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Albert Memorial.-Site of Tyburn Gallows.

The ALBERT MEMORIAL, erected near the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and close to the Royal Horticultural Gardens and the Albert Hall, is one of the most magnificent monuments in the world. It was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and consists of a Gothic cross and canopy, with a spire reaching to the height of 175 feet; under the canopy is a colossal gilt sedent statue of the Prince, fifteen feet high, by Foley. It is approached by four flights of steps 130 feet wide. At each angle is a group of statues-Europe, by Macdowell; Asia, by Foley; Africa, by Theed; America, by J. Bell; above which are other groups upon a smaller scale: Agriculture, by Calder Marshall; Manufactures, by Weekes; Commerce, by Thorneycroft; Engineering, by Lawlor. Round the base of the Memorial is a series of 200 life-sized figures and portraits of the great men of all ages, sculptured by J. P. Philip and H. H. Armstead, R.A. The cost of the whole was £150,000, including a large sum from Her Majesty, and £50,000 from Parliament. The Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the advancement of Technical Education is in the Exhibition Road. It was chiefly established at the expense of the City Companies, who have contributed to it over £100,000 since its formation. The City and Guilds Technical College will be found in Tabernacle Row, Finsbury.

THE EDGWARE ROAD TO PADDINGTON, &c.

F we take our stand at the Oxford Street end of the Edgware Road,

I facing down Oxford Street, we shall have at our back Bayswater

and Kensington Gardens, and on our right Hyde Park, with just the turn of the Ring' or Drive visible beyond the Park palings. Beyond the eastern limits of the Park runs Park Lane, now the most aristocratic of addresses, formerly known as Tyburn Lane. It led immediately to the Tyburn Gallows, which stood, as nearly as can be ascertained, upon the site of Connaught Place, Edgware Road. Here were executed the numerous malefactors, convicted in the County of Middlesex (of whom history, down to 1783, when Newgate gallows supplanted that of Tyburn, has much to say), upon that Tyburn Tree, of which perhaps the best representation is the last plate of Hogarth's Idle and Industrious Apprentices.' Here were hung the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (torn from their graves in Henry VII.'s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and still wearing their swords), from sunrise to sunset on the first anniversary of the death of Charles I. after the Restoration. The list of the noted and notorious executed at Tyburn includes the names of Perkin Warbeck, the Pretender; the Holy Maid of Kent, for prophesying the death of Henry VIII.; Robert Southwell, the poet, for high treason; Mrs. Turner, in a yellow ruff, for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury; John Felton, for the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham;