APPROPRIATE NAMES OF STREETS.
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ried talents, and is no mean disciple of St. Cecilia's ; and although, perhaps, not altogether ranking among the literati in the fuller sense of that term, yet he " laughing can instruct. Much has he read, Much more has seen : he studied from the life, And in the original perused mankind."
Philosophy to him, however, is no gloomy subject; no solemn stalking about wrapt up in his own stately ideas, and scorning, with cynic's eye, any harmless mirth. In the words of one of Britain's poets, I may say of him— " nor purpose gay, Amusement, dance or song, he sternly scorns."
Nature seems to have intended him for a higher occupation, than to stand behind a counter and sell a few yards of tape, or a paper of pins. The streets of the capital have all their proper appellations, although no painted board announces such a fact to the traveller. The east and west streets, beginning southerly, are—South-street, Tanner, Nevis, Ratcliff, St. Mary's, High, Long, Church, Newgate, Wapping, North, Bishopgate, St. John's, St. George's ; north and south streets, beginning easterly, are — East-street, Cross, Church-lane, Temple, Steeple-street, Corn, Market, Friendly-alley, Gutter-lane, Newgate-lane, Popeshead, Thames, Coney-Warren-lane, Subscription-alley, Craw-lane, Wilkinson's-street, and Mariner's-lane. Some of these lanes and alleys are famous for their grog-shops, particularly that establishment known by the appropriate name of " The Hole-in-the-Wall,'' for the only entrance is a low arched door-way scooped out of its massy walls. One part of the town bears the somewhat lofty title of " The Parade." In former years it answered as a kind of exchange, where the merchants congregated together during " 'Change hours," and discussed the business of the commercial world. Cargoes of all descriptions were here disposed