Coming out of the Temple by Middle Temple Lane, we pass on our left Child's Bank, the "Tellson's Bank" of _A Tale of Two Cities_, "which was an old-fashioned place even in the year 1780," but was replaced in 1878 by the handsome building suitable to its imposing neighbours, the Law Courts. Temple Bar, which adjoined the Old Bank, and was one of the relics of Dickens's London, has passed away, having since been re-erected on "Theobalds," near Waltham Cross. "A walk down Fleet Street"--one of Dr. Johnson's enjoyments--leads us to Whitefriars Street, on the east side of which, at No. 67, is the office of _The Daily News_, edited by Dickens from 21 Jany. to 9 Feby., 1846, and for which he wrote the original prospectus, and subsequently, in a series of letters descriptive of his Italian travel, his delightful _Pictures from Italy_. St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street is supposed to have been that immortalized in _The Chimes_. It was in this street many years before (in the year 1833, when he was only twenty-one), as recorded in Forster's _Life_, that Dickens describes himself as dropping his first literary sketch, _Mrs. Joseph Porter over the Way_, "stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street; and he has told his agitation when it appeared in all the glory of print:--'On which occasion I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.'" The "dark court" referred to was no doubt Johnson's Court, as the printers of the _Monthly Magazine_, Messrs. Baylis and Leighton, had their offices here. This contribution appeared in the January number 1834 of this magazine, published by Messrs. Cochrane and Macrone of 11 Waterloo Place. Turning up Chancery Lane, also celebrated in many of Charles Dickens's novels, we leave on our left Bell Yard, where lodged the ruined suitor in Chancery, poor Gridley, "the man from Shropshire" in _Bleak House_, but the yard has, through part of it being required for the New Law Courts and other modern improvements, almost lost its identity. On our right is Old Serjeant's Inn, which leads into Clifford's Inn, where the conference took place between John Rokesmith and Mr. Boffin, when the former, to the latter's amazement, said:--"If you would try me as your Secretary." The place is thus referred to in the eighth chapter of _Our Mutual Friend_:--