age of fifteen; those only remaining longer who intend to proceed to the university, or to go to sea after completing a course of mathematics. There are seven presentations at Cambridge, and one at Oxford, open to the scholars. The buildings of the institution embrace several structures of large dimensions, chiefly ranged round open courts, with cloisters beneath; and a Church, which also serves as a parochial place of worship. The only part of the establishment, however, worth examining for its architecture is the Great Hall, occupying the first floor of a building of modern date, designed by Mr. Shaw, in the Gothic style. It measures 187 feet long, 51 feet broad, and 47 high, and possesses an organ-gallery at the east end. In this magnificent apartment the boys breakfast, dine, and sup. Before meals, one of the elder inmates repeats a long grace or prayer, at the commencement of which the whole of the boys, in lines at their respective tables, fall on their knees. The boys are dressed in the costume selected for them in Edward VI.’s reign; the outer garments consisting of a long dark-blue coat, breeches, and yellow worsted stockings. The ‘public suppers,’ on Thursdays in Lent, are worth the attention of strangers: (tickets from governors.) _Merchant Taylors’ School_, situated in a close part of the City behind the Mansion House, was founded in 1561 by the Merchant Taylors’ Company. The present structure was built in 1673, with the exception of some of the classrooms, which are much more modern. About 260 boys are educated, wholly on the presentation of members of the Company; and there are numerous fellowships at St. John’s College, Oxford, open to the scholars. _Mercers’ Free Grammar School_, in College Hill, is a small establishment of similar kind. The _City of London School_, in Milk Street, Cheapside, is one of the most modern of these _Grammar_ Schools, as they are called. It was founded in 1835, and possesses several Exhibitions for successful senior scholars. Other Schools.—The schools established under the auspices of the National Society, called _National_ Schools, are very numerous, but need hardly be noticed here. The _British and Foreign School Society_, in the Borough Road, and the _Home and Colonial School Society_, in Gray’s Inn Road, train up teachers without reference to religious tests; whereas the _National Society_ is in connection with the Church of England. Many very superior schools for girls, under the designation of _Ladies’ Colleges_, have been established in the metropolis within the last few years, in Harley Street and in Bedford Square, &c. The _Government School of Art for Ladies_ is in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. The _National Art Training School_ is at South Kensington.