The increasing prosperity and demand on the Hospital proved at last that the old building did not afford the necessary accommodation, and accordingly its destruction was resolved on. This was effected in 1827, and the present building erected from designs by Wilkins. The old front was towards Hyde Park; the new one faces the Green Park, and is rendered imposing by its bold and massive tetrastyle portico, supported by square columns. Besides its numerous wards, here are a chapel, museum, lecture-room, and private apartments. The museum, so valuable to the surgeon, is not adapted for the public, unless to point a moral to the vicious and unwary. The mere curiosities are interesting; among them is the half-sovereign taken from Mr. Brunel’s windpipe, by Sir Benjamin Brodie, presented by its proprietor; the hide of the cow from which Jenner took the first vaccine matter; a packet of needles, which came simultaneously from the frame of a young lady, money and knives from patients’ stomachs, and other similar relics. One regular fund is yet wanting to render the institution complete. Many a fellow-creature, who is entirely destitute, enters here, and, when recovered, re-enters the world, without a roof to shelter his weakened frame, or the wherewithal to obtain the common necessaries of life. Of late this has been to a certain extent remedied. A porcelain slab has been let into the wall (a corner-stone of faith it has been called) bearing the simple inscription—“In aid of those patients who leave this Hospital homeless and in need.” Ought such an appeal to rest solely on the charity of the busy multitudes passing by? To announce such a fund would, I believe, ensure its success. In the burial-ground of St. George’s parish at Bayswater, is a headstone inscribed— “Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. James Clarke, who died June 9th, 1811, aged 85 years. During fifty-one of which he discharged the duties of Chaplain to St. George’s Hospital, with credit to himself, and benefit to the Institution.” St. George’s Hospital formed a theme for one of Miss Landon’s poems. ST. GEORGE’S PLACE, till of late years, consisted of old-fashioned houses, about two storeys high. About 1827 the first improvement was made by the opening of Wilton Place, and gradually these old houses have been pulled down to make room for superior ones. Towards the upper end, these houses were detached. In one of them lived a Captain Warner, one of the heroes of Quebec. About 1829, Liston lived at No. 7, and at No. 12 for many years resided Mr. Richards, a well-known London auctioneer, who died here in 1810.