which, under a succession of managers, In Evelyn, and Pepys' diaries, and the it has since retained. The original old comedies and novels, there are many amphitheatre was destroyed by fire in references to Vauxhall. The popu1794; and its successor was burnt down larity of these gardens in the fashionin 1803, as the next erection was in able world continued till near the close 1841. The present theatre was built of the reign of George III. Since then by Mr. William Batty, the present pro- they have not been so prosperous. The prietor, and is now one of the best fre- aristocracy have declined attending, quented theatres in London. Doors and to attract other classes the prices, open at half-past 6 o'clock, perform- which were 48., have been reduced. ances commence at 7. Admission They are now opened from May till boxes 48., pit 2s., gallery 18., and September, being illuminated with upper gallery 6d. thousands of lamps, and the entertainHIPPODROME, VICTORIA GROVE, Ken- ments consisting of music, vocal and sington New Town.-This building has instrumental, dancing, and fireworks. been erected by Mr. Batty, in the ex- The latter are always excellent; and pectation of being patronised by the "a night at Vauxhall" is still a very visitors to the Exhibition. It is very pleasant and agreeable mode of spendcapacious, and built after the fashion of ing an evening. Admission, 2s. 6d. the Hippodrome at Paris, being an oval MINOR GARDENS.-The Londoners, 500 feet by 400; and will accommodate shut up, many of them, in close rooms, 14,000 persons. The entrance is by an and busily immersed in business from archway of three openings in the Ken- Monday morning to Saturday night, sington-road. Mr. G. L. Taylor is the are very fond, when they can procure architect. The performances are his- "a holiday," of changing the scene, and trionic pageants, tournaments, car races, looking for rural walks, and rural amusesteeple-chasing, Roman coursers, me- ment. They like "tea-gardens ;" and nage horses, old English sports, and there are several within a circuit of ostrich racing. Admission-reserved three or four miles from town, that are seats 38., first class ditto 2s., second 1s., well attended. The following are a few third 6d. of them: Camberwell-grove House, Camberwell; Chalk Farm, Primrose

DIVISION II.-PUBLIC GARDENS. hill; Highbury Barn, Islington; Flora CREMORNE GARDENS, King's-road, Gardens, Wyndham-road, Camberwell; Chelsea. These gardens, and the house St. Helena Gardens, Lower Deptfordof entertainment, occupy the site of road; Hornsey-wood House, Hornsey; Cremorne-house and grounds. They Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead; Kilare opened during the summer season, burn Wells, Edgeware-road; the Merwith day and evening amusements; maid, Hackney; the Spaniards, Hampthe former consisting of concerts, the stead; the Red House, Battersea; the latter of concerts, dancing, and fire- Woodman, Highgate-archway. White works. The grounds are laid out with Conduit Gardens, Panton-street, Pengreat taste; and on a fine day in summer tonville, were much frequented by the a few hours may be spent here very inhabitants of Islington. The lease expleasantly. In the evening the gardens piring, however, two years ago, it has are illuminated, and the performances not been renewed, and dwelling-houses conclude, at eleven o'clock, with fire- are built on the site of the gardens. works. Admission, 18. The tavern still remains.

VAUXHALL GARDENS, near Vauxhall bridge, over against Millbank.-A celebrated place of recreation since the days of the " 'merry monarch," Charles II.

DIVISION III.-MISCELLANEOUS AMUSE

MENTS AND EXHIBITIONS.

These are so numerous, and so many

novelties are constantly starting up, culates among them. The observer can that we cannot be expected to enume- look through the water and the glass, rate them all. However we will notice and clearly watch the process of the those which have come to our know- chicken escaping from the shell. This ledge. It will be observed, that most incubation is continually taking place. of these exhibitions, classed under the Admission, 18.

head "amusements," are nearly con- CATLIN'S EXHIBITION, Regent-street.— nected with "science;" still as they A collection of portraits, warlike weaare looked upon more as a means of pons, and costumes of the back-woodsrecreation, and relief to business pur- men of Western America, and of the suits, than as appliances to study, we American savage.

have thought it most correct to class CHESS CLUB, 5, Cavendish-square.-In them as we have done. connexion with the Polytechnic InstituAPOLLONICON.-A perfect work of tion. The subscription is, for members musical mechanism, upon which six of that institution, 2 guineas per annum ; professors perform at the same time, at for non-members, 3 guineas. Ambasthe Royal Music Hall, Adelaide-street, sadors and other foreigners, distinStrand, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and guished in science or art, are eligible Saturdays; mornings at 2, evenings at for admission as honorary members, on 8. The wonderful powers of the in- being proposed by one member, and strument are illustrated by its perform-seconded by another. Secretary, Mr. ance of Mozart's overture to "Figaro," Robert I. Longbottom. and Weber's celebrated overture to Der COSMORAMA, 209, Regent-street.-Here Freyschutz. Admission, 1s.; reserved there is a representation of remarkable seats, 28. objects, and striking scenery, in various BURFORD'S PANORAMAS, north-east parts of the world. There are two corner of Leicester-square.-Mr. Burford galleries, with convex lenses, for viewwas one of the first, if not the first, of ing the several objects. Admission, the artists who popularised panoramas 1s.; catalogues, 6d. The visitor freamongst us; and he has never deviated quently meets with other exhibitions from the high standard of excellence he at this room, besides that for which first achieved. The subjects on view it was originally intended, viz.—picare always of striking interest, and torial scenery. these are usually three. Visitors can CHINESE COLLECTION, Albert-gate, Hyde visit one or all, as they please. Open Park.-A complete exposition of the daily, from 10 till dusk. Admission to arts, manufactures, industrial habits, each painting, 1s.; to the three, 2s. 6d. and amusements, of the Chinese. AdCatalogues to each, 6d. The subjects mission, 1s. now exhibiting are a painting of the Arctic Regions, from drawings by Lieut. Browne, R.N.; the Lakes of Killarney; and the Ruins of Pompeii.

COLOSSEUM.-[See Chap. V.]

CUMMING'S EXHIBITION, Chinese Gallery, Hyde Park corner. This is an exhibition of sporting trophies, with CANTELONIAN SYSTEM OF HATCHING native arms and costumes of the Caffre EGGS, Leicester-square.-This is a very tribes, and other African curiosities, obcurious exhibition of a new process of tained by Mr. Gordon Cumming, in his hatching eggs by hydro-incubation, or travels in South Africa. Admission, 1s. top-contact heat; and is meant studi- THE CYCLORAMA, OR MUSIC HALL, ously to imitate the process of nature. Albany-street, Regent's Park.-Is an exThe eggs are laid on a canvas frame, hibition of moveable pictures, on a large which slides under a shallow tank of scale. The representation is Lisbon, in warm water, so that they feel all the 1755, and the destruction of the city influence of the heat, while the air cir- by earthquake, the effects of which are

shown both by sea and land, and the afternoon, at 3; evening, at 8. Adlights and shades very beautifully mission, 1s.

varied. Open daily. Exhibited at 2, DIORAMA, NEW ORIENTAL, Willis's and half-past 3 o'clock. In the evening Rooms, King-street, St. James's.-This is at half-past 7, and 9 o'clock. Admis- illustrative of Life and Scenes in India. sion, 28. Open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and DANCING. Within the last two or Saturdays, at 2 and 8 p.m. Admission, three years, there has been imported front seats, 2s. 6d. ; back seats, 18. into this country, from the Continent, DIORAMA, Western Institution, Leices an establishment called "The Casino," ter-square.-Here, at 3 and 8 o'clock, which is, in fact, merely a room, to daily, an interesting diorama is exhiwhich any person may have access who bited, illustrative of emigrant and conchooses to pay the admission (rarely vict life in Australia, and showing the more than one or two shillings), for the peculiar features of the landscapepurpose of dancing. M. Laurent opened scenery of that country, with its printhe first in the Adelaide Gallery; it is cipal towns. Admission, 18. now removed to the Argyll Rooms, in EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Great Windmill-street, Golden-square. moving painting of Colonel Fremont's The Casino de Venise is in High Holborn. overland route to Oregon, Texas, and These places are not at all congenial to California, across the Rocky Mountains, morality, and should be under strict in four sections; in the first of which surveillance. Masquerades are becoming are seen the Colonel and party crossing more popular than they were in Eng- the plains-the Upper Missouri-emiland. There are generally one or two grants en route to Oregon, &c.; in the during the Vauxhall season; and Jullien second, Fort Laramie and plains, Indian always concludes his concerts with one scenes, &c.-the great south passin the winter. Rock Independence-Great Salt Lake

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THE DIORAMA, Regent's Park.-This and the Mormon City; in the third, exhibition, which has always been an American Falls-Fort Walla Wallaobject of wonder and delight, differs Presbyterian Mission-Columbia River from the Panorama and Cyclorama,--Sierra Nevada-The Sacramento, or exhibiting the whole picture at once, Golden River, &c.; in the fourth—Caliand from various modifications of light fornia, with the principal gold sections and shade, an optical deception is and washings San Francisco, &c., &c. complete. The two pictures now exhi- Admission, 1s.; stalls, 28.; reserved biting are Mount Etna, in Sicily, with seats, 38. Mornings, to 3; evenings, three effects—evening, sunrise, and an to 8. eruption; and the Castle of Stolzenfels, EXHIBITIONS OF ART, at the New Exon the Rhine, with its environs at hibition Rooms, adjoining the Adelaide sunset, and during a thunderstorm. Gallery, consist of numerous pieces of The interior of the building resembles mechanism and automatons, including a theatre, and the ceiling is circular. a large bronze elephant, properly capaThe whole is moveable and revolves risoned, serpents, birds, &c., mechanical with the spectators at intervals; one flowers, and cosmoramic views. Open picture receding as the other comes from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m., and from 7 till in view. Open from 10 till 4, Ad- 10 p.m. Admission, 18.

mission, 2s. FAIRS.-During the Exhibition, that DIORAMA, St. George's Hall, St. George's- is, from May to September, there will place, Hyde Park Corner.-A diorama of be several fairs open in the neighbourJerusalem is open at these rooms, exhi- hood of the metropolis, with a view of biting the sacred scenes mentioned in attracting some part of the crowd from the New Testament. Morning, at 12; Hyde Park. Stepney-green, Kennington

common, and Battersea, are to be locales the English settlers, their prospects, of these fairs; but the principal one is at &c. Admission, 18.-Also Cambon's the back of the houses at Bayswater, the Panorama of Paris, St. Cloud, Vermeans of access by Westbourne-grove- sailles, &c. Admission, 1s. road, near Kensal-road. All the attrac- PANORAMA, 393, Strand.-Mr. Brees tions of the rural fair are exhibited is exhibiting here a series of three there. Greenwich fair still retains its panoramas, illustrative of Ceylon, Calattractions for the citizens at Easter cutta, and Wellington, New Zealand, and Whitsuntide; but Bartholomew from drawings made on the spot. Open fair- -once so gay with its shows, its daily at 3, half-past 4, and half-past 8. theatre, and its stalls containing such a Admission, stalls 38.; reserved seats, 28.; variety of tempting articles, also for its other seats, 18. quarrels and its dissipation-is now PANORAMA, 309, Regent-street. abolished. It is still "proclaimed" on moving panorama of the Dardanelles, the 3rd of September, but it is not per- Constantinople, and the Bosphorus; mitted to be held. with an additional scene of the Harem.

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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Water- The route is from Troy to the Black loo-place, Regent-street.- A moving dio- Sea, and from the Russian to the rama, accompanied by descriptive de- Turkish Empire, visiting the City of the tail and appropriate music, pourtraying Sultan, &c., &c. Hours of exhibition— the entire route of the overland mail to mornings at 12; afternoons at 3; evenIndia, during which are seen, or touched ings at 8 o'clock. Admission, 18.; stalls, at, the following places: Southampton 2s. 6d. ; reserved seats, 3s. Docks-Isle of Wight-Osborne-the POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, RegentNeedles-Bay of Biscay-the Berlingas street. [See Chapter V.]

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-Cintra-the Tagus-Cape Trafalgar SALLE DE M. ROBIN, 232, Piccadilly, -Tarifa-Gibraltar-Malta-Alexan- opposite the Haymarket.-Every evening, dria by moonlight-Cairo-the Desert commencing at 8 o'clock, M. and Mdme. of Suez-the Central Station-Suez- Robin give a series of Soirées ParisiCeylon-Madras-and Calcutta. Open ennes et Fantastiques-Illusions, Appadaily morning, 12; afternoon, 3; even- ritions, Automatons, &c.-the "Invisiing, 8 o'clock. Doors open half-an-hour bilité," and the "Double Vue" de Mdme. before each representation. Admission, Robin, Musée Charivarique, &c. Doors 1s.; stalls, 2s. 6d. ; reserved seats, 3s.-open every evening at half-past 7; and At the same place, there is another on Wednesday and Friday mornings at moving diorama, illustrating "Our half-past 2. Admission-amphitheatre, Native Land-England and its Seasons," 1s. 6d. ; stalls, 2s. 6d.; orchestra stalls, depicting the amusements and employ- 4s.; private box, 17. 18. ments of a country-life during the SOANE'S MUSEUM. [See Chapter V.] several varieties of spring, summer, TUSSAUD'S Wax-works. [See Chap. V.] autumn, and winter. This diorama, TOURISTS' GALLERY, Her Majesty's totally independent of the Overland Concert Room, Haymarket. A fine Route to India, is exhibited in the moving diorama is exhibited here relower gallery. Open daily mornings, presenting the grand route of a tour at 2 o'clock; evenings, at 7 o'clock. through Europe; taking the spectator Admission, 1s.; stalls, 2s. 6d. ; reserved from the Tower of London, to Hamseats, 38. burgh, and through Germany to ConLINWOOD GALLERY, Leicester-square. stantinople; through Switzerland and -Here Mr. Brees exhibits views of New Italy to Rome. Open every day—adZealand, and delivers an explanatory mission, 1s. ; reserved seats, 2s.; stalls, lecture on the nature of the inhabitants 3s. The morning exhibition at 3; the and their country, with some account of evening at 8 o'clock.

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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's Park. noticing the various railway termini -These gardens, with little to recom- (Chapter X), how pleasure trips may be mend them in an horticultural point of taken to the environs of London by view, are yet one of the most interesting rail. But many persons, in the summer, objects in London for the stranger or love to traverse the "silent highway," the resident, on account of the number and prefer a steam-boat to a steamof specimens of living birds and animals carriage. For such, steamboats leave, -the natives of distant countries, and for Chelsea, the Old Swan Stairs every far different climates, which are to be quarter-of-an-hour, stopping, as they found there. The site of the gardens pass, to take up passengers.-For Greenattractive, and, on a fine day, the pro- wich, steamboats start from Hungerford menade alone is worth taking some Pier, the Adelphi, and London Bridge, previous trouble to enjoy but there three or four times a day.-For Greenare, also, about 1500 of mammalia, wich and Woolwich, they leave Hungerbirds, and reptiles, to gratify his curi- ford Pier and the Adelphi, and call at osity, and instruct him as to some of London Bridge and the other stations the marvels of creation. Here, animals every half-hour. For Gravesend, the are lodged in houses erected in a neat, vessels start from London Bridge rustic style, and the air of comfort several times a day.-For Richmond, about them all seems to indicate that boats leave Queenhithe, Upper Thamesthey do not pine much for the land street, calling at Hungerford, twice a they have left, and that they do not day. Watermen's wherries may also suffer much from the change of climate. be engaged, by the day-scullers, 68., The last importation, the hippopotamus, oars, 12s.-a day being reckoned from has attracted a great many visitors. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Lady-day to These gardens are open daily, from 10 Michaelmas; and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. a.m. till sunset. Admission, Mondays, from Michaelmas to Lady-day; per 6d.; other days, 1s.; children, 6d. half-hour, scullers 6d., oars 1s.; by disZOOLOGICAL GARDENS (SURREY). [See tance, for every half-mile, scullers 3d. Chapter V.] oars 6d.

STEAMBOATS.-We have shown, in

CHAPTER XIX.

THE ENVIRONS.

THE following are the villages in the ASCOT HEATH.-About 6 miles from neighbourhood of London possessing Windsor. Races are held here for five the greatest attractions to visitors :- or six days, a fortnight after WhitsunACTON.-A small village, 5 miles out tide, and are distinguished by the of London. Here, formerly, resided attendance of the Royal family and a Sir Matthew Hale and Richard Baxter. large number of the nobility. Great The "Priory" at present occupies the Western Railway to Slough, thence by site of an ancient monastic establish- omnibus. ment; but Acton possesses three mineral springs. Omnibuses to and from the Bank, fare 6d.

BARNES.-A pleasant village on the Surrey side of the Thames, 6 miles west of London. Barn Elms, so named on