It is regarded as a great privilege to the tenants of Field Lane, to have such comfortable lodgings in the Night Refuge, so much better than they can obtain in the streets and arches. To each, in the morning, is given six ounces of bread.

The principal benefactress of this school is a Miss Portal, who gives $1250 per year to defray the expense of the Night Refuge, and to provide the bread in the morning. Several of the pupils told me that that bread was often all they get to eat during the day.

Mr. Ray remains in the male dormitory all night to preserve order. It seemed to me as dangerous, as it was an undesirable duty. But he trusts in God for protection in good doing. After all the homeless ones were ordered to take their positions standing in their hard berths, he offered up the Lord's Prayer in which the whole school were required to join, and then led in singing Old Hundred. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," &c.

in which I joined with full heart and soul. I felt to praise God that there were such faithful and devoted men and women in the world, who would go into these terrible sinks of iniquity, and suffer as they must for the sake of elevating if possible a fallen humanity.

He then ordered the lodgers to lie down, draw the blankets over them, be still, and go to sleep. All the lights but one were extinguished, and at nearly ten o'clock we bade him and Field Lane Ragged School and Night Refuge adieu, he admonishing us that it would not be safe at that hour of the night to return the way we came by "the Church," but that we had better take High Holborn for Gray's Inn Road, where we should be in the presence of a more respectable population, and under the protection

of a readier police. We did so. The walk was about two miles home through some of the gayest parts of the city. The streets were all lighted with gas, full-literally full of people, and the Gin Palaces at every corner in full blast. This was Sabbath evening; we reached our quarters on Swinton street before 11 o'clock; and thus ended our FIRST SABBATH IN LONDON.

LETTER XVI.

TOWER OF LONDON AND BRITISH MUSEUM.

Roads and Streets of London-Visit to the Tower-Its Antiquity-Horse Armory-Anne Boleyn-Sir Walter Raleigh-Crown Jewels-Companies under Warders-Visit to the British Museum-Elgin Marbles-Ruins of Nineveh-Egyptian Mummies-Rosetta Stone-Grecian and Roman Antiquities-Zoological Collections-Minerals-Fossils-LibraryAdmission Free.

LONDON, AUGUST 5, 1851.

Yesterday I went through the Tower of London, and to-day I have visited Somerset Palace, the British Museum, Westminster Abbey, and the House of Lords, in Parliament assembled. Of course I cannot, in a single communication, if I had time to examine for book factsgive, in the present letter, a historical or architectural account of those edifices, or a description of their contents. A month might be spent with book in hand, to advantage, in the Tower, many, many months might be devoted to thrilling investigations amongst the ruins of antiquity brought to the British Museum from Nineveh and Thebes and ancient Greece and Rome. And if one would know all that is meant by the statuary and paintings and architectural designs of the Abbey, he would have his hands full for a long time. Parliament may be more easily disposed of. Indeed, whoever thinks of coming to see

London in a week, by means of guide books, might as well think of walking across the continent in a day. London is a great place; its streets lead you out nowhere; go in them as far as you will, and as long as you may, and yet you are travelling amongst continuous blocks of buildings, amidst the roar of carriages and the crowd of people, and cannot see land. Its Roads for it has roads in distinction from Streets - do lead out of town somewhere; but where I know not. There are great avenues which radiate from the territory on which the metropolis is built, and run through the city to other parts of the kingdom. My own residence is on Swinton Street, which is across from Gray's Inn Road to the New City Road. Where these roads begin, or where they end, I do not know. All I know is, that omnibuses are roaring always in opposite directions, close on the heels of each other, filled inside and outside with passengers, and that the spaces in the roads and streets, not filled by omnibuses, are occupied by hacks, cabs, coaches, chaises, carts, double wheeled donkey barrows, and people trying to cross the road at some point where there is a chance to dodge the heads of the horses or the wheels of the vehicles. And then there are so many objects of curiosity and beauty to be seen in all directions, that a sight-seer in London should prepare himself for long walks and a large expenditure of time. Six months would be little time enough in which to form a tolerable acquaintance even with the exterior of London -its roads and streets, its parks and squares, its streams and fountains, its public institutions, and its exhibitions of private wealth and taste.

The Tower of London is a large mass of stone edifices, enclosed in a high granite fence, the central one rising

According to Shakspeare, it was

higher than the rest.
originally built by Julius Cæsar.

PRINCE ED. I do not like the Tower, of any place.

Did Julius Cæsar build that place, my lord?
BUCK. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place,
Which since, succeeding ages have re-edified.
PRINCE ED. Is it upon record, or else reported

Successively from age to age, he built it?
BUCK. Upon record, my gracious lord.

Richard III., Act III., Scene I.

It was completed, however, by William the Conqueror, by whom it was made the castle of the Norman kings. It covers upwards of twelve acres of ground. The principal buildings are the Church, the White Tower, the Governor's House, the Bloody Tower, the Bell Tower, the Jewel office, the Horse Armory, Queen Elizaheth's Armory, and the Waterloo Barracks. Since Elizabeth's time, the establishment has been occupied as a State Prison—that is,

a prison for sovereigns and State offenders. We arrived at the gate soon after breakfast, but the crowd was SO great before we could procure a ticket thereat, that it was half an hour ere we could gain admission to the yard. Then we had to go to a large room, and wait till the number of our tickets, 28681 and 28682 were called. This took another half-hour. Twenty numbers are called, when the holders are collected together and put under the lead of a Warder, dressed in the antique suit of the time of Henry VIII. Thus each Warder, successively takes off twenty persons at a time, and conducts them through the Tower. Other like companies are following after, all the time. Hurried through, it takes an hour to visit the several apartments, and the fee is two English shillings each.

Our first introduction was through the Horse Armory, a long hall, lined with a row of kings and knights, mounted