A PARISH BEADLE. _From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’_ 26 EVENING IN SMITHFIELD. _From a Drawing made in 1858, at the Gateway leading into Cloth Fair, the Place of Proclamation of Bartholomew Fair_ 28 FIREMAN 31 HACKNEY COACHMAN. _From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’_ 34 THE FIRST LONDON EXCHANGE 34 THE SECOND LONDON EXCHANGE 35 THE PRESENT ROYAL EXCHANGE--THIRD LONDON EXCHANGE 35 CHARING CROSS IN THE PRESENT DAY. _From a Drawing by Frank Murray_ 37 TEMPLE BAR 38 THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE 39 LYONS INN IN 1804. _From an Engraving in Herbert’s ‘History of the Inns of Court’_ 41 KENNINGTON GATE--DERBY DAY 42 THE OLD ROMAN BATH IN THE STRAND 43 LONDON STREET CHARACTERS, 1827. _From a Drawing by John Leech_ 46 THE KING’S MEWS IN 1750. _From a Print by I. Maurer_ 47 BARRACK AND OLD HOUSES ON THE SITE OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE. _From a Drawing made by F. W. Fairholt in_ 1826 48 THE LAST CABRIOLET-DRIVER. _From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’_ 49 A GREENWICH PENSIONER. _From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’_ 52 AN OMNIBUS UPSET. _From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’_ 53 EXETER CHANGE 54 THE PARISH ENGINE. _From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’_ 56 CROCKFORD’S FISH SHOP. _From a Drawing by F. W. Fairholt_ 57 THOMAS CHATTERTON 60 THIRD REGIMENT OF BUFFS 63 DOUGLAS JERROLD. _From the Bust by E. H. Bailey, R.A._ 64 JOHN FORSTER. _From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry_ 65 CHARLES DICKENS 66 THE DARBY DAY. _From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’_ 76 NEWGATE--ENTRANCE IN THE OLD BAILEY 77 IN THE QUEEN’S BENCH 79 GEORGE ELIOT. _From a Drawing in ‘The Graphic’_ 86