women, and the eastern for the men. The day rooms are large and airy, and the internal arrangements are most admirably contrived. There are two spacious gardens for recreation and exercise, and everything is done for the inmates which kindness and humanity can suggest.

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL,

Is a

High Street, Borough. Established in 1553. handsome stone edifice, which contains about five hundred beds; and where patients are received under regulations similar to those of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

GUY'S HOSPITAL,

Contiguous to St. Thomas's, is a foundation of the same sort, little inferior to it in extent, but more remarkable for the circumstance of being built and endowed by a single individual. This was Mr. Thomas Guy, a bookseller, who occupied the house, pulled down some years ago, which formed the angle between Cornhill and Lombard Street. He bestowed the immense sum of nearly £1,240,000 upon the erection and maintenance of this structure, and accordingly gave a larger sum than was ever left before in this kingdom by any one person for charitable purposes.

LONDON HOSPITAL,

Whitechapel Road, south side. A spacious and convenient edifice, erected in 1759, at which many hundreds of suffering persons are annually relieved. Its contiguity

to the docks, where accidents are of such frequent occurrence, and the neighbourhood densely populated, renders it of primary importance.

Hyde Park Corner. Rebuilt in 1823, from the designs of Mr. Wilkins. The principal front, which faces the Park, is two hundred feet in length, and has in its centre a vestibule thirty feet high, surmounted by lofty pilasters: the wings are one hundred and ninety feet in length. The entire edifice is faced with compo: it contains twenty-nine wards and one hundred and sixty beds, and is supported by voluntary contributions. It has also a theatre for lectures capable of holding one hundred and fifty students, as also a museum of anatomical preparations adjoining thereto.

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL,

Strand. Erected in 1831-2, from the designs of Mr. Decimus Burton, the first stone having been laid by the late Duke of Sussex, on the 15th September, 1831. It is in the Grecian style of architecture: the principal façade is one hundred and eighty feet in length, presenting a centre and two wings, with a range of seventeen windows towards Agar Street; the return elevations, towards Chandos and King William Streets, are each seventy-two feet in length.

married women, and the supplying of the indigent and laborious poor with advice, medicine, lodging, and other necessaries, when afflicted with disease, or rendered by accident incapable of supporting themselves or families; and further, in 1792, through the munificence of J. Whitbread, Esq., a ward was fitted up for patients afflicted with cancer. The hospital is capable of containing upwards of three hundred patients.

Broadway, Westminster, was instituted in 1719, for the relief of the sick and needy from all parts. The present edifice was erected by Mr. Innwood, and contains two hundred and thirty beds: patients are admitted by orders signed by a governor, cases of accident excepted, which

are admitted without recommendation at all hours of the day or night, and several beds are reserved for them. A benefaction of thirty pounds, or three guineas per annum, qualifies the donor to become a trustee.

Guildford Street. This valuable institution, for the maintenance and education of exposed young children, originated with Captain Thomas Coram, a native of Lyme Regis, in consequence of his having in his walk from his residence, near Wapping, into the city, to his business, frequently seen "young children exposed, sometimes alive, sometimes dead, sometimes dying, which affected him extremely:" a lamentable picture of the state of the outskirts of the metropolis, and the defective state of the police, during the first half of the