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Mansion House.— This official palace of the City
sovereign is only about 120 years old, and was built by Dance on the
site of the old stocks market. Its principal feature is a Corinthian portico
with six fluted columns, but the broad staircase which should lead up to them is
missing- and the portico approached by two little side flights, has a slightly
inconsequent air perched up some dozen feet or so over the heads of passers-by.
The building itself has something of the general air of a Roman palazzo, and had
originally a central courtyard; this, however, has now been roofed in, and so
converted into what is known as the Egyptian Hall; not on account of anything
particularly Egyptian about it, but as a delicate compliment to Vitruvius. It
contains some statues by British artists—Foley, Bailey, Marshall, and
others—and affords a fine dining-hall for the great City banquets. It is also
frequently used for large charitable and other meetings in furtherance of
objects taken under the special patronage of the Lord Mayor for the time being.
NEAREST Railway Stations, Mansion
House (Dist.) and Cannon-Street (SE.); Omnibus
Routes, Cheapside, Queen Victoria-street, King William-st, Cornhill, Thread.
needle-street, and Moorgate-street; Cab
Rank, King William-street.
Mansion House Street.— Many Londoners would deny
that such a Street exists, but, in fact, the few houses at the end of the
Poultry, facing the Mansion House, and the Mansion House itself, officially
stand in Mansion House-street. We apply the term for convenience to the open
space in front of the Mansion House, where Cheapside, Princes-street,
Threadneedle - street, Cornhill, Lombard. street, King William-street, and Queen
Victoria-street unite. As Chasing-cross is the heart of all London, this great
junction is the heart of the City and the traffic that meets and crosses here is
bewildering. With the exception, to some extent, of Lombard-street, all these
streets are main arteries of traffic, and their united flow is so confusingly
great that a timid person would it absolutely impossible to effect a crossing
from the Bank to the Mansion House without assistance. Here are the three great
centres of City life. The Bank of England, the Royal Exchange—which contains
Lloyd’s —and the Mansion House. In the streets around are all the great
banking establishments of London, and the wealth within a quarter of a mile
radius of this spot is incalculable. Of all the sights of London there is
nothing which fills a foreigner with such a sense of amazement and admiration as
the mighty ceaseless flow of traffic in front of the Mansion House.
Mansions (Private).—The art treasures belonging
to the great families will generally be found in their country palaces, but
sufficient objects of interest are kept in London to make a visit to some of the
great private mansions interesting.
APSLEY HOUSE, Hyde Park Corner, is principally famous as
the residence of the great Duke of Wellington, who largely improved it and added
a picture gallery which contains a fair collection. The most interesting objects
in Apsley House, however, are those which are more intimately
connected with the “Iron Duke” himself—such, for instance, as the
services of plate and china presented to him by various crowned heads and public
bodies, and most interesting of all, his bedroom, with the celebrated camp
bedstead, which is religiously preserved as it was left at his death.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, Cleveland-row, with a fine frontage
towards the Green-park, is remarkable for the Bridgewater collection of
pictures, a portion of the gallery of the first Duke of Sutherland. The
Bridgewater estates and pictures became the property of the Egerton family on
the death of the duke in 1833. Of the Bridgewater House collection Mrs. Jameson
says that it has had the most favourable and the most refining influence on the
public taste of all the private collections.
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, PiccadilIy the residence of the chief
of the Cavendish family, is screened from pedestrians by a high brick wall, and
stands in extensive grounds. The principal attractions are the gems and the
Kemble plays, originally the property of John Philip Kemble. The late duke was a
liberal and enlightened patron of literature and the fine arts, and it was here
that the brilliant company of the Guild of Literature and Art produced, for the
first time, Lord Lytton’s comedy, “Not so Bad as we Seem.”
GROSVENOR House, Upper Grosvenor-street, the residence of
the Duke of Westminster, is one of the few houses in London distinguished for
ambitious architectural effects; the colonnades in Grosvenor-street and in the
park frontage being in their way unique. A very fine collection of pictures is
hung in the galleries. The old masters are strongly represented; but the
magnificent specimens of Reynolds, Hogarth, and Gainsborough, will have more
interest for the ordinary visitor. This gallery is particularly noticeable as
having been one of the first that was opened to the public— with special
reference to the working classes—on Sundays. It is to be regretted that the
liberality of the duke was somewhat ill-requited.
HOLLAND HOUSE, Kensington, is principally celebrated for
its library and for its literary associations. Addison, who married the widow of
Lord Warwick, to whom the house belonged, died here; and here lived for many
years the great Charles James Fox. It was in the time of the third Lord
Holland—or rather in that of Lady Holland—that Holland House was in its
zenith, and was the head-quarters of some of the most brilliant men of a
brilliant epoch.
LANSDOWNE HOUSE, Berkeley-square, is chiefly noticeable
for its gallery of sculpture, ancient and modern; and for the fact that
Priestley here made his discovery of oxygen when librarian to Lord Shelburne.
Among the pictures, those of Reynolds are the most important.
STAFFORD HOUSE belonging to the Duke of Sutherland,
situated near the St. James’s Palace – and a palace itself – has a
magnificent collection of pictures, including the portion of the Stafford
Gallery which did not pass with the Bridgewater Gallery. There is no private
collection of pictures in London better worthy of careful inspection than this.
Stafford House has been the scene of some of the most superb receptions ever
given in this country.
In addition to the above are many private mansions of
great interest, amongst which may be mentioned those of Lord Ashburton, Bath
House, Piccadilly; of Mr. Holford, Dorchester House, Park-lane; of Mr Beresford
Hope, Arklow House, Connaught-place; of the Earl of Dudley, Park-lane; of Lord
Northbrook, Hamilton-place, Piccadilly; of the Marquis of Bute, Eccleston-SqUare
; and of Sir Richard Wallace in Manchester-square, which is, indeed, one of the
most interesting of all. Information as to admission to most of these
collections may be obtained by application to Mitchells library, in Old
Bond-street, or to Messrs. Colnaghi, Pall Mall-east.
Maps—The ordinary ordnance maps of London and its
environs are: 1. One on a scale of
one inch to a mile, which shows the environs stretching some eighteen miles to
east and west, and twelve or thirteen north and south, of the City, sold at 2s.
6d. per copy and dating about fifty years back. 2. The same map on four quarter
sheets, at 1s. per quarter, showing improvements up to 1872. 3. A map contained
on four sheets, scale six inches to a mile, price 1s. per sheet, which sheets
are also published in four quarters at the same price, on a scale of twelve
inches. Both the latter are what are known as skeletons—that is to say, only
showing streets, roads, and rivers, without houses or other characteristics. The
next size is a map on a scale of twenty-five inches to a mile, published in
eighty-nine sheets, at 2s. 6d - each, which gives full details of houses,
&c. and the last and largest on a scale of five feet to a mile, in 327
sheets, at 2s. each. These form the basis of most, if not of all, the private
maps published , the skeletons being filled up in each case in accordance with
the special object in view. Dealing first with what may be termed the normal
map, which gives streets, squares, buildings, &c without any very specially
distinguishing method of treatment, REYNOLDS’S COLOURED MAP OF LONDON is the
most comprehensive of those that have as yet come into our hands, being, indeed,
the only one which takes any account of that not very fashionable, but very
populous district fast springing up west of Shepherd’s Bush-green, and
threatening, before many years or even months are over, to join London to Acton
as it has already joined it to Richmond. It is divided into quarter-miles, and
has an illustrated index of streets, &c. MESSRS. W. H. SMITH & SON’s
NEW PLAN OF LONDON it a remarkably clear and well-printed skeleton map,
extending from Hammersmith to Blackwall, and from Upper Holloway to Brixton. It
is very lightly and judiciously coloured, all water being tinted blue, and all
grass green; whilst omnibus and tramway routes are traced out in yellow. The
number of these routes, and the way in which they permeate every section of the
town, is one of the most striking features of London, and comes out in this map
with especial clearness. Another good point is the distinguishing between
underground and surface railways, not in the ordinary fashion by eliminating the
former altogether, but by differently-coloured lines. Altogether this map, which
is divided into half-mile squares, calculated from St. Paul’s, is one of the
most generally useful we have received. COLLINS’S STANDARD MAP OP LONDON, with
illustrated guide, is a large, useful map, boldly printed, and with the
stations, railways, docks, canals, &c., brought prominently
forward by means of colour. It is divided into mile squares, indicated at the
top and bottom by letters, and at the sides by figures, and has attached to the
wrapper a small pamphlet, with woodcuts of some of the principal places of
interest, and brief notes upon them. PHILLIPS’S MAP OF LONDON FOR VISITORS is
of a similar kind, but on a somewhat smaller scale, more lightly printed, and
with a less free use of colour. It is divided on the same principle, but into
half-mile squares, and is printed on rather thicker paper. WALTHAM BROTHERS’
POCKET MAP OF LONDON (C. Smith and Co.) is a rough-and-ready little article,
about the size of a small cotton pocket-handkerchief, mounted on strong calico,
and folding into almost the compass of a rather small purse. It is a skeleton
map, but is very clear and good, the railways and stations being printed in red.
HOULSTON’S HANDY MAP OF LONDON is very similar, but on paper only, and folding
into a paper wrapper. THOMAS LETTS’S SOUTH LONDON, and OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
BOAT-RACE MAPS are, as their name implies, partial in their bearing. The former,
indeed, which is on the one-inch scale, has a rather more ambitious scope than
its title would necessarily imply, being, in fact, a map not so much of South
London as of the southern environs extending a mile or two beyond Croydon and
Cheam. It is a very handy little map, about three inches square when folded in
its cloth case, and very clearly drawn. The boat-race map is about the same size
or a trifle bigger, and deals, as its name implies, exclusively with that
section of the river between Putney and Mortlake, over which the famous race is
rowed. It is on the six-inch scale, giving roads, paths, &c., in
considerable detail and is a very useful companion for any stranger bent on
assisting at the great aquatic event of the London year.
We come next to three railway maps, all of considerable
interest in relation to the subject with which they more especially deal.
MESSRS. W. H. SMITH & SONS RAILWAY STATION MAP OF LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS,
on the scale of one inch to one mile, extends from Windsor to Chiselhurst, and
from a little north of Edgware to about a mile south of Epsom Downs. The tinting
here is in counties, but is put in very lightly, thus throwing up the
heavily-marked railway lines, which are the especial feature of the map.
Following out the same idea, the names of railway stations are printed in a
blacker type than that used for other places, the various indications of parks,
gentleman’s seats, roads, &c., being also kept under as much as possible.
One peculiar feature of this map is the unusually elaborate manner in which it
is marked off for the calculation of distances. It is divided not only into
three-mile squares, but into mile circles, the starting-point in each case being
St. Paul’s. Altogether, for railway use, one of the best maps of the series.
AIREY’S RAILWAY MAP is almost unique in its way, devoting itself to its
subject with a singleness of purpose which is really almost sublime, and
absolutely ignoring all such minor features of the country it portrays as hills,
roads, streets, churches, public buildings, and so forth. It is rather startling
at first to find the Metropolitan Railway pursuing its course through a country
as absolutely devoid of feature as was the “Great Sahara” in the good old
African maps of the Pre-Spekian period. But, as a matter of fact, it is only by
such means that Mr. Airey attains, or can attain, his object, which is just to
convey in simple but unmistakable form a considerable amount of curious
information as to the ownership of the various lines which honeycomb the
metropolis in every direction. Some of the facts thus conveyed are rather
quaint, as, for instance, when we find a stray fragment of the London, Chatham,
and Dover extending from the Crystal Palace High Level station to Nunhead, and
thence, on either hand, to Blackheath-hill and Peckham Rye, absolutely isolated
from the rest of the system, and only accessible over the metals of the London
& Brighton Company. The real student of the metropolis will find this map
well worth studying. LONDON RAILWAYS SIMPLIFIED AND EXPLAINED is a trifle less
rigid in the simplicity of its adherence to one idea, inasmuch as it devotes a
plain thick line—a mere scratch such as in ordinary maps of Europe serves to
denote a fourth-rate river—to the tracing out of the more important streets
and roads. But with it, as with Mr.
Airey’s, the railway system is the be-all and the end-all of its existence,
and from it may in like manner be extracted a large store of useful and
interesting information, much of it, indeed, to the ordinary traveller, of even
more practical interest. The map distinguishes each separate railway according
to its proprietary by a double system of colours and continuous or broken lines.
Where the trains of one company have running powers over the metals of another,
the same coloured or marked line is continued alongside of that proper to the
railway itself but of a lighter type. In some instances five or six different
lines may be seen wending their way side by side, while the uninitiated student
is astonished to find the Midland, the North Western, and so forth, stretching
out their feelers half-way between London and Brighton, whilst on the other hand
the London and Brighton line burrows under the river on its way to
Liverpool-street, and the ubiquitous London, Chatham, and Dover thinks nothing
of thrusting out its tentacles to Palmer’s Green or Colney Hatch. It may be
observed that these two maps do not in all respects entirely agree, as, for
example, in the case of the little bit of London, Chatham, and Dover already
referred to; which the map now in question connects with the parent metals by a
line of its own running alongside the London and Brighton road from Peckham Rye.
The ILLUSTRATED MAP OF LONDON (C. Smith and Son) is another specialty map, and
of a very curious appearance, being printed on a solid orange ground, as of a
glorified London fog. It is, however, one of the most useful maps that the
tourist visitor could well carry about with him, every building of any
importance, from his point of view, being given in propria persona on
Brobdingnagian scale, whilst the omission of all ordinary houses, &c., and
of all but the really important streets, reduces the problem of finding the way
to a really charming simplicity. The railway stations too, coloured a bright
red, are actual buildings into and out of which the railways to which they
appertain pass visibly, as in the very structures themselves, and the whole map,
which is by no means unwieldy in size, and which is strongly mounted on stiff
cotton, is a capital companion. So, too, is the INDICATOR MAP OF LONDON and
VISITORS GUIDE of the same firm, which has for specialty a good tape
arrangement, by grace of which and of the alphabetical list of some 7,000
streets pasted into the cover, any required place can be found in a moment. The
Indicator map, indeed, requires to be laid upon a table when consulted, and so
far, for use at street corners its orange-coloured competitor would probably
have the advantage of it. But, en revanche,
the Indicator will conduct the enquirer at once to thousands of places with,
which the other does not profess or care to deal, and for practical indoor use
is probably one of the best published.
Arriving now at the maps of the country immediately
around London, one of the handiest little sheets of really pocket size is
LETTS’S ENVIRONS OF LONDON, on the inch scale, which folds up into a little
cloth case of between three and four inches square, and is exceedingly clear and
legible It extends from Hanwell to Erith Marshes, and from about a mile north of
Friern Barnet to about half a mile south of Norwood Junction, the railways being
coloured red except when under ground. It may, perhaps be questioned whether
this exception is not a mistake, the almost entire disappearance of the
Metropolitan Railway thus produced having a rather curious effect. But it is a
capital little map. HOULSTON S HANDY MAP OF SURREY is another of the same kind,
quite small enough for the waistcoat-pocket, yet containing all necessary
detail. LETTS’S SURVEY OF THE COUNTRY ROUND LONDON, to the distances of
thirty-two miles from St. Paul’s, is, of course, a much larger sheet, though
on a slightly smaller scale. It contains also rather more detail, but dispenses
altogether with the use of colour. STANFORD’S MAP OF TWELVE MILES ROUND
LONDON, on the other hand, which is on a considerably larger scale, uses colour
freely, to distinguish between the various counties; the railways also being
laid down in red, while the parks, river, are shown similarly distinguished.
MESSRS. W. H. SMITH & SON’S MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON, on the scale of
one inch to one mile, extends from Windsor to East Wickham, and from
South Mimms to Epsom Downs. It is coloured in counties, of which it contains
portions of no less than eight, the railways being strongly marked in red. The
roads, parks, gentleman’s seats, &c., with all the natural features of the
country, are clearly distinguished, the names of all places of any importance
being printed in type of a size very acceptable to eyes that have lost something
of their first vigour. THE EXCURSIONIST’S MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON is on
the half-inch scale, and uses colour for the boundaries of counties only. It is
a useful map for its purpose, and giving fewer details than that last mentioned,
is to some extent easier of reference. On the other hand REYNOLDS’S
OARSMAN’S AND ANGLER’S MAP OF THE RIVER THAMES, from its source to London.
bridge, and the same firm’s COLOURED CHART OF THE THAMES ESTUARY, with map of
the river from London to Gravesend, abound in detail; the former especially
having its wide margin studded thick with useful hints as to islands, weirs,
ferries, currents, favourable fishing-grounds, preserves, but the two finest
maps that have come into our hands are STANFORD’S ENVIRONS OF LONDON,
extending twenty-five miles from the metropolis, and the same firm’s
magnificent six-inch scale map of London in twenty-four handy sheets. It is
hardly necessary to say that neither of them are strictly adapted—or
intended—for casual study at street corners on stormy days, but for home use
they are as nearly perfect as maps can well be, while their scale admits of an
amount of detail which in smaller sheets would be hopelessly confusing to the
most practised eye.
Marble Arch, at the west end of Oxford-street,
nearly opposite Edgware-rd. Formerly stood Outside Buckingham Palace—NEAREST Railway
Station, Edgware-road ; Omnibus
Routes, Edgware. road, Oxford-street, and Baker. Street.
Marlborough Club, Pall
Mall. — No particular qualification. Entrance fee, £31 10s.
subscription, £10 10s.
Marylebone Theatre, Church -street, Edgware-road.— A local house of the provincial
type. NEAREST Railway Station, Edgware-road;Omnibus Routes, Church-street and Edgware-road.
Mayfair,—strictly the immediate neighbourhood of
Berkeley-square, but commonly known as the district lying between Park-lane,
Picadilly, Bond-street, and Brook-street, is still, from the society point of
view, the creme de la creme of
residential London. The smallest and most inconvenient house—--and it still
contains many to which the term “house” is barely applicable but by courtesy
—lets readily at a rent which, in less sought-after neighbourhoods, would
provide a handsome establishment. The larger portion of the district belongs to
the Duke of Westminster, whose own residence is in Grosvenor-street, and who, as
fast as the leases fall in, is rebuilding the old-fashioned houses in more
comfortable modern style. In point of ‘fashion” Belgravia no doubt competes
with it, but there is a more aristocratic flavour about Mayfair, besides which
it stands, topographically, on higher and therefore healthier ground. The church
provision is mostly of a very old-fashioned type, consisting chiefly of
proprietary chapels, either in their original form or rechristened by the style
of district churches, with the services, pews, ‘three-deckers,” &c.,
differing but little, if at all, from those of thirty years ago. The chief Roman
Catholic place of worship is the Jesuit Church in Farm-street, which is one of
the Sunday sights of London. There is hardly any dissenting accommodation. The
few shops are small, and very dear, but Regent-street, Bond-street, and
Piccadilly are close at hand. The three nearest stations—Baker-Street
(Metrop.), Portland-road (Metrop.), and Victoria (District) — are each about
three-quarters of a mile distant from the nearest point. The omnibus routes of
Park-lane. Piccadilly, Regent. street, and Oxford-street, skirt Mayfair on the
respective sides.
Medical Education
and Registration (General Council of), 315, Oxford-street, W. NEAREST
Railway Station, Portland-road; Omnibus Routes, Baker-street, Oxford-street, Regent-street. Cab
Rank, Great Portland-street.
Members of Parliament for Metropolitan Boroughs and Counties.
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Baring, Thos. Chas Essex. S.
Beresford, Col. F. M. Southwark
Boord, Thos. Wm...Greenwich
Cecil, Lord F. H. G. B. Essex, W.
Chambers, Sir Thos. Marylebone
Coope, Octavius E Middlesex
Cotton, Ald. W. J. R London
Cubitt, George
Surrey, W.
Duke, Sir C. Wentworth. - Chelsea
Fawcett, Henry
Hackney
Forsyth, William .. . . Marylebone
Gladstone, Right Hon. William Ewart Greenwich
Gordon, William - Chelsea
Goschen, Re. Hon. G. J. London
Grantham, Wm., Q.C. Surrey,
E.
Hamilton, Right Hon. Lord Geo. Francis Middlesex
Holms, John
Hackney
Hubbard, Rt. Hon. J. G. London
Ibbetson, Sir H. J. S. - Essex, W.
Lawrence, Ald. Sir J. C. Lambeth
Lawrence, Sir J.T. - Surrey, Mid.
Lewisham, Viscount... - Kent, W.
Locke, John
Southwark
Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. London
Univ.
Lush, Aid. Sir Andrew Finsbury
M’Arthur, Ald. Wm. . - Lambeth
Makins, Wm. Thos Essex,
S.
Mills, Sir Chas. H
Kent, W.
Peek, Sir Hy. Wm. Surrey,
Mid.
Pim, Capt. Bedford -... Gravesend
Ritchie, Chas. T. Tower Hamlets
Russell, Sir Chas. - - Westminster
Samuda, J. D’A. Tower Hamlets
Smith, Rt. Hn. W. H. Westminster
Steere, LeeSurrey, West
Torrens, Wm. T. M’C... Finsbury
Twells, Philip London
Watney, James Surrey,E.
Mercers’ Company (The) has its home in
Ironmonger-lane, overlooking Cheapside. At present workmen are engaged in making
additions to the building, which in its present condition is as snug and cosy as
even City liverymen could desire. The Mercers have a chapel of their own, in
which divine service is held every Sunday evening, and attended by a
congregation of at least fifty persons, a respectable gathering for the city of
London, where there are comparatively but few residents. Until recently the
company had the entire management of St. Paul’s School, which was founded by
Dean Colet, whose father was a mercer. At the present time they are patrons of
three livings, managers of several schools and hospitals, and possess a large
number of exhibitions to the two universities. There are three old pictures of
special interest in the Court-room: Holbein’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham,
Dean Colet, and Whittington, who is represented as a sedate and
prosperous-looking person caressing a cat. A portrait of Lord Selborne has
lately been added to the collection. Perhaps the most noteworthy objects in the
place are the wood carving, and an ancient gateway which contains a shutter in
the form of a portcullis. This machine is elaborately carved, and was one of the
few things that escaped destruction in the Great Fire. Near the site of the
present hall stood the house of Gilbert a’ Beckett, mercer, in which his son
Thomas was born.
Merchant Taylors (The) are the old rivals of the
Fishmongers, and profess Conservative politics. Their hall, Threadneedle-street,
which is on the ground-floor, is stated by its admirers to be the largest of all
the City halls; by ordinary persons it might perhaps be considered the ugliest.
It was built after the Great fire by Jarman.
The latest addition to the portrait gallery is a likeness of Lord Justice
Baggallay by J.Sant, R.A. Busts of Sir J. Pollock and the late Lord Derby stand
in the vestibule before the drawing-room; and portraits of Wellington by Wilkie,
and Pitt by Hoppner, are hanging in the gallery overlooking the hall. Many royal
personages, eleven in all have belonged to the company, and a large number of
peers and peeresses. Sir John Hawkwood, the famous freelance, was a Merchant
Taylor as also was Stow, the historian. The master of the company used to be
called the pilgrim, from the fact that he had to travel for his associates.
Merchant
Taylors’ School, Charterhouse-square, is one of the best of the public
schools of London, and has little to fear in any competition. The ancient motto
of the school, Homo plantat Homo irrigat
sed Deus dat Incrementum, well expresses the aspiration of the “pious
founders”; and the following extract from the old statute of 1561 sets forth the origin of the institution: “The Grammar-Schoole,
founded in the’ Parish of St. Laurence Pountney, in London, in the Yere of our
Lord God one thousand fyve hundred, sixty-one, by the Worshipfull Company of the
Marchaunt Taylors, of the City of London, in the honour of Christ Jesu.”
Presentations to the school are in the gift of the members of the court of
assistants of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. The school is divided primarily
into upper and lower; and the upper school into two divisions, called the
classical side and the modern side. The lower school is preparatory to the
upper, promotions being made from the lower to the upper twice a year according
to individual proficiency. The half of Monday is, throughout the school, devoted
to religious instruction. The dues are an entrance fee of
£3 and £12 12s., per annum,
paid quarterly in advance, by boys in the lower, or £15 15s. per annum by boys
in either department of the upper school. This includes every charge for
education, except books. There is no boarding system, but boarders are received
by the assistant-masters, and by other persons, with whom special arrangements
must be made. No boy can be admitted unless he be over nine and under fourteen
years of age, and p ass the entrance examination to the satisfaction of the
head-master. The list of the scholarships and exhibitions to the universities is
amazing, and the school scholarships themselves are of great importance. Such a
list as that which is here appended is probably unparalleled: Twenty-one
scholarships of £100 per annum, tenable for seven years under certain
conditions at St. John’s College, Oxford; four Parkyn exhibitions of £90, for
four years, to Cambridge, for mathematics; five Andrew exhibitions of £86 per
annum, for five years, tenable at St. John’s College, Oxford, for history and
modern languages; two Stuart exhibitions, one to Cambridge, of about £60, for
four years, and one to Oxford, of £50, for eight years; four Company’s
exhibitions of £40, for four years, to either Oxford or Cambridge; one school
exhibition, of about £60, for four years, tenable at Oxford; two Pitt Club
exhibitions, of about £30, for four years, tenable at Oxford or Cambridge; and
one free medical and surgical scholarship annually at St. Thomas’s Hospital.
All boys who have been in the school two years are eligible to the twenty-one
scholarships at St. John’s College, Oxford, until the 11th of June preceding
their nineteenth birthday. Candidates for other school exhibitions may in some
cases have passed their nineteenth birthday, but must have been a certain time
in the school, and attained a certain rank in it, and passed certain
examinations. Ten scholarships are awarded annually by competition to boys who
have been at least one year in the school. Four of these, called senior
scholarships, are open to boys under sixteen, and are of the value of £30 per
annum, and tenable as long as the holder remains in the school. One at least of
these senior scholarships is awarded every year for modern subjects. The
remaining six called junior scholarships, are open to boys under fourteen, and
are of the value of £15, tenable for two years, or until the holder is elected
to a senior scholarship It is not surprising that with advantages such as these
the list of distinguished Taylorians should comprise the names of so many
remarkable men. All information can be obtained from the secretary at the
school. NEAREST Railway Station, Omnibus
Route and Cab Rank, Aldersgate-street
Meteorological Office, 116, Victoria-street,
Westminster. NEAREST Railway Station, Victoria;
Omnibus Route, Victoria Street; Cab
Rank, Army and Navy Stores, Victoria-street.
Methodist Places of Worship. The following
information has been kindly furnished by the respective ministers, the “terms
of membership” being given their own words:
LONDON 9TH CIRCUIT CHAPELS (two chapels): Little
King-street Chapel, King-street, High-street, Camden-town, N.W.; Grafton-road
Chapel, Prince of Wales-road, Kentish Town, N.W.—Terms of membership: “Usual
Method rules.” Seat rents various, from 1s. per sitting and upwards.
GRANGE-ROAD CHAPEL, Upper Grange-road,
Bermoisdsey, S.E. Terms of membership: “Class meeting and attendance upon the
ordinance of the Lord’s Supper.” Seat rents, free will offerings. Erected by
Union of Wesleyan Reformers from Weston-street 1871.
WILLOW-STREET METROPOLITAN METHODIST FREE CHURCH,
Willow-street, Great Eastern-Street, EC.—Terms
of membership: “Professed faith in Christ evinced by a Christian
deportment,. and expressed by attendance at the Lord’s Supper, and a desire
for Christian fellowship.” Seat rents from 1s, to 3s. per quarter.
Methodist New
Connexion Places of Worship. The following information has been kindly
furnished by the respective ministers, the “terms of membership” being given
in their own words:
PACKINGTON-STREET CHAPEL,. Packington-street.
Islington.— Terms of Membership: “Meeting
in class and attendance on the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.” Included in the
London and Circuit Methodist New Connexion. Founded 1797.
MILTON-ROAD
CHAPEL, Milton-road Stoke Newington.— Terms of membership
: “Meeting in Class, and attendance on the Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper.” Included in the London and Circuit Methodist New Connexion. Founded
1797.
NORTH END CHAPEL, North End, Fulham.—Terms of Membership “Meeting in class, and attendance on the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.” Included in the London and Circuit
Methodist New Connexion. Founded 1797.
Metropolitan Board
of Works, Spring-gardens, S.W. Hours 9 till 4 Saturdays, 9 till 2.— The nearest approach to a municipal body in
London outside the City. Great public works, such as the main drainage scheme,
the embankments, the making of important new thoroughfares, &c., are
entrusted to the Board; and a host of minor duties, involving much work for the
members and heavy charges on the ratepayers, also devolve upon them. NEAREST Railway
Stations, Charing-cross (S. E. and Dist.) ; Omnibus
Routes Cockspur-street, Strand, and Whitehall; Cab
Rank, Trafalgar-square.
Metropolitan County
Courts.— REGISTRY FOR METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS: 2, New-street,
Spring-gardens: nr. Charing-cross. BLOOMSBURY, Great Portland-street, Oxford-st.
BOW COUNTY COURT: Bow-road. BROMPTON: Whitehead’s - grove, Chelsea. CITY OF
LONDON COURT: Guildhall, City. CLERKENWELL: Duncan-ter, Islington. GREENWICH:
Burney-street, Greenwich. LAMBRTH: Camberwell New-rd. MARYLEBONE:
179, Marylebone-road. SHOREDITCH: 221, Old-st. SOUTHWARK: Court House,
Swan-street, Borough. WESTMINSTER: 82, St. Martin’s-lane. WHITECHAPEL : Great
Prescot-street, Goodman’s-fields. WOOLWICH, Brewer-street, Woolwich.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade. — The strength of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade at present is as
follows: 50 fire-engine stations;
109 fire-escape stations; 4 floating stations; 56 telegraph lines; 104 miles of
telegraph lines; 3 floating steam fire-engines; 1 iron barge, to carry a land
steam fire-engine; 3 large land steam fire-engines; 26 small land steam
fire-engines; 12 7-inch manual fire-engines; 60 6-inch manual fire-engines; 36
under 6-inch manual fire-engines ; 17 hose carts; 125 fire-escapes and long scaling ladders; 420 firemen, including the
chief officer Capt. Eyre Massey Shaw, the superintendents, and all ranks. The
number of firemen employed on the several watches kept up throughout the
metropolis is at present 91 by day and 168 by night, making a total of 259 in
every twenty-four hours; the remaining men are available for general work at
fires. The number of fires attended by the brigade in 1878 was 1,659, of which
270 were “serious,” and 1,489 “slight.” The number of persons seriously
endangered by fire in 1878 was 151, of whom 126 were saved, and 25 lost their lives. The number of journeys made by
the engines of the fifty land stations in 1878 was 16,329, the total distance
run being 41,327 miles. The quantity of water used for extinguishing fires in
the metropolis during 1878 was 19,226,915 gallons, or about 85,000 tons.
METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE STATIONS.
Head-quarters: Southwark-br-rd, SE.
A DISTRICT.
Baker-street, 33, King-street.
Brompton, Trafalgar-square.
Floating, off Millbank
Fulham, Purser-cross.
Hammersmith, Brook-gr-road.
Hampstead, Heath-street.
Kensington, King-street.
Kentish Town, 8,
Highgate-road.
Notting Hill, Ladbroke-road.
Paddington, Hermitage-street
Portland-road, 171, Great Portland-street
Regent-street, 30,
King-street.
St. John’s
Wood, Adelaide-road.
Westminster, Victoria-street.
B DISTRICT.
Chandos-street, 44 Chandos-st.
Clerkenwell, Farringdon-road.
Floating, off Southwark-bridge.
Holborn, 254, High Holborn.
Holloway, Seven Sisters-road.
Islington,
Essex-road.
St. Luke’s, 64, Whitecross-street.
St. Pancras, King’s-road.
Watling-street, 66 to 69, Watling-street.
C DISTRICT.
Bethnal Green,
283, Bethnal Green. road.
Bishopsgate, 23, Bishopsgate-street-without.
Bow, Glebe-road.
Floating, off Torrington-stairs, Limehouse-reach..
Hackney, Amhurst-road.
Isle of Dogs, junction of East and West Ferry-roads.
Mile End, 263, Mile End-rd.
Poplar, West India Dock-rd.
Ratcliff, 19, Broad-street.
Shoreditch, 380, Old-street.
Stoke Newington, 98, High-street.
Whitechapel, Commercial-road.
D DISTRICT.
Battersea, Battersea-road, opposite Christchurch.
Blackheath, Tranquil-vale.
Brixton, 10, Shepherd’s-lane.
Camberwell, Peckham-road.
Clapham, near Trinity Church, Clapham-common.
Deptford, Evelyn-street.
Floating, off the P1atform-wharf, Rotherhithe.
Greenwich, 44, Blisset-st.
Kennington. Renfrew-road.
Lewisham, Rushey-green.
Old Kent-rd, corner of Thomas-st.
Rotherhithe, Comm-road, Southwark-park.
Sydenham, Crystal Palace.
Tooley-street, 164 and 165, Tooley-street.
Tooting, Balham-hill-road.
Waterloo, 142, Waterloo-road.
Wandsworth, 123 High-street.
Woolwich, Sun-street.
Metropolitan Fire-Escape Stations.
CITY.
Aldersgate-st, opposite Charterhouse School.
Aldgate Pump, Aldgate-high-st.
Bishopsgate-st, near Widegate-st.
Cheapside, G.P.O. yard.
Custom House-quay.
Farringdon-st, 27 ½
Finsbury-circus, corner ot West-st.
Holborn-circus.
New Bridge-st, Blackfriars, by Obelisk.
Old Swan-pier.
Royal Exchange, by Wellington Statue.
St. Mary-at-hill, corner of Rood-la.
Southwark-bridge.
Temple-pier.
B DIVISION
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster.
Brompton, near Knightsbridge-gr.
Eaton-sq, by St. Peter’s Church.
Fulham-rd, Pelham-crescent.
Howick-place, Victoria-street.
Sloane-square, Chelsea.
Warwick-sq, St. Gabriel’s Church.
C DIVISION.
Conduit-st, corner of George-st.
Golden-square.
Piccadilly, facing St. James’s Ch.
Regent-st, Argyll-place.
South Audley-st, by the chapel.
D DIVISION.
Baker-st, corner of King-st.
Edgware-rd, near Cambridge-terr.
Oxford-st, corner Marylebone-lane. Connaught-place.
E DIVISION.
Albany-st, by Trinity Church.
Bedford-row, South-end.
Chandos-st, 44
Endell-st, near Long Acre.
Euston-sq, Euston-rd, by St. Pancras Church.
Great Portland-st by the chapel.
Guildford-st, Foundling Hospital.
Hart-st, Bloomsbury, by St. George’s Church.
King’s-cross, Liverpool-st.
Oxford-st, opposite Dean-st, Soho.
Strand, by St. Clement’s Church.
Tottenham-court-rd, by the chapel.
G DIVISION.
Corner of Claremont-square and -Pentonville-rd,
Clerkenwell.
Goswell-st, opposite St. Thomas’s Church.
Old-st, corner of Bath-st, St. Luke’s.
Old-st-rd, 380
St. John-st, opposite Corporation- -row, Clerkenwell
H
DIVISION.
Commercial-rd, Whitechapel. Tower-hill, by the Mint.
K DIVISION.
Bethnal-green, opposite St. John’s Church.
Bow, Glebe-rd.
Corner of E. & W
India Dock-rd.
Mile End-rd, opposite Charrington’s Brewery.
Near the Stepney railway-station.
Old Ford, St. Stephen’s-rd.
Poplar, opposite All Saints Church.
Ratcliffe, in Commercial-rd, by the “Swan”
public-house.
St. George-in-the-East, front of the church.
St. John’s, Wapping
from of the church.
Shadwell, High-at, opposite St. -Paul’s Church.
Wapping, Church-st.
West Ferry-rd, Isle of Dogs.
L DIVISION.
Kennington-cross.
Lambeth, junction of Westminster-bridge and Kennington
roads.
St. George’s-rd, south end.
M DIVISION.
Bermondsey, St. James’s Church. Blackfriars-rd, corner
of Great Charlotte-st.
Southwark, front of St. George’s -Church.
Southwark-bridge-rd fire-engine-station.
Star-corner, Bermondsey.
Tooley-st, Vine-yard.
N DIVISION.
Hackney, Amhurst-rd.
Hoxton, in front of the “Sturt Arms.”
Islington-green.
Islington, Newington-green~rd and 2 Cloudesley-rd,
Barnsbury.
Kingsland, Ridley-rd.
Kingsland-road, by the workhouse.
Stoke Newington, High-st.
P DIVISION.
Arthur-st, Camberwell-gate.
Camberwell, on the green.
Corner of Thomas-st, Old Kent-rd.
Hill-st, High-st, Peckham.
Lewisham, Avenue-rd.
Old Kent-rd, by “Green Man”. gate.
Sydenham, in the High-st.
R DIVISION.
Blackheath, near the railway station.
Broadway, Deptford.
Deptford, Trinity Church.
Greenwich, opposite St. Alphage Church.
Rotherhithe, Cobourg-st, Commercial-docks, and the
workhouse.
Spa-road.
Woolwich, at the fire-engine-station in Sun-st.
S DIVISION.
Aberdeen-place, near St. John’s. wood-rd.
Camden Town, front of the “Southampton Arms.”
Hampstead, corner of Heath-st.
Marylebone-rd, corner of Albany-st.
Portsdown-place.
St. John’s Wood, near “Eyre Arms,” end or “Swiss
Tavern.”
T DIVISION.
Chelsea, King’s-rd, by Carlyle-sq.
Fulham, Walham-gn, Percy-cross;
Hammersmith, Broadway, Brook-green-rd.
Kensington, King-st.
Redcliffe-gardens, Brompton.
West Brompton railway-station.
V DIVISION.
Battersea, at the fire-engine-station.
Putney, adjoining police-station.
Wandsworth, at the fire-engine-station.
W DIVISION
Balham-rd, fire-station.
Brixton, at the fire-engine-station in Shepherd’s-lane.
Clapham Old Town, fire-station. Spurgeon’s Orphanage,
Clapham-rd, Stockwell.
X DIVISION.
Kilburn, Bridge-crescent.
Lancaster-gate, Bayswater-rd.
Notting-hill, Ladbroke-rd.
Paddington, Trinity Church.
Y DIVISION.
Highbury-crescent, West-gates, Holloway-rd.
High-st, Camden-town, Cobden Memorial.
Kentish Town, at the fire-engine-station in Highgate-rd.
Kentish Town-rd, nr North London railway-bridge.
Metropolitan Cattle Market, near -“Lion”
Seven Sisters-rd fire-engine-station.