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Undenominational
Place of Worship. — The following information
has been kindly furnished by the minister, the “terms of membership” being
given in his own words:
MORNINGTON CHAPEL, Corner of
Granby-street, Hampstead-road. — Services: Sunday at 11.30 am., 3.15 p.m., and
7 p.m.; Tuesday at 8 p.m. All seats free. A mission church connected with the
Evangelistic Mission.
Unitarian
Places of Worship.—The following information
has been kindly furnished by the respective ministers, the “terms of
membership” being oven in their own words:
COLLEGE CHAPEL, Stepney-green.—Terms
of membership: “Annual subscription of not less than 5s., and a good
life.” Free seats. Classes, Sunday-school, and weekly evening lectures.
ESSEX-STREET CHAPEL, Essex-street,
Strand.— Terms of membership: “Seat
renting only. No profession of religious opinions is required. The habit of
attendance, as the occupant of a seat, constitutes membership, and confers
the right of voting on all questions of congregational interest.” Seat
rents, 400 at £1 6s. the sitting. The whole of the gallery (under the present
ministry), containing about 200 sittings, is free. Morning service only, at
11.15, except during the winter months, when special series of discourses are
given in the evening. The Liturgy of the Church of England, curtailed and
slightly modified, is used.
FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Clarence-road,
Kentish Town.— Terms of membership: “All
seat-holders are members, and no doctrinal test whatever can be imposed,
either on membership or on participation in the communion service” Seat rents
from £1 1s. a year.
LITTLE PORTLAND-STREET CHAPEL.— Terms of
membership: None. Seat rents from £1 1s. to £2 2s. per annum.
LONDON DOMESTIC MISSION CHAPEL (Founded
1836), Spicer-street, Brick-lane, Spitalfields.— Maintained chiefly by
Unitarians, not for proselytism, but simply for the moral and religious
elevation
of the poor, and the working classes generally. There are no terms of
membership, and no seat rents. In addition to the Sunday evening service, the
mission maintains Sunday, day and evening schools and classes, a popular
library, savings’ bank, clothing and coal club, convalescent rooms ; and the
missionary, in accordance with the general name of the society, visits the homes
of the people connected with the institution, and is provided with a poor purse
for the relief of proved cases of necessity.
STAMFORD-STREET CHAPEL, Stamford-street,
Southwark, SE. Terms of membership:
“Payment of 5s. per annum and entry in register.” Seat rents
5s. per annum and upwards. This congregation is one of the old Nonconformist,
once styled “English Presbyterians.” It was originally ministered to by
clergymen rejected by the “Act of Uniformity, 1662” Like most other
Churches not compelled to use a creed, it came gradually to the Unitarian phase
of Christianity. The chapel in which they formerly met, in Prince’s-street,
Westminster, being required for Government buildings, the present one was built
in 1823. The façade has been praised as a pure specimen of the Greek Doric.
THE MALL CHURCH, The Mall, High-street,
Notting Hill, W.— Terms of membership: “A
small yearly subscription. No confession of any creed required either of the
minister or the congregation.” Supported by seat rents (amount not stated),
annual subscriptions, and half-yearly collections.
Union
Club Trafalgar-square. No special qualification.
Election is by ballot of members. Forty members must ballot, and one black ball
in ten excludes, but “should there be any box in which forty balls at the
least are not found, the candidate shall be put up again at the next ballot.”
Entrance fee, £31 10s. ; subscription, £7 7s.
United
Club, Charles-street, St. James’s, SW. —
Proprietary. This club was founded in 1865, and is established on the premises
of and in connection with the United Hotel, in Charles-street, St.
James’s-square, having exclusive use of spacious club-rooms for dining,
reading, writing, &c., with a separate entrance from the opera arcade. No
entrance fee. Subscription, £5 5s. for the first year, and £3 3s. for each
subsequent year.
United
Eton and Harrow Club.—A rendezvous for old
Etonians and Harrovians. Candidates must have been at Eton or Harrow School.
Entrance fee £10 10s. ; subscription, £7 7s.
United
Service Club, Pall Mall—For officers not under
the rank of commander in the navy, or major in the army, or retired officers who
have held those ranks. In addition to these, “all such officers who have
been or may be in charge of any of the following civil departments at home or
abroad, viz. : chaplain, commissary,
paymaster, directors. general of the medical department of the army and navy, as
well as the retired inspectors-general (who have served in that rank), and
surgeons-general of the army, and inspectors-general of hospitals and fleets of
the navy, the treasurers of the club, the three surgeons-major of the Guards,
and the principal veterinary surgeon, and such field-officers in the fencibles,
militias, and volunteer corps in the British colonies as may have rendered
services to this country,” may be invited by the committee as visitors for any
period not exceeding three months at a time, Election by ballot, fifty members
at least to vote. Each candidate insist have at least fifty votes to constitute
his election, and one black ball in ten excludes. “Admission money,” £40 ;
subscription, £7, beginning with the second year.
United
Service Museum is situated in Whitehall-yard.—
Upon entering, the visitor finds himself in a room devoted to African arms.
There are spears and assegais of all shapes and sizes, belonging to the tribes
of Abyssinia, Ashanti, Central and
Southern Africa. Upon the floor stands a great variety of war-drums of various
forms; these are looked upon by African tribes in much the same light in which
European troops regard their standards. There are many shields of different kinds, among them a shield with
silver ornaments, once the property of a great chief in Abyssinia. There are
also some suits of curious armour made of plaited cane. In the African
department are some Moorish guns and match-locks, inlaid with silver, The next
room is devoted to modem arms. There is a collection of the rifles employed by
the different governments of Europe, and a great many other forms of
breechloader and magazine rifles. In
the same room are obsolete fire-arms, flint-locks, and other weapons,
which look clumsy and primitive by the side of the neater, lighter, and far more
deadly modern weapon. The next room is devoted to Asiatic arms. There are some
curious Chinese and Indian cannon and jingais, some suits of Indian
chain-armour, together with primitive weapons from Borneo and the Polynesian
islands. Beyond the Asiatic room is that devoted to the marine branch of the
United Service. There are a great variety of fine models of ships of all shapes,
from the high-pooped vessel of our forefathers to the modern ironclad. Among
them a melancholy interest attaches to one or two fine models of ironclads upon
his own design, presented by Captain Cowper Coles, who went down in the Captain,
a vessel with a low freeboard, fitted with turrets upon his plan. In this
room are some Gatling guns and mitrailleuses of various patterns, and also some
torpedoes, fixed and movable. At one end are models of small craft of all kinds,
from the Cingalese outrigger and the Venetian gondola to the Chinese junk.
In the next room is a model upon a large scale of the Battle of Trafalgar,
showing the exact position of the various vessels of the united French and
Spanish fleets, and of those composing the two British columns of attack.
Returning
back to the first room, the visitor will find to his left two rooms filled with
models of all the different descriptions of ordnance in use in the British army
and navy, together with the shot and shell fitted for them. Upstairs there are
several rooms with noteworthy military trophies; the most interesting object in
the whole museum, however, is a model of the field and battle of Waterloo,
executed with a marvellous accuracy and fidelity. This model was many years ago
exhibited in Leicester-square. The United Service Museum is open daily, except
Friday, the admission being by ticket obtainable from members. NEAREST Railway
Stations, Westminster-bridge and Charing-cross (District), Charing - cross
(S.E.); Omnibus Routes, Whitehall and Strand; Cab Rank, Horse Guards.
United
University Club, 24, Suffolk - street. — For 500
members of the University of Oxford and 500 of the University of Cambridge. The
members elect by ballot, one black ball in ten
excludes. Entrance fee, £31 10s.;
annual subscription, £8 8s.
University
and Public Schools Club, 5, Park-place, St.
James’s, SW.—This club is for gentlemen who have been educated either at one
of the universities or at one of the public schools. Entrance fee, £10 10s.
Subscription: town members, £7 7s.; country members, £5 5s.
University
College, Gower-street.—
Divided in faculties of arts and laws, and of science, including the
department of engineering, the Slade School of Fine Arts, and the faculty of
medicine. Students are admitted without previous examination to any class or
classes that they may select. Before finally selecting their classes students
are recommended to consult the professors of the subjects they propose to
study. Classes in all subjects of instruction within the faculties of arts, of
laws, and of science, are open to both men and women, who are taught in some
classes together and in others separately. The deans and vice-deans attend in
the council-room from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. on the first two days of October for
the purpose of giving advice and information to students attending the
college. Class examinations take place at the end of each session, when prizes
and certificates of honour are awarded. For examinations for degrees, see
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. A library is open to students on week days throughout
the session. University Hall, adjoining the college, is designed for the
residence of students, and a register of persons who receive boarders is kept in
the office of the college. A steward is appointed to provide refreshments for
students at fixed prices. Separate accommodation and attendance are provided
for female students in a ladies’ common room. The following is a list of
prizes and scholarships in the faculties of Arts, &c.
ANDREWS PRIZES.—(a) Prizes for New Students. — Three prizes of £20 each awarded
annually upon examination, as follows: One for classics; one for any two of the
three subjects, mathematics physics, chemistry; one for three languages: (a)
English, (b) either Latin or Greek, (c)
French, German, or Italian. The competition is limited to those who have not
previously been students of the college; and no competitor can obtain more than
one prize.
(b)
Prizes for Students of One Year’s Standing.—At
the end of each session two prizes of £30, and one prize of £20 will be
awarded to those first-year students who shall be recommended to the council by
the Faculties of Arts, and Laws, and of Science, as having distinguished
themselves most by their answers at the sessional examinations of the classes,
and by their good conduct during the session.
(c)
Prizes for Students of Two Years’ Standing— At the end of each session one prize of £50, and one
of £40, will be awarded to those second-year students who shall in the same way
have been recommended to the council by the aforesaid Faculties.
CLOTHWORKERS’ COMPANY’S EXHIBITIONS
FOR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. —The Company have founded in University College two
exhibitions of £50 a year, tenable for two years.
FIELDEN SCHOLARSHIPS IN GERMAN AND
FRENCH-—At the close of every session two scholarships, one of £15 and one of
£10, will be given in the junior classes of German and French respectively,
and one scholarship of £25 in the senior class of each of those subjects.
HEIMANN MEDAL. — A silver medal in
memory of the late Professor Heimann, founded by his children, will be awarded
annually as the first prize in the senior class of German.
HOLLIER SCHOLARSHIPS, ONE FOR GREEK AND
ONE FOR HEBREW. —Tenable for one year only, and their value is at present
about £60 each.
JEWS’ COMMEMORATION SCHOLARSHIP.—
£15 a year, tenable for two years.
JOHN STUART MILL SCHOLARSHIP IN
PHILOSOPHY OP MIND AND LOGIC. —A scholarship of £20, tenable for one year.
JOSEPH HUME SCHOLARSHIPS,— A
scholarship in jurisprudence, of £20 a year, tenable for three years; a
scholarship in political economy, of £20 a year, tenable for three years.
MALDEN MEDAL AND SCHOLARSHIP. — For
students of three years’ standing.
MEYER DR ROTHSCHILD EXHIBITION.—Of
the annual value of £50, is awarded as the highest prize in the classes of pure
mathematics.
RICARDO SCHOLARSHIP IN POLITICAL
ECONOMY.—Of £20 a year, tenable
for three years.
SLADE SCHOLARSHIPS.— Under the will of
the late Mr. Felix Slade, six scholarships of £50 per annum each, and tenable
for three years, have been founded in the college, to be awarded to students in
Fine Arts not more than 19 years of age at the time of the award, for
proficiency in drawing, painting, and sculpture. Two of these scholarships may
be awarded every year. Ladies as well as gentlemen, not being more than 19 years
of age at the date of election, are eligible. Should competitors be unable to
produce evidence of having passed such an examination us general knowledge as
may be deemed satisfactory by the council, they will be required to pass an
examination of an elementary kind, which will be held in January each year.
Prizes and medals are given to students who have attended one at least of the
Slade classes during the whole session.
THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. The dean and
vice-dean attend specially to give information and advice to intending students
or their friends in the last days of September and on the first Tuesday in
each month during session. The, following scholarships, exhibitions, medals and
prizes, are annually awarded: Three entrance exhibitions, of the respective
value of £30, £20, and £10 per annum, tenable for two years, are annually
awarded upon examination by written papers to gentlemen who are about to
commence their first winter’s attendance in a medical
school.—Atkinson-Morley Surgical Scholarships, for the promotion of the study
of surgery amongst the students of University College, London. The scholarship
amounts to £45 per annum, and is tenable for three years. —Sharpey
Physiological
Scholarship, established by the subscribers to the Sharpey Memorial Fund, for
the promotion of biological sciences especially by the encouragement of the
practical study of physiology in the college. The annual income of the
scholarship
is about £70.—Filliter Exhibition. A prize of £30 awarded annually in
July, founded for the encouragement of proficiency in pathological anatomy, by
George Filliter, Esq., in memory of his deceased son, Dr. William Filliter, a
distinguished pupil of the college. —Clinical Medals founded by Dr. Fellowes.
Dr. Fellowes’s clinical medals, one gold and one silver, with certificates of
honour, are awarded at end of each winter and summer session—Medal founded in
honour of the late Professor Liston. The Liston gold medals and certificates of
honour will be awarded at the end of the session to the pupils who shall have
most distinguished themselves by reports and observations on the surgical cases
in the hospital—Alexander Bruce Gold Medal, founded by Mrs. Bruce in
commemoration of her son, the late Mr. Alexander Bruce, for proficiency in
pathology
and surgery, is awarded at the close of the winter session.— Cluff Memorial
Prize. This prize will be awarded every other year to the student who maybe
deemed by the Faculty of Medicine to he the most proficient in anatomy,.
physiology, and chemistry. The next award will take place in 1879. —An
Atchison Scholarship, value about £55 per annum, tenable for two years, may be
awarded annually after the close of the winter session—Gold and silver medals,
or other prizes, as well as certificates of honour, are awarded, after
competitive examinations, to those students who most distinguish themselves in
particular branches of study in the college or hospital., Prizes to the value of
£10 will be given in the class of hygiene, on conditions stated in the
programme of the class. Libraries and museums are open to students in the
medical faculty.
THE WEST SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGLISH.—£3O
for one year.
TUFFNELL SCHOLARSHIPS.—A Tuffnell
Scholarship of £100, tenable for two years, will be
awarded annually, alternately for
distinction in analytical and practical chemistry and in general chemistry.
There are many prizes and certificates,
the list of which is too long to give in this place. All information may be
obtained on application to the secretary at the college. NEAREST Railway
Station, Gower-street (Met.); Omnibus
Routes, Euston-road, Tottenham-court-road, Great Portland-street,
Oxford-street; Cab Rank, Tottenham-court-road.
University
College School, Gower-street. In connection with
University College.— The usual branches of a liberal education are taught in
this school. The age of admission is between 7 and 15. The work of some of the
higher classes is arranged with a special view to matriculation at the London
University. The fee for each term is £3 3s., exclusive of certain extras.
Dinners are provided for day boarders at 1s. each, and a special dinner at 1s.
6d. for Jewish boys. Boarders are received in some of the masters’ houses; and
terms, as well as all further particulars, may be obtained of the secretary to
the council at the school. NEAREST Railway
Station, Gower-street; Omnibus
Routes, Euston-road, Tottenham-court-road, Gt. Portland-street,
Oxford-street; Cab Rank, Tottenham-court-road.
University
of London.-- Originally incorporated by Royal
Charter in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty. The original
charter conferred upon the governing body the power after examination to confer
the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of
Laws, Bachelor of Medicine, and Doctor of Medicine. In the 13th Victoria their
powers were enlarged. Further letters patent were issued in the 21st Victoria
giving the governing body tower to confer the degrees of Bachelor, Master, and
Doctor in Arts, Laws, Science, Medicine, Music, and also in such other
departments of knowledge, except theology, as the governing body should from
time to time determine. In 1863 the present charter was granted with a view to
“ascertaining by means of examination the persons who have acquired
proficiency in literature, science, arts, and other departments of knowledge
by the pursuit of such course of education, and of rewarding them by academical
degrees and certificates of proficiency as evidence of their respective
attainments and marks of honour proportioned there-unto,” Provision is also
made by the present charter for granting the additional degrees of “Master in
Surgery, and for the improvement of medical education in all its branches, as
well in medicine as in surgery, midwifery and pharmacy.”
Provision is further made for the granting the degrees of Bachelor and
Doctor in Music. A supplemental charter of 27th August, 1868, gave the governing
body the power to hold special examinations for women being candidates for
certain certificates of proficiency, and to grant such certificates. These
powers were further extended by another supplemental charter, dated March 4,
1878, under which the governing body has power after examination to grant to
women any degrees or certificates of proficiency which they have the power
to grant to men. Women, however, are not in all respects on an equality with
men, inasmuch as it is provided that “no female graduate of the said
University shall be a member of the Convocation of the said University, unless
and until such Convocation shall have passed a resolution that female graduates
be admitted to Convocation.” The governing body consists of the Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor, 36 Fellows, and graduates.
There are two examination for
matriculation in each year, one commencing on the second Monday in January,
and the other on the last Monday in June. In and after the year 1880 the summer
examination will commence on the third Monday in June. Candidates must have
completed their sixteenth year. These examinations may be held not only at the
University of London, but also, under special arrangement, in other parts of the
United Kingdom, or in the Colonies. Candidates for any degree granted by
this University (with the exception of such as have graduated in arts either in
the University of Sydney or in that of Melbourne) are required to have passed
the matriculation examination. This examination is accepted (1) by the College
of Surgeons in lieu of the preliminary examination otherwise imposed on
candidates for its fellowship (2) by the Incorporated Law Society, in lieu of
its preliminary examination. It is also among those examinations of which some
one must be passed (1) by every medical student on commencing his professional
studies; and (2) by every person entering upon articles of clerkship to an
attorney —any such person matriculating in the first division being entitled
to exemption from one year’s service. If in the opinion of the examiners
any candidates for matriculation in the honours division of not more than an
years of age at the commencement of the examination shall possess sufficient
merit, the first among such candidates shall receive an exhibition of £30 per
annum for the next two years; the second shall receive an exhibition of £20 per
annum for the next two years; and the third shall receive an exhibition of £15
per annum for the next two years; such exhibitions to be payable in quarterly
instalments, provided that on receiving each instalment the
exhibitioner shall declare his intention of presenting himself either at the
two examinations for BA., or at the two examinations for B.Sc., or at the first
LLB. examination, or at the preliminary scientific and first M. B. examinations,
within three academical years from the tune of his passing the matriculation
examination.
There are also minor prizes.
The Gilchrist Scholarships are awarded
as follows:
1.—BRITISH SCHOLARSHIPS.
(a) For
Male Candidates.— £50 per annum for three years to the candidate from the
Royal Medical College, Epsom, who at the June matriculation examination stands
highest among the candidates approved by the head master, and who passes either
in honours or in the first division. A similar amount to the highest candidate
at the same examination from Owens College, Manchester, provided he pass in
honours. Should no candidate so pass, two scholarships of £25 per annum each
are awarded to the two candidates from that college who shall stand highest in
the first division.
(b) For
Female Candidates.— An exhibition of £30, and one of £20, tenable for
two years, will be awarded to the two female candidates who pass highest in
the honours division; and two further exhibitions—one of £40 and the other of
£30 per annum, tenable for two years—will be awarded to the two female
candidates who pass highest at the first B.A. examination. A gold medal (or
books) of the value of £20 will be awarded In the female candidate who passes
highest in the second B.A. examination, provided she obtain not less than
two-thirds of the total number of marks.
II. INDIAN SCHOLARSHIPS.
Two scholarships, each of the value of
£100 per annum, and tenable for four years, are annually awarded to the two
candidates who pass highest in the matriculation examination carried on at the
three presidential capitals; provided that such candidates pass either in the
honours or in the first division.
III. COLONIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
a. A scholarship of
£100 per annum, and tenable for three years, is annually awarded to the
highest among those candidates at the matriculation examination carried on in
the Dominion of Canada, who pass either in the honours or in the first division.
2. A similar scholarship, under the same
conditions, is annually awarded to the candidate who
passes the highest at the matriculation
examination carried on in the West India Colonies.
3. A similar scholarship, under the same
conditions, is biennially awarded to the candidate who passes highest at the
matriculation examination carried on in Hobart Town, Tasmania.
4. A scholarship of £100 per annum,
tenable for three years, is annually awarded to the Bachelor of Arts of one of
the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne (alternately) who may be nominated by
the authorities of those universities. All these scholarships are given on the
understanding that the candidate is desirous of prosecuting his or her studies
at certain universities or collegiate institutions. Further information
respecting them may be obtained on application to the secretary to the Gilchrist
Educational Trust, University of London, Burlington-gardens W
The West Scholarship of the value of £30,
tenable for one year, is awarded by the Council of University College, London,
to that candidate at the June matriculation examination who distinguishes
himself the most in English. Particulars may be had of the secretary at the
College, Gower-street.
The above information has been given in
detail as being useful to intending matriculating students. It is unnecessary
to give in this place the very long list of exhibitions and prizes which are
open to matriculated students who distinguish themselves in the further
examination for honours in the various degrees. All further information may be
obtained from and all communications should be addressed to, “The Registrar of
the University of London, W.”
EXAMINATIONS IN 1879-80.
The following are the dates at which the
several examination in the University of London for the year
1879-80 will commence:
MATRICULATION. — Monday January 13,
and Monday, June 30, 1879 and Monday, January 12, 1880.
BACHELOR OF ARTS. — First B.A.,
Monday, July 21; Second B.A., Monday, October 27.
MASTER OF ARTS.—Branch I., Monday,
June 2; Branch II., Monday, June 0; Branch III, Monday, June 16.
DOCTOR OF LITERATURE.— First D.Lit.,
Monday, June 2; Second D.Lit., Tuesday, December 2.
SCRIPTURAL EXAMINATIONS.— Tuesday,
November 25.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE—First B.Sc,
Monday, July 21; Second B.Sc., Monday, October 20.
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE.—Within the first
twenty-one days of June.
BACHELOR OF LAWS. — Firs LL.B. and
Second LLB, Monday January 6, 1879, and within the first fourteen days of
January, 1880.
DOCTOR OF LAWS.—Thursday January 16,
1879, and in the week following the LL.B. Pass Examinations in January, 1880.
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE.— Preliminary
Scientific, Monday July 21 First M.B., Monday July 28; Second M.B., Monday,
November 3.
BACHELOR OF SURGERY. —Tuesday,
November 25.
MASTER IN SURGERY.—Monday, November
24.
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.—Monday, November
24.
SUBJECTS RELATING TO PUBLIC
HEALTH.—Monday, December 8
BACHELOR OF MUSIC —First B. Mus.,
Monday, December 8; Second B. Mus., Monday, December 15.
“Unsectarian”
Places of Worship.—The following information has
been kindly furnished by the respective ministers the “terms of membership”
being given in their own words:
GLEBE PLACE OF WORSHIP CHAPEL, Glebe
House, Chelsea. - Terms of membership: “Repentance
on account of sin, pardon by the blood of the cross of Christ, and constant
obedience to the revealed Word of God.” Seat rents, 2s. 6d. per quarter; no
collections at the doors; a box to help general expenses. This Church was
founded, or rather reformed, on account of the views of Christian communities,
and denies all vile and vain ritual, fancy fairs, and all such like vanities, to
raise money, &c.
GRAFTON HALL, Grafton-street,
Fitzroy-square, W.—Terms of membership: “A
profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and acceptance of the Bible as the
Word of the only true God.” Seats all free. The congregation and Church
worshipping here are the fruit of the labours of the
pastor of the “Christian Men’s Union
Gospel Mission” and his helpers.
PROTESTANT EVANGELICAL CHAPEL,
Whitehorse-street Stepney.— Terms of
membership: “Faith in Christ.
We believe that the Church of Christ is a family, and not a society connected
together by identity of opinion; so that wherever Christ has a lover, we have a brother.” Seat rents (charges not
stated) go to defray the working expenses. The pastor is supported by the
voluntary offerings of the congregation.
SEAMEN’S CHAPEL, St.
George’s-street, near Well-street, opposite the London Docks.—All seats
free. This chapel is one of the Seamen’s Christian Friend Society’s
Mission stations, and the society is established on the same basis as the Bible
Society, i.e. unsectarian.
THE CHAPEL OF THE CHILDREN’S HOME,
Bonner-rd, Victoria-park.—No membership exists. All seats free. The chapel
is connected with the Children’s Home Orphanage and Refuge, but is open to
the public. The musical service is conducted by a trained choir of the children.
Uruguay,
Republic of Monte Video. — CONSULATE, 49, Lower
Belgrave-street, S. W. NEAREST Railway
Stations Victoria (Dist. and Brighton and South Coast); Omnibus
Routes, Grosvenor-place and Buckingham
Palace-road; Cab Rank, At Station.
Uxbridge
Road, the great western road, is certainly the
finest approach to London, the road being everywhere broad and straight. At Shepherd’s-bush London may be
said to begin. Thence a magnificently wide road leads up through Notting-hill,
past the mansions of Holland-park, with their line of poplar trees skirting the
road, through Notting-hill High-street, and then on past the north side of
Kensington-gardens and Hyde-park to the Marble Arch. Upon the northern side of
the road are a succession of splendid terraces, conspicuous among which are Lancaster-gate and Hyde-park-gardens. There are
few such drives in the world, and at the end of May, when the foliage is at its
brightest and freshest, and the road is alive with handsome equipages, its
beauty is remarkable. No stranger in London should omit this drive. Omnibuses
run at frequent intervals from Regent’s-circus to Shepherd’s-bush.