Victorian London - Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles

Dickens, Jr., 1879 - "MAN-MET"

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 artistsFoley, 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 Victoriastreet 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 Exchangewhich
contains Lloyds 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
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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 himselfsuch, 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 Lyttons 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 classeson 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 Hollandor
rather in that of Lady Hollandthat 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.
Jamess 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,
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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, EcclestonSqUare ; 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.
MapsThe 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 skeletonsthat is to say, only showing streets, roads, and rivers, without
houses or other characteristics. The next size is a map on a scale of twentyfive 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, REYNOLDSS
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 Shepherds 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 & SONs 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. Pauls, is one of the most generally useful we have received. COLLINSS
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,
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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. PHILLIPSS 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. HOULSTONS HANDY
MAP OF LONDON is very similar, but on paper only, and folding into a paper
wrapper. THOMAS LETTSS 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 heavilymarked 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,
gentlemans 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. Pauls. Altogether, for railway use, one of the best maps of the
series. AIREYS 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
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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 linea mere
scratch such as in ordinary maps of Europe serves to denote a fourth-rate
riverto the tracing out of the more important streets and roads. But with it,
as with Mr. Aireys, 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 halfway 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 Palmers 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
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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 LETTSS 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. LETTSS SURVEY OF THE COUNTRY ROUND LONDON, to the
distances of thirty-two miles from St. Pauls, 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. STANFORDS 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 & SONS 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,
gentlemans 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 EXCURSIONISTS 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
REYNOLDSS OARSMANS AND ANGLERS MAP OF THE RIVER THAMES, from
its source to London. bridge, and the same firms 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
STANFORDS ENVIRONS OF LONDON, extending twenty-five miles from the
metropolis, and the same firms magnificent six-inch scale map of London in
twenty-four handy sheets. It is hardly necessary to say that neither of them
are strictly adaptedor intendedfor casual study at street corners on
stormy days, but for home use they are as nearly perfect as maps can well
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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 PalaceNEAREST 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, Bondstreet, 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 stationsBaker-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, Oxfordstreet, W. NEAREST Railway Station, Portland-road; Omnibus Routes, Bakerstreet, Oxford-street, Regent-street. Cab Rank, Great Portland-street.
Members of Parliament for Metropolitan Boroughs and Counties. Baring, Thos. Chas Essex. S.
Beresford, Col. F. M. Southwark
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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
MArthur, 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. DA. Tower Hamlets
Smith, Rt. Hn. W. H. Westminster
Steere, LeeSurrey, West
Torrens, Wm. T. MC... 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. Pauls 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
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possess a large number of exhibitions to the two universities. There are

three old pictures of special interest in the Court-room: Holbeins 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
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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. Johns
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. Johns 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 Companys 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. Thomass Hospital. All boys who
have been in the school two years are eligible to the twenty-one
scholarships at St. Johns 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
Lords Supper. Seat rents, free will offerings. Erected by Union of Wesleyan
Reformers from Weston-street 1871.
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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
Lords 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 Lords 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
Lords 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 Lords 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: Whiteheads - grove, Chelsea. CITY OF LONDON COURT:
Guildhall, City. CLERKENWELL: Duncan-ter, Islington. GREENWICH: Burneystreet, Greenwich. LAMBRTH: Camberwell New-rd. MARYLEBONE: 179,
Marylebone-road. SHOREDITCH: 221, Old-st. SOUTHWARK: Court House,
Swan-street, Borough. WESTMINSTER: 82, St. Martins-lane. WHITECHAPEL :
Great Prescot-street, Goodmans-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
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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. Johns 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. Lukes, 64, Whitecross-street.
St. Pancras, Kings-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.
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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, Shepherds-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
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. Peters Church.
Fulham-rd, Pelham-crescent.
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Howick-place, Victoria-street.
Sloane-square, Chelsea.
Warwick-sq, St. Gabriels Church.
C DIVISION.
Conduit-st, corner of George-st.
Golden-square.
Piccadilly, facing St. Jamess 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. Georges Church.
Kings-cross, Liverpool-st.
Oxford-st, opposite Dean-st, Soho.
Strand, by St. Clements Church.
Tottenham-court-rd, by the chapel.
G DIVISION.
Corner of Claremont-square and -Pentonville-rd, Clerkenwell.
Goswell-st, opposite St. Thomass Church.
Old-st, corner of Bath-st, St. Lukes.
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. Johns Church.
Bow, Glebe-rd.
Corner of E. & W India Dock-rd.
Mile End-rd, opposite Charringtons Brewery.
Near the Stepney railway-station.
Old Ford, St. Stephens-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. Johns, Wapping from of the church.
Shadwell, High-at, opposite St. -Pauls Church.
Wapping, Church-st.
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West Ferry-rd, Isle of Dogs.

L DIVISION.
Kennington-cross.
Lambeth, junction of Westminster-bridge and Kennington roads.
St. Georges-rd, south end.
M DIVISION.
Bermondsey, St. Jamess Church. Blackfriars-rd, corner of Great Charlotte-st.
Southwark, front of St. Georges -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. Johns. wood-rd.
Camden Town, front of the Southampton Arms.
Hampstead, corner of Heath-st.
Marylebone-rd, corner of Albany-st.
Portsdown-place.
St. Johns Wood, near Eyre Arms, end or Swiss Tavern.
T DIVISION.
Chelsea, Kings-rd, by Carlyle-sq.
Fulham, Walham-gn, Percy-cross;
Hammersmith, Broadway, Brook-green-rd.
Kensington, King-st.
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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 Shepherds-lane.
Clapham Old Town, fire-station. Spurgeons 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.

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