copied from the one in Westminster Abbey. Newport Market reminds us that Lord Newport (temp. Chas. I.) had his mansion here. The new street from Piccadilly to Oxford Street and Bloomsbury "opens up" the district, by clearing off the worst of the squalid dwellings, and this recently made thoroughfare, known as "Shaftesbury Avenue, is wide and commanding and planted with trees.

In a booth over the shambles of Newport Market Orator Henley, a witty and eloquent man of broken fortunes, set up in the last century his Oratory "to teach universal knowledge and primitive Christianity. Among other novelties to attract hearers he once announced that in one lesson he would show anybody how to make a pair of shoes in two minutes. When the crowd had assembled and paid their entrance money, the Orator, after a little flourish of words, explained his new method by there and then performing the feat, namely, by cutting off the legs from a pair of boots. Hogarth has preserved for us Henley's portrait in the parson of his Midnight Conversation; and Pope in the Dunciad, in the lines,

"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue, How sweet the periods neither said nor sung." Cranbourne Street is named from the minor title of the Marquis of Salisbury, its ancient owner. Garrick Street beyond is a comparatively new street, chiefly known as the site of the Garrick Club, founded 1831, and containing a highly interesting collection of theatrical portraits. 'Aldridge's," in St. Martin's Lane, is perhaps the most important (next to Tattersall's, in Knightsbridge, and Rymill's, in the Barbican) of the Horse Auction Stables in the Metropolis. The rooms of the Alpine Club are at 6 St. Martin's Place.

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LONG ACRE, which runs directly east of Cranbourne Street to the top of Drury Lane (whence it is proposed to make a new street eastwards in continuation of it), was at one time a fashionable street, but is now chiefly noted for its numerous coachbuilders' shops. Even these, however, of late years seem to be following their patrons westward. In Phoenix Alley, afterwards Hanover Court, on the south side of Long Acre, lived Taylor the water-poet, who there kept an alehouse named after Charles I.'s death, the Mourning Crown.' This, however, he prudently changed under the Commonwealth for 'Taylor's Head,' with the motto:

"There's many a head stands for a sign;
Then, gentle reader, why not mine?

In an almost direct line eastward of Long Acre, runs a once fashionable thoroughfare, Great Queen Street, named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I., and still containing upon its south side some fine old houses from the designs of Inigo Jones and his pupil Webbe. The Novelty Theatre, built by Mr. T. Verity, and opened Dec. 5th, 1882, stands near the north-eastern end, adjoining Little Queen Street.

SUPPORTED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. Offices: Victoria House, 111, Victoria St., Westminster, 8.W.

President-HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. K.G., &c. &c. Chairman of Committee and Treasurer-JOSEPH FRY, Esq. Secretary-M. W. MILTON.

THIS IS THE ONLY AGENCY FOR PROVIDING

FREE SUPPLIES OF WATER FOR MAN AND BEAST IN THE STREETS OF LONDON,

and the relief which it affords both to human beings and dumb animals is incalculable. Thousands of people, young and old, who now quench their thirst at the Fountains, would probably be driven to the public-house; and if it were not for the Troughs, the amount of suffering amongst the multitude of dumb animals continually crowding round them would be almost inconceivable. Half-an-hour spent at any one of them during a hot summer's day would do more to secure sympathy and support for the Association than any words which the Committee can use; they therefore very earnestly solicit liberal contributions, and they trust the good work will not be permitted to languish for lack of funds.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS may be paid to the Bankers, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie & Co., Pall Mall, S.W., and Messrs. Barclay, Bevan & Co., Lombard Street, E.C.; or at the Offices, to M. W. MILTON. Secretary.

"I give and bequeath the sum of

to be paid (Free of Legacy Duty) out of such parts of my personal estate as can be lawfully applied for that purpose unto the Treasurer for the time being of a Society called or known by the name of

THE METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND CATTLE TROUGH ASSOCIATION, to be at the disposal of the Committee for the time being of the said Society."