mysteries--or our 'chop and chop to follow,' with the indispensable wedge of Cheddar--unless it is preferred stewed or toasted--and on Saturday decorous variety is afforded in a plate of the world-renowned 'Cheddar' pudding. It is of this latter luxury that we are now assembled to partake, and that with all fitting ceremony and observance. As we sit, like pensioners in hall, the silence is broken only by a strange sound, as of a hardly human voice, muttering cabalistic words, 'Ullo mul lum de loodle wumble jum!' it cries, and we know that chops and potatoes are being ordered for some benighted outsider, ignorant of the fact that it is pudding-day." CHAPTER XI. FLEET STREET TRIBUTARIES--SHOE LANE. The First Lucifers--Perkins' Steam Gun--A Link between Shakespeare and Shoe Lane--Florio and his Labours--"Cogers' Hall"--Famous "Cogers"--A Saturday Night's Debate--Gunpowder Alley--Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier Poet--"To Althea, from Prison"--Lilly the Astrologer, and his Knaveries--A Search for Treasure with Davy Ramsay--Hogarth in Harp Alley--The "Society of Sign Painters"--Hudson, the Song Writer--"Jack Robinson"--The Bishop's Residence--Bangor House--A Strange Story of Unstamped Newspapers--Chatterton's Death--Curious Legend of his Burial--A well-timed Joke. At the east corner of Peterborough Court (says Mr. Timbs) was one of the earliest shops for the instantaneous light apparatus, "Hertner's Eupyrion" (phosphorus and oxymuriate matches, to be dipped in sulphuric acid and asbestos), the costly predecessor of the lucifer match. Nearly opposite were the works of Jacob Perkins, the engineer of the steam gun exhibited at the Adelaide Gallery, Strand, and which the Duke of Wellington truly foretold would never be advantageously employed in battle.