lost," and here, in 1674, he died.

The ARTILLERY GROUND is now, as it has been for upwards of two centuries, the exercising ground of the Honourable Artillery Company of the City of London, the old City trained band, formed in 1585, to oppose the contemplated Spanish invasion. When the alarm subsided, the City volunteers discontinned their customary exercises, and the grounds were used by the gunners of the Tower. In 1610 a new company was formed, and the weekly exercise rigidly enforced. On the breaking out of the Civil War, they took part against the king, and though previously held in low estimation, and treated merely as "holiday" soldiers, they did good service to the Parliamentary cause, especially at the battle of Newbury. Clarendon is forced to admit that they "behaved themselves to wonder, and were in truth the preservation of that army that day." Cromwell himself acknowledged their value, and gave the command of them to Major-General Skipton. They then numbered 18,000 foot and 600 horse, divided into six regiments of trained bands, six of auxiliaries, and one of horse. Disbanded at the Restoration, a new Company was formed, of which Charles II. and his brother the Duke of York became members. Since that period they have led a peaceful life; and, except in 1780, when by their promptness they saved the Bank of England, their appearances in public have been confined to festive occasions. The strength of the Company has gradually fallen off. In 1708, they numbered about 700; in 1720, about 600; and in 1844, only about 250. Prince Albert is their colonel. The members still meet every week, but more for the sake of exercise than with the idea of ever

having their military prowess called into requisition.

Our

younger readers will remember that Cowper tells us of John Gilpin :

"A train-band captain eke was he

Of famous London town."

From the Artillery Ground Lunardi made his first balloon ascent in 1784.

Returning to Old Street, and crossing GoswELL STREET, we pass through a narrow thoroughfare, chiefly inhabited by brokers, and called WILDERNESS Row, whence we may extend our perambulations to CLERKENWELL GREEN, part of a region thickly populated by watch and clock-makers. Here is the SESSIONS HOUSE for Middlesex, the building dating from 1782, and near it is the Church of St. James's, Clerkenwell, built on the site of a much older church to the same saint, and originally the choir of a Benedictine nunnery, founded about 1100. The present building was begun in 1788, and finished in 1792. In the vaults is preserved the tomb of Prior Weston, the last Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Here also rest the remains of Bishop Burnet. North of the Green is the Clerkenwell HOUSE OF DETENTION, for receiving prisoners who have not yet had sentence passed upon them. The annual expenditure is said to be nearly £7,000, and the average number of prisoners daily 110. A chapel and school-room are attached to the premises. Hence we may return into St. John Street, and so reach Smithfield; or, by permeating the uninviting thoroughfares at the back of Saffron Hill and Hatton Garden, return by way of Holborn. Should the latter, for the sake of novelty, be chosen, the visitor will be able to gather some insight into that colony, which, for the last century, has been the chosen refuge of the lower class of emigrants, and the favourite haunt of those vagrant Savoyards who gain a precarious subsistence by grinding barrel-organs through the metropolis, from sunrise till sundown. Here, too, live the greater part of the image-vendors and modellers, the sellers of cheap

earthenware and Birmingham goods, the dealers in broken clocks and umbrellas, and specimens of those indescribable traders about the pavement who live by the sale of fruit or fish, according to the season. This portion, indeed, is the focus of those scattered rays of itinerant life that penetrate at various periods of the day into every portion of the streets of London, giving a distinct character to its thoroughfares, and colouring, as it were, the stream of daily traffic with the motley hues of metropolitan vagabondism. As such it may, with proper precautions that suggest themselves, form, with advantage, one of the places visited by the stranger in London.

PART V.-THE SOUTH.

LONDON

BRIDGE-THE BOROUGH-ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH-ST. OLAVE'S RAILWAY STATIONS-ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL-GUY'S HOSPITAL-BERMONDSEY-OLD INNS-ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR -THE MINT-PRISONS-NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY-SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS-LONDON ROAD-THE BLIND SCHOOL-ST. GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL-BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL -BLACKFRIARS' ROAD WATERLOO ROAD KENNINGTON ROAD VAUXHALL GARDENS-OLD LAMBETH CHURCH-LAMBETH PALACE-THE LOLLARD'S TOWER-ASTLEY'S THEATRE - STAMFORD-STREETBANKSIDE- BARCLAY'S BREWERY-BOROUGH MARKET-CONCLUSION.

ROSSING London Bridge we now enter the BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, one of the most animated parts of the metropolis, from the extent of the business carried on in this extensive locality, and one of the most interesting from its antiquity. On the right is the old Church of ST. SAVIOUR's, erected on the site of the ancient priory of St. Mary Overy, and first made the parochial Church in 1540. The choir, restored in 1822, and the beautiful Ladye Chapel, renovated in 1832, form the oldest portions of the present structure. Here is a monument to Gower, the poet and contemporary of Chaucer; it was restored by the Duke of Sutherland, a descendant of the Gower family, in 1832. These fathers of English poetry followed each other closely to the grave; Chaucer died in 1400 aged 72, and Gower in 1402, blind and full of years. John Fletcher and Philip Massinger the dramatists are also interred here, but without inscriptions. On the opposite side is the Church of St. Olave's, which, by a corruption of names sufficient to puzzle a phonetic philosopher,

gave the appellation of Tooley Street to the long straggling thoroughfare that hence leads to Bermondsey, Horsleydown, and the river-side districts.

The spacious terminus of the SOUTH EASTERN, LONDON AND BRIGHTON, GREENWICH, NORTH KENT, and CROYDON Railways, that all converge at this point, is seen at the end of a broad turning that leads from the main road up to the respective stations. The premises are not without some pretensions to ornament, but what is still better, their arrangements are admirably made to give the greatest possible accommodation to the public without the slightest approach to confusion. The various additions to the original structure have been made from time to time as the increase in the traffic of the respective lines called for their extension, and beneath are spacious vaults under the arches for the stowage of heavy goods.

Close to this cluster of railway stations is ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL, originally founded as an Almonry, in 1213, by the Prior of Bermondsey, and opened as a hospital in 1552. The present edifice, which, since the date of its erection in 1706, has been frequently altered and repaired, consists of three courts, with colonnades between each, and containing 20 wards and 485 beds. The annual expenditure is about £15,000. To show the immense extent of the benefits conferred by these noble charities, we may mention that in 1849 there was admitted, cured, and discharged 4,737 in-patients, and 59,109 out-patients, including casualties, whilst many have been relieved with money and necessaries at their departure, to accommodate and support them in their journeys to their several habitations. In the middle of one of the courts is a bronze statute, by Scheemaker, of Edward VI.; and in another is a statue of Sir Robert Clayton, a Lord Mayor of London who gave a considerable amount towards its endowment. The statue was erected before his death, which happened in 1714.

In St. Thomas's Street, on the right-hand side, is GUY's