The London School Board, elected in 1870, under the new Education Act, has its _locale_ at 33 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars. It has, practically speaking, almost entire control of the educational systems of the metropolis, and is armed with inquisitorial powers that remind us of the ancient Star Chamber. Still, the system of election of the members of the Board gives a certain guarantee of responsibility, that makes its prestige, at least, without suspicion. Schools of Telegraphy are established at 138 Regent Street, W., and 24 City Road, E.C., where the art is fully instructed, to resident and non-resident pupils. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions.—A small volume might readily be filled with a list of London’s charitable institutions. The charities connected in some way with the corporation of London are _Christ’s Hospital_, for boarding and educating youth, already mentioned; _Bethlehem Hospital_, Lambeth, for insane patients; _St. Thomas’s Hospital_, for treating poor patients diseased and hurt; and _St. Bartholomew’s Hospital_, West Smithfield, for the same purpose. The City companies likewise support a number of beneficiary institutions, such as the _Ironmongers’ Almhouses_ at Kingsland, and others of like kind. The following hospitals are the most important among the large number founded and supported by private benevolence:—_Guy’s Hospital_, Southwark; _London Hospital_, Whitechapel Road; _Westminster Hospital_, near the Abbey; _St. George’s Hospital_, Hyde Park Corner; _Middlesex Hospital_, Charles Street, Oxford Street; _University College Hospital_, Gower Street; _St. Luke’s Hospital_, for the insane, City Road; _King’s College Hospital_, near Clare Market; _Small-Pox Hospital_, Highgate Rise; the _Foundling Hospital_, Great Guildford Street; the _Consumption Hospital_, Brompton; _Charing Cross Hospital_, Agar Street; the _Lock Hospital_, Harrow Road; and the _Royal Free Hospital_, Gray’s Inn Road. Besides these, there are several Lying-in hospitals, a Floating hospital on the Thames, now substituted by a part of Greenwich Hospital being devoted to a similar use; various Ophthalmic hospitals, and numerous Dispensaries and Infirmaries for particular diseases. Institutions for the relief of indigent persons, Deaf and Dumb asylums, Blind asylums, and Orphan asylums, are far too numerous to be specified. In short, there are in this great metropolis about 250 hospitals, dispensaries, infirmaries, asylums, and almshouses; besides at least 400 religious, visiting, and benevolent institutions for ministering to the various ills, mental and moral, bodily or worldly, to which an immense population is always subject. It is supposed that these several institutions receive in subscriptions considerably over £2,000,000 annually. Some of the hospital buildings above named are large and majestic in appearance. When, for the Charing Cross extension of the South-Eastern Railway, St.